Abstract By reviewing economic performance, two main phenomena could be identified: The first phenomenon is prior to the third wave of the Industrial Revolution in which limited resources are the predominant input; in other words, physical and natural resources are much more credited than human resources. The second phenomenon resonates with the third wave of industrial revolution to the presen...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to design and validate a high school technological competency curriculum model. Methodology: This study had an integrated strategy. To answer the questions, the research was conducted in four phases. The first phase was conducted with a qualitative approach and the other phases were conducted with a quantitative approach. In the first phase of this research, ...

Intangible assets are a key contributor to firm value, enabling the firm to differentiate itself from competitors on the basis of its access to specialized, efficient, firm-specific information, activities and procedures, identified as organization capital (OC). Since OC contains a heterogeneous group of disparate items, we isolate firm value creation by decomposing OC into two major parts: (1)...

Increasing demands for fact-checking have led to a growing interest in developing systems and tools automate the process. However, such are limited practice because their system design often does not take into account how is done real world ignores insights needs of various stakeholder groups core This paper unpacks process by revealing infrastructures---both human technological---that support ...

Posthumanism entails the idea of transcendence of the human being achieved through technology. The article begins by distinguishing perfection and change (or growth). It also attempts to show the anthropological premises of posthumanism itself and suggests that we can identify two roots: the liberal humanistic subject (autonomous and unrelated that simply realizes herself/himself through her/hi...

The reasons for flaws of technological development at present are pointed out. Examples from complex projects like in telecommunication, transportation, or Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport (EDIFACT) are giving insight. The change of actors of the past intensifies tremendously the difficulties given by globalization and complexity of new systems for developi...

The need for oil and natural gas as a major source of energy is vital. On the one hand, it has affected the political and economic equations at the international, regional and national level. On the other hand, it has had negative effects on sociocultural, legal, and environmental aspects as well as on the physical and mental health of human beings. Therefore, the need to provide an environment...