The chapter describes an Information Resources Management course in a Small Business Management program at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia that is based on real wo ld learning principle. The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge and experience to deal with information technology and systems in small business from a managerial perspective....

EAP courses for various disciplines are designed as a conduit between academic research and practical applications (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 175). On the other hand, one of the main missions of ESP practitioners is to prepare learners for realities of English on the job (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 185). This study aimed to provide a profile of target professional English needs of Ir...

AIM To assess attitudes of students at the Split University Schools of Medicine, Economics and Business, and Electrical Engineering towards science and alternative medicine. METHODS There were 275 respondents surveyed for their opinion on science and different aspects of alternative medicine. The respondents were grouped into three major groups: medical students (83 or 30%), economics and bus...

As part of the effort to investigate what motivates(or de-motivates) a student to choose information systems as his/her major of study, this paper looks into the differences in terms of career outcomes as the students perceived in each of the five functional majors in the business schools. It also discusses how the students’ perceived career outcomes of choosing an IS major are different from t...

With an increasing degree of complexity in the retail business, future business success for retail professionals will likely require creative problem-solving abilities. Therefore, there is a need for retail merchandising programs to emphasize creative problem solving because creativity can be learned. In this study, we share how an undergraduate-level creative problem-solving class is designed ...

For those students with prior course work in the fields of accounting or business administration, the answers are more highly predictable. From those students with a background of introductory accounting courses, their answers will describe a series of managerial actions steeped in methological rigor and embellished with complex quantitative assessments. The young business administration studen...

This research considers the role of values, family and non-family influences on career choice, and career goals among MBA students. Data were collected from 109 MBA students in the first semester of their MBA program. Males and females were almost equally represented. Most respondents aspired to careers, not jobs, or callings. There were few gender differences in this sample. Neither family nor...

Purpose – This paper seeks to describe a framework used to help MBA students understand and reconcile the different sustainability perspectives. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the corporate sustainability literature is undertaken to develop the sustainability framework. Findings – The sustainability framework relates basic concepts and assumptions within the ecocentric, ecological mo...