Connotation

Abstract: What's in a name? Sometimes a good deal. Tom Hammond organized the panels on "Public Administration" for the 1988 meetings of APSA. As he later told me, he decided that this section name had a narrower connotation than he wanted. He told prospective panelists that he wanted the section to encompass phenomena outside public agencies that affected the agencies, phenomena inside the agencies themselves, and the interaction between outside and inside phenomena. Not much omitted, one would think. But the title he chose for the section-"Bureaucracy"-elicited an intense reaction from several professors of public administration. One said in rather vigorous terms that Tom was trying to read public administration out of the APSA. This reaction puzzled and frustrated him; he had tried to be inclusive.

Abstract: The brand-new concept of seaport logistics system is put forward and its definition and connotation are discussed. Finally, the paper establishes an evaluation index system for the large and medium-sized seaports in China.

Abstract: This article explores how recognizing politics may help change agents have better success enacting change.,A conceptual paper using systems and practical domains to define a more sophisticated and useful definition of politics for change agents' use.,The article argues that there is an innate correlation between organizational change and organizational politics.,This article is a call to action for future empirical study on political skill.,This paper is a practical invitation for change agents to recognize and adopt the positive aspects of political skill to aid in their efforts.,Though organizational politics traditionally receives a negative connotation, there is growing research supporting the positive use of politics. This connection has yet to be fully discovered when one reads the literature. This concept paper is an invitation to begin further study.

Abstract: Simmel was, in the original sense of the word, a dilettante, an amateur passiond. He appears to have written about human society, art, philosophy, religion and money because he took delight in doing so. It was characteristic of nineteenth century English that it should have given the term dilettante the pejorative connotation of smatterer, a person of shallow and passing interests. Simmel was by no means a dilettante in that sense, but neither was he devoted to any particular practical problem or reform of his day. He was committed to the study of society itself, rather than to any of its particular troubles. Thus it is that Simmel is seldom re-