This study examines some of the important organizational consequences of the fashion phenomenon in information technology. An IT fashion is an information technology transitorily collectively believed as new, efficient, and at the forefront of practice. Using data collected from published discourse and annual corporate IT budgets, I have found that companies associated with IT fashions did not ...

An organizational role is defined as a set of functions together with a set of policies (deontic statements). Several roles can be played by the same human or artificial agent. It is also possible that a set of agents is designated to play a given role. In modern organizations it is common to find most agents performing several different simultaneous roles. This may cause ethical and deontic co...

Legal Theory is incumbent to analyze the mechanisms by which legal orders deal with problems of polyculturality. This article focuses on issue community norms, particularly if they are regarded as material facts or normative facts. The question whether polyculturality can be source a fact that must respected even it does not agree dominant social values in society, these prevail. Taking into ac...

Sexuality is a unit part of humans that has been evaluated as several fragmented particles for years. Although many biomedical and psychosocial approaches have been developed in the field of sex, these approaches usually have not been led to the complete satisfaction of the patients. It seems that for a comprehensive evaluation and management of the sexual problems, the unity of sex should be r...

In a coloring of a set of points P with respect to a family of regions one requires that in every region containing at least two points from P , not all the points are of the same color. Perhaps the most notorious open case is coloring of n points in the plane with respect to axis-parallel rectangles, for which it is known that O(n) colors always suffice, and Ω(log n/ log log n) colors are some...

We extend research on social evaluations and crisis management by explicating the sociocognitive mechanisms that influence how an organization and its external evaluators perceive and respond to the onset of a crisis. Specifically, we highlight the role of social approval—evaluators’ general affinity toward an organization—not only as a critical outcome of crisis management but also as an impor...