The article argues for the use of a narrow stakeholder definition. It also adds one group –managers – that generally is not considered as being a stakeholder group. Here it is suggested that control of this stakeholder group holding the executive power should be a central topic for stakeholder theory. The article supports the common idea that the business discourse and the moral discourse shoul...

Please find a revised version of our manuscript entitled “Manuscript Recruitment challenges in clinical research. A case study and lessons learned” enclosed. These changes are explained in the manuscript file “Manuscript 3-changes with tracks”, while the revised manuscript (without “track changes”) is the file “Manuscript 3-changes with no tracks”. All the changes are marked with yellow in the ...

The SchwartzReport tracks emerging trends that will affect the world, particularly the United States. For EXPLORE, it focuses on matters of health in the broadest sense of that term, including medical issues, changes in the biosphere, technology, and policy considerations, all of which will shape our culture and our lives.

Based on a large behavioral dataset of music downloads, two analyses investigate whether the acoustic features of listeners' preferred musical genres influence their choice of tracks within non-preferred, secondary musical styles. Analysis 1 identifies feature distributions for pairs of genre-defined subgroups that are distinct. Using correlation analysis, these distributions are used to test t...

This article presents an overview of the development and use of analytics in the context of education. Using Buckingham Shum's three levels of analytics, the authors present a critical analysis of current developments in the domain of learning analytics, and contrast the potential value of analytics research and development with real world educational implementation and practice. The article al...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) might be the proverbial “tipping point” in discussions about the role of information and communication technologies in higher education. To some they offer dramatic cost savings without loss in quality; to others they are best described as MESS (Massive Extension of Sage on the Stage). If the history of IS is any guide, MOOCs portend dramatic changes over tim...

course books do not only educate students but also prepare them to take responsibilities proportional to their gender as planned by the author. this research is trying to examine the way that gender is represented in farsi books of middle school and the first three grades of high school in non-human science fields in the academic year 2009-10. research method was through analyzing the quantity ...

Densely populated areas in rural China require constant vigilance and state-of-the-art technology to stop new pandemics in their tracks. Hurdles are not only scientific in some parts of the developing world.