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This volume views innovation of HRM in two ways: At one end, HR practices and policies should be designed to support innovative organizational members and climates, new ideas, and larger capacities. At the other end, the HRM function evolves by applying new structures to the practices, and by involving new agents in the management process.

Over the past decade, increased attention to the marginalization of queers of color across educational context in North America has forced urgent reevaluations of the legal, political, and pedagogical implications of exclusionary politics (Brockenbrough, 2012, 2013; McCready, 2013). The research done by Brockenbrough (2013) cites the absences of queer of color perspectives in the educational literature and more specifically for this research their perspectives on teaching and learning. An experience that requires the participants to cross-epistemological boundaries and examine their experiences within the intersections of race and gender and in some instances class; which will become evident in the narratives of Malcolm, Carlos and Victor. Following the work of Brockenbrough (2013), McCready (2013) and others this article centers the pedagogical practices of three gay men of color. It is my intent with this line of research to bring to the forefront the lived and pedagogical experiences of gay teachers of color.

Paper III is not published yet. ; The popularity of franchising as a method for businesses expansion is increasing, from small, medium-sized, and large firms to social enterprises. To enjoy the benefits of franchising experienced by Western countries, Africa, through the African Development Bank, has put more effort in using the franchising model to promote SME development and the private sector with the goal of creating wealth and reducing poverty. Identifying the core practices of franchising is therefore essential in order to promote the general understanding of franchising among entrepreneurs, bankers, lawyers, management consultants, investors, donors, governments, and policymakers. By conducting three independent but related studies, this thesis contributes to the building of knowledge concerning knowledge management in franchising firms. Study 1 reviews the research on knowledge management for over two decades to provide an overview of what has been done and determine the gaps that need to be filled to advance theory and practice. I conducted two empirical studies to investigate the knowledge transfer practices of franchising firms in Africa. Study 2 investigates the factors that contribute to the choice of knowledge transfer mechanisms. I found that the successful transfer of knowledge depends not only on the choice of the correct transfer mechanisms but also on the use of such mechanisms to transfer the relevant knowledge to franchisees. Study 3 explores institutional factors and how they impede knowledge transfer practices. In this study I used a company that has utilized the franchising model successfully to grow in African countries regarded as having weak institutions. I found that franchising firms expand into different institutional environments by adapting knowledge transfer practices without altering the core practices of the model. ; publishedVersion

Trade-offs are manifestations of the complex dynamics in interdependent social-ecological systems. Addressing trade-offs involves challenges of perception due to the dynamics of interdependence. We outline the challenges associated with addressing trade-offs and analyze knowledge coproduction as a practice that may contribute to tackling trade-offs in social-ecological systems. We discuss this through a case study in coastal Kenya in which an iterative knowledge coproduction process was facilitated to reveal social-ecological trade-offs in the face of ecological and socioeconomic change. Representatives of communities, government, and NGOs attended two integrative workshops in which methods derived from systems thinking, dialogue, participatory modeling, and scenarios were applied to encourage participants to engage and evaluate trade-offs. Based on process observation and interviews with participants and scientists, our analysis suggests that this process lead to increased appreciation of interdependences and the way in which trade-offs emerge from complex dynamics of interdependent factors. The process seemed to provoke a reflection of knowledge assumptions and narratives, and management goals for the social-ecological system. We also discuss how stakeholders link these insights to their practices.

Face-to-face discussion is a significant part of many courses and often suffers from a lack of preparation on the student's part. While there are many ways to provide accountability for reading, these approaches can result in extra grading and are not necessarily leveraged by the instructor in guiding and structuring the in-class discussion. In this paper, I discuss the initial implementation of an open source platform that provides the opportunity to utilize reading quizzes in a formative manner through color-coded displays.

The dialogue as one of the forms of socio-cultural practices in the global aspect of mutual influence of this practice – dialogue of cultures is analysed in the article. Special attention is drawn to the lingual factor as the basis of ethnoculture and project of integration processes. This stressed on the necessity of synthesis of historical traditions and paradigm of democratic that in modern conditions is favourable for cultivation of humanism and authentic dialogues. In the epoch of globalization it is essential to work out such language strategies of integration which presuppose the use of the national language in the practices of cultural creation, in all spheres of social discourse. The practical realization envisages an explication of certain principles of outlook value in the definite space-time dimensions, hence the foundations of the practical realization of the dialogue are its philosophical principles, in particular those of humanism, democracy, tolerance.Keywords: dialogue, globalizes, integration, assimilation, democracy, cultural creation. ; Проаналізовано діалог як один із видів соціокультурних практик у глобальному аспекті взаємовпливу цих практик – діалозі культур. Особливу увагу звернено на мовний чинник як основу етнобуття та проекту інтеграційних процесів. Наголошено на необхідності синтезу історичних традицій на основі парадигми демократичності, що в сучасних умовах сприяє культивуванню гуманізму та автентичної діалогічності. В епоху глобалізації життєво необхідною є розробка тих мовних стратегій інтеграції, які передбачають використання національної мови в практиках культуротворення в усіх сферах соціального дискурсу. Практична реалізація передбачає експлікацію певних принципів світоглядного значення в конкретних просторово-часових вимірах, тому засадами практичної реалізації діалогу виступають його світоглядні принципи, зокрема гуманістичності, демократичності, толерантності.Ключові слова: діалог, глобалізація, інтеграція, асиміляція, демократія, культуротворчість.

AbstractCollective remittances, in the framework of migrant transnationalism, have been recently dealt with in some empirical research, especially on the Mexican‐US migration system. Far less studied is their significance in different migration flows, including their real contribution – as desirable as this may be – to local development. The article is concerned with a bottom up analysis of a migration flow where collective remittances – as the only way for emigrants to keep helping their local communities, well beyond their own families – are still in their infancy. It explores, through a translocal ethnography of Ecuadorian migration to Italy, the underlying attitudes, personal meanings and expectations – as well as the structural opportunities and constraints – accounting for helping practices at a distance. Charitable transfers to communities of origin are reconstructed as to their motivations, their main aims and beneficiaries, their embeddedness in mutual networks among immigrant co‐nationals. How is it that some of them decide to help "people in need" in their own communities overseas, or in their home towns, or in both? Is this an expression of communal belonging, or a matter of social status maintenance, or something else?Further reflections on the dilemmas inherent in transnational helping practices are then developed. Concluding remarks emphasize the relatively poor scope for such initiatives, in a recent and first‐generation flow over a long distance. While co‐ethnic solidarity overseas is a precondition for transnational helping practices, the latter are also affected by the developments of public policies in the countries of origin and of destination. Overall, an effective integration overseas is necessary for collective remittances to have some currency and impact.

This thesis examines the musical practices of Badagry Ogu people from both historical and contemporary perspectives and provides strategies for their further integration into the changing social and economic landscape characteristic of 21st-century Lagos. Badagry emerged as a Nigerian town bordering the Republic of Benin in the 19th-century colonial delineation processes, which neglected ethnic frontiers. Consequently, Badagry Ogu people, being a minority ethnic group and geographically peripheral in Nigeria, have been politically, economically and socially marginalized for generations. Using ethnographic methods in studying selected indigenous musical bands (Gogoke, Gigoyoyo, Kristitin and Akran Ajogan), a biographical sketch of master drummer Hunpe Hunga, and an applied ethnomusicology method of collaborative music composition and arrangement, I chronicle the musical heritage of Badagry Ogu people. In addition, I suggest an approach for its recontextualisation into different creative economies. I engage Thomas Turino's framework for identity and social analysis, including the concepts of cultural cohorts and cultural formations, in exploring the different attitudes, among Badagry Ogu people, towards indigenous music. I advocate for and outline a contemporary approach for musical recontextualisation as a means of inclusivity and economically empowering performers of indigenous Ogu music in Badagry. This thesis includes my additional arrangements to the studio recordings of Gogoke. The recontextualisation process, which commenced with Gogoke's recording of indigenous instruments and vocals in Badagry Lagos Nigeria, reached its full fruition in the overdubs of Western musical instruments in Cape Town, South Africa. To further explore the theme of inclusivity, I examine current gender practices in Ogu communities evident in the gendered musical practices of contemporary Badagry. With its indepth analysis of Ogu genres, musical instruments, gender issues and a framework for recontextualising African indigenous musics, this thesis, while filling the gap in the study of ethnic minorities in Nigeria, is a significant contribution of the nuanced artistic practices of Badagry Ogu people to African music scholarship.