To remain competitive or to simply survive in today’s highly dynamic environments, organizations often need to act rapidly. Top managers deal with urgent issues and must improvise. The role that information systems (IS) play in facilitating improvisation is critical to the organization’s internal processes and market performance. This research-in-progress paper reviews the organizational improv...

Discussions about the replicability of psychological studies have primarily focused on improving research methods and practices, with less attention paid to role well-specified theories in facilitating production reliable empirical results. The field is currently need clearly articulated steps theory specification development, particularly regarding frameworks that may generalize across differe...

Kin selection and multilevel selection are two major frameworks in evolutionary biology that aim at explaining the evolution of social behaviors. However, the relationship between these two theories has been plagued by controversy for almost half a century and debates about their relevance and usefulness in explaining social evolution seem to rekindle at regular intervals. Here, we first provid...

Kin selection and multilevel selection are two major frameworks in evolutionary biology that aim at explaining the evolution of social behaviors. However, the relationship between these two theories has been plagued by controversy for almost half a century and debates about their relevance and usefulness in explaining social evolution seem to rekindle at regular intervals. Here, we first provid...

! Prior work in architectural and urban studies suggests that there is a strong correlation between people dynamics and crime activities in an urban environment. These studies have been conducted primarily using qualitative evaluation methods, and as such are limited in terms of the geographic area they cover, the number of respondents they reach out to, and the temporal frequency with which th...

OBJECTIVES The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (JRCD) has published important contributions to both criminological theory and associated empirical tests. In this article, we consider some of the challenges associated with traditional approaches to social science research, and discuss a complementary approach that is gaining popularity-agent-based computational modeling-that may off...

In this article, I introduce a theory of Chinese philosopher, 王东岳/ Wang Dongyue, and discuss the implications it, reflecting on its possibilities for Asian Big History as an alternative or complementary way constructing grand theories History. believe Wang’s weakening-compensation liberates us big-historians from stereotypical understanding our field. It enables to acquire diversified perspecti...

In all scientific disciplines there are multiple competing and complementary theories that have been, and are being, developed. There are also observational data about which the theories can potentially make predictions. To enable semantic inter-operation between the data and the theories, we need ontologies to define the vocabulary used in them. For example, in the domain of minerals explorati...

Darwin's claim 'that the difference in mind between man and the higher animals … is certainly one of degree and not of kind' is at the core of the comparative study of cognition. Recent research provides unprecedented support for Darwin's claim as well as new reasons to question it, stimulating new theories of human cognitive uniqueness. This article compares and evaluates approaches to such th...

backgroundfor using of complementary and alternative medicine methods (cam) in the leukemia pediatrics than other types of cancer, we have two great challenges; first challenge is their safety and risks and second challenge is study gaps in this field. regarding to these challenges, this study is a narrative review of some cam methods in the leukemia pediatrics from the perspective of their saf...