Cet article analyse un conflit local survenu au sein d’une commune de 5 000 habitants, lié à l’installation, de 2016 à 2018, d’un « village d’insertion » pour 80 migrants roumains précaires. Pour en comprendre les ressorts sociologiques et politiques, il mobilise, dans premier, temps la notion ...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), or simply Corporate Responsibility for those who favour an even broader approach, has become yet another buzzword in an age of sound bites where ideas fall into and out of fashion rapidly. For those who view big business as a continued source of inequality and destruction in the global village, the possibility that CSR may be a temporary trend is far from ...

The world today is said to be a “global village”. However, this village is, rather than a culturally homogeneous community, a world of diverse cultures. In this globalized world, how different cultures interact with each other and with globalizing forces in general is crucial to their survival and to their reinvention. This essay is intended to provide a critical examination of various existing...

Global software development has gained a drastic growth from the last two decades due to the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the world has become a global village. Offshore software development outsourcing (OSDO) is an important paradigm of global software engineering for the development of better and cheaper software’s at low-wages countries. The objective i...

The growth is impending concern, face to ‹ecology› musts of over-depletion/pollution. The technology-driven key is in ‹robot age› implements, by ‹to de-materialise› and ‹to re-materialise› goals. The paper draws on topics outlined in recent investigation of the authors, with the guess that progress is artificial man conquest, whose consistency cooks up transcendental (God benignity) or immanent...

Journal of Futures Studies, August 2004, 9(1): 45 58 For better or worse, humanity is now becoming a unitary whole in an important and unprecedented way. Many names have been given to this process; and because names create realities, it matters very much which one we use. Some, beginning with the sociologist Harold Innes and his student Marshall McLuhan, see it as a movement toward a global vil...

Cosmopolitanism is a western notion that epitomizes the need social agents have to conceive of a political and cultural entity, larger than their own homeland, that would encompass all human beings on a global scale. Cosmopolite in Ancient Greece meant citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism presupposes a positive attitude towards difference, a desire to construct broad allegiances and equal and ...

Abstract Despite the emerging body of literature on entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs), theoretical development is still in its infancy. In this article, we explicitly draw upon analogy forest (FEs) with an EE to extrapolate regional ecosystem (REE) as alternate conceptual framework. The REE considers a region’s socioeconomic activity and stability performance whole, influenced by partitioned int...

ed from: Nguyen Xuan Nguyen et al. (January 2010). Study on adoption of the System of Rice Intensification in Northern provinces of Vietnam. A report by commissioned by Oxfam America. On average, each woman from an SRI Farmer Field School promotes 5-8 other farmers to adopt SRI while the rate is only 1-3 for male graduates. Top: FFS graduates in Dông Trù village, Hanoi province, undertake SRI t...

The village tradestore in rural Papua New Guinea is a physical expression of modernity in the heart of the village and is symbolic of the new economic and social formations associated with incorporation. This paper examines how the village tradestore is positioned in relation to these processes of change by considering the management and operation of several tradestores in the Wosera sub-distri...