Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.51936/tip.59.3.766-783
Martin Christie
There are two distant conceptual cousins that analyse the external mobilisation of subnational entities, one being European Studies – Multi-Level Governance and the other International Relations – Paradiplomacy. The article first aims to analyse each concept against the dimensions of the politik to determine the conceptual focus and find more pronounced differences in the policy and politics dimensions. The second aim is to identify the theoretical bedrock underpinning both concepts. This article proposes the analogous theory of Neo-Medievalism, establishing that it has some application here; in this sense, the two concepts may be better at explaining wider territorial reconfiguration underway in Europe. Keywords: Paradiplomacy, Multi-Level Governance, Neo-Medievalism, European Union
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.51936/tip.59.3.729-744
V. Gaffar, T. Koeswandi, U. Suhud
This article examines the condition of Indonesia’s Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly with respect to carrying out a digital transformation, and whether the COVID-19 pandemic has forced them to accelerate this transformation. This study found that Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises – MSMEs during COVID-19 have been in an unstable state due to the impact of the restrictions imposed by COVID-19related policies. Nevertheless, MSMEs have been supported by the government, academics, and digital media in efforts to revive and accelerate the digital transformation with a view to surviving. The use of social media has helped MSMEs’ programmes and services optimise their business performance. Job simplification was introduced to more efficiently create and reach a broader range of consumers by doing promotion, service delivery, accessing media and cooperating with third parties. The speed at which the digital transformation has occurred is reflected in an improvement in MSMEs’ entrepreneurial skills and competencies. Keywords: Digital transformation; MSME; Social Media; COVID-19 pandemic
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.51936/tip.59.3.707-728
R. Bohinc
The article presents legal solutions of the European Union (EU) and Member States (MS) with respect to the digitalisation of company law. We analyse and evaluate the EU’s efforts to overcome the backlog of legislation concerning technological development, with legal solutions in the field of the electronic formation and registration of companies and in shareholders’ communication with company board members. The analysis shows that company law in the EU is lagging behind technological development. Despite ongoing dynamic efforts to modernise it on the EU level, the MS reveal differences in their speed of implementing the EU’s directives. The case of Slovenia shows that while digital tools are in wide use for ensuring transparent data disclosure and publication, along with the realisation of basic corporate governance functions, big differences remain between the minority of companies traded on the regulated market and the majority of companies for which such regulation is deficient. Keywords: digitalisation, electronic means, block chain technology, company registration, shareholders’ general meeting (SGM), COVID-19 pandemic
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.51936/tip.59.3.682-706
A. Rus
Technology companies are often described by their founders and analysts as holding the potential to disrupt the industry and revolutionise the world. In this article, we focus on Amazon Inc. as one of the trillion-dollar technology companies that are credited with having disrupted its industry. The article provides an evaluation framework built around disruptive innovation and radical innovation theories. This framework is used to assess the extent to which Amazon Inc. has revolutionised retail industry. Based on this framework, it is argued that Amazon is not a disruptor because it has not created new markets but entered existing ones. We use this framework to analyse the retail sales process and its components and show that Amazon’s technology has not brought architectural changes to the retail sales process or radically change its component parts. It is concluded that Amazon’s success is not the result of technology and innovation but arises from its monopoly that has been built on the traditional retail model. Keywords: new tech, retail, disruptive innovation, radical innovation, Amazon
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Pub Date : 2022-07-14DOI: 10.51936/tip.59.2.443-463
Danica Fink-Hafner, Mitja Hafner-Fink, T. Dagen
The article examines the deliberation of higher education (HE) scholars and practitioners on research issues in the HE field, which has taken into account the complexity of current trends of deglobalisation and changing characteristics of globalisation. More precisely, the article offers a systematic review of the ideas developed by focus group participants (FGPs) from different parts of the world while debating internationalisation, globalisation and Europeanisation with respect to the field of HE. These FGPs agreed that: 1) theoretical definitions used by academics and practitioners are currently socially constructed in a biased way (in favour of the Anglo-North American point of view); 2) academic research (notably conceptual definitions) must better take into account the issues contextually and dynamically across time and space; and 3) that HE research is in the stage when a more theoretically refined and a methodologically stronger new global wave of empirical research is required for further advancement of theorising and practitioners’ work. Keywords: higher education, methods, theory, definitions, globalisation, internationalisation, Europeanisation
{"title":"RESEARCH ISSUES IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION FIELD\u0000IN TIMES OF CHALLENGED GLOBALISATION","authors":"Danica Fink-Hafner, Mitja Hafner-Fink, T. Dagen","doi":"10.51936/tip.59.2.443-463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51936/tip.59.2.443-463","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the deliberation of\u0000higher education (HE) scholars and practitioners on\u0000research issues in the HE field, which has taken into\u0000account the complexity of current trends of deglobalisation and changing characteristics of globalisation.\u0000More precisely, the article offers a systematic review of\u0000the ideas developed by focus group participants (FGPs)\u0000from different parts of the world while debating internationalisation, globalisation and Europeanisation\u0000with respect to the field of HE. These FGPs agreed that:\u00001) theoretical definitions used by academics and practitioners are currently socially constructed in a biased\u0000way (in favour of the Anglo-North American point of\u0000view); 2) academic research (notably conceptual definitions) must better take into account the issues contextually and dynamically across time and space; and\u00003) that HE research is in the stage when a more theoretically refined and a methodologically stronger new\u0000global wave of empirical research is required for further\u0000advancement of theorising and practitioners’ work.\u0000Keywords: higher education, methods, theory, definitions, globalisation, internationalisation, Europeanisation","PeriodicalId":44389,"journal":{"name":"TEORIJA IN PRAKSA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48974759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}