International Conference «Embeddedness and Beyond: Do Sociological Theories Meet Economic Realities?», Moscow, October 25–28, 2012

Eighth International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids, SKG 2012, Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2012

Pakistan International Biennial Conference on “Ramadan and Health”-10th & 11th October 2015.

Why Do International Assignees Stay? an Organizational Embeddedness Perspective

We apply an organizational embeddedness perspective to examine international assignees’ retention with the organization. Specifically, we hypothesize that assignees’ social ties within and their perceived fit with the host unit positively relate to two sacrifices with leaving the organization: their firmspecific learning during the assignment and their perceived career prospects in the organiza...

2012 International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference

under the theme Expanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance. During these two days, practitioners and researchers across many disciplines gathered to share best practices , lessons learned and cutting edge approaches to timely disease surveillance. A record number of abstracts were received, reviewed and presented – the schedule included 99 orals, 4 panels, 94 p...

Peace, War and International Security: Economic Theories

This paper considers the economic theories that are relevant for the study of peace war and international security . It presents different levels of generality, starting with the big questions of international security, which are usually the domain of international relations, before moving to general economic theoretical perspectives and then focusing on some specific developments in economics ...