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 processing

dataflow 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 design

coordination 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 structure

of future, 515

and Product Workbench, 524

Organization theory

and 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