Autonomous work groups

Socio-technical systems and autonomous work groups... 

Hendry and Vemulapalli nicely frame the space for the work taken up in the next section. Fundamental physical theories such as quantum mechanics raise difficult foundational questions that have demanded the efforts of many powerful minds in physics and the philosophy of physics. As chemistry is not reducible to physics, there is an autonomous space for chemical theory and for foundational issues in chemical theory. Three such issues are raised in this section. Joseph Earley examines the role of symmetry in chemistry and argues for closer attention to group theory on the part of his fellow chemists. Ray Hefferlin seeks to extend the idea of a periodic law from elements to compounds. Jack Woodyard takes on the fundamental obstacles that get in the way of a more straightforward application of quantum theory to molecules. 

Cordery, J. L., Mueller, W. S., and Smith, L. M. (1991), Attitudinal and Behavioral Effects of Autonomous Group Working A Longitudinal Field Study, Academy of Management, Vol. 34, pp. 464-476. 

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