The criticality of a resource can be measured as the ability of an organization to function in the absence of the resource or in the absence of the m… - Gerald R. Salancik

People as adaptive organisms adjust their behavior and beliefs to the social context and to the reality of their own past and present behavior and situation.

Two contributors to explicitness are the observability of the act and the unequivocality of the act. Some acts are not observable and we may know them only by inference from assumed consequences. You leave a dollar bill on a checkout counter, turn away for a moment, then find it missing. The consequence is obvious, but do you know if the customer next to you took it or if it was carried away by a draft from the open door? Acts themselves can be equivocal, forgotten, or otherwise intractable.

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