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Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings +3 more
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Enhance democracy: resilience and meritocracy
INFAD, 2018 This paper presents an exploratory study that meant to contribute to the comprehension of the process of formation of Portuguese political elites groups, especially to enlightening if the individual elite status is due to exceptional abilities, assessed ...
Sofía Nobre +3 more
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Medicine as a Meritocracy [PDF]
The American Journal of Medicine, 2019 William H. Frishman, Joseph S. Alpert
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Inherited Advantage and the Myth of Meritocracy in Business Education in the UK
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Business schools are frequently presented as meritocratic institutions that reward talent, effort and entrepreneurial capability. This article examines how business education can simultaneously acknowledge inequality rhetorically while continuing to legitimize unequal outcomes pedagogically.
David Roberts
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Social Sciences, 2018 How do winners of processes of meritocracy make sense of those processes, especially in the face of forceful public critiques of their unequal outcomes?
Natasha Warikoo
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2018 Many studies have documented the negative effect of corruption on development, economic growth, and democracy. Independent anti-corruption agencies are often recommended as the tool to curb corruption.
Pedersen Karin Hilmer, Johannsen Lars
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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