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A Betrayal in the Family: An Inhibitor or Stimulus for Business Model Innovation?

open access: yesJournal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Academic Summary Business‐focused betrayals perpetrated by family members in managerial and decision‐making positions can devastate family businesses, questioning their assumptions about trust and how they conduct the business. Such betrayals ignite tensions between family and business logics, potentially causing paralysis and protection of ...
Md Imtiaz Mostafiz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the end of a stable Pacific, 18‘ edition. By Robert D. Kaplan. Random House, New York. 2014. ISBN 978-0-8129-9906-8. 225pp. Paperback, $18.

open access: yesJISR Management and Social Sciences & Economics, 2014
The ascending power of China has precipitated a glut of books on the role of China in the 21st Century among which Asia’s Cauldron by Robert D. Kaplan looks at the changing realities of the 21S' century as China rises after decades of slumber and the ...
Masood Ahmed
doaj   +1 more source

Liberal Institutionalism in Crisis: Reassessing the Iran‐West Nuclear Standoff Amid the 2025 Israel–Iran War

open access: yesDigest of Middle East Studies, Volume 35, Issue 1, Winter 2026.
ABSTRACT The Israel‐Iran war of 2025 has changed the geopolitical face of the Middle East, not only bringing up the issue of nuclear proliferation, but also putting international diplomacy to the test. This essay assesses the performance of liberal institutionalism based on the latest conflict, paying special attention to the Joint Comprehensive Plan ...
Hafeez Ullah Khan
wiley   +1 more source

Performance e giochi d'iniziazione in Grecia antica: la «tarta-tartaruga» (chelichelṓnē) e il «calderone» (chytrínda)

open access: yesMantichora, 2020
We consider performance and initiation’s rituals with respect to the tortoise game (chelichelṓnē). At first, Julius Pollux, the second-century CE lexicographer, describes the game, to wich Erinna in her lost poem “The Distaff” and Eustathius also refer ...
Salvatore Costanza
doaj   +1 more source

Mpambu Nzila: José Bedia at the Crossroads

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The article draws on the Kongo term mpambu nzila of crossroads, that equally signifies altar, to discuss the paintings and drawings of Cuban-born artist José Bedia.
Alan West-Durán
doaj   +1 more source

Existential Process in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret: a Systemic Functional Linguistic Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Dealing with sense of experience people undergo, transitivity construes the process of the experiences. One of the processes in transitivity is discussed here, that is existential process.
Afrianto, A. (Afrianto)   +1 more
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Dissecting the 3D structure of elliptical galaxies with gravitational lensing and stellar kinematics

open access: yes, 2014
The combination of strong gravitational lensing and stellar kinematics provides a powerful and robust method to investigate the mass and dynamical structure of early-type galaxies.
Barnabè, Matteo   +2 more
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Affirmational and Transformational Values and Practices in the Tolkien Fanfiction Community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Fanfiction based on the legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien has existed for at least six decades and has been, within the past two, one of the most consistently active online fanfiction communities. Despite this, the fandom has been relatively unstudied by fan
Walls-Thumma, Dawn M.
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Disciplining Desire: Rethinking Racial Capitalism Through Black Queer Resistance

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT In Black communities, heteronormativity installs the belief that Black people are inherently straight, erasing Black Queer histories. Despite its significance, homophobia remains underexamined in racial capitalism discourse, which neglects the interplay of race, gender, sexuality, and capital.
Seon Yuzyk
wiley   +1 more source

To Archive or Not to Archive: The Resistant Potential of Digital Poetry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This essay addresses the much discussed problem of archiving digital poetry. Digital media are labile, and several writers of digital poetry are incorporating the media’s ephemerality into their poetics. Rather than rehash arguments that have been taking
Angello, Aaron
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