The family business: Special features, stages of development, familiness and enterpriseness, succession, socialisation context FU -- Theory section: systems theory, symbolic interactionism, role theory, excursus: merging the theories -- The family business from a systems theory perspective:...

The purpose of this research is to understand how social capabilities and infrastructural enablers support technical capabilities for product development by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as a response to COVDI19, and to examine the above relationships between those using conventional...

The widespread adoption of software-intensive IT systems in ships has brought huge benefits, yet it also has offered new avenues for malicious cyberattacks to potentially disrupt shipping operations. It follows that a focus on the security and resilience properties of IT-enabled ship systems...

In this reflection, this paper seeks to highlight the interconnectedness of Bertalanfyy's (1950) General System Theory to Open Systems Theory (Fu & Kirk, 199). In doing this, I define and explain the General System Theory conceptualized by Ludwig von Bertalanfyy in the 1950s and its...

The sudden appearance of COVID-19 is becoming a driving force for change in the global learning environment. The challenge of this crisis has already been heightened in Japan since the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, when the country was hit by the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and...