Purpose – This paper aims to explore how management practitioners make sense of management fashions as sedimented elements within organizations. Design/methodology/approach – To further understanding about sedimentation in management fashion, an institutional perspective was used. Findings – This analysis reveals that sedimented fashions within organizations are framed as comprising different f...

The results of this very practical investigation will be of great interest to many people outside the medical profession, as well as to those within it. There are fashions in cooking, and these fashions are often engineered by persons commercially interested in the sale of cooking apparatus. Also in connection with cooking there are many ' old wives' tales', which have been blindly accepted by ...

Many cultural traits exhibit volatile dynamics, commonly dubbed fashions or fads. Here we show that realistic fashion-like dynamics emerge spontaneously if individuals can copy others' preferences for cultural traits as well as traits themselves. We demonstrate this dynamics in simple mathematical models of the diffusion, and subsequent abandonment, of a single cultural trait which individuals ...

Conjugate gradient methods have many advantages in real numerical experiments, such as fast convergence and low memory requirements. This paper considers a class of conjugate gradient learning methods for backpropagation (BP) neural networks with three layers. We propose a new learning algorithm for almost cyclic BP neural networks based on PRP conjugate gradient method. We then establish the d...

IT fashions are IT innovations within a hyped phase. They are on the rise and claimed to be “the next big thing”. Investing in IT fashions bears potential for high returns in case the technology becomes institutionalized and first mover advantages can be realized. Contrary, it bears the risk of investing in a losing technology. By waiting for others to make the first move organizations bypass t...

Psychiatric diagnoses often reflect a matrix of sociological factors associated with professional prestige, economic forces, and cultural fashions. Diagnostic systems conceptualize the same underlying psychosocial problems in very different ways during various time periods. Since the publication of the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III) in 1980, psychological distr...