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Vulnerability to disaster in the Maldives: The Maamigili and Fenfushi Island communities 马尔代夫对灾害的脆弱性:Maamigili和Fenfushi岛屿社区

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.408

Glorianne Borg Axisa, R. Borg, Mohamed Ibrahim, Fathimath Nistharan

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Views of the islands: The geographical perception of the Balearic Islands among graduate students in primary education 岛屿观:初等教育研究生对巴利阿里群岛的地理认知

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.400

Jaume Binimelis Sebastián, Antoni Ordinas Garau, Maurici Ruiz Pérez

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Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea 抵抗与转化的空间:《宽马尾藻海》中反乌托邦与生态乌托邦之间的加勒比岛屿

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.389

Ping Su, Shoujuan Huang

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Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies: Interrogating the scholar within 岛屿研究中的批判反身性与非殖民方法论:质问学者的内在

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.380

Y. Nadarajah, Elena Burgos Martinez, Ping Su, Adam Grydehøj

引用次数: 10

Mediate or litigate: An evaluation of citizen and police officer perspectives on the use of mediation to resolve citizen-police conflict in Trinidad and Tobago 调解或诉讼:对特立尼达和多巴哥公民和警察使用调解解决公民-警察冲突的观点的评价

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.409

W. C. Wallace, Karen Lancaster-Ellis

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引用次数: 2

Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands 软体动物的爱好:在夏威夷群岛与本地和引进的蜗牛在一起

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.383

J. Galka

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Rethinking destination success: An island perspective 重新思考目的地的成功:一个岛屿的视角

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.388

Acolla Lewis-Cameron, Tenisha Brown-Williams

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引用次数: 3

Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island: Performative geographies of colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the latter half of the 19th century 乌托邦岛的文学和文化(再)生产:19世纪下半叶殖民时期广州沙面的表演地理

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.379

Ting-Ju Lin, Ping Su

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引用次数: 5

The impact of CEO characteristics on the international entrepreneurship of small island-based firms CEO特征对小岛屿企业国际创业精神的影响

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.406

Guido Rojer, Jr., Karen Watkins-Fassler, Rebeca de Juan Díaz, A. Rai

{"title":"The impact of CEO characteristics on the international entrepreneurship of small island-based firms","authors":"Guido Rojer, Jr., Karen Watkins-Fassler, Rebeca de Juan Díaz, A. Rai","doi":"10.24043/isj.406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.406","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the impact of CEO characteristics on the International Entrepreneurship (IE) of listed island-based firms (IBFs) during the period 2009-2018. The research considers 164 companies from a sample of eight small islands with securities exchanges including more than one firm headquartered on the island. The selected islands are: Barbados, Cyprus, Fiji, Iceland, Jamaica, Malta, Mauritius, and Trinidad & Tobago. Framed on the upper echelons theory and social network theory, the influence on IE of CEO’s tenure, academic background and achievement, family allegiance, and international exposure is studied, taking into account the small island particularities. Through a binary probit model, it is concluded that CEOs’ family allegiance, tenure, and academic background (if the CEO majored in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or Economics) are negatively related with IE, while CEOs’ academic achievement and international exposure are positively associated with IE. Some of these results are atypical in the existing literature; nevertheless, islandness can explain these results. The conclusions attained suggest new theoretical and empirical lines of IE research for IBFs.","PeriodicalId":51674,"journal":{"name":"Island Studies Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68954329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“we are still here holding fast”: Stillness in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia “我们仍在这里坚守”:理查德·乔治的《顿悟》中飓风厄玛过后的寂静

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.24043/isj.411

Barbara Gfoellner

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