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New medical programs as a symbol: between academic legitimacy and market signaling

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
Medical education is complex, highly regulated, and expensive. Why would a university open a medical program? Yet, from 1990 to 2010 medical schools in Chilean universities increased in number from 6 to 28.
Enrique Fernandez Darraz, Andres Bernasconi   +1 more
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Disrupting the Child Welfare Participation Paradigm: A Contextual, Relational, Embedded and Pragmatic Approach

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child and parent participation is fundamental to effective child welfare practice. Legislative imperatives assert the right to participate, but in a child welfare context, participation is complex and risks becoming rhetorical. This paper, based on a conceptual synthesis built from second person action research and a narrative review, explores
Jeri L. Damman, Teresa Bertotti, Diletta Mauri, Gillian Ruch, Karen Winter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fostering customer engagement behaviour with gamified loyalty programmes: a study from the “value get, value give” perspective

Revista Galega de Economía
This study applies the “value get, value give” framework to explain how gamified loyalty programmes create value for firms. This study proposes a model which has been tested and whose aim is to analyse whether the perceived value offered by a gamified ...
Sara Catalán, Julia Marchan
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Early outcomes of England's new biodiversity offset market

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Nature markets are being operationalized as a tool to address the biodiversity finance gap and achieve global biodiversity targets. However, there is limited understanding of how the outcomes of these markets align with biodiversity targets.
N. E. Duffus, S. O. S. E. zu Ermgassen, R. Grenyer, O. T. Lewis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266‐year‐long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread‐for‐wheat contracts of large institutions. Our data are strongly consistent with fragmentary evidence on retail price regulation, as well as with shorter series from other ...
Mauricio Drelichman, David González Agudo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of user-generated content on tourist behavior: the mediating role of destination image

Tourism & Management Studies, 2014
The importance of the Internet on the image formation process has been widely recognised by both academic and practitioners. Despite the increasing use of user-generated electronic content as an information source for tourists, its influence on ...
María del Carmen Hidalgo Alcázar, María Sicilia Piñero, Salvador Ruiz de Maya   +2 more
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Analysis of the relationship between firm innovation and corporate social responsibility: A systematic literature review

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Firm innovation and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are key strategic considerations that shape a firm's competitiveness and sustainability. However, studies exploring the relationship between the two are heterogeneous and sometimes obtain contradictory results, making it difficult to draw clear conclusions.
Daniel Alonso‐Martínez, Laura Cabeza‐García, Santiago Mencías‐Calderón   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultura popular, género e identidad nacional. La plebe chola en la ciudad de Cochabamba (1880-1947)

Revista Ciencias y Humanidades, 2017
Este artículo propone explorar la presencia pública de las cholas en la ciudad de Cochabamba (Bolivia) y las representaciones que desde distintos ámbitos se elaboraron en torno a ellas entre 1880 y 1946, para examinar después los nexos de esta presencia ...
Huascar Rodríguez García
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Learning from/with New Hampshire's Spanish‐speaking community: Building an internship program for Spanish students

Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This article illustrates the implementation of a pilot internship program for Spanish language students with a public‐facing component at a small, predominantly white, private liberal arts college in the northeastern U.S. This project focused on providing students with the possibility to cooperate and collaborate with organizations that ...
Inés Vañó García
wiley   +1 more source

Las empresas multinacionales y la ley de prácticas corruptas extranjeras

Saber, Ciencia y Libertad, 2011
Las corporaciones multinacionales (MNC) juegan un papel importante en la economía mundial y la Ley de Prácticas Corruptas Extranjeras ha tenido un gran impacto en la forma cómo las multinacionales realizan sus negocios.
Marcus D Jones, J.D, Semere Haile
doaj   +1 more source