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How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
wiley   +1 more source

INSTITUTE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS THROUGH A HISTORICAL PRISM

open access: yesPravo
The institute of property rights is one of the oldest legal institutes. It appears as a historically determined form of social relations that arises in connection with the appropriation and possession of material goods.
Vesna Rajaković Jovčić   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
wiley   +1 more source

Physics Needs for Future Accelerators

open access: yes, 2000
Contents: 1. Prologomena to any meta future physics 1.1 Physics needs for building future accelerators 1.2 Physics needs for funding future accelerators 2.
Arkani-Hamed N.   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Typologies of pre-modern societies beyond feudalism: exploring alternative possibilities and the problem of their applicability in cases of peripheral European societies [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2018
The most traditional approach of medievalists to articulate classification of pre-modern European societies is to consider whether particular pre-modern society is feudal or not.
Nerijus Babinskas
doaj  

Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
wiley   +1 more source

The concept of continuity of the Byzantine city in the works of L. Kurbatov

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2012
G.L. Kurbatov had the opinion that some of the cities which existed only as the ancient cities with the decline of ancient society, were doomed to extinction. Feudal city was born more under the influence of the new economic conditions.
M Cmilanic
doaj  

On Robustness to Random Breaks in Panel Data

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One of the attractions of panel data is the ability to pool information regarding parameters that are common across the cross‐section. In fact, pooling is standard even though there are often reasons to believe that parameters are not common. One reason for this practice is that there is quite some evidence to suggest that estimators of common
Yousef Kaddoura, Joakim Westerlund
wiley   +1 more source

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