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Recently, constructing professional identity has received an increasing attention. By adopting and adapting analytical tools of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study explored the ways through which identities of the qualitative researchers had been projected in 4 applied linguistics articles. This study intended to find out whether the authors of qualitative research articles in applied...

This paper looks at the organising of work, as in who does what, when and how. We explore the relationship between work as situated action on the one hand and unfolding within the confines of stable social structures on the other. Being an underdeveloped topic of research, we analyse how more stable structures of work are being produced. By conceptualising the organising of work as a special ca...

This essay asks what firms are, whether they are ‘real’ social actors, and whether their actions can be traced without remainder to the actions of living people or whether there is some irreducible aspect of their existence or operation that must be attributed to the organization itself. It describes firms as ongoing, multilateral relational contracts from whose operation – that is, from perfor...

Internet technology with its standards of exchange has been regarded as a method to reduce the amount of communication interfaces among the partners in supply chains. Since enterprises have a huge amount of relationships to partners fulfilling various tasks and business processes, the usage of the internet and its standards can hardly be considered to be the same interface for each actor. In fa...

Computer graphics (CG) and animation are reaching previously unparalleled levels. They are now virtually ubiquitous in most visual media; so much so that the general audience is starting to develop a blasé attitude towards them. For example, nowadays only the most extensive computer graphics and animation efforts in movies manage to draw any admiration from the viewer. Computer animation in TV ...

Negotiation is the process through which two or more autonomous actors (or agents) arrive at a mutually agreeable course of action. In the context of software systems, the need for negotiation stems from increased software modularity and increased autonomy of the resulting modules. Modules can consist of third-party (web) services or more sophisticated software agents. We shall use the term “ac...