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Johannes Kepler
Bio: Johannes Kepler is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Copernican principle & Kepler. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 41 publications receiving 786 citations.
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TL;DR: A roadmap of the IS outsourcing literature is offered, highlighting what has been done so far, how the work fits together under a common umbrella, and what the future directions might be.
Abstract: In the last fifteen years, academic research on information systems (IS) outsourcing has evolved rapidly. Indeed the field of outsourcing research has grown so fast that there has been scant opportunity for the research community to take a collective breath, and complete a global assessment of research activities to date. This paper seeks to address this need by exploring and synthesizing the academic literature on IS outsourcing. It offers a roadmap of the IS outsourcing literature, highlighting what has been done so far, how the work fits together under a common umbrella, and what the future directions might be.In order to adequately address the immense diversity of research on IS outsourcing and outsourcing in general, we develop a conceptual framework that helps us to categorize the literature. In particular, we look at the research objectives, methods used and theoretical foundations of the papers. In identifying the major research objectives, we view outsourcing as an organizational decision process and adapt Simon's stage model of decision making. This allows us to identify five major sourcing issues, from which at least one is covered by each academic article. These are the questions of why to outsource, what to outsource, which decision process to take, how to implement the sourcing decision, and what is the outcome of the sourcing decision. In analyzing the literature, we identify and structure the main explanatory factors and theoretical relationships within each of these sourcing stages. Based on our discussion of the research objectives, theoretical foundations and research approaches taken in the literature, we show how the various research streams hang together and we come up with a number of implications for research. Moreover, we identify a number of emerging sourcing issues. We believe that research on these "new" phenomena such as offshore outsourcing, application service providing and business process outsourcing would benefit from 'standing on the shoulders' of what has already been accomplished in the field of IS outsourcing.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the cosmological and astrophysical implications of extra dimensions, and conclude that none of the three approaches can be ruled out on observational grounds at the present time.
929 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a new public management model for public management, which is based on the concept of new public managers (New Public Management) and new public relations.
Abstract: По мере того как «новый государственный менеджмент» (new public management) входит в свой средний возраст, внимание ученых смещается от простого описания происходящего и априорного теоретизирования к анализу сюрпризов и парадоксов, связанных с недавними и текущими реформами государственной службы. Некоторые из стандартных аналитических концепций для изучения таких парадоксов, рассматриваемых в данной статье, находятся в русле мертонианской традиции исследования непреднамеренных результатов регулирования жизни общества, культурных теорий сюрпризов и анализа прерывности и нелинейности в функционировании сложных систем, хотя до настоящего времени литература в области нового государственного менеджмента использовала первую концепцию более интенсивно, чем две остальные. На основании изучения реформ государственного управления, которые могли внести свой вклад в появление парадоксальных эффектов, мы делаем вывод о том, что анализ таких парадоксов может помочь развитию административной науки, а также пониманию реформ общественного сектора.
870 citations
TL;DR: Pirh2, a gene regulated by p53 that encodes a RING-H2 domain-containing protein with intrinsic ubiquitin-protein ligase activity, is described and it is proposed that Pirh2 is involved in the negative regulation of p53 function through physical interaction and ubiquit in-mediated proteolysis.
735 citations
TL;DR: The object of this article is to give a fresh view of the origins of the problem, touching upon Cayley and Kepler, and review of the field (listing the subfields of recent interest), partly serious (to answer the question posed in the title), and partly entertainment.
Abstract: In Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in the February 1960 issue of Scientific American, there appeared a simple problem that has come to be known today as the Secretary Problem, or the Marriage Problem. It has since been taken up and developed by many eminent probabilists and statisticians and has been extended and generalized in many different directions so that now one can say that it constitutes a "field" within mathematics-probability-optimization. The object of this article is partly historical (to give a fresh view of the origins of the problem, touching upon Cayley and Kepler), partly review of the field (listing the subfields of recent interest), partly serious (to answer the question posed in the title), and partly entertainment. The contents of this paper were first given as the Allen T. Craig lecture at the University of Iowa, 1988.
728 citations