Results 101 to 110 of about 2,220 (252)

Multiple Meritocracies: A Text-Based Analysis of Personal Narratives Revealing Distinct Frames of Success

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
What concepts do people use to construct narratives about how to get ahead in contemporary society? To what extent do these narratives reflect distinctive constellations of beliefs?
Michael Sauder, Yongren Shi, Freda Lynn
doaj   +1 more source

Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
wiley   +1 more source

Playing the Game: Illusio and the Cultural Normalisation of Shadow Education in Greece and Beyond

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Shadow education has become a defining feature of contemporary schooling systems, yet dominant explanations continue to emphasise access, market expansion, and examination pressure. This article advances a sociological account of how shadow education becomes culturally normalised within contexts formally committed to public educational ...
Alexandros Kamplitsis
wiley   +1 more source

Relationships Between HPWS, Causal Ascriptions and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour: A Cross‐Level Investigation

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Attribution scholarship has sought to gain insights into employees' human resource attributions, or beliefs about managerial motives, to explain workplace behaviours. Yet this perspective remains confined to the front end of the cognitive process, overlooking how causal ascriptions arising from strategic HRM practices inform subsequent ...
Manh Dao, Helen Shipton, Hoa Do, Daniel King   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Commentary: The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame—An Analysis of Early Inductees and Immanent Critique*,†

Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 251-274, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame (CAHF) has inducted 31 members during its first three years of operation, with the stated intent of establishing a critical mass of inductees “who have made significant contributions to the development of the Canadian accounting profession” and of creating “a curated biographical history of accounting in ...
Alan J. Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking the “Ideal” Auditor: The Underestimated Role of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Recruitment and Retention at Accounting Firms Repenser l'auditeur « idéal » : le rôle sous‐estimé de l'équité, de la diversité et de l'inclusion dans le recrutement et la rétention en cabinet comptable

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both in Canada and internationally, accounting firms are struggling to recruit and retain staff. One underexplored factor that may help to explain and resolve these challenges concerns the integration of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) considerations into firms' organizational processes.
Oriane Couchoux, Laurence Daoust
wiley   +1 more source

L'envolée épistémique de la recherche comptable en économie financière : une étude historique sur la conception de l'utilité de la comptabilité* The Epistemic Rise of Accounting Research in Financial Economics: A Historical Study on the Conception of the Usefulness of Accounting

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
RÉSUMÉ L'étude publiée par Ball et Brown en 1968 (ci‐après « BB68 ») est principalement reconnue pour son affirmation selon laquelle la comptabilité de l'époque était utile pour les investisseurs, s'inscrivant alors en contradiction avec la littérature comptable normative faisant office d'autorité. Or, une telle affirmation n'allait pas de soi.
Pier‐Luc Lajoie, Yves Gendron
wiley   +1 more source

Yardstick competition under fiscal and administrative asymmetries: Rent‐seeking and local cooperation

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a two‐period model to investigate how fiscal and bureaucratic asymmetries shape yardstick competition (YC), inter‐municipal cooperation (IMC), and rent‐seeking in local public service provision. Unlike previous approaches, we allow incumbents to invest in bureaucratic efficiency, influencing both service quality and ...
Antonio Cortese, Giuseppe Di Liddo, Andrea Morone   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meritocracy versus diversity

Journal of Economic Theory
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring How Affordances of Play Materials Shape Chinese Parents' Interaction With Children: Media‐Elicited Focus Group Discussion

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Existing literature on children's play materials predominantly reflects theoretical frameworks and empirical data generated in the Global North, where ideas of “developmental appropriateness” often overlook the socio‐cultural specificity of materials' affordances and parental expectations.
Zhiyu Zhang, Jingyun Zhang
wiley   +1 more source