Instrumental Calculation, Cognitive Role-Playing, or Both? Self-Perceptions of Seconded National Experts in the European Commission Zuzana Murdoch and Benny Geys* Most work studying micro-processes of integration – i.e. how agents develop identities and decision-making behaviours within a particular institution – offers explanations based on either instrumental rationality or socialisation. Thi...

The disappearance of physical social spaces from today’s society is seen by some scholars to be a modern phenomenon, resulting in increasing isolation and lack of socialisation. In fact, this is always the case in distance education, due to geographical dispersion and disparate time schedules of learners. Very often, peerto-peer socialisation in distance education only occurs as part of formal ...

The majority of schools across Australia rapidly implemented online education during the first wave COVID-19 restrictions. school closure disproportionately affected routines and socialisation vulnerable students, including those with a refugee background. Refugee-background students have been impacted by as closures interrupted face-to-face education, English language tutorial support counsell...

This paper looks at knowledge management and the importance of knowledge management in today’s organisations. Even though knowledge management has gained its popularity recently due to the drastic changes in business ecology, there is still confusion on how to implement the knowledge management strategy successfully. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate and suggest possible ways to communi...

The analysis of visitor motivation for attending festivals, as a basis for segmentation, is an important prerequisite for targeting markets, planning festival programmes and product positioning. This study identified five motivation dimensions for visitors attending the 2005 Naadam cultural festival in Mongolia, using factor analysis. A cluster analysis on the five factors produced five stable ...