The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the unsustainable relations between business, society, and natural environment in Mexico around world. Given these relations, this essay asks question: How can Mexican multinational corporations enable human flourishing both at work communities where they operate? It answers question by examining how Indigenous concept of Buen Vivir (living well) serve as a bas...

The introduction of new analytic methods and expansion of research into previously untapped regions have greatly increased the scale and resolution of data relevant to the origins of agriculture (OA). As a result, the recognition of varied historical pathways to agriculture and the continuum of management strategies have complicated the search for general explanations for the transition to food...

Most ethnographers have little use for models and other formal abstractions, yet even a staunch empiricist such as Franz Boas could appreciate the “aesthetic” advantages of idealization simplification. These been largely ignored in recent decades, anthropologists come to favor ever more intricate encompassing accounts. The resulting “ethnographic involution,” I suggest, has steadily diminished ...

Author bibliographic coupling is extended from bibliographic coupling concept and holds the view that two authors with more common references are more related and have more similar research interests. This study aims to examine the association between author bibliographic coupling strength and citation exchange in Information Science & Library Science and more specifically, in imetrics. The res...

We are living through a global urban transition, but the timing of this transition has varied significantly across countries and regions. This geographic variation in matters, both theoretically substantively. Yet contemporary debates on urbanism hinge primarily questions universalism versus particularism, at expense attention to how history geography collide shape processes. Specifically, they...

This article analyses a public discussion held in Palestine during the last months of 1929 over proposals for a particular Palestinian flag. Based on readers’ reactions published in the daily newspaper Filastin and on letters sent to the Arab Executive, the article examines the character of Palestinian identity as it was imagined by a certain segment of the Palestinian elite. The three main lei...

We develop an institutionally oriented theory of how and why local communities continue to matter for organizations in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both practitioner and academic circles, research has shifted away from understanding effects of local factors. Our approach runs counter to the idea that globalization is a homogeneity-producing process, and to the vie...