http://www.nida.nih.gov/about/organization/DESPR/HSR/da-tre/DeSmetAdaptiveModels.html (useful for comparing mechanistic, organismic and brain models)

http://www.systems-thinking.org/index.htm

http://horizon.unc.edu/courses/papers/Scenario_wksp.asp

http://ollie.dcccd.edu/mgmt1374/book_contents/1overview/business_environment/bus_envior.htm

http://www.cio.com/archive/enterprise/091599_hidden.html

http://www.roberttomasko.com/Downsizing.Ch6.html

Select one or more  sites discussing cooperation/ co-opetition:

http://mayet.som.yale.edu/coopetition/index2.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partners/pr67/part_strat_alliance_category.html(example of global cooperation)

http://www.oblix.com/partners/index.html

Session 6 Organizations as Brains

Text, chapter 4

The Learning Organization:

For an overview of some of learning organization thought http://www.infed.org/biblio/learning-organization.htm

Peter Senge and the Learning Organization (a very nice review of Senge's material - be sure to check also the further readings links http://www.infed.org/thinkers/senge.htm

Visit The BizTech Network (main page) for a multitude of links related to emerging, self-organizing, collaborative learning type organizations. Explore the site, find a few pieces you are interested in and report in class on what you found: http://www.brint.com/EmergOrg.htm#Orgppr

Also check VE Forum at http://www.ve-forum.org/ 

The Horizontal Corporation:

http://www.organizationdesign.com/a_TheStruggleToCreate.html

http://www.une.edu.ve/~jmartine/the_horizontal_corporation.htm

http://www2.nygard.com/corporate/marketing.html

http://www.hci.com.au/hcisite2/articles/mappingisthe.htm

Visit one or more of the following sites on "lean manufacturing":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing

http://www.leanmfg.net/approach.php

http://www.oracle.com/industries/automotive/index.html

Kanban at  http://www.promodel.com/glossary/kanban.asp

Boeing Lean Production http://www.boeing.com/commercial/initiatives

Anitech Consulting http://www.anitech.net/lean-manufacturing.html

Organizational intelligence:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rxv/kmoi/oichallenge.htm

 http://www.intellectualcapital.nl/

For a critique of some of the models and their consequences:

Job insecurity and work intensification (also check related links on work/life balance issues at this site) http://www.flexibility.co.uk/issues/debates/insecurity.htm

Steen, Margaret. Flexible hours have a dark side at http://www-cgi.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9812/09/darkside.idg

Smart machines, smart people http://www.inc.com/magazine/19890101/5490.html

Smart machine derailed http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/ejrot/Vol2_2/willmott.pdf

Kersten, Astrid and  Mohammed Sidky, "We are the Borg - Resistance is Futile! Star Trek's Borg as a Metaphorical Critique of Organizational Systems Theory". In Rahim, M., Golembiewski, R. and MacKenzie, K. (eds).  Current Topics in Management, Volume 6 (2001). Amsterdam: Elsevier. (pdf file on the website)

Session 7     Organizations as Political Systems

Text, chapter 6

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4339/is_n3_v16/ai_18259811#continue  nice example of a political organization article, using images of both politics and theatre 

Heather M. Caruso, Todd Rogers, and Max Bazerman Leading and Creating Collaboration in Decentralized Organizations HBS Working Papers 2007 http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5696.html

Session 8   Functionalist Theories in Review

·                       http://www.imaginiz.com/provocative.html   - imaginization website by Gareth Morgan – easy to read and fun discussion and linkages on course related materials 

 http://www.theorycards.org.uk    - organization theory trading cards (could you write your own?)

Come prepared to present your first paper's organizational story and analysis