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Nonprofit Organizations as Platforms: How Local Embeddedness Shapes Value Creation

Creativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Platforms have a business model that, through large‐scale network effects, orchestrates available resources by facilitating interactions between two or more distinct user groups. Although most research focuses on digital, for‐profit platforms, nonprofit organizations offer a compelling alternative arena for studying digital and non‐digital ...
Silvia Gadola, Daniel Trabucchi, Tommaso Buganza   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Capability Approach as the Ethics of Social Work With Child Refugees

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the capability approach (CA) as an ethical framework for social work practice with minor refugees. Drawing on the foundational work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, as well as its recent application to child welfare contexts, the article argues that conventional rights–based and deficit‐oriented approaches are ...
Gottfried Schweiger
wiley   +1 more source

The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
wiley   +1 more source

Corpi in fuga tra pratiche di accoglienza, questioni di genere e percorsi di soggettivazione

EtnoAntropologia
The article introduces a monographic section on to the theme of the complex intertwining of wars, gender and health in the experience of asylum seekers and refugees, starting from some ideas that emerged in a dedicated thematic session carried out as ...
Eugenio Zito
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From Novelty to Authenticity? Italian Varietals in California [PDF]

openI vitigni italiani hanno avuto un ruolo significativo, anche se spesso trascurato, nella storia della viticoltura californiana. Questa tesi documenta il percorso dei vitigni italiani dal loro primo impianto da parte degli immigrati italiani nel metà
SCHOLL, TRISTAN BENNETT
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A series of (un)fortunate events: Commercial bank interest rates and deposit reallocation during the Great Depression in the Netherlands

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the global economic crisis of 1929–33, deposits in the Dutch commercial banking sector sharply declined as funds shifted to the government‐guaranteed Post Office Savings Bank and other savings institutions. Unlike earlier studies for neighbouring countries, we demonstrate that this shift was driven less by a flight to safety and more by
Ruben Peeters, Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Perceptions of Rural Australia in Italian and Italian Australian Narrative [PDF]

, 2008
Italian settlement in rural and outback areas of Australia during the late 1800s and early 1900s has remained a largely unsung saga while most Italians migrating to Australia after 1947 ultimately settled in urban areas.
Rando, Gaetano
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Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
wiley   +1 more source

Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
wiley   +1 more source

The many prices of war and occupation: Black markets and the cost‐of‐living index in France, 1938–1949

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract When studying French prices between 1938 and 1949, economists and historians face a paradox: whilst a vast black market shaped daily life, official indices recorded only state‐controlled prices. This article addresses the issue by introducing a new consumer price index that incorporates both official and black market prices.
Patrice Baubeau, Matéo Teixeira
wiley   +1 more source