While scholars have provided increasingly well-developed theoretical frameworks for understanding the role of institutional entrepreneurs and other purposeful actors in bringing about change in organizational fields, much less attention has been paid to the role of unorganized, nonstrategic actors in catalyzing change. In particular, the role of consumers remains largely uninvestigated. In this...

In this paper, we present an innovative approach for ranking profiles of capability sets on the basis of equity. An interesting way of capturing the notion of equity is to take into account the extent to which each of the different functioning vectors is shared by the population under consideration (of size n). This is done by defining the ‘common capability sets’ enjoyed by k individuals as th...

This paper studies coalition formation under asymmetric information. An outside party o ers private payments in order to in uence the collective decision over an unpopular reform. The willingness to accept such payments is private information. The paper demonstrates that a supermajority coalition induces truth-telling and secures the implementation of the decision for a price close to the full ...

This article aims to probe the discourse surrounding debate between classical and modern interpretations of Quran factors contributing these interpretation styles' formation evolution. The first is considered textualist does not use much an outside scientific approach inherited from Islam. In contrast, enunciated depart traditional Islamic scholarly traditions employ social science approaches. ...

Companies are more than ever participating in so-called value networks while being confronted with an increasing need for collaboration with their business partners. In order to better perform in such value networks information systems supporting not only the intrabut also the inter-enterprise business processes are necessary in order to enable and ease collaboration between business partners. ...

“Objective” is a term applied to outward things, in contrast to “subjective,” used to denote those things that belong to the conscious life. Thus whatever is considered as independent of the perceiving and reasoning self is “objective,” whereas all that belongs to the conscious life is termed “subjective.” We speak of a thing as having “objective reality,” that is, it is an object of perception...

This paper studies a Stackelberg game wherein sender (leader) attempts to shape the information of less informed receiver (follower) who in turn takes an action that determines payoff for both players. The chooses signals maximize its own utility function while aims ascertain value source is privately known sender. It well such sender–receiver games admit vast number equilibria and not all from...