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The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. We reconstruct the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the actions taken by the syndicate members, and the responses to these actions by the company.
Oscar Gelderblom, Abe de Jong, Joost Jonker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
wiley   +1 more source

Current political uses of sport revised: beyond public diplomacy and sportswashing. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Costa R, Moriconi M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Inter‐Professional Collaboration through Boundary Work: Unfolding the “Doing” of Collaboration in Public Service

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the years, public service has entered a transition into collaboration as a means of accomplishing common goals for the good of society. Collaborative work across professions has long played an essential role in providing integrated services in response to complex societal problems.
Kristina Frid
wiley   +1 more source

Human rights and the olympics: from an ideological paradox to a new anti-corruption legacy. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Chatziefstathiou D, Simon Rofe J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Experiencing and Responding to Existential Vulnerability: Navigating the Work–Fertility Treatment Interface

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The need to undergo fertility treatment to fulfill parenthood aspirations involves many challenges in professional and personal domains. Extant scholarship has tended to focus on the identity threats and individual experiences of the challenges involved, but research has not delved into the more relational experiences that may characterize ...
Céire Gilsenan, Yseult Freeney, Lisa van der Werff, Hilary O'Leary   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Establishing the Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Congress: a historic milestone in regional bioinformatics collaboration. [PDF]

Brief Bioinform
Khan AM, Goto S, Nakai K, Wong L, Kovats DE, Saito Y, Ikematsu S, Yamanishi Y, Wahid NSC, Singh H, Eranti P, Chen YP, Kim TM, Ho SY, Mar JC, Iwasaki W, Valadi J, Suravajhala P, Schönbach C, Tan TW, Ranganathan S, Aoki-Kinoshita KF.   +21 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Never Mind the Bollards: Exploring the Role of GCHQ, MI5, and the National Technical Authorities in UK Security Markets

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cultures and governance of security markets in the United Kingdom are often characterised through a paradoxical narrative of simultaneous state retreat and progressive advance. In the face of repeated recent high‐profile security failures, and global changes in material political economy, we argue that UK security governance is adapting to
Ben Collier, Jamie Buchan
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Socialist Humanitarianism. [PDF]

J Contemp Hist
Hearne S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Chinese University Students’ Motivation to Learn Greek: A Transnational Postdigital Exploration

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on the motivation of learners of Languages Other Than English (LOTE) has grown steadily in recent years; however, most studies focus on classroom‐based activities and seldom consider how transnational experiences or digital practices contribute to motivational development.
Zhen Li, Aretousa Giannakou, Yuji Du
wiley   +1 more source