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Deregulation, government failure, and tragedy: The Report of Phase 2 of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Economic Affairs, EarlyView.Abstract The Inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower, London, in 2017 has exposed the failures that led to the tragedy in a commendably exhaustive manner. But the explanation of those failures is seriously inadequate. First, they are attributed to deregulation, when the Inquiry itself details the ways in which the cladding of the building was subject ...
David Campbell
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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Early Parodies of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Stories: Charles C. Rothwell’s “Adventures of Sherwood Hoakes: An Interrupted Honeymoon”(1892) and A. Dewar Willock’s “A Study in Red” (1892) as Criticism and Homage [PDF]
Polish Journal of English Studieshe main objective of this paper is to explore how parody operates within, and engages with, the genre of detective fiction. By treating the selected texts as a form of literary review of Arthur Conan Doyle’s works, the focus of the paper is on the ...
Urszula Żoczek
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract When studying French prices between 1938 and 1949, economists and historians face a paradox: whilst a vast black market shaped daily life, official indices recorded only state‐controlled prices. This article addresses the issue by introducing a new consumer price index that incorporates both official and black market prices.
Patrice Baubeau, Matéo Teixeira
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The city in F. Sologub's novel "The Petty Devil"
Opera slavica, 2018 The author studies the peculiarities of the literary contact with Gogol's poem "Dead Souls" in F. Sologub's novel "The Petty Devil". The important parallels which F. Sologub's novel project on Gogol's poem are considered. The particular attention is paid
Vladislav Šajevič Krivonos
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Collingwood's Everyday Aesthetics
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Any adequate account of aesthetic experience must be able to accommodate the pervasiveness of aesthetic experiences in everyday life. While writers on everyday aesthetics have frequently taken inspiration from John Dewey's Art as Experience, my aim in this article is to show that there is another work in the history of the discipline that ...
Mark Windsor
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Digital transformation and business model innovation in legal services: The case of LegalTech
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how digital transformation drives business model innovation within professional service firms, using legal services as an illustrative case. LegalTech, positioned at the intersection of law and digital technologies, represents a sector‐specific expression of digital transformation that operates simultaneously as a ...
Galina Kondrateva, Rachid Rhattat
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European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Adopting a paradox perspective and drawing on the job demands–resources (JD‐R) model, this study conceptualizes high‐performance work systems (HPWS) as human resources (HR) initiatives that deliver demanding resources, proposing a curvilinear relationship between HPWS and employee engagement.
Luigi Stirpe
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Finality and Continuity: What Drives Bereaved Parents to Choose Posthumous Sperm Retrieval
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To explore bereaved parents' experience of deciding to pursue posthumous sperm retrieval (PHSR) and the meaning they associate with this choice. Background The death of a child profoundly disrupts the natural order of life, leaving parents with loss of meaning and identity.
Yael Doft +3 more
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