An online survey of institutional repository (IR) managers identified copyright clearance trends in staffing and workflows. The majority of respondents followed a mediated deposit model, and reported that library personnel, instead of authors, engaged in copyright clearance activities for IRs. The most common “information gaps” pertained to the breadth of information in copyright directories li...

Responses from UHCC Strategic Planning Council Spring 2009 Responses ascending value within characteristics The Community College Inventory provides descriptions of eleven characteristics that are strongly focused on student success -that is student persistence, learning and attainment. Related to each characteristic is a set of indicators that more fully describe observable institutional pract...

A central problem in the sociology of knowledge has been to show that sane people can intelligibly have quite different alternative understandings of the same problem, such as a kind of risk, without abandoning the idea that there is a real problem about which to disagree, and to show the social basis of both plurality and viability. In recent decades, attempts to make this problem tractable ha...

What is the relationship between trust and quality of political institutions in a society? According to an influential cultural perspective, social trust—the belief that most people can be trusted—is value inculcated during individuals’ formative years, remains fixed afterward. A second perspective holds reflects experiences throughout life course, particularly interactions with public official...

This article formulates a theoretical framework that helps to explain the origins of prison riots. Our explanation builds on existing theories, taking the integrative theory outlined by Useem and Kimball (1989) as a starting point. It shows how a variety of causal factors interact to create an institutional environment in which routine incidents can develop into full-fledged riots. We illustrat...

This paper introduces broad concepts of vulnerability, food security and famine. It argues that the concepts and theories driving development and implementation of vulnerability assessment tools are related to their utility. The review concludes that socio-geographic scale is a key issue, and challenge. It analyses three vulnerability assessment (VA) methods, using Ethiopia as a case study. Fac...

We develop theory to show board composition and, consequently firm performance are a reflection of the firm’s life cycle stage and the relative power of the CEO and external financiers at the time of founding. This theory provides insight into the predictive validity of agency, resource dependence, institutional and social network theories. We also argue that boards are subject to path dependen...

This essay offers two new lenses for studying consumer health. Theories of psychoimmunology and institutional environments bring a wider array of individual, social, cultural, and organizational drivers into view, and they expose how higherstakes and more typical consumer activities involve important health issues. This more complex accounting reveals that not only is health a critical issue fo...

This study examines the radical democratic principles manifest in Indymedia’s discursive, technical, and institutional practices. By focusing on a case study of the Seattle Independent Media Center and contextualizing it within theories and critiques of radical democracy, this article fleshes out strengths, weaknesses, and recurring tensions endemic to Indymedia’s internet-based activism. These...