the concept of entrepreneurship has derived much attention to itself from scientific boards and public and private organizations in the recent decades. a brief review on the literature of entrepreneurship reveals that due to the economic approaches taken, entrepreneurship is setting forth to find out new ways to maximize the benefit and income. at the other hand, social organizations, too, must...

Healthcare organizations (HCO) are under pressure to adopt emerging solutions with a view to improving the quality and efficiency of their operations, patient care and clinical decisions. In the literature, while recommendations have been put forth to follow an organizational approach to the adoption and implementation of analytics, there is a paucity of research into what specifically constitu...

For phylogenetic inference, linguistic typology is a promising alternative to lexical evidence because it allows us to compare an arbitrary pair of languages. A challenging problem with typology-based phylogenetic inference is that the changes of typological features over time are less intuitive than those of lexical features. In this paper, we work on reconstructing typologically natural ances...

Agent software is a rapidly developing area of research. However, the overuse of the word ‘agent’ has tended to mask the fact that, in reality, there is a truly heterogeneous body of research being carried out under this banner. This overview paper presents a typology of agents. Next, it places agents in context, defines them and then goes on, inter alia, to overview critically the rationales, ...

Andrew Billingsley in Black Families in White America has criticized much of the previous research on the black family, saying that social scientists have ignored the structural variation among families and have focused on a very limited number of family functions. To correct what he believes to be a distorted picture of the black family, he has suggested a typology of family structures and a l...

Drug control policies and interventions, like any other policies and interventions, generate many unintended consequences. Most often, such consequences are mentioned without being defined or presented in a typology and they are rarely explained in terms of causality. This paper will stress how the existing work on the unintended consequences of drug control policies and interventions suffers f...

The aim of this paper is to present a typology for modular service design. We review engineering, manufacturing, and service research literature and develop three key concepts for service modularization: service module, service architecture, and service experience. Thereafter these key concepts are further decomposed into detailed constructs. Basing on the reviewed literature, we develop a comm...

There is a widespread acceptance that organising by projects is on the increase. In previous research on the management of projects, the majority of studies have adopted project-centric approaches, downplaying organisationor company-wide matters even in firms whose performance largely depends on the combined success of multiple projects. In this paper, we focus on the problem of management cont...

earth-shelter construction is one of the aspects in architecture where the thermal mass of the earth behind the outer walls are applied in order to reduce heat loss and keep the internal temperature at human comfort range. in case of earth-shelter buildings, housing is especially important. as for its applicability the earth-shelter provides good housing. typological studies of earth-shelter co...

The aim of this article is to explore the development of theories on transsexualism with a view to advancing a typology of theories of transsexualism.This typology exposes a general shift from concerns with ‘authenticity’ (the transsexual as a ‘real’ woman or man) to issues of ‘performativity’ (the transsexual as hyperbolic enactment of gender). I will argue it is through a displacement of psyc...