The growing emphasis on rural small and medium size entrepreneurship for economic development, especially in the context of poverty alleviation in developing countries has thrown up some major challenges for the commercial ventures led by women in global perspective. The position of women, even...

The first purpose of this chapter is to analyse this internationalization push by extending the sample to 22 major automobile firms and carefully assessing their geographical reach to check if there is a real globalization process. We use a statistical approach that tries to measure the degree...

This paper studies the regulatory issues related to the “Sovereign Wealth Funds” (SWFs), described as “special purpose” government investment vehicles.Concerns have been expressed due to SWFs limited disclosure and transparency and their multiple investment objectives.While the risk of a...

Urban education policy debates pivot around dueling lines of discourse on what ails inner-city youth; specifically, students in inner-city schools are portrayed as emblems of a largely African American and Latino “culture of failure,” even as they remain largely absent as active participants...

August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina made landfall and caused catastrophic damage along the coastlines of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana killing at least 1,836 people [12]. Nearly 80 percent of the city of New Orleans and surrounding areas were ravaged. Katrina is estimated to be responsible...

Racial identity is also a social construction. As such, others' perceptions of a person's racial identity are not a constant. They are potentially malleable. Indeed, many aspects of race-oriented social constructions have little relation to phenotypical correlates or the birthplace of one’s...

The Communication on the Arctic Region, issued 20 November 2008 by the EU Commission to the European Parliament and the Council, proposes a more ambitiously conceived as well as a more effectively coordinated approach to Arctic policy issues by the EU. The Commission’s policy brief thus sets...

This research study mainly focused on mental health problems due to overcrowding in the prison. The goal of this study is summaries what we now know about the worldwide over population crisis situation. In 2000, there were about 8.7 million people in prison around the world, presently there are...

Economists and strategic management theorists interested in sustained competitive advantage often examine firms’ management of knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, the interaction between knowledge creation and knowledge capture practices has received little attention. Using survey data from...