University of Massachusetts Boston

About: University of Massachusetts Boston is a education organization based out in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 6541 authors who have published 12918 publications receiving 411731 citations. The organization is also known as: UMass Boston.

Moral Perception and Particularity

Abstract: Part I. Particularity: 1. Introduction 2. Iris Murdoch and the domain of the moral 3. Moral perception and particularity Part II. Moral Excellence: 4. Moral exemplars: reflections on Scindler, the Trocmes, and others 5. Vocation, friendship, community: limitations of the personal/impersonal framework 6. Altruism and the moral value of rescue: Resisting persecution, racism, and genocide 7. Virtue and community Part III. The Morality of Care: 8. Compassion 9. Moral development and conceptions of morality 10. Gilligan and Kohlberg: implications for moral theory 11. Gilligan's two voices and the moral status of group identity.

Strategic Responses to Global Climate Change: Conflicting Pressures on Multinationals in the Oil Industry

Abstract: MNCs are increasingly facing global environmental issues demanding coordinated market and non-market strategic responses. The home country institutional context and individual company histories can create divergent pressures on strategy for MNCs based in different countries; however, the location of MNCs in global industries and their participation in 'global issues arenas' create issue-level fields within which strategic convergence might also be expected. This paper analyzes the responses of oil MNCs to climate change and finds that local context influenced initial corporate reactions, but that convergent pressures predominate as the issue matures.

On the nature of linguistic functioning in early infantile autism

Abstract: This paper provides a review of studies conducted on linguistic functioning in autistic children, within the framework developed in normal language acquisition research. Despite certain methodological weaknesses, the research consistently shows that phonological and syntactic development follow the same course as in normal children and in other disordered groups, though at a slowed rate, while semantic and pragmatic functioning may be specially deficient in autism. These findings are related to other recent studies on the relative independence of different aspects of language.

Can distributed software development be agile

Abstract: Three organizations studied here suggest the answer is "yes," when the unique characteristics of both environments are successfully blended.