Corporations Hybrid: A COVID Case Study on Innovation in Business Law Pedagogy

A worldwide pandemic is forcing schools to close their doors. Yet the need to teach students remains. How can faculty – especially those who are not trained in technology-mediated teaching – maintain educational continuity? This Essay provides some suggestions and relatively quick and easy strategies for distance education in this time of coronavirus. While it is written from the perspective of teaching law school, it can be applied to teaching other humanities such as philosophy, literature, religion, political theory, and other subjects that do not easily lend themselves to charts, graphs, figures, and diagrams. This Essay includes an introductory technology section for those techno-phobic faculty who are now being required to teach online, and it concludes with five straightforward steps to start teaching online quickly

Corporations Hybrid: A COVID Case Study on Innovation in Business Law Pedagogy

This Article is about using asynchronous online technology synergistically with in-class experiences and synchronous livedistance education sessions. It focuses on creating instructional videos because great videos are essential for online learning.1 This Article also discusses creating digital teaching assets for active learning such as formative assessments, learning journals, and discussion boards. The authors of this paper are a law professor and his former student and teaching assistant. We worked together for two years to innovate and implement many technological enhancements in Corporations class. We created and deployed a Hybrid course in which students performed asynchronous technology-mediated learning activities before class and then engaged in synchronous dialogue and group discussion during class time. This Article contains our report on our methods and the results

Globalizujące sieci produkcji

The emergence of globalization processes and transnational market integration has become a more and more challenging issue for scientific research in many fields, also and in particular within management science. Against this background the paper presents conceptualizations of globalizing networks based on theories and approaches such Global Commodity Chains, Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks. In particular, the paper aims to conceptualize and discuss globalizing networks with a specific focus on foreign direct investments (FDI) and special economic zones (SEZs). The article is based on heuristic approach and in-depth literature study. The text has been prepared based on heuristic approach and literature studies and it can make a small contribution to the conceptualization within in management science theory.Postępująca globalizacja w połączeniu z wzrastającymi zjawiskami sieciowania stają się coraz większym wyzwaniem dla badań naukowych w wielu dziedzinach. W niniejszym artykule przedstawiono konceptualizację globalizujących się sieci opartą na teorii, Global Commodity Chains, Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks. Celem artykułu jest przyczynek do konceptualizacji tych zjawisk i kontynuacja dyskusji naukowej na temat roli globalizacji sieci w globalnym środowisku gospodarczym. Ponadto artykuł odwołuje się do znaczenia FDI oraz specjalnych stref ekonomicznych w procesie globalizacji sieci produkcyjnych. Tekst został opracowany na podstawie podejść heurystycznych oraz studiów literaturowych

THE GEOGRAPHY OF FIRM FORMATION IN NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand's regions exhibit marked spatial variations in firm formation, with the urban areas being less entrepreneurial than the rest of the country, when the analysis controls for the varying sizes of regions. This empirical finding reflects differences in industry structures, with a greater presence of firm births in manufacturing industries and business services in more peripheral and less urbanised areas, especially on the South Island of New Zealand. Using the business demographic statistics (BDS) database by Statistics New Zealand we develop a regression model to explain spatial variations in firm formations over the period 2000-2005. The following explanatory factors are found to be of central importance for firm formations in the New Zealand context: concentration, firm size, population, population growth, income growth and specialisation. Implications of the findings for policy makers and politicians in New Zealand are discussed. Copyright (c) 2008 by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG.