This paper considers the future transformation of management theory and practice towards greater sustainability by framing it as a battle competing faiths rather than logics. We apply lens ‘syncretism’, process that describes religious faith interactions to understand critical role ‘missionaries’ ‘believers’ in business progress sustainability. Using analogical reasoning, we argue missionaries ...

We describe the institutionalisation of responsible innovation (RI) over last decade at Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) universities funded by it as a focal point for RI in UK. Drawing on organisational theory we identify factors influencing dynamics institutionalisation, including forces legitimation, entrepreneurship decoupling. report significant EPSRC prior to 201...

Fuzzy Description Logics are a family of logics which allow to deal with structured knowledge affected by vagueness. Although a relatively important amount of work has been carried out in the last years, current fuzzy DLs are open to be extend with several features worked out in the fuzzy logic literature. In this work, we extend fuzzy DLs with fuzzy truth values, allowing to state sentences su...

This study aims to understand how goals of activation and gender equality interact in labor market programs directed towards activating unemployed participants. The draws on interviews with 28 social workers managers at four Swedish municipally governed typically targeted poor, individuals little no attachment the or insurance system. Our findings show that are understood be clear cut a dominan...

• Accrual accounting and IPSASs dominate government reforms. Competing logics overshadow good existing reporting practice. Relational power of the epistemic community leads to ignorance local An application systems can strengthen accountability. The objective this paper is two-fold. First, it assesses financial practices in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), focusing on extent which recent statements pu...

Abstract Over the past several decades, Chinese universities have introduced various Western-style human resource management (HRM) practices to improve organizational performance. Such HRM innovations resulted in new employment relations and paradoxical HR practices, which cannot be explained by unitary institutional logic assumed conventional theories. Based on in-depth interviews of academic ...