W hy do people work? Economic theory generally, and the principal– agent model specifically, emphasize the role of material incentives. The standard assumption is that people work hard only if they receive monetary compensation for doing so. However, a substantial body of evidence contradicts the standard economic model. Many salaried academics, for example, work diligently year after year, con...

Logic-based languages have already proved to be effective to build individual agents and to enable inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. Also, logic tuple centres have shown that logic-based languages can be effectively exploited to rule inter-agent communication so as to build social behaviours. In this paper, we formally define the notion of logic tuple centre as well as the opera...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reach a deeper understanding the Lean principle respect for people (RFP facilitate implementation in Western organizations outside Toyota. Design/methodology/approach This study uses an interpretative, hermeneutic approach understand RFP concept through literature existing research about implementation, and inquiry into underlying meaning principle, by st...