ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper presenting a two part demographic and socio-economic model and its application to an interdisciplinary research analysis of Innovation in three agricultural areas in France - describes the methodology, evaluates its usefulness in showing the different...

The complexity and dynamics of current social and economic phenomena determined a growing body of economists to ask for a renewal of economics methods and a repositioning to the current society problems. The defining element of this new theoretical approach should probably be its multi and...

More than ever before, the last decade revealed the immense vulnerability of the world’s cities to natural hazards. Neither the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004, the hurricane Katrina in 2005, the cyclone Nargis in 2008 nor the earthquakes in Sichuan in 2008 or in Haiti 2010 found the...

In the hope of speeding translation from research to policy, the EU, and other funding bodies, advocate interdisciplinary research whilst underplaying real obstacles to achieving common aims and methodologies for the natural and social sciences. From inside observation of an antagonistic...

The paper provides an overview of the structural trends faced nowadays by European Research Area (ERA). These trends reflect not only societal developments, but also the changing structures of research itself. Beginning from the general context of understanding the concept of ERA as one of the...

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to outline some personal reflections, based on recent published accounting history research and methodological contributions, on the state of the art and future directions in interdisciplinary research on accounting's past. Design/methodology/approach -An...

The relationship between business and information systems engineering (BISE) and its main reference disciplines business administration and informatics has changed several times during the last decades. Despite some frictions during the 1980 s and 1990 s, the interplay between informatics and...