Abstract This article explores how working middle‐class women in Karachi navigate the intersecting burdens of care and self‐care within the affective, infrastructural, and ideological conditions of urban precarity. Drawing on twelve semi‐structured interviews conducted across homes, workplaces, and cafés in the city, seven of which anchor the primary ...
Muhammad Huzaifa
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Digital twins and systemic acceleration: insights from Luhmann's sociological perspective. [PDF]
Plakolb S, Hiden R.
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Abstract This article advances three claims regarding the matrilineal organization of Wiradjuri society in central New South Wales. Drawing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century ethnographic record, it demonstrates that Wiradjuri descent, totem, moiety identity, and ceremonial authority were and are matrilineally organized, despite ...
Jessa Rogers
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AI and digital assistive technologies and reproductive rights among women with disabilities in Egypt: a qualitative SWOT study. [PDF]
Hendy AA, Rehim M, Kaouache R, Yaiche O.
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Knowledge sourcing, geopolitics, and FDI: An empirical analysis on the US green and digital sectors
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) shapes firms' sourcing of knowledge in the digital and green domains under rising geopolitical frictions. We assemble a firm–country dyadic panel (2013–2020) linking US patent backward citations to firms' FDI, enriched with bilateral geopolitical distance and host‐country
Alberto Maria Radici
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Brief Report: State Policy Contexts and Disability Risks Among Midlife Working-Age Latino Adults in the U.S.: Variation by Nativity and Citizenship Status. [PDF]
Garcia MA +4 more
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Should multinationals care about development? Rethinking global strategy in an unequal world
Abstract Research Summary While multinational corporations (MNCs) can profoundly shape global development trajectories, global strategy research has largely treated development as peripheral to core strategic concerns. This Perspective paper examines the contested relationship between global strategy and development, arguing that MNCs are neither ...
Marcus M. Larsen +2 more
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Consumer misconceptions and socioeconomic determinants of broiler meat consumption in Bangladesh. [PDF]
Rahman SM +5 more
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Abstract Research Summary This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding multinational enterprise (MNE) resilience in the era of cascading crises. We define resilience as the MNE's capacity to absorb disruption, maintain or restore functioning, and reconfigure operations as conditions shift.
Gerard George, Chang Hoon Oh
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Social mobility in transition. Value repertoires in higher education and moral meanings of the profession among first-generation graduates in Chile. [PDF]
Tabilo-Prieto I.
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