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Inside the Black Box: Understanding Organizational Decision Making Processes in VC Funds

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizational decision making within venture capital (VC) funds remains an unexplored “black box” despite its critical role in navigating investment uncertainty. This paper develops a conceptual framework that integrates established theories of organizational decision making and adapts them to the VC context. By synthesizing Buying Center (BC)
Anna Khoroshylova, Norbert Linn, Carolin Bock   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gerhard Kleining: From Commercial Market Research to Academic Teaching—an Exceptional Professional Career

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2004
The professional biography of Gerhard KLEINING encompasses the better part of the 20th Century, from the close of World War II to the present. The favorable conditions for commercial market research in the '50s and '60s allowed KLEINING to contact many ...
Harald Witt
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The Myopia Discrepancy Phenomenon

Gestalt Theory
The origin of subjective visual perceptions is still not fully understood. Existing instruments do not work at sufficient resolution to observe microscopic processes in the brain in situ. We present a preliminary empirical phenomenological study. A light
Hassler Ulf
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Lonely and Sick: The Role of Social Media in Consumer Practices of Relief

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Loneliness is increasingly recognized as a major mental health concern, yet the role of social media in alleviating it remains poorly understood. This study asks how social media help consumers cope with loneliness amid chronic illness. Focusing on women living with endometriosis, an under‐recognized and often stigmatized condition marked by ...
Beatrice Medici, Stefania Borghini, Rossella Gambetti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Reality Avoidance: Unraveling the Paradox of Escapism Through Self‐Monitoring and Autonomy Mechanisms for Consumers' Life Satisfaction

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces the Paradox of Escapism, exploring how the act of escaping reality can evolve from a short‐term avoidance strategy to a mechanism for self‐regulation and enhanced life satisfaction. Employing five rigorous, multimethod investigations, including qualitative interviews and sentiment analysis (Study 1), Structural Equation ...
Thamiris Magalhães de Sousa, Flávio Santino Bizarrias, Thelma Valéria Rocha, Larissa Luz Raposo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Providing a Gender Perspective on Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches: Experiences of Students From 17 International Case Studies

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the last three decades, higher education institutions (HEIs) have integrated sustainability into their curricula. Recent research has focused on sustainability competences and pedagogical approaches, and how the latter foster the development of the former. Previous studies have examined the connections between pedagogical approaches and
Gabriela Ortiz‐Martínez, Maria Barreiro‐Gen, Jordi Segalàs, Alberto Mendoza, Sandra Caeiro, João Simão, Claudio Favi, Bartłomiej Gładysz, María Alló, Carmen Gago‐Cortés, Ubiratã Tortato, Ferenc Mónus, Sevket Bostanci, Márta Dobróné Tóth, Javier Benayas, María Teresa Jiménez Munguía, Déborah Xanat Flores Cervantes, René Alejandro Lara Díaz, Nelly Ramírez Corona, Cheryl Desha, Rob Hales, Jennifer Boddy, Ilija Djekic, Savindi Caldera, Orlando Sáenz, Leyla Azizi, Remmer Sassen, Rodrigo Lozano   +27 more
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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha, Khalid El Harrouni, Samir Kabouss   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultivating Digital Wisdom in the Deep Future

IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies
The central focus of this paper is on the concept of Digital Wisdom, which is defined as the degree to which a person is in conscious relationship with digital environments and technologies.
Marcus T. Anthony
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Dynamic Introspection

, 2021
In this dissertation, I study an under-appreciated type of introspection that helps explain how we can come to know the world around us. Much of today's epistemology can be traced back to the work of Rene Descartes, and to the skeptical challenge he ...
Cohen, Michael
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Introspection in Problem Solving [PDF]

, 2013
Problem solving research has encountered an impasse. Since the seminal work of Newell und Simon (1972) researchers do not seem to have made much theoretical progress (Batchelder and Alexander, 2012; Ohlsson, 2012).
Jäkel, Frank, Schreiber, Cornell
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