Notes on Staffordshire Folklore

Management Folklore and Management Science – on Portfolio Planning, Escalation Bias, and Such Research on Management Folklore

Management folklore sometimes leads to unprofitable decision making. Thus, studies of the value of such folklore should be of interest to managers, especially when they identify unprofitable procedures. I reviewed empirical research on scientific publishing and concluded that studies supporting management folklore are likely to be favorably reviewed for publication and to be cited. However, res...

Running head: Folklore-based Learning Folklore-based Learning on the Web---Pedagogy, Case Study and Evaluation

1 1 Abstract Folklore-based learning is a kind of situated learning paradigm in which students learn by solving problems embedded in a near-real situation. The proposed learning approach employs further interesting story plots from folklores as the background situation to motivate students to participate in learning activities. It is believed that such a paradigm has, on one hand, the advantage...

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Implementing digital folklore collections

In this paper, we present a metadata model to describe the digitized digital folklore collection of the Department of Greek Studies in the University of Athens. Folklore collection consists of different kinds of digitized material. The volume and the variety of material results to collection representation as a hierarchical structure, according to the type of objects, the corresponding chronolo...