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Juxtaposition of Eastern Management Styles and practices with Modern Management System and Concepts

Juxtaposition of Eastern Management Styles and practices with Modern Management System and Concepts

Author(s): Nidhi Kaushal,Sanjit Mishra / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Culture; Entrepreneur; Ethics; Globalization; Leadership; Management; Organization

This paper presents an analysis of the Indian management concepts in view of the changing world order while establishing their inter relatedness with the theories and practices developed in the West. Being followed by the leaders and entrepreneurs of the country right since the Vedic ages, the ancient Indians had developed their own management systems with the help of which they successfully carried out their business affairs. It is the hypothesis that the practices thus cultured and the concepts thus evolved, are relevant across the boundaries of time and space, and shall be immensely helpful for the organizations of the west as well. In this paper they have examined the organizational and other managerial skills in the works of spiritual- social reformers and other political leaders fromIndia. The Indian perspective on management is based on the Purushartha (a key concept and denotes the four proper aims of a human life). It was the base model of management in ancient time which has been followed by management thinkers and leaders of India.

The Blogosphere and Political News in Nigeria

The Blogosphere and Political News in Nigeria

Author(s): Boniface Nkem Anusiem / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Linda Ikeji Blog; Social Media; 2015 Elections; Political News

The 2015 Elections in Nigeria is one of the most significant events in Nigerian history; at least in the recent past. Nigerians were highly disposed to the electioneering process by their active participation especially through the platforms provided by the social media. Hence, various social media outlets formulated dependable avenues for the sharing of news items connected with the elections. Among the numerous blogs that excelled in journaling the election is Linda Ikeji’s blog; a popular blog site in Nigeria. This exposition focuses on the contributions of Linda Ikeji’s blog in the dissemination the news of the elections results. The study adopts a content analysis approach to analyze the readership of the blog within election period. The subsequent feedback from the content research aids the researcher to gauge the contributions of Linda Ikeji blog in political news journaling during the 2015 General Elections in Nigeria.

Project Sharing: Public Communication and Education as a Tool for Citizenship Guarantee

Project Sharing: Public Communication and Education as a Tool for Citizenship Guarantee

Author(s): Tatyane Ferreira,Alzimar Ramalho,Márcia Marques / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Communication; Information and Computing (CIC); educommunication; Citizenship; pedagogical model; university extension

The article presented the experiences and results of the pedagogical model developed in the project “Partilhar: Comunicação, Informação e Computaçãopara compartilhamento da cidadania”, translated as Sharing: Communication, Information, and Computing to share citizenship. The research involved four institutions: the University of Brasilia (UnB), the IESB University Center, the JoãoMangabeira Foundation (FJM) and the Paranoá Culture and Development Center(Cedep), all located in Brasília, capital of Brazil. The cross-cutting theme was PublicTransparency - forms of monitoring, use and application of public resources. In the first stage, pedagogical materials were produced and test-workshops were applied focusing on the training of Communication and Information competences in social networks using mobile technologies. The second part consisted of the application of the workshop plan and evaluation of its results and was not yet finalized.The objective was to inform people to use social media in a network from a citizen perspective, guiding participants to learn how they can autonomously acquire the skills and abilities necessary for the practical appropriation of the mechanisms provided by the Brazilian Transparency Law. This “teaching to learn” also proposed that learners become multipliers of knowledge, always shareable and permanently elaborated/reworked by the collective. It was based on the premise that the main obstacles to inclusion need to be overcome in an articulated way: information poverty, digital exclusion, censorship, the political use of technology, misinformation, manipulation of the media and destruction of public information.

Refugees and the Future World: Fuelling conflict of Ethnicities?

Refugees and the Future World: Fuelling conflict of Ethnicities?

Author(s): Md. Rajin Makhdum Khan,Faizah Imam / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Refugees; Influx; Ethnicity; Migration; Conflict; Nations; Clash

This dissertation focuses on identifying the nature of the future world in respect to the advent of extended number of refugees. Refugee migration and crisis in outside the original countries owing to a deluge of refugees is an important phenomenon happening throughout the world currently. With the case study analysis of current refugee migration events in Asia, Middle East, Africa and the Americas, the paper tries to find out the future nature of the smallest unit of analysis for a long time – nation state. All features of economic, religious, ethnicand cultural aspects taking into account, the core argument centers around whether the influx of refugees into outer or neighbor countries is increasing the possibilityof ethnic conflict through out the world making the future world a world full offeuds and conflicts. The dissertation also tries to find out the true aspects of Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations theory and if the theory is going to be signifiedin a future world full of feuds and conflicts. With historical and contemporary analysis of the various cases of refugee influx, the paper also tries to measure the economic consequences of refugee migration and influx. Do globalization and liberal economies tend to survive or does the refugee influx prevent cooperation among ethnicities and states? The dissertation also attempts to find out whether refugee crisis would instigate ethnic nationalism and if the neoliberal world order would fall apart owing to the problems originated by huge refugee influx and migration.

The Opening of the Stock Market of Angola and the Challenges for Companies at the Level of the Financial Reporting System and Corporate Governance

The Opening of the Stock Market of Angola and the Challenges for Companies at the Level of the Financial Reporting System and Corporate Governance

Author(s): Armada Nunes Namuele / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Financial Reporting; Capital Market; Angola

This research aims to analyze the main requirements in terms of financial reporting and corporate governance mechanisms established by the Capital Market Commission (CMC) of Angola to companies operating on the capital market of Angola. Using a qualitative investigation approach, we conclude that, overall, Angola is providing itself with a legal framework that is in convergence with the major orientations of the international organizations, regarding the requirements made to entities operating in the capital market, in terms of governance and oversight of those corporations, of their financial reporting process. However, there is an urgent need for the CMC of Angola to orient or even advocate the mandatory adoption of the IASB’s international accounting standards for entities operating (or intending to operate) in the capital market of Angola. At the Corporate Governance level, we found a fair convergence of the principles and recommendations of the CMC regarding the OECD Corporate Governance principles.

Organizational Leadership Designed at Ensuring Employee Commitment

Organizational Leadership Designed at Ensuring Employee Commitment

Author(s): Cristian Liviu Vele / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Leadership; organizational change; creativity; strategy; competitive advantage

Every organization wants and need employees that perform at their best in each and every aspect of their work. This, in terms, leads to an increase in organizational efficiency and to the development of competitive advantages in relationship with other competitors. But how can organizations develop a working environment in which employees give their full commitment to organizational strategic goals? What are the cultural elements that drive people to develop the necessary beliefs and behaviors in order to fully commit to an organization? In what manner does the leadership of an organization contribute to the increase of individual commitment? The main objective of this article is to identify and analyze possible correlations between certain elements of transformational leadership and employee commitment. One of the main challenges that companies face in present times is the constant shift in the business environment that requires a high level of flexibility and adaptation. Given the fact that employees are the company’s front line by coming in contact with customers, it is paramount that their behavior and commitment is focused on providing the highest value for the market. For this reason, managers need to fully understand how to motivate individuals in order to become completely involved in their work and in offering their contribution to organizational success. The findings presented in the paper can help managers and leaders in their efforts to retain employees and to increase their involvement in the long-term sustainable development of the organization in which they work.

The Identity of a Christian Leader

The Identity of a Christian Leader

Author(s): Timotei Rusu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

he subject of leadership has seen a rising growth in the last twenty years. A proliferation of material is available on and off-line on leadership along with thousands of seminars, webinars, and monthly conferences. All of these training efforts attempt to define and redefine leadership, and offer tips on how to be a successful leader. Prototypes for leadership are taken from religion, sport, and the corporate world. The question needs to be asked, “What is unique to Christian Leadership”? What are the marks that set aside Christian leadership from secular leadership? The answer is found in the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, the One who started Christianity. This article presents the identity of a Christian leader as a starting point in this uniqueness. A Christian leader’s identity is based on his relationship with Jesus Christ and it gives him worth, value, resources and a right mentality for transitions.

The success of Community Management Based on the Collaboration: Lesson Learned for Environmental Crisis Solutions

Success of Community Management Based on the Collaboration: Lesson Learned for Environmental Crisis Solutions

Author(s): Nathdanai Pratuangboriboon / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Community Management; Collaboration; Environmental Crisis Solutions

World change influences the changes in the economy, society, environment, way of life, culture, and traditions into the slavery of capitalism, materialism, and consumerisms including modern trends all have a great impact on the country’s development. This is why “Society has problems and the development is not sustainable” while Ban Thung Sri Community, Moo 3, Thung Sri Sub-district, Rong Kwang district, Phrae province, Thailand has been accredited by various institutions in community management in a variety of dimensions until the community is successful. When the study was conducted, the Lesson learned of community management for environmental crisis solutions, which the community believes is a sustainable solution to the environmental crisis and driven by community strategies. This can be an example that other communities can apply concretely.

Mobility and Regional Competitiveness in the Digital Age

Mobility and Regional Competitiveness in the Digital Age

Author(s): Bence Zuti / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: regional competitiveness; digitalization; globalization; regional mobility; urban mobility

Digitalization is one of the key drivers of accelerated change in our everyday lives, both on an economic and social level. With solutions enabled through ICT technologies, we are more connected than ever on the global scale. In this next chapter of globalization, we currently experience significant transition in the structure of industries, consumer behavior and how we collect and manage data. This transition requires a shift in mindset, as we need to reevaluate the key factors of competitiveness, in order to prepare ourselves for rapid and presumably disruptive changes. These changes, however, mean to ease our everyday lives in the long run. The presence of an advanced regional infrastructure is a crucial factor in enhancing the competitiveness of regional economies, hence the opportunities in mobility in the digital age need to be revised. The aim of the paper is to systematize the key connections between digitalization, mobility and regional competitiveness while mapping potential challenges in the topic as well.

Climate in the 21st Century:

Climate in the 21st Century:

Author(s): Julia M. Puaschunder / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Climate Change; Climate Change Bonds; Climate Change Gains; Climate Change Losses; Climate Justice; Europe; Macroeconomic Modelling; Tax-Bonds-Transfer Strategy; Taxation; United States; World

Climate justice accounts for the most challenging global governance goal. In the current post- COP21 Paris agreement climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, the financialization of the ambitious goals has leveraged into a blatant demand. In the weighting of the burden of global warming, the benefits of a warming earth have been neglected since recently. Following the introduction of the gains from climate change (Puaschunder 2017), this article proposes a model to distribute the benefits of a warming earth in a fair way based on which countries are losing and which countries are winning from a warming earth until 2100. A macroeconomic cost-benefit analysis thereby aids to find the optimum solution on how to distribute climate change benefits and burden within society. When unidimensionally focusing on estimated GDPgrowth given a warmer temperature, over all calculated models assuming linear, prospect or hyperbolic gains and losses, the world will be gaining more than losing from a warming earth until 2100. Based on the WL index of 188 countries of the world, less countries (n=78) will gain more from global warming until 2100 than more countries (n=111) will lose from a warming earth. Based on the overall WLTT index factored by GDP per inhabitant, global warming benefits are demanded to be redistributed in a fair way to offset the costs of climate change loser countries for climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts and to instigate a transition into renewable energy. Adding onto contemporary climate fund raising strategies ranging from emissions trading schemes (ETS) and carbon tax policies as well as financing climate justice through bonds as viable mitigation and adaptation strategies, climate justice is introduced to comprise of fairness between a countries but also over generations in a unique and unprecedented tax-and-bonds climate change gains and losses distribution strategy.

Forest Rights Struggles after FRA 2006: The Case of Dalhi Land in Raigad District, Maharashtra

Forest Rights Struggles after FRA 2006: The Case of Dalhi Land in Raigad District, Maharashtra

Author(s): Paul Sylvester Fernandes,R Rekha Mammen,Geetanjoy Sahu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Forest rights; Forest Rights Act; Dalhi land; Katkari community; indigenous community

Maharashtra is considered one of the leading states in India with regard to the implementation of the landmark Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006. Yet the struggles in the Raigad district of the Katkari tribe, formally categorized by the government as a ‘Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group’, depicts the continuing difficulties in addressing structural marginalization. The FRA, 2006 legislated recognition of community and individual forest rights as an effective tool to undo the historical injustice inflicted by the colonial and post-colonial state. This study looks at the characterization of rights by the tribal community and forest governance institutions and the nature of contestations regarding indigenous forest rights. The discussion focuses on the land used by the Katkari tribe for dalhi cropping. Using both primary and secondary data sources, forest rights claims are analysed with respect to the history of the Katkari community in the region, their relationship with the forest, and the larger development practice context. The study also attempts to understand the implications of positions taken at multiple levels for indigenous people’s resource rights and the sustainability of livelihoods based on these resources.

Green New Deal Leadership Determinants of the 21st Century: Teaching Economics of the Environment

Green New Deal Leadership Determinants of the 21st Century: Teaching Economics of the Environment

Author(s): Julia M. Puaschunder / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Climate Bonds; Climate Change; Climate Justice; Climatorial Imperative; Economics of the Environment; Ethics

The future leadership on the Green New Deal (GND) will depend on teaching coreconcepts of the economics of the environment and evaluating the success of the transitionimplementation by monitoring and evaluation. The GND operates within the framework of the UnitedNations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 2008 to create jobs in green industries, thus boostingthe world economy and curbing climate change at the same time. In 2019 over 600 organizationssubmitted a letter to the U.S. Congress declaring support for policies to reduce greenhouse gasemissions. This includes ending fossil fuel extraction and subsidies, transitioning to 100% cleanrenewable energy by 2035, expanding public transportation, and strict emission reductions rather thanreliance on carbon emission trading. This paper describes the implementation of the GND but alsounderlying efforts to teach GND components for building a cadre of future environmental economists.

Ghana’s Public Diplomacy under Kwame Nkrumah

Ghana’s Public Diplomacy under Kwame Nkrumah

Author(s): Isaac Antwi-Boasiako / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: public diplomacy; communication; Kwame Nkrumah; pan-Africanism; foreign policy

The concept of public diplomacy is one of the trending approaches in modern international relations and diplomacy. Communicating and engaging effectively with the foreign public in a particular nation by a government to achieve its foreign policy objective is every government’s goal. The field of public diplomacy as an academic discipline in Ghana in particular and Africa has not received much attention compared to the Western World. This article attempts to bridge this gap by opening Ghana’s public diplomacy to academic scrutiny that has, as yet, been underdeveloped. This paper’s principal objective is to bring to light the public diplomacy instruments used by the indefatigable first president of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, to propagate his pan-Africanism foreign policy in the 1960s against capitalism and communism after Ghana’s independence. It also looks briefly at Nkrumah’s general foreign policy agenda through the lens of public diplomacy. Methodologically, it uses content analysis of documents to explore how Nkrumah adopted the public diplomacy tactics during his presidency to sell his foreign policy. The article explores the topic under the theoretical framework of Golan’s Integrated Public Diplomacy model. It concludes that public diplomacy under Kwame Nkrumah should be the foundation and ignite its incorporation into Ghana’s tertiary education and current foreign policy strategies.

The Repressive Actions of the Communist System against the Romanian Neoprotestant Catechization System

The Repressive Actions of the Communist System against the Romanian Neoprotestant Catechization System

Author(s): Ciprian Corneliu Ciurea / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: church; neo-Protestant; religious education; communism; repressive actions

At a time when truth had become relative and politics had become only a game of dictatorial power, the church, left without any support, had to endure multiple constraints, leading an atypical, tacit and crisis "normality" to resist. In a society where comrade Elena Ceaușescu claimed to be the "mother of the people", the neo-Protestant cults had to endure repressive measures just because they had educated their children and young people in a Christian spirit.

Meanings of the Sabbath Revisited: Time and Space, Presence and Dwelling

Meanings of the Sabbath Revisited: Time and Space, Presence and Dwelling

Author(s): Beniamin Laurențiu Chircan / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: seventh day; Sabbath; Presence; meeting; fellowship; rest

The seventh day of creation is the day of the Presence, the day of God’s dwelling with the created world. The Sabbath becomes the reverberation of this reality. However, are there levels of access that can be discerned in the sabbatical experience? Regarding the Sabbath as sacred time, we can distinguish at least two levels or stages of proximity, one general and the other one special. These stages can be delineated more precisely if we first identify them in space before tracing them in time. Thus, starting off from the general stage of the Presence and further building on it, both the meeting and the fellowship comprise together the superior, ultimate stage – the Holy Grail of the sabbatical experience. The full experience that is referred to is expressed in the text in terms of “rest.”

Defashionization for Sustainability: From Conspicuous to Conscientious Consumption Breaking Business Cycles for Environmentalism

Defashionization for Sustainability: From Conspicuous to Conscientious Consumption Breaking Business Cycles for Environmentalism

Author(s): Julia M. Puaschunder / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Agrohoods, Biophilia; Business Cycle Theory; Capitalism; Capitalist societies

The time for defashionization has come. With the United Nations Conference of the Parties COP26 heralding the call for attention to sustainable fashion, society is ripe to question the whims of fashion’s impact on sustainability. Is the luxury moment of our time harmony with nature and practicing degrowth in recycling to cherish sustainability? Already in the historic political economy foundations of capitalism, workers are described to produce in order to consume. Classic business cycle theory and the creative entrepreneur portray a human-innate need for change and innovation as the spring feather of capitalism. In capitalist societies, there is a race for innovation of entrepreneurs and offering new products on a constant basis in order to evade the falling rate of profit. Capitalist constantly innovate in order to offer new products in markets and reap the highest rate of return and profit from consumers, who constantly want to change and have access to changing products. Producers of goods are in a competitive race for innovation and offering new products to ever-innovation-seeking consumers. The constant pressure to innovate and offer new products on the supply side and the constant production for a salary in order to consume the newest goods and services lie at the core of capitalist societies. Climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals but also the Green New Deals in the United States and Europe as well as the New Generation EU have formulated aspirational goals of sustainability. The circular economy and conscientious consumption have become the en vogue trends of our times. The novel Coronavirus crisis COVID-19 has also driven demand for rest, recovery and degrowth. COVID Long Haulers in particular appear to favor harmony with the environment in agrohoods driving trends of deurbanization but also biophilia trends that resemble nature in interior design and clean unprocessed nutrition. How is our classic understanding of business cycles’ reinvention drive and the innovative entrepreneurs’ creative destruction justified in light of sustainability pledges? Have we reached an age of luxury in the appreciation of environmentalism that forms a larger transcending Gestalt that benefits future generations? This article asks if the time is ripe for a defashionization of economic business cycles of reproduction and harmonize ecology with innovation. The paper also provides vivid examples of sustainability capitalism solutions, which prove that the Green New Deal aligns economic values with sustainability. The New Deals, degrowth, minimalism, biophilia and agrohoods are newest trends that appear to crowd out whims of ever-changing trends for rest in sustainable well-being.

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in the Age of COVID-19

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in the Age of COVID-19

Author(s): Julia M. Puaschunder,Francisco J. Bariffi / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; AI; Anti-Discrimination; Big Data; COVID-19

The view that the COVID-19 pandemic has set in motion profound changes in our modern societies is practically unanimous. The global effort to contain, cure, and eradicate COVID-19 has been greatly benefited by the use, development and/or adaptation of technological tools for mass surveillance based on artificial intelligence and robotics systems. The management of the COVID-19 pandemic yet has also revealed many shortcomings generated from the need to make decisions “in extremis”. Systematic lockdowns of entire populations pushed humans to increase exposure to digital devices in order to achieve some sort of social connection. Some nations with the capable technology development used AI systems to access individual digital data in order to control and contain the SARS-CoV-2. Massive surveillance of entire populations is now possible. In this way, the problem arises of how to establish an adequate balance and control between the utility and the results offered by mass surveillance systems based on artificial intelligence and robotics in the fight against COVID-19 on the one hand, and the protection of personal and collective fundamental rights and freedoms, on the other.

Use of Undercover Investigators and Collaborators in Investigating Corruption Offenses

Use of Undercover Investigators and Collaborators in Investigating Corruption Offenses

Author(s): Nadia Zlate / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: corruption; special investigative methods

Corruption is a threat to the stability and security of societies, undermining democratic institutions and values, ethical values and justice, and compromising sustainable development and the rule of law. Art. 19 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, adopted in New York on 31 October 2003, recommends that States parties consider the adoption of legislative and other have been committed intentionally, the act of a public official abusing his functions or position, for example to perform or refrain from performing, in the exercise of his functions, an act in violation of the law, in order to obtain an improper benefit for himself or for another person or entity. The emergence of the legal framework governing the activity of undercover investigators was unanimously determined by the need to fight atypical forms of crime, which carry out their activity in an organized and “hermetic” way, so that the activity of proving criminal acts by normal methods becomes especially difficult, if not impossible. The objectives of using the undercover investigator or the collaborator are to obtain data and information about the criminal activity, to obtain evidence that will be used in the criminal process. In practice, the undercover investigator or collaborator may carry out activities to establish whether the crime of which a person or an organized criminal group is suspected has been committed, is in progress or in the preparatory phase, identification of members of the group of offenders, identification some accomplices, the identification of witnesses, the identification of the places where the goods from the crimes are hidden, the identification of the places where the victims of the crimes are, the specification of propitious moments for carrying out searches or arrests, etc.

An Overview of RPL Networks from the Viewpoint of Cybersecurity

An Overview of RPL Networks from the Viewpoint of Cybersecurity

Author(s): Cosmina STALIDI,Eduard-Cristian POPOVICI,George Suciu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: RPL; Contiki; COOJA; Security challenges; IoT;

In the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has had a significant impact on a global scale. The Internet of Things (IoT) has facilitated the interconnection of a vast number of devices in contemporary times. The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices underscores the importance of ensuring robust security measures to safeguard against potential threats. The RPL protocol has been specifically designed for routing purposes within the context of IoT devices, operating at the network layer. The exploitation of the RPL protocol poses a threat to IoT networks and has the potential to substantially affect network performance. This article introduces the STACK project, which aims to improve IoT transmission capabilities, identify and mitigate attacks using performance and interference monitoring, and use methods tightly integrated with an intelligent edge.

Enhancing the Security of Cryptographic Systems by Pseudo-Random Number Generation Algorithms

Enhancing the Security of Cryptographic Systems by Pseudo-Random Number Generation Algorithms

Author(s): Evelyn ENESCU / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: cybersecurity; encryption systems; hazard; Linear Congruential Generator; token;

Pseudo-random numbers play an indispensable role in the design of encryption systems, such as public and private key flow. The efficiency of crypto systems is directly proportional to the quality of the secret key generated using a random number generation algorithm. In this paper, the efficiency and applicability of a modified Linear Congruential Generator (LCG) type algorithm will be presented to increase the rate of occurrence of numbers and tend as much as possible to a truly random number. Moreover, it will be integrated into a graphical interface, which can later be integrated into the security of a larger application or even a website.