Index
O
Object-oriented programming, 17
Objects, vs. activities, 42
Object specialization, 157–58
and deletion, 158–59
Object specialization hierarchies, and upward propagation, 160–61
OLE, 126, 512, 513
Onsale, 446
Ontologies, realist vs. nominalist, 182–83
OpenDoc, 126
Openness, and genres in electronic medium, 479
Open Scripting Architecture, 512
Open software architecture, 512–13
Operations research, and coordination, 60, 80–81
Orderings, alternative, 392
Order processingdataflow diagram of, 144
for e-business (process specialization example), 149–55
Organization(s), and information technology, 65–69, 76
Organizational communication, genres of, 467–68. See also Genre taxonomy
Organizational designcoordination in, 22
and process specialization, 155
Organizational practice, improving of, 13–14
Organizational processes. See also Process(es)
grammar as model for, 192–93, 195–206, 214
methodological considerations in, 206–11
representation of, 14–15
specificity frontier of, 527–28
theory of, 189
Organizational research, on dependencies and coordination, 86–88
Organizational researchers, as audience, 3, 10, 11, 12
Organizational science, and multiple theories, 190
Organizational structureof future, 515
and Product Workbench, 524
Organization theoryand coordination, 60, 81–82
and knowledge repositories, 547
and resource allocation, 53
Organization theory and design, 22–23
Organizing, definition of, 192
Organizing knowledge, vs. simulating performance, 23
Or-prerequisites, 117, 308
Oval system, 72
Overlap dependencies, 329