This paper explores the concept of organizations as complex human activity systems, through the perspectives of alternative systemic models. The impact of alternative models on perception of individual and organizational emergence is highlighted. Using information systems development as an example of management activity, individual and collective sense-making and learning processes are discussed.

A new translation and edition of the Swedish Bible for the use of churches, by order of the King, was published in a stately folio in Stockholm in 1702-03. This chapter from a collection of essays celebrating the tercentenary of the book, sketches the later publishing history of this Bible version in different formats on the Swedish book market up to the mid-nineteenth century, arguing that the Bi

I detta konferensbidrag analyserar jag hur det fantastiska kan användas i romaner som påstår sig vara historiska. Franska Västindien, som det exemplifieras i Patrick Chamoiseaus romaner, är ett bra exempel på hur det fantastiska kan hjälpa till i upptäckten av ett förflutet som glömts bort eller förträngts.I this paper I study how the fantastic can be used in novels that pretend to be historical. The case of the French Indies, as in the works of Patrick Chamoiseau, is a good example of how the fantastic can help when discovering a past that has been forgotten or repressed.

Closely spaced local gate electrodes are used to electrically define a double quantum dot along an InAs nanowire crystal. By applying a periodic pulse sequence to two plunger gate electrodes controlling the double quantum dot charge configuration, the device is operated as a single electron pump. The authors find that within measurement accuracy, the pumping current equals one electron per cycle f

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Popular Abstract in Swedish Infektiös hepatit eller gulsot kan orsakas av flera olika sorters virus. De har alla det gemensamt att de orsakar en inflammation av levern. Namnet gulsot kommer av att när leverns funktion nedsätts så ansamlas ett färgämne i kroppen och ger ögonvitorna och huden en synlig gulgrön färg. Efter hand som de olika gulsotsvirusen har upptäckts har de namngivits efter alfabetHepatitis B virus is a non-cytopathic virus with a small, circular, partially double-stranded DNA of 3.2 kb. It causes acute and chronic inflammatory liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Retesting of stored sera from an outbreak of acute hepatitis in 1969-72 allowed identification of 126 cases of acute hepatitis B. No chronic carriers expressing hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) cou

The history of information systems research is steeped in a quest for appropriate methodologies, rigueur within complexity and an evolution of approaches. Currently this evolutionary trend may be seen to culminate in a siding of IS research within critical frameworks. In this paper we will draw on a relationship between IS research and system analysis to use similarities and differences in an atte

Vehicle-to-vehicle (VTV) communications are of interest for applications within traffic safety and congestion avoidance, but the development of suitable communications systems requires accurate models for the VTV propagation channel. This paper presents a new wideband MIMO (multipleinput- multiple-output) channel model for VTV channels based on extensive MIMO channel measurements performed at 5.2

Thermo-mechanical fatigue crack propagation in Inconel 718 has been studied with different methods. In-situ observations with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) were performed, the crack propagation process was followed cycle by cycle and the influences from load, temperature, and microstructure on the crack growth were analyzed. To measure the displacements an image analysis technique was devel

Most embedded control systems have constrained computationalresources. This makes codesign of the control algorithms and thereal-time scheduling an interesting issue. There is also a strongtrend in the real-time community of moving away from the hardreal-time model. Hence, embedded controllers must be designed sothat they are aware of the resource constraints and timinguncertainty of the implement