in this article, i compare william faulkner's as i lay dying and sadeq chubak’s the patient ‎stone ‎with respect to the theme of death and from the perspective of existentialism. i argue that ‎despite ‎faulkner’s influence on chubak and similarities in their writings, the iranian modernist novel ‎presents ‎intellectual and aesthetic nuances catering to the domestic material circumstances o...

This paper seeks to develop a literature-based perspective on intellectual property from the standpoint of business strategy and strategic human resource management. Distinctive competitive advantage is increasingly built on a firm’s knowledge, one of the principal ingredients of intellectual capital. Competitive capability is strongly influenced by the organisation’s ability to develop, differ...

Based on two different but complementary cases – the ‘mixed media case’ (architectural design work) and the ’wireless call system case’ (hospital work) – we argue that taking advantage of the potential that configurable systems offer may require attention to several ‘qualities of use’. Here we provide further elaboration of the concept of configurability, which we have suggested elsewhere (Balk...

In this paper, we propose and discuss four fitness features considered as essential for developing personal learning environments (PLE) that are viable and ready for appropriation.