Over the past few years there has been a growing concern within the world’s scientific communities about access to scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature. This concern has given rise to a movement within scientific and medical circles known as the “open-access” movement. Over the last 12 months, this concern has leapt from the acid-free pages of the world’s STM journals to the news...

Ahlström, Håkan Alegre Castellanos, Alvaro Algin, Oktay Andersen, Poul Attiná, Dome Baba, Yasutaka Bagenholm, Anna Battal, Bilal Bertolotto, Michele Bolvig, Lars Christoforidis, Emmanuel Clemmesen, Otto Court-Payen, Michel Cwikiel, Wojciech de Foer, Bert Derchi, Lorenzo E Di Mario, Carlo Dobrocky, Tomas Dorenberg, Eric Ekberg, Olle El-Diasty, Tarek Eriksson, Mats-Ola Eryilmaz, Mehmet Eshed, Iri...

The population-ecology approach (the natural-selection model) used to be a major orientation in consideration of organizational change and transformation. It is presented by its proponents as a theory distinct from structural contingency theory. This theory begins by rejecting the claim of contingency theory that organizations are adaptive. Contingency theory understands that the social and bus...

The primary education sector in Pakistan faces many challenges relating to access to education and quality of resources. This paper evaluates the Educational Voucher Scheme (EVS) in Lahore, Pakistan aimed at increasing access to primary schooling for low income families residing in the underdeveloped areas of Lahore by using the four criteria for evaluating privatization plans in education outl...

Vol. LII (August 2015), 467–481 467 © 2015, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Uma R. Karmarkar is Assistant Professor in Marketing, Harvard Business School, Harvard University (e-mail: [email protected]). Baba Shiv is the Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (e-mail: [email protected]...