Journal of Futures Studies, November 2006, 11(2): 35 60 It is widely accepted in the literature dealing with social and educational change, that the world is experiencing an information and technology revolution. Globally, more and more people are entering a "post-industrial, globalized, pan-capitalist" world and a "post-information" and "networked" society (Milojevic 2002: 166). Rapid changes ...

The management and coordination of business-process collaboration experiences changes because of globalization, specialization, and innovation. Service-oriented computing (SOC) is a means towards businessprocess automation and recently, many industry standards emerged to become part of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) stack. In a globalized world, organizations face new challenges for se...

Perhaps the least visible and understood experience in the academy is that of immigrant women of color This absence is connected to issues of power, privilege, discourse, and practices that silence nonwestern voices in an increasingly globalized world. This paper explores the creative tension immigrant women of color face as they try to negotiate identity and place in US higher education.

We consider the application of the globalized semismooth Newton method to the solution of (the KKT conditions of) quasi variational inequalities. We show that the method is globally and locally superlinearly convergent for some important classes of quasi variational inequality problems. We report numerical results to illustrate the practical behavior of the method.

Maintaining individualized relationships to high-valued customers becomes more and more important in increasingly globalized and transparent markets. This paper discusses the concept of trust and its relevance for retaining customers in E-commerce. A model for buyerseller relationship development processes is applied showing that different stages of a relationship to a customer require differen...