A study of 10 years of Edelman prize-winning papers (1977–1986) has yielded a wealth of information regarding applied contemporary managerial theory. We have distilled the core theory of seven authors who write about management principles and applied it in depth to the 40 papers that contain enough data about the client companies to lend themselves to the analysis. The first-prize winners are clearly superior, and all the finalists tend to exhibit these principles to a greater degree than would be expected by chance. The study provides fodder for future study of applied entrepreneurial activity and lends credulity to the Edelman award process as it has been conducted in the past.

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In most departments of sociology, it is often difficult to find instructors willing to teach the introductory course. With recent development of the field, it may become difficult to find instructors able to teach it. Not only is the field and its knowledge growing rapidly, but it is undergoing division into distinct sub-disciplines, each of which must be taken into account in any representative introduction to the discipline. This difficulty--the multi-paradigm nature of current sociology--is the subject of this report, which describes a project that attempts a computer-based solution to the problems facing introductory course instructors.

This paper addresses the integration of technical skills with information systems concepts required in an introductory MIS course, specifically focusing on the laptop inclusion initiative at our university.  We will show the working relationship between the concepts and application segment of MIS, and how a laptop inclusion program combined with the use of e-Learning methodologies successfully combine the two.

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