DIFFERENT CULTURES AND value systems that are brought into libraries by different types of professionals can create problems, tensions, and conflicts between nonlibrary professionals and professional librarians in library organizations. This article offers some solutions from the organizational perspective as well as the reward systems that can be used at their individual levels. INTRODUCTION A...

Self-organizing systems have the general property that the primitive elements that comprise the system interact in order to achieve emergent global properties. We describe an extended Petri net simulation architecture for such systems that is based on interacting agents that carry out autonomous actions, yet collaborate with each other in structured ways. There is no central controlling entity....

1 Introduction GORMAS (Guidelines for ORganizational Multi-Agent Systems) defines a set of activities for the analysis and design of Virtual Organizations, including the design of their organizational structure and their dynamics. With this method, all services offered and required by the Virtual Organization are clearly defined, as well as its internal structure and the norms that govern its b...

Goold (1997) has argued that the Porter (1980) five-forces framework for industry analysis is not applicable to nonprofits. In light of recent essays (e.g. Miller, 2002) as well as literature from the world of religious nonprofit organizations and organization theory, the Porter framework is analyzed through a review of representative literature. The religious nonprofit arena was chosen for thi...

The Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW) is a voluntary partnership of international organizations with substantive mandates and programmes for the sustainable use and conservation of wildlife resources. The mission of the CPW is to increase cooperation and coordination among its members and other interested parties on sustainable wildlife management to promote the...

Professor Singer and Ms. Johnson Lantz provide a cogent overview of Catholic health care in the United States and address the key issues affecting Catholic health care in the coming years. In particular, (1) clarity in canonical and ethical interpretation; (2) industry consolidation; and (3) "next generation" sponsorship and the impact of these issues are discussed in detail. The authors conclu...

As an increasing number of organizations across numerous verticals offer web-based services, their customers' ability to access these services at any time and from any location using a mobile device is a key revenue enabler. In addition, as almost one-third of the enterprise workforce is mobile, the role of mobile communications and remote access to enterprise applications and information has b...

The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) is a coalition of individuals and national organizations with concern for the care and wellbeing of mothers, babies, and families. Our mission is to promote a wellness model of maternity care that will improve birth outcomes and substantially reduce costs. This evidence-based mother-, baby-, and family-friendly model focuses on prevention an...

I n recent years, the use of, interest in, and controversies surrounding agile methods have all increased dramatically—as has anecdotal evidence for agile methods’ effectiveness in certain environments and for specific project types. Exactly in which environments and under what conditions agile methods work remains unclear, however. A development team at Motorola, for example, noted that, “a pl...