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Knowledge for sale – the benefits and effects of off-shoring knowledge-base…
A framework consisting of a conceptual model and a closed-loop knowledge work outsourcing decision model is developed. A process flow model of a medical device company's product development function is analysed, where this framework is applied to understand various outsourcing options for the company. The conceptual framework describes major attributes related to outsourcing decisions, paramete…
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- Vol. 8, No. 4, December 2010. pp. 351–368
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- 14778238
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- Knowledge Management Research & Practice
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Learning capability: the effect of existing knowledge on learning
It has been observed that different people learn the same things in different ways – increasing their knowledge of the subject/domain uniquely. One plausible reason for this disparity in learning is the difference in the existing personal knowledge held in the particular area in which the knowledge increase happens. To understand this further, in this paper knowledge is modelled as a ‘system of…
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- Vol. 8 No. 4, December 2010. pp. 369–379
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The Conscription of Wealth: Mass Warfare and the Demand for Progressive Taxation
The dominant narrative of the politics of redistribution in political science and economics highlights the signature role of the rise of electoral democracy and the development of political parties that mobilize working-class groups. We argue in this article that this narrative ignores the critical role played by mass warfare in the development of redistributive public policies. Focusing attent…
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- Vol. 64, No. 4, Fall 2010.pp. 529-561
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- 00208183
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- International Organization
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Nature or Nurture? Judicial Lawmaking in the European Court of Justice and th…
Are international courts power-seeking by nature, expanding the reach and scope of international rules and the courts' authority where permissive conditions allow? Or, does expansionist lawmaking require special nurturing? We investigate the relative influences of nature versus nurture by comparing expansionist lawmaking in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the Andean Tribunal of Justice …
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- Vol. 64, No. 4, Fall 2010.pp. 563-592
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Who Is Punished? Regional Intergovernmental Organizations and the Enforcement…
Scholars have found an association between membership in regional intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and democracy, and IGO enforcement is often credited as an important factor explaining this link. But empirical evidence reveals great variation in whether these organizations actually respond to violations of democratic norms, even in democratic regions. Why do IGOs punish some norm-violati…
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- Vol. 64, No. 4, Fall 2010. pp. 593-625
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Oil and Revolutionary Governments: Fuel for International Conflict
Oil-exporting states, or petrostates, engage in militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) at a much higher rate on average than nonpetrostates. Why is this so? Further, what explains the variation among the petrostates in adopting aggressive foreign policies and engaging in MIDs on that basis? This article develops a theory that proposes that revolutionary petrostates have a higher propensity to l…
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- Vol. 64 No. 4, Fall 2010. pp. 661-694
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The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Anchors: Firm-Level Evidence
Analyses of monetary policy posit that exchange-rate pegs, inflation targets, and central bank independence can help anchor private-sector inflation expectations. Yet there are few direct tests of this argument. We offer cross-national, micro-level evidence on the effectiveness of monetary anchors in controlling private-sector inflation concerns. Using firm-level data from eighty-one countries …
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- Vol. 64, No. 4, Fall 2010 .pp. 695-717
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The Future of Universities and the Fate of Free Inquiry and Academic Freedom
This paper suggests that the time for free inquiry and academic freedom at European universities has rarely been better than at present, that debates and results arising from independent scientific discourse have rarely had better chances of blossoming and evoking a response than in the time in which we now live, and that the basic rules of university and scholarly work in general are, by no me…
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- Volume 76, Number 3, Fall 2009.pp. 795 - 804
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- 0037783x
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly
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Fulfilling the Promise of Academic Freedom
Through an extended discussion of the German higher education system in comparison with other European countries and the US, this paper suggests that academic freedom is not simply a consequence of institutional arrangements. It is a consequence of looking at what one is doing, at one's own professional responsibility. Academic freedom must be sustained and protected not only by the state or in…
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- Volume 76, Number 3 / Fall 2009.pp. 805 - 810
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- SOcial Research: An International Quarterly
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Defending Academic Freedom and Free Inquiry
This paper focuses our attention on a few principles that guide great universities. I want to suggest that the United States has not distinguished itself particularly well in preventing episodes of repression and attempts to silence dissent at universities, nor has it produced an extraordinary number of courageous leaders over the past seventy-five years who have come forward to defend the prin…
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- Volume 76, Number 3, Fall 2009.pp. 811 - 844
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Free Inquiry: A Human Condition
Free and open inquiry is a human condition—it is established, maintained, and protected by humans. It is not a natural force that we can harness, nor a natural right that we inherit, nor is it a natural resource that we can mine. I believe that free inquiry is essential to the development of mankind, and I also believe academic freedom and the protection of academic freedom are essential. This …
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- Volume 76, Number 3. Fall 2009.pp. 845 - 848
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University in Exile: The Experience of the Twenty-First Century
This article discusses the challenges of educational transformation in post-totalitarian societies. Special attention is given to the situation in social sciences and humanities which have suffered a long period of the Soviet ideology domination. The dramatic story of the European Humanities University, which was established in Minsk in 1992 and closed down by the Belarusian regime in 2004, ser…
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- Volume 76, Number 3. Fall 2009.pp. 849 - 866
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Free Inquiry and Public Mission in the Research University
Suppose we thought of free inquiry as a social matter, a public good. We might ask not only whether individual scholars are free from illegitimate, especially external, censorship or attempts to control their work. We might ask also how much the university as an institution contributes to overall freedom of inquiry. To answer the second question would require assessing (among other things) how …
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- Volume 76, Number 3. Fall 2009. pp. 901 - 932
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Freedom and Interdisciplinarity: The Future of the University Curriculum
I would like to argue that to a large extent universities are themselves to blame for their failure to respond adequately to external pressures of the day. Barring the work of a few exceptional departments and individuals here and there, universities are incapable of addressing precisely those problems that most preoccupy our societies nowadays. Granted, universities rightly regard themselves a…
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- Volume 76, Number 3. Fall 2009.pp. 933 - 942
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Free Inquiry: Easy Times Can Be Difficult Too
This paper begins with some brief reflections on the 19th century apprehensions of Tocqueville and Mill and their relevance to ourselves, and goes on to ask for what and for whom universities exist. There is no incontrovertible answer, but one can distinguish two ideal types of a modern university, as I do. I praise one of them, without being dismissive of the others, and pose some problems abo…
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- Volume 76, Number 3. Fall 2009.pp. 943 - 958
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MST With Conduct Disordered Youth in Sweden: Costs and Benefits After 2 Years
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the costs and benefits associated with multisystemic therapy (MST) for conduct disordered youth, 2 years following intake. Methods: The study employed a secondary analysis of 156 youth enrolled in a randomized trial assessing the psychosocial and behavioral outcomes of MST. Results: MST cost on average 105,400 SEK per youth. MST was assoc…
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- Vol. 20 No. 6, November 2010.pp. 561-571
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- 10497315
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Gender Differences in Behavioral Outcomes Among Children at Risk of Neglect: …
Objective: This study examines the impact of the Family Connections (FC) intervention on preventing behavioral problems among urban, predominantly African American children at risk of neglect. Method: Secondary data analyses using mixed model analyses of variance (ANOVA) with repeated measures were used to examine gender differences in child behavior outcomes among 111 participating families ac…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 572-581
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Effects of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) on Household Wealth and Sav…
This study examines effects of individual development accounts (IDAs) on household wealth of low-income participants. Methods: This study uses longitudinal survey data from the American Dream Demonstration (ADD) involving experimental design (treatment group = 537, control group = 566). Results: Results from quantile regression analysis indicate that IDA participants had more household financia…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 582-590
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Evaluation of a Program to Educate Disadvantaged Parents to Enhance Child Lea…
This study reported a pilot trial of the Hands-On Parent Empowerment (HOPE) program, a 30-session program designed to instruct parents from disadvantaged backgrounds how to teach learning skills to their preschool children. The participants included 13 parents who newly migrated into Hong Kong from mainland China. The parents were required to complete questionnaires on child behavior problems, …
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 591-599
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Development of the Ethnic and Racial Socialization of Transracial Adoptee Scale
Objectives: This study describes the development and initial validation of the 15-item Ethnic and Racial Socialization of Transracial Adoptee Scale (ERSTAS). Method: Using the model of Boykin and Tom on Black family socialization, the items were developed and validated using two different Asian adoptee samples. Results: Two subscales, ethnic socialization and racial socialization, were identifi…
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- Vol. 20 no. 6, November 2010.pp. 600-610
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