This article looks at six months of the author's repeated attempts to obtain approval three Helsinki Committees (HCs, Israeli hospitals’ research ethics committees) conduct ethnographic with Palestinian physicians in hospitals. While was eventually approved and carried out two these institutions, correspondence HC representatives, as well evidence their informal moves institutions’ management, ...

In 2019 there existed a legal entity known as The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints.1 This fact will likely strike most readers unexceptional. More interesting, however, prior to had been no such the Saints for over 150 years, last that name having disincorporated in 1862. Even more strangely, although were millions people around globe who identified themselves Saints, only member was Ru...

Over the past two decades, the subject of emotional intelligence has received ample attention in management and leadership literature. The literature contains a plethora of information about emotional intelligence and its effect on transformational leadership. Much less is written on the relationship between charismatic leadership and emotional intelligence. This paper examines the relationship...

This type of model is similar to Bernus’s “Abstract” (Bernus 1998) reference models or Loo’s “Generic Structures” (Loos et al. 1996). These are reference models that are at a level of abstraction that they require the addition of enterprise specific detail to produce the enterprise specific model. These models require that the user “fill-in-the-blanks” (Bernus 1998) or require 2 The term “deriv...

The following paper describes an ongoing research project whose goal is to define a scalable, hybrid production and deployment protocol (CIMSp) for the creation of virtual environments (VE). Ultimately, the aim is to establish a creative workflow and infrastructure that embodies architectural and urban design activity as practiced by the research unit. The objective of the present paper is to s...

In this paper we will advance a perspective that links business network analysis to interorganizational IT systems (IOS) uptake, starting with an analytic framework to characterize both different types of electronic business to business interactions (via the web) as well as the network of business relationships in which they are used. In order to see whether inter-organizational IT systems and ...

This paper is concerned with the evolution of socio-technical systems. Although it is possible to identify an evolutionary space for socio-technical systems, the methodologies that address the evolution of socio-technical systems are still patchy. Moreover, it is still challenging to address multidisciplinarity in modelling methodologies. This paper addresses the heterogeneous modelling of the ...

The Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) is the largest national research centre in Switzerland. Its multidisciplinary research is dedicated to a wide field in natural science and technology as well as particle physics. In this context, PSI is operating, amongst others, a large proton accelerator facility since more than 30 years. In two cyclotrons, protons are accelerated to high speeds and then guide...

The consequences of using NHST vary for different areas of psychological research, depending principally on the sizes of the samples typically employed, and on the sizes of the population effects being tested. In the case of mainstream academic experimentation, sample sizes rarely exceed 200 per condition, and it is reasonable to assume that no more than 20% of the experiments involve true popu...

In negotiating complex business transactions, parties decide whether, when and how to invite legal enforcement of the rules that govern their relationships, particularly in their use of intermediate agreements that reflect some agreement on a number of provisions but contemplate further negotiation (variously labelled memorandum of understanding, agreement in principle, letter of intent, term s...