Historically, alternative models of the employment relationship have developed across culturally diverse nation states. However, the trend towards globalization incorporates a powerful force towards an international uniformity of employment relations. Underlying the issues addressed in this book...

The answer is yes to both. For decades, research on entrepreneurship culture has relied on two competing theoretical foundations for the important concept of entrepreneurship culture. One camp views entrepreneurship culture as an aggregate of personality traits conducive for entrepreneurship....

The contributors to 'International Tourism' reconceptualize the local and the global, avoiding such crude oppositions as centre v. periphery, modern v. traditional, macro v. micro and North v. South. Instead, they demonstrate that the local cannot be understood without the global, and that the...

Experience, mobility, professional narratives and human geography / Weronika A. Kusek & Nicholas Wise -- Population geographies of Brazil : a geographer's personal and professional viewpoints / Alan P. Marcus -- Migration : how international fieldwork helped me embrace my immigrant identity /...

The Satisfied Customer in International Business -- Customer Satisfaction, Culture, and Personality -- The Structure of the Zone of Tolerance across Countries and Individuals -- The Confirmation/Disconfirmation-Paradigm in a Cross-Cultural Perspective.

In contrast to hierarchical leadership within intra-organizational contexts, leaders of inter-organizational networks have to lead across organizational boundaries without hierarchical fiat or directive authority. The central research question of Susanne Ruckdäschel is how leadership behavior...