This article analyzes recent theoretical production in Brazil on strategic health planning, focusing on instrumental logic. The approach centers on authors who have emphasized theoretical and methodological aspects of strategic planning. Emphasis is on the need to develop a new instrumentality capable of answering dilemmatic questions faced in health issues (professional health workers' efficac...

Strategic programming is an idiom for generic programming where the concept of a strategy plays a central role. A strategy is a generic, dataprocessing action. Strategies are first-class citizens as witnessed by a combinator style. Two important characteristics of strategies are that they can traverse into compound data, and that they can be customized by type-specific actions. We provide a gen...

I present a short list of methods that experts have applied to the problem of using a neural network to choose the right action in a strategic game. The list is a quick reference and a source for inspiration for persons who want to solve a strategic decision task using neural nets. The paper is concluded with a few examples, using the game of Connect-4.

Organic farming represents strategic action for many European countries. Although the subsidies to organic farming sector are present there is no desired level of conversion from conventional to organic farming. System approach was applied in order to analyze the problem state. In order to provide proper strategy to achieve desired level of conversion the simulation model was build. By analysis...

How can a rational player strategically control a myopic best reply player in a repeated two-player game? We show that in games with strategic substitutes or strategic complements the optimal control strategy is monotone in the initial action of the opponent, in time periods, and in the discount rate. As an interesting example outside this class of games we present a repeated “textbook-like” Co...

Australia 2 ABSTRACT The paper explores an attempt by a small team of staff within the School of Management at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to transform the only postgraduate third sector management program offered in Australia, in response to powerful external pressures for change. After analysing the nature of these contextual imperatives for the transformation of the program, th...

This paper develops a framework of analysis of the dialectical relationship between the structure and capabilities of the firm and the competitive environment within which it operates in order to identify the key factors of corporate competitiveness. The nodal concept of this framework is “organizational capital” which denotes synergistic processes between 1) technological and financial corpora...

Que la contaminación atmosférica causada por los humanos tiene efectos negativos en la salud de los propios humanos es un hecho conocido desde hace varias décadas. En los últimos 20 años, los resultados de muchas investigaciones han demostrado numerosas caracterı́sticas de dicha relación y han sentado las bases que demuestran que, en nuestros dı́as, la contaminación atmosférica continúa siendo un...

In recent years there has been an outpouring of work at the intersection of social movement studies and organizational theory. While we are generally in sympathy with this work, we think it implies a far more radical rethinking of structure and agency in modern society than has been realized to date. In this article, we offer a brief sketch of a general theory of strategic action fields (SAFs)....

The present study aimed to investigate the interaction among grade dropping and reflective thinking abilities of the participants and to also check if action research enhances learners’ reflective thinking. A cyclic action research was run for 8 sessions. Kember et al.’s (2010) reflective thinking questionnaire and three in-term quizzes were administered. Students also made questions based on t...