The bulk of research on academic rankings is policy-oriented, preoccupied with ‘best practices’, and seems incapable transcending the normative discourse ‘governance’. To understand, engage, properly critique operation power in rankings, needs to escape gravity ‘police science’ embrace a political science ranking. More specifically, article identifies three pillars extant from which departure w...

introduction: management is one of the most important factors for life, development, growth or death of any organizations including hospitals. the power is of one of the main concepts that by focusing on the fundamental and theoretical efforts considered as an important factor at all levels of management and human resources. managers who know the sources of power and are using them, have more e...

This paper presents an empirical study on the contribution made by middle managers to the development of strategy in an organisation. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews with middle-managers and top-managers in companies large enough to have the middle management layer in the organisational hierarchy. The data was analysed using a qualitative approach. Previous studies in th...

Power management is at the forefront of challenges facing next-generation computing systems. Multiple mechanisms for dynamic regulation of processor power can be used aggressively to address power and thermal issues in real time; however, to do so effectively requires knowledge of the power and performance impact of the power-regulation choices. The problem is complex since the impact of each m...

This research identifies factors affecting the operation of a supply chain in a large, asset rich transport utility, and how a recent Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) implementation was perceived with respect to its usability for the task. A lack of trust in the ERP, ineffective training methods and complexity in extracting the data from the ERP were identified as a problem which lead ...