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Early‐Life Disaster Exposure and the Investment Response to Monetary Policy
ABSTRACT We place CEOs' formative experiences at the center of analyzing how firms respond to monetary policy. Specifically, we examine how early‐life exposure to natural disasters shapes CEOs’ investment behavior following monetary shocks. CEOs with exposure to moderate natural disasters during their formative years exhibit stronger risk‐taking ...
Samer Adra +3 more
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Cancer and Capitalism: Towards a Critical Sociological Agenda
ABSTRACT This article considers the relationship between cancer and capitalism from the perspective of political economy. It argues that this perspective is crucial for producing a critical agenda in the sociological study of cancer, which has otherwise and traditionally neglected the question of capital as social totality.
Faisal Al‐Asaad
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Machine Learning-Powered Earthquake Early Warning System
The most devastating natural disasters on earth are earthquakes that causes long-term effects on geography, civilization, and human life. These unpredictable events pose a serious threat to infrastructure. Furthermore, the current Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) systems are facing issues such as limited warning times, false alarms, maintenance costs ...
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California Launches Nation’s First Earthquake Early Warning System
The country’s first publicly available, statewide warning system could give California residents seconds to duck and cover before a quake.
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Intentionality and Attentionality Dynamics in an Institutional Change Process
Abstract In this article, we explore how actors' intentionality emerges, develops, and co‐evolves with institutional change. Although intentions are essential in shaping institutional change agents' motivations and actions, our understanding of their dynamics is limited and biased by the assumption that intentions are usually identifiable prior to ...
Sofiane Baba, Taïeb Hafsi, Omar Hemissi
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How the Threat of Knowledge Loss Drives Firms’ R&D Dynamism: A Threat Rigidity Perspective
Abstract Drawing on threat rigidity theory, this paper argues that the threat of knowledge loss gives rise to a threat rigidity effect in firms’ R&D function, that is, reduces their R&D dynamism. It further argues that the dampening of R&D dynamism is greater for firms more vulnerable to the threat of knowledge loss due to facing greater product market
Aman Asija, Dimo Ringov
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From Organizational Resilience Capability to Firm Performance: A Time‐Lagged Investigation
ABSTRACT An organizational resilience capability is essential for firms to adapt in an ever‐changing world characterized by diverse crises and adversities. However, the mechanisms and contingencies needed to harness and channel organizational resilience capability remain uncertain.
Yi‐Ying Chang +5 more
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Pre-Earthquake Early Warning System
Bhavin Dhamecha +3 more
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Abstract A core drilled through shocked and faulted Archean granitoid gneisses and dolerites in the eroded peak ring of the 70–80 km diameter Morokweng impact structure intersects multiple centimeter‐ to meter‐wide clastic‐matrix breccias containing a polymict clast population of lithic and mineral clasts and altered, millimeter‐ to centimeter ‐size ...
Roger L. Gibson +3 more
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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside
Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
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