This paper presents an overview of the field of organisational learning and claims that its foundational roots still have to be further developed and explored. This critique points to the potential of sociothecnical systems, complex systems theory and appreciative inquiry as building blocks from which an effective organisational learning design can emerge. The current challenges faced by organi...

People recovering from addiction to alcohol or drugs often acknowledge the need for complete change in life pattern orientation in a journey toward healing. Serenity is the hallmark of recovery according to the tenets of 12-step programs, but little is known about the actual experience of serenity in healing from addiction. From a perspective of unitary pattern appreciation and a method of unit...

The most compzehensive theozefical ttempt o link advantage with the fozeign direct investment (FDI) decision has been made by John Dunning in his eclectic fzamewozk. A country's accumulated FDI stock is shown to depend on three sets of advantage, toindicate zespecfively the :why, :where, and ho:w of the FDI pzocess. These are the ownezship oz competitive advantages njoyed by firms oyez rivals a...

This case study illustrates how the adoption of AI technology can bene t smaller companies as well as major corporations. Pindar Set is a small UK company which has originated the Yellow Pages directories for British Telecommunications plc since 1979. AIAI is a technology transfer organisation which has delivered innovative solutions to industrial clients since 1984. Together, AIAI and Pindar h...

In the present article, a specified Pedagogical Infrastructure Framework, including technical, social, epistemological and cognitive components, is introduced as a conceptual tool for design-based research to examine the design of complex learning settings. The applicability of the framework was assessed by retrospectively exploring an evolving design effort in four, consecutive, undergraduate ...

Sudoku puzzles enjoy world-wide popularity, and a large community of puzzlers is hoping for ever more difficult puzzles. A crucial step for generating difficult Sudoku puzzles is the fast assessment of the difficulty of a puzzle. In a study in 2006, it has been shown that SAT solving provides a way to efficiently differentiate between Sudoku puzzles according to their difficulty, by analyzing w...