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Preface -- Introduction -- Context A Headquarters-driven venturing : a strategic direction for internal capabilities -- Context B Subsidiary-driven venturing : unleashing peripheral capabilities -- Context C Headquarters-driven venturing : accessing strategic external capabilities -- Context D Subsidiary-driven venturing : local embedding to drive change -- Across the contexts : strategic integration and leading the firm in international venturing -- Conclusions -- Appendix: cases of venturing in international firms -- References -- Index

Section I. Caymanian ethnogenesis: accounting for the antagonistic processes and racial identities that led to a distinct Caymanian cultural outlook characterized by material hardship -- Becoming native Caymanian -- The more things change: the stubborn decline of racialism during immediate post-emancipation -- Section II. Toward and beyond a monolithic Caymanian cultural identity bound by material hardship -- And then there was light: the shaping conditions of a distinct national-cultural Caymanian identity and its subsequent traditionalisms -- Bringing traditionalist ideas and conceptions to bear on a cultural Caymanian identity beset by material hardship -- The sustenance of Caymanian identity in geographical displacement: a case study approach -- Outgrowing the surrogate mother: accounting for the dramatic shift in Caymanian perceptions toward Jamaica and Jamaicans during the federation era -- Section III. Mapping the effects of globalization, multiculturalism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia on expanding "Caymanian" identifications -- Proliferating Caymanianness: accounting for the factors that lead to division within Caymanian nationality -- Theory in practice: bringing the legitimacy of carnival and the carnivalesque to bear on fractured rhetorical Caymanian culture -- Conclusion: Why can't we all just get along?

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Williams, Mitarbeiter der Universität der Vereinten Nationen in Jordanien, setzt sich intensiv mit der umweltbedingten Neurotoxikologie auseinander. Er geht, anhand von Forschungsberichten, Umweltdaten und -analysen weltweit, den durch Umweltgifte verursachten Regression des Individuums bzw. einer ganzen Population nach. Dazu holt er zwar bisweilen weit aus, vermeidet aber durchgängig, monokausale Schlüsse zu ziehen. Lösungsstrategien sind Teil seiner Erörterung ("Ein neuer ethischer Konsens"). In den 90er-Jahren gab es zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zur Umweltmedizin, zur Evolution des Gehirns, der Wahrnehmung und des Denkens sowie zu neurobiologischen Aspekten. Zur Neurotoxikologie in Beziehung zu Umweltgiften gibt es gegenwärtig keinen vergleichbaren Titel. Für ein interessiertes, umweltkritisches Laienpublikum. (2)