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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Mutual Gains Model of Well‐Being‐Oriented HRM: Evidence From the Healthcare Sector

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Well‐being‐oriented human resource management (WBHRM) posits the benefits for both employees and the employer. Yet, our review has revealed that sophisticated theorisation and subsequent empirical testing of such a mutual gains thesis are scarce. Against this backdrop, we attempt to do so in a highly demanding healthcare context.
Jongwook Pak, Gholamhossein (Amir) Mehralian   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable HRM in the Public Sector: A Question of Viability or Legitimacy?

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent research has underlined the growing importance of sustainability in HRM policy and practice, taking into account long‐term multi‐stakeholder goals. However, few studies have specified the drivers and outcomes of sustainable HRM practices, nor the contradictions that arise when managers attempt to satisfy the demands of both internal and
Mathew Johnson, Stephen Mustchin, Damian Grimshaw, Aristea Koukiadaki   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cruelty and Austerity. Philip Hallie’s Categories of Ethical Thought and Today’s Greek Tragedy

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2013
In this paper, 20th-century ethicist Philip Hallie’s research on cruelty is outlined and explained in order to determine and discuss categories of thought that make cruelty attributable to social forms of agency.
Giorgio Baruchello
doaj  

Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
wiley   +1 more source

Victims of Austerity or Feckless Freeloaders? The Stereotypes of the Deserving and Undeserving Poor in the Debate on Britain’s Food Bank Users

American and British Studies Annual, 2019
Once a rare sight, food banks are fast becoming an established feature of Britain’s social security system, their number having increased from around a hundred in 2010 to over two thousand at present.
Alice Tihelková
doaj  

Paradigm Shift in the Making? Geopolitical Challenges and Institutional Changes in the International Monetary System: From Neoliberalism to a Pluralist Multipolar Financial Order

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examined the critical challenges facing the international monetary system, arguing that they have created conditions for a shift from a neoliberal framework to a pluralist multipolar financial order. Using an interdisciplinary approach that blends international law and international relations, the paper provides an analysis of the ...
Jiangyu Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
wiley   +1 more source

Inclusive leadership and financial-marketing decision-making in crises: gender diversity and brand resilience. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Javeed A, Khan MY, Alomair A, Al Naim AS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Management Control and Employee Motivation in Local Governments and For‐Profit Firms: A Differentiated Replication Study

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study replicates van der Kolk et al. (2019). “The Impact of Management Control on Employee Motivation and Performance in the Public Sector.”European Accounting Review 28, no. 5: 901–928 to explore the impact of four types of management control (MC) on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation across Japanese local governments and for‐profit ...
Hikaru Goto, Makoto Kuroki
wiley   +1 more source