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Humanistic Management in Informal Care: Relational Well-Being of Primary School Pupils in Ilorin South, Nigeria

open access: yesArt of Humanistic Management Journal
Anchored in Humanistic Management Theory and the Ethics of Care, this study conceptualises the home as a critical informal organisation in which pseudo-parents serve as relational stewards.
Idowu Oluwabamise Odebode   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intergenerational Altruism and Sustainable Development: The Role of Descendants and Age Effects in Promoting Future Well‐Being

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability challenges can be framed as problems of intergenerational altruism—how the current generation allocates resources to future generations. Institutional reforms such as Demeny voting assume that descendants act as intermediaries who enhance altruism toward the future. We test this “altruism premium” and evaluate two interventions,
Yoshio Kamijo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Community Resilience: A Multi‐Level Synthesis of Empirical and Conceptual Evidence

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community resilience research remains fragmented across disciplines, with limited integration of empirical evidence and conceptual scholarship. This study addresses this gap through a directed content analysis of 48 empirical case studies and 39 conceptual and review publications from diverse geographical and hazard contexts.
Anamol Neupane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
wiley   +1 more source

A License to Abuse? The Need for National Policy Reform of Kinship Care Licensing Procedures

open access: yesColumbia Social Work Review, 2019
The last 20 to 30 years have seen a significant rise in the use of kinship care as a formal out-of-home placement option for abused or neglected children in the government’s custody.
Amanda Prater
doaj  

Paid‐free differentiation in freemium: Understanding the balance between discovery and cannibalization and its implications for paid product sales

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurs in digital markets often introduce free versions of their paid products to boost their visibility. This freemium strategy involves a trade‐off between discovery and cannibalization. We study how feature‐based differentiation between the paid product and its free version shapes this trade‐off and its consequences ...
Joey van Angeren   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The All4Children project to assess the initial implementation of the Integrated Model of Family Foster Care in Portugal: A description of the study protocol.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
BackgroundThe All4Children project addresses the urgent need to transition from institutionalization to family-based care for out-of-home children in Portugal.
Joana Baptista   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Systemic Design in Times of Crisis: Fostering a Collaborative Culture Under Conditions of Energy Vulnerability in Northeastern Iran

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The actualization of innovation in social systems requires interventions within small systems, communities and organizations. At this scale, practitioners can engage directly with the interactions, communication and dialogue among key actors, including those with conflicting interests.
Moein Nedaei
wiley   +1 more source

Kinship Foster Care (PN #03)

open access: yes, 1998
Practice Notes was developed in collaboration between CASCW affiliates and public child welfare practitioners. They were intended as a reference for practitioners, linking research with best practices.

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An Outline of a Theory of Play

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

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