"This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern period. In so doing, it demonstrates robust alternatives to the universalising western imperial model of the later period. Deploying a number of...

"How can organizations and individuals manage intercultural challenges and benefit from diversity? Intercultural Management is about managing across cultures: the difficulties and opportunities it brings and the competencies needed to handle the situations and create solutions. Applying a...

Positive tourism in Africa : resisting Afro-pessimism -- The community-based natural resource management programme in southern Africa : promise or peril? The case of Botswana -- Land reform and the promotion of collaborative community-based ecotourism at Somkhanda game reserve, South Africa --...

Fruit forward?: Wine regions as geographies of innovation in Australia and Canada / Julie McIntyre, Donna Senese and John S. Hull -- There's no taste like home: histories of native food on the changing landscape of the Northern Rivers Region / Adele Wessel -- Terraform and terra firma:...

This book introduces readers to a powerful method for cross-cultural due diligence in mergers and organizational collaborations. It employs the context of joint ventures between local communities and companies in the domain of hospitality in emerging tourism destinations. The book first analyzes...

"In the economics of everyday life, even ethnicity has become a potential resource to be tapped, generating new sources of profit and power, new ways of being social, and new visions of the future. Throughout Africa, ethnic corporations have been repurposed to do business in mining or tourism;...