An information technology (IT) fashion is a transitory collective belief that an IT is new, efficient, and at the forefront of practice. I find that following IT fashions can legitimize organizations and their leaders even in the absence of performance improvement. Hence fashion is an alternative basis for organizational legitimacy.

Purpose Although drawing from neoinstitutional theoretical apparatus and ontology, management fashion theory is understood as a that explains the transitory nature of popular ideas practices while institutional their stabilization, persistence further institutionalization. In nutshell, it seems being opposed to each other, these two theories describe predict different, incommensurable diffusion...

High amounts of adenosine are released in the tumor mass. Depending on the levels of adenosine, as well as on the receptor subtypes that are expressed by immune cells, adenosine can affect tumor growth in different fashions. Specifically targeting CD73, the rate-limiting enzyme for the extracellular generation of adenosine, or the A3 receptor offers new therapeutic strategies to limit tumor pro...

A new approach to the generation of nanoparticle arrays in periodic as well as non-periodic fashions has been discovered based on reduction of oxidized nanoscroll/nanoribbon precursors in the transmission electron microscope (carbothermal reduction) or by hydrogen annealing. Arrays consisting of nickel arsenide nanoparticles of size 3-4 nm have been generated.