As international relations develop into a network-like arena, new public diplomacy receives more attention, both in research and in practice. At the same time, with the increasing role of non-state actors in international relations, their significant roles and functions have come under substantial scientific analysis. While companies engage in business abroad,  unintended results may emerge, af...

The present research featured the effect of academic mobility on international communicative interaction. objective was to identify role in PR activities universities. study relied method content analysis domestic and foreign scientific publications. authors used problem interviews develop an online questionnaire for students involved student exchange programs. described term PR-technology, as ...

This article examines technology policy and change in the Sudanese banking industry. Attention is given to the context of a developing economy that is aiming to fast track into the international banking arena through the introduction and use of new technology that is consistent with banking IT associated with more advanced industrialised economies. Some of the problems of translating a technolo...

This paper examines the administrative practices of the patent offices in sixty countries over a 150-year period, a little-explored arena where government bodies and private firms interact. Larger and wealthier countries where international trade is more important give patent applicants more options. In these nations, patent office administrators’ flexibility is often restricted and the respons...

The article comprises a conceptual framework to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a global health convention. The analyses are inspired by Lawrence Gostin's suggested Framework Convention on Global Health. The analytical model takes a starting-point in events tentatively following a logic sequence: Input (global health funding), Processes (coordination, cooperation, accountability, alloca...

T here has been a growing awareness of the importance of human resource management (HRM) in tbe global arena and a greater understanding of its international dimensions. This trend is reflected in the "evolution" of texts such as those by Dowling and his colleagues.' However, more "traditional" international HRM (IHRM) texts define the area too narrowly and descriptively, with little backing in...