This paper presents the findings of process-oriented research into the experience of 18 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) when deciding to participate with new apprenticeships for the first time. The focus of ...

A recent study into community capacity building in a remote Australian community used a social capital survey instrument. The results indicate that women, often under-represented in decision-making and unrecognised ...

This paper brings together two issues. The first concerns the decline in rural communities throughout Australia and other OECD countries, with potentially serious impacts on young people in particular. The second issue ...

In complex systems, disorder and order are interrelated, so that disorder can be an inevitable consequence of ordering. Often this disorder can be disruptive, but sometimes it can be beneficial. Different social groups ...

This paper reports a study which investigated adult social activity on Facebook. The data was drawn from an online survey (N = 758) and 18 in-depth research sessions (semistructured interviews and verbal protocols). The ...

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Reconciliation is about bringing disparate communities together and creating the intercommunication necessary to reduce intergroup barriers, generate understanding, and connect with others to achieve a peaceful togetherness. ...

This article cites data based on a large survey conducted by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in 1997, which showed that the workers in Chinese enterprises identified with the staff and workers' representative ...

For over two decades now the market-based, managerialist paradigm of public sector governance has emphasised the importance of adopting rational and prescriptive managerial techniques of private sector origin. Greater ...

Governments around the world have sought to strengthen their relations with nonprofit organisations. In many jurisdictions this has led to the development of written framework agreements between government and the nonprofit ...