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Internationalization and Human Resource Management: Having intercultural understanding in the ages of globalization

Geoffrey Ditta · Universidad Nebrija, Spain
This paper examines the international management of human resources. People have been one of the first challenges of any company wishing to work and develop an activity in other regions. The various movements of these human resources and competencies have implicated the phenomena of culture exchange…
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Religion in census, the 2011 Albania experience and its flaws

Ilir Akshija · University of Medicine Hospital Center, Albania
The sensitive topic of religion in the Albanian 2011 census and the coming one is the focus of this study. The country majority is composed of ethnic Albanians, sharing the same nationality; blood, language, culture, territory while religion differs. It was found a flaw in categorization under the c…
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Shamballa - A short essay on the relationship between the city, the world and the expansion of consciousness.

Davide Crimi · Independent Researcher, Catania, Italy
Starting from the images of the myth of the city of Shamballa, this essay intends to examine its sources and above all the power of vision which, by combining different exegetical lines, ends up assuming complete existential indifference with respect to the traditions of extraction. From this change…
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Milestones in forging the contemporary perception of CSR. An overview

Christos Tsilikis · Panteion University, Athens, Greece
Acting in a socially responsible manner did not simply materialize in modern times. Social Responsibility has been of concern to mankind since antiquity, being intertwined with the need to help people whose economic and social circumstances may be dire. Adam Smith was the first to introduce the noti…
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Sustainable Agriculture and Farmers Choices Among Short Term Efficiency and Preserving the Future

Alda Miftari · Applied Social Sciences, Sapienza, University of Rome, …
This paper focuses the attention on the biodiversity of production system of farmers and the social impact in the environment process related on the economy scale. Farmers in Italian regions are growing fast and are developing new paradigms on sustainable agriculture for the development and eco-frie…
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Realism: Philosophical and Scientific

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
What kind of realism - if any - are we allowed to endorse? It is often stated that, in order to provide realism with a solid foundation, we need having recourse to a reality that is totally independent of thought (and let alone of language). This is taken to be the key thesis of realism. But many ph…
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The Impacts of Political Corruption on Democratic Consolidation and the Electoral Process in Nigeria

Joseph C. Ebegbulem · Department of Political Sciences University of Calabar,…
Since 1999, Nigeria has witnessed an uninterrupted democratic experiment with many challenges. With the installation of multi-party democracy in Nigeria, the era of military authoritarian regimes were over as Nigerians were looking forward to a free society characterized by social justice, economic …
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Cournot-Nash Family Decision and Economic Growth in an Extended Solowian Model

Wei Zhang · Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan
The purpose of this paper is to study economic growth with family-based microeconomic foundation. It develops a neoclassical growth model of endogenous wealth accumulation and consumption of two-person families. Growth mechanism and economic structures are based on a generalized Solowian growth mode…
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The Mediterranean Today. Stability, Instability, Orientations. A first rapid excursus

Maria Macioti · University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
A quick trip to some Mediterranean countries shows significant disparities, situations of inequality, different religious preferences, and struggling minority populations. The dream of a Mediterranean crossroads of cultures, which has taken up so much space in our past, seems today to retreat-- leav…
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The Functionality and Comparisons of BSC and Alternative Theories in Organisations: Business Perspective

Benneth Nwafor, Hosein Piranfar, John Aston · London School of Science and Technology, United Kingdom…
The purpose of this research is to show the comparison of Resource-based view, Human capital, stakeholder as alternative theories and Balanced Scorecards (BSCs). Resource-Based View (RBV) appears to be limited with narrow implications as the strategic roles. RBV is forced on the internal organisatio…
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Personality and Institution - Reflections on paradigmatic structures in Max Weber’s thinking

Karl Rehberg, Silvana Aliberti · Institute of Sociology, Technische Universität Dresden,…
The structure of scientific revolutions - if we follow Thomas Kuhn - is characterized by crises of knowledge and chances by changes of paradigm, a term that is mostly outside the natural sciences only used metaphorically. But also, in sociology, there are something like paradigmatic premises, questi…