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Grankvistar, äppelkaka och improvisation

open access: yesTidsskrift for Kulturforskning, 2021
Requests for personal funeral rituals increase with growing secularization and the individualization of death. Based on interviews, this article discusses four women's experiences of independently planning and conducting secular memorials and ash ...
Hanna Jansson
doaj  

Le coût de la mort dans les communautés chrétiennes en Éthiopie

open access: yesAfriques, 2012
In Orthodox Christian communities in Ethiopia, the loss of a person entails a considerable economic cost for the families concerned, due to funeral ceremonies and the number of attendees. Death is an occasion for transfers of material goods and exchanges
Stéphane Ancel
doaj   +1 more source

Generative AI and the ability of entrepreneurial opportunities to generate sustained competitive advantages

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) affects the ability of entrepreneurial opportunities to generate sustained competitive advantage. We argue that GenAI's impact is conditional on how those opportunities are formed. Discovery opportunities originate from exogenous industry shocks.
Haiyang Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Product Market Reforms Work? Assessing Regulatory Changes Impacting Competition

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We create a new dataset that characterizes studies of product market reforms implemented from 1932 to 2011. We examine the size and origins of differences in estimated impacts based on an OECD classification scheme for potentially competitive restrictions of regulation. The median impact from switching to a pro‐competitive environment is a 19%
Sean F. Ennis, Selvin Thanacoody
wiley   +1 more source

Red Dresses for Funerals [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Red Dresses for Funerals contains a scholarly preface concerning the nature of factuality versus credibility in the writing of fiction. Four original short stories are included in this thesis.
Brooks, Michelle Marie
core  

Overseas Burials (Not Really Funerals)

open access: yes, 2018
Overseas burial list, handwritten with the notation "not really funerals.

core   +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

Shared struggles: Parallels in caregiver burden between canine and paediatric epilepsy

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Disease‐specific aspects of pet owners’ caregiver burden could be missed by generic burden measures. This study aimed to assess whether a framework developed to describe caregiver burden in parents of children with epilepsy was applicable to caregivers of dogs with epilepsy.
Zoe Belshaw, Rowena M. A. Packer
wiley   +1 more source

With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
wiley   +1 more source

How Democratic Professionals Can Contribute to Democracy: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article applies a democratic professional lens to John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State: Weapons of the Meek at the Frontlines of Public Services (OUP, 2026). Democratic professionalism is defined as an approach that enables public services professionals to work more democratically with clients and other public ...
Jane Lethbridge
wiley   +1 more source

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