Influenced by regional economic integration and politics, the transboundary common water resources in lower Mekong River are being exploited riparian states for hydroelectric dam development at expense of local livelihoods environment. Affected communities non-governmental organisations – formed into ‘transnational environmental movements’ (TEMs) framework transnational activism have challenged...

The emergence of the transnational corporation (the “TNC”) as a main engine of global economic activity is a phenomenon characteristic of the post-Second World War period. These corporations revolutionized international business patterns, leading to an unprecedented level of transnationalization of the world economy. The importance of foreign investment and TNC activity in the world economy is ...

Faced with ongoing debates on globalisation, societal institutionalism in its traditional form is showing its limits. In this paper, we suggest that a serious sociologically grounded and institutional contribution to the ongoing debate on global governance calls for a shift in focus – away from the preoccupation with national configurations and towards an attempt at understanding transnational ...

An ongoing question for institutional theory is how organizing occurs transnationally, where institution building occurs in a highly ambiguous environment. This article suggests that at the core of transnational organizing is competition and coordination within professional and organizational networks over who controls issues. Transnational issues are commonly organized through professional bat...

BACKGROUND Methods for error analysis are suitable to increase patients' safety as well as staff satisfaction and may avoid, in a sense of process control, financial damage to the hospital. The aim of the presented pilot study was to establish and evaluate an incident reporting system as a first step towards a new safety culture. METHODS In June 2003 an incident reporting system was introduce...

are gratefully acknowledged, as well as the financial support of the European Union Human Capital and Mobility Program, Contract Nr. ERB4050PL930320. For the development of international scientific collaboration see among others Luukkonen et al. (1992).

Faced with ongoing debates on globalisation, societal institutionalism in its traditional form is showing its limits. In this paper, we suggest that a serious sociologically grounded and institutional contribution to the ongoing debate on global governance calls for a shift in focus – away from the preoccupation with national configurations and towards an attempt at understanding transnational ...

The recently granted “independence” to Kosovo by the transnational elite, in flagrant violation of international law and the UN, has completed the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. As I pointed out elsewhere the dismembering of Yugoslavia was an attempt by the transnational elite to fully integrate the area into the New Economic Order of the internationalised market economy. Thus, given ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the parental factors related to children’s reading by comparing two types of families, transnational marriage families in which the mother was not born in Taiwan and local families. Data for this study came from the PIRLS 2006. There were 273 children from transnational marriage families. Children’s gender, mother’s education level and well-off conditi...

The study of new media use by transnational social movements is central to contemporary investigations of social contention. In order to shed light on the terrain in which the most recent examples of online mobilization have grown and developed, this paper combines the interest in the transnational dynamics of social contention and the exploration of the use of new ICTs for protest action. In s...