This paper reports on a field study of several partially distributed groups working in an insurance company. Data were collected via interviews, a questionnaire, and meeting observation. The data support parts of several theories including media richness and social information processing, and also reveal other constructs which are not found in current theories. Two of these are convenience and ...

In any field of enquiry, there is a need from time to time to take stock and to have a cool, objective look at what has been done: the methods used, the facts accumulated and appealed to, and the conclusions reached. That need is urgent with regard to research into general practice. Before 1939 general practice was a comparatively unexplored field. The pioneering work of Mackenzie and Pickles e...

objective:  the aim of the research was investigating and visualizing the intellectual structure of thermodynamics subject area based on outputs of iranian scholars of the field indexed in thomson reuters web of science during time span of 1990-2009.   method: the population of the research was all references of the mentioned publications. the sample was the top 1 percent cited scholars of the ...

purpose: using both ideational and social influences’ indicators, this study tries to identify and analyze the most influential researchers in imetrics. to do so, the researchers used a combination of h family indexes (h-index, g-index, and contemporary h-index) and co-authorship centralities (degree, betweenness, and closeness) for calculating ideational and social influences, respectively.met...

analysis of masoud sa'ad salman :union:s shahr ashoob with the perspectives of goldmann and burdieumoharram rezayati kishekhaleh & ali nosrati siyahmazgi abstractshahr ashoob is the context about praising people of city or courtier and lovely describing of owners' social professions. we can categorize shahr ashoob in three groups: urbun shahr ashoob; :union:s shahr ashoob is about des...