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Crowdsourcing: A remarkable trend in the global innovation processes

Over the past two decades, innovation has gone through dramatic changes: unknown types of innovation have emerged and the innovation process itself is taking place in an unusual manner. New players entering the scene, and the role of innovation in the economy being re-evaluated. In our present study we focus on the issues of crowdsourcing by connecting that new form of innovation to another forms of it as well as to the economic system as a whole. We not just descript that new innovation category but also analyze the reasons of its emerge and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this...

Energy, space, and society: a reassessment of the changing landscape of energy production, distribution, and use

Calvert K and Simandan D (2010) Energy, space, and society: a reassessment of the changing landscape of energy production, distribution, and use Journal of Economics and Business Research XVI(1), pp. 13-37. ABSTRACT: While geography has always mattered for the energy sector, the relative effects of location and distance on the economics of energy regimes are increasing as we begin to deploy more renewable energy technologies. This reintroduction of the friction of distance is leading to an energy landscape that is far different from fossil-based regimes. The new energy paradigm, based as...

Putting philosophy back to work in Critical Discourse Analysis. Talib & Fitzgerald (2018). Critical Discourse Studies.

This paper explores how philosophical inquiry and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) can mutually benefit from each other to produce new methodological and reflexive directions in neo-liberal policy research to examine the phenomenon of ‘What is (going on here)’. Through this we argue that augmenting linguistic analysis with philosophical perspectives develops and supports CDA scholarship more broadly by accommodating the shifting complexity of social problems of ideologically driven inequality that are inbuilt through, in our case, social policy texts. In discussing...

Micro–meso–macro movements; a multi-level critical discourse analysis framework to examine metaphors and the value of truth in policy texts. Talib & Fitzgerald (2016). Critical Discourse Studies.

This paper presents detailed methods for constructing a flexible philosophical–analytical model through which to apply the analytic principles of CDA for the interpretation of metaphors across policy texts. Drawing on a theoretical framing from Foucault and the augmentation of Nietzsche’s views on valuation, we sketch a framework for examining ways in which evaluative semantic categories can be linked to sociological theories in order to bring out their relevance for the purpose of critical discourse analysis. This multi-level research framework draws upon a relationship between language...

Rediscovering an Old Relationship: Taiwan and Southeast Asia's Long, Shared History

Contemporary impressions of Taiwan’s relations with Southeast Asia tend to focus on flows of labor, capital, tourism, and marriage. Countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand carry the impression that they are the origins of cheap, sometimes easily exploitable, migrant labor for employers in Taiwan. Many people in Taiwan also see the former two countries as sources of brides for lower-income men. These same countries, along with Cambodia and, to a lesser degree, Malaysia, are locations where Taiwanese capital is invested in factories for low-cost labor, proximity to...

Potentialities of 2018 Myanmar

After the 2015 general election, National League for Democracy (NLD) government led the county. NLD government is facing many difficulties such as untoward of peace, stagnation economy and unable to edit of 2008 Myanmar Constitution. The Four Eight Party (8888) arise with highly expectation of people for midterm election (2018) but if they are not able to fill the needs of people again, ethnic parties will lead in the future of politic and never appear again the land slide win party in the future elections. That can be crisis for shaping politic and economy power by union government....

Smartphone use undermines enjoyment of face-to-face social interactions

Using a field experiment and experience sampling, we found the first evidence that phone use may undermine the enjoyment people derive from real-world social interactions. In Study 1, we recruited over 300 community members and students to share a meal at a restaurant with friends or family. Participants were randomly assigned to keep their phones on the table or to put their phones away during the meal. When phones were present (vs. absent), participants felt more distracted, which reduced how much they enjoyed spending time with their friends/family. We found consistent results using...

The Economic Impact of Landmines in Nagorno Karabakh: A Causal Analysis using Instrumental Variables

Vector error correction model in explaining the association of some macroeconomic variables in Romania

The purpose of this article is to empirically analyze the long and short runs association of some macroeconomic variables in Romania. Variables used across regression include foreign direct investments (FDI), imports, exports, GDP and labour and we also take into account some economic and financial crisis' influence on these. In order to establish this influence, a dummy was used for the 2008-2012 intsb erval. Then, all variables were found to be integrated of order one I (I). Cointegration was performed under Johansen test and a VECM was applied according to its result. Our model results...