The sustainability challenges facing societies call for policies and governance systems that are attuned to the diversity of goods support enrich human life via ecological, technical other kinds systems, plurality values people hold across diverse cultures belief systems. A pluralistic evaluation framework (PEF) is here presented as a tool considering goodness perceived by stakeholders in desig...

The objective of this study was to review outcomes of acute service delivery in old age psychiatry. Sources of data included Medline, PsycINFO and Cochrane Collaboration databases of English language papers to 1998 on service delivery evaluation in 'old age psychiatry', 'psychogeriatrics' and 'geriatric psychiatry', supplemented by a manual search of references from relevant literature. All con...

Introduction There is growing interest in organizational knowledge, and in the associated concepts of organizational learning and memory (Cohen and Sproull, 1991). Many argue that the organization’s knowledge and learning capabilities are the main source of its competitive advantage (e.g. Kogut and Zander, 1992; Prahalad and Hamel, 1990; Starbuck, 1992). But a number of other authors (Bedeian, ...

In this paper, the possibility of modeling the phenomenon “pluralistic ignorance” from social psychology, using epistemic/doxastic logic, is investigated. It is shown that the straightforward formalization of pluralistic ignorance does not capture the phenomenon completely. What is needed in addition is an assumption about the interplay between different agents’ beliefs or an assumption about h...

Background The main purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence healthcare quality in the Iranian context.   Methods Exploratory in-depth individual and focus group interviews were conducted with 222 healthcare stakeholders including healthcare providers, managers, policy-makers, and payers to identify factors affecting the quality of healthcare services provided in Iranian hea...

Occupational therapists have long been concerned with the process of articulating their identity. This paper describes in detail two approaches to that process: monistic and pluralistic. It demonstrates the advantages of a pluralistic professional identity.