Technological and Organisational Change: A Challenge to Eastern Europe

Europe and the Challenge of Energy Security: Limitations and Strategies

The increasing dependence of European Union member countries on imported oil and gas has led to concerns about energy supply and security.  At the same time the share of clean energy in Europe’s energy consumption basket is increasing due to environmental issues. About a quarter of all energy consumption in the EU is natural gas, and most EU member states import almost all of their energy resou...

Organisational Culture and the Management of Technological Change: A Theoretical Perspective

The modern business environment is characterised by constant economic upheaval and incessant technological changes and the pace of change has accelerated with the emergence of the Internet. Consequently the management of technological change has become a major challenge for almost all organisations. Increasingly researchers have refocused their attention from planned models of change management...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Technological Change and Technological Strategy

The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications

The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications Previous empirical literature has shown that technological change can be considered the main cause of the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last decades. However, recent papers have also introduced th...