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Accountability in the Delivery of Guaranteed Employment Through MGNREGA in Rural India

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use the uneven rollout of accountability measures to identify their impact on the provision of guaranteed employment in rural Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. A public information campaign combined with an NGO‐supported grievance mechanism resulted in treated households working over 10 additional days per year in the program. We find no
Tara Bedi, Lukas Kuld
wiley   +1 more source

Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Assumptions in Causal Thought: Poverty and Perversity

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Causal attributions, framings, and ideas shape moral judgments. Sociologists have long highlighted these causality‐to‐morality processes, showing how causality underpins blame and moral responsibility. The reverse process of morality‐to‐causality, where moral assumptions influence causal attributions, has been studied less.
Lukas Posselt
wiley   +1 more source

Export Promotion With Matchmaking and Grants: Evidence From Portuguese Firms

open access: yesThe World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper evaluates two core export‐promotion tools: internationalization grants and matchmaking services provided by the Portuguese export promotion agency (AICEP). We merge administrative records with customs and firm data for 2012–2021. We employ an event‐study approach with firm and year fixed effects in a setup of staggered adoption of ...
Paulo Henrique Barbosa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making the Case for Studying Business Law: A Teaching Note Providing a First Week Blueprint for First‐Time Instructors

open access: yesJournal of Legal Studies Education, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 41-49, Winter 2026.
Abstract Most business students are not interested in becoming lawyers. Therefore, business law and legal environment instructors must convey why students should study business law. To assist instructors (especially first‐time ones), this teaching note presents interrelated pedagogical questions to introduce the first week of class.
Jason R. Hildebrand
wiley   +1 more source

Bringing a Wider Socioecological Lens to the Psychology of Poverty

open access: yesSocial Issues and Policy Review, Volume 20, Issue 1, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Poverty is a persistent social issue that policymakers have turned to psychology for help in addressing. This has spurred an upswing in research on the psychology of poverty over the past 15 years, leading to a maturing evidence base on how the conditions of resource scarcity and other forms of socioeconomic adversity shape decision‐making and
Jennifer Sheehy‐Skeffington   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Crisis Management: Analysis of Controversies in the Technology Industry

open access: yesJournal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Corporate crises represent a threat to firms' legitimacy, stability and stakeholder trust. The main objective of this study is to create a longitudinal descriptive mapping of controversy exposure with implications for crisis‐management theory taking into consideration the technology industry, identifying patterns (recurrence, clustering ...
Pablo Fernández‐de la Cruz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smart food‐sharing platforms for social sustainability: a heuristic algorithm approach

open access: yesInternational Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 2893-2920, September 2026.
Abstract This study examines how smart food‐sharing platforms (SFSP) can help reduce food waste and suggests a method for using smart contracts to share extra food among different partners effectively. For smart contracts to work automatically and prevent food wastage, artificial intelligence systems can recognize how smart clauses should be executed ...
Behzad Maleki Vishkaei   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Mediating Role of Digital Market and Payment Systems in ICT‐Based Food Security Management

open access: yeseFood, Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2026.
ICT enhances food security management in Bangladesh by linking production, distribution, and digital market systems. Digital Market and Payment (DMP) mediates the relationship between Food Production and Distribution (FPD) and Food Security Management (FSM), highlighting the transformative role of digital innovation in sustainable food governance ...
Mohammad Helal Hossain   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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