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How Can General Self-Efficacy Facilitate Undergraduates’ Employability? A Multiple Mediation Model

Behavioral Sciences
Self-efficacy is a key cognitive factor affecting undergraduates’ employability, but existing studies have not sufficiently explored the underlying mechanisms of how self-efficacy influences employability, not to mention proposing a comprehensive model ...
Jiajia Tan, Jinglin Li, Xinfa Yi
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Employment or self-employment [PDF]

Journal of Business Venturing, 2002
Moren Lévesque, Dean A Shepherd, Evan J Douglas   +2 more
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Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

A Methodological Pathway for Supporting the Transition From Theory to Practice in Action‐Oriented Research for Transformative Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over recent decades, action‐oriented research has gained prominence in co‐producing actionable knowledge to drive transformative change toward sustainability. However, further methodological developments are needed to support the transition to the application phase of such knowledge.
María D. López‐Rodríguez, Amanda Jiménez‐Aceituno, Enrica Garau, Cristina Quintas‐Soriano, Juan Miguel Requena‐Mullor, Lena Rölfer, María Mancilla García, Antonio J. Castro   +7 more
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How Brazilian Public Universities Are Operationalizing The SDGs: Strategic Plans Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the importance of universities for Sustainable Development, only a handful of studies have evaluated the implementation levels of SDGs in HEIs in Latin America. To fill this void, this study examines the strategic plans of 70 Brazilian public universities, which account for 92.8% of Federal Universities.
Carolina Grano, Walter Leal Filho, Marly Monteiro de Carvalho, Lucas Veiga Ávila, José Carlos Curvelo Santana, Delmo Alves de Moura, Vanderli Correia   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Support and Well-Being: The Survival Kit for the Work Jungle

Social Sciences
This study aimed to investigate the effect of perceived social support on perceived employability and whether this relationship is mediated by well-being.
Mariana Oliveira, Ana Palma-Moreira, Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira   +2 more
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Sustainability Knowledge and Students' Selection of Employers: Self‐Determination Theory Approach

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study uses self‐determination theory (SDT) to examine the connection between sustainability knowledge and employer attractiveness in the northern European context. We aim to examine whether prior sustainability knowledge influences students' employer choices, and to identify the processes underlying this relationship.
Ilia Gugenishvili, Olga Dziubaniuk, Katayoon Pourmahdi, Monica Nyholm, Malin Brännback   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

Designing Participatory Systems Interventions for Behavioural Change: Integrating Soft Systems Methodology, the Theory of Planned Behavior, and Experiential Learning

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) operate within complex sociotechnical systems where behavioural change is shaped by interdependent cognitive, social and structural factors. This study examines a participatory systems intervention with food and beverage SMEs in a coastal tourism context in Vietnam.
Thanh‐Thao Luong, Minh‐Tuan Tran, Elaine Y. T. Chew, Yunus Khatri, Van Ha Quach   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cumulative Testing for Learning Spoken Vocabulary

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Cumulative testing is known to improve vocabulary learning by integrating both new and previously introduced words in weekly quizzes. While evidence for its benefits is promising, prior research has primarily focused on the written mode of vocabulary, with target words studied, practiced, and tested in the visual mode only.
Ryo Maie, Takumi Uchihara
wiley   +1 more source