ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned especially with collective—collective relationships, solo-solo relationships, solo-collective relationships, and to a lesser extent with variations in the aggregate relationships. When collective-collective conditions obtain, both agents and passages have their own sets of contingent problems. The principal problem for a new organization is the necessity to discover, institute, and maintain the proper shape of aggregate passage. This means careful attention must be paid to the quantity and quality of passages when they are accepted into, or chosen for, passage. An entire organization can actually be different from its appearance to its aggregate of passages. Emergencies and crises are features of aggregate passages in all organizations. An emergency is caused by some occurrence in a solo passage that runs so counter to the expected that organizational routine becomes quite disrupted. One instance is an unexpected actual or near death by a woman in childbirth.
