Introduction: Common Disciplines That Separate Us—Local Contexts in Global Networks

—Gyula Vastag, National University of Public Service (Budapest, Hungary) and Széchenyi University (Győr, Hungary)

Paraphrasing George Bernard Shaw’s often repeated wisdom about context making a difference (“England and America are two countries, separated by the same language”) in its theme, the 4th Annual Conference of the European Decision Sciences Institute (EDSI) aimed to highlight the importance of local contexts in a globally connected, and as such, more and more standardized, world. Despite global trends, we view our professional worlds differently: We prefer different journals for publishing papers on the very same topics; we follow different value systems ...

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