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A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
wiley   +1 more source

Concept of Nation State Building in Decisions of II Congress of Comintern

Научный диалог, 2017
The problem of nation state building is examined, which was actively discussed by the theorists of communism at the dawn of Soviet power. Great attention is paid to the work of The II Congress of the Communist International, meeting in 1920, during the ...
E. N. Emelyanova
doaj   +1 more source

Calibrated Autonomy: China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance and the Reconfiguration of Dispute Resolution

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance represents neither progress toward rule of law nor retreat from it. I propose instead that we are witnessing something I call “calibrated autonomy”—the strategic construction of spaces for private ordering that remain tethered to Party‐State oversight through multiple ...
M. Francis Cao
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Assessment of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises: A Systematic Review and Hybrid Architecture for Credible, Salient, and Legitimate Knowledge Governance

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability assessment advances corporate social responsibility toward inclusive development. Widely recognized approaches prove inadequate for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), resulting in fragmented proliferation that hinders cumulative knowledge.
Luísa Couto Gonçalves de Souza, Laura Proença Guimarães, Maria Auxiliadora Drumond   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Dictatorship of the Proletariat to Personnel (why the Hegemon didn’t become the Leader of Progress)

Управленческое консультирование, 2018
Today there is a set of the points of view on destiny of working class. One still consider working class as «the history engine», «the leader of progress» and isolated facts of a working protest treat as manifestation of a powerful role of working class.
Valentina Prokofyevna Vershel
doaj  

The People’s Commissariat for Nationalities and Nation-formation Process

Oriental Studies, 2018
Implementing national policy, the Soviet power provided many peoples of Russia, including the Kalmyk people, with national statehood. In spite of great difficulties and costs, it was creating the necessary conditions for overcoming economic and ...
K. N. Maksimov
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Learning as Compost: Reorienting Evaluation in an Era of Authoritarian Drift

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We synthesize insights from seven cases to interrogate a central assumption of the learning function of evaluation: Learning can be strengthened through better design, integration, or alignment with accountability systems. Taking the issue's conceptual framework seriously, the essay reflects what the cases reveal about the nature of learning ...
Tiffany L. S. Tovey, Jill Anne Chouinard
wiley   +1 more source

Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Workplace Bullying: A Critical Theory Exploration of Lecturers' Experiences in a Higher Education Context

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Workplace bullying (WB) remains a pervasive concern across all sectors, including higher education institutions (HEIs), where shifting power dynamics, performance pressures, and transformation mandates often create fertile ground for systemic abuse.
Helen Meyer
wiley   +1 more source

الجولاج «السجون السرية» في الاتحاد السوفيتي في عهد ستالين [PDF]

Maǧallaẗ Buḥūṯ Al-Šarq Al-Awsaṭ, 2019
قام الاتحاد السوفيتي منذ تولي ستالين بتغيير ملامح الدولة الأمنية، بتأسيس جهاز أمني داخلي جبار، واعتمد علي البوليس السري في مراقبة جميع المجالات المختلفة في الاتحاد السوفيتي، حيث تتبع من کانضد سياسة الدولة في الصناعة وتصفية الکولاک Kulak طبقة المزارعين ...
أميرة حسين کمال
doaj   +1 more source