A new political dispensation in 1994 heralded a period of optimism for many ordinary SouthAfricans, who hoped for freedom and an escape from poverty. Since this transition, however,South Africa has registered steady increases in unemployment, which was already high andwidespread at that stage....

Quality management, business process engineering and other business management change tools of the late 20th century are often denigrated in knowledge management literature as fads, with no permanent value. Other authors credit these tools with being predecessors of knowledge management.The...

Over the past two decades there has been an unprecedented move toward decentralized governance all over the world. These changes have taken special significance in many developing and transitional countries where centralized systems were perceived to have failed to deliver improved general...

This paper assesses the relative efficiency and flexibility of public spending in Slovenia compared to the advanced and new EU member states. Spending on health care, education, and social protection is relatively high in Slovenia without achieving correspondingly better outcomes. Inefficiencies...

Die Familie stellt einen zentralen Einflussfaktor auf die Anpassung von Entsandten im Ausland dar. In Anlehnung an die Familiensystemtheorie von Minuchin (1974) wird angenommen, dass starke Verbindungen zwischen Entsandten, deren Partnern und deren Kindern bestehen, die wiederum Einfluss auf...