In many agent-mediated electronic marketplaces, a facilitator is exploited to conduct matchmaking in finding agents with the same interests. During matchmaking, the consideration of newcomers and group matchmaking is crucial since favorable newcomers can bring preferable offers to the facilitator for generating better matches and hence maximizing the agents’ utility gains, furthermore, group ma...

This conceptual paper addresses the question of how the competencies of old timers are transferred to newcomers in the context of a technology company. First, an individual’s personal competence is analysed and further illustrated by focusing on how it alters in the course of his or her working life. Second, competence transferring process is analysed by the tool ‘Holistic Concept of Man’. Thir...

This paper integrates the concepts of person–environment (PE) fit and social capital and examines the social dynamics of organizational newcomers’ development of fit with their new environment in the light of national cultural variations. Specifically, we present a conceptual framework that illustrates how newcomers fit in with their work environment in terms of person–job (PJ) and person–organ...

This paper provides an introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), focused at bringing in newcomers who have to deal with a digital document project and are looking at the capacity that the TEI environment may have to fulfil his needs. To this end, we avoid a strictly technical presentation of the TEI and concentrate on the actual issues that such projects face, with parallel made on th...

C reated under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientifi c, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as an offspring of the " International Forum of Young Scientists, " the World Academy of Young Scientists (WAYS) was offi cially launched in November 2003 at the World Science Forum in Budapest, Hungary. Our organization represents a permanent global platform for young researchers, and...

This research investigates the impact of allying with socially dissimilar group members on members’ feelings and behavior, and the ultimate performance of the group. In the context of having a newcomer join a group, we conducted a 2 (social similarity of newcomer to oldtimers; in-group or out-group) x 3 (opinion agreement: newcomer has no opinion ally, 1 opinion ally, or 2 opinion allies) inter...

Language learning is a challenge for those who have recently immigrated to foreign country (henceforth newcomers), especially adult newcomers. Here, we adopted holistic approach and asked Turkish migrants share their perspectives regarding the integration process. For this, interviewed 59 Turkish-speaking newcomers from (mixed) social course, whom had subdivided into six focus groups. We also c...

Turnover in online communities is very high, with most people who initially post a message to an online community never contributing again. In this paper, we test whether the responses that newcomers receive to their first posts influence the extent to which they continue to participate. The data come from initial posts made by 2,777 newcomers to six public newsgroups. We coded the content and ...

In Canada, newcomers are often faced with many challenges when integrating into the labour market. This study examined market integration experiences of in Regina, Saskatchewan. Data were collected using a structured survey which was made available several languages. A total 305 (n = 305) participated this study. It found that length stay level education, having children and lack access to tran...