tourism paves the way for intercultural dialogue. Intercultural dialogue should be enhanced to improve intercultural acceptance. Tourism extends our knowledge and information in two ways: better understanding of ourselves and others. Keywords: Globalization; Intercultural Communication; Cultural Tourism; Cultural Dialogue; Oman 1. Introduction: For the past decade or so, events such as September 11 terrorist attacks, Bali bombings, London bomb attacks, shooting and bombing in Norway, emergent
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1. Introduction 1.1 The purpose of research The economy of global has developed rapidly in recent years. Each of countries’ businesses are interconnecting and integrating. One factor of globalization which is global finance has an influence in financial reporting (Flower & Ebbers, 2002). Nowadays, financial statements are presented in various ways, a large quantity of the world’s listed companies use either IFRS or US GAAP. In spite of the heavy blow to the SEC of US which has announced that
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com/locate/tre Global supply chain design: A literature review and critique Mary J. Meixell a a,* , Vidyaranya B. Gargeya b,1 School of Management, Enterprise Hall, MSN 5F4, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444, United States b Information Systems and Operations Management Department, 479, Bryan Building, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, United States Abstract In this paper, we review decision support models for the design of global
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Theme: - Business Management and Information Technology Sub-Theme:- Leadership in the Information age Mrs. Khushboo sandhu, Asst. professor in M.k Ponda College Of management, Bhopal (MBA H.R)
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understanding of the notion of culture. When business leaders, church leaders, and missiologists consider how to effectively participate and fulfill the mission of God, they face new opportunities and fresh challenges due to the relentless changes in globalization and technological advances in travel, communication, and media. Formidable challenges exist daily for twenty-first century believers called to work in the world.
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GLOBALIZATION: BOON OR BANE INTRODUCTION Globalisation can be defined as the growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through the increasing volume and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services and of international capital flows through the rapid and widespread diffusion of technology. The fact that is important in today’s globalisation that really matters is that the accelerating speed is very fast. In the past it takes years or decades for
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June 10, 2014 KENNETH S. ROGOFF CURRICULUM VITAE Economics Department, Littauer Center, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138-3001, 617495-4022, FAX: 617-495-7330, email: krogoff@harvard.edu Webpage: http://scholar.harvard.edu/rogoff Birth date: March 22, 1953 Married to Natasha Lance Rogoff, two children (Gabriel and Juliana) EDUCATION Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., February 1980 Doctoral Dissertation: Essays on Expectations and Exchange Rate Volatility. Yale University
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Executive summery This literature review discusses objectives of financial development and economic growth as well as existing relationship of this concept. Financial development is strongly connected with economic situation, but we do not know for sure if this always implies economic growth. There are many factors which influence relationship between financial development and economic growth and its effects such as financial liberalization, government ownership of the banks, monetary policy
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Jinan University Undergraduate Teaching Plan 2009 ～ 2010 Academic Year Semester: 1st. [√ ] 2nd. [ ] Course title International Marketing Course type Compulsory[√ ] Specialized [ ] Optional[ ] Textbook(s) Marketing / International Marketing Major or sub-major IET Students classification Non-mainland[ √ ] Mainland[√ ] Department International Economy & Trade
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Country-of-Origin: An Overvalued Phenomenon? Date: 18 September 2014 Course: Marketing Management Workgroup: 2 Amount of words: 3,487 Authors: Dirk van der Wardt - 10868496 1. Introduction ‘Made in China, something we are proud of’ This sentence is the slogan of MISTERCHI, a company that sells scooters and motors fabricated in China. Their statement is an example of what academics call country-of-origin (COO). Just like MISTERCHI, multiple companies mention COO
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