Organizational Fragility Curves: Sensemaking under Stress

Abstract

Fragility in organizational context is the point at which the capacity for collective action collapses in the social environment. Complex adaptive systems demonstrate the capacity to reallocate resources and action in response to new demands.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 23, 2001
Accession Number
ADA467779

Entities

People

  • Louise K. Comfort

Organizations

  • University of Pittsburgh

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Adaptive Systems
  • Collapse
  • Command And Control
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Electronic Mail
  • Environment
  • Flight Crews
  • Fragility
  • Information Operations
  • Information Processing
  • Infrastructure
  • Lessons Learned
  • Resilience
  • Risk
  • Self Organizing Systems
  • Social Environment

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  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.