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Organizations are facing a disrupted environment, which results in a need for managers who can quickly respond to volatile conditions. Such conditions lead to changes in traditional leadership and the construction of new leadership recognized by contemporary literature as digital leadership (DL). The main objective of this research paper is to examine the levels of DL and digital maturity (DM) in small and medium-sized Croatian companies in the context of digital transformation (DT). The research sample included 156 companies, and the results indicated relatively high levels of DL; indeed, nearly four companies achieved the highest level of DM. The results indicated a negative correlation between the level of DL and DM. Gender was shown to have an impact on the level of DL, while it was not indicated that gender has an impact on the level of DM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RILM Index is a partially controlled vocabulary designated to index scholarly writings on music and related subjects, created and curated by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM). It has been developed over 50 years and has served the music community as a primary research tool. This analytical review of the characteristics of RILM Index reveals several issues, related to the Index's history, that impinge on its usefulness. An in-progress thesaurus is presented as a possible solution to these issues. RILM Index, despite being imperfect, provides a foundation for developing an ontological structure for both indexing and information retrieval purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At mid-career, Georgia Rhoades and Lynn Moss Sanders, co-teachers with a group of Teaching Assistants in a developmental writing course at Appalachian State University, changed their practice by introducing a primary research report assignment, which was outside their experience as English professors. Their experience and research was published in The Subject is Research, edited by Wendy Bishop and Pavel Zemliansky (2001). In this essay, they discuss how that assignment has since evolved for them in different contexts, including Folklore and Writing Across the Curriculum program faculty development, and affected not only their practice but teaching theories as well. Rhoades explains her use of the assignment as part of a statewide faculty development program for community college faculty in North Carolina, and Moss Sanders discusses her work in advanced and graduate folklore courses as the basis for ethnographic research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Archival research offers students a chance to engage actively with their local community through hands-on primary-source investigation and assessment. This report describes an archival research project in a 200-level course as a significant learning experience that integrates research, writing, revision, and collaboration processes ultimately to produce a class-authored document for web publication. The project has four phases-primary text reading and discussion; archival research and collaborative writing; collaborative assessment of all research findings; and individual student assessment of the class document as a whole. Students develop skills in assessing primary documents, solving research problems, composing collaboratively, citing sources, and understanding texts in their disciplinary contexts. This project is appropriate for lower-level courses in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. I describe the four phases, discuss the learning outcomes of each phase, and offer suggestions for adapting archival research projects across the disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers suggestions for paying attention to original sources for information such as avoiding dangers of being dependent on secondary source while framing the study work, helping to gain the insight of ideas by tracking its history, and learning from the masters itself.

Funding development of the company through the „Initial Public Offering" has a high representation globally, the Czech Republic unlike, and belongs to traditional methods of raising funds necessary for development of business in the developed capital markets. Without the possibility to obtain the capital by this way the global financial system, the economic system alike, would be of a quite different shape than nowadays, in the United States of America, Japan and in the Western Europe countries the method of company funding through IPO has been applying for several decades already, The first public stock offerings began to be applied in these markets in higher volumes from the beginning of the 60th of the last century. From that period importance of IPO goes up globally and the initial public stock offerings begin to be applied more and more even in the Central and Eastern European countries. Under the conditions of the Czech capital market this way funding of development of the company, connected with its entering into the capital market, is not very usual The Strategy of Sustainable Development of the Czech Republic considers this situation the weakness of the Czech economy, and its resolving has to be paid a due care. The paper presents the findings of a primary research that focused on identifying the causes of the low interest of Czech companies in financing their development through initial public offerings. The primary research that was quantitative in its nature was conducted using questionnaires addressing a sample of companies, which, in the investors' understanding, might be considered as prospective candidates for IPOs. The research was carried out as part of my PhD thesis that focused on the issue of IPOs on the Czech capital market, [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the abstract of the research "Using online surveys for primary research data collections: lessons from the field," by Lisa A. Burke and Karen E. James, published in the 2006 issue of the "International Journal of Innovation and Learning".