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Institutional Investor Impact Across Asset Classes: Exit, Voice, and/or Denial of Unconditional (Re)financing

open access: yesCorporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue The Voice versus Exit debate among institutional investors dissatisfied with corporate issuers remains narrowly framed: Academic inquiry is de facto limited to listed equities. This overlooks the role of governance in corporate financing, which due to refinancing cycles, represents a key lever for investors aiming to ...
Andreas G. F. Hoepner   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inverted Eurocentrism: The Consumption of Decolonization in the Global North and a Radical Decolonization Agenda

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Global North and elite spaces in the Global South, the concepts of Eurocentrism and decolonization have come to be associated primarily with identity and location rather than with capitalism and political economy. This article argues that the reason for this can be traced to what Samir Amin calls ‘inverted Eurocentrism’, which entails a
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
wiley   +1 more source

The representation and mediation of national identity in the production of post-apartheid, South African cinema [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-236).In 1994, South Africa was emancipated from apartheid, and in 1996, a new democratic Constitution was released.
Treffry-Goatley, Astrid
core   +1 more source

Connections between post-1994 Health Care and Street-level Bureaucracy

open access: yesThe Thinker
Performance metrics continue to be a useful tool for modifying bureaucratic procedures in the workplace, although the majority of bureaucracy research and intervention has been centred on increasing efficiency.
Quincy Pule
doaj   +1 more source

The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
wiley   +1 more source

Working with the Apartheid Archive: or, of witness and testimony

open access: yesPsychology in Society, 2010
Working with the apartheid archive demands a spectral scholarship - an engagement with the dead and the past, and the unknown of a future-to-be. This "hauntology" poses challenges unlike those of a traditional, evidentiary ontology and epistemology ...
Leswin Laubscher
doaj  

Navigating racialized tourism spaces: Apartheid South Africa’s ‘Green Books’

open access: yesBulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series
Racism and racial discrimination in tourism are attracting growing interest. the aim is to contribute to an emergent historical geographical scholarship on racism and racial discrimination in tourism.
Christian M. Rogerson
doaj   +1 more source

The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taking stock of gendered social networks in organizations and careers: A literature review

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Ample research has explored men's and women's social networks, with the aim to link differences in structural properties of networks and networking behaviors to varying career outcomes. Despite the diverse contexts and methods, representing many aspects and nuances of the role played by gender in organizations, much of contemporary research ...
Sofiya Voytiv   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making public politics private: A narrative study of apartheid racial ideology and its effects on white teenage female sexual desire in post-apartheid South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
An effect of apartheid among the youth has been that transformation in educational institutions has largely not moved beyond artificial interaction. There is an obvious divide between public rhetoric of integration and private experience.
Botsis, Hannah
core   +1 more source

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