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Social, Legal and Educational Challenges of Contemporary Economics
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Social, Legal and Educational Challenges of Contemporary Economics

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 13896

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Marek Franěk

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Department of Management, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové 500 03, Czech Republic
Interests: environmental psychology; approach and avoidance behavior; personality; job satisfaction; cognitive spatial dimensions
Prof. Dr. Pavel Bachmann

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Department of Management, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové 500 03, Czech Republic
Interests: transparency of nonprofit organizations; social media and organizations; online communication, public administration and its communication
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Dear Colleagues,

The contemporary economics undergoing the fourth industrial revolution is coping with many changes in areas as sociology of work and employment, psychology, legislation, education, and others.

Similarly to the effects of the first industrial revolution, the fourth revolution based on the cyberphysical systems, Internet of Things and Cloud and cognitive computing is accompanied by many changes in the nature of economics, including the emergence of completely new job positions, new educational needs, changed communication, use of a broad scale of communication systems and technologies, changes in organization structures, as well as a new understanding of the social responsibilities of companies.

We assume that this Special Issue will help us to overcome the current gap in the literature regarding mainly social, legal, and educational consequences of today’s economic revolution. This Special Issue seeks original research articles, case studies or systematic reviews from the all sectors—public, nonprofit, and private—focusing on (but not limited to) the following:

  • Change of the work nature and its economic and social consequences, including governance and an organization’s structure design, leadership and managerial skills, control mechanisms of employee performance, and others.
  • New aspects in organizational communication: new approaches, relationships, and contexts, including enterprise communication systems, communication on social networking sites, other communication online platforms, mobile communication, and others.
  • Social, legal, and educational issues related to the use of new information technologies/systems and communication platforms, also including smart cities, application of IoT, digitalization and technological development, and others.
  • Contemporary educational challenges in organization, including new ways of corporate training, distance on-job and off-job learning, professional learning environments, and others.
  • Sociology of work and employment, including modern worker re-definition, culture of work, ethical values and anti-discrimination policies, and others.

Prof. Dr. Marek Franěk
Prof. Dr. Pavel Bachmann
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Keywords

  • economics
  • communication
  • psychology
  • legislation
  • sociology
  • education
  • work

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Effectiveness of Regulation of Educational Requirements for Non-Bank Credit Providers in Czech Republic
by Ivan Soukal, Eva Hamplová and Jiri Haviger
Soc. Sci. 2021, 10(1), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10010028 - 19 Jan 2021
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Educational challenges for companies are created by market regulation less frequently versus market dynamics. Yet when law-enforced educational challenges appear, they have a significant impact on companies and their employees. This empirical study focuses on a new professional qualification regulation on the market [...] Read more.
Educational challenges for companies are created by market regulation less frequently versus market dynamics. Yet when law-enforced educational challenges appear, they have a significant impact on companies and their employees. This empirical study focuses on a new professional qualification regulation on the market of consumer credit in the Czech Republic. We analyze how companies cope with the new law-enforced educational requirements and whether the regulation has been successful. We analyzed more than 1900 certification tests. The sample accounted for approximately 10% of all employees tested in the Czech Republic in the first year of the regulation. All test variants were found unique, the expected point score of each variant had skewed distributions with only a small number of difficult variants. A significant majority of the tests showed expected values in an interval of 60–75% with only several outliers; test difficulty was balanced. The professional qualification tests separated employees with the required knowledge from those without and excluded accidental success. We identified a successful education management system that resulted in success rates above the country average: decentralized regional managers supervision, employee financial participation, and effective e-learning. We found structural changes in the market supply structure. Companies with professionally skilled employees met the regulatory conditions. The regulation combining centrally-provided requirements and questions with the market-based method of preparing for the professional qualification test was successful. Full article
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Graduates’ Opium? Cultural Values, Religiosity and Gender Segregation by Field of Study
by Izaskun Zuazu
Soc. Sci. 2020, 9(8), 135; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9080135 - 29 Jul 2020
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This paper studies the relationship between cultural values and gender distribution across fields of study in higher education. I compute national, field and subfield-level gender segregation indices for a panel dataset of 26 OECD countries for 1998–2012. This panel dataset expands the focus [...] Read more.
This paper studies the relationship between cultural values and gender distribution across fields of study in higher education. I compute national, field and subfield-level gender segregation indices for a panel dataset of 26 OECD countries for 1998–2012. This panel dataset expands the focus of previous macro-level research by exploiting data on gender segregation in specific subfields of study. Fixed-effects estimates associate higher country-level religiosity with lower gender segregation in higher education. These models crucially control for potential segregation factors, such as labor market and educational institutions, and gender gaps in both self-beliefs and academic performance in math among young people. Full article
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Territorial Intelligence, a Collective Challenge for Sustainable Development: A Scoping Review
by Miguel-Ángel García-Madurga, Ana-Julia Grilló-Méndez and Miguel-Ángel Esteban-Navarro
Soc. Sci. 2020, 9(7), 126; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9070126 - 21 Jul 2020
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Territorial Intelligence is a practice devoted to obtaining, analysing and valuing information and knowledge about a territory and its environment to design and implement territorial plans on strategic matters. The purpose of this article is to provide a broad overview about the meaning [...] Read more.
Territorial Intelligence is a practice devoted to obtaining, analysing and valuing information and knowledge about a territory and its environment to design and implement territorial plans on strategic matters. The purpose of this article is to provide a broad overview about the meaning of Territorial Intelligence in academic literature covering the definitions of the concept and the main topics involved. A scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR method has been carried out. Online databases were used to identify scientific articles and theses published between 2000 and 2020, from which, after screening, 33 key documents were selected, mainly of French origin. Qualitative analyses were performed following the technique of the Seven Key Questions (7W). Territorial Intelligence began in France as an application of Economic Intelligence, but it is becoming an autonomous discipline, expanding to other countries and generating specific applications, such as Tourist Intelligence, in the last decade. It is concluded that three elements characterize current Territorial Intelligence: the consideration as a collective process that involves the participation of multiple agents, the integration of external sources of information with territorial agents’ own internal knowledge and a focus on collaboration to promote sustainable development with a global vision. Full article
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