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Manuel Castells' Economic Theories and Globalization

when the "information age" arrived, along with the knowledge economy, we began seeing a shift in the situation. Because of communi...

Sony's PlayStation 2 Release Problems

the primary reason for the rush was to reach the market with the PS2 before Microsofts scheduled release of its X-box. Sony did n...

A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy History

be able to point out faulty thinking, something that can free a person from the desire to act a particular way. Such acknowledgmen...

Josiah Strong and Spencer on Social Darwinism

held true: creatures which could adapt most effectively to their environment had a better chance of their genetic material survivi...

Central Bank Policy and Global Trade

Company as a leading example of how large multinationals ought to function in terms of currency risk management. Dow generates mo...

President Richard M. Nixon's Failure to Protect the Presidential Office

the hands of Congress because they contain sensitive information concerning military and other global activities falling strictly ...

Learning Theories and Teacher Practice Within the UK

as: programmed instruction, mastery learning instructional objectives, applied behavior analysis and contracts (Ormrod, 1999). Tea...

High School Science Teaching

(Berube, 2000). This type of teaching follows what could be called the linear thinking model (Berube, 2000). But....science is not...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

Modernist and Postmodernist Architectural Theories of Le Corbusier and Robert Venturi

generator" which "holds in itself the essence of sensation" (Le Corbusier, 1924, p. 8). For Le Corbusier, the idea that the plan "...

Webvan's Marketing Failure

personally had done his shopping and loaded his bags into his home himself. For only a slightly higher total cost, the customer w...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

William Glasser and Jean Piaget's Theories of Personal Learning

understanding - including habituation and violation of expectation - with each stage represented by age-related limitations and sp...

Overview of Internationalization

a few companies are able to claim a true global presence such as major oil companies and companies such as Coca-Cola. Even compani...

Delinquency and Labeling Theory

try to negotiate the labels and in fact, they "attempt to disavow their deviant imputations" (Adams, 2003). These theorists do not...

Management and Complexity Theory

some over-riding constraint" (Rosenhead, n.d.). Physical sciences have discussed the concepts of stable and unstable systems but ...

Practice, Knowledge, and Nursing Theory's Role

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

Relations, Time, and Space

pushes it out of reach. There is, however, a way of being that is very conducive to its emergence which could be described as "te...

Political Theories' Synopsis

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...

Chief Executive Officer's Organizational Management Tools

Achievement Theory and Maslows Hierarchy of Needs (reviewed below). Content and process theories are both in place to explain what...

The Division of Labor and Adam Smith

for only one small part of the production process. The worker concentrating his or her full effort on being the best that he or sh...

Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

Organizational Conflict Theoretical Model and Rondell Data Corporation

and negative, as has happened with Rondell. Research, overall, demonstrates that conflict can be multidimensional (Amason,...

Failure of Zimbabwe

percent white (CIA, 2002). In terms of religious beliefs, half the population claim syncretic, which is a blend of Christian bel...

Leisure Concepts

so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at...

Agricultural Subsidies and Economic Factors

On the one hand, free market economists point to the idea of "survival of the fittest" - whoever can sell the most should profit a...

Jeffrey Dahmer and Applications of Reckless' Containment Theory of Delinquency and Gottredson and Hirschi's Self Control Theory

as a whole, criminals have not. Gottredson and Hirschi attribute this failure to inadequate or improper child-rearing which resul...

Performance of the Stock Market and the Effects of WorldCom and Enron Failures

This demand is impacted by information regarding that share as well as market conditions. In the case of Enron and WorldCom the we...

Mass Media's Impact on Society According to Postmodernism

the mass media has become one of the strongest players in that interaction. While many human traits are inherited genetically, ot...