Organizational scholars have recently argued that economic theories and assumptions have adversely shaped management practice and human behavior, leading not only to the incorporation of trust-eroding market-mechanisms into organizations but also unnecessarily creating self-interested behavior. A number of highly influential papers have argued that the self-fulfilling nature of (even false) the...

For a boundary-value problem of an ordinary differential equation, we prove that the anti-maximum principle holds when the forcing term satisfies an integral inequality. As applications, we consider linear and nonlinear models arising from fishery management problems.

FLOW IN MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY Andrew Sturdy, Timothy Clark, Robin Fincham and Karen Handley. [email protected] Forthcoming in Organization. ABSTRACT Management consultancy is seen by many as a key agent in the adoption of new management ideas and practices in organisations. Two contrasting views are dominant – consultants as innovators, bringing new knowledge to their clients, or as legi...

Target tracking is a typical and important application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In the consideration of scalability and energy efficiency for target tracking in large scale WSNs, it has been employed as an effective solution by organizing the WSNs into clusters. However, tracking a moving target in cluster-based WSNs suffers the boundary problem when the target moves across or along ...

As people living near forests in many parts of the world receive recognition of resource-management rights, questions arise about where forest boundaries should be set and who should legitimately receive these rights. Drawing on research conducted among forest-dwelling Kenyah communities in Kalimantan, Indonesia, during 1995 to 1998, I show that the realization of resource rights must be unders...

By maintaining a focus on managers in driving the implementation of management concepts, with meaning-making ‘trickling down’ the organization, translation perspectives have provided little detail about translation across intra-organizational boundaries. This study focuses on the boundary-spanning practices of intermediate agents championing the implementation of Lean in a hospital setting. Bas...

We surveyed members of two nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) owner organizations and non-members in southwest Wisconsin to learn their views and experiences on a range of forest ownership and management issues. The two organizations were the Sustainable Woods Cooperative (SWC) and the Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association (WWOA). Our survey yielded 503 completed questionnaires and a useable r...

It is posited that boundary objects, as inscribed artefacts, can be thought of as forms of text. In this paper a discourse-analytic framework is employed to explore the processes of sharing knowledge across boundaries. Three discursive approaches are used to re-analyze existing contributions to the boundary objects literature. First, ‘intertextual analysis’ (Allen, 2000) is applied to Brown’s (...