Portuguese Abstract: Nós procuramos, por meio desse trabalho, analisar como uma liderança religiosa, tida como carismática segundo a teoria de liderança proposta por Max Weber, poderia influenciar no desenvolvimento econômico e turístico de uma região. Para desenvolver essa análise...

The abstraction of physical commodities into quantified financial contracts has played an important role in enabling the mathematisation of western society. In particular, financial ethics has provided the basis on which mathematical probability has been developed. This paper begins by...

Almost all of the serious studies of Behavioral Economics have dealt with individuals, but the results of those studies have been used as guidelines for producers and other organizations as well as individuals.There have been a few serious studies of producers, but they have been largely...

We study the interplay between scientific progress and culture through text analysis on a corpus of about eight million books, with the use of techniques and algorithms from machine learning. We focus on a specific scientific breakthrough, the theory of evolution through natural selection by...

The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. Using several measures of stated and revealed preferences spanning over half a century, we...

In Saudi Aramco, Information Technology operation departments are supporting oil and gas operations by providing and supporting IT services and infrastructure all over Saudi Arabia. This work is carried out across a vast geographical area that includes both onshore and offshore remote areas. To...

This paper is concerned with online communication of apartment buildings' residents on general purpose social networking site (SNS) VKontakte (VK), focusing on how groups' participants use instruments of SNS to separate place-based discussions and participation in wider community initiatives....

India has been a maritime nation since time immemorial with maritime trade being mentioned in the Vedic texts and ship repair and building facilities being discovered at Indus Valley sites that dot the Indian sub-continent.As India grows as an economic power and takes its place at the forefront...

Social interaction and spaces between urban blocks is a topic that has dominated recent discussions concerning urban social and cultural studies. In this paper, I argue that the study of the different types of urban block arrangements should also adopt social interaction spaces that will...

During the last decades, the corporate world has witnessed a significant rise in the number of cross border mergers and acquisitions (M&As).In cross border M&As, not only different corporate cultures collide, but also different professional and national cultures.The purpose of Cultural Due...