This paper discusses agri-food economies and how they evolve over time. It also analyses how these economies, which often have contradictory dynamics, are theorized. A central thesis of the paper is that different theoretical representations not only reflect the differences in agro-economies and their developmental tendencies, but are also important drivers that actively shape the trajectories ...

Instant messaging (IM) is one of the newest and fastest-growing communication technologies in the workplace today, yet little is known about its real implications for worker productivity. We have taken the particular affordances of instant messaging as the basis for extrapolating from and linking prior studies of email use, polychronic communication, and task interruptions to develop propositio...

In this article, I reflect upon and attempt to understand the changing theoretical nature of post–World War II Anglo-American economic geography. In particular, I contrast the kind of theorizing that first occurred in the discipline during the 1950s with the very different kind now carried out under what has been called the “cultural turn” or the “new economic geography.” I argue that, during t...

As a part of a larger-scale research, the present study aimed to use the main tenets of sociocultural perspective; namely, mediation, internalization, zone of proximal development, and the activity theory, to analyze the novice and expert teachers’ professional development through personal practical theorizing as an awareness raising technique. Furthermore, the study attempted to identify the c...

ISSN: 0741-8825 (Print) 1745-9109 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjqy20 Theorizing Racial Discord over Policing Before and After Ferguson Ronald Weitzer To cite this article: Ronald Weitzer (2017) Theorizing Racial Discord over Policing Before and After Ferguson, Justice Quarterly, 34:7, 1129-1153, DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2017.1362461 To link to this article: http://dx....

To date, no scholarly article has analyzed the theoretical basis of mental health courts, which currently exist in forty-three states. This Article examines the two utilitarian justifications proposed by mental health court advocates—therapeutic jurisprudence and therapeutic rehabilitation—and finds both insufficient. Therapeutic jurisprudence is inadequate to justify mental health courts becau...

In the present paper main streams of research in the field of entrepreneurship are identified and discussed. The purpose is to find out what theoretical perspectives could be used to build a framework for explaining performance in small and medium enterprises. Strengths and weaknesses of population ecology, behavioural, resource-based and strategic-adaptation theoretical perspectives in explain...

The observation that people tailor information systems in the context of use presents a dilemma to the current conceptualization of Design Science Research. In order to explain and support secondary design, we need to better understand the process by which such design-in-use occurs. This research presents the kernel theories, methodological approach, and preliminary findings through which secon...