Kybernetes: Volume 49 Issue 7

The socio-cultural dynamics of development: part 1 development, growth and globalisation

Maurice Yolles

Agency involves dynamic socio-cultural processes that facilitate development. This paper is written in three parts. In Part 1, there are two purposes, the first purpose is to…

The socio-cultural dynamics of development: part 2 the cultural basis of political evolution

Maurice Yolles

Agency development is inherently a process of institutional evolution. The purpose of this part 2 (of a 3 part) paper is to explore development in the political context, producing…

The socio-cultural dynamics of development: part 3 development through agency theory

Maurice Yolles

Agency is inherently an institution and involves dynamic socio-cultural processes that facilitate development. This paper is written in three parts. The purpose in Part 1 was to…

Buffering the service failure-induced effect of anger on revenge

Gianfranco Walsh, Alexander Deseniss, Stefan Ivens, Mario Schaarschmidt

This paper aims to increase understanding of how the strength of the relationship between service failure-induced customer anger and revenge intentions might be influenced by…

Crisis in systems thinking

Janos Korn

The current field of systems thinking consists of a variety of views, methods and a number of organisations involved with these views which suggests a state of confusion and…

Freedom of science

Gerhard Fink

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of “freedom of science” (“academic freedom”) for the advancement of society and mankind, which, however, is permanently…

A grid model to address the behaviour of the nodes in the dissemination of information

María Teresa Signes-Pont, Higinio Mora, Antonio Cortés-Castillo, Rafael Mollá-Sirvent

This paper aims to present a framework to address the impact of people’s behaviour in the dissemination of information through mobile social networks.

Sustainable urban innovations: digital co-creation in European living labs

Monika Mačiulienė, Aelita Skaržauskienė

An increasingly urbanized global population is facing multiple, inter-related and inter-connected challenges. By applying the so-called Living Lab concept, the authors open up…

Students’ attitudes towards knowledge and the future of work

Valeriu Frunzaru, Nicoleta Corbu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent secondary school students’ interest in intellectual development influences key abilities necessary to cope with the…

A multidimensional platform ecosystem framework

Sergey Yablonsky

Ecosystems that support digital businesses maximize the economic value of network connections. This forces a shift toward platforms and ecosystems that are collaborative by nature…

Analysing the role of information technology towards sustainable cities living

Mauro Romanelli

The purpose of this study is to identify the pathway that leads to cities to proceeding towards urban sustainability.