Investigating Online Unmanaged Organization

The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate how to collect and analyse narratives about organizations provided by employees on the internet. Blogs, social media, and employee review platforms give a rich dataset for investigating how employees make sense of different aspects of organizational culture, work, and human resource politics and practices. We present challenges and paths to do this kind of research using antenarrative analysis (Boje, 2001)—a proper qualitative methodology to deal with fragmented narratives that are typical on the internet. We studied narratives from employees about non-hierarchical organizations archived on Glassdooor, the main global employee review platform.

Conscientious objection in firms

This article asks whether firms should exempt employees when they object to elements of their work that go against their conscience. Fairness requires that we follow the rules of an organization we have joined voluntarily only if these rules express mutual advantage. In corporations, I argue that subordination and exemption provides for mutual advantage better than subordination plus right of exit. This is because agents want to protect their conscientious convictions, even in hierarchical organizations geared towards efficient preference satisfaction. Thus exemptions should be granted in unforeseeable circumstances, provided the costs are limited.

Symbiotic Assembly of Peptide Nano-Mosaics at Solid Interfaces

The spontaneous co-organization of distinct biomolecules at interfaces enables many of Nature’s hierarchical organizations involving both hard and soft materials. Engineering efforts to mimic such hybrid complexes rely on our...

Variations of In-Plane Mechanical Properties of Cellular Structures With Different Hierarchical Organizations

Inspired by the nature, this study analyzes in-plane compressive responses of different modes of hierarchical architected structures with varying topologies. Architected cellular structures with two different unit cell topologies — square and kagome are considered, both having a relative density of 0.25. Each unit cell topology is designed with three different configurations. The base structure is the primitive one with solid homogeneous cell wall. The nested hierarchical structure is derived from the primitive one with cellular structuring in the cell wall. The third and final one is the fractal-like hierarchical structure, where same unit cells appear on different length scales. 3D printed structures were subjected to uniaxial compression to characterize their in-plane mechanical properties. The compressive stress-strain behaviors reveal that all the structures demonstrate the classical behavior of cellular structures followed by significant recovery of their initial shape upon load withdrawal. The energy absorptions demonstrated by the plateau regions before densification are not only governed by their structural topologies, but also largely governed by the configurations of hierarchical organizations. Hence, this study suggests the application specific design of hierarchical architected structures for defined loading conditions.