Is aimed at broadening Colombia's understanding of the social appropriation of science and technology, particularly the types of actors who promote initiatives in this sphere. Using a chain referral sampling methodology, a hundred such initiatives in Colombia were identified and documented, which were promoted by civil society, the State, business, the research community and mediators. The arti...

This paper contributes to the understanding of the importance of dynamic firm capabilities for corporate performance in isolating the effect of core competences on the performance of companies. It discusses and tests the assumed relation between core competences and economic performance, including the effect of the external appropriation of these competences through mergers and acquisitions as ...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between a tutor’s advice and a student’s questionings, and the way in which it develops a student’s self-regulation skill. Firstly we offer that a tutor’s advice is one component that trains a student’s self-regulation skill. Through analysis of interactive learning opportunities between academic departments, we discovered that a tutor’s ...

Studies in computer supported collaborative learning frequently under-expose the interaction between students and technology. To gain more insight in the way student groups interact with educational technology, we examine how students ‘appropriate’ this technology. The notion of technology appropriation implies a process of social construction in which the actions and thoughts of the user are s...

As a field of significant activity for historical sociologists in recent decades, civilizational analysis has produced extensive and incisive works examining Japan as formation Eurasia. However, the same cannot be said Japan’s Pacific relationship with United States, which is neglected major sociologies Japanese modernity. This essay seeks to address that unnecessary oversight by putting into f...