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Feasibility of Organizations - A Refinement of Chemical Organization Theory with Application to P Systems Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A cognitive organization theory (COT) of organizational change University of Antwerp
In this paper, the authors develop a cognitive organization theory (COT) of organizational change. COT was developed in the 2000s, by taking insights from cognitive psychology and anthropology to rebuild the foundation of organizational ecology (OE), grounding macro processes of organizational legitimation, inertia and mortality in micro processes of appeal and engagement. COT also explored the micro-level process of organizational change, ...
Building generative theory from participatory action-oriented research: The organization as co-researcher in organizational change. Hasselt University
More than two thirds of all organizational change processes fail, carrying with them enormous social and economic consequences. The cause of failure is usually ascribed to the way actors co-generate the change process. Given the low success ratio, there is an urgent need for more actionable knowledge on change. This is knowledge that goes beyond merely explaining and predicting by evoking concrete actions and opportunities to transform an ...
Feasibility of Organizations–A Refinement of Chemical Organization Theory with Application to P Systems Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In membrane computing, a relatively simple set of reaction rules usually implies a complex constructive dynamics, in which novel molecular species appear and present species vanish. Chemical organization theory is a new approach that deals with such systems by describing chemical computing as a transition between organizations, which are closed and self-maintaining sets of molecular species. In this paper we show that for the case of mass action ...
Chemical Organization Theory as a General Modeling Framework for Self-Sustaining Systems Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper summarizes and reviews Chemical Organization Theory (COT), a formalism for the analysis of complex, self-organizing systems across multiple disciplines. Its elements are resources and reactions. A reaction maps a set of resources onto another set, thus representing an elementary process that transforms resources into new resources. Reaction networks self-organize into invariant subnetworks, called ‘organizations’, which are attractors ...
The Complexity-Stability Debate, Chemical Organization Theory, and the Identification of Non-classical Structures in Ecology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We present a novel approach to represent ecological systems using reaction networks, and show how a particular framework called chemical organization theory (COT) sheds new light on the longstanding complexity–stability debate. Namely, COT provides a novel conceptual landscape plenty of analytic tools to explore the interplay between structure and stability of ecological systems. Given a large set of species and their interactions, COT ...
Structural Personality Organization as Assessed With Theory Driven Profile Interpretation of the Dutch Short Form of the MMPI Predicts Dropout and Treatment Response in Brief Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy for Axis I Disorders KU Leuven
We investigated the validity of theory driven profile interpretation of the MMPI (Hathaway & McKinley, 1943) Dutch Short Form (DSFM; Eurelings-Bontekoe, Onnink, Williams, & Snellen, 2008) as a measure of personality organization (PO) in a naturalistic follow-up study among 576 psychiatric outpatients receiving brief cognitive behavioral group therapy. Results showed that this assessment method was useful in predicting dropout as well as ...
Capitalizing on the uniqueness of international business: Towards a theory of place, space, and organization KU Leuven
The field of international business (IB) has been successful in developing a unique body of knowledge on the multinational corporation and on country-level contexts. A recurring debate concerns its claim to uniqueness, and to associated scholarly characteristics that distinguish IB from other fields of research. I discuss what makes IB research unique by looking at what IB theory can explain and predict. To that end, I leverage key theoretical ...
Functional Organization of the Action Observation Network in Autism: A Graph Theory Approach KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: The ability to recognize, understand and interpret other's actions and emotions has been linked to the mirror system or action-observation-network (AON). Although variations in these abilities are prevalent in the neuro-typical population, persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have deficits in the social domain and exhibit alterations in this neural network. METHOD: Here, we examined functional network properties of ...