It has been shown that most of our daily learning takes place outside formal settings (e.g., seminars or trainings) where knowledge is transferred from a teacher to a learner and a certificate is often the result. This so-called informal learning is a life-long process where individuals continuously acquire knowledge. It constitutes an important element of every individual’s personal knowledge ...

For over a decade now, universities have been aware of the pressures to expand access to higher education.1 The knowledge society needs more graduates, and those graduates will keep returning to study as lifelong learning takes its place in both work and leisure time. These are the positive pressures for expansion. But the knowledge society, fueled by the expanding higher education sector, is i...

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the processes and channels through which valuable knowledge from outside the firm reaches those employees who can exploit that knowledge for innovative purposes. It seeks to identify the specific talents exhibited by the key individuals involved in facilitating these important knowledge flows. It also aims to detail the interventions which management can ad...

This paper dwells on the concept of Buber's 'Ich and Du', popularly known as 'I Thou', it concerns knowledge production acquisition. From Buberian parlance, Thou' can be seen in twofold, 'I-It' 'I-Thou'. While former emphasizes separation, latter accentuates relation. In its original position, this raises questions as, what is, lie constitutes truth, how becomes different from belief, who is/ar...

In the present knowledge economy, individuals, particularly working adults, need to continuously acquire purposeful knowledge and skills so they can better contribute towards addressing society’s ever-changing developmental challenges. In the developing world however, few opportunities exist for working adults to acquire such new learning experiences through the formal education sector, and thi...

The aim of this study was to assess wayfinding abilities in individuals with Down syndrome (DS). The ability to learn routes though a virtual environment (VE) and to make a novel shortcut between two locations was assessed in individuals with DS (N=10) and control participants individually matched on mental age (MA) or chronological age (CA). The results showed that most of the participants wit...

Process-oriented enterprises are expected to be more successful than traditional functional-oriented ones. Consequently, more and more companies want to become process-oriented. But to reach this goal a basic change of mind towards more process-oriented thinking of a company’s employees is required. Therefore, the adequate support of employees to acquire process-oriented knowledge is crucial fo...

Destination image significantly influences a tourist’s decision-making process. The impact of news media coverage on destination image has attracted research attention and became particularly evident after catastrophic events such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that triggered a series of lethal tsunamis. Building upon previous research, this article analyzes the prevalence of tourism desti...