Journal•ISSN: 0119-8386
Asia-pacific Social Science Review
De La Salle University
About: Asia-pacific Social Science Review is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Poverty & Globalization. It has an ISSN identifier of 0119-8386. Over the lifetime, 205 publications have been published receiving 1166 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the social sciences were defined as the empirical, the search for truth through research, as opposed to what philosophers did, which was to speculate or make deductions in some way.
Abstract: How were the social sciences constructed? In preparing our report we had to consider this question to understand the dilemmas of the social sciences. We started the story in the late 18th century by noting that the most important thing that happened was a kind of definitive divorce - I hesitate to use the word "divorce" - a break between science and philosophy. Before that the terms were not quite totally interchangeable but very closely aligned. They both meant knowledge, and people did not make a strong distinction between philosophy and science. It was in the late 18th century that we saw the birth of C.P. Snow's "two cultures." Science was defined as the empirical, the search for truth through research, as opposed to what philosophers did, which was to speculate or make deductions in some way. It was a continuation of the break between philosophy and theology; this was taking it one step further, toward a thoroughly secularized knowledge system.
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TL;DR: The role of management is to derive the "one right way" of doing work for optimum productivity so that this may be enforced, accompanied by appropriate compensation, on compliant workers as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: At the start of the 20th century, Frederick Taylor, a mechanical engineer, conducted a series of experiments and established a series of work methods which tripled the productivity of the average man working on raw iron ore. Writing in Principles of Scientific Management, Taylor generalized his experimental findings and proposed that the role of management was to derive the "one right way" of doing work for optimum productivity so that this may be enforced, accompanied by appropriate compensation, on compliant workers.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that knowledge gained from a formal entrepreneurship education program will have positive effects on an individual's overall entrepreneurial intentions through mediating influences of attitudes and social norms favouring entrepreneurial behaviour.
Abstract: This study advances the thesis that knowledge gained from a formal entrepreneurship education program will have positive effects on an individual's overall entrepreneurial intentions through the mediating influences of attitudes and social norms favouring entrepreneurial behaviour. In this proposed conceptual framework, it is argued that the knowledge gained by students attending an entrepreneurship course will have a positive impact on the students' intentions of starting a business. Guided by the theory of planned behaviour, this study proposes a research design which involves tracking of the changes in the students' perceptions of the desirability of, self-efficacy in engaging in, and social norms supportive of, entrepreneurship and their consequent influences on the student's entrepreneurial intentions prior to the start and upon completion of an entrepreneurship course.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed and evaluated the vision, objectives and the strategic framework of eGovernment in Singapore and employed the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis and PEST (Political, Economic, Social, Social and Technological) determinants to evaluate the current state of e-Government and its preparedness.
Abstract: This paper aims to review and evaluate the vision, the objectives and the strategic framework of e-Government in Singapore. Rapidity, Reliability, Efficiency, Cost-effectiveness, Customer-orientation and Accessibility are the main guidelines for the development of egovernment in Singapore in order to provide quality services to users in the digital economy. There are five thrusts and six programs of egovernance in Singapore. The development of e-Government involves three main relationships: Government to Citizen (G2C), Government to Business (G2B) and Government to Employees/Public Servants (G2E). This paper employs the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis and PEST (Political, Economic, Social and Technological) determinants to evaluate the current state of e-Government in Singapore and its preparedness.
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TL;DR: Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South. Edited by: Stephen Castles and Raul Delgado Wise as mentioned in this paper. Published by: International Organization for Migration (IOM), 2008.
Abstract: Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South . Edited by: Stephen Castles and Raul Delgado Wise. Published by: International Organization for Migration (IOM), 2008.
42 citations