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Sustaining Circular Innovation Under Volatile Market Conditions: The Critical Role of Industry Platforms

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While industry platforms are widely recognized as enablers of circular innovation, we still know little about how they evolve to scale and sustain innovation as economic conditions tighten and circular economy funding schemes become more selective.
Eva Qi Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Topicality and (Non-)Specificity in Mandarin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Current analyses of specificity are unable to provide an explanatory account for why specific and nonspecific uses of indefinites are available. While Abusch (1994), Reinhart (1997), and Kratzer (1998) provide successful mechanisms for deriving specific ...
Portner, Paul
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Licensed Commoning and the Authoritarian Commons: Governing Participation in China's Community Gardens

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's environmental governance transition combines intensified vertical accountability and performance‐based management with expanding calls for public participation. However, despite growing demand for civic engagement, there remains limited understanding of how participatory environmental initiatives are structured and governed in practice.
Linjun Xie, Mengqi Shao, Gaohan Deng
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Classroom: Cognitive and Educational Insights Into Gameplay‐Based Second Language Learning

open access: yesFuture in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This pilot study investigated how the narrative‐rich Chinese AAA game Black Myth: Wukong supports advanced Mandarin learners. Using reflective journals, semi‐structured interviews, and exploratory electroencephalogram (EEG), we examined learners' cognitive, affective, and cultural experiences.
ShuPei Wang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Visual Rhetorical Analysis of Chinese International Communication Teaching on Instagram in The Digital Era: A Case Study of Silk Mandarin

open access: yesMandarinable
Silk Mandarin (丝合汉语), as a Chinese language teaching organization, exemplifies the growing global interest in Mandarin. By leveraging platforms such as Instagram, Silk Mandarin actively promotes and disseminates Chinese language education internationally
Irvan Aditya Tela   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Production of neutral tone in Mandarin by heritage, native, and second language speakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This study examined the properties of neutral tone (T0) in Mandarin as produced by three groups: native speakers raised in a Mandarin-speaking environment (L1ers), second language learners raised in an English-speaking environment (L2ers), and heritage ...
Chang, Charles, Yao, Yao
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Learning tone distinctions for Mandarin Chinese [PDF]

open access: yesInterspeech 2007, 2007
We describe the SpeakGoodChinese system that supports beginning students of Mandarin Chinese to produce tones correctly (http://speakgoodchinese.org/). Students pronounce a word spelled in pinyin notation and receive feedback from our system on their production of the tones.
Weenink, D.J.M.   +6 more
openaire   +2 more sources

South African Grade 5 non-native learners learning Mandarin as a second additional language with a focus on Chinese characters

open access: yesLiterator, 2019
The South African Department of Basic Education (DBE) listed Mandarin as a second additional language (SAL) (Grades 4–9) in the National Curriculum Statement Grades R to 12 in 2015.
Norma M. Nel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Differential Object Marking and identifiability of the referent: A study of Mandarin Chinese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper examines the interaction of DOM with information structure in Mandarin Chinese. Despite the large amount of works on this topic, much remains to be explained, in particular with respect to some alternations that do not easily fit the ...
Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco   +1 more
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Building High Involvement Work Systems in the Digital Era: Employee Experience‐Oriented Digital HRM and Employee Involvement

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the increasing application of digital technology in management practices, its implications for employee involvement and high involvement work systems (HIWSs) remain largely unexplored. Based on an in‐depth qualitative case study of Tencent—one of China's largest information technology companies—this article explores whether and in what
Wei Wei, Xiaolan Fu
wiley   +1 more source

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