Generational Conflict

Higher Education and Standardization: Knowledge Management Between Generations

by Newell Hampson-Jones

Published by BSI, an edited down and easier to read version of my MBA dissertation.

This paper defines and explores the relevance and impact of higher education and standardization on the management of... more This paper defines and explores the relevance and impact of higher education and standardization on the management of knowledge between generations within the current workforce (through Baby Boomers to Generation Y). This research was conducted using archival evidence, with an interpretivist philosophy and inductive approach.

It was concluded that higher education and standardization can both be effective tools to aid knowledge management between generations. Two theoretical models, the Generational Knowledge Framework and Organisational Knowledge Committees, indicated how higher education and standardization could have a positive knowledge management impact at both the economic and organizational level. The Generational Knowledge Framework also presented a possible solution for employers in innovative businesses, who have difficulty employing science, technology and mathematics graduates.

This study presented opportunities for further research, using different methodologies and strategies, which could widen the scope of this study or add more deductive evidence to the subject. That few answers were found, but many further questions arose indicates how important the subject of generational knowledge management could be to successful, innovative economies.

Inter-Generational Impacts in Competition Analysis: remembering those not yet born

by Christopher Townley

Forthcoming (2011) 11 European Competition Law Review

Imagine an agreement between two engineering companies, which produce vehicle components. They set up a joint venture... more Imagine an agreement between two engineering companies, which produce vehicle components. They set up a joint venture to combine their R&D efforts to improve the production and performance of an existing component. The companies pool their existing technology licensing businesses in the area. The R&D is paid for out of current profits and will, in part, be funded by an agreed price increase; so current consumers pay for it. If the R&D is successful, only future consumers will benefit.
The OFT Discussion Paper asks whether ‘consumers’, in Article 101(3)’s second condition, only refers to current consumers (that is, those currently purchasing the product) or does it extend to future consumers (who do not purchase the product now, perhaps because they are not yet alive, but will do so in the future). In other words, the OFT Discussion Paper notes that over a longer time period:
“…benefits can be inter-generational. Here the consumers who effectively paid for the benefits do not receive them. Instead, future generations of consumers benefit. Currently, this appears to be the threshold above which we infer that the Commission no longer considers them relevant benefits…”
This was one of three themes discussed at a breakfast roundtable that the OFT organised in May 2010.  The focus of the debate was a recent OFT paper: OFT, Article 101(3) - A Discussion of Narrow versus Broad Definition of Benefits (OFT Discussion Paper). 23 experts attended, some from other UK competition authorities (the Competition Commission and Ofcom), DG COMP, some UK government departments (Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills), academia, businesses and law firms. The OFT compiled a synopsis of the roundtable’s discussion (Synopsis). 
Section 2 presents some preliminary observations; then Section 3 examines some legal, moral and economic issues. Next, the paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of aggregating costs to current consumers with benefits to future consumers in the same market (Aggregating Across Generations), Sections 4 and 5, respectively. Section 6 concludes, in favour of Aggregating Across Generations.

Die" Sandwich-Generation": Soziale Realitaet oder gerontologischer Mythos? Basisdaten zur Generationenstruktur der Frauen mittleren Alters in …

by Josef Hörl

Bariery i perspektywy integracji międzypokoleniowej we współczesnej Polsce (Barriers and prospects of social age integration in contemporary Poland)

by Andrzej Klimczuk

A. Klimczuk, Bariery i perspektywy integracji międzypokoleniowej we współczesnej Polsce (Barriers and prospects of social age integration in contemporary Poland), [in:] D. Kałuża, P. Szukalski (eds.), Jakość życia seniorów w XXI wieku z perspektywy polityki społecznej, Wydawnictwo Biblioteka, Łódź 2010, p. 92-107.

Civic non-participation in public life is one of the most important problems in contemporary Poland. This phenomenon... more Civic non-participation in public life is one of the most important problems in contemporary Poland. This phenomenon makes all generations equal and it requires breaking of the barriers in intergenerational integration. Presented study shows that the aspiration for coherence and stability of the system may be based on the taking advantage by using benefits of age difference in society. Article indicates dimensions and levels in seeking quality solutions for the integration in conditions of shaping social dispersion space order. It also contains types of different approaches to the integration barriers related with process of aging society and discrimination based on age phenomenon.
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Obywatelskie nieuczestnictwo w życiu publicznym należy do najważniejszych problemów współczesnej Polski. Zjawisko to czyni wszystkie pokolenia równymi a przeciwstawienie się mu wymaga przełamania barier integracji międzypokoleniowej. Niniejsze opracowanie wskazuje, iż dążenie do spójności i stabilności systemu może opierać się na wykorzystaniu korzyści z różnicy wieku członków społeczeństwa. Wskazane zostały wymiary i poziomy poszukiwania rozwiązań jakościowych na rzecz integracji w warunkach kształtowania się w przestrzeni społecznej ładu rozproszonego oraz typy barier integracji międzypokoleniowej związane z procesem starzenia się społeczeństw i zjawiskiem dyskryminacji ze względu na wiek.

Generating meaning across generations – The role of historians in the codification of history in Soviet and post-Soviet Estonia

by Meike Wulf

M.Wulf & P. Grönholm, “Generating meaning across generations – The role of historians in the codification of history in Soviet and post-Soviet Estonia”, in Special Issue on Collective memory and pluralism in the Baltic States, Journal of Baltic Studies, 41 (3), 2010, pp. 351-382.

The main focus of this paper is on processes of official history making in post-Soviet Estonia. Special attention is... more The main focus of this paper is on processes of official history making in post-Soviet Estonia. Special attention is thus given to the historians, as memory agents, i.e. their self-understanding and their changing role as codifiers and mediators of social memories, and shapers of a post-Soviet Estonian identity. Overall many historians took on an active political role in the restoration of a sovereign Estonian state; the question though is: why and when did they assume a more active role in supporting the independence movement and subsequent nation building processes? Based on their post-1991 biographic accounts, various modes of talking about their past experiences, such as glorification, denial, self-justification, apologetics, distancing, resignation and destiny, are singled out, as these reveal strategies of coping with loss and of generating new meaning. The key analytical tool herein are generational group identities among post-Soviet Estonian historians, which by and large, this is the argument, inform their personal and professional outlook.

Locating Estonia: Perspectives from Exile and the Homeland

by Meike Wulf

Meike Wulf (2009). Locating Estonia: homeland and exile perspectives. In Peter Gatrell and Nick Baron (Ed.), Warlands: Population Resettlement and State Reconstruction in Soviet Eastern Europe, 1945-50 (pp. 231- 254). Palgrave Macmillan : Basingstoke.

After the Second World War 'homeland Estonians' and 'Estonians living abroad' co-existed on two sides of the Iron... more After the Second World War 'homeland Estonians' and 'Estonians living abroad' co-existed on two sides of the Iron Curtain equally maintaining to be the rightful bearer of a 'true' Estonianess. Based on a sample of life story interviews with 42 historians from Estonia, I identify narratives of (1) hope, betrayal and loss; (2) 'purity', 'pollution' and whitewashing; and (3) transgression and return, that at times conflict and at times converge. I argue that notions of 'authenticity' were at centre stage in these competing identity claims and that in the context of their mutual (mis-) perceptions, 'pollution' was primarily defined as 'moral degradation' and 'ideological contamination'. Overall these three sets of narratives relate closely to the process of identity re-configuration among Estonians after 1991.

Changing memory regimes in a new Europe

by Meike Wulf

To be published in: East European Memory Studies. Memory at War e-newsletter, Nov. 2011(http://www.memoryatwar.org/resources-newsletter).

European memory politics undeniably affects the prospects of a shared European identity. During the political... more European memory politics undeniably affects the prospects of a shared European identity. During the political transition of 1989/91 East European societies needed to redefine their collective identities through reinterpreting their recent past. Consequently the historical interpretations grown out of the specific East European war experience, that is the double legacy of Nazism and Stalinist communism, began to increasingly challenge and clash with commonly held western interpretations after 1989. Pointing to the fault lines of these colliding political memories in the new Europe, this paper provides a contextual analysis of these interpretive differences. The regional focus of this paper is on the Baltic Three and Poland (with some references also to Ukraine), as these four new member states are at the forefront of a new commemorative politics in Europe. It is on the ‘level’ of political memory that memory regimes are formulated and political myth constructed, but this paper also tackles the ‘level’ of social memory and puts forward a generational explanation for the character of the new East European form of commemorative politics.

Youth Culture

by Richard Kahn

Co-authored with Doug Kellner, The International Encyclopedia of  Communication, Wolfgang Donsbach (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

"Entre nativos digitais e fossos geracionais. Questionando acessos, usos e apropriações dos novos media por crianças e jovens

by Daniel Cardoso

Co-authored with: Cristina Ponte

Baseada em resultados de um estudo comparado entre 21 países europeus promovido
pela rede europeia EU Kids Online... more Baseada em resultados de um estudo comparado entre 21 países europeus promovido
pela rede europeia EU Kids Online (www.eukidsonline.net) e nos quais Portugal
participou e em inquéritos recentes feitos no país sobre como crianças e jovens usam os
meios de comunicação, entre eles a Internet, esta comunicação pretende delinear em
traços largos os perfis dos jovens como utilizadores activos das novas tecnologias de
informação.
A par dos usos dos jovens, é também analisada a forma como os pais e a família
percepcionam oportunidades e riscos, como fazem a gestão do acesso dos mais jovens
aos media e até que ponto estão em contacto com a realidade dos "nativos digitais" – o
"fosso geracional" ganha contornos mais definidos.
Palavras-chave: EU Kids Online; Crianças e Internet; Educação para os Media; Infoinclusão;
Info-exclusão; Info-integração

Conflictul generaţiilor în România interbelică. Mircea Eliade şi tatăl său (Revista de istorie şi teorie literară, XLIV, nr. 1-4, 2007)

by Liviu Bordas

Le nom du pere: Mircea Eliade et le conflit des generations (Euresis. Cahiers roumains d’études littéraires et culturelles , nr. 3-4, 2007)

by Liviu Bordas

“Attack of Boss-zilla!” – Female Conflict and Generational Discord in Postfeminism’s New Monstrous Feminine

by Hannah Hamad

Flow TV, January 23rd, 2010

Holocaust. Trauma, its transmission and connection with identity

by Julia Maria Koszewska

keywords:
Holocaust; trauma; PTSD; post-holocaust trauma; survivors; children of Holocaust; Holocaust children;... more keywords:
Holocaust; trauma; PTSD; post-holocaust trauma; survivors; children of Holocaust; Holocaust children; second generation; third generation; trauma transmission; identity; Jew; jewish; Poland