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Crime as a Business, Business as a Crime

open access: yesVarstvoslovje, 2010
Purpose: This paper endorses the claim that in transitional societies the line between business and crime is elusive because weak states foster a legal order that is formalistic, bureaucratic, politically biased and prone to corruption. Design/Methods/Approach: Three elements are discussed in the paper.
Kregar, Josip, Petričušić, Antonija
openaire   +3 more sources

Competitive Rechargeable Zinc Batteries for Energy Storage

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Growing energy demands and the associated increase in renewable energy production require robust, sustainable, and cost‐effective energy storage, in particular for large‐scale stationary applications. This review evaluates zinc‐based batteries as alternatives to lithium‐ion and vanadium redox flow systems by emphasizing zinc's accessibility ...
Janik Ruppert   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of communication and creativity in the implementation of sustainability and sustainable innovations

open access: yesCreativity Studies
Sustainable development becomes a strategic goal of modern business organizations and an aspiration to ensure long-term economic growth through the creation of innovative products and services, saving resources and their sustainable use, nurturing the ...
Zenona Ona Atkočiūnienė   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

HACking at Non-linearity: Evidence from Stocks and Bonds [PDF]

open access: yes
The implicit assumption of linearity is an important element in empirical finance. This study presents a hypothesis testing approach which examines the linear behaviour of the conditional mean between stock and bond returns.
Adam E Clements   +2 more
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A Dry‐Mechanical Approach for Scrap Recycling of Dry‐Processed Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes

open access: yesAdvanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
A dry‐mechanical, non‐toxic, and profitable delamination and granulation process is designed for the scrap recycling of polytetrafluoroethylene(PTFE)‐based dry‐processed cathodes. The low adhesion of the PTFE‐based composite to the current collector enables the mechanical, non‐destructive recovery of the composite, leaving the secondary particle ...
Maike Michelle Gnutzmann   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retaining the Thin Blue Line: What shapes workers' willingness not to quit the current work environment? [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of police officers' willingness to quit their current department. For this purpose, we work with US survey data that covers a large set of police officers for the Baltimore Police Department in
Benno Torgler   +2 more
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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

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