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Children – Consumption, Advertising and Media
Mitchell, Ronald B. - In: International Marketing Review 21 (2004) 6, pp. 670-671
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Studying Soft Power
Ranganathan, Maya - eSocialSciences - 2011
In an era of globalised communication technologies, research is focussing on the potential of media as a means of ‘soft power’, to persuade people and wield influence. The issue of credibility also complicates the study of media as a means of soft power. The Hoot Media Research...
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The complexity of economic policy: restricted local optima in tax policy design
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2007
Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e., the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...
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On the economic crisis and the crisis of economics
Beker, Victor A. - 2010
The outburst of the 2008 global economic crisis sparked a myriad of criticism on mainstream neoclassical economic theory, held responsible for not even have considered the possibility of the kind of collapse that the subprime mortgage meltdown unleashed. In this paper, it is argued that what...
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SMS, Safety Culture, and the Four Pillars of Safety Applied to Airline Pilot Training: NextGen Demands to Improve Safety
Petitt, Karlene - In: International Journal of Aviation Systems, Operations … 4 (2017) 2, pp. 45-61
The history of airline safety includes both FAA economic and safety measures that have grown over the years. This article provides a timeline of airline safety trends from crew resource management to safety management systems. Industry challenges are identified to include operational...
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ERP System Adoption Analysis Using TOE Framework in Permata Hijau Group (PHG) Medan
Catherine, Catherine; Abdurachman, Edi - In: International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems … 14 (2018) 3, pp. 91-105
significantly influence ERP system adoption intention. Compatibility, relative advantage, complexity, top management support …
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Smart City Planning: Complexity
Ekman, Ulrik - In: International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) 7 (2018) 3, pp. 1-21
implications of prior reductions of complexity which have been undertaken by placing primacy in planning on information technology … reductions, this article argues in favor of approaches to smart city planning via complexity theory. Specifically, this article … argues in favor of approaching smart city plans holistically as topologies of organized complexity. Here, smart city planning …
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Social Implications of Big Data and Fog Computing
Horne, Jeremy - In: International Journal of Fog Computing (IJFC) 1 (2018) 2, pp. 1-50
applications, the main discussion begins with thinking about modern data collection, management, and applications from a complexity … is questionable whether humans have the capacity to manage contemporary technological and social complexity evidenced by …
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The Role of Awareness for Complex Planning Task Performance: A Microgaming Study
Lukosch, Heide; Groen, Daan; Kurapati, Shalini; Klemke, … - In: International Journal of Game-Based Learning (IJGBL) 6 (2016) 2, pp. 15-28
This study introduces the concept of microgames to support situated learning in order to foster situational awareness (SA) of planners in seaport container terminals. In today's complex working environments, it is often difficult to develop the required level of understanding of a given...
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A Gaming Perspective on Mathematics Education
Yong, Su-Ting; Gates, Peter; Chan, Andy Tak-Yee - In: International Journal of Information and Communication … 14 (2018) 4, pp. 85-98
study was confined to four motivation dimensions, namely challenge, control, complexity and collaboration. A phenomenology …
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