Organizations today own little slack, and they must very carefully manage their resources. In this article, we describe an omnipresent, yet often ignored resource utilization problem whereby some workers abandon certain responsibilities and use the freed-up time to pursue personal interests such as hobbies and side businesses. In essence, these “time bandits” work part-time in exchange for full...

Eric Hobsbawm’s thesis of ‘social banditry’ has stimulated a great deal discussion about the nature bandit activity. This shed much light not just upon banditry as historical problem, but on its capacity to offer wider insights into social structures. article seeks contribute ongoing by bringing bear hitherto largely ignored Scottish evidence. Assessing origins and Highland in seventeenth-centu...

Colombia’s physical and socio-political landscape—a territory fragmented by mountain ranges and tropical forests, deficient infrastructure, lack of national integration, and the tradition of armed revolts against the central authorities—has provided fertile ground for guerrillas. Guerrilla warfare shading into politicized banditry has been, in fact, the most prevalent form of armed activity in ...

Banditry and unrest in eighteenth and nineteenth century China have attracted substantial attention from several generations of researchers. Often, they apply particular ontologies a priori to the source base. Given their reliance on state documents, these studies are subject to the perspectives of record-keepers and their theories of violence. It is particularly difficult to apply fixed defini...

The study examined farmers–herdsmen conflict, cattle rustling, and banditry in Anka Maradun local government area of Zamfara State, Nigeria. the influence conflicts on rustling banditry, vice versa. Exploratory research was employed; focus group discussion (FGD) key informant interview (KII)were used to collect primary data from respondents. generated were transcribed recorded verbatim (word-fo...

Banditry was a serious social problem in the interwar period Poland, and combating this phenomenon of particular importance immediately after The Great War, during early years independence. Ensuring internal stability necessary condition for supporting army fighting state's survival. article presents activities public authorities western part Lesser Poland that aimed at reduction levels banditr...

The article examines bandit myths from a socio-historical perspective, as part of the socio-cultural reality present-day Egypt. It engages in semiotics banditry encouraged by Stephanie Cronin taking first step towards social analysis Rayyā and Sakīna, two Egyptian female criminals par excellence, arrested 1920 executed 1921. I will argue that Sakīna's criminal myth is currently being resignifie...