Organizing business knowledge [electronic resource] : the MIT process handbook / Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston, and George A. Herman, editors

Additional Titles: MIT process handbook
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2003]
Copyright Date: ©2003
Physical Description: ix, 619 pages : illustrations
Additional Creators: Malone, Thomas W., Crowston, Kevin, Herman, George A. (George Arthur), 1953-, and NetLibrary, Inc

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Tools for inventing organizations : toward a handbook of organizational processes / Thomas W. Malone ... [et al.] -- The interdisciplinary study of coordination / Thomas W. Malone and Kevin Crowston -- A taxonomy of organizational dependencies and coordination mechanisms / Kevin Crowston -- Toward a design handbook for integrating software components / Chrysanthos Dellarocas -- Defining specialization for process models / George M. Wyner and Jintae Lee -- Process as theory in information systems research / Kevin Crowston -- Grammatical models of organizational processes / Brian T. Pentland -- What is in the process handbook? / George A. Herman and Thomas W. Malone -- Let a thousand gardeners prune : cultivating distributed design in complex organizations / George M. Wyner -- A coordination perspective on software architecture : toward a design handbook for integrating software components / Chrysanthos Dellarocas -- A coordination theory approach to process description and redesign / Kevin Crowston and Charles S. Osborn -- Inventing new business processes using a process repository / Mark Klein ... [et al.] -- The process recombinator : a tool for generating new business process ideas / Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein, and Thomas W. Malone -- Designing robust business processes / Mark Klein and Chrysanthos Dellarocas -- A new way to manage process knowledge / Nicholas G. Carr -- Toward a systematic repository of knowledge about managing collaborative design conflicts / Mark Klein -- Genre taxonomy : a knowledge repository of communicative actions / Takeshi Yoshioka ... [et al.] -- A coordination perspective on software system design / Chrysanthos Dellarocas -- The product workbench : an environment for the mass-customization of production processes / Abraham Bernstein -- How can cooperative work tools support dynamic group processes? Bridging the specificity frontier / Abraham Bernstein.

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0585480249 (electronic bk.)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [577]-601) and index.

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Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2003. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.

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