Transnational policy transfer through cross-border government-to-government collaboration projects has been widely adopted as a tool to facilitate economic growth, especially by developing countries. Why did some transnational of succeed while others fail? What are the facilitating and constraining factors in shaping their fates? theoretical implications for public administration development gl...

Wewished to further understand Transnational Knowledge Transfer (TKT) in a not-for-profit context. To accomplish this, we explored, verified, and mapped out the key factors affecting TKT using a fourcomponent framework in the context of publically funded knowledge transfer (KT) projects. The Delphi technique was used to explore, identify, and verify the relevant key factors; 24 major factors we...

The world economics are developing to the internationalization direction depth, various countries' economy in interdependence and under international division of labor condition, not only in production, distribution area, but also in the capital, technology, information, and transportation and so on, manifests internationalization tendency. In order to deal with the international market and the...

Based on a survey of 90 transnational product introductions, we find that the transnational product development capabilities of organizations significantly depend upon their ability to transfer and deploy tacit knowledge concerning overseas markets. Specifically, we find that organizations which use cross-national teams, teams with members who have prior overseas experience, or teams whose memb...

The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) lays strong emphasis on task-based language teaching (TBLT). However, this approach constitutes a challenge for many foreign language teachers, not so much because they are not familiar with the approach or its benefits, but because of the requirements and practical conditions to be met. Most national curricula are clear about the importance of ...

This paper explores experience of 'guilt' as a motivating emotion in the migrant process. Data are drawn from two major research projects with a focus on Italian transnational families comprising adult migrant children living in Australia and their ageing parents in Italy. Findings confirm Baumeister et al.'s (1994) three broad functions of guilt as relationship-enhancing; a tool for exerting i...

This paper examines the roles of cosmopolitans and locals in transnational teams that work on knowledgeintensive projects. I propose that cosmopolitan and local team members can help their teams to acquire and apply knowledge more effectively, by bringing both internal and external knowledge to their teams and enabling the teams to more successfully transform this knowledge into improved projec...

Since the late 1990s, we have witnessed an extraordinary development of Grid technologies. Nowadays, different Grid infrastructures are being deployed within the context of growing national and transnational research projects. However, the coexistence of those different infrastructures opens an interesting debate about the coordinated harnessing of their resources, from the end-user perspective...

Current and former students of the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz interviewed German historian Stefan Rinke, of the Freie Universität Berlin, who specializes in examining the historical development of Latin America as it fits into the international context. Rinke's work uses dimensions such as economic and diplomatic relations, migratory flows, and ethnic conflict as tools in his analyses of the ...

In 1980, national land transport networks in Asia were unconnected between each other and across national borders, financed from public budgets, and tightly controlled by national road and railway administrations. Today, a Trans-Asian transport network is emerging that is governed by an ecosystem of local, national and international, and private sector institutions, and that are an integral par...