Chapter 1: Introduction; Gabriele Capelli, David Mitch -- Part I: Global religious activity and schooling.-Chapter 2: Religion, colonialism and missions in Africa; Felix Meier zu Selhausen -- Chapter 3: The long legacy of missions in Latin America; Felipe Valencia -- Part II: Colonial legacies,...

The Welfare State and Welfare Capitalism -- Theoretical Foundations of the Welfare State -- Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: Interlinking Welfare State and Production Regimes -- Historical Development and Contemporary Challenges of the Advanced Capitalist Welfare State -- Historical Phases of...

Ongoing global changes pose fundamentally new scientific problems requiring new concepts and tools. A key issue concerns a vast variety of practically irreducible uncertainties, which challenge traditional models and require new concepts and analytical tools. Uncertainty can dominate, as in the...

Chapter 1 – Performance Management Transcending Across Cultures: The Impact of Covid-19 -- Chapter 2 – The Dark Side of Performance Management Systems -- Chapter 3 – Western culture meets Eastern culture: The Thailand Context -- Chapter 4 - Cultural Values Adjustment and Cultural Efficacy...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Intercultural Proficiency Matters -- Chapter 2: Understanding Cultural Differences -- Chapter 3: Communicating Across Cultures -- Chapter 4: Dealing with Acculturative Stress and Cultural Adjustment -- Chapter 5: Navigating Cultural Diversity with Intercultural...

Through a global series of case studies, this pioneering book delves into refugee entrepreneurship - a major economic, political and social issue emerging as a top priority. Stories from Australia, Germany, Pakistan and many other countries, highlight the obstacles facing refugees as they try to...

In order to be developed, inter-organizational relationships, as well as organizational cultures, rely on communication, learning, trust, commitment, and shared meanings and symbols. This book discusses the emergence and development of an inter-organizational culture, in which meanings, beliefs,...

This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations. To do so, it integrates studies on the organizational sciences, cross-cultural management, positive psychology and sociology within a single comprehensive framework. Twenty-two authors from six countries identify the...

Providing in-depth analysis, this book enables readers to understand the theoretical aspects of personal selling and explores the difficulties of selling services which are sensitive to cultural, age and gender differences, and to customers originating from diverse cultural zones. Agents and...