Local Networks and New Business Formation
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New business formation is a key driver of regional transformation and development. While we know that a region's attractiveness for new businesses depends on its resources, infrastructure, and human capital, we know little about the role of local business networks in promoting or impeding the birth of new firms.
Lena Füner +3 more
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Invisible burdens of platform work: a qualitative study of food-delivery riders' lived experiences in urban India. [PDF]
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-beingKariveliparambil A +4 more
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Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
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From student organizer to leader: the role of event planning in management skill development. [PDF]
Einstein (Sao Paulo)Calegaretti SL, Braun E, Lottenberg CL.
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From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
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Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910-2015. [PDF]
SociologyRossier T, Lunding JA.
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An interdisciplinary approach in identifying the legitimate regulator of anti-doping in sport: The case of the Australian Football League [PDF]
, 2016 Gowthorp, Lisa +2 more
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‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: The Role of Memory during Field Transitions in Japan and the USA
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Existing scholarship documents how, in becoming a professional, such as a partner in a professional services firm (PSF), one's habitus comes into alignment with field expectations. Less understood, however, is what happens to habitus and, relatedly, to professionals' accumulated cultural, social, and economic capitals, as individuals ‘unbecome’
Ricardo Azambuja +4 more
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