TRANSNATIONAL PROJECTS OF EMPIRE IN FRANCE, C.1815–C.1870

Stakeholders and Transnational Projects

The project stakeholder literature has evolved into a voluminous body of knowledge in recent years. However, comparatively little research has focused on stakeholders in the context of transnational projects. Transnational projects in their entirety have become ubiquitous and very numerous over time, especially with the advent of globalization, and many exhibit an enormous level of technical co...

Designing Decisions Rules for Transnational Infrastructure Projects

This working paper is being published with the sole objective of contributing to the debate on a topic of importance to the region, and to elicit comments and suggestions from interested parties. This paper has not gone through the Department's peer review process or undergone consideration by the SDS Management Team. Foreword The Inter-American Development Bank has actively promoted infrastruc...

Transnational and Intercultural Practices in the Adriatic Littoral of the Late Habsburg Empire.

The paper describes the strategy of an interdisciplinary project on the patterns of transnational interactions and mobility that shaped intercultural dialogue in the south-eastern periphery of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. Methodologically, it is structured around three interconnected analytic levels of institutions, associations and everyday life, that are mutually constitutive, and the ex...

Superior Courts in Early-Modern France, England and the Holy Roman Empire

Transnational freelancing: Ephemeral creative projects and mobility in the music recording industry

Drawing on Gernot Grabher’s work on projects and project ecologies, there has developed a significant literature concerned with project-based organisations, recognising the fluid, transient, skills-based and localised nature of such forms. Yet, despite the inherent need within projects to draw on highly-skilled labour, such literature has tended to overlook the importance of freelance, mobile l...