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(P)oszukiwanie tożsamości: cztery studia o angielskim Oświeceniu

Author(s): Paweł T. Dobrowolski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2016

The book consists of introduction and four chapters, each being an independent albeit interconnected study related to the issues of emerging English/British modern identity. Conclusion and full bibliography follow. The common motives of each study revolve around the practices of constructing modern cultural and social identity, by means of affirmation or impersonation. The first three chapters deal with the shifting British cultural patterns – the meaning of masquerades and gender-related issues - often viewed against contemporary Europen context. In the last essay, which is embedded in current historiography on penal deportation the statistically presented data and conclusions belong also to the domain of economic history.The choice of literature is comprehensive. The rich and perceptive choice of illustrations, which visualise the text allow the reader to imagine many of the dramatis personae.

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A Comparative Study of Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship between Polish and British Students

Author(s): Michał Chmielecki,Robert Seliga / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Background Entrepreneurship continues to gain momentum as a significant and relevant field of research. Policy makers in the rush to stimulate entrepreneurship in various countries, often rely on the success stories and prescriptions documented in the entrepreneurship literature in which most studies are set in the United States. Research aims The article present exploratory study addresses the subject of cross-cultural differences in attitudes towards entrepreneurship by focusing attention on two particular types of cultures of entrepreneurship British and Polish. Method The quantitative research (survey) was conducted in May 2014 among 153 Polish and 94 British graduate and postgraduate management students. Key findings The findings have some distinctive implications for government, policy makers and educators through determining the attitudes towards entrepreneurship among students.

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A Defining Moment - Transnational Nursing Education

Author(s): Nirmala Arunasalam / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2017

A DEFINING MOMENT, Transnational Nursing Education by Dr Nirmala ARUNASALAM is a competent and accessible text focusing on nurse education. Recommended for teaching and learning as well as pedagogical courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is a must have and a must read in a world of “pseudo factum knowledge” where social and human oriented professions and scientific disciplines such as nursing are getting little attention. The depth of the background for this study, and the intimate self-reflection Dr Arunasalam provides for this monograph greatly enhances the quality of the study. This book is an insightful exploration of an example of transnational higher education which identified some key questions that need to be asked about such programmes.

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A kultúra közjó

Author(s): Virág Buka,Kristóf Nagy / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 27/2020

This article focuses on the emergence of the paradigm of solidarity economy and of the commons in the field of professional cultural production. We unfold the possible mutual cooperation of cultural producers and commoning social movements by examining the case studies of the Resonate music streaming co-op and of the Dutch Stad in de Maak housing-initiative. The case of the Resonate exemplifies how cultural producers can reorganize their industry in a cooperative way to hinder capitalist value extraction. Another type of encounter takes place between culture and commons when cultural producers utilize their knowledge and skills in various solidarity economy projects. We demonstrate this possibility through the case of the Rotterdam-based Stad in the Maak, where the artist-architect founders launched a long-term community housing initiative.

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A SZABADKAI JOGI KAR MAGYAR HALLGATÓINAK SZÁMA, DEMOGRÁFIAI JELLEMZŐI ÉS TANULMÁNYI EREDMÉNYEI

Author(s): Zoltán Mészáros / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2020

This study was written after I found new sources among the archival material in the Historical Archive of Subotica, more precisely 9 boxes with documents. Their length is slightly larger than a continuous meter (1.08 m ). In them I found the enrollment forms of 106 new Hungarian students, and their personal files were added too. Based on that fact we can conclude that approximately 447 Hungarian students studied at the Faculty of Law in Subotica, of which, according to our previous knowledge, 71 graduated, or 15.9% of the enrolled Hungarian students. The oldest student was born in 1879, and the youngest in 1922. In Zagreb, the percentage of graduates was much more favorable, which was probably the reason for the attractiveness of Zagreb among the inhabitants of Vojvodina. Unfortunately, I noticed the boxes with the archive material only after the publication of the book edited by academician Tibor Várady, so I changed the numbers in the light of the new data. When examining the documents of the Faculty of Law in Subotica I first reviewed the enrollment forms from 65 boxes, to which I later added data from 9 subsequently discovered boxes. Unfortunately, I had no choice but to recalculate the statistics after the manuscript was completed, since the number of 341 students originally found was modified after 106 students were subsequently discovered, although all this did not greatly change the overall picture. In addition, it is important that there is a trace of that modification somewhere, if for objective reasons a corrected study could not be found in the book. Unfortunately, our past is not sufficiently protected, few people research it, so it is especially important to continue with repeated attempts and to correct mistakes and omissions. This study was also written in that spirit.

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Accounting challenges for sustainability and innovations

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2021

The aim of this e-book is to present the most important aspects related to sustainability, corporate social responsibility and innovation from an accounting perspective. The book contains parts that deal with accounting aspects of sustainability and innovations. The book consists of ten chapters devoted to relevant and topical issues of sustainability and innovations. Chapter 1 'Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in accounting' is an introduction to further considerations and deals with the essence of sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and their recognition in accounting. Chapter 2 'Social responsibility reporting standards' presents the most important reporting guidance such as GRI, OECD, United Nations Global Compact, International Organization for Standardization. Chapter 3 'Narrative reporting' focuses on descriptions and explanations in accounting reports. The chapter presents the links between accounting and language, the development of accounting narratives and the factors determining the use of narratives. Chapter 4 'Integrated reporting' discusses the motivations, objectives and the process of preparing an integrated report. Integrated reporting can prove to be an effective tool for businesses looking to shift their reporting focus from annual financial performance to long-term shareholder value creation. Chapter 5 'Non-financial reporting' in selected European countries presents the experience of Croatia, the Czech Republic and Poland in the field of preparing non-financial reports. A significant contribution to promoting the importance of sustainability reporting was made by the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (2014/95/EU). Chapter 6 'Socially responsible investments' discusses the essence of socially responsible investing and socially responsible investment. Socially responsible investing (SRI) is a decision making process concerning the allocation of free financial resources, where the investor aims at maximization of profit and minimization of risk on one part and includes the socio-ethical and environmental-ecological considerations on the other. Chapter 7 'External costs – accounting perspective' describes costs connected with using goods such as air, soil, water, silence or the aesthetics of the surroundings. One of the biggest problems for accounting in the future will be measuring the volume of using these goods or measuring the size of reduction in the quality of public goods suffered and assigning the decrease to particular companies. Chapter 8 'Derivatives in accounting' is devoted to financial instruments and presents two different approaches to accounting of derivatives: general model and hedge accounting. Derivatives are used to protect the enterprise against financial risk related to changes in prices on the markets, changes in the exchange rate or changes in interest rates, as well as for commercial purposes. Chapter 9 'Costs of research and development' shows the company's activity in the field of research and development and the related costs. R&D constitute an increasingly important element of the functioning of enterprises. Chapter 10 'Cryptoassets – nature, valuation and disclosures in accounting' focuses on cryptocurrencies (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.) and digital tokens which are specific rights or values representatives. As a result of the transformation on the financial market, we are currently dealing with cryptoassets, which are a creation of blockchain technologies and the changing habits of the digital society. One of areas that there are a lot of doubts regarding these new technological solutions is accounting.

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Advances in Contemplative Social Research

Author(s): Krzysztof T. Konecki / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2018

This book is unique and audacious, and fits very well with current tendencies within qualitative research. It introduces new, fresh threads to questions and concerns that are highly significant for contemporary social sciences. The formulated conclusions go beyond directly methodological issues, posing key philosophical questions to the whole project of Western sociology.Grażyna WoronieckaFrom the review of the bookDeep contemplation of the situation could be the epistemological choice for social scientists. It is a fundamentally different approach to the research, where the investigator is researching the object but also the situation of research and her-self/him-self. Contemplating is a dual way of the approaching the truth. It does not mean that the researcher is mentally divided; just the opposite, she/he wants to be complete and achieve the unity of being as a researcher-human being and an element of the situation (psycho-social and historical). Contemplating enables researchers to see how the mind works and creates the images and reports from the field – what is available for the mind and what is silent or repressed because of the dominating rhetoric of description and rhetoric of feeling?... Contemplation is not only analysis, it is also an ethical choice of stopping here and now to see the situation clearly and reporting it with the all reservations that could be the result of the mindfully-observed interaction of mind, self, and situation at one historical moment.From the Introduction

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Affective Well-Being of Private Sector Employees in Slovakia

Author(s): Miriam Martinkovičová,Miroslava Knapíková,Alena Kascakova / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

Affective Well-Being of Private Sector Employees in Slovakia. The primary aim of the paper is to present selected results of an original representative survey of the use of time in Slovak households, in which one of the methods of determining the affective component of subjective well-being was used for the first time in Slovakia. Based on the recommendations of the harmonized research on the use of time, we identified extremely positive emotion (happiness) by the means of 24-hour monitoring of the allocation and use of time for paid work, unpaid work and leisure time during the working day and free day. For this contribution, we selected those respondents who are private sector employees. We evaluated and processed the perception of the affective component of subjective well-being (SWB) in terms of age categories of employees, gender, and household category. The research has shown that the hedonic component of SWB, meaning an extremely positive emotion, is the most common among employees in the 25-49 age group at performing unpaid work activities during the working day. Employed women perform more unpaid work and they feel more positive emotions during its performance than working men. Employees living in households with children up to 15 years of age feel more positive emotions at performing unpaid work activities than employees without young children. On the other hand, employees living in households without children (up to 15 years of age) experience more positive emotions during leisure time activities.

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Akademska čestitost studenata – preduvjet gospodarskog razvoja

Author(s): Rudolf Kiralj / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 14/2020

Students’ honesty is a key element in the context of academic honesty, when taking into consideration that the share of academically educated persons is in permanent increase. Students are the future moving power of the society; they are the part of the population that will significantly influence the society on the whole and its socio-economic development, including the younger generations. The paper analyses eight groups of data on the constant growth of students’ dishonesty in the world, and particularly in the USA, the United Kingdom and Sweden. Over the last two decades, a significant increase has been recorded. The situation in Croatia has been compared with these trends on the basis of the data gained by studying various sources from literature and the internet, as well as several estimates. As a result, the following students’ dishonesty indices have been defined: average (IC0) and maximal (IC1) cheating at exams, and average (IP0) and maximal (IP1) plagiarism. The indices mainly follow global trends, whilst over the last two decades, the average percentage of students engaging in dishonest activities has been alarmingly high: 64 % (IC0); 76 % (IC1); 33 % (IP0) and 77 % (IP1). Data according to five socio-economic indices have been collected and estimated: GDP (gross domestic product per capita), HDI (human development index), GII (global innovation index), CPI (corruption perception index), and EI (education index). By the means of weighing correlation and regression, it has been determined that IC0, IC1, IP0 and IP1 are different indices; that IP0 and IP1 do not correlate well with time and the socio-economic variables due to an insufficient quantity of data on students’ plagiarism; that IC0 and IC1 correlate well with time, GDP, HDI and EI. Furthermore, IC0 and IC1 have modestly decreased over the last several years; and IP0 and IP1 have demonstrated no decrease at all. The dependence of IC0 and IC1 on GDP, HDI and EI has been presented by two sigmoid curves, with a minor increase around 1980, and a major around 2010. Since students’ dishonesty and its growth have been socially determined, the culture itself ought to be changed – from the culture of profit, competition and success to the culture of knowledge and responsibility, with pronounced social and moral components of the socio-economic development.

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AMI ÁTALAKUL...

Author(s): Imre Hallgató / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2020

In our fast-paced world, it often happens to us that we pass by a building or a work of art day by day without even noticing it. We may have never even addressed the question of why the building was built or since when it has been located there. In the last year we have been hearing more and more about the reconstruction and modernization of the Belgrade‒Budapest railway. The railroad built in the 19th century is now "obsolete". It is part of one of the most important railways in Europe.

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An Analysis on the Trust in Media Politics

Author(s): Ibrahim FEVZIOGLU,Fevzi KASAP / Language(s): English / Issue: 70/2020

Debates over trust in media politics have constantly engaged developed or developing countries over the years. As a result of misleading and/or biased attitude of most of the media politics organisations, audience trust in media politics is affected negatively. This study investigates the trust in media politics according to the educational level of adults living in Northern Cyprus (TRNC). The scope of the study focuses on several questions such as which mass communication media politics or what type of news in addition to remarks on audience trust in Northern Cyprus based media politics news. The study discusses the degree of audience trust depending on the media politics organisations and type of news they follow.

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Around the Bloc: Russian Officials Deny Burning ‘Undesirable’ Books

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/19/2016

Mining college says it removed Soros Foundation books from its library but none were burned.

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Artyści modernistyczni jako mniejszość

Author(s): Gabriela Matuszek / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

In the text Modernist artists as a minority G. Matuszek tries to apply the category of minorities to artistic groups, focusing primarily on the situation of artists of early modernism captured in broader contexts. The author shows that artistic environments are often in a “minority situation”, although this minority fulfills only some elements of the ‘hard’ definitions. Psychological dimension plays a significant role here — the subjective feeling of ‘being a minority’ and the expression of distinctiveness, and the linking factors include recognizing the world in the state of crisis, alienation and (self)exclusion, anthropological similarity (theories of higher evolutionary development) etc

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AUTONOMIA W KONTEKŚCIE ORIENTACJI PRZEDSIĘBIORCZEJ: WYMIAR ORGANIZACYJNY I INDYWIDUALNY

Author(s): Jarosław Karpacz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2016

The aim of the article is to present the arguments whether the autonomy should be regarded as one of the dimensions of the entrepreneurial orientation or rather as its antecedence. There were two levels of considerations: individual and organizational. The specialist literature showed alternative role of the autonomy in the researches on entrepreneurial orientation. On the one hand, it is treated as one of the components of the orientation of the organization. On the other hand, it is recognized as the antecedence of entrepreneurial orientation. The presented considerations serve as a basis for further discussion.

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Bieg z przeszkodami. Ambiwalencje sukcesu artystycznego w poszerzonym polu kultury

Author(s): Krzysztof Stachura / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2020

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the ambivalent character of success in the social world of artists. The analysis is conducted taking into account the context of the broadened field of culture, and special attention is paid to the set of meanings that artists attach to success. Much of the discussion revolves around the significance of the transformation of the field of culture for artists’ adaptation strategies. In consequence, the paper deals with the reconstruction of managing artist careers while taking into consideration their precarious experiences in the field of arts. Empirical material is used to depict the difficulties and doubts regarding reaching success in art worlds as well as to explain the determinants of the defensive and compensative strategy of managing success. As a result, conclusions are drawn concerning the means artists use to hack the rules of the game in the broadened field of culture.

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Children's University Activities as Implementation of the Third Mission of Higher Education Institution

Author(s): Mariana Mateeva Petrova,Lyubomira Popova,Dorota Dejniak / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

Dynamic changes in all spheres of the modern world are the cause of many challenges in the educational process. Higher education carries out the third mission through extensive cooperation with the surrounding socio-economic environment. Many educational initiatives relate to support for various social and age groups. Support for children's education is the implementation of the university's social responsibility. This activity is of great value in the sphere of promotion for universities. The idea of children's universities is implemented in many countries and will develop in the coming years. The exchange of ideas and good practices presented in the article between the universities of Bulgaria and Poland cooperating under the Erasmus + project, helped to develop the idea of a children's university. Based on the experience of two universities, the implementation of the third mission of the university in the field of activities supporting children's education was shown.

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Contemporary Trends of Professional Training Specialists in the Economic Field at Higher Education Institutions of Poland and Ukraine

Author(s): Nadezhda Chernukha,Alla Zagorodnya,Mariana Mateeva Petrova / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

The purpose of the study is to identify the main tendencies of professional training of specialists in the economic field in higher education institutions of the Republic of Poland and Ukraine. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the problem, the methodology of the research is based on a complex-integrative combination of theoretical approaches of a number of sciences, in particular pedagogy, psychology, as well as general scientific methods of system analysis, synthesis, abstraction, generalization and under. Results - common modern tendencies of professional training of economic specialists in higher education institutions of the Republic of Poland and Ukraine (diversification of educational services; mass education of higher education; modernization of vocational training; humanitarianization of vocational education; internationalization of students and undergraduate students; transition from traditional concepts of vocational training to innovative; improvement of pedagogical component of higher education), and in values of different trends in training (training globalization, invigorating training, decentralization of management of the education system). Conclusions - Taking into account the mentality, conditions, time and task sof higher education institutions of Ukraine and in order to reach world standards, a number of important steps should be taken to improve the system of higher economic education of Ukraine. Therefore, it is advisable to introduce a system of professional training of specialists in the economic sector; the link between training and continuity between theoretical training and the conditions for its practical implementation; passing different types of practice in leading financial institutions and enterprises of Ukraine and EU countries; development of academic and professional mobility; creation of research universities with the involvement of leading foreign experts.

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Could Business Organizations Simulate the Brain’s Implicit Learning Process? And Apply That to Strategic Thinking?

Author(s): M S S El Namaki / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

This paper draws the parallel between the processes of learning in the human brain with strategic thinking in business organisations. It also suggests implicit learning as a possible element within the cognitive functions of artificial intelligence. Five case examples are provided to illustrate innovative strategic thinking with the use of Big Data.

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Creating High-Performance Organizations in Asia: Issues to Consider

Author(s): André de Waal / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

In recent decades the Asian continent has gained in economic importance. This advancement has not been without its problems. Therefore, in order to stay competitive, Asian companies need to transform themselves into high-performance organizations (HPO). This means that they need to know the factors that will make them world-class. This paper described the application of the HPO Framework, a holistic and scientifically validated framework for creating HPOs which has earlier been used successfully at several Asian companies where it was used to identify main organizational areas which have to be strengthened in order for these organizations to become HPOs. In this paper we investigate, based on data collected at organizations in multiple Asian countries, what the main issues are for Asian organizations which they need to address in order to become truly high performing.

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CSR w programach kształcenia przyszłych menedżerów – przyczynek empiryczny

Author(s): Agnieszka Bobola / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 7.3/2016

The objective of the present work is the analysis and assessment of the level of education in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for the management of selected universities in Poland. The methods used were literature preliminary research as well as analysis and assessment of documents from the websites of universities. The survey was conducted in April 2016. On the basis of the conclusions drawn indicating a large diversified in terms of how the education of students at different levels of study. Only 5 of the surveyed universities next managers allowed systematic expansion of knowledge of CSR (first degree, second degree studies and postgraduate studies).

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