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DISCOURSE AND CHANGES OF THE WELFARE STATE

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Kusa Z.

Sociológia (Sociology)

2008

vol. 40

issue 1

5-34

Growing research has been focused at uneven willingness of governments to conform to the tenets of global economic competition promulgated by the international agencies such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. There is also increasing interest in the developments of the new members of the European Union, including Slovakia. This study attempts to develop those explanations of the Slovak reform trail-blazing that emphasize the lack of capacity to translate social discontent into credible political opposition. It examines the issue of availability of the symbolic resources for opposing the politics of the retrenching citizens' social rights in Slovakia from historical and critical discourse perspective. First, critical discourse analysis (CDA) is introduced as apposite approach to the study of a transfer of the political ideas. Its analytical power is demonstrated on the CDA studies of the dynamic of welfare discourse in the United Kingdom and other countries. Secondly, the study presents preliminary analysis of the development of Slovak domestic academic and political discourse on social welfare and the social rights. Its main point is that the Slovak welfare reforms were backed up by the borrowed phrasal idioms and the exploited metaphors that had been already doubted as the only alternative by 'Western' academic community. Though the fermentation of social-critical discourse in Slovakia could have been facilitated by this dethronisation, accumulated supplies of arguments were not drawn by the Slovak academicians. Further research is necessary to explain why the Slovak academicians did not attempt to defend the social rights but rather rendered them as the hindrance for the development of democracy.

QUEST FOR THE WAYS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: REVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF ORGANISATIONAL INNOVATIONS - PART ONE

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Mako C., Illessy M., Csizmadia P.

Tarsadalomkutatas (Social Science Research)

2008

vol. 25

issue 3

337-354

Since the second half of the 1990s, both academics and policy makers are devoting special attention to the growing impacts of the interplay between technological and social-organisational innovations on the adaptability of the national economies. The first part of the paper reviews the various approaches related to the innovation and present and assess the modernization performance of the Hungarian economy and stress its asymmetric or imbalanced character. The authors are evaluating the generally weak and unequal innovation performance of the firms (e.g. product, process innovations and working time flexibility), especially of the Hungarian owned companies. In preparing the empirical investigation of the organisational innovations, the authors make distinction between various types of organisational innovations (i.e. incremental, modular, architectural and radical) and identify the key features of the learning organisation which are playing vital role in developing and maintaining the innovation capacity of the firms. The second part of the paper - which is foreseen to be published in the second half of 2008 - is presenting and assessing the results of a pilot-survey carried out on sample of more than 500 firms in 2006. This survey is aimed at identifying and evaluating the intensity and the extent of organisational changes/innovations, the forms and degree of the employees' participation and the source, forms and development of the knowledge base in the firms surveyed.

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DISCOURSE AND CHANGES OF THE WELFARE STATE

QUEST FOR THE WAYS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: REVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF ORGANISATIONAL INNOVATIONS - PART ONE