The regional identity of inhabitants in typologically different regions, which differ mainly in terms of the continuity of their socio-historical development, is examined in this article using the example of two case study areas. An important dimension of the concept of any population’s regional identity is the phenomenon of the identification of inhabitants with their region, and this is subje...

namely the stages of decision, selection, implementation, stabilization and utilization. This last stage (utilization) is also characterized by the development of an organized effort to continuously ensure that the ERP system meets business needs regarding functionality, performance, availability, and to control operation costs, at the ERP management stage. This chapter presents aspects involve...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects continue to attract attention, as researchers seek to develop insights and understanding of the conditions required for successful project delivery. Having spent an entire career to-date in different ICT roles, the authors have experienced several ERP implementations. There is considerable literature on what constitutes precedent conditions for succes...

The German higher education & research (HE&R) -sector has been changing very fast over the past years. This dynamic came quite unexpected as the universities were seen as a kind of static institutions, unable to move to modern structures and administration, as they had demonstrated the decades before. Now, the implementation of fully integrated ERP (Enterprise Recourse Planning) systems is spre...

The importance of positive youth development cannot be overstated. We strive to foster healthy mental/emotional, social, spiritual and physical development in our children. Alarmingly high Aboriginal youth suicide rates in some areas call for an increased understanding of how protective factors and risk-taking behaviours influence youth development. This may help us develop strategies to increa...

One of the biggest challenges for organizations implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is to find the right fit between the processes embedded in the system and the existing organizational business processes. “Conventional wisdom” founded on studies from large enterprises holds that ERP systems should be implemented without customization. However, studies of ERP system implem...

Abstract. A remarkable result due to Kou, Liu & Luo states that the condition of continuity for a dcpo can be split into quasi-continuity and meet-continuity. Their argument contained a gap, however, which is probably why the authors of the monograph Continuous Lattices and Domains used a different (and fairly sophisticated) sequence of lemmas in order to establish the result. In this note we s...

Academia generally employs a strict disciplinary model of education that results in a high degree of specialization within each discipline, while modern business environments require knowledge workers who can address problems and opportunities that cut across disciplines and on a global scale. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a new and innovative educational activity that ...