In this paper, we consider whether simple social signals of affect influence the information search strategies and political judgments of subjects during a voting task. We randomly assigned participants to either a neutral information environment or one in which the items also indicated how many other people “liked” or “disliked” the information. We find that social cues do in fact condition th...

The historically prevailing view in the network literature has been that relationships within networks develop gradually and cumulatively over time, with power playing what might be termed a ‘concrete’ role in such a process, based primarily on identifiable resource dependencies. The concept of (Foucauldian) ‘system power’, beginning to emerge in the management and organisation literature, is n...

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This commentary reflects upon the article along three broad lines. It reflects on the theoretical choices and omissions, particularly highlighting why it is important to adapt the multiple streams framework (MSF) when applying it in a socio-political context like Vietnam’s. The commentary also reflects upon the analytical threads tackled by Ha et al; for instance, it highlights the opportunitie...

miracles recounted in sufi’s books during different historical periods have been traced by narrative, rhetoricaland semantic developments due to various reasons; so that in early periods they have had simple interpretations and fairly believable contents. but with the passage of time and in line with political and social changes, the simplicity of these miracles has changed to exaggeration. thi...

The recent decade has witnessed a mass proliferation of information systems enabled, community-based, social networking. Such proliferation has contributed to seismic social and political movements around the globe, but is yet to make a noticeable imprint in business organisations. While many researchers and practitioners have advocated the transition of social media to the organisational spher...