Leadership in health professions education and the university in general has been the subject of intense scrutiny and observation in recent years. For a variety of reasons, universities and their component schools (including dental schools) are not always perceived to advance goals for the common good. The conclusion of this report is that common good unfolds from effective leadership. The repo...

The papyrus leaf. The Gutenberg printing press. The Internet. What do all of these technologies have in common? They all have disrupted the way that we communicate. The adoption of technology occurs along a predictable curve. Innovators lead the way, taking a new concept and introducing it to the world. Next come the early adopters, often opinion leaders, who engage in new practices. Eventually...

A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR REPRESENTING HUMAN BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTICS IN A SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS AGENT-BASED SURVIVABILITY SIMULATION Report Title This research was conducted as a pilot study to model and simulate a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) as a system of systems (SoS) using selected human behavioral traits. A MANET as used in the research is a physics-based as well as a socio-technical syste...

The Covid-19 pandemic brings time to the foreground as a multidimensional force that pervades diverse phenomena. For example, ‘flattening curve’ – key crisis management strategy pursued by many governments is about slowing down spread of virus so hospitals gain ramp up capacities and heal patients without overflowing. Stimulus programs are bridging between pre- post-pandemic pace economic activ...

Recent accounts from researchers, journalists, as well as federal investigators, reached a unanimous conclusion: social media are systematically exploited to manipulate and alter public opinion. Some disinformation campaigns have been coordinated by means of bots, social media accounts controlled by computer scripts that try to disguise themselves as legitimate human users. In this study, we de...

Two SURVEYS WERE ADMINISTERED to library professionals holding titular headships in order to develop a list of perceived library leaders. This list was used to learn the locus (subfield) of leadership and the degree of fieldwide integration as evidenced by the extent of shared perceptions by respondents. Results revealed that leaders tend to be associated most strongly with a category labeled “...

ions rather than normative models, allowing reference to a more complex reality to be established for the purposes of contrast and comparison of ideas for research, in this case in the financial services sector. So, can such a framework help us analyze the implications of the GFC for SHRM and vice versa? Developments in the UK financial services sector: RBS as a case in point To assess the rele...

In this paper, we respond to the recent paper in the Journal of Management by Becker, Cropanzano, and Sanfey (2011) entitled Organizational Neuroscience: Taking Organizational Theory Inside the Neural Black Box. More specifically, we build on the ideas of Becker et al. (2011), to first clarify and extend their work, and then to explore the critical philosophical issues involved in drawing infer...

In his article "Literary Studies from Hermeneutics to Media Culture Studies" Siegfried J. Schmidt discusses aspects of hermeneutics, the systemic and empirical (contextual) approach to literature and culture, radical constructivism, and his postulates for the field of media culture studies. Schmidt describes his understanding of the transformation of literary studies towards media culture studi...

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices leaders can initiate to extend, strengthen, or transform ‘‘ordinary capabilities’’ (Winter, 2003) into enhanced improvisational compe...