Intention toward any occupational choice can be widely categorized as a rational choice process combined with a subjective attitude function. There is extensive literature dealing with the formation of intention toward entrepreneurship in adolescents, in particular as a result of either parental...

As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants' achievement scores lag well behind those of their nativeborn schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural...

Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Förderung der italienischen Kultur durch italienische Banken in der Schweiz. Aufbauend auf der aktuellen Literatur sowie dreizehn Interviews mit Akteuren des sozialen Feldes, darunter drei CEOs, ein ehemaliger CEO und jetziger...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: cultural work and justice -- Justice for cultural objects -- Practices, ethics and cultural work -- Talent, merit and arts education -- The long day closes : access and opportunity in cultural work -- The wages of art : "basic economics" or basic inequality? --...

Reading new currents in consumer culture theory / Eileen Fischer and John F. Sherry, Jr -- Rethinking fundamental notions : selves, others and systems -- Consumers in an age of autonomous and semi-autonomous machines / Russell Belk -- Market value of diversity and ethnicity : a cultural analysis...

Introduction: Culture and Contemporary Chinese Cinema in the Second Coming of Capitalism -- Homo Economicus: Individual Liberty and Market Dependency. Primitive Accumulation and the Emergence of the Liberal Subject in the People's Republic: Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Zhou Xiaowen's Ermo --...

Das Buch führt in die Netzwerkforschung ein, mehr noch möchte es aber als innovativer Forschungsbeitrag zur Untersuchung ihrer Grundlagen gesehen werden. Als Elemente sind beteiligt: Die soziale Situation, die angesichts meist weniger Beteiligter die Untersuchung von Mikronetzwerken nahelegt....

Introduction : capitalism, music, and social theory -- A brief history of music and capitalism before the rise of neoliberalism -- Neoliberal capitalism and the cultural industries -- Globalization -- Digitalization -- Singing in the shadows of neoliberal capitalism -- Conclusions : capitalism...

Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Diversity and Whorfian Economics / Nigel Fabb -- Dynamic Models of Language Evolution : The Linguistic Perspective / Andrew D.M. Smith -- Dynamic Models of Language Evolution : The Economic Perspective / Andrew John -- What Do We Learn from Neurolinguistics? / Mark...

"This book analyzes the social, cultural, religious, and political implications of the Islamic economy at the global level by highlighting the foundations upon which Islamic ideology is formed and how it impacts socio-cultural and economic systems both within and outside of primarily Islamic...

We explore the impact of an entrepreneur’s cultural capital on the performance of new ventures in both mature and transition economies. Results show that individualistic values of the founder influence early performance of new ventures, irrespective of the country context; and that in less...

Focuses on different regions (including China, Russia, India, and Japan) as well as different institutions and organizations to examine barriers to and effects of globalization on the art market's organizational dynamics and people within the art industry

"Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers, who embody China's most intractable problems of inequality. Drawing on...