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Remembering Courtney Cazden, 1925–2025
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Here we remember and honor Courtney B. Cazden (1925–2025), whose scholarship, mentorship, and moral clarity profoundly shaped the study of language, literacy, and learning. Drawing on our shared experiences as colleagues, collaborators, students, and friends, we reflect on Courtney's enduring contributions to classroom discourse analysis ...
Kris D. Gutiérrez +5 more
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Field Actions Science Reports, 2012 Private sector provision of basic services (water, energy, financial services and housing) for people in developing countries is a necessity if we really want to try to curb poverty.
Luc Rigouzzo
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Serving low-income markets: Rethinking Multinational Corporations’ Strategies [PDF]
In recent years a new debate is emerging about market-based approaches to serve lowincome communities, opportunities in such markets and the role of multinational corporations.
Duysters, Geert, SadreGhazi, Shuan
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‘Clinging Together Against the Dark’: A Pragmatist Reading of Sustainability Conversations
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 744-763, April 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a typology of managers' interpretations of sustainability as ‘narrative fields’ derived from a qualitative multi‐site study and offer a Pragmatist reading of the results. Pragmatism is grounded in an ethic of meliorism, the belief in the possibility of gradually improving the world through human effort and ...
Barry A. Colbert, Elizabeth C. Kurucz
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Allocating Risk Across Pyramidal Tiers: Evidence from Thai Business Groups [PDF]
This paper shows that pyramidal ownership can be used to control downside risk. The research setting is Thailand before and after the 1997 Asian crisis. The focus is on family business groups that owned banks. The results show that the controlling family
Bunkanwanicha, Pramuan +1 more
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Class, caste and conspicuous consumption in India
Economica, Volume 93, Issue 370, Page 439-467, April 2026.Abstract Using nationally representative household‐level panel data from India, we study status‐signalling through conspicuous consumption across castes, religions and income classes. Conditional on permanent income, scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) Hindu households spend more, while religious minorities spend less on visible consumption ...
Aruni Mitra, Ronit Mukherji
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An Overview of Needs Theories behind Consumerism [PDF]
Wynn and Coolidge [2004] have hypothesized that one of the key reasons why the Homo Sapiens progressed to being modern man while the Neanderthal man didn’t, is that the former developed through innovation (from artefacts to advanced hunting methods ...
Lasen, Marta, Ward, David
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GéoProximitéSPaid domestic work is a social fact strongly defined by racial, class, gender, and territory relations, which reflect social hierarchies and differentiation within Brazilian society. The social relevance of paid domestic workers in Brazil, a country with
Ana Julieta Teodoro Cleaver
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Solar RRL, Volume 10, Issue 5, 12 March 2026.We compare aluminum‐doped zinc oxide (AZO) and zinc‐doped tin oxide (ZTO) with indium tin oxide (ITO) as indium‐free transparent conductive recombination layers on textured TOPCon bottom cells for application in perovskite/silicon tandem devices. Sputter damage, passivation recovery, as well as optoelectrical material properties are studied.
Mario Hanser +16 more
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The Market Concept of the 21 Century: a New Approach to Consumer Segmentation
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2016 World economic development in the 21st century keeps tendencies and contradictions of the previous century. Economic growth in a number of the countries and, as a result, growth of consumption adjoins to an aggravation of global problems of the present ...
Maria Igorevna Sokolova
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