This study seeks to examine the ways in which transnational life is lived at different ‘‘local’’ levels. In particular, we ask: What are some of the important aspects of immigrants’ life that are enacted across borders? To what extent are ethnic media that serve the immigrant population connected to home countries in content and operation? To what extent does transnational news have local and g...

This paper describes an Action Research project which was undertaken to inform professional practice in order to develop a newly created Centre for Student Success in the specific context of transnational medical and nursing education in the Middle East. The objectives were to enhance the academic performance, persistence, integration and personal and professional development of a multinational...

This paper contributes to the recent debates and emerging concepts in the international business literature by applying a social-institutionalist perspective that focuses on the processes of institution building in ventures between Western multinational corporations and post-socialist enterprises. It is argued that the knowledge and learning processes within these transnational sites are consti...

This article generally examines the phenomenon of transnationa l religious actors and seeks to assess the claim that their activities can undermine state sovereignty. It starts from the premise that globalisation facilitates the growth of transnational networks of religious actors. Feeding off each other’s ideas and perhaps aiding each other with funds, they are bodies whose main priority is th...

Through a feminist critique of the ethnography method and the use of reflective HCI and global ethnography methodology, in this paper I will provide a discussion of methodological challenges for transnational design research using ethnographic methods. This discourse is meant to explore potential adjustments to HCI’s common use of ethnographic methods; specific attention is given to transnation...

In this paper we consider how the concept of psychological distance can inform interventions that promote positive outcomes in transnational distributed teams. We focus on two primary characteristics of transnational distributed teams: physical distance between members, and social distance in the form of heterogeneity among members. We present a theoretical model describing how these characteri...

The term ‘global civil society’ has taken on increasing significance within scholarly debate over the past decade. This paper seeks to understand transnational political agency via the study of a particular transnational actor, Oxfam. It argues that the various schools of thought surrounding the global civil society concept, in particular the prevailing liberalcosmopolitan approach, are unable ...

This paper quantifies the impact of terrorism and conflicts on income per capita growth in Asia for 1970-2004. Our panel estimations show that transnational terrorist attacks had a significant growth-limiting effect. An additional terrorist incident per million persons reduces GDP per capita growth by about 1.5 percent. In populous countries, many additional attacks are needed to achieve such a...