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Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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Abstract This paper introduces the concept of platform auxiliaries to identify a set of actors that provide independent resources explicitly designed to support complementors in their value creation and capture activities. Platform auxiliaries capitalize on unmet needs of complementors within platforms, offering services such as third‐party software ...
Donato Cutolo +2 more
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Design-driven regional industry transformation and upgrading under the perspective of sustainable development. [PDF]
You L, Ji T, Shao B, Wu X, Shi L.
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Disney's Auteur Problem: Framing Corporate Creativity in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
ABSTRACT At its core, Star Wars is a franchise George Lucas has led via his auteur vision. Since Lucas handed over the franchise reins to Disney, the company has courted several other auteurs to direct new entries in the series—each of those endeavors ended problematically.
Zachary Sheldon
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The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children? [PDF]
Marsh LE, Gil J, Kanngiesser P.
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Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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That's Not a Thing: Reification as a Tool for Ethical Critique
ABSTRACT Reification is a social pathology that occurs when we treat social relations as things independent of our collective agency. It is not simply a category mistake, nor is it an isolated error that any single individual can correct. Rather, reification involves a collective and systematic reflexivity deficit caused by the unjust, oppressive, or ...
Sonia Maria Pavel
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ABSTRACT Can sociologists feel? Sociological writing can be beautiful, making us think differently about people, processes, and structures. Yet traditional academic writing that does this is rare. For example, most articles adhere to a jargon‐filled format and structure that mimics a detached and disciplined writer.
Victoria Reyes
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Paleomimetics: A Conceptual Framework for a Biomimetic Design Inspired by Fossils and Evolutionary Processes. [PDF]
Perricone V, Grun T, Raia P, Langella C.
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In this study, we evaluate gene expression of tricolored bats in response to white‐nose syndrome and compare it to that of little brown bats. We found that tricolored bats show evidence of a similar transcriptomic immune response to little brown bats, sharing pathways and some genes.
Robert E. Kwait +5 more
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