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How does one progress from protégé to professional to master? For thousands of years, it was accomplished by apprenticeship to a master, on a one-to-one or one-to-few basis. The advent of the industrial era necessitated training more people at a time than this model could…

This article analyzes the most representative international financial crises in Colombia since 1990: the Asian crisis of 1997 and the Sub-Prime crisis of 2008 in the United States. Likewise, the impacts and their effects on national production in some Latin American countries are indicated. Finally,…

The main goal of the article is to identify the essence, role, premises and conditions of managing patient engagement in the process approach. Patient engagement is an important component of health services, covering a wide area of action at the systemic and organizational levels. A…

Executives and HR managers face many challenges today, such as demographic change, shortage of skilled workers, development of the diversity of the staff, pressure to expect service quality, increase in mental stress, etc. Personnel selection is one of the most critical issues for a company…

The aim of this paper is to illustrate how statistical tools can benefit healthcare policy makers specialised in the rabies management. Understanding the prevalence of such a disease is crucial for management teams. Seasonality may be a salient feature of data series provided by medical…

This study has two objectives. Firstly, it explores how do R&D narratives differ in various clusters of biopharmaceutical companies in terms of discussion context and text readability. Secondly, it examines whether the way how biopharmaceutical companies depict their business within R&D context is dependent on…

Eco-innovation becomes an emerging priority of the European Union (EU) policy. To secure the environmental protection and economic growth eco-innovations have a central role. As the numerous practical examples demonstrate, eco-innovation is a powerful instrument that combines reduced negative impact on the environment and the…

The purpose of the study is to analyze the trends in the unauthorized transactions quantity and volume for the funds transfer by individuals through payment cards. The information base is the official data of the Central Bank of Russia for 2014-2019. To analyze trends and…

This paper presents the results of the development and accomplishment of a Blended Learning Model for engineering students. The development of the research began with selecting topics for learning Quality concepts, the analysis of an available educational material meeting the requirements of the open software;…

The purpose of the present work was to identify the perceptions and behaviors related to the economic and financial education in Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs). Cross-sectional and mixed research were conducted within a group of MSME administrators from Bogotá, Colombia. For that purpose,…