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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini   +2 more
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Reconstructing Cultures for Relational Contracting

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2005
Although previous research has pointed to potential performance gains through relational contracting (RC), reservations remain as to its value and viability. Even those who wish to use RC need guidelines for introducing it, especially where it clashes with prevalent project cultures.
Rahman, MM   +3 more
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Culture and International Relations: The Culture of International Relations

Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2009
In a response to my critics I further elaborate some of the concepts central to A Cultural Theory of International Relations. I explain why it is a cultural theory, as distinct from a theory of culture; the different levels of reason conceptualised by the Greeks and their utility in moving our thinking beyond the exclusive focus on instrumental ...
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The study of disease in relation to culture

Behavioral Science, 1972
In this paper, frameworks for conceptualizing the term disease are first reviewed and compared. Then, problems inherent in traditional approaches to evaluating psychiatric illness in settings where Western medicine has had little or no impact are discussed.
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Hispanic Culture and Relational Cultural Theory

Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2005
Traditional personality theories do not consider the impact of culture on personality development.
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Culture in International Relations

2020
Informed by multidisciplinary literature, the book begins by adopting a definition of cultural values that is both relevant to foreign policy and measureable as a variable within it: observable ideals for which people have some affective regard. Through a literature review of social sciences and international relations theory, it is determined that ...
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