Portuguese Abstract: A emergência da elite de Macau, no primeiro qiarto do século XX tem sido associada a dois fenómenos aparentemente contraditórios. Eles estão, contudo, interligados. Primeiro, o surgimento de grupos locais alinhados ideologicamente com os principais partidos republicanos...

This study analyses the expansion of the EU into energy market regulation. It shows that the limits to EU influence and, thereby, EU energy market regulation for the internal energy market, begin where EU influence affects national interests with regard to ensuring energy security. This...

Structural equation modeling (SEM) has become a quasi-standard in marketing and management research when it comes to analyzing the cause-effect relations between latent constructs. For most researchers, SEM is equivalent to carrying out covariance-based SEM (CB-SEM). While marketing researchers...

Nowadays, Sudan suffers severe financial crisis with the demise of 75% of its oil revenues that represented over 90% of its foreign currency after the secession of its Southern part after a constitutional referendum. The compensatory revenues generating economic sectors are not able in the...

This manual is a compilation of case studies related to practices in international diplomacy and negotiations. Each case study presents the background and outcome of the negotiation; discusses the relevant theories and perspectives; and offers recommendations on good practices in negotiations....

In the indicated foreword letter of Janice Stevens (2008), she announced the target of the Department of Health to halve the number of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia by this year. As an infection control nurse, this monograph will discuss about MRSA which requires...

Independent of the left-right model of ideological structure, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food and agriculture are resented across the political spectrum in Switzerland. In the absence of any real experience with genetically modified (GM) food but faced with continuous exposure to...

Purpose – Modelling the organization to enable purposeful analysis and diagnosis of its ills is often problematic. This is illustrated by the unconnected non-synergistic plurality of organizational models each of which relates to a particular isolated frame of thought and purpose. A cybernetic...

The recent economic crisis compels us to think how to avoid other future disasters. Since averting misconducts is more cost-effective than punishing them - due to the global social costs and the difficulties of restoring damages when the social harm has already occurred - regulation and legal...

Labor wages, employment rates, strategies and policies are completely ignored if not totally missing in Sub Saharan Africa. That represents a potential reason for poverty and popular discontent and expressed by rebellions, revolts and civil uprisings in many countries as we have seen in the past...