Igor Zotov - freelance journalist, columnist, http://www.kultpro.ru. E-mail: pemba@list.ruThe two-volume set Pokoleniya VShE (HSE Generations) was issued to celebrate twenty years since establishing the National Research University - Higher School of Economics. The book Uchitelya ob uchitelyakh...

Metadiscourse is vital in academic writing, whereas abstracts are arguably considered by some authors to be the most important part of an academic paper. The aim of this paper is to study the evolution of interactional metadiscourse elements present in the abstracts of accounting research...

This article explores the process by which a subfield of sociology, the sociology of consumption, became institutionalized in Russia. By “institutionalization” is meant the process of its establishment as an autonomous field of scientific knowledge, university-level discipline and academic...

Cultural differences between the business community and the academia, the two major spheres of modern public life, are under scrutiny in this paper. In particular, specifics of their transformations under conditions of knowledge economy are addressed. A number of expert focused interviews have...

Why do social scientists give less and less attention to policies and policy-making as a specific domain for inquiry while they use empirical contexts of policies and policy-making as empirical data sources and tests of broader theories about society and politics? The paper relies on the...

The education for sustainable development assists people and community to critically examine the technologies, the production economic systems, the cultural systems, the legislation, polices, the ideas they currently use in order to live in harmony with nature. It assists in reflecting and...

From the year of its foundation, until the foundation of Revista de Contabilidad in 1997, REFC has been the only referred accounting journal in Spain. Published by the Spanish Association for Accounting and Business Administration (AECA), this journal is at the heart of the emergence of a...

This study presents a portrait of the Spanish academic accounting community in 1995, based upon a questionnaire circulated to Spanish accounting academics in 1995 and upon an analysis of authorship and citations in the main Spanish accounting journals. The approach to these analyses is grounded...

L'étude des politiques publiques s'est progressivement désinvestie des politiques publiques en tant qu'objets politiques et sociaux spécifiques. Elle aura été investie comme un phénomène empirique au service de problématiques plus générales et qui ignorent la question du travail...

The paper presents an analysis of the comparative characteristics of the closed and open academic environment. Possible effects of formation of local academic conventions are discussed. Survey data obtained from interviews of representatives of 30 departments of universities of St. Petersburg,...