• Implementing gender equality commitments in the fisheries sector is exceedingly slow. Gender tends to be viewed and approached instrumentally (fisheries sector) inherently (development sector). Such foundational differences present unique opportunities challenges mainstream into sector. Fisheries can benefit from decades of lessons development sector, work collaboratively towards equality. Co...

In today’s rapid changing market situations, many nations and companies try to keep or make better their situation and gain more market share by creating competitive advantages. Because of growing number of uncertain parameters in the environment and lack of information about the future, the strategic choice has become very complex and critical. One of the popular tools for solving the problem ...

Growing complexity of the data and processes to be managed, as well as the transition from strict governmental regulation towards autonomy make academic institutions a significant consumer of advanced software solutions. Strategic management requires a comprehensive analysis of large data volumes from heterogeneous sources, often imprecise and incomplete. Our aim is to assist university policy-...

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in building the capacity of researchers in low and middle income countries (LMIC) to address their national priority health and health policy problems. However, the number and variety of partnerships and funding arrangements can create management problems for LMIC research institutes. This paper aims to identify problems faced by a health research institu...

The benefits of strategic planning at enterprise level are well documented. Similar research at a sector level is harder to find. This paper introduces the theory of enterprise level strategic planning. A number of definitions of strategy are discussed. Building on a review of the dominant schools of strategic thinking, the paper proceeds to discuss the influence of stakeholder theory and the p...

Building on Crawford and Sobel’s (1982) general communication model, this paper introduces the possibility that players are non-strategic. The sender may be honest and have a preference for speaking truthfully. The receiver may be naive and erroneously believe that the sender is truthful. In contrast to the predictions of the fully-strategic model, we show that there is an equilibrium where com...

Alignment has been considered as a multi-dimension concept such as strategic alignment and social alignment. Besides, alignment is also recognized as a dynamic concept, which means it is always an ongoing process. Drawing on these two perspectives, we suggest that alignment could be achieved by various implementations, including IT strategy-driven implementation and business-driven implementati...

Real Time Strategy (RTS) games present a wide range of AI challenges at the tactical and strategic level. Unfortunately, the lack of flexible “mod” interfaces to these games has made it difficult for AI researchers to explore these challenges in the context of RTS games. We are addressing this by building two AI interfaces into Full Spectrum Command, a real time strategy training aid built for ...

This paper describes the construction of a generic data model for strategic planning in Public Administration (PA). This model is presented at two distinct levels corresponding to different levels of the Zachman framework. The data model developed covers one of the major generic processes which public administration agencies perform, that of strategy formulation. This model can be used to provi...