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Implementing educational reform requires partnerships, and university-school collaborations in the form of investigative and experimental projects can aim to determine the practicalities of reform. However, there are funded projects that do not achieve intended outcomes. In the context of a new reform initiative in education, namely, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, this study explores the management of a government funded project. In a university-school partnership for STEM education, how can leadership be distributed for achieving project outcomes? Findings indicated that leadership roles were distributed and self-activated by project partners according to their areas of expertise and proximal activeness to the project phases

This article addresses the behavioural revolution in organization studies of the 1950s. It tries to unravel, via Foucaultian 'eventalization', the conditions that made the 'behavioural sciences' emerge at that historical juncture. I argue that the relationship of the Ford Foundation with the Graduate School of Industrial Administration and concomitantly with Herbert Simon, James March and others, was firmly embedded in the Cold War politics of the time. These relationships mirrored governmental, public policy, education and foundation concerns with socialism, as well as communist infiltration in the universities at a formative period in the development of organization and management studies, contributing to functionalism and positivism being institutionalized in these disciplines.

The developmental process as it unfolds in Dubai has hardly been analyzed by academics. Most current knowledge about the country originates from media coverage, especially from news magazines and business literature. Recently a number of social science based but historically oriented academic publications have appeared. Only one study, however, has seriously sought to place Dubai in a broader developmental framework: Sampler and Eigner'sFrom Sand to Silicon, published in 2003. Yet, by applying the so-called strategic trajectory model to the case of Dubai, they reduce their focus to the management side. Their aim is too narrow to provide an explanation of the overall development process in Dubai.

This paper reviews long-term development of biofuels in Sweden and the Netherlands. In particular this paper explores the social dynamics of 'niche protection'. The Swedish and Dutch cases are analyzed by means of the Strategic Niche Management (SNM) perspective extended with insights from political science. Our main argument is that the development of biofuels and the way this development is protected relies on a variety of actor strategies and (local and global) discourses. This case therefore suggests that policy making for biofuels is a complex and non-linear process that can only partly be managed by policy actors.

The text relates to the attempt of constructing the common framework for the development of positive emotions by the world of science and buddhism. Scholars and buddhists (including the XIVth Dalai Lama) are trying to draw upon the practical and theoretical output of both traditions within the Mind and Life Institute conference. As a result of such dialogue we witness the emergence of therapeutic programs using the techniques of buddhist meditations (various traditions of this religion) in psychological clinics as well as pain and stress management centers. Buddhist meditation may complement rich plethora of methods used by western psychologists.

AbstractDepartment of Defense (DOD) installations with significant natural resources are required to write and implement an Integrated Natural Resources Manage‐ment Plan (INRMP). These plans must support the military training mission but also incorporate principles of ecosystem management at a landscape scale. Bird conservation planning by conservation initiatives such as Partners in Flight is based on a landscape‐level, ecosystem approach and focus on partner‐ships. State and federal programs are working toward similar objectives. We il‐lustrate how the partnerships and science of bird conservation planning benefit INRMPs and support the military mission. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Normally, one would think of conflict in administrative ethics as something to be avoided or resolved. This article, however, explores the possibility that conflict in ethics is essential and productive. Great art is beautiful precisely because of tension, not in spite of it, and the authors argue that administrative ethics is more like art than science. Therefore, the authors adopt an aesthetic point of view that examines tension and balance and reveals a wide range of types of conflict in ethics. In fact, the authors articulate 15 types of conflict and argue that the recognition of conflict is necessary for its proper management.

Dans son article, l'auteur s'interroge sur la symbiose entre la science politique et la démocratie, c'est-à-dire la démarche scientifique et l'engagement démocratique. A travers une étude, ancrée dans le domame de la pensée politique, sur le contenu de la légitimité d'un régime et les conditions de fonctionnement de la gouvernance démocratique, l'article traite la notion de gouvernance légitime, sujet très controversé dans la discussion entre européanistes. Proposant une différenciation entre le management (performance) et le gouvernement (légitimité démocratique), l'auteur conclut en proposant d'abandonner toute idée d'une Europe unie fonctionnant selon un système de gouvernement représentatif.

This article presents an innovative methodology for evaluating strategic planning goals in a public agency. Computer-coded content analysis was used to evaluate attitudes expressed in about 28,000 on-line news media stories about the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and its strategic goal of conservation leadership. Three dimensions of conservation leadership were distinguished and evaluated separately: stewardship and ethics, use of collaborative planning and decision making, and use of science-based management. Analysis of on-line news media text is a way to quickly and efficiently assess the views of a wide range of stakeholders captured in the news media.

The price of the relative success of the Soviet system, 1917-1990, was the stunted development of Russian alternative society. By the mid-1960s, the objective goals of Soviet society -- independence, military & political equilibrium, & (to a point) modernization -- had been achieved. Because Soviet society demanded subsequent economic development, qualitative growth of market factors in economic management, reorientation of the economy toward individual consumption, & fuller integration of science, production, & economics were quietly incorporated. Thus, as the global situation changed, Russian alternative society was unable to offer any social democracy, revolutionary, socialist, participative, or anticapitalist alternatives to renewal, capitalism, or globalization. M. Maguire

This paper examines the major trends since the 1950s in social science writing on forest management in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is simultaneously rich in and dependent on natural resources, both for local and national use or sale. Among renewable resources, forest products have played critical roles in the region's national, provincial, and local economies before, during, and after colonialism — for as long as two millennia. Their importance in international trade illustrates that Southeast Asia's forests linked the region to other parts of the world for quite some time, dispelling myths that parts of the region such as Borneo were "remote", "primitive", or "pristine".

The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government. ; This report contains 357 summaries of research projects which were carried out under funding of the Naval Postgraduate School Research Program. A list of recent publications is also included which consists of conference presentations and publications, contributions to books, published papers, magazine articles, and technical reports. The research was conducted in the areas of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Meteorology, National Security Affairs, Oceanography, Operations Research, Physics and Systems Management.

The strategic direction of the next generation of office automation hardware and software needed by an integrated government/contractor team supporting a classified defense installation is analyzed. Both existing platform upgrades and potential replacement platforms are evaluated against management constraints and system requirements to select the most cost-efficient design that meets the office automation requirements. An integrated SUN and personal computer networked environment is selected due to minimal impacts to current operations and lower cost. The migration strategy addresses the phases necessary to ensure a smooth transition from the current system to the new system. ; Master of Science