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Lonely and Sick: The Role of Social Media in Consumer Practices of Relief
ABSTRACT Loneliness is increasingly recognized as a major mental health concern, yet the role of social media in alleviating it remains poorly understood. This study asks how social media help consumers cope with loneliness amid chronic illness. Focusing on women living with endometriosis, an under‐recognized and often stigmatized condition marked by ...
Beatrice Medici +2 more
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When Bad Feels Better: How Negative Online Brand Engagement Transforms Into Consumer Happiness
ABSTRACT Brands are increasingly prioritizing consumer happiness alongside profit, yet research offers limited guidance on fostering this in negative consumer‐brand contexts. Drawing on the broaden‐and‐build theory, this work models consumer pathways from anti‐consumption and disidentification to negative cognition and affection, to constructive and ...
Xinyu Dong +2 more
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Business‐Like Narrative and Public Engagement: Evidence From TED Talks on Nonprofit Issues
ABSTRACT While the trend of nonprofits adopting business‐like practices has been widely discussed, limited attention has been paid to how the broader public responds to this shift. One way to capture public reactions is by examining engagement with business‐like narratives in media.
Jun Zhang
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ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim +1 more
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ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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Shareholder Activism Benefits and Drawbacks
This book analyses and compares the benefits and drawbacks of shareholder activism in corporations under US American and German law, applying means of new institutional economics. The analysis concentrates on three fields of action of active shareholders
Hartmann, Marion D.
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Digital activism in Kenya: moving from the digital center to the digital periphery of Long Covid experience. [PDF]
Mendenhall E +3 more
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Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
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Digital Innovation: Orchestrating Network Activities.
Digitization of analogue everyday artifacts, i.e. when physical products are equipped with digital capabilities, has a profound impact on today’s society. Some examples of these digital innovations aimed at consumer markets are the “connected” car, the digitized television set, and in the near future, digitized IKEA furniture.
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