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Opportunities and limitations of communities of practice in graduate education in Croatia

Kõnig, Ljerka Sedlan - In: Economy of eastern Croatia yesterday, today, tommorow 2 (2013), pp. 346-356

Communities of practice present a potential alternative teaching approach for entrepreneurial education that has been underappreciated in graduate education. In the first part, the paper introduces communities of practice and cites the existing research. Besides that, it discusses their...

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The EC in the WTO: The three-level game of decision-making. What multilateralism can learn from regionalism

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 09

This paper is a comparative institutional analysis of the EC's decision-making process in trade policy by focusing on three variables, i.e., competence (whether national or EC competence in EC trade policy), control (who controls the EC's position in international trade negotiations: the...

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Conceptualising Commom Commercial Policy Treaty revision: explaining stagnancy and dynamics from the Amsterdam IGC to the Treaty of Lisbon

Niemann, Arne - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 15 (2011) 10

This article seeks to explain the varying, and sometimes intriguing, outcomes of the past three revisions of the Treaty concerning the Community’s Common Commercial Policy (CCP). The analysis particularly focuses on the development of competence and decision rules, i.e. the process of...

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Laissez-faire and, therefore, jeopardized national priorities in the process of transition

Szira, Thomas - In: Journal of Economic Studies 26 (1999) September, pp. 404-412

Former socialist economies, as they are trying to engage in a process of transition from state socialism towards forms of a market economy, and as they are trying to open themselves up to international trade, find that extreme social tensions accompany this process which go right to the heart of...

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Balancing European SME Managers’ Training Contents: Perceived Importance & Training Needs

Morgado, Leonel; Varajão, João; Dominguez, Caroline; … - In: Business Systems Research 5 (2014) 2, pp. 4-22

programs for European SME managers. Methods/Approach: In six European countries a survey focusing on SME managers’ views on the … managers with common training needs and perceptions of content importance. Results: Homogeneous groups of managers who assign … the same importance to certain competences and who have common training needs are identified. Conclusions: Results of our …

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Enhancing the Transformative Potential of Business Internships

Starr-Glass, David - In: Managing Global Transitions 4 (2006) 4, pp. 285-297

Business internships involve students, sponsoring firms, and institutions of higher learning. As part of a program to enhance internships, we reviewed the experience of a small number of business interns working in Central Europe. Their experiences were characterized as essentially...

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Student-led and teacher-led case presentations: empirical evidence about learning styles in an accounting course

Adler, Ralph; Whiting, Rosalind; Wynn-Williams, Kate - In: Accounting Education 13 (2004) 2, pp. 213-229

Educators and employers alike have made repeated calls for developing graduates who are active, interdependent, and independent learners. While the use of business case studies has been a frequently promoted method for achieving this objective, there is a dearth of information about how best to...

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Assessment of Internship Experiences and Accounting Core Competencies

Beard, Deborah F. - In: Accounting Education 16 (2007) 2, pp. 207-220

This article presents examples of assessment tools created as part of an internship program that have been integrated into program assessment. Although these tools represent only part of the multiple assessment activities and measures used in the assessment process for accounting majors at...

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A Programme to Expose Students to Senior Executives in the World of Accounting: An Innovative Learning Method

Webb, Laurie; Lange, Paul De; O'Connell, Brendan - In: Accounting Education 18 (2009) 2, pp. 183-205

This paper deals with one well-tested means of providing inspiration through a carefully planned International Study Tour (IST) that has, at its core, site visits to world class global organisations. During these visits, students are addressed by senior personnel of those organisations. The...

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Exploring the effectiveness of peer mentoring of accounting and finance students in higher education

Fox, Alison; Stevenson, Lorna - In: Accounting Education 15 (2006) 2, pp. 189-202

This article explores the effectiveness of peer mentoring with accounting and finance students at the University of Dundee. The motives of such a mentoring scheme are to improve the participants' academic performance and to develop their transferable skills. In the context of this study, peer...

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