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Collective grief, liminality, and redressive action in Black fans' embodied engagement with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
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Can Franchisee Associations Serve as a Substitute for Franchisee Protection Laws?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Robert W. Emerson, Uri Benoliel
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Problem‐Solving Strategies for Creativity in Business Model Design: A Configurational Study

Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 1479-1508, May 2026.
Abstract We study how individuals develop mental representations of how a business may create and capture value. Specifically, we analyse how different configurations of problem‐solving strategies lead to creative business models. We observe the design process of 101 experienced business‐model designers in real time, using think‐alouds.
Christian Garaus, Stefan Konlechner, Christopher Lettl   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Government Spending and Civic Engagement: Exploring the Role of Civil Society Participation and Voting in 28 Democracies

Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 357-376, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This study offers causal evidence on how distinct forms of civic engagement affect government spending across 28 democracies between 2000 and 2024. Its main innovation lies in disentangling the fiscal effects of two channels of engagement—civil society participation and electoral turnout—through an original identification strategy that ...
Anna Lo Prete, Agnese Sacchi
wiley   +1 more source

Antitrust–The Supreme Court\u27s Rejection of In Pari Delicto as a Defense [PDF]

, 2011

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The Influence of Franchisee’s Attitudinal Ambivalence toward Franchisor on the Franchisee’s Conflict

Journal of Channel and Retailing, 2015
Moon Seop Kim, Ho-Taek Yi, Yeon Sung Jung   +2 more
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Experiential Marketing of Clean Drinking Water: Experimental Evidence for Kenya and Rwanda

Review of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 1163-1181, May 2026.
ABSTRACT To date, limited work investigates how consumers in emerging markets make consumption decisions. With the rise in demand for clean drinking water in sub‐Sahara Africa, a field experiment was conducted on non‐consumers of two socially oriented drinking water companies providing low‐cost, re‐usable bottled drinking water in Kenya and Rwanda. The
Rachel Howell, Kinsuk Mani Sinha, Natascha Wagner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of regulation in financing transport infrastructures in Italy [PDF]

The paper discusses the present regulatory framework in Italy concerning transport infrastructures financing and provides some policy indications. The Italian situation is characterised by non homogeneity among the transport modes and insufficient, or ...
Beria, Paolo, Ponti, Marco
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How the Cookie Crumbles: The Good Cause Requirement for Terminating a Franchise Agreement [PDF]

, 2011
Nicastro, Tracey A.
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Harold Brown, Franchising: Trap for the Trusting [PDF]

, 2011
Swygert, Michael I.
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