While browsing a recent issue of Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, I came across an essay titled, "Towards a heterarchical approach to biology and cognition," and my heart soared. "What a ...

The book makes a persuasive case that there are only three ways of getting things done effectively as an organization: hierarchy, heterarchy and responsible autonomy. Hierarchy is still the dominant, ...

Author Bio: Professor of anthropology (emerita) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carole Crumley is a founding scientist of the research strategy termed historical ecology. Her key ...

Organizations can benefit by making more use of team members' skills and enhancing creativity, rather than adhering to more rigid authority lines and hierarchies, according to a paper on team dynamics ...

"The genesis for this volume was the 1999 meetings of the Society for American Archaeology held in Chicago, for which our colleagues assembled an all-day session examining the archaeology of the Three ...