We are living in a historical period which there is strong sense that we facing an end of evolutionary cycle so many decisive aspects life together, justifies the need for analytical tools shift their focus towards new avenues research. Help this regard may come from strongly radical current thought calls itself Posthumanism, critically reconsiders frameworks and foundations within human social...

Douglas R. White and Michael Houseman For special issue of l’Homme 2013 Regardless of now marriage is locally defined, most people in most places marry (and/or have children with) people who are neither too close (immediate family members) nor overly distant (total strangers). As a result, many members of a given community are linked to each other by multiple direct or indirect ties of consangu...

Received: 29 December 2008 Revised: 1 October 2009 2nd Revision: 13 November 2009 3rd Revision: 28 February 2010 Accepted: 1 March 2010 Abstract Software Process Improvement (SPI) projects are large-scale, complex organization-wide change initiatives. They require considerable investments in personnel, time and money and impact just about every aspect of software firms. The group charged with c...

Alliance formation is often described as a mechanism used by firms to increase voluntary knowledge transfers. Access to external knowledge has been increasingly recognized as a main source of a firm’s innovativeness. In this paper we examine decisions to form alliance portfolios of foreign and domestic partners by three groups of firms: innovators (firms that are successful in introducing new p...

Several advantages are pointed by the literature indicating the articulation among companies of a same sector located in a same territory. In Brazil, however, the cooperation and the alliances creations for mutual exploration of business opportunities, especially among small companies, still happens with a lot of difficulty. This is due, mainly, to cultural factors as lack of mutual trust and t...

OBJECTIVES Multi-stakeholder healthcare alliances in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) program brought together diverse stakeholders to work collaboratively to improve healthcare in their local communities. This article evaluates how well the AF4Q alliances were collectively positioned to sustain themselves as AF4Q program support ended. METHODS This anal...