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The power of arms: rethinking armed parties and democratization through the Palestinian elections

open access: yes, 2012
This article examines the role of armed parties in democratization. Usually considered volatile and thus excluded from the democratic process, we argue instead that in certain circumstances, armed parties can have a productive role in elections aimed at ...
Lust, Ellen,, Longo, Matthew
core  

Green Is the New Gold: Redefining Opulent Lifestyle Through Organic Food Purchases

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior studies based on the Theory of Planned Behavior mostly examined the effects of health and environmental concerns on organic food consumption; however, few addressed the paradoxical relationships in the context of opulent or symbolic decorum.
Neha Sharma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Degradation of Access‐Based Business Models: Customer Misbehavior and Shared Mobility

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access‐based services are considered one of the strategies to embed sustainability in business models. Yet, because the evolution of these business models has been overlooked, we do not know whether their promise to create triple value is sustained.
Andres Camacho, Carmen Valor
wiley   +1 more source

Democratization is the determinant of technological change [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between democracy and technological innovation. The primary findings are that most free countries, measured with liberal, participatory, and constitutional democracy index, have higher ...
Mario Coccia
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'Divided they stand, divided they fail': opposition politics in Morocco [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The literature on democratization emphasises how authoritarian constraints usually lead genuine opposition parties and movements to form alliances in order to make demands for reform to the authoritarian regime. There is significant empirical evidence to
Cavatorta, Francesco
core   +1 more source

Funding Costs and Liquidity Creation: Does ESG Play Any Role?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how banks' funding costs affect liquidity creation and whether environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance shapes this relationship. Using panel data for 136 U.S. commercial banks from 2005 to 2022, we show that higher funding costs are associated with lower liquidity creation, indicating that more expensive ...
Sattam Bin Kowibeen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democratization and Financial Reform in Taiwan: The Political Economy of Bad-Loan Creation [PDF]

open access: yes
This study shows that many bad loans now burdening Taiwan's financial institutions are interrelated with the society's democratization which started in the late 1980s.
Sato, Yukihito
core  

Globalization, democratization, and the Arab uprising : the international factor in MENA's failed democratization

open access: yes, 2015
What explains the almost negative impact of international factors on post-Uprising democratization prospects? This article compares the utility of rival “diffusionist” and neo-Gramscian political economy frames to explain this.
Hinnebusch, Raymond, Raymond Hinnebusch
core   +1 more source

AI‐Enabled Circular Business Model Transition for Mitigating Climate Change: A Natural Resource‐Based View Perspective on Business Strategies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in achieving sustainability goals has garnered attention in academic literature. While AI has been argued to be crucial in addressing circularity challenges, organizations face challenges in configuring a business model.
Jian Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democratization and TNI Reform

open access: yesRevista UNISCI, 2007
Este artículo pretende responder a cuatro preguntas: qué tipo de relaciones cívico-militares son necesarias para la democratización; cómo afecta la reforma militar en Indonesia a las relaciones cívico-militares; si tiene un impacto positivo en la ...
Rico Marbun
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