During the fifteenth century female convents flourished in north-central Italy revealing a flurry of extraordinary literary production together with an unprecedented intellectual activity among women: the monastery of St. Lucia in Foligno is particularly interesting for being emblematic of this…

The purpose of this research is to enhance understanding of social enterprise in emerging markets, highlighting key success factors. A general systems perspective is applied to comparative case studies in the Dominican Republic and Mexico, revealing interrelationships among social entrepreneurs,…

In this article, the practitioners/academicians examine leaders who care from the Confucian perspective in South East Asia, more so, in the Singapore and Brunei Darussalam context. Using Chinese sayings and proverbs, the authors present and interpret Confucian values derived from…

The research of the peculiarities of psycho-social functioning and needs of families having children with disabilities has lately gained great significance pursuing to ensure successful social integration of the families, and to develop an effective system of assistance for them,…

In 1883 the family, literary magazine was published by time first in Mexico by an eminently social content, where the configuration of the paper role of the woman was constituting a central piece of her speech. The construction of the ideal…

At their inception, gift cards were sold by businesses to customers to give as gifts to others. More recently, gift cards are beingused strategically by businesses to manage and transform their relationships with customers. Of particular interest here is the…

The way in which an inclusive culture imposes its defining patterns over a less influential culture is called acculturation. In this article we will discuss the four strategies of acculturation and we will see how the Romanian immigrants in Madrid…

Firms’ scandals in 2000s led to new arguments about how audit mechanism should be. Consequently, authorities agreed upon profiting from information technologies for audit and claimed that real time financial and claimed that real time financial reports were done by…

Fortune Magazine’s 2012 list of 100 largest companies included 21 oil companies. This paper seeks to discern patterns of those 21 companies’ philanthropic efforts and communication thereof. Specifically, the paper will consider issues such as ownership (all companies were either…

Education is the change agent in the human society. It is education which took the human from caves to space. Education does its work through curriculum. Curriculum is so designed that it may enlighten the minds and souls of the…