skills in LDCs will be studied. Learning organizations are recommended to direct social attitudes change toward time … discussed as obstacles to change in LDCs. …

Resistance to change is not a new concept in economic literature (Coch and French 1948, Boulding 1956). However, in the … counterparts of economic behavior into account. We finally reinterpret resistance to change as a heuristic that helps manage the …

perspective one can boil down this problem to the question of how to cope with the new and with profound change (in knowledge …

Abstract Contemporary society is marked by a defining feature, namely the change, which manifests itself at all levels …, manifested by acute competition in the national and global change in people's needs and tastes and trends in the economy and …

materialism, starting with its Greek philosophical origin in Heraclitus, who stressed the unity of opposites in a world of change …

a theorist is proposed. Hicks’ research was inspired by a program of analyzing a process of change from an out …

The study of transformation and change is one of the most important areas of social science research. This paper … synthesizes and critically reviews the emerging traditions in the study of change dynamics. Three mainstream theories of evolution … are introduced to explain change: the Darwinian concept of survival of the fittest, the Probability model and the …

The features of innovation, flexibility and change mutually influence one another. Provided that change is perceived as … a feature leading to innovation, flexibility is the feature that enables it. Innovation cannot exist without change but … nonetheless each and every change leads to innovation. Flexibility is a necessary condition but not sufficient for the innovation …