... topics covered in the questionnaire are: Service industries Job satisfaction European union Job/organisation characteristics Service research has been dominated by the customer perspective, whereas scarce attention has been paid to the working conditions that are necessary for service...

... the European Research Area and those EU policies focused on the security of the European citizen in the world both through EU defence policies and EU security policies. In addition the European Union Council has sponsored studies discussing future defence challenges such as the European Defence Agency's...

... European Union Energy management Foresight may provide information about the future (Cuhls, 2003). Via foresight results, general directions for the unknown future can be reasonably dealt with. Technological foresight purports to provide timely insight into the prospects for technological change...

.... Financial forecasting Research methods Social policy European Union Relative to other areas of forecasting research, policy impact forecasting has seen considerably less interest from the field in the past. Possible reasons could include the high levels of complexity and low success rate...

... to rationalize the relationships of the European Union with nearly two‐dozen Islamic States hold promise politically, economically and perhaps culturally. In 2003 the respected Club of Rome, a worldwide think tank, founded an ambitious programme called TREC to make the deserts provide water...

... pockets distributed throughout the region. Figure 1 displays Israel proper and its Palestinian neighbors. The structure of the conceptual MEU is outlined in Figure 2 . European Union Nuclear power Regional development Fuels Middle East Religious fundamentalism It is interesting...

... groups European Union Knowledge economy The paper focuses on several emerging social computing [1] applications showing trends of evolution that promise to speed the development pattern of existing social and economic relations and that will have implications for the EU innovation landscape [2...

... statistics of European Union (EU) members and competitors to reveal that traditional views on economics and social policy may no longer apply. Findings The paper finds that the Old Europe stagnated due to political lack of will, but a renewed Europe has begun. The Euro as scapegoat for poor...

...Aurélien Colson; Mounir Corm Purpose In May 2004, ten new member states joined the European Union (EU). Although these countries have experienced very different historical and political systems, they face a shared future. This paper seeks to answer the question: how do they analyze this future...

.... Design/methodology/approach KIBS are distinguished from other services and knowledge‐intensive activities, and statistics on KIBS in the European Union are examined, highlighting key similarities and differences in their development across Member States Findings KIBS are continuing...

...Jacques Richardson Purpose Seeks to discuss the European Union's decision in December 2004 to begin debating Turkey's formal application to join the EU marks the beginning of what could be a prolonged decade of game‐playing by both the Union and the applicant from Istanbul. Design...

... Communication Technology‐led strategy Environmental management Sustainable development European Union Information and communication technologies (ICTs) not only form an industrial sector, but also pervade all other sectors as integrating and enabling technologies. ICTs change society...

...Michael Keenan; Ozcan Saritas; Inga Kroener The textiles and clothing sector employs millions of people in the European Union (EU) and has a combined annual turnover of more than €200 billion. Over the last decade or so, more than a million jobs have been lost in the industry, partly through...

... is raised. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Financial services European Union Monetary policy The dot.com boom and bust. European Monetary Union. The launch of the euro. Large‐scale mergers and acquisitions. eBanking and virtual money. Regulatory change, supermarket credit cards...

...Ozcan Saritas; Michael Keenan Despite differences in political approaches and institutional frameworks, health and social services in all European Union (EU) Member States face similar challenges, notably the need to adjust to demographic ageing and to changing employment and family patterns...

.... This year s dialogue had a strong orientation towards tightening the relationship between Europe s large market economies and the eastern and Balkan nations aspiring to membership in the European Union (EU). A strong argument foretell. the alpbach futures forum revisited .520 emerging from Alpbach...