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Venture Capital Practices in Saudi Arabia: The Views of Investors

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how venture capital (VC) investors in Saudi Arabia evaluate, negotiate, and support entrepreneurial ventures in a rapidly developing yet institutionally young setting. Drawing on 21 semi‐structured interviews with 24 investors, it offers rare insight into VC practices in the Middle East.
Tibah al‐Harbi, Renzo Cordina, David M. Power   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Collision of Tradition, Technology, and Capitalism in American Hunting Culture 美国狩猎文化中传统、技术与资本的碰撞

Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.
This essay describes the context of big game hunting in the western United States in the twenty‐first century from a sociological perspective. Using Ogburn's theory of cultural lag as a guide, it explores the relationship of technology and capitalism to hunting.
Stephen L. Eliason
wiley   +1 more source

The Environmental Theology of Aimee Semple McPherson (Chapter 4 of Blood Cries Out : Pentecostals, Ecology, and the Groans of Creation)

, 2014
Excerpt: My initial investigation into Aimee Semple McPherson—founder of The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel—and ecology was bleak: every word search returned a spiritual metaphor. “Garbage” came back as “garbage can of Satan,” “pollution”
Bouma-Prediger, Steven, Swoboda, A.J.
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Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Digital capital and digital inequalities among students

Socioloski pregled
The aim of the paper is to analyze the characteristics of students'students'digital capital, with a particular focus on education and digital inequalities. It is assumed that students'students'digital capital is relatively high, as they are digital natives.
Jovana Čikić, Aleksej Kišjuhas
openaire   +2 more sources

Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
wiley   +1 more source

Cosmolocalism Against Platform Capitalism: Evidence From Ridesharing

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
The rise of digital commons has expanded shared resources and addressed some challenges of traditional commons. However, this expansion has created new boundaries, forming a complex paradigm that challenges platform capitalism and demands alternative ...
Yosuke Uchiyama
doaj   +1 more source

Managerialism and the neoliberal university: Prospects for new forms of "open management" in higher education [PDF]

, 2013
The restructuring of state education systems in many OECD countries during the last two decades has involved a significant shift away from an emphasis on administration and policy to an emphasis on management.
Peters, Michael A.
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The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
wiley   +1 more source

ICIRCASSIA DIGITAL CAPITALISM AND NEW TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES

Journal of Caucasian Studies, 2015
Basta ulusal kimlik ve tarih konularina odaklananlar olmak uzere, internette sayisi giderek artan Cerkeslerle ilgili materyaller, bir anlamda siber alemde Cerkesya’nin sinirlarinin yeniden cizilmesi olarak da degerlendirilebilir. Bu makalede ‘e-Cerkesya’ (‘iCircassia’) terimini, genel olarak anavatan ve diasporadan olustugu kabul edilen klasik Cerkes ...
openaire   +4 more sources