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Top Management Team Diversity: A systematic Review
No full textEmpirical research investigating the impact of top management team (TMT)
diversity on executives’ decision making has produced inconclusive results.
To synthesize and aggregate the results on the diversity-performance
link, a meta-regression analysis (MRA) is conducted. It integrates more
than 200 estimates from 53 empirical studies investigating TMT diversity
and its impact on the quality of executives’ decision making as reflected
in corporate performance. The analysis contributes to the literature by
theoretically discussing and empirically examining the effects of TMT diversity
on corporate performance. Our results do not show a link between TMT
diversity and performance but provide evidence for publication bias. Thus,
the findings raise doubts on the impact of TMT diversity on performance
Antonius-Tin T. Bui oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Antonius-Tin T. Bui (they/them) was born in Bronx, NY in 1992. They identify as queer, gender-nonbinary, Vietnamese-American artist, whose parents Paul and Van Bui, two Vietnamese refugees have made huge sacrifices to provide a future for their four kids and extended family. Antonius moved to Houston before pursuing a BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MIC/A). Since graduating in 2016, Antonius has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Kala Art Institute, Tulsa Artists Fellowship, Halcyon Arts Lab, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Washington Project for the Arts, and Yaddo. These opportunities have greatly expanded Antonius' practice beyond just hand-cut paper techniques.
They are currently interested in complicating Vietnamese history and queerness through performance, textiles, and photography. Antonius has exhibited at various institutional, private, public, and underground venues, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hillyer Art Space, Lawndale Art Center, Living Arts, 108 Contemporary, Artscape, the Philbrook Museum, Experimental Action 2019, and the Museum of Human Achievement. Most recently, Antonius exhibited two series of their works "ReModel Minority," and "End Your Silence (Self Immolation)" which is a series of Zippo lighters with engraved texts, in HAAA's inaugural exhibition, "Faces in the Pandemic" that is on view in Fondren Library, Aug - Nov 2020. In this interview, Antonius speaks of their childhood, their parents' stories and family history, their upbringing, experiences in school, and a heartfelt story about their come-out experience with their parents. They also spoke of their artistic practices and their passion and vision for art, and an optimistic future they look forward to
Researching tourism and development in Southeast Asia: Methodological insights
No full textTourism for development has become an essential research field in its own right, also in Southeast Asia. Researchers and scholars within the region, but more broadly from around the world, dedicate themselves to understanding how to use tourism most efficiently as a development strategy. Much of this research is based on anthropological approaches, with field work as the prime method employed. However, very little has been said about the challenges that researchers with different positionalities encounter in the field, such as access to the field, language or working with interpreters, and power relations. This chapter therefore debates these challenges and points towards ways to address these by drawing on examples from the authors’ fieldwork in foreign and familiar fields. Examples include discussions on the above-mentioned challenges, with a specific focus on the emic versus etic perspective, also seen as the ‘insider-outsider’ debate. In doing so, the chapter demonstrates that there is no ‘ideal’ position from which to do research in the Southeast Asia. It deromanticises the idea of fieldwork at home as delivering more truthful accounts of the field and, finally, points towards the need for reflexivity in order to make our field research in Southeast Asia more robust and effective
Mapping tourism, sustainability, and development in Southeast Asia
No full textTourism in Southeast Asia traces back many years, with early forms of travel including pilgrimage, and travel for trade, land, resources, missions and warfare. Tourism is thus a long-established economic, religious, and social activity in the region though mass tourism is a rather recent phenomenon which largely began to expand in the 1970s. In the past decades, tourism in Southeast Asia has seen unprecedented growth while the region has also undergone major changes in relation to markets, mobility and integration between countries in economic and political terms. The creation and expansion of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations from a defence alliance to a political and economic relationship between member countries is significant in the formation of the Southeast Asian identity. The Philippines were isolated from airline connections for many years but experienced tourism growth as access options improved. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book
Chinese hydropower companies and environmental norms in countries of the global South: the involvement of Sinohydro in Ghana’s Bui Dam
No full textThe paper examines the role of environmental norms in Chinese overseas investment in hydropower dams, exemplified by Sinohydro’s involvement in the Bui Dam in Ghana. While the investment of Western companies in hydropower dams in the global South is decreasing owing to changing notions of sustainability in the West, the investment of Chinese companies in hydro dams in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America is accelerating at great speed. The emergence of Chinese companies in international markets in the context of China’s Going Abroad strategy has sparked a debate on whether China can be considered a norm-changer in international development. The paper considers this question in the context of the status of environmental norms in Sinohydro’s investment in Ghana’s Bui Dam. The paper argues that the role of international norms in Chinese investment is dependent on two factors: the contractual arrangements under which Chinese companies operate abroad and the political institutions of host countries
François Joyaux. La nouvelle question d'Extrême-Orient, t. I : L'ère de la guerre froide 1945-1959
No full textBui Xuan Quang. François Joyaux. La nouvelle question d'Extrême-Orient, t. I : L'ère de la guerre froide 1945-1959. In: Politique étrangère, n°3 - 1985 - 50ᵉannée. p. 799
Seguiment d'obra del projecte Bio Bui(L)t amb tècniques de construcció Low Tech
No full textEl treball final de grau que es presenta està localitzat en l'àmbit de la construcció sostenible, ecològica i del respecte pel medi ambient, centrat en la autoconstrucció d'un espai social construït amb materials naturals i de baix impacte ambiental. L'espai Bio Bui(L)t, és el projecte de l'associació BAM, BioArquitectura Mediterrània, inclòs en la iniciativa Pla BUITS (Buits Urbans amb Implicació Territorial i Social) de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona. Aquest treball presenta els diferents sistemes constructius i material no tradicionals utilitzats al projecte Bio Bui(Lt). Els quals amb el l’espai Bio Bui(L)t es mostren a la societat les grans possibilitats i característiques que tenen per ser utilitzats en la construcció actual clima mediterrani. Amb aquest treball es pretén recopilar les dades de valoració necessàries per donar a conèixer millor els diferents sistemes i materials utilitzats durant el casi un any que ha durat la construcció
Seguiment d'obra del projecte Bio Bui(L)t amb tècniques de construcció Low Tech
No full textEl treball final de grau que es presenta està localitzat en l'àmbit de la construcció sostenible, ecològica i del respecte pel medi ambient, centrat en la autoconstrucció d'un espai social construït amb materials naturals i de baix impacte ambiental. L'espai Bio Bui(L)t, és el projecte de l'associació BAM, BioArquitectura Mediterrània, inclòs en la iniciativa Pla BUITS (Buits Urbans amb Implicació Territorial i Social) de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona. Aquest treball presenta els diferents sistemes constructius i material no tradicionals utilitzats al projecte Bio Bui(Lt). Els quals amb el l’espai Bio Bui(L)t es mostren a la societat les grans possibilitats i característiques que tenen per ser utilitzats en la construcció actual clima mediterrani. Amb aquest treball es pretén recopilar les dades de valoració necessàries per donar a conèixer millor els diferents sistemes i materials utilitzats durant el casi un any que ha durat la construcció
Parvimyrma sangi Eguchi & Bui, 2007, sp. nov.
No full textParvimyrma sangi sp. nov. (Figs. 1–10) Holotype worker: Tay Yen Tu N. P., 21 ° 10 ’ 11 ”N, 106 ° 43 ’06”E, 435 m alt., Bac Giang Prov., N. Vietnam, 28 May 2004 (K. Eguchi leg., colony Eg04-VN- 138) [IEBR]. Paratypes: 42 pinned and 2 slide-mounted workers from the same colony as holotype [IEBR, BMNH, MCZC, MHNG, MNHA, ACEG]. Worker description. Tiny species with characteristics given in the generic diagnosis. Body pale yellowish brown, much depigmented, covered with short standing hairs. Head in full-face view roughly elongaterectangular, in profile thin dorsoventrally with flattened dorsal and ventral margin; the dorsum of head weakly rugoso-reticulate except almost smooth anteromedian part of frons; the lateral face of head weakly rugosoreticulate; clypeus largely smooth, with its anteromedian margin truncate; outer surface of mandible smooth; mandibular teeth triangular and sharp, gradually reduced in size from the apical teeth to the basal teeth; antennal scape short, reaching only 7 / 10 – 3 / 4 of the distance from the anterior margin of clypeus to the posterior margin of head (Fig. 2); antennal segments III–IX much shorter than broad; the apical antennal segment ca. 3 times as long as the preapical segment; mesosoma smooth except lower part of mesopleuron which is very weakly reticulate; gaster entirely smooth. Worker measurements and indices. Holotype: HL 0.37 mm, HW 0.26 mm, SL 0.21 mm, ML 0.42 mm, FL 0.19 mm, CI 71, SI 81, FI 71. Paratypes (n= 4): HL 0.37 mm, HW 0.26–0.27 mm, SL 0.21 mm, ML 0.40–0.41 mm, FL 0.19–0.20 mm, CI 71–73, SI 78–79, FI 71–74. Bionomics. The type series was obtained from one of ten cheese bait traps (small plastic tubes with several entrances containing powdered cheese as bait) buried ca. 10 cm underground in a well-developed forest at ca. 435 m alt. The circumstantial evidence as well as its morphological features (depigmentation and flat body without eyes) suggest that Parvimyrma sangi is a subterranean nester and forager.Published as part of Eguchi, Katsuyuki & Bui, Tuan Viet, 2007, Parvimyrma gen. nov. belonging to the Solenopsis genus group from Vietnam (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Solenopsidini), pp. 39-47 in Zootaxa 1461 on pages 44-46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27373
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