The aim of this paper is to provide a theory of the role trust plays in knowledge sharing processes, by exploiting a cognitive model of the goals and beliefs of an agent involved in the decision of passing and/or accepting knowledge, and a related model of the symmetrical or asymmetrical trust relationships within a group (Trust-Nets). This theory is based on the claim that trust is a fundament...

A student of children’s folkways, Italian author and teacher Lella Gandini is best known in the United States as the leading advocate for the Reggio Emilia approach to early-childhood education, which emerged after the Second World War in Northern Italy—in the town that gives this approach its name. Gandini’s many publications in English and Italian include volumes on early-childhood education ...

Communitarianism is a social philosophy that, in contrast to theories that emphasize the centrality of the individual, emphasizes the importance of society in articulating the good. Communitarianism is often contrasted with liberalism, a theory which holds that each individual should formulate the good on his or her own. Communitarians examine the ways shared conceptions of the good are formed,...

Prior to 1850, accounting information was used routinely by owner/ managers in two large, integrated manufacturing environments in the United States the Lowell cotton textiles mills and the Springfield Armory. In the textiles mills, accounting costs were assigned to products and product lines to facilitate make-or-bw, product pricing, and factory site selection decisions. At Springfield, produc...

Films depict the world and convey perspectives on it. The same can be said of the extensively well distributed James Bond film series which has been critically acclaimed and successful for the last several decades from “Dr. No” (1962) to “Spectre” (2015). In 2012, it celebrated its 50 anniversary and can be considered an especially influential cultural medium and a transmitter of cultural pract...

P rivacy is very important. Whatever it is. The debate on privacy is notable for the lack of agreement — what is it for, is it a good or a bad thing, a right or a preference? As philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson put it, “Perhaps the most striking thing about the right to privacy is that nobody seems to have any clear idea of what it is.”1 In a classic legal paper, William Prosser dismissed it a...

Approximately 9% to 10% of Americans have hearing loss, making it the second most common disability in the United States. Regardless of hearing loss level, persons who are deaf or hard of hearing (D&HH) have altered health care utilization patterns and significant communication difficulties with physicians, often experiencing misunderstandings about their disease or treatment recommendations. T...

BACKGROUND : Healthcare providers must deliver efficient and cost-effective care while continuously assessing user-focused outcomes to make appropriate improvements. Patient satisfaction is an important variable in the evaluation of psychiatric services, which complements the measurement of other outcome variables. Previous research suggests a strong link between satisfaction and the effectiven...

This paper examines the e-learning strategies adopted by universities, from the perspective of three common objectives: widening access to educational opportunity; enhancing the quality of learning; and reducing the cost of higher education. The discussion is illustrated by drawing on case studies of universities in Europe and the United States. It is concluded that the most striking characteri...