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Migration, Diasporas, and International Business—The Changing Landscape of Global Business Actors and Patterns
No full textInternational business and management operating across the world are increasingly influenced by internationalmigration and evolving diasporas. As a result, the landscapes of business, different business actors,and the respective patterns of diverse activities are shifting and influencing the world as a whole, especiallyhost and home countries. This Special Issue addresses these impacts reflecting not only entrepreneurial andmigratory behaviors, international mobility, entrepreneurship, trade and investments but also frameworks andinstitutions that shape and govern such processes. The contributions presented in this editorial provide multipleinsights not only into future avenues of research, specific populations, types of businesses, and areasbut also to respective policies and particular challenges and opportunities
Improving global coastal bathymetry from waves – Introducing scalable processing and post-processing workflows for 100 m resolution grids
Full text linkGlobal bathymetry data is essential for coastal mapping, modeling, and management, especially in insufficiently mapped regions. Ocean surface Wave Kinematics Bathymetry from satellite data provides a solution independent of water clarity, seabed habitats, and seafloor brightness. This study presents a fully automatic, scalable, and globally applicable Wave Kinematics Bathymetry processing workflow at 100 m resolution. Validated across eleven sites, it introduces automatic post-processing that eliminates false positives by up to 80 %, reduces depth errors by an average of 4.6 m and enhances data reliability. Deployed on the AWS cloud platform, this scalable method advances efficient global coastal bathymetry mapping
Contextualization and conceptualization of the determinants of self-initiated expatriates’ international opportunity recognition in an informal economy context
No full textThis study introduces an updated conceptual model that extends the contextual literature on self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) into the opportunity recognition framework. Integrating individual and contextual factors, this model examines opportunity recognition by SIEs in informal economies, an under-researched area. The current global migration context, characterized by economic opportunities, geopolitical conflicts, and environmental changes, is leading to significant demographic and labor transformations. These changes are having a substantial impact on international entrepreneurship. The new model extends experiential learning and self-construal theories, incorporating work experience in informal economies, cultural intelligence, individualism, and risk aversion. This model illustrates how SIEs leverage their diaspora connections and advanced cross-cultural competencies to navigate and utilize the entrepreneurial ecosystem effectively. Additionally, the study provides new and testable research propositions. This approach offers a comprehensive understanding of how SIEs recognize and pursue opportunities in informal economies, highlighting the intricate interplay between individual attributes and contextual influences
Digital Rebranding and Quotidian Self-Reinvention: Wellness Influencer-Healers’ Negotiations of Authenticity and Tellability Crises on Instagram
Full text linkThis paper examines practices of digital rebranding, characterised as the strategic overhaul and staged revitalization of one’s digital persona, within wellness influencer cultures on Instagram. Processes of rebranding, which are communicatively afforded by and performatively augmented through platform tools, features and semiotic resources, introduce a narrative disjuncture that requires delicate rhetorical management of self-historicity in relation to neoteric self-presentation practices in order to preserve impressions of authenticity. Drawing on data collected during a longitudinal blended digital ethnographic study, including screen-based participant observations, social media content extraction and oral interviews, I explore the ways in which female wellness influencer-healers discursively (re)negotiate their self-positioning in connection to their current and past digital brands and, relationally, their (imagined) audiences. I suggest that rebranding practices are narratively structured by and, in turn, enact authenticity through discourses of ‘personal growth’ and ‘pedagogical self reflection,’ thereby constructing self-presentational shifts as emergent and organic evolutions in one’s online presence. The paper further argues that digital rebranding manifests from compounded crises of authenticity and tellability, compelling users to continuously recalibrate their online personas in alignment with evolving platform norms and audience expectations. The analysis therefore foregrounds the paradoxical struggle of maintaining a stable personal brand whilst adapting to the dynamic nature of social media
The Picaresque Public Intellectual: Dialogue with Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
Full text link“Let this book be fiction,” Rodaan Al Galidi wrote at the beginning of his novel Hoe ik talent voor het leven kreeg (2016) [Two Blankets, Three sheets (2020)], “so that the world in which I stayed for years, transforms from fiction into non-fiction”.2 In the ambiguity of these words lies a comparison as well as a difference with the first modern novel: M. de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-12). Don Quixote travels through the Spanish countryside and intentionally decides to believe in a fantasy, to suspend the disbelief to say it with a 19th century axiom. Pretending that he is a famous knight, Quixote keenly transforms sheep into soldiers and windmills into dragons. Semmier Kariem, the protagonist in Al Galidi’s text, mixes reality and illusion as well, but not because he decides to play and suspend the disbelief, rather because he does not know where the boundaries of imagination and reality are. Coming from the desert in Iraq and having dwelled for years through the Middle-East, the protagonist lacks a fundamental knowledge and understanding of the Dutch well organised society and institutions. During the nine years of his asylum procedure, everything is strange and incomprehensible. Holland is the land of structure and control, of arrival and registration, handing over and taking in. Every asylum seeker receives “two blankets, three sheets, one towel, one pillow and a pillowcase” which must be returned once the applicant leaves for another location. Every single piece is checked over again and again
TrueOcean: How cloud and AI technologies are revolutionizing hydrography
Full text linkTrueOcean, developed by north.io GmbH, is an ocean data platform designed to address the complexities of managing, sharing, and analyzing marine data. The platform consolidates diverse sensor data formats into a unified, cloud-optimized format, leveraging scalable cloud infrastructure for efficient storage, processing, and analysis. Key features include the use of the Apache Parquet format for data unification and H3 indexing for efficient geospatial data management. The platform supports collaboration and data sharing through standard protocols like SFTP, RSYNC, WMS, and WFS. Additionally, the Geodata Processing Engine integrates Apache Spark and Kubernetes to enable large-scale data processing. By combining flexible data management, scalable analysis, and robust collaboration tools, TrueOcean serves as a comprehensive solution for marine data stakeholders, facilitating the extraction of actionable insights across various use cases
