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The Impacts of Chief Sustainability Officers' Structural Power on Corporate Social Responsibility Performance

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Extant literature assumes that powerful executives can wield their influence with minimal opposition from lower‐power actors. We reconsider this assumption by incorporating the coalitional view in which lower‐power actors can mobilize coalitions to resist.
Nhan Huong Nguyen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Applying Graph Theory to Examine the Dynamics of Student Discussions in Small-Group Learning. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Group work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses is an effective means of improving student outcomes, and many different factors can influence the dynamics of student discussions and, ultimately, the success of collaboration.
Chai, Albert   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

The instructions as instrument of the development of professional activity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In this paper, we present the results of a study on the circumstances in which instructions given by various interlocutors (cooperating teacher, university supervisor, colleagues) favor the development of professional activity of a preservice teacher ...
Moussay, Sylvie
core   +1 more source

The use value of real-world projects: Children and community-based experts connecting through school work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper we discuss how the products of student work during long-term, interdisciplinary curricular units at King Middle School, a grades 6-8 public school in Portland, Maine, through their aesthetic qualities, transformed people’s understanding of ...
Rheingold, Alison, Seaman, Jayson O.
core   +4 more sources

Dental Students’ Temporomandibular Disorder‐Related Education, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior, How Do Personal Experiences Matter?

open access: yesJournal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Approximately, 5%–12% of adults in the United States are estimated to have temporomandibular disorders (TMD), making it crucial that dentists are optimally trained to diagnose and treat TMD. The objectives were to assess dental students’ TMD‐related education, knowledge, attitudes, and behavior and explore if personal TMD‐related ...
Monica Fan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Studying and Supporting Writing in Student Organizations as a High-Impact Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Institutions of postsecondary education, and the field of writing across the curriculum and in the disciplines (WAC/WID) in particular, need to do more to trouble learning paradigms that employ writing only in service to particular disciplines, only in ...
Hendrickson, Brian
core   +1 more source

Color Visions from the Past in Science Teaching Within a Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) Context

open access: yesWorld Journal of Education, 2012
This study uses history of science in teaching natural sciences from the early grades. The theoretical framework used is Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), which is a theory with expanding applications in different fields of science.
Eleni Kolokouri, Katerina Plakitsi
openaire   +2 more sources

When Does Top Management Team Diversity Matter in Large Organizations?

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Top management teams (TMTs) drive strategic leadership, but there is little clarity on when the composition of these upper echelons most impacts organization performance. Drawing from the categorization‐elaboration model, we study an 18‐year sample of approximately 4500 organizations and over 32 000 executives and find a positive relationship ...
Frances Fabian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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