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Lack of Systemic Thinking and Innovation; Case of Slovenia - A Transitional Country
Get PDFEuropean Union admits its lack of innovativeness. This holds even more of its ten new member-states from the Central and Eastern Europe, including Slovenia. Her economic and social development reasons for her lack of innovativeness can be summarized in a history of culture preferring (exaggerated) solidarity to entrepreneurship. It is centuries long. The attempt to create entrepreneurship by import of investors with written-off equipment in Kingdom of Yugoslavia times lacked time to demonstrate its success in 1930s. Kingdom experienced a fictitious democracy. In the same period the liberalistic economy led to the big depression. Hitler won - with no democracy - all the wars against countries with democracy, in 1930s. Yugoslavia, including Slovenia, was heavily destroyed in WWII, as well as lost most of the remaining entrepreneurs. In a synergy of all these reasons, people accepted solidarity and accelerated industrialization under Tito. Lack of systems thinking and innovation helped country succeed on a fictitious basis: international debts financed Yugoslavs’ living. This could not last. Slovenia went independent and supported innovation legally enough to enter European Union, but less so in real culture and economy. Thus, the so-called transition is not one from socialism to capitalism, but a more natural one - from pre-industrial via the early industrialization to the industrial era. Move to postindustrial era as the one of an innovative society is the next step. It is delayed a lot and causes danger of neocolonial exploitation.The original publication is available at JAIST Press http://www.jaist.ac.jp/library/jaist-press/index.htmlIFSR 2005 : Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research : The New Roles of Systems Sciences For a Knowledge-based Society : Nov. 14-17, 2008, Kobe, Japa
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Some of the Main Factors of Innovative Renewal of Companies' Operations
No full textSome of the Main Factors of Innovative Renewal of Companies' Operations
Problems cannot be solved by the mentality that has caused them, such as neglecting the non-technological innovation. Often, innovative renewal of companies' operations is urgently needed. Overcoming the consequences of the global economic and financial crisis cannot be successful without innovation of the values, culture, business ethics and norms of all their important stakeholders. We suggest a new synergy of methods aimed at renewal of business processes in an innovative way by using the dialectical systems theory approach. We combine BSC, ISO 9000, the method ‘learning company’ and USOMID. Literature so far has not made it clear that those approaches can complement each other and jointly contribute to renewal of business operations according to the requirement of the requisite holism.</jats:p
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Organizational innovation in health care - as a process
No full textSlovenia, like most countries of the modern world, spends toomuch on its public health care and supplies too little public healthcare services for the government, economists, politicians, and citizensto be happy. The many reforms of the public health care, e.g.in Slovenia, seem to be inefficient, one after the other, in solvingthis problem. Reforms have been conceived with a too poor considerationof the law of the requisite holism in decision preparation,decisions making and decision implementation. The articletackles procedure of implementation of reforms as inventions aresupposed to become innovations in the public health care organizationand management, rather than reforms’ content. Combinationof the absorption capacity, innovation promotion and diffusion issuggested for the requisite holism of implementation
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