Does the GAAP-shoe fit not-for-profit organisations or is it causing them blisters?

The EFL Pre-Service Teacher Training in Iran: Is it Adequate or not?

Teacher training programs should provide evidence that they are preparing teacher trainees for their teaching career. However, the literature contains few evaluation reports of the layout of the pre-service EFL teacher training program in Iranian EFL context, a gap which this study tries to fill. The participants of the study were high school EFL teachers (n = 346), teacher trainees (n = 97) an...

Km 100: Introductory Knowledge Management for Not-for-profit Organisations

This paper examines the role of knowledge management (KM) in not-for-profit organisations (NFPs). NFPs are essential in developing sustainable communities (Scarso 2008) providing many social, environmental, health and human services required by a vast amount of communities’ stakeholders. With limited research related to KM in an NFP setting, this paper advances knowledge and offers a unique vie...

Does the Shoe Fit? Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints

land unit (global hectares or gha), representing the bioproductivity of a world-averaged hectare [15,16]. On the global scale, when the footprint of consumption exceeds biocapacity, the interpretation is that humans are exceeding the regenerative capacity of Earth’s ecosystems and therefore depleting stocks of natural capital, a state known as ‘‘over-

Interview: Portal Experiences of Not-for-Profit Organisations

Not-for-profit organisations are significant users of IT services, including Portals, for the use of public outreach and service delivery. While lacking the resources of the commercial sector, many not-for-profit organisations’ needs may be similarly complex if they are relying on a portal for service delivery to a vulnerable client sector, or for the protection of medical records. In this pape...

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