A Meme’s Eye View: How Organisational Cultures Evolve

Organisations can be examined within an evolutionary framework of reproduction, selection, and variation. Professors John Weeks and Charles Galunic propagate a memetic theory of the firm to conclude that organisations are fundamentally cultures that provide a natural balance between the needs of retaining the information set that constitutes the organisation and recombining them to meet new challenges.

Who’s Helping Whom, and Why? A Comparison of American and Indian Software Engineers

Why do people help one another at work? Is it a form of egoism or of altruism? In this working paper, Professors Leslie Perlow and John R. Weeks investigate helping in Indian and American software firms, considering both the motivations behind the action as well as the contexts in which it occurs. Their results may surprise you.