Organizations design communications process among their members as a means to control performance at specific level of efficiency (Scott 2003)
Organization establish different types of authority relationships at different scales of operations that constrain their members access to information(March 1995)
Self organization requires sufficient structure to hold and exchange information, but sufficent flexibility to adapt to news conditions (Kauffmann 1993)
Emergency response personnel depend upon timele communcation with external agents to inform their actions in dynamic environments (Comfort and Sunger 2001)
Organization operating in hierarchical environments reduce their capacity for coordination i uncertain conditions by structuring information processes that limits access to information among their members (garber 2002)
Organizations operating without constraints on communication or access to information tends to form-scale free networks that perform more efficiently.
