This paper focuses on local adaptations, referring to the significant or subtle changes local firms make in their local business processes and rules in order to fit with a generic application system, and to the changes they make in the features of a generic application system. Local adaptations are therefore bidirectional in nature. Although several studies stress the importance of local adapta...

Prior research on fundamentalist religious movements has focused attention on the complicated relationship among gender, family, and religion. Using data from a nationally representative survey of 30,000 Hindu and Muslim women, this study compares the daily public and private behaviors of women in India to examine how gender and family norms are shaped in the context of communalized identity po...

The trope of the "body politic" is reproduced in a Bengali popular court, or moot, not only through explicit submetaphors of that master metaphor but through a grammatical example of what Peirce called diagrammatic iconism. The iconism of reduplicated verbs with reciprocal meaning became pivotal in the metacommunicative negotiation of the agenda of a rural Bangladeshi moot. Such forms of iconic...

Based on primary data from India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying women’s low labour force participation. In developing countries, women engaged in unpaid economic work family enterprises are often not counted as workers. Women involved expenditure-saving activities, i.e. productive within family, over and above domestic chores care work. We document fuzziness of boundary between (an...

In this article, the veil was treated as a central theme in selected literary texts. For purpose, autobiographical novels, youth literature and short stories were selected. All examined for motif by evaluating perception individual works. addition, holy scriptures, Torah, Bible Koran analyzed veiling fundamentals. The works religious backgrounds behavioral pattern of respective observed. During...