We still know little of why strategy processes often involve participation problems. In this paper, we argue that this crucial issue is linked to fundamental assumptions concerning the nature of strategy work. Hence, we need to examine how strategy processes are typically made sense of and what roles are assigned to specific organizational members. For this purpose, we adopt a critical discursi...

in this paper attempts have been made to study the discourses dominating political islam to answer these questions: how can one categorize these diverse political islam discourses? what are the similarities and differences among these discourses in general, and with the islamic revolution discourse in particular? the research methodology employed for this study is historical-comparative and the...

BACKGROUND Much research has been devoted to the emotional burdens of having a child with intellectual disability (ID), but very little of this has focused on the burdens imposed by negative public attitudes towards disability. Adjustment has primarily been thought of as adjustment to the actual disability rather than adjustment to attitudes or prejudices towards disability. AIM The aim of th...

OBJECTIVE To describe the lay meanings of sickle cell disease (SCD) in the Ashanti region of Ghana. DESIGN Depth interviews with 31 fathers of people with SCD; a focus group with health professionals associated with the newborn sickle cell screening programme, and a focus group with mothers of children with SCD. RESULTS Whilst there are discourses that associate sickle cell with early or re...

In information systems, most research on knowledge management assumes that knowledge has positive implications for organizations. However, knowledge is a double-edged sword: while too little might result in expensive mistakes, too much Daniel Robey was the accepting senior editor for this paper. might result in unwanted accountability. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the lack of atten...

This paper aims to trace the development of management accounting systems (MAS) in a Portuguese bank, where an activity based costing system (ABC) is being trialled for implementation, as a means to improving the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of employee activity. The culture of banking in Portugal has changed significantly over the last 25 years, but at the same time there are older tr...

Preliminary results for some of the light baryon masses and their excited states in 2+1 flavour domain wall QCD are presented. The spectrum was determined on two volumes, 16 3 × 32 and 24 3 × 64, both with L S = 16. The degenerate light quark mass is less than a third of the strange quark mass. All data was produced jointly by the RBC and UKQCD collaborations on QCDOC machines.

In response to environmental issues around the world, United Nation and Chinese NGO have launched various proposals policies focusing on relationships between humans nature. From perspective of conceptual metaphor, this study analyses UN Protected Planet Report 2020, China Environment Yearbook, edited by first NGO, Under theory Conceptual Metaphor Lakoff Johnson, a corpus-based methodology comb...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the various dimensions of leadership emerging in Plato's discussions on ideal political governance and then generalize them to fit in with current discussions. The consideration will also cover some areas of organizational ethics, managerial discourses on rhetoric, management of meaning an charismatic leadership are presented. Also the possibility to eva...