Organizational and technological implications of cognitive machines [electronic resource] : designing future information management systems / Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.Description: electronic texts (xvi, 319 p. : ill.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781605663036 (ebook)
- 1605663034 (ebook)
- Knowledge management
- Organizational learning
- Capability maturity model (Computer software)
- Cognitive machine framework
- Cognitive machines
- Cognitive network of organizations
- Computational organization management networks
- Information processing theory
- Methodology of organization design
- Nature theory of organizations
- Organization and the environment
- Organizational cognition
- Strategies of organization design
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- HD30.2 .N63 2009e
- Also available in print.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section I: Introduction to the Book Context -- 1. General Introduction --
Section II: Organizational Cognition -- 2. Rationale for Organizational Cognition -- 3. A Theory of Organizational Cognition --
Section III: Cognitive Machines -- 4. Rationale for Cognitive Machines -- 5. Principles of Cognitive Machines -- 6. Design of Cognitive Machines --
Section IV: Cognitive Machines in Organizations -- 7. Analysis of Cognitive Machines in Organizations --
Section V: Industrial Case Study -- 8. The Organization of Study -- 9. Organizational Cognition in the Industrial Case Study -- 10. A Cognitive Machine in the Organization of Study -- 11. Findings for the Industrial Case Study --
Section VI: Implications and the New Organization -- 12. Implications of Cognitive Machines for Organizations -- 13. Beyond the Thresholds of Manufacturing Organizations -- 14. The New Organization: Towards Computational Organization Management Networks --
Section VII: General Conclusions -- 15. Contributions and Extensions -- Appendix Section -- Glossary -- About the Authors -- Index.
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