The need for inter-organisational information systems projects, which are complex undertakings often riddled with poorly understood power struggles and conflicts that hinder project success, has increased in previous decades. Through the lenses of systemic episodic power, together an organisational conflict model, this longitudinal, qualitative case study explores dynamics their effects develop...

We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affects both inter-group conflicts over appropriation such goods and decentralized private provision for their production. Our model integrates production versus choices, vis-a-vis with voluntary supply, against a backdrop spillovers. flexible general formulation spillovers in...

A system can only be improved if it is measured. In order to adequately measure a system, that system needs to be mapped and all key inter-nodal linkages, constraints and pathways recorded. Commercial supply chains demonstrate similar characteristics to other systems. Much has been written about mapping supply systems, where typically, the product or service is tracked from the originating sour...

Filmed traffic conflicts were evaluated in terms of their severity using an objective measure and two subjective measures obtained from two groups of subjects. Each observer rated the same conflicts three times. Correlations among the subjective measures and between the subjective measures and the objective measure were used to evaluate some aspects of the reliability and validity of the subjec...

Historically, AI research has understandably focused on those aspects of cognition that distinguish humans from other animals – in particular, our capacity for complex problem solving. However, with a few notable exceptions, narratives in popular media generally focus on those aspects of human experience that we share with other social animals: attachment, mating and child rearing, violence, gr...

Whether the inter-state and sub-national tensions over transboundary waters will lead to greater conflict or increased cooperation remains a hotly debated issue. Most work on the subject situates transboundary water conflict and transboundary water cooperation at opposing ends of a continuum. The examination of either conflict or cooperation, we argue, refutes the reality of the vast majority o...

This article explores some of the latest developments in the scholarship on race relations and nationalism that seek to address the impact of globalization and the changed geo-political relations of the first decade of the twenty-first century. New patterns of identification, some of which challenge existing group boundaries and others that reinforce them, can be seen to flow from the effects o...

The IUBG was established on initiative of the IUPAB in 1998 as an Inter-Union activity addressing issues concerning the availability, maintenance, and free access of biological and biophysical scienti®c data. The availability of sequence data on the human genome and on gene sequences of other organisms, and of structural data on proteins and other bio-macromolecules, is growing rapidly. Combine...