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TECHNOLOGY – VALUES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Some Reflections on Changing Relations, Meanings and Social Practices)
Lech W. ZACHER
UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 12 May 2016
Abstract Narratives concerning technology and values relations requires an in-depth analysis of these two categories and also their contextualization. In social practice technology and values undergo significant changes, often revolutionary. They take systemic forms and they interact with each other. Since the [...] Read more.
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METHODOLOGICAL ANARCHISM AND ITS COGNITIVE VALUE
Magdalena SZPUNAR
Transformacje cywilizacyjne – między wiedzą, wrażliwością i wyobraźnią socjologiczną
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022, Publication date: 30 March 2022
Abstract The aim of the article is to present the basic assumptions of Paul K. Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism. The article presents the value of methodological anarchism for the cognitive process, methodology and development of science, as well as the controversies associated with the application of [...] Read more.
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RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE WORLD SYSTEM – BETWEEN THE OLD DRIVING FORCES AND NEW NETWORKS
Lech W. ZACHER
Global Problems – Future – Politics – Values
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 13 November 2013
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OBSTACLES TO SUSTAINABILITY – IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE (the Case of a Transitional Economy – Poland)
Lech W. ZACHER
National Cases Augmented
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract Requirements for the sustainability in economy and society should be tailored to a given country or region. General models which often dominate in academic discourse are an important part of necessary social knowledge (of decision makers, media, NGOs etc.). They are formulated in universally relevant [...] Read more.
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DRIVERS’ ANONYMITY AS THE PREDICTOR OF DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR IN TRAFFIC
Antoni WONTORCZYK
Human Life –Transformations of Culture
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 17 October 2011
Abstract In the presented article the author discusses the problem of driver anonymity. In traffic and transport psychology there only exists one model explaing drivers anger based on the traditional de-individuation theory. The traditional de-individuation model has suggested that anonymity within a group leads [...] Read more.
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HYBRIDIZATION AND EDUCATION
Monika MICZKA-PAJESTKA
Transformations of Education
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 17 October 2011
Abstract In the article the question of postmodern hybridisation has been debated and analysed. The specifics of shaping reality in the field of education are indicated. Consideration was given to the problem of the human increase of participation in different forms of social life, and thus the possible use [...] Read more.
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PRESENT AND FUTURE CONTEXTS OF EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT
Lech W. ZACHER
Transformations of Education
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 17 October 2011
Abstract There are two approaches to the development of education. One relies mostly on postulates, hopes, even utopias. The second – more realistic – is based on trends’ analysis and on human proactivity. Models of educational discourse are connected with our mindsets and our Weltanschauung and last but not [...] Read more.
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POLITICS VS. ADMINISTRATION IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGE – CASE OF POLISH CIVIL SERVICE
Marek SZCZEPAŃSKI
Innovations – Management – Administration
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 16 October 2011
Abstract The article concerns the specificity of changes happening to Polish public administration in recent years. The changes arise from the particular link between administration and politics. The selected aspects of civil servantspoliticians relation that may have an influence on the process of changes in [...] Read more.
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THE CONCEPTION OF GOVERNANCE AS A NEW PARADIGM IN MANAGEMENT OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Aldona WIKTORSKA-ŚWIĘCKA
Innovations – Management – Administration
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 16 October 2011
Abstract With the growing debate on governance a few specialized research areas were established, including regional governance. This concept defines a complex structure of the management structure in the region. The concept of regional governance (translated into Polish: multi-level governance and management [...] Read more.
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THE REENGINEERING IN FORMING THE GLOBAL ORGANIZATION
Bogdan EKSTOWICZ
Innovations – Management – Administration
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 16 October 2011
Abstract In the last two decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, globalization of the world considerable accelerated. This became possible due to scientific and technical progress, the development of the communication and transport, the dynamic processes of European integration as well as [...] Read more.
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DECISION MAKER IN A TURBULENTENVIRONMENT
Marzena JANKOWSKA - MIHUŁOWICZ
Innovations – Management – Administration
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 16 October 2011
Abstract The main purpose of this paper is to present the determinants of a turbulent environment as a decision situation (including the macro-, competitive environment and internal conditions of enterprises). Moreover, one of the objectives was to present an evaluation of environment features (in the past, [...] Read more.
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LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND ITS ABILITY FOR CONSTANT ADAPTATION AND CHANGE
Lilla MŁODZIK
Innovations – Management – Administration
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 16 October 2011
Abstract Particularly favorable conditions for the development of knowledge management concepts has occurred in the 1990s. Market globalization, competitive technology, requirement for rapid response to change, change of approach to customers, shorter life of product, development of IT technologies, and numerous [...] Read more.
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RESEARCH ON INNOVATION IN ENTERPRISES - DIMENSIONS OF SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Małgorzata SUCHACKA
Innovations – Management – Administration
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 16 October 2011
Abstract The main aim of this article is to analyse dimensions of innovation in enterprises from a sociological perspective. In the theoretical part the author proposed five dimensions of analysis for innovation in enterprises: theoretical, organizational, regional, institutional and cultural. In the empirical [...] Read more.
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SUPPORTING THE INNOVATIVENESS OF ENTERPRISES THROUGH RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN PARTNERS
Jerzy BARUK
Innovations – Management – Administration
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 16 October 2011
Abstract In this publication the author discusses the following issues: 1) The characterization of the management paradigm based on the cocreation value, 2) The results of empirical research into the commonness of using of international activities supporting innovations in the member states of the European [...] Read more.