This paper's central concern is with signs of fascism in recent political developments in a number of European countries and the United States. It takes the reader back to earlier periods in European and American history when this same anguished question was raised. Thus a longer intellectual history of concerns about the viability of democratic systems is drawn to guide us in our current polit...

These developments increase the signi cance of societal questions of privacy rights rights to review personal records intellectual property rights rights of universal access and so on while generating challenging technical problems in data storage organization and access Though the popular press often trumpets the dawn of a new information age it is instructive to consider the historical series...

Paper presents some aspects regarding the technological vigilance as a good and efficient instrument used in enterprise evaluation. It is known that the technological vigilance is an effort of an organization in the way to observe, analyze, receive, disseminate and retrieve information about the competitiveness in time. Technological vigilance means monitoring, observing, checking and updating ...

The purpose of this paper is to review and critique the field of Intellectual Capital Accounting Research (ICAR). The literature indicates that an organisational and business revolution is in progress concerning the need to understand the value of knowledge resources and how to manage them. The paper explores the field of ICAR by examining a decade of published research since Petty and Guthrie’...

Indigenous knowledge of underdeveloped countries or of underdeveloped peoples within developed or developing nations is a sought after commodity in today’s marketplace. These commercialisation pressures will increase in the globalised climate of the new-world economic order. Since knowledge is intangible, legal protection of intangible knowledge is minimal. However, when the knowledge is expres...

Social comparison theory offers an understanding of the effect of deinstitutionalisation on the development of self-concept for people with intellectual disabilities (Finlay & Lyons, 2000). Social comparison theory predicts that people with intellectual disabilities living in the community will make comparisons with nondisabled groups and as such their self-concept will decrease because of nega...

International policies toward protecting intellectual property rights (IPRs) have seen profound changes over the past two decades. Rules on how to protect patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other forms of IPRs have become a standard component of international trade agreements. Most significantly, during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1986–94), members of what is today t...