Landscape can be explained both fro� positivistic and constructivistic positions. Confusion and contradictions around the landscape paradig� arise fro� different definitions (e.g. geoco�plex versus cultural landscape), the role of landscape boundaries and landscape classifications. �he deli�itation and classification of (natural) landscape units in Saxony (Ger�any), the concept of landscape fun...

Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...

As the rapid development of open source software (OSS) has deeply impacted global software industry, government agencies in different countries all over the world have started to realize the huge potentials of OSS application. Based on the TOE framework for organizational level IT/IS adoption, this paper proposes a conceptual model for examining the adoption of open source software in the gover...

models (graphs, maps, and trees), which might be interpreted themselves only later. However, if these models are not preceded by interpretations that instruct us what to look for, then we must start from as many starting points as possible. This is how the problem of the enormous number of texts to be read, thrown out the window, so to speak, creeps back through the chimney as the problem of th...

In this paper we examine the nature of the competences needed for promoting innovation and change. Taking our experiences as the starting point, we examined the literature and interviewed managers and those responsible for innovation in enterprises and discovered that our research findings contradict the simplistic view of innovation facilitation and management material in the work place. Our r...

This article aims to examine the impact of academic supervision and pedagogic competence on teacher performance at State Junior High Schools in Ulaweng District, Bone Regency. type research is ex-post facto with a positivistic-quantitative approach. Respondents this study were 56 teachers Regency as whole through saturated sample. The data collection method used questionnaire. Questionnaires di...

This paper examines the diverse nature of user reactions to information technology (IT) within the social-historical context of its organizational use. Employing activity theory as a conceptual framework, we conduct an interpretive analysis of physicians work, perceptions, and IT usage experience at a large community hospital to understand why some of these physicians were favorably disposed to...

Qualitative research comes with various forms and faces, and, fortunately, there now exist numerous books that deal with issues related to qualitative research. Not that many books, however, deal explicitly and extensively with the transformation and application of principles of phenomenology and hermeneutics. Reflective Lifeworld Research is written as a response to this apparent need. It is, ...

Debate currently exists on the soundness of various research methodologies in the social sciences. In the present paper, this question is addressed in relation to the emerging discipline of occupational science. First, the discipline of occupational science is defined. Next, two competing methodologies--Paradigm 1, Positivistic, and Paradigm 2, Naturalistic--are contrasted. The criteria of genu...