Economic Diplomacy as A Subject and Research Agenda: Practical, Conceptual and Methodological Issue

Systems and Conceptual Modeling — A Research Agenda

Within the information systems field, the task of conceptual modeling involves building a representation of selected phenomena in some domain. High-quality conceptualmodeling work is important because it facilitates early detection and correction of system development errors. It also plays an increasingly important role in activities like business process reengineering and documentation of best...

Digitalization and Sports Sponsorship Strategy: A Review and Research Agenda

Background. The sports industry has been transformed through digitalization processes. One traditional area of sports marketing strategy that has changed significantly is sponsorship. Objectives. To reveal how digitalization has impacted sports sponsorship strategies according to the findings of academic articles in leading sports management journals. In light of the dramatic transformation of...

Conceptual Design of Software: A Research Agenda

A research agenda in software design is outlined, focusing on the role of concepts. The notions of concepts as “abstract affordances” and of conceptual integrity are discussed, and a series of small examples of conceptual models is given. What is Conceptual Integrity? In the field of software design, there is little agreement to be found amongst experts over exactly how software should be struc...

Nonstationary nature of the brain activity as revealed by EEG/MEG: Methodological, practical and conceptual challenges

Revealing the functional meaning of EEG and MEG signals’ nonstationarity and metastability is one of the major topics in current brain research. Indeed, the explicit quasi-stationary phenomena in the activity of large neuronal populations are still largely unknown. However, the fast dynamics of quasi-stationary episodes in EEG/MEG signal, together with rapid transitive periods between them, fit...

Climate Science and Policy Research Conceptual and Methodological Challenges