The paper investigates public attitudes toward welfare state policies as a result of both situational, i.e. unemployment, and ideological factors, i.e. egalitarian ideology, at both the individual and national level. The dependent variables are public support for the sick and the old as well as for the unemployed as target beneficiaries of welfare state policies. Data from the ISSP-study «Role ...

This paper reviews and identifies the distinct perspectives on knowledge management as well as the key conceptual views on competence and competence management. It introduces the perceivable co-evolution of knowledge management and competence management in recent research and practice, and shows the movement towards an integrated and systemic view where the overall challenge for both is the man...

Several empirical studies have proved that better organisational learning induces higher organisational performance. However, none of them addressed the issue of organisational learning process simultaneously in several countries. In our contribution, we aim to test differences in the way companies learn in Slovenia, Croatia, and Malaysia. We used the OLIMP questionnaire, a measurement instrume...

Creativity is often conceptualized as actions and outcomes related to the creation of novel and useful ideas within the context of the development of new products. It is usually positioned in the activities of designers who play the role of “the creator”. In this paper the authors suggest “changing the subject” to consumers by claiming that creativity plays a key role in the adoption phase when...

This research project addresses the assessment of Learning Outcomes using e-learning, in different levels of Engineering Education. Accrediting e-learning as an assessment tool that can be applied independently of the learning pathways may contribute to the achievement of recognition of prior learning and mobility of students. This paper will provide a comparative analysis of the LOs integrated...

1389-1286/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2010.03.008 q The work described in this article was carried ou the BONE-project (‘‘Building the Future Optical Ne Network of Excellence funded by the European Com 7th ICT-Framework Programme, and by the Scienti Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under the P 106E046. * Corresponding author. Tel.: +90 312 29

This paper discusses one of the fundamental issues in education and social program evaluation: the proper role for an evaluator. Based on respective and comparative analysis of five theorists’ positions on this fundamental issue, this paper reveals how different perspectives on other fundamental issues in evaluation such as value, methods, use and purposes can result in different roles for eval...

This paper has re-analysed and compared data between three studies conducted in the United Kingdom and in Sweden (the OPUS ‘Older People’s Use of Unfamiliar Space’ study in the United Kingdom and the Swedish studies ‘Let’s Go for a Walk’ and ‘Walking in Old Age’) to provide a comprehensive account of the issues facing older people in the outdoor environment. All three studies draw on the ‘fit’ ...