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CEO Social Class Origins and Risk Taking

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The literature has shown that personal characteristics of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) affect their decision‐making. We use the type of school they attended as a proxy for social class origins and show that CEOs from the working‐ or middle‐class origins take on significantly higher corporate leverage by nearly 15%.
Andrew Urquhart, Hanxiong Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

The development and face validity of the music therapy sensory instrument for cognition, consciousness, and awareness (MuSICCA). [PDF]

Front Psychol
Pool JW, Magee WL, Siegert RJ, Wood CL.
europepmc   +1 more source

Evaluating Investment in Space Programs: A Case for Theoretical Pluralism

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A perennial question repeatedly asked since the early Mercury (USA) and Salyut (then Soviet Union) space programs has been variations on the theme of “how can the cost of space exploration be justified?” This question—which in broad terms constitutes the research question considered in this paper—continues to be directed toward space agencies ...
Basil P. Tucker, Hank C. Alewine
wiley   +1 more source

Facial affect and arousal as a complement to gaze measures in infant speech sound perception studies. [PDF]

Front Neural Circuits
Tsuji S, Alonso F, Hagihara H, Kimura N, Polka L, Lovčević I.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Flexible Choice or No Choice: Navigating Life Course and Platform Flexibility Among Female Platform‐Based Food Delivery Workers in Taiwan

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although platform‐based work is celebrated for its flexibility and autonomy, enabling women to manage their own schedules across the work–life nexus, there is a limited understanding of how women of different life stages navigate work–life balance and their long‐term work prospects.
Ling Han
wiley   +1 more source

Curiosity and Mind Wandering During Music Listening Are Negatively Correlated. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Pérez Ariza JF, Omigie D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sound similarity: adding a new dimension to music discovery

, 2013
de Leon, Franz, Martinez, Kirk
core  

Decolonizing Knowledge, Resisting Coloniality of Gender: Collective Mobilizations at a Brazilian Public University

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazilian public universities adhere to a Western model rooted in universality, which, in its exclusivity, perpetuates coloniality by sidelining alternative forms of knowledge and bodies. In recent decades, minoritized groups have gained access to these institutions and initiated confrontations with coloniality through diverse articulations ...
Isabela Grossi Amaral, Flávia Naves, Ana Flávia Rezende   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Myths, beliefs, and attitudes towards music piracy:findings from qualitative research [PDF]

, 2015
Brown, Steven Caldwell, Knox, Don
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Prison Officers as Providers of Social Support: An Analysis of the Human Service Values and Power Dynamics Present in Prison Officers’ Accounts of Assisting Inmates

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that prison officers often provide practical and emotional assistance to inmates. However, this has generally been depicted as a discretionary, conflicted and unrewarded task, sometimes met with hostility from their peers.
Cristina Güerri
wiley   +1 more source