Among non-oil exports and in trade arena, drug has always been strategic importance and most government especially industrialized countries pay special attention to its production and trade issues. Thus, having a comprehensive view from economic perspective to this section is essential for suggesting intervention. This was a descriptive-analytical and panel study. In this study, gravity model i...

Worldwide, children without permanent parents often enter alternative care arrangements (e.g., adoption, foster care, institutional care, or reunification with the birth family following alternative care), and many advocate placing such children in family-type care arrangements over institutions. The published literature on existing care alternatives suggests that adoptive families provide the ...

BACKGROUND This study explored community perceptions of cultural beliefs and practices that may increase sexual risk behaviour of adolescents, to understand more about meaning they hold within the culture and how they expose adolescent orphans and non-orphans to higher risks in a high HIV and teenage pregnancy prevalence context. METHODS Using a qualitative descriptive cross-sectional design ...

This paper attempts to examine the issues surrounding the role of national culture bias and the concept of distance among Hofstede's (1980) cultural dimensions on the ability to reach integrative agreements in international business arrangements between firms. Relational models of negotiating and the role of culture are presented as well as several managerial implications and propositions for f...

In achieving success in global sourcing arrangements, the role of a cultural liaison, boundary spanner or transnational intermediary is frequently highlighted as being critical. In this paper, we argue that concepts like “boundary spanning” have been limited in theorizing the complexities of cross-cultural collaborations in offshore outsourcing processes. This paper presents an alternative fram...

Automation that & appropriate for application in realistically complex sociotechnical domains should be based on an integrated understanding of the technical, human, organizational, economic and cultural attributes of the application, and can be enhanced by development and use of particular types of concepts, principles and methods. Almtrad-Automation technology, including digital computer and ...

Drawing from the above quote this paper looks at how culture is being viewed as the basis of, and tool for, human development, and it examines how cultural and socio-cultural factors affect the practice of development. In effect, in this short perspective I want to ask a series of questions. What is the impact of culture on social and economic arrangements? What is the role of culture and diver...