Industry has to comply with non-proliferation regulations by all means. Our corporate responsibility however, goes far beyond pure legal compliance: The essence of our endeavours is selftriggered caution and restraint towards questionable business while maintaining a trusting partnership with governmental authorities and international institutions. The only pragmatic solution to prevent WMD and...

The seven stages in the development and growth of the consciousness of an organisation are summarized in the following table, and described in detail in the following paragraphs. The model applies to all types of organisations—corporations, government departments, municipal agencies, institutions, non‐governmental organisations (NGO), and educational establishments. The focus of this table is o...

The most apparent proof of changes in the public sector because of modern information and communication technologies are electronic services like general onlineinformation procurement or various inquiry possibilities which are made available to citizens by administration authorities and political institutions. Electronic Government causes an improvement of the relationship between administratio...

Health care is one of the fastest growing areas in terms of care, treatment and the exploitation of new technology in Slovenia. There is a great need for new approaches ensuring that education and work of health care professionals will be built upon the state of the art in nursing. As a consequence the educational, governmental and "industrial" institutions from Slovenia, UK, Italy and Greece h...

"Governmental authority and civil society are increasingly threatened by transnational networks of crime, narcotics, money laundering and terrorism. Access by underworld groups to sophisticated information technologies and weaponry as well as to the various instrumentalities through which the global market economy functions is vastly increasing the potential power and influence of these groups,...

The Academy of Surgical Research (ASR) is an international organization that promotes the advancement of professional and academic standards, education, and research in the arts and sciences of experimental surgery. The Academy interfaces with medical and scientific organizations and governmental agencies in establishing and reviewing ethics, theories, practices, and research pertaining to surg...

Governmental institutions all over the world are trying to increase the level of security of their countries emphasizing the usage Information Technology solutions. We believe that Cloud Computing may strongly help Homeland Security, since it offers a very flexible support for organizing and managing heterogeneous systems, providing huge amount of processing, storing and sensing resources. In t...

Available online xxxx Using insights from institutional theory, sociology, and entrepreneurship we develop and test a model of the relationship between centralized and decentralized institutions on entrepreneurial activity. We suggest that both decentralized institutions that are socially determined as well as centralized institutions that are designed by governmental authorities are important ...

International Lending Institutions (ILIs) and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) continuously design and implement Educational System Typologies (ESTs) in order to evaluate a nation’s educational performance in terms of quality of life improvements; Traditional ESTs are therefore constantly put at odds by the advent of new ESTs. This study aims to explore the ways in which traditional and ne...

Climate change may be particularly dangerous for children in developing countries. Even today, many developing countries experience a disproportionate share of extreme weather, and they are predicted to suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change in the future. Moreover, developing countries often have limited social safety nets, widespread poverty, fragile health care systems,...