Stephen C. Porter, 1934–2015

Proposal : Electing Committees Stephen C

Extensive work has been done to expose and analyze the flaws in common single-candidate election procedures. Arrow’s Theorem states that there exists no perfect voting procedure, so the existing research serves to compare and analyze existing voting systems as well as propose new systems. The problem of electing committees is clearly more complex; less research has been done to investigate the ...

Profile of Stephen C. West.

Biochemist StephenWest attended university to avoid a lifetime of working with fish. Growing up near Hull, Yorkshire, England, West saw the swollen hands of the dock workers who spent their days filleting fish under icecoldwater. His father, a fish buyer, would comehomewith his arms covered in scales. “I don’t think I ever expected to be a successful scientist, though,” West says. “Just a job t...

Roy Porter

MIKE WOODWORTH and STEPHEN PORTER HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS AND CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF CRIMINAL PROFILING IN VIOLENT CRIME INVESTIGATIONS

In many countries, such as Canada, police have been increasingly relying upon some form of criminal profiling to aid in their serial crime investigations. A criminal profiler is a psychological consultant or investigator who examines evidence from the crime scene, victims, and witnesses in an attempt to construct an accurate psychological (usually concerning psychopathology, personality, and be...

Strategy as Action: From Porter to Anti-Porter

In the post-crisis era new concepts are emerging, while some old and dysfunctional ones are being discarded. Strategy is about making series of decisions that drive corporate action under specific coupling with company’s environment and context. Because decisions are actions, so the strategy itself is action, not just a description of action. In the area of traditional strategy, descriptions (i...