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Beyond Labels: Unveiling the Interplay Between Identity and Name Changes in Firm Performance
ABSTRACT Despite the increasing prevalence of corporate name change (CNC) in tandem with a growing body of research on the subject, the boundary and contextual conditions under which CNC yield beneficial or detrimental effects remain underexplored in the current literature.
Godfred Adjapong Afrifa +1 more
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Magic City, Value City: The moral geography of Suva Fiji
Fiji has had a turbulent political history of successive coups that have caused the nation to oscillate between the pursuit of ethnic nationalism and civic nationalism.
Lucas Watt
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Australiaʼs Seasonal Worker Program: Working Out Ways to Manage Risk
ABSTRACT Australiaʼs structured migration pathway for seasonal workers from the Pacific and Timor‐Leste has evolved in many ways since starting as a pilot in mid 2008. These programme changes have not only included different names and managing agencies but also a stricter governance regime for managing risk. The paper explains how the operating context
Richard Curtain
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New Zealandʼs Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme: Pathways and Prospects
ABSTRACT Managed temporary labour migration from the Pacific has grown in importance in recent years as New Zealand and Australia seek to fill seasonal labour shortages and strengthen regional relationships by providing cash‐earning opportunities to citizens of Pacific Island countries.
Charlotte Bedford, Richard Bedford
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PUBLISHING: A tribute to a commitment to the Pacific region
In more ways than one, the political events in Fiji since that fateful day have had a profound effect on political journalism in the Pacific. Many contemporaries, who worked as journalists in Fiji at the time, paid dearly for defending the Fourth Estate.
Walter Fraser
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The Impacts of Economic Sanctions on Food (Prices) Security: Evidence From Targeted Countries
ABSTRACT Our paper examined the impact of economic sanctions on food prices and security. Anecdotal evidence suggests that food security is threatened in nations subject to sanctions. However, the causal link has not been proven. We employ a two‐way fixed‐effects approach and leverage the entropy balancing technique to ascertain the existence of a ...
Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor +2 more
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Truth is always the first casualty in conflict, aided and abetted by half or part truth plus the blundering hands, heads, and pens of the less intellectual revolutionaries. ...The hostage government is paying for poorly written propaganda.
Patrick Craddock
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Emerging human dimensions research in coastal and nearshore Oceania
Abstract Calls for incorporating human dimensions into marine conservation have increased and begun to coalesce as marine social science. However, it is unclear what types of research and foci have been centered in this new interdisciplinary field and what gaps remain.
Rachel Dacks +2 more
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Ethnocracy and Post-Ethnocracy in Fiji
Fiji’s history is interspersed with ethnic conflict, military coups, new constitutions and democratic elections. Ethnic tensions started to increase in the 1960s and reached its peak with violent indigenous Fijian ethnic assertion in the form of military
Sanjay Ramesh
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ABSTRACT In Indonesian‐occupied West Papua, Christianity has been adopted, adapted, and transformed by the indigenous people of various ethnic groups to become part of their social and cultural landscape. Christianity has also prominently figured in their continuing struggle for political self‐determination.
Cypri Jehan Paju Dale
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