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Complexity and the paradox of project control.
Cicmil, Svetlana; Cooke-Davies, Terry; Crawford, Lynn; … - 2009
During the past decade, there has been an increasing tendency to draw attention to the particular challenges posed by complex projects. At the same time, complexity in and of projects has emerged as a theme for discussion and debate in response to growing concern about the dominance of various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441803
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Paradox in Positive Organizational Change
Cameron, Kim - 2008
Positive organizational change is a paradox. On the one hand, natural human inclinations toward the positive and … reconcile the paradox of positive change is proposed. New investigations of positive organizational change are introduced which … address various aspects of the positive change paradox. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477126
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Two envelope problems and the roles of ignorance
Malinas, Gary - 2003
Four variations on Two Envelope Paradox are stated and compared. The variations are employed to provide a diagnosis and … an explanation of what has gone awry in the paradoxical modeling of the decision problem that the paradox poses. The … canonical formulation of the paradox underdescribes the ways in which one envelope can have twice the amount that is in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447929
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Strong and weak lifespan extension: What is most feasible and likely?
Lucke, J. C.; Hall, W. D. - 2006
Recent advances in biomedical science indicate that it may eventually be possible to intervene in the biological … process of human ageing. This paper overviews the current state of the science of lifespan extension and promising future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447948
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Managing the Tension between Standardization and Customization in IT-enabled Service Provisioning: A Sensemaking Perspective
Lewis, Mark O. - 2008
The outsourcing literature has offered a plethora of perspectives and models for understanding decision determinants and outcomes of outsourcing of business processes. While past studies have contributed significantly to scholarly research in this area, there are an insufficient number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463389
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Mixing methods to investigate the effective engagement of management consultants
O'Shannassy, T - 2008
This paper recognizes the important role played in the business communityby external management consultants and seeks to improve understanding ofhow this role can be performed. Insight from the change management andmanagement consulting literature is used to further develop a general modelof...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481622
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Reflecting on the Debates and Action of mixed methods adoption in Business Research: Researchers should start thinking
Imegi, John C; Wali, Andy Fred - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the philosophical arguments underpinning the choice of mixed method [MM] research design. However, the study concluded that mixing research methods in business research is important as it helps to strengthen findings and recommendations arising from a...
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Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity
Aral, Sinan; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2008
We study the fine-grained relationships among information flows, IT use,and individual information-worker productivity, by analyzing work at amidsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project-level andindividual-level performance using: (1) direct observation of over125,000 e-mail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435043
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Learning and Inference in Massive Social Networks
Hill, Shawndra; Provost, Foster; Volinsky, Chris - 2007
Researchers and practitioners increasingly are gaining access to data onexplicit social networks. For example, telecommunications and technologyfirms record data on consumer networks (via phone calls, emails,voice-over-IP, instant messaging), and social-network portal sites suchas MySpace,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435057
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A Structural Model of Segregation in Social Networks
Mele, Angelo - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 2010
In this paper, I develop and estimate a dynamic model of strategicnetwork formation with heterogeneous agents. The main theoretical resultis the existence of a unique stationary equilibrium, which characterizesthe probability of observing a specific network in the data. As aconsequence, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435172