In the literature on individual and organisational learning, 'challenge' is widely presumed to be an important element in the learning process. This assumption is also evident in the field of management consultancy where consultants' 'outsider' status and knowledge base is seen as helpful in that new ideas promote innovation and knowledge exploration. The consultant is positioned as challenger;...

A separation context is a client program which does not dereference internals of the module with which it interacts. We use precise relations to unambiguously describe the storage of the module. We prove that separation contexts preserve such relations, as well as interesting properties of separation contexts in connection with refinement.

With the advances in multimedia databases and the popularization of the Internet, it is now possible to access large multimedia data repositories distributed throughout the world. One of the challenging problems in such an access is how the information in the respective databases can be summarized to enable an intelligent selection of relevant database sites based on visual queries. This paper ...

This article is an integral part of a series articles in which the positive dynamics psychological work based on Ingush culture and religious values shown by example specific cases child-parent relations. In first “Multicultural approach counseling: ethno-religious aspect (case analysis)”, using fatherdaughter relations, we described content process counseling, that was performed taking into ac...

In this paper, we analyse and seek to understand the complex relations that occur between clients and consultants during consulting projects. The paper uses ideas from Schön’s model of the “reflective practitioner” to propose a new model conceptualising the client-consultant team as a community of interpretive communities. We show that client and consultant belong to different interpretive comm...