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Accounting &Finance, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 1972-1999, June 2026.Abstract This study explores the practical impact of blockchain technology (BCT), which contrasts strongly with literature that has predominantly hypothesised BCT's potential to disrupt accounting practice. We interviewed 44 practitioners and academics with knowledge of BCT across 13 countries and industries.
Musbaudeen Titilope Oladejo +3 more
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Financial Disintermediation and Monetary Policy [PDF]
This paper investigates the extent of financial disintermediation in the SEACEN countries and examines the policy implications of disintermediation for monetary management.
Junggun Oh
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Decision Sciences, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 185-212, June 2026.Abstract Trust and fairness are critical to the sustainable development of the sharing economy, particularly in platform–supplier relationships, where numerous individual suppliers offer access to their durable assets without transferring ownership. Motivated by the real‐world phenomenon of personalized wages and informed through direct interactions ...
Ying Yin, Xishu Li
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, 2011 This paper aims to make an empirical contribution to the discussion of the role of banks and to find out if banking is a declining industry. It takes into account that the role of banks is declining in the United States and the fact that the American ...
Wright, Kelly
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, 2021 Typically, people have a misconception about blockchain as they associate this technology with cryptocurrency. This chapter does not focus, however, on bitcoin or cryptocurrencies that pertain to its intrinsic value.
Seppänen, V. (Veikko) +4 more
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From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories
Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 240-248, June 2026.ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
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PastoralismDisintermediation is often presented as a means of improving producer welfare by “cutting out the middleman” and allowing producers and buyers to transact directly.
Julia Bello-Bravo +3 more
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The Dismal Harvest: The Uneven Landscapes of AI in Agriculture
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT In this intervention, I examine artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture through a political ecology lens, analysing how promises of productivity, efficiency, and sustainability take shape across uneven postcolonial landscapes. Building on feminist and critical agrarian perspectives, I focus on the material relations of farming to show that
Katarzyna Cieslik
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Taking on Social Media as New Gatekeepers among Young People: A Call upon Digital Literacy
InformationToday’s public sphere is increasingly shaped by a dynamic, global, cross-cutting digital landscape, mostly ruled by social media and algorithms. Individuals are the raw material, the product, in this digital scenario, insofar as they generate and create ...
Ana Pérez-Escoda +3 more
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Financial disintermediation and Profitability of Global Islamic Banks
European Journal of Islamic Finance, 2017 Recently Islamic banks are experiencing rapid growth in Islamic countries as well as non-Islamic countries. The profitability of the Islamic banks is based on the different instruments as a share of total financing.
Noman Arshed +2 more
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