It has been discovered that in many organizations the information technology department is a separate entity, while in others each business unit incorporates their own information technology department. The former represents a centralized approach while the latter represents a decentralized approach. The centralized IT department suits some organizations better than others. However, it is becom...

As a common experience-based emotion, awe can easily arise within consumers who are immersed in an online brand community. On the basis of prototype theory, this paper developed research model involving community management authority, professionalism opinion leaders, participation time, awe, and customer engagement at organizational individual levels The study then targeted mobile community, ob...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Satu Koivisto Name of the doctoral dissertation Supervisor’s fair treatment and decision making in an organizational context – A social identity analysis Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 97/2013 Field of resear...

May-June 2012 To the Editor: In the SeptemberOctober 2011 issue, Daniel Groll addresses the question of what health care providers can know about patients’ interests (“What Health Care Providers Know”). He offers helpful refinements to my claim in Patient, Heal Thyself (Oxford, 2008) that generally health providers cannot know what serves patient interests. I am honored that a careful student o...

The authority of a leader is enhanced when her commands or recommendations for action are obeyed. The authority of a leader is also enhanced when her commands are "principled" based on good reasons and therefore the leader is seen to be acting in the interests of her followers. But for a leader interested in maintaining her authority, there is often a con ict between these strategies. For examp...

Why do innovation projects fail? The most common answers are (A) the implementation differs from what was planned; (B) despite positive expected payoffs, there is an ex-ante probability that payoff can be negative (risk). As a third option, we consider fallibility of individuals who evaluate using their limited information-processing capabilities (bounded rationality). Furthermore, compare over...

This paper presents a comparative study of forest management across four countries in East Africa and Latin America: Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, and Mexico. It focuses on one question: Do varying proportions of women (low, mixed, high) in forest user groups influence their likelihood of adopting forest resource enhancing behavior? We found that higher proportions of females in user groups, and espe...