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The Architecture of Consolidation: Nests of Corporate Control in the Agrochemical Network

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on agricultural consolidation tends to equate corporate control with the dominance of a few large firms. We take an alternative approach that examines control through the explosive growth of legally distinct firms that fragment accountability. Using a new global dataset of 6982 entities linked to BASF, Bayer, Corteva, Dow, DuPont, FMC,
Loka Ashwood   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bank Performance Under Varying Urban and Rural Governance: Evidence From the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how state capacity influences the effect of economic shocks on local bank performance in urban and rural areas. Our identification strategy exploits COVID‐19's impact on Indonesia's community credit banks, which can only operate in a single region. Using loan loss provisions to represent credit risk and return on assets for
Arisyi F. Raz, Seyit Gokmen
wiley   +1 more source

Liquid-liquid phase separation and a phage-encoded inhibitor cooperatively drive transcriptional transition during phage SPO1 infection. [PDF]

open access: yesNucleic Acids Res
Yu Z   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights?

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Unauthorised deepfakes are deeply problematic, from the spreading of misinformation to non‐consensual pornographic content. This paper asks whether deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights. To address this question, it examines the harms that deepfakes can cause through disinformation, demeaning content ...
Hayleigh Bosher
wiley   +1 more source

Carework as resistance: How incarcerated women care for each other to survive carcerality amid a global pandemic

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was a crisis in prisons and jails, with some of the largest outbreaks in the United States happening inside carceral facilities. In the absence of structural interventions to protect them, people inside prisons engaged in various forms of carework to support one another and to draw attention to the horrific conditions. We
Esther Melton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Standards as Authority: Self‐Legitimation in the European Union's Global Forest Governance

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how the EU's introduction of binding sustainability standards through the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) constitutes an authoritative claim and how this claim is legitimized. Using qualitative content analysis, the paper examines three interconnected self‐legitimation strategies: (1) framing standards as optimal ...
Julia Drubel
wiley   +1 more source

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