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Management in Chinese cultures
Money & Business

Management in Chinese cultures

...change... Management in Chinese cultures An introduction to this album. Clan-based networking Exploring the relationship between Confucian values and the way companies do business in Asia. Guanxi How a form of business relationship that entails mutual obligation is a common way of starting up businesses in Asia. East-West management Asian companies are less hierarchical...
Understanding Globalisation
Money & Business

Understanding Globalisation

...Susan Segal Horn explains how national cultures are becoming less different Technical developments Technological developments and change operate beyond national borders Is globalisation a good or bad thing? Susan Segal Horn weighs up the Pros and Cons of Globalisation? Is globalisation inevitable? Susan Segal explains why she believes that globalisation isn’t inevitable...
Have we got Wonga wrong? A defence of payday loans
Money & Business

Have we got Wonga wrong? A defence of payday loans

...changes in the last year improved the sector? The payday lending market has changed significantly since regulation was announced last year – it appears that the industry is making real efforts to clean up its act. This being the case and in an age of alternative lending models such as peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding, we should be cautious about automatically...
Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight

...changes in food consumption suggested by their results. Also, the review does not establish conclusively whether reducing portions at the smaller end of the size range can be as effective in reducing food consumption as reductions at the larger end of the range. Critically, there is also a current lack of evidence to establish whether meaningful short-term changes in the...
Can your friend be your therapist?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can your friend be your therapist?

...change or enhance their wellbeing.’ So a therapeutic relationship is concerned with working towards change and dealing with problems, but what about friendships? Sociologist Graham Allen (2008) has studied the nature of friendship and suggests that there are at least three key features in maintaining a friendly relationship: shared interests, equality and reciprocity....
Rich pictures
Science, Maths & Technology

Rich pictures

...change relatively slowly over time and are relatively stable (i.e. the people, the set-ups, the command hierarchy, etc.). Next look for processes within the situation – the activities that are going on and the things that are in a state of change. Then look for the ways in which the structure and the processes relate to each other. At this stage, avoid thinking in...
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What is Double Jeopardy?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Double Jeopardy?

...change made? One of the key reasons is the development of DNA evidence. The ability to match traces at a crime scene to a specific individual has had a huge impact on criminal cases. Some people who were convicted of crimes later had their innocence established by DNA evidence. Other people had been acquitted before DNA evidence, which might prove their guilt, became...
Parlez-vous Eurovision?
Languages

Parlez-vous Eurovision?

...changed in 1999 to allow countries to compete in any language, all winning songs bar one (Serbia in 2007) have been sung in the English language. Alas, the UK is far from being the only country singing in English: of the 40 songs that entered the competition this year, 33 are in English and one is sung in both English and Romanian. Only one song not in the English...