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Influence of the entrepreneur's social identity on business performance through effectuation
The business founder's social identity is crucial to explaining his or her behaviour and attitude in business decision-making. Drawing on three types of entrepreneurial social identity identified by Fauchart and Gruber (2011), this study examines how ...
Marina Estrada de la Cruz +2 more
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ABSTRACT This study examines how institutional arrangements associated with economic security reshape semiconductor production in East Asia through the case of TSMC's investment in Kumamoto, Japan. It argues that economic security operates not primarily through direct administrative control, but by redefining acceptable investment risks, narrowing ...
Yumeng Wang
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Imagined Integration: The Logics of Japanese Immigrant Integration Policy
ABSTRACT As governments develop immigrant integration policies, they draw on and express conceptions about what successful integration looks like—what we call “imagined integration.” Yet this imagination likely displays variation that matters for implementation: integration policymaking is increasingly multilevel as it involves subnational layers of ...
Mariri Niino, William L. Allen
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La desigualdad de ingreso y salud en Colombia
Este trabajo plantea dos propósitos, el primero verificar si las condiciones económicas contextuales influyen en la salud autopercibida, independiente del estatus socioeconómico del individuo. Y segundo, explorar los mecanismos que operarían en el nivel
Sandra Rodríguez Acosta
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Abstract Pastoral practices remain a widespread economic activity across European mountain regions. However, the viability of this activity may be threatened by the recovery of large wild vertebrates associated with passive rewilding, leading to the so‐called human–wildlife conflicts.
P. Acebes +4 more
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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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Downward Wage Rigidities in the Mexican Labor Market: 1996–2011
In this paper, we provide evidence of the existence and evolution of downward real and nominal wage rigidities in Mexico in the period 1996–2011, which was characterized by a reduction in the level and volatility of inflation.
Laura Juarez +1 more
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Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha +3 more
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ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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La reinvención de Medellín Resumen: Con la adopción del modelo de industrialización por sustitución de importaciones, Medellín se convirtió en el centro industrial más importante de Colombia.
Andrés Sánchez
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