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Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2008
This essay reviews the history and theory of information commons along with the various conceptual approaches used to describe and understand them. It also discusses governance, financing, and participation in these commons. Today’s digital technologies offer unprecedented possibilities for human creativity, global communication, innovation, and access
Kranich, Nancy, Schement, Jorge Reina
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This essay reviews the history and theory of information commons along with the various conceptual approaches used to describe and understand them. It also discusses governance, financing, and participation in these commons. Today’s digital technologies offer unprecedented possibilities for human creativity, global communication, innovation, and access
Kranich, Nancy, Schement, Jorge Reina
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2005
This paper seeks to understand how software systems and organisations co-evolve in practice and how order emerges in the overall environment. Using a metaphor of timetable as a commons, we analyse the introduction of a novel academic scheduling system to demonstrate how Complex Adaptive Systems theory provides insight into the adaptive behaviour of the
Kim, Richard, Kaplan, Simon
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This paper seeks to understand how software systems and organisations co-evolve in practice and how order emerges in the overall environment. Using a metaphor of timetable as a commons, we analyse the introduction of a novel academic scheduling system to demonstrate how Complex Adaptive Systems theory provides insight into the adaptive behaviour of the
Kim, Richard, Kaplan, Simon
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Enclosing the urban commons: Crises for the commons and commoners
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2018Abstract For Garett Hardin and new institutional economists inspired by his work or variations of it, marketising the commons is the surest way to managing it effectively. This ‘governance by the market’, advocates argue, has a popular basis. Using original field data from Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa, this paper reaches radically different ...
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Pacific Accounting Review, 2009
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine Tongan businesses in New Zealand, bearing in mind that they have shared mixed success. Faced with the challenges of competition, compliance, and financial and operational management, these businesses are characterised by a relatively higher failure rate.Design/methodology/approachA series of open‐ended ...
Semisi M. Prescott, Keith C. Hooper
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine Tongan businesses in New Zealand, bearing in mind that they have shared mixed success. Faced with the challenges of competition, compliance, and financial and operational management, these businesses are characterised by a relatively higher failure rate.Design/methodology/approachA series of open‐ended ...
Semisi M. Prescott, Keith C. Hooper
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BMJ, 1998
It was my first day on the intensive care unit which made the lessons all the more memorable. I had been asked to assess a patient who had recently been discharged back to the ward. I delegated the task to a senior house officer (SHO) explaining that he should assess the patient's condition and need for intensive care.
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It was my first day on the intensive care unit which made the lessons all the more memorable. I had been asked to assess a patient who had recently been discharged back to the ward. I delegated the task to a senior house officer (SHO) explaining that he should assess the patient's condition and need for intensive care.
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Common Ground, Common Cause, and COMMON SENSE
Design Management Journal (Former Series), 1995HOW SHOULD MANAGERS deal with the fuzzy attitudes, feelings, and beliefs that so forcefully shape an organization's general direction and outcomes? Todd Lief has developed a series of tools called Working Impressions™ that distill consensus concerning these soft issues and enable companies to improve everyday working relationships, enhance the ...
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Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 2009
The tragedy of the commons as a food basket is averted by private property, or something formally like it. The pollution problem is a consequence of population. Analysis of the pollution problem as a function of population density uncovers a not generally recognized principle of morality, namely: the morality of an act is a function of the state of the
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The tragedy of the commons as a food basket is averted by private property, or something formally like it. The pollution problem is a consequence of population. Analysis of the pollution problem as a function of population density uncovers a not generally recognized principle of morality, namely: the morality of an act is a function of the state of the
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