Consider the familiar economic phenomenon of obsolescence, including cases that lead to major social reorganization as technological systems are improved.
Also, requests to restructure parts of the ontology are possible, for instance when it emerges that the current hierarchical structuring of terms is suboptimal or needs a reorganization because of new technological developments, but in all these cases, it is warranted that already existing terms are never deleted from the ontology because of the obsoletion mechnism.
Economic change came as a result of massive population shifts and the social reorganization of labour rather than technological improvement.
And so often it is the most pervasive, fantastic, technological and hormonal myths that have the greatest impact on societal reorganization, such as the cultural war being waged between progressives and conservatives in the 2016 US Presidential Race.
Our results indicate that in horizontal acquisitions, technological similarity negatively affects post-acquisition innovation performance and that this negative effect is not mediated by the reorganization of the acquired R&D operations.
Disney this morning announced a strategic reorganization of its business in order to better reflect its current priorities in the areas of technological innovation, global expansion, the creation of high-quality content and direct-to-consumer distribution — meaning its upcoming Netflix competitor.
Especially rapid socio-economic change, induced by technological innovations, institutional shifts, economic crisis, as well as by shock events such as wars, can prompt major reorganization of land systems (Lepers et al., 2005; Hecht & Saatchi, 2007; Kuemmerle et al., 2009; Hostert et al., 2011).
The reorganization makes sense.
Technological breakthrough?
Difficulties remain despite reorganization efforts.
