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How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Hidden in Plain Sight: Conceptualizing Platform Auxiliaries and Their Conflicting Impacts on Platforms' Value Architecture

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Disney's Auteur Problem: Framing Corporate Creativity in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

open access: yesThe Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

That's Not a Thing: Reification as a Tool for Ethical Critique

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Poetic Sociology

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Preliminary Evidence Suggests the Transcriptomic Response of Tricolored Bats to White‐Nose Syndrome Is Similar but Not Identical to That of Little Brown Bats

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 11, November 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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