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destination countries. The contemporary migration of health workers is also embedded in a longstanding and intensifying culture of … migration, centred on the livelihoods of extended households, and a medical culture that is oriented to superior technology and … advanced skills. This dual culture is particularly evident in small island states in the Pacific, but is apparent in other …
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alpha. Knowledge management in Iranshahr's power plant in the dimensions of culture, structure and technology examined and …
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This paper was presented to the May 2013 conference of the PostGLobalization Initiative (http://pglobal.org/) in response to a request from the organizers to present suggestions for the policies required to get out of the economic crisis which opened in 2007, and their implications for the...
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answers to the economic crisis, the social problems of a deeply unequal world, and to resource depletion and rape. Culture has … instruments needed to understand that culture is in fact the most economically important human activity, once the economy is … drive of culture is the opposite. The creative industries show that the present course of economic development is bumping up …
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This paper asks whether, and how, the state can solve the present crisis. The method of enquiry is to analyze what it did in the two comparable crises of 1893 and 1929. In each case, a prolonged and structural slowdown in the world economy was followed by financial crisis, a period of turmoil...
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Status is a valued workplace resource that facilitates career success, yet little is known regarding whether and how cultural orientation affects status attainment. We integrate status characteristics theory with the literature on individualism and collectivism and propose a cultural patterning...
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, cultural factors are often invoked to explain heterogeneity in preferences. These two ideas suggest that culture determines the … short run equilibrium values of economic variables, but, in the long run, culture changes in response to the underlying …
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