His remonstrations were enjoined by Robert Merton, who reproached me for the false imputation that mistakes capitalism for industrialism. He was criticising an essay I had written in 1982 about the industrial sociology of his recently deceased student Alvin Gouldner. I claimed that Gouldner’s classic text, Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy, missed the specifically capitalist character of indus...

<abstract> <p>Current global problems such as the loss of soil fertility and biodiversity growth world's population for which health food sovereignty must be guaranteed, make it clear that will essential to spread innovations increase not only productivity but also quality production in order meet these challenges. However, this enough if profound changes are made all systems more s...

The concept of good governance has increasingly come to be seen as an essential ingredient of principles guiding natural resource management. Governance is a term that does not lend itself to an easy definition. Perspectives on debates in governance have varied; however, essentially questions of governance of natural resources revolve around such issues as improving the effectiveness of the bur...

Researches in electronic government have indicated a number of organizational barriers that hinder the adoption and implementation of electronic government. This paper proposes a research framework for analysing how organizational barriers influence the adoption and implementation of e-government at local levels. The framework is constructed based on four organizational dimensions; adaptability...

From Marco Polo to Richard Nixon, narratives of the encounter between Chinese and Westerners have been defining texts of European cultures and their descendants. Successive but sporadic reports from travellers, missionaries, diplomats, traders and others have provided a model of an alternative way of arranging people, of organizing their lives, of thinking about the state of being human; one th...