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Corporate Psychopaths as Risk Factors: The Role of Managerial Control and Competition for Risk Governance

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increasing prevalence of corporate scandals and dysfunction linked to psychopathic leaders has prompted significant research into the drivers and effects of psychopathy in business. This paper examines corporate psychopathy, focusing on individuals with extreme selfishness, callousness, and manipulative behavior who often achieve ...
Florian Fuchs
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Raising for the End of the World? [PDF]

ARS
In this essay, I explore the forms of education, government, and socialization of children and teenagers in the post-apocalyptic TV show The Walking Dead.
Lou Guimarães Leão Caffagni
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Inside the Black Box: Understanding Organizational Decision Making Processes in VC Funds

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizational decision making within venture capital (VC) funds remains an unexplored “black box” despite its critical role in navigating investment uncertainty. This paper develops a conceptual framework that integrates established theories of organizational decision making and adapts them to the VC context. By synthesizing Buying Center (BC)
Anna Khoroshylova, Norbert Linn, Carolin Bock   +2 more
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Avoiding “Failure of Foresight” or Tunnel Vision Requires a Multi‐Paradigmatic Strategic Decision‐Making Approach

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper considers the tensions between different organizational strategic decision‐making approaches at various levels of uncertainty. Of particular focus are the mechanisms for defaulting to lower uncertainty, from the Cynefin framework's unordered chaotic and complex domains to the more ordered complicated and obvious domains.
Richard J. Logan, Robert Y. Cavana, Bronwyn E. Howell, Ian Yeoman   +3 more
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Beyond Reality Avoidance: Unraveling the Paradox of Escapism Through Self‐Monitoring and Autonomy Mechanisms for Consumers' Life Satisfaction

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces the Paradox of Escapism, exploring how the act of escaping reality can evolve from a short‐term avoidance strategy to a mechanism for self‐regulation and enhanced life satisfaction. Employing five rigorous, multimethod investigations, including qualitative interviews and sentiment analysis (Study 1), Structural Equation ...
Thamiris Magalhães de Sousa, Flávio Santino Bizarrias, Thelma Valéria Rocha, Larissa Luz Raposo   +3 more
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Graded traumatic brain injury severity differentially modulates microglial and astrocytic polarization states and response to minocycline

Neuroprotection, EarlyView.
Schematic diagram of the experimental design and key findings of traumatic brain injury (TBI) with varying severities. Mild, moderate, and severe TBI were induced in the right motor cortex of mice using the controlled cortical impact (CCI) method, with impact depths of 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 mm, respectively. A subset of severe TBI mice received minocycline
Yan Yu, Chen Wang, Jinyu Zhu, Jiahui Du, Hao Li, Shuyi Ning, Rui Yang, Yiwen Ma, Mengyuan Yuan, Wei Shen, Huailin Wang, Huihui Jiang, Liping Chen, Haitao Wu   +13 more
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The Cosmic Sources of Religious Feeling (a possible hypothesis) [PDF]

Future Human Image, 2017
The article is devoted to the relationship between science and religion, as an important component of human culture and human mentality. The science is considered to have become closely connected with consciousness and is described in the language of ...
Victor F. Petrenko
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Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience.
Kim Moloney, Kohei Suzuki, Mehmet Demircioglu, Cristina Stanica, Srinivas Yerramsetti, Aroon P. Manoharan, James L. Perry   +6 more
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Where Have I Seen You Before? Networks, Trust and Reciprocity as a Source of Collaboration in the Public Service

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although some studies focus on how bureaucrats' interactions with one another affect performance, they rarely focus on why these public servants collaborate. Bureaucrats' collaboration matters because it can significantly contribute to achieving policy goals.
Nathalie Mendez
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Perspectives and behaviors surrounding planting practices in North America inform genetic conservation realities for American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius)

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
American ginseng is a shade‐obligate, North American medicinal plant that is widely traded and used internationally. To meet global demand, ginseng is cultivated in forest farms in the Appalachian region of the USA and field‐based artificial shade farms in two regions: Ontario, Canada and Wisconsin, USA. We conducted social research leveraging in‐depth
Rachel E. Palkovitz, Mary K. Shenk, Eric P. Burkhart   +2 more
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