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The review of: Binark, Mutlu (2019) Kültürel Diplomasi ve Kore Dalgası “Hallyu” -Güney Kore’de Sinema Endüstrisi, K-Dramalar ve K-Pop; Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi, ISBN: 9786057877321, 183 sayfa
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Černý, Karel. Velká blízkovýchodní nestabilita: Arabské jaro, porevoluční chaos a nerovnoměrná modernizace 1950–2015. Prague: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2017, 577 pp., ISBN 978-80-7422-595-6; English edition: Instability in the Middle East: Structural changes and uneven modernisation 1950–2015. Prague: Charles University – Karolinum Press, 2017, 476 pp., ISBN 978-80-246-3427-2. An abridged English version of this review has been published in the online version of the British Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 46, No. 3 (2019). The book by Karel Černý, published simultaneously in English and Czech (with the title "The great Middle Eastern instability: The Arab Spring, post-revolution chaos, and uneven modernization 1950–2015"), offers, in the reviewer’s opinion, a unique and original analysis of a broad spectrum of issues which the Middle East region has had to face roughly since the end of WW2. The author analyses modernization processes in local politics, economies, education, and media, as well as demographical changes and urbanization, finding the roots of the regional instability in a disharmony of the above spheres. He sets his studies of these regions into several macrohistoric-sociological comparative frameworks illustrating both specific and general aspect of the modernization process in the Middle East. In doing so, he evaluates the roles of Islam and post-colonialism as two indispensable factors of the situation in the Middle East in responsive and unconventional manner. Černý backs his analysis and conclusions by a broad selection of secondary published sources and a firm theoretical anchoring, but also by original and detailed empirical research and his own productive theoretical model. Thanks to the above, the author is able to present to us an accurate and convincing picture of the processes and events leading to the tumultuous Arabian Spring and subsequent events.
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The review of: - Hathapradipika, Przeł., wstęp i oprac. Maria Marcinkowska-Rosół i Sven Sellmer; Poznań: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 2018, 213 s. [zawiera bibliografię, 5 apendyksów, indeks], ISBN 978–83–232–3407–4 [twarda okładka]. - Maria Marcinkowska-Rosół i Sven Sellmer, Studia nad Hathapradipiką Swatmaramy; Poznań: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 2019, 238 s. [zawiera bibliografię, indeks], ISBN 978–83–232–3452–4 [twarda okładka].
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Necro tourism is a young and still relatively unknown and underdeveloped type of tourism that has been experiencing intense expansion in numerous countries around the world in recent decades. People’s interest in visiting sites of distress has a long history. However, only in the second half of the 20th century did it experience the character of planned and organized visits through agencies and institutions specialized in providing such services. Such services also imply a certain amount of compensation, which makes these visits tourist based and that they become an integral part of regular economic flows. Along with increasing tourists’ interest in necro-tourist sites, this phenomenon is gradually coming into focus of the academic community, which seeks to provide a theoretical framework for necro tourism. However, not all dilemmas caused by the appearance of necro tourism, including basic terminology, have yet been fully resolved, but the general consensus is that the concept of necro tourism or dark tourism implies the practice of visiting sites related to some form of death or distress. Despite justified criticism from part of the expert and general public that necro tourism encourages the commercialization of death and distress, in many countries around the world this type of tourism is experiencing intense development. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s neighbours are also catching up with this new global trend and are seeking to improve existing infrastructure and offerings. In the context of Bosnia and Herzegovina it is necessary to emphasize that there are huge, less controversial, necro tourism potentials primarily in the form of medieval tombstones called stećak, but also of other similar objects and sites. Nonetheless, necro tourism is still a relatively unknown trend in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and there is still much work to be done in presenting and popularizing it with the ultimate goal of specializing tourism offer and making better use of existing tourism resources.
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In this article the authors examine gender-based obstacles to successful female entrepreneurs' business practices, especially regarding work-life balance, gendered divisions of domestic labour within the wider problem of social reproduction in patriarchal societies, and business leadership. The authors have applied a qualitative methodology characteristic of ethnographic research. They analyse material from 24 semi-structured interviews with women entrepreneurs. The article's theoretical perspective draws on the feminist critique of gender and discourse analysis, and the research was conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia. The key findings demonstrate that policies and measures intended for the better inclusion of women in the world of entrepreneurship do not suffice unless they are embedded within a wider framework of the critique of patriarchy, as well as within a critique of the dominant concept of entrepreneurship, through gender-conscious intersectoral policies. This research's originality lies in its focus on informal practices, which women perform in both their formal and informal businesses, and which have the potential to become an equally valid model of entrepreneurial behaviour.
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The Scientific Bulletin of Politehnica University of Timisoara - Transaction on Engineering and Management (ISSN 2392-7364, ISSN-L 2392-7364, index Copernicus since 2016 and EBSCO since 2018) presents research results in the field of industrial management and business studies that are of significant impact on major contemporary issues. The journal welcomes submissions of theoretical, methodological, empirical, policy-oriented, as well as industrial papers. Additionally, it considers contributions that combine engineering and management studies with any other field of inquiry. Young researches are most encouraged to send their articles for being published.
The aim of Scientific Bulletin of Politehnica University of Timisoara, - Transaction on Engineering and Management is to publish articles related to the fields of engineering and management studies. The journal invites authors of original papers, technical reports or short communications of research results containing new insight to send their papers to the editor. The publication of submitted manuscripts is subject to peer review and both scientific and technical aspects of the submitted paper are reviewed before publication. The journal publishes high quality articles of multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary natures and welcomes papers from all disciplines in industrial management and business.
Topics (not limited):
Æ Management (Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, Human Resources Management, Operation Management, Production Management, Knowledge Management, Public Management and Governance, Decision theory and Problem Solving, Quality Management, Project Management, Investments Management)
Æ Marketing (Strategic Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Industrial Marketing)
Æ Logistics (Supply Chain Management, Transportation)
Æ Economic and social sciences (Economics, Accounting, Finance, Socio-Psychology aspects of industrial organizations, Organization Behavior)
Æ ICT applications in management and social sciences
Æ Environment Management, Sustainable Development, Green Product or Processes development, Green investments.
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The paper provides a summary of the initial phase of constructing the concept, using the theory of capital of Pierre Bourdieu to the analysis of the activities of enterprises. The core of this concept is the division of the resources in companies into four basic types corresponding to P. Bourdieu’s capital classification (division into economic capital, social capital, cultural capital and symbolic capital) and the assumption, according to which any entity embedded in market conditions needs to consciously manage the conversions of resources (from one type to another). The study was carried out in the group of 43 companies operating in the ICT sector in the Pomorskie Voivodeship. This study was a preliminary attempt to identify the preferences of both top management and regular employees of the analyzed companies regarding those types of capitals, which in the daily functioning of these companies play a central role (or would play such a role, if the company had enough resources). The topic of the paper is important, taking into account incompatibility often occurring in the preferences regarding various forms capitals among staff of the same company, that – in accordance with the presented theoretical concept – can lead to a decrease in the effectiveness of actions taken within the company.
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The book "Byzance, la Bulgarie, les Balkans" is a collection of more than 70 selected works, devoted on the Byzantine Empire, Bulgaria and the Balkans in the Middle Ages of the eminent doyen of Byzantine and medieval studies prof. Vasilka Tapkova-Zaimova. The collection includes articles published during the period 1979-2009 and is a kind of continuation of the issued in 1979 work "Byzance et les Balkans a partir du VIe siecle" by renowned London Publishing House "Variorum Reprints".
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The contributions in this collection pertain to a variety of multiethnic, multilingual and multicultural aspects of Canada, epitomizing the diverse academic interests of the members of the Bulgarian Chapter of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies. The Bulgarian Chapter is one of the recent additions to the Association —formed in 2004 — but since its very inception it has proved to be a vibrant and enthusiastic society for academics, to which the present volume undeniably testifies. The papers in this volume address a broad range of topics which have been grouped according to their subject matter: history/culture, literature, linguistics, and teaching. The study of Canadian culture is seen to involve both a general introduction to various aspects of Canadiana and the close scrutiny of phenomena that belong to specific subject areas.
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The term of organizational culture is difficult to define. While its study we have to deal with the variety of paradigms. Therefore it is not surprising that the reflection on the research methodology which would be the most accurate is appearing in the work. In the study of organizational culture there are usually proposed new methods that are often adopted from other disciplines, and even particular scientific fields, e.g. psychology, anthropology, or sociology. The purpose of the article is to prove that the method, which allows to conduct detailed study on the organizational culture is a case study. It attains not only artifacts and values, but also allows to extrapolate to the deeper layers of the organizational culture that are the basic cultural assumptions. The work considers that using triangulation (diversity) of research tools helps in achieving better analysis of the organizational culture.
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This book is about the Americanization of Yugoslav culture and everyday life during the nineteen-sixties. After falling out with the Eastern bloc, Tito turned to the United States for support and inspiration. In the political sphere the distance between the two countries was carefully maintained, yet in the realms of culture and consumption the Yugoslav regime was definitely much more receptive to the American model. For Titoist Yugoslavia this tactic turned out to be beneficial, stabilising the regime internally and providing an image of openness in foreign policy.Coca-Cola Socialism addresses the link between cultural diplomacy, culture, consumer society and politics. Its main argument is that both culture and everyday life modelled on the American way were a major source of legitimacy for the Yugoslav Communist Party, and a powerful weapon for both USA and Yugoslavia in the Cold War battle for hearts and minds. Radina Vučetić explores how the Party used American culture in order to promote its own values and what life in this socialist and capitalist hybrid system looked like for ordinary people who lived in a country with communist ideology in a capitalist wrapping. Her book offers a careful reevaluation of the limits of appropriating the American dream and questions both an uncritical celebration of Yugoslavia’s openness and an exaggerated depiction of its authoritarianism.
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The COLUMN, cultural and scientific journal of „Dimitrie Ghika-Comănești” Association, appendix of the journal „Studies and Papers“ /DIS/CRIFST of Romanian Academy, publishes original works of botany, zoology, chemistry, mathematics, geology, paleontology, museology, history, literature, environmental science, notes and anniversaries, reviews and obituaries of some personalities from the scientific field.
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Mostly through the case studies of the Slovenian Komisija and Czechoslovak Chronor, Klenoty and Bazar stores, this article presents socialist commission shops as providers of basic household goods. It therefore contributes insights into the complexity of commission shops as a specific type of second-hand retail as well as insights into the complexity of types of retail and socialist consumerism in general. It briefly compares commission shops with some other socio-historically known forms of second-hand retail, while pointing to the differences and similarities among them.
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The introduction to the first part of the special issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, titled “On the Move: Migration and Diasporas”, situates the articles included in the issue within theoretical discussions of significant factors that have influenced population movements, formation of diaspora communities, and diversification of the transnational life style during the past decades. The introduction discusses the genealogy of the concepts of diaspora, transnationalism, migration, and mobility, also drawing attention to their simultaneous circulation within the inter- and cross-disciplinary field today. Both forced and voluntary forms of migration are addressed. The relevance of the contributions of the current issue to larger tendencies and theoretical debates on mobility and migration is outlined. The study of migration and mobility constitutes a vast area of academic inquiry, yet there is not enough research on migration processes in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet countries. The articles fill this gap, engaging in a variety of issues, theoretical and methodological approaches, and diverse regions and historical contexts. These include historical transnational commuting practices, the effects of status shifts from voluntary to forced migration, the inadequacy of contemporary ICT-based communication means in comparison with face-to-face encounters, modes and strategies of (transatlantic) transnational identity, affective economy of migration, including its traumatic impact, and relevance of the researcher’s positioning in terms of the national culture of homeland and host country. Many contributions highlight the important role of sociality in managing migration and mobility, and in so doing, also diversify and contest central conceptual paradigms within the field.
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The purpose of this assignement is to rediscover the personality of Dimitrie Gusti, founder of the National Village Museum and of the Romanian Sociological School, a visionary who used the monographic research for the first time in our country, a man who greatly contributed to the Romanian culture and whose vision is still a vivid lesson of life.
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The article provides a complex analysis of models of interaction between migrants and a recipient society currently existing in the international practice, including new trends in the development of migration policies by various countries. It serves as a ground work aimed at the substantiation of conceptual foundations of the new migration paradigm based upon the change of social conditions and attitudes (from confrontation to acceptance) as well as the creation of legal, economic and social conditions for full-fledged inclusion of migrants into the new culture. The authors are convinced in the necessity to employ previously unused resources of civilizational reforming, which would not harm both national economies and legal frameworks, as well as individuals and society as a whole.
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Culture can be a powerful marketing and branding tool for corporations and states alike. As Polish companies strengthen the Corporate Social Responsibility model while competing on global markets, they should also pay special attention to supporting culture. The stronger engagement of business in cultural diplomacy would bring extra resources and create a synergy between the efforts of the private and public sectors to build Poland as a positive brand. To facilitate this cooperation, the government can create new mechanisms and regulations that will attract greater business involvement in such promotion.
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