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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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DECISION MAKER IN A TURBULENTENVIRONMENT
Marzena JANKOWSKA - MIHUŁOWICZ
Innovations – Management – Administration
Publication language: Polish
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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.
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WALKING AROUND A REMIXED SPACE - VIRTUALITY AND REALITY IN MOVING AROUND THE CITY AND CRACOW MUSEUM
Małgorzata JELONEK
Virtualization of the Real World
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 13 May 2011
Abstract The contemporary space is a particular space, because it is remixed, as L. Manovich already wrote some time ago. A walker (flâneur) who has special "keys" in his hand is moving from reality to virtuality and vice versa. QR codes, telephones with Internet access and new media in the traditional space [...] Read more.
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VIRTUAL CITY TERRITORY OF NET-COMMUNICATION
Barbara WOLEK-KOCUR
Virtualization of the Real World
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 13 May 2011
Abstract Virtual cities are involved in a postmodern audiovisual and multimedial culture. They also change some language categories such as: receiver and sender of an announcement. Virtual cities create an imitation of urban life in a cybernetic reality. The Virtual society transfers some real social features [...] Read more.
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THE IMPACT OF VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS ON THE CONVERSATIONAL ATTRIBUTES OF E-LEARNING APPLICATIONS
Janusz JANCZYK
Virtualization of the Real World
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 13 May 2011
Abstract The objective of this paper is to present the research results regarding the impact of contemporary chatterbots on man and whether it is possible to change a conversation course between man and a chatterbot. Suitably prepared architecture based on a model of a human being and property corrected information [...] Read more.
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AN IT DAWN IN POLAND - OR PERHAPS IN THE GLOBAL WORLD?
Andrew S. TARGOWSKI
Information Society – Problems and Challenges
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 13 May 2011
Abstract The article is an attempt to describe the dawn of IT in Poland. Recalling prominent figures of Polish science, including those of the Polish school of mathematics, the author spins a story around the first Polish computers and retells the circumstances of the creation of the Institute of Mathematical [...] Read more.
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MEASURING DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFORMATION SECTOR, BASED ON THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
Dariusz T. DZIUBA
Information Society – Problems and Challenges
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 13 May 2011
Abstract In this paper the author presents the information sector concept in the forth-sector model of the national economy. The author proposes Information Sector Development Index, based on Human Development Index (UNDP). The author distinguishes and analyses four groups of countries – with: very high, high [...] Read more.
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THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM AND ITS OPERATION IN THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS
Jerzy KISIELNICKI
Information Society – Problems and Challenges
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 13 May 2011
Abstract The article is devoted to the problems of building the national system of scientific and technical information (KSINT) and its components. The article presents an analysis of the necessary solutions to build KSINT. Its construction requires the coordination and standardization of system components to [...] Read more.