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Against All Odds: How Rituals Sustain Engagement with Intractable Social Problems
Abstract Being confronted with seemingly intractable problems such as refugee crises, climate change, or poverty is daunting and can risk a sense of meaninglessness for organizational actors working on these issues. We focus on the pervasive use of representations, including assessments and evaluations, to deal with intractable problems, even though ...
Corinna Frey‐Heger +2 more
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Covid-19 pandemic: Challenges and ways forward for the Indian microfinance institutions. [PDF]
Sangwan S +3 more
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Abstract Social enterprises are frontrunners in social innovation, yet our understanding of how they can scale their social impact beyond local, contained contexts remains nascent. To transform the institutional environment that gives rise to social problems, social enterprises must mobilize actors with divergent interests, values, and beliefs to ...
Janina Klein +2 more
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ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad +1 more
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ABSTRACT Objective Non‐adherence to tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) among people living with HIV (PLHIV) is a critical issue in Ethiopia and other Sub‐Saharan African countries, where both TB and HIV burdens are high. To reduce TPT non‐adherence among PLHIV, it is crucial to identify those at risk and implement targeted interventions. Therefore,
Edao Sinba Etu +5 more
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Through the Looking Glass: Uncovering the EU's Gendered Foreign Policy to Afghanistan
ABSTRACT Afghanistan has consistently ranked among the most challenging contexts for the promotion of women's rights. This situation has intensified with the Taliban's return to power in August 2021 and the subsequent consolidation of what has been termed a system of gender apartheid.
Luís Matos
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Abstract Research Summary Do multinational enterprises from developed (DMNEs) and emerging (EMNEs) economies differ in their price discrimination strategies in Sub‐Saharan Africa? Using an abductive approach, we analyze novel data from laundry detergent markets in Cameroon, Ghana, and Ivory Coast, where frugal products are widely consumed. We find that,
Arzi Adbi +2 more
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ABSTRACT This paper examines trust in women's organizations as a gendered and contextually embedded dimension of institutional trust, drawing on data from 90,192 respondents across 60 countries using the 2017–2022 World Values Survey, the World Bank, and Varieties of Democracy.
Ruby Amanda Oboro‐Offerie
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Abstract We use role congruity theory to examine how differing role expectations surrounding entrepreneur gender and race shape the influence of social responsibility rhetoric used in crowdfunding pitches. To do so, we develop a novel content‐analytic measure of social responsibility rhetoric using the Kinder, Lydenberg, and Domini (KLD) dimensions of ...
Aaron H. Anglin +4 more
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Abstract INTRODUCTION Sleep disturbances are frequent symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD), mirrored by early pathology in the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN). Whether early DRN pathology can drive sleep disturbances, and the relative contributions of serotonin (5‐HT) and sex, has not been directly tested.
Louis J. Kolling +14 more
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