There was never a clear interpretation of modern architecture in Chinese history. Socialism ended five thousand years of feudalism. Cultural Revolution wiped out any sense of cultural continuity. The sudden return of market economy flooded the country with Western influence. These drastic social changes provided the driving force for a new national identity. However, the rapidly economic growth...

Communication has acquired many of the institutional-professional trappings of an academic discipline, but as an intellectual tradition it remains radically heterogeneous and largely derivative. What mainly explains the field’s disciplinary emergence is its significant relationship to communication as a category of social practice, and it is, I argue, by reconstructing its intellectual traditio...

BACKGROUND This study applies the POETICs framework (population, organization, environment, technology, institutions and culture) to an analysis of industrial carbon dioxide emissions in Japanese cities. The inclusion of institutional variables in the form of International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives membership, ISO 14001 implementation, and non-profit sector activity addresses ...

Following the collapse of socialism in the late 1980s, Central and Eastern European countries initiated attempts to adopt capitalist economic frameworks and promote entrepreneurship. However, persistent economic difficulties and high levels of unemployment have led to dissatisfaction with political parties favoring capitalism. We integrate identity, institutional, and social movement theories t...

Only six years ago Europe engaged in a grand enterprise of institutional design that irreversibly tied together the monetary destiny of eleven, then twelve, nations. The European single currency, the euro, has in the meantime become a visible token of Europeans’ drive towards unification. Historically, currencies have been rightly regarded as one of the fundamental components of sovereignty. Th...

This study examines the influence of key corporate governance factors on the internationalization decisions of emerging economy (EE) firms. By integrating the resource-based view and agency theory, it investigates the effects of controlling owner identity, non-controlling shareholder ownership, and the interactions of these with CEO power, in order to reveal their individual and joint effects o...

Table of content: 1. The frames of the research 2. The historiography of the Romanian and Hungarian Jewish communities; the sources of the research 3. The Jews of Cluj till the WWI 4. The demographical structure and the topography of the Jewish population of Cluj 5. The Jews occupational structure and their role in the economy 6. Interdictions, Segregation and Anti-Semitism in Cluj 7. The Jewis...

In 2005, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) stirred the higher education world with the announcement of a new classification for institutions that engage with community. The classification, community engagement, is the first in a set of planned classification schemes resulting from the foundation’s reexamination of the traditional Carnegie classification system. The ...

Risk for Ambulatory Disability as per the Class, Race, and Sex (CSR) Hypothesis Carlos Siordia1* & Hilario Molina II2 1 PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2 PhD, Department of Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA Siordia was supported by grant numbers T32 AG000181 and U01 AG023744 from the National Institute of ...