Michael Sofer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 664412 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Sofer |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Sofer |
| FIRMA | SOFER M |
| AFILIACIONES | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0785-0190 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Requirements of the Tourism Labour Market for Sustainable Growth and Skills Development
Aim. Aim of the article is to identify the most important expectations of professional practice in terms of professional skills that can be promoted into tourism education programs focused on education of future tourism professionals. Methods. To find out the differences between the expectations of tourism service providers towards graduates of tourism study programmes and the actual knowledge and abilities of graduates of the programs we perform…
(Covid)-19 and the Impact on Cultural Tourism
Under the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic in Israel, almost every taken-for-granted feature of the day-to-day life was affected. This phenomenon and its derived socioeconomic effects on cultural tourism have been investigated in a northern peripheral area, Beit She’an Valley, which includes a small urban municipality, Beit She’an town, and a regional council, Emek HaMaayanot (a rural municipality). The closure of heritage sites and almost every ki…
Integrated rural heritage landscapes
Entrepreneurship of Women in the Rural Space in Israel
This article examines 100 women and their enterprises in moshav-type co-operative rural settlements in the rural-urban fringe of Tel-Aviv metropolitan area, Israel, and analyses the catalysts and obstacles to development and expansion of such enterprises. Most of the businesses are small, in the personal and service sector, and based on experience in past employment. The majority are located in homes or unused farming structures and constitute th…
Cultural heritage and its economic potential in rural society
Land use changes in the rural–urban fringe
Revisiting rural places
Twenty years of change in the Fijian periphery
This paper reviews changes in the development and peripheralized status of the Fijian island of Kadavu from a 20‐year perspective. A combination of microgeographic studies in three villages and a mesogeographical analysis show that the conditions of internal dependency found in Kadavu in the early 1980s had not changed much: the pattern of cash crop production and trade remained almost entirely dependent on the yaqona (Pacific kava) beverage crop…
Yaqona and the Fijian periphery revisited
This paper deals with some major economic issues concerning the Pacific plant kava, known in Fiji as yaqona. The plant is the source of the cerebral depressant beverage found throughout many of the Pacific Islands, which besides its daily use plays an important ceremonial and social role in the indigenous culture. This paper deals with yaqona cultivation and commercialisation in the Fijian peripheral island of Kadavu, from a perspective of more t…
The rural space in Israel in search of renewed identity
The future of family farming in Israel
The Moshav, a family farm-based settlement, has been a prime example of the major changes in the rural space in Israel. The aim of this paper is to present and understand these changes by studying the economic characteristics of second-generation - that is relatively younger - households in the Moshav. This group has shown a higher tendency to either adopt a livelihood strategy of pluriactivity, or to disassociate itself from agriculture in favou…
Embedding entrepreneurship in social structure
The article offers a structurationalist analysis of the embeddedness of Arab entrepreneurs in the political economy of Israel in two stages. Firstly, we consider entrepreneurs' agency in the context of socio-spatial structural aspects concerning tangible networks that are directly associated with business operation. Secondly, we consider agents' horizons of awareness of opportunities in the market in the context of their accessibility to support …
Pluriactivity in the Moshav
The Restructuring Stages of Israeli Arab Industrial Entrepreneurship
The current pattern of industrial development in Arab settlements in Israel represents, above all, adaptation to restructuring processes operating throughout the Israeli economy. The result may be viewed as a form of peripheral industrialization of small plants specializing in less-advanced industrial production. The peripheralization process and the fact that Israeli Arab industry has remained marginal to the national economy should be understoo…
The Spatial Pattern of Arab Industrial Markets in Israel
This paper examines the structure of industrial linkages of Israeli-Arab entrepreneurs, members of an ethnic community at the periphery of contemporary Israel. This case study delineates some of the challenges that ethnic peripheral minorities have to face in their attempts to integrate into late capitalist economies. It begins with the simultaneous construction of the pattern of sales linkages on micro- and macrolevels. In the first stage, based…
Opportunities, constraints and pluriactivity in rural Romania during the transition period; preliminary observations
Industrial Zones and Arab Industrialization in Israel
Since the 1970s there has been increased integration of the Arab sector into the Israeli economy. This integration has been characterized by the increase in industrial entrepreneurship in the Arab settlements. Critical to the industrialization process are factors related to the availability of industrial zones and the infrastructure which supports industrial production. The main factors are: limited reserves of land for industry; lack of a land m…
Rural process-pattern relationships
Uneven regional development and internal labor migration in Fiji
Labour Circulation and the Village Economy in Fiji 1
The author examines circular labor migration in Fiji. "This paper is organized into five sections. The first section provides a brief discussion of two major perspectives of labour circulation in developing countries. The second section presents the state of the Fijian village in the context of the current pattern of uneven development in Fiji. The practice of labour circulation by Fijian villagers is dealt with in the third section. In the last …
Core-Periphery Structure in Fiji
The central theme of this paper is that a core - periphery structure which was established in Fiji in colonial times has been maintained in the current independent state. The basic structure has not changed and the nature of the relationships between the capitalist mode of production (as the main component of the core) and the village-based mode of production (as a typical mode of the periphery) are supporting the already polarized economic patte…
The Dependency Paradigm Applied to the Fijian Periphery
The rural space in Israel in search of renewed identity
Pluriactivity in the Moshav
Land use changes in the rural–urban fringe
Core-Periphery Structure in Fiji
The central theme of this paper is that a core - periphery structure which was established in Fiji in colonial times has been maintained in the current independent state. The basic structure has not changed and the nature of the relationships between the capitalist mode of production (as the main component of the core) and the village-based mode of production (as a typical mode of the periphery) are supporting the already polarized economic patte…
Cultural heritage and its economic potential in rural society
The future of family farming in Israel
The Moshav, a family farm-based settlement, has been a prime example of the major changes in the rural space in Israel. The aim of this paper is to present and understand these changes by studying the economic characteristics of second-generation - that is relatively younger - households in the Moshav. This group has shown a higher tendency to either adopt a livelihood strategy of pluriactivity, or to disassociate itself from agriculture in favou…
The Spatial Pattern of Arab Industrial Markets in Israel
This paper examines the structure of industrial linkages of Israeli-Arab entrepreneurs, members of an ethnic community at the periphery of contemporary Israel. This case study delineates some of the challenges that ethnic peripheral minorities have to face in their attempts to integrate into late capitalist economies. It begins with the simultaneous construction of the pattern of sales linkages on micro- and macrolevels. In the first stage, based…
Opportunities, constraints and pluriactivity in rural Romania during the transition period; preliminary observations
Integrated rural heritage landscapes
Uneven regional development and internal labor migration in Fiji
Yaqona and the Fijian periphery revisited
This paper deals with some major economic issues concerning the Pacific plant kava, known in Fiji as yaqona. The plant is the source of the cerebral depressant beverage found throughout many of the Pacific Islands, which besides its daily use plays an important ceremonial and social role in the indigenous culture. This paper deals with yaqona cultivation and commercialisation in the Fijian peripheral island of Kadavu, from a perspective of more t…
Embedding entrepreneurship in social structure
The article offers a structurationalist analysis of the embeddedness of Arab entrepreneurs in the political economy of Israel in two stages. Firstly, we consider entrepreneurs' agency in the context of socio-spatial structural aspects concerning tangible networks that are directly associated with business operation. Secondly, we consider agents' horizons of awareness of opportunities in the market in the context of their accessibility to support …
The Restructuring Stages of Israeli Arab Industrial Entrepreneurship
The current pattern of industrial development in Arab settlements in Israel represents, above all, adaptation to restructuring processes operating throughout the Israeli economy. The result may be viewed as a form of peripheral industrialization of small plants specializing in less-advanced industrial production. The peripheralization process and the fact that Israeli Arab industry has remained marginal to the national economy should be understoo…
The Dependency Paradigm Applied to the Fijian Periphery
Core-Periphery Structure in Fiji
The central theme of this paper is that a core - periphery structure which was established in Fiji in colonial times has been maintained in the current independent state. The basic structure has not changed and the nature of the relationships between the capitalist mode of production (as the main component of the core) and the village-based mode of production (as a typical mode of the periphery) are supporting the already polarized economic patte…
Labour Circulation and the Village Economy in Fiji 1
The author examines circular labor migration in Fiji. "This paper is organized into five sections. The first section provides a brief discussion of two major perspectives of labour circulation in developing countries. The second section presents the state of the Fijian village in the context of the current pattern of uneven development in Fiji. The practice of labour circulation by Fijian villagers is dealt with in the third section. In the last …
Uneven regional development and internal labor migration in Fiji
Rural process-pattern relationships
Industrial Zones and Arab Industrialization in Israel
Since the 1970s there has been increased integration of the Arab sector into the Israeli economy. This integration has been characterized by the increase in industrial entrepreneurship in the Arab settlements. Critical to the industrialization process are factors related to the availability of industrial zones and the infrastructure which supports industrial production. The main factors are: limited reserves of land for industry; lack of a land m…
Opportunities, constraints and pluriactivity in rural Romania during the transition period; preliminary observations
The Spatial Pattern of Arab Industrial Markets in Israel
This paper examines the structure of industrial linkages of Israeli-Arab entrepreneurs, members of an ethnic community at the periphery of contemporary Israel. This case study delineates some of the challenges that ethnic peripheral minorities have to face in their attempts to integrate into late capitalist economies. It begins with the simultaneous construction of the pattern of sales linkages on micro- and macrolevels. In the first stage, based…
The Restructuring Stages of Israeli Arab Industrial Entrepreneurship
The current pattern of industrial development in Arab settlements in Israel represents, above all, adaptation to restructuring processes operating throughout the Israeli economy. The result may be viewed as a form of peripheral industrialization of small plants specializing in less-advanced industrial production. The peripheralization process and the fact that Israeli Arab industry has remained marginal to the national economy should be understoo…
Pluriactivity in the Moshav
Embedding entrepreneurship in social structure
The article offers a structurationalist analysis of the embeddedness of Arab entrepreneurs in the political economy of Israel in two stages. Firstly, we consider entrepreneurs' agency in the context of socio-spatial structural aspects concerning tangible networks that are directly associated with business operation. Secondly, we consider agents' horizons of awareness of opportunities in the market in the context of their accessibility to support …
The rural space in Israel in search of renewed identity
The future of family farming in Israel
The Moshav, a family farm-based settlement, has been a prime example of the major changes in the rural space in Israel. The aim of this paper is to present and understand these changes by studying the economic characteristics of second-generation - that is relatively younger - households in the Moshav. This group has shown a higher tendency to either adopt a livelihood strategy of pluriactivity, or to disassociate itself from agriculture in favou…
Yaqona and the Fijian periphery revisited
This paper deals with some major economic issues concerning the Pacific plant kava, known in Fiji as yaqona. The plant is the source of the cerebral depressant beverage found throughout many of the Pacific Islands, which besides its daily use plays an important ceremonial and social role in the indigenous culture. This paper deals with yaqona cultivation and commercialisation in the Fijian peripheral island of Kadavu, from a perspective of more t…
Twenty years of change in the Fijian periphery
This paper reviews changes in the development and peripheralized status of the Fijian island of Kadavu from a 20‐year perspective. A combination of microgeographic studies in three villages and a mesogeographical analysis show that the conditions of internal dependency found in Kadavu in the early 1980s had not changed much: the pattern of cash crop production and trade remained almost entirely dependent on the yaqona (Pacific kava) beverage crop…
Land use changes in the rural–urban fringe
Revisiting rural places
Cultural heritage and its economic potential in rural society
Integrated rural heritage landscapes
Entrepreneurship of Women in the Rural Space in Israel
This article examines 100 women and their enterprises in moshav-type co-operative rural settlements in the rural-urban fringe of Tel-Aviv metropolitan area, Israel, and analyses the catalysts and obstacles to development and expansion of such enterprises. Most of the businesses are small, in the personal and service sector, and based on experience in past employment. The majority are located in homes or unused farming structures and constitute th…
(Covid)-19 and the Impact on Cultural Tourism
Under the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic in Israel, almost every taken-for-granted feature of the day-to-day life was affected. This phenomenon and its derived socioeconomic effects on cultural tourism have been investigated in a northern peripheral area, Beit She’an Valley, which includes a small urban municipality, Beit She’an town, and a regional council, Emek HaMaayanot (a rural municipality). The closure of heritage sites and almost every ki…
The Requirements of the Tourism Labour Market for Sustainable Growth and Skills Development
Aim. Aim of the article is to identify the most important expectations of professional practice in terms of professional skills that can be promoted into tourism education programs focused on education of future tourism professionals. Methods. To find out the differences between the expectations of tourism service providers towards graduates of tourism study programmes and the actual knowledge and abilities of graduates of the programs we perform…
Economics (18 obras) · Geography (17 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Business (12 obras) · Economic growth (11 obras) · Economic geography (9 obras) · Agriculture (8 obras) · Rural development and sustainability (8 obras) · Economy (7 obras) · Development economics (6 obras)