The purpose of this article is to show the suitability of asynchronous automata as the formal model for the specification of architectural patterns and particular architectures. Independence of actions, which occurs naturally in asynchronous automata, has direct relevance in architectural descriptions. We demonstrate this via a sequence of examples. The aim of this exercise is to identify a sui...

Introduction. Meta-synthesis methods may help to make more sense of information behaviour research evidence. Aims and objectives. The objectives are to: 1) identify and examine the theoretical research strategies commonly used in information behaviour research; 2) discuss metasynthesis methods that might be appropriate to the type of research studies normally encountered in information behaviou...

The model described in this paper combines a set of discrete investment and policy choices to explain a continuing process of resort-level change in response to competition through globalization. It shows how the stages of growth, as defined by Butler’s resort lifecycle model, are the result of a combination of elements, the public policy and investor mindset, the scale of investment and transn...

PURPOSE Sport pedagogy (SP) has established itself as a subdiscipline in Human Movement Studies since the 1970s. It become an academic labyrinth result of its rapid flourishing. Most researchers are extremely confused about this disorderly research complex. This study aimed to evaluate characteristics SP stages western (mostly English speaking) countries. METHODS Analysis literature published f...

As research-based, self-paced electronic learning tools become increasingly available, a critical issue educators encounter is implementing strategies to ensure that all students engage with them as intended. Here, we first discuss the effectiveness of electronic learning tutorials as self-paced learning tools in large enrollment brick and mortar introductory physics courses and then propose a ...

In IS research we live with positivistic roots which have recently been criticized as focused on “singular, independently existing reality that is more or less given, and undergoing linear changes within a four-dimensional space”. This is what we according to prevailing norms need to do in order to get valid research results in empirically oriented IS research. In contrast with that, IS researc...

While public-sector management problems are steeped in positivistic and socially constructed complexity, public management education in the management of complexity lags behind that of business schools, particularly in the application of simulation-based learning. This paper describes a Simulation-Based Learning Environment for public management education that includes a coupled case study and ...

A variety of theories in the social science, as profound as they may seem, cannot break away from “either-or” dualism. In which, many of them assume dualistic substantialisms in terms of the dichotomies like: methodological individualism vs. methodological collectivism; positivistic sociology vs. intepretivist sociology; agency vs. structure, and so on. In addition to that, there is also anothe...

Determined attempts to quantify social phenomena have allowed bureaucratic organisations to collect numerical data from increasingly diverse sources, in seemingly ever increasing volume. For many, there is a certain amount of comfort to be had from columns of figures, bar charts and percentages and we take for granted that statistical data will be derived from sources such as census forms, tax ...