Purpose This study aims to advance knowledge in international management research about how researchers’ cultural identity in fieldwork encounters may be grounded in the choice of language in multicultural and multilingual projects. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on critical...

This article analyzes a classroom project that integrated desktop documentary making with an educational foundations course in order to foster empathetic development in pre-service teachers toward unfamiliar cultural groups. The project required each tertiary student in the course to create a...

The present article has as a starting point the phenomenon of globalization, so debated worldwide today. Along this work, we have tried offer a departure point, motivated of what the phenomenon of globalization means in economical context. Thus, we debate problems of major interest like:...

The tourism has been outlined with new valences by the practice of the rural tourism, this new type being adequate to the actual modern age. The rural touristic offer identifies itself, actually, with the rural touristic product, which is nowadays increasingly demanded on the touristic market....

Purpose This paper examines the relationship between traditional timber frame structure and the diasporic identity of the Southern Fujianese Chinese community in West Malaysia. It analyses the cultural semiotics of Southern Fujianese traditional Chinese temple timber frame structure...

Purpose The study aims to explore how fashion visual symbols influence consumers' inclination for repurchasing. It attempts to investigate the intricate interplay among three essential variables (social presence, collective excitement and cultural identification) from the perspective of...

This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...

Fast ein Fünftel der in Deutschland lebenden Menschen hat einen Migrationshintergrund - Tendenz steigend. Ihre Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt stellt eine Aufgabe von nationaler Bedeutung dar. Dies gelingt nur, wenn die jeweiligen regionalen Gegebenheiten und die unterschiedliche nationale...