Flipping ORs: does this common practice make business sense?

The roots of Knowledge and Information science

Knowledge and Information science is rooted in philosophy and its branches are in sociology. This does not impair its interdisciplinary position. In Iran, the name of "LIS" has undergone a little change and called "knowledge & Information Science (KIS)". Through this change, the importance of philosophy in this discipline has reached its highest level. Knowledge science has a great relationship...

Does the Ability to Make a New Business Need More Risky Choices during Decisions? Evidences for the Neurocognitive Basis of Entrepreneurship

Integrated Care: A Pill for All Ills?

There is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. However, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. In this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...

Common Sense, Traditional Structures and Higher Education: Reengineering as Fundamental Inquiry

Reform movements in higher education have employed technology primarily to mimic standard mechanisms, representations and objects of higher education. While there are important reasons to make use of standard representations, this strategy often reproduces standard artifacts of higher education, which limits innovation and reform. For example, too often reengineering has focused on the bottom l...

Beyond the Common-Sense of Practice - A Case for Organizational Informatics: A comment

Henfridsson et al., the authors of the article “Beyond the Common-Sense of Practice A Case for Organizational Informatics” which is the subject of this comment postulate that Scandinavian IS research only rarely uses organizational theories and that ‘our’ research being mainly practice-oriented only considers some of the many aspects of organizational life. Am I agreeing with this position? No ...