Chapter 9 Strategic Management: Arabian Style M. Sami Kassem Introduction
The 18 cases included in this book constitute a convenience sample of service
organizations operating within the GCC states. Even though the bulk of these
cases focus on enterprises in Saudi Arabia, and even though the sample size is
admittedly small, our anthology is representative enough to tentatively answer
important questions relating to strategic management in the Arab Gulf States.
How do these ...
WIJAYA, PUTU (b. 1943), Indonesian playwright, film director, writer. Born in Bali
in 1943, Putu Wi- jaya has developed a style that blends traditional Bali- nese
influences with elements drawn from Antonin Artaud (1869-1948) and avant-
garde Western theatre. His stage works often use a very Balinese blend of music,
choreography, and dramatic action to present plots that leave a very Western
impression of disturbing uncertainty. His theatrical works mostly have one word
titles, such ...
Dalam gereja zaman Perjanjian Baru, tam- paknya sudah ada diakones. Paulus
menyebutkan Febe sebagai diakones (Rm. 16:1). Jabatan ini mengalami per-
kembangan yang pesat pada abad ke-3 dan ke-4 seperti digambarkan dalam
Didascalia dan Konstitusi Apostolik. Diakones mengkhususkan dirinya pada
pelayanan orang sakit. la juga bertugas mendampingi uskup dalam perca-
kapan pastoral dengan perempuan atau mendampingi imam atau diakon. la juga
mengajar ...
The general objective of the study is systematic examination of the processes involved in the formation and evolution of complex sentence constructions in a group of genetically related languages. The Chadic language group, at about 140 languages, constitutes the largest and most diversified branch of the Afroasiatic family. One of the findings of the present work is that languages starting from the same base may develop quite different morphological and syntactic structures. With respect to issues of general linguistic interest, the book deals with motivations for grammaticalization: It is proposed that one of the most important motivations is satisfaction of the principle of well formedness, that is, that every element in an utterance must have its role transparent to the hearer either by inherent lexical properties or by grammatical means. In the present work both aspects of grammaticalization, viz. the emergence of grammatical constructions and the emergence of grammatical morphemes, are given equal weight. In addition to semantic metaphor and metonymy as mechanisms in the processes of grammaticalization, the present work develops the notion of semiotic metonymy, whereby a part of a sign performs the function of the sign. It is shown that semiotic metonymy plays an important role in the grammaticalization of grammatical morphemes and constructions into other morphemes and constructions. The book also shows that unindirectionality is not a governing principle with respect to the development of grammatical morphemes into other grammatical morphemes; rather, there is considerable evidence and theoretical justification for the bidirectionality principle.
1.1 Aim and scope of the work The general objective of the present study is a
systematic examination of the processes involved in the formation and evolution
of complex sentence constructions in a group of genetically related languages.
