Flexible labour markets: what do SMEs actually want?

Nida Broughton analyses Adrian Beecroft’s suggestions for labour market deregulation to stimulate growth in the light of recent surveys which suggest the performance of the economy – and not burdensome regulation – is the key factor currently limiting small business success in the UK

Semantics and Knowledge Organization

Contents: Introduction: The importance of semantics for information science (IS) The status of semantic research in information science. Semantics and the philosophy of science. Semantics and subject knowledge Semantics and its â warrantâ a) Query/situation specific or idiosyncratic b) Universal, Platonic entities/relations c) â Deep semanticsâ common to all languages (or inherent in cognitive structures) d) Specific to specific empirical languages (e.g. Swedish) e) Domain or discourse specific f) Other (e.g. determined by a company or by a workgroup, â user orientedâ ) Semantic relations The 'intellectual' versus the social organization of knowledge Conclusio