Wartime China’s Resistance against Japanese Aggression: Changing Interpretations and Perspectives [PDF]
In 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria and established the puppet state of Manchukuo in northeast China. Hoping to avoid an all-out war with Japan, China pursued a policy of appeasement and did not resist the occupation of China.
Fortin, Jason, Pagliarini, Tom
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Judgements of Propaganda Near and Far: National Identity and Media Evaluations
ABSTRACT Western media often critiques foreign governments for their propaganda efforts while ignoring similar efforts by their own government. We predicted that individuals would demonstrate a similar bias. An experiment with 282 Canadian participants revealed just the opposite: when asked overtly, participants judged a video attributed to their own ...
Rebecca J. Dunk +2 more
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THE PUBLISHING RELATIONS WITH LITHUANIAN COMMUNISTS IN THE USA IN 1920–1940 [PDF]
The connection between the Lithuanian Communist Party (LCP) and their partners in the USA were quite widely researched before 1990, but for different reasons it wasn’t objective. The same thing can be said about publishing relations.
Misiunas, Remigijus
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Talent Management in SMEs: Unraveling the Role of Contextual Factors
ABSTRACT Employing a multiple case study analysis, this paper explores the contextual factors—internal, external, and relational—that affect small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in designing their approaches to talent management (TM). Results underscore the significance of two prominent internal variables—namely, organizational size and ownership ...
Franca Cantoni +2 more
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Disliked but free to speak : cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of speech for groups across the ideological spectrum [PDF]
Freedom of speech for all citizens is often considered as a cornerstone of democratic societies. In three studies, we examined the relationship between cognitive ability and support for freedom of speech for a variety of social groups across the ...
Bostyn, Dries +3 more
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ESG Performance and Credit Risk: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing Companies
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on credit risk using a sample of manufacturing firms listed on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen A‐share markets from 2009 to 2021. Employing fixed effects, the generalised method of moments, and instrumental variable models, we find that ...
Yanan Wang +4 more
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Ethnical nationalism and opening the question of nationality in ex-Yugoslavia [PDF]
In a context of waves of ethnical nationalism who was inflawed the industrial societies, Yugoslav communists with the discussion about 'yugoslavianism', and with the rejecting of nonscientific theories about 'vanishing of the state' on them VIII ...
Šutović Milojica
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Socialists and communists and the Catalan national question: From 1888 until recent times
During the first third of the twentieth century, the socialists did not have a positive stance towards the Catalan demand for autonomy, and the dependence on the socialist leadership in Madrid hindered their expansion in Catalonia, where anarcho ...
Albert Balcells
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The Purge of Civil Servants in Soviet Occupied Lithuania between June–December 1940
Soviet occupation succeeded by annexation and the accession of the Lithuanian communists to power, the task of whom was to form a puppet Government and carry out the plans of the country's sovietisation, brought about the purge of civil servants.
Nijolė Maslauskienė
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ABSTRACT Communication with the market to guide public expectations has become a pivotal monetary policy instrument for central banks worldwide. Therefore, assessing the efficacy of communication in influencing personal expectations is essential for central banks.
Yuying Jin, Sunyao Xia
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