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The Role of the City in Fostering Intergroup Communication in a Multicultural Environment: Saint-Petersburg's Case
Taranova, Natalya V. - 2003
multicultural environment in the city with cultural diversity. Second, the city as social context, the images and myths of the city … multicultural city, taking into consideration that network interactions build up not between the territories, but in the space …
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Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future
O'Riordan, Timothy (contributor);  … - 2013
focuses on the various characterisations and metaphors of tipping points, on the scope for anticipating their onset, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688501
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From the global to the everyday: Anti-globalization metaphors in Trump's and Salvini's political language
Freistein, Katja; Gadinger, Frank; Unrau, Christine - 2020
narratives, metaphors, and emotions. We argue that right-wing populists skillfully present abstract phenomena of globalization … and translate them to individual experiences of 'ordinary people'. Metaphors play a crucial role in populist storytelling … recent cases of 'successful' right-wing populist, anti-globalization storytelling, which build on strong metaphors. One is …
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From war to change, from resistance to resilience: Vicariance, bricolage and exaptation as new metaphors to frame the post COVID-19 era
La Sala, Antonio; Fuller, Ryan Patrick; Calabrese, Mario - In: Administrative Sciences 12 (2022) 3, pp. 1-17
In complex societal contexts, resilience seems the only way to survive and prosper. This is even truer when considering the present COVID-19 pandemic and its detrimental effects on global health systems and on every aspect of life. The impact was so deep that the World Health Organization (WHO)...
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When the going gets tough, leaders use metaphors and storytelling: A qualitative and quantitative study on communication in the context of COVID-19 and Ukraine crises
Gkalitsiou, Katerina; Kotsopoulos, Dimosthenis - In: Administrative Sciences 13 (2023) 4, pp. 1-42
Metaphors and storytelling are important communication tools that play a significant role in leadership and … organizational life. Leaders have used metaphors and storytelling to enhance their written and verbal communication from ancient … times, since Aristotle, to the modern age. In the present research, we focus on the use of storytelling and metaphors by …
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Corporate dieting: Persuasive use of metaphors in downsizing
Hoßfeld, Heiko - In: Management Revue 24 (2013) 1, pp. 53-70
This paper considers how companies use their own mass communication media to create, with the aid of metaphors, a …
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Making it work: The mixed embeddedness of immigrant entrepreneurs in New Zealand
Cain, Trudie; Spoonley, Paul - 2013
In seeking economic immigrants, especially those who are skilled, entrepreneurial and with capital to invest, a settler country such as New Zealand has assumed that national and city labour markets/economies will gain by adding to the human capital pool as well as creating new 'economic'...
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Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas and exports
Bratti, Massimiliano; De Benedictis, Luca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2018
In this paper we highlight a new complementary channel to the business and social network effect à la Rauch (2001) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin: they can become entrepreneurs. Using very small-scale...
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High-tech immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Hart, David M.; Ács, Zoltán J.; Tracy, Spencer - 2009
In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally representative sample of rapidly growing high-impact companies. This class of companies drives job creation and aggregate growth in the U.S. We find that, while most previous studies have...
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Immigrant entrepreneurship and the origin of bankers
Eliasson, Tove - 2014
Earlier research has shown that immigrant- and minority entrepreneurs have difficulties accessing capital through the formal financial markets. This essay studies what role immigrant employees within the local bank sector have for the probability of immigrants to run their own businesses. I use...
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