Culture clash

2 Frontier Hybridization or Culture Clash ?

Errata: "fokker, a Clash of Culture?"

What role do cultural factors play in the survival of a company that faces existential problems, especially if these problems relate to co-operation between organisations with different cultures? We try to provide some answers by looking at the decline of the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. In 1996 this company went bankrupt and among the causes of this event cultural factors rank high, at ...

Culture , politics clash at World Week display

The Albany Slate wrestling team continued on their record setting pace by finishing seventh in the country and having four wrestlers earn All-American honors. The Danes competed in the NCAA Division 111 National Championships in Whcaion, Illinois last Friday and Saturday and came back to Albany sporting their finest performance ever in the nationals. Andy Seras was named an All-Amcrican for the...

Agile Meets CMMI: Culture Clash or Common Cause?

This paper is based on a workshop held at the University of Southern California Center for Software Engineering in March, 2002. The components of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Systems Engineering/ Software Engineering/Integrated Product and Process Model1 are evaluated for their support of agile methods. We also present a set of dualistic concepts differentiating the approach...

Culture Clash and the Road to World Domination

Richard Stallman’s idealistic and reflective “GNU Manifesto,”1 drawn up in unhappy reaction to the spread of proprietary, closed-source commercial software. Frustrated by the dampening of an earlier atmosphere of open software collaboration, Stallman championed the notion of freely sharing one’s work as a matter of principle, and he offered a brilliant legal tool to do so securely: the GNU Gene...