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Accounting for Modernity: Calculative Infrastructures of Sardinian Dairy Production

, 2020
In my research I focus on the ways farmers, food processors, consumers, and regulators link ethical values surrounding food production to their local environments in an agricultural community in Arborea, Italy, which was founded as one of the fascist ...
Kohler, Gregory
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The emergence and development of the accountancy profession in Cyprus: the case of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC) [PDF]

, 2017
Accountants have distinct status, niches and markets from other occupational groups. Moreover, they are professionalized differently in different contexts.
Neokleous, CI
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The Making of the ‘Informal State’ in Uganda

, 2014
This article analyses the evolution, reproduction, and sustenance of what I refer to as the ‘informal state’ in Uganda – a distinct mode of organising and broadcasting power that simultaneously centralises and fragments the state system.
Khisa, M
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

Never been industrialized: a tale of African structural change [PDF]

Africa is a case of structural change without industrialization and without diversification. Agriculture�s decline was matched by an increase in services and non-manufacturing industry, with manufacturing remaining low and stagnant throughout the post ...
Fabrizio Carmignani, Thomas Mandeville
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Management control, gender and postcolonialism: the case of Sri Lankan tea plantations [PDF]

, 2017
Management accounting and control research in developing countries has neglected gender issues. Focusing on management controls over marginalised female workers in Sri Lankan tea plantations, this thesis tries to fill this gap.
Ranasinghe, Seuwandhi Buddhika
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Carbon collusion: Cooperation, competition, and climate obstruction in the global oil and gas extraction network [PDF]

While publicly-available datasets often document how much fossil fuel is extracted within oil-producing countries, they do not generally indicate who is responsible. To address this gap, we constructed the Global Oil and Gas Extraction Network, a dataset
Ahamed, Sonya, Galford, Gillian L., Panikkar, Bindu, Rizzo, Donna, Stephens, Jennie C.   +4 more
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonizing Indigenous Migration

, 2021
As global attention turns increasingly to issues of migration, the Indigenous identity of migrants often remains invisible. At the U.S.-Mexico border, for example, a significant number of the individuals now being detained are people of indigenous origin,
Riley, Angela R., Carpenter, Kristen A.
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Do Investors React Differently to GHG Emission in Stock Pricing Across Firms? Evidence From Commonwealth African Countries Using a Novel Wavelet‐Enhanced QQR Approach

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the intricate and asymmetric relationship between corporate greenhouse gas emission disclosure and stock returns and crash risks, focusing on listed firms in six Commonwealth African countries characterized by regulatory fragility, limited investor protection, and growing climate vulnerability.
Idorenyin J. Okon, Adeolu O. Adewuyi, Simplice A. Asongu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source