Abstract In some cultures, migrants bear an obligation to bring gifts from the foreign country for their relations when returning homeland. Why, and what end? We examine reasons these transnational gift obligations in a multisite study of Ghanaian United States Australia, as well people Ghana with migrant living overseas. adopt wealth-centered perspective that problematizes underexplored mutual...

The aim of this research note is threefold: 1) to introduce the concept paradox and its numerous applications study management challenges associated with planning delivery events, a specific look at large-scale events like Olympics provide an extreme case; 2) present new entitled "Global–Glocal Paradox" that interrogates how inherent global local stakeholder interests tensions are managed; 3) s...

In this report, authors from North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia share commonalities differencesin the lessons we are learning COVID-19, especially about scholarship collaboration. We represent different ages disciplines hence our focus on intergenerational perspectives transdisciplinary considerations. Our work is intergenerative{that going "between to go beyond" by connecting creative sou...

The ‘local’ community of Matera has been studied in a pioneering work by Lidia De Rita, who focused on the unique configuration its neighborly relations, defining “psycho-groups”, featured their not codified laws and affected topographical defects formation normal groups. In second half 20th century, radically changed status: from “national shame”, it was declared “World Heritage Site” UNESCO; ...

The development and support of highly customized and serviceenhanced products requires new organizational structures, involving the manufacturers, customers and local suppliers in a process of co-creation. This requires the implementation of the glocal enterprise notion with value creation from global networked operations and involving global supply chain management, product-service linkage, an...

Abstract. Exploration is a fundamental problem in robotics that requires robots to navigate through unknown environments autonomously gather information about their surroundings while executing collision-free paths. In this paper, we propose method for producing smooth paths during the exploration process indoor using UAVs improve battery efficiency and enhance quality of pose estimation. The d...