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Regional politics and economic patterns: ‘glocalisation’ and the network enterprise

open access: yesBelgeo, 2000
The exploration of contemporary accents in regional economic policy is the starting point of this paper. The confrontation of this investigation with the theoretical background that is developed within the global-local paradox, leads to a glocalisation ...
Peter Cabus, Martin Hess
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In what sense ‘distinctive’? The search for distinction amongst cross-border student migrants in the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper offers a geographical analysis of the concept of ‘distinction’ in relation to student mobility within the UK. The analysis in this paper is based primarily on interviews with Scottish students who have chosen to study in England, and English ...
Tindal, Scott   +4 more
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Standardisation versus adaptation in international marketing of Polish companies operating in foreign markets: The case of Maspex

open access: yesInternational Entrepreneurship Review
Objective: The article examines the application of standardisation, adaptation, and glocalisation strategies in international marketing, with Maspex Group serving as a case study.
Paweł Milka, Jakub Garncarz
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Organic Agriculture as Livelihood Strategy: A Case Study in a Rural Community of Southern Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper presents the findings of a case study of a Brazilian community pursuing a livelihood strategy based on certified organic agriculture. Using the sustainable rural livelihoods framework, the paper identifies three different organic livelihood ...
Egelyng, Henrik   +1 more
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Gérald Leblanc, écrivain du village planétaire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Ce texte propose une lecture de l’oeuvre poétique de Gérald Leblanc à la lumière du concept de village planétaire forgé par Marshall MacLuhan. En observant le mouvement de dérive qui conduit le poète de la ville imaginée jusqu’au village globalisé, via ...
Morency, Jean
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Artificial islands as a manifestation of glocalisation

open access: yesKwartalnik Nauk o Przedsiębiorstwie, 2017
The article is devoted to economic reasons for creation of artificial lands, including artificial islands, and problems related to their functioning. The scientific achievements of economic geography constitute a theoretical basis of the analysis. Economic reasons for constructing artificial islands in particular may, to a large extent, be explained by
Dariusz Cezary Kotlewski   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Cultural legitimacy in transnational beauty communication: developing the IMCu framework from K-beauty negotiations in Indonesia’s Urban Heartlands

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication
K-Beauty has become highly influential in Southeast Asia’s global aesthetic scene. Yet, little is known about how its gentle messaging is understood in Muslim-majority areas, some of the fastest-growing beauty markets.
Wahab Afwan   +3 more
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Le tragi-comique, la migration urbaine et la couleur glocale dans Bleu Blanc Rouge et Black Bazar d'Alain Mabanckou

open access: yesÉtudes romanes de Brno, 2017
Notre article se pose pour but de démontrer quelques-unes des stratégies narratives et rhétoriques mises en place par le romancier, journaliste, poète et académicien contemporain, né en République du Congo, Alain Mabanckou.
Petr Vurm
doaj   +1 more source

e-Governance: Supporting pragmatic direct deliberative action through online communities of interest [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Authors often report on the limited success of e-Government initiatives in developing nations. Top down, national strategies are developed to target improved government services, but maintain hierarchical, citizen-state conceptions of governance through ...
Meehan, Anthony S.   +1 more
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Governing bodies or managing freedom? Subcultural struggles, national sport systems and the glocalised institutionalisation of parkour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Whilst being the world’s fastest growing informal sport, parkour is also undergoing a gradual institutionalisation which is shaped differently by each national context’s specific sport system.
Ferrero Camoletto, R, Sterchele, D
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