Individual responses to competing accountability pressures in hybrid organisations

The co-optation of managerialism: Professionals’ responses to accountability pressures

The struggle between bureaucracy and professionalism has been described repeatedly during the last 50 years. Their opposing logics are at the heart of this struggle. Bureaucracy focuses on administrative hierarchies of formal authority, subordination and control, while professionalism focuses on professional autonomy. Since professionals joined organizations, their professional autonomy has dec...

Individual Accountability in Teams

We consider a team production problem in which the principal observes only the team output and not individual effort. As is well known, inefficiencies may arise when each team member’s compensation is based only on his individual action, so that team members are not penalized or rewarded as a group, as is often the case in practice. We show that it is possible to overcome this problem by specif...

Neuroscience, Accountability and Individual Boundaries

INTRODUCTION Cognitive neuroscience holds the promise of explaining operations of the mind in terms of the physical operations of the brain. It is claimed that brain imaging techniques now allow the discovery of neurophysiologic markers for almost any kind of behavioural phenotype, normal or pathological, both at explanatory and predictive level. Since early 2000, law has taken part in this deb...

Editorial: Plants' Responses to Novel Environmental Pressures

Cardiovascular responses to various pulsatile pressures in the carotid sinus.

SCHMIDT,ROBERT M., MAMORUKUMADA,AND KIICHI SAGAWA. Curdiovascular responses to various pulsatile pressures in the carotid sinus. Am. J. Physiol. 223 (1): l-7. 1972.-To extend the knowledge of the carotid sinus reflex, we forced the isolated sinuses of anesthetized dogs with sinusoidal (pulsatile) pressures using multiple combinations of mean level, amplitude, and frequency of pulsation. The ref...