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Functional Substitution and Particularized Trust: Governance Mechanisms in Hourglass Socio‐Economic Systems

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governance research shows that cooperation can persist despite dysfunctional state institutions, often through trust‐based mechanisms. This paper extends these debates by examining a complex collective action problem: the engagement of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in vocational education and training (VET) in post‐communist ...
Linda Wanklin
wiley   +1 more source

The Intersectional Dynamics of Skill Underutilization: A Case Study of College‐Educated Iranian Migrant Women in California

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are paradoxical and sociological questions surrounding migrants of certain ethno‐national backgrounds—particularly women—whose high levels of education do not consistently translate into employment commensurate with their skills, resulting in what is commonly termed “brain waste.” This study critically examines the role of employer ...
Homa Sadri
wiley   +1 more source

War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
wiley   +1 more source

Shedding light on the environmental efficiency of the public light service: minimising light pollution through the global Malmquist–Luenberger index

open access: yesInternational Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 528-551, January 2027.
Abstract The search for evidence in public management and the implementation of good management by public bodies is becoming increasingly important, and the principles of effectiveness and efficiency should be reinforced. Therefore, this paper aims to analyse the change in efficiency in the provision of public lighting services by local governments ...
Pablo Povedano‐Fernández   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A machine learning approach to predict river hydrographs for water quality sampling. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Monit Assess
Wilson E   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“I'm not in love, so don't forget it; it's just a silly phase I'm going through”: On (not) falling in love during fieldwork in Southwest China

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract During fieldwork, anthropologists engage in emotional, social and economic exchanges with interlocutors, through which to better understand one's own positionality and that of others. When such exchanges occur with an interlocutor who becomes a romantic lover, these exchanges are filtered through desire, amplifying their psychological ...
Suvi Rautio
wiley   +1 more source

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