. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach – Using central tenets of agency theory, this conceptual …

benchmarking's effectiveness and to establish them within an acceptable theoretical framework: a theory of benchmarking. Design …. Research limitations/implications – A theoretical framework for benchmarking provides a platform for extending the theory of …

perspectives on music information representation, classification, and retrieval provide insight into how information science can …), is presented and defined. Downie’s (2003) theoretical statements are reconceptualized into a theory of representational …

preservation of inactive medical records. Design/methodology/approach – Using the theoretical framework of Actor-Network Theory … classification and treatment of patients, and in the development of psychiatry and mental hospitals as social institutions. Findings …

Advantage of Nations , i.e. the cluster. The authors situate the concept introduced by Porter (1990) relative to two of its … antecedents, the industrial district and industrial complex. Placing the cluster in a historical context permits consideration of … phenomena. In this way, this paper examines the added value of the cluster concept derived from economic factors. Design …

Purpose This study, a conceptual paper, aims an answer the question, how significant cluster ambidexterity is for the … analysis show that the ambidexterity of a cluster can contribute to its resilience when adverse external developments arise …. Ambidexterity proves to be simultaneously a common strategy of key cluster actors and a mechanism for coping with critical …

Presents a view of the field of career development as a chaotic subject. The concept of “chaos”, from chaos theory, is … described and related to the study of career development. A phenomenological perspective, exploring people’s beliefs, is then …

Purpose – In the Western world, Carl Jung was the first to posit a theory of synchronicity to explain the startling … antiquity clearly suggest the Chinese had gone beyond Jungian synchronicity in translating the theory into practice for decision …

to engage in unethical work activity and relativistic moral beliefs with respect to business professionals …

pluralistic ignorance as an important, applied, and multilevel concept to organizational researchers by developing a theory of …