When foresight seems impeccable, things still go wrong. Why?
Purpose – This article seeks to provide a systematic examination of the unanticipated results following the introduction of various types of new policy, process, design, product or service.Design/methodology/approach – A rough taxonomy categorizes the generic kinds of unintentional consequences.Findings – Careless political, technical, commercial, military or even personal decisions often underlie the most problematic of secondary effects.Originality/value – Unscheduled second‐ or third‐order effects have often been attributed to a “law” governing such phenomena. Although no such law exists, there exist indeed the unwanted effects – and sometimes on a grand scale, too often a bane of humankind.
War, Science and Terrorism: From Laboratory to Open Conflict
Part 1 Preparation for conflict: from bows and arrows to missiles and aircraft the real stakes in the space adventure are military slipping the warrior beneath the sea the German and Anglo-American race to nuclear armament Russia and other powers hurry to catch up with the nucleus optimizing human resources -procurement, training, management. Part 2 Warfare and its management: endologistics - forts, food, feed, fuel and freight exologistics - how the natural environment conditions battle communicating, commanding, controlling ... and a little deception from military aviation's radar to computer notebooks military medicine saves fighting strength simulating strategy, operations, tactics. Part 3 Behind the action, and wars to come: who are the scientists working with the military? what role for the scientist in future wars?.
Colleagues as Change Agents: How Department Networks and Opinion Leaders Influence Teaching at a Single Research University
This study investigates colleague–colleague relationships within life sciences departments and how they may promote teaching reform. The authors found that discipline-based education researchers are perceived as promoting changes among colleagues in views about teaching and teaching practices. Other faculty may also be leveraged to support change.