This study aims to find out the relationship between the use of SNSs and educational adaptation process of Chinese international students (from China) in New Zealand. Based on interview data, this paper addressed how Chinese international students use SNSs (RenRen, Facebook, etc.) to expand and manage their online social networks to help their adaptation to new educational environment. As a cas...

This paper sets up a model, where multinationals compete in quantities and domestic firms form a competitive fringe. Within this framework, we analyse the relationship between market concentration, international outsourcing and the industry price-cost margin. The empirical results of a panel of 66 industries and the EU12 countries in the 1990s strongly confirm our theoretical hypotheses. Market...

Journal of Marketing Research Vol. XLVI (August 2009), 506–517 © 2009, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Yi Zhao is a Fellow of the Center for Excellence in Brand & Customer Management, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University (e-mail: [email protected]). Ying Zhao is Assistant Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), a...

This paper describes the problems that must be addressed when studying large amounts of data over time which require entity normalization applied not to the usual genres of news or political speech, but to the genre of academic discourse about language resources, technologies and sciences. It reports on the normalization processes that had to be applied to produce data usable for computing stat...

mitigation of violence and protection of fundamental human rights, in time of war, constitute the main object of international humanitarian law. the subject of present study is to determine whether or not, apart from international obligations, the duty to respect some basic principles of this law results directly from the constitution of the islamic republic of iran. any answer to this question...

This paper is a study of the use of emergy indices for the evaluation of sustainable urban development. The Emergy Exchange Ratio (EER) and Emergy Waste Index (EWI) were introduced into the Emergy Sustainability Index (ESI) to establish a new index that reflects the emergy benefit per unit cost of environmental impact, which includes the market exchange and pollution/waste flow in the measureme...

PurposeOne of the most substantial factors for Tourism Industry is Hotel Industry while it could provide the necessary substructures for Tourism. Growth in Hotel industry will lead to the growth in Tourism industry. Considering a major growth in Hotel industry in recent years in Iran, in this research, numerous objectives had been pursued. The first purpose of this study is to explore four diff...

This paper reports on research of scholarly research practices and requirements conducted in the context of the Preparing DARIAH European e-Infrastructures project, with a view to ensuring current and future fitness for purpose of the planned digital infrastructure, services and tools. It summarises the findings of earlier research, primarily from the field of human information behaviour as app...

There is little consensus on the corporate diversification-efficiency relationship in the diversification literature. According to the corporate diversification, firms have a tendency to get more market share with diversifying in the local segment or in the international market. Theoretically, a contradictory exists between the profitable strategy and the value reducing strategy in the diversif...

postcolonial approach in the field of international relations and contemporary approaches are emerging. this approach kept to a subordinate non-western country to focus its research and analysis, and change brmlasakhtn interested in the complex relationships of power / knowledge that reproduces the contemporary world order.different definitions of post-colonialism of the past, present and futur...