The articles in this special issue all are based on original fieldwork in China. The authors made presentations on their work in a session at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Vancouver BC, on March 29, 2006. Since that time we have shared drafts of our manuscripts and integrated our work to illustrate both the diversity of the development enterprise in China and common the...

Many new types of sonic anemometer obtain sonic temperature from an average value of temperature measured along three paths, unlike previous sonic anemometers that generally used one path. New equations are derived to calculate temperature variance from sonic temperature variance and sensible heat flux from buoyancy flux considering the influence of a crosswind. These equations can be applied t...

The paper provides a distillation of findings emerging from an ongoing series of investigations of the research practices of academics in a university context to foreground the creativity in our engagements with information. The empirical research involved an ethnographic exploration of the scholarly practices of two scholars engaged in the discovery, evaluation, use and generation of informati...

This field study examines the performance implications of CEO succession plans and compensation perceptions in a sample of single-business manufacturing firms. Zajac (1990) tested these relationships in his "CEO-issues model of firm performance" using a sample of the largest U.S. corporations. Our study replicates Zajac's (1990) earlier work, but uses a sample of CEOs who head smaller, single-b...

This article develops a critical perspective on ‘modernity’, derived from an interest in the anthropology of time. Drawing on social scientific and philosophical work on time and temporality, I seek to unravel the temporal dimension of this term, both through an initial theoretical analysis and subsequent ethnographic interrogation. The ethnographic component of the article draws on a year’s fi...

This study examines how IT professionals cope with the threat of professional obsolescence. We adopt the threat rigidity model to explain the relationship between threat of professional obsolescence and occupational mobility. In addition, we argue that professional commitment moderates the relationship between the consequent cognitive coping mechanisms of threat and occupational mobility. We co...

IT professionals and researchers continue to seek guidance on how to best derive sustainable business value from investments in information systems, and to identify specific governance mechanisms which can be employed to ensure positive results. Building on the resource-based theory of the firm, this long-term interpretive field study of IT strategic planning processes, conducted from 1992 to 2...

p. 9-10 On how field work was conducted. This is a little unclear to me. I would move the last sentence about the project managers up earlier in the paragraph, as you talk about their role in the field work before you introduce them. Also, please clarify if the project managers were from one of the academic institutions involved. Why were six interviewers recruited from the urban team? Did inte...

Despite the overwhelming advantages of using an IS project management methodology, organisations are rarely able to motivate their staff to use them: Consequently, this lack of methodology usage by individuals fails to deliver the expected advantages of better quality, control, less time and effort. We analyse the determinants of an individual‘s intention to use IS project management methodolog...

A field study of altruistic behaviour is presented using a modification of the dictator game in a large random sample survey in the Netherlands (n=1,964). In line with laboratory experiments, only 5.7% donated money. In line with other survey research on giving, generosity increased with age, education, income, trust, and prosocial value orientation.