Top or Flop

Hypocritical Flip-Flop, or Courageous Evolution?

How do audiences react to leaders who change their opinion after taking moral stances? We propose that people believe moral stances are stronger commitments, compared with pragmatic stances; we therefore explore whether and when audiences believe those commitments can be broken. We find that audiences believe moral commitments should not be broken, and thus that they deride as hypocritical lead...

Virtuelle Welten: Top oder Flop? Ein Erfahrungsbericht am Beispiel Second Life

Top - Down and / or Bottom - Up ?

To make progress in learning the underlying fundamental theory, it will be necessary to combine bottom-up phenomenology and top-down analysis — in particular, top-down is unlikely to succeed alone. Here I elaborate on the role of both, and describe obstacles that need to be overcome to help data point toward the underlying theory, as well as approaches that might help to bypass full systematic ...

Top management support: Mantra or necessity?

This research provides evidence that top management support is the most important critical success factor for project success and is not simply one of many factors. The finding is justified in the context of the project management literature and the IS factor research on project success. There are implications for practice because it appears that the conventional technical and project managemen...

Training top surgeons - or anyone else.

Roger Federer and Tiger Woods are good friends. They are also world champions in their respective sports, tennis and golf. What do their achievements have in common with the training of top surgeons? Why was Prof. John Terblanche an excellent surgeon but struggles at golf, which he took up in his retirement? A better understanding of what makes champions seems to indicate that there are more co...