Organizations of the private and public sector have already been compared with the theater (Mangham, Overington, 1987; Vail, 1990; Schreyögg, 2001) and many authors focusing on organizational culture have consciously or unaware borrowed from the repertory of theater and dramaturgy, especially when using terms like heroes, scripts, plots, internal audiences, myths, legends etc. While such cross-...

Fluent readers process text at a number of levels; at the word, the sentence, the conceptual and the topic levels (Munro & Munro, 1991, 1994). The outputs from each process are retained for varying durations in short-term working memory. Depending in part on their purposes for reading at any time, readers perceive the outputs of some levels to be more useful than those at other levels. As they ...

It’s not usual for citations or footnotes to be included in abstracts. One of our purposes here is to expose something of the elementary logical structure of abductive reasoning, and to do so in a way that helps orient theorists to the various tasks that a logic of abduction should concern itself with. We are mindful of criticisms that have been levelled against the very idea of a logic of abdu...

This paper proposes a new auction mechanism with seat reservations in movie theaters using an interdisciplinary approach. In movie theater services, the movie price is generally fixed, not depending on the quality of contents or the theater seat. It implies that such a service mechanism by fixed pricing might not reflect the value of movie contents. In this study, a new mechanism of theater ser...

The postwar morbidity of Gulf War veterans has been closely examined. However, data have not been available to evaluate morbidity suffered during the 1991 Gulf War. In this report, the authors examine archived records of hospitalizations in US military facilities in the Kuwaiti theater of operations or those medically evacuated to facilities in Europe. Using multivariable logistic regression mo...