The vehement scientific debate which took place in Australia in the 1980s over the epidemic of the chronic cervicobrachial pain syndrome known as repetition strain injury (RSI) was remarkable for the accompanying social commentary offered by many of the medical participants. This commentary was to have a profound effect on relationships between individual doctors and their patients with RSI. It...

Implicit (unconscious) gender stereotyping in fame judgments was tested with an adaptation of a procedure developed by L. L. Jacoby, C. M. Kelley, J. Brown, and J. Jasechko (1989). In Experiments 1-4, participants pronounced 72 names of famous and nonfamous men and women, and 24 or 48 hr later made fame judgments in response to the 72 familiar and 72 unfamiliar famous and nonfamous names. These...

The role of culture in the development of international buyer/seller relationships has attracted the attention of academics and practitioners in marketing and management (for example, Adler 1997; Dabholkar, Johnston & Cathey 1994; Hofstede 1994; Soutar, Grainger & Hedges 1999). This paper examines the role of national culture and stereotyping in the development of a potential buyer/seller relat...

In addition to running key organizational systems, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are increasingly expected to embrace a broader role in their organizations by driving organizational transformation, innovating for competitive advantage and acting as key strategic partners to the CEO and other members of the C-level team. Their ability to fulfill this challenging role, however, is inhibited b...

The UML is currently being used as the universal technique for modeling object-oriented applications across a wide range of domains. Developing a truly adequate uniform modeling technique in the face of these diverse domains seems an unsolvable quest and contrasts domain specific software engineering activities. Recently, many adaptations to the UML have been made to reflect a domain’s world vi...

Using a multimodal discursive approach, this study explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is constructed and used in press reportage to mobilize intergroup relations national identities. We examine reporting about development of Sweden cast as matter nationalism stereotyping Finnish press. The data consist 183 images with accompanying headlines captions published two newspapers between January 1 Au...