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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy From Within: A Democratic Cultural Schema in the US Public

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Are members of the public still committed to democracy? Existing studies often ask whether members of the public sanction political actors who break institutional or procedural norms. In contrast, we study a shared cultural horizon, which grounds democracy as a way of living.
Johan Gøtzsche‐Astrup   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Short‐Term Profits for Long‐Term Value: Corporate ESG Dilemmas Under Earnings Pressure and Pathways to Governance

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the negative effect of earnings pressure (EP) on corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and explores governance mechanisms that can address this problem. Drawing on behavioural agency theory and incorporating insights from resource allocation theory and agency theory, this paper identifies the key
Sha Tang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brand Capital and Leverage Adjustments

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a sample of U.S. firm‐year observations, we document a positive association between brand capital and the speed of leverage adjustment. This relationship is stronger among firms that exhibit greater opacity in their information disclosure, weaker governance, and more rigid financial constraints.
Tongxia Li, Chun Lu, Lei Xu, Bo Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Rising Connectivity, Shifting Hubs: The Evolving Network and Governance Challenges of Global Wild‐Sourced Trade

open access: yesAnimal Conservation, EarlyView.
Wild‐sourced wildlife trade is not only increasing in volume but also changing in network structure. Using three decades of CITES trade records, we found that the wild‐sourced wildlife trade has become increasingly connected and taxonomically uneven, with Anthozoa contributing a growing share.
Jing Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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