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A Good Bloke and a Good Man to Do Business With: How Men Use Symbolic Masculinity to Network Through Golf

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Business networks are known to be gendered. However, few studies have delved into precisely how gender relates to networking practices. This study focuses on the gendered symbolic practices used by men when they play golf for the purposes of business networking.
Andreas Giazitzoglu, Andrea Whittle
wiley   +1 more source

Marooned at Work: The Impact of Prison Officer Isolation on Occupational Culture

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
Abstract The impact of the insular nature of prison environments is usually studied from the perspective of incarcerated persons. This article presents key findings from an ethnographic study in a Belgian telephone pole‐style prison, exploring the experiences of prison officers working in single‐staffed units and the impact on the occupational culture.
Lorenz Pardon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Material Aspirations, Cultural Change, and the Transition Toward Sustained Growth

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We highlight the role of economic materialism as a cultural phenomenon of significance in relation to economic transformation and development. By inducing material aspirations, an endogenous cultural change toward more widespread adherence to materialistic values is both a cause and an effect of productivity growth.
Evangelos V. Dioikitopoulos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A multidisciplinary Delphi consensus on the modern definition of pruritus: Sensation and disease

open access: yesJournal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, EarlyView.
Stakeholders from pruritus‐relevant global societies and patients consented to a new definition of pruritus through a Delphi process. The new definition allows the sensation to be separated from the chronic disease state. It considers symptoms and time course, as well as emotional impact and causal aspects.
Sonja Ständer   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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