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How ventures maintain stakeholder support amidst operational legitimacy threats

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We explore how ventures mitigate operational legitimacy threats—threats that originate within the venture and challenge claims relating to the venture's ability to deliver on its promised value proposition. Through an inductive study of four ventures working to deliver their promised products following successful crowdfunding ...
Alex Murray, Susan Cohen, Farhan Iqbal
wiley   +1 more source

Character Archetypes in High Fantasy Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
More than any other genre, Fantasy literature has many characteristics in common within its works, owing to the shared references of its authors throughout the years and the universal nature of its stories.
Walker, Byron   +5 more
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Online Versus Face‐to‐Face Multiparty Interactions: Effects on Emergent System Dynamics and Integrative Outcomes

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multiparty systems address wicked problems by bringing together stakeholders with diverse and sometimes competing interests. Although previous research has emphasized the role of expected positive interdependence in driving system‐level dynamics and reaching integrative negotiations, the impact of the communication environment (online versus ...
Elena Cristina Manole   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Goffman's Tempting the Devil in Stigma: A Close Rereading of Goffman's “Subversive” Construct of “the Normals” Versus “the Stigmatized”

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma, relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma.
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

Magic and Reality in Fantasy Literature [PDF]

open access: yes
This thesis delves into the world of fantasy literature, focusing on Susanna Clark’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004) and Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus (2011).
Mahmadany, Nora Sami
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Pozaedukacyjny zwierzyniec? Przekształcenia motywu raju zwierząt w polskiej literaturze fantastycznej dla dzieci i młodzieży

open access: yesCreatio Fantastica, 2017
The article Extra-educational Bestiary? Transformation of Animal Paradise Motif in Polish Young Adult Fantastic Literature is an attempt to define a new argument for a possibility of animal immortality on the basis of fantasy literature for children and ...
Ewelina Rąbkowska
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Fantasy

open access: yes, 2019
Account of the adaptation of Freud's conception of fantasy, firstly by Lacan, and then in the theory of ideology of Lacanian thinker Slavoj ...
Matthew Sharpe (13086102)   +1 more
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The Hidden Hallyu Emerged: Exploring the Key Motives of Reading Adapted K‐Webtoons of South Korea

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate why global fans read Korean webtoons (K‐webtoons) and how their motivations vary across different genres. Previous studies have approached the Korean Wave (Hallyu) from a national perspective, emphasizing its influence and primarily discussing K‐pop and K‐drama.
Hoseok Gwak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘You're not a good vet if things go wrong’: The dark side of veterinary identities

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Vets, like other professionals, strive for somewhat fantasised desired occupational identities, but the dichotomic dark side of feared identities—that is, negative constructions of oneself as flawed, failed or failing—remains underexplored. This paper reviews the identity processes associated with feared identities.
Sarah Page‐Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating large mammalian herbivores into Dynamic Global Vegetation Models: Status and next steps

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Zoogeochemistry, the study of how animals influence elemental cycling within ecosystems, bridges the fields of zoology, ecology and biogeochemistry. Yet, most terrestrial ecosystem models, especially Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs), remain largely plant‐centric
Yue Cheng   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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