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The Narrative Construction of Internal Organizational Legitimacy
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Organizations torn by significant contradictions may struggle to maintain internal legitimacy. Taking a narrative perspective, and drawing on a case study of Walgreens, a Fortune 500 retail pharmacy, we develop a process model that shows how organizations with an entrenched conflict in their official narratives manage the resulting polyphony ...
Kerrie E. Howard, Andrew D. Brown
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Enteric viromes of healthy farmed mink (Neovison vison) from Shandong and Liaoning provinces, China
Animal MicrobiomeFarmed mink (Neovison vison) is the most common animal species used for fur farming in China. Several viruses identified in mink can be transmitted to humans, including SARS-CoV-2, suggesting that this species could play an important role in zoonotic ...
Cixiu Li +7 more
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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2009 This study describes the autumn-winter diet of three carnivores (Mustela lutreola, Lutra lutra and Genetta genetta) in northern Spain. Diet composition was analysed from 85 European mink, 156 otter and 564 spotted genet fecal samples The European mink ...
Santiago Palazón i Miñano +2 more
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Functional genetic diversity of domestic and wild American mink (Neovison vison)
Evolutionary Applications, 2020 The release of domestic organisms to the wild threatens biodiversity because the introduction of domestic genes through interbreeding can negatively impact wild conspecifics via outbreeding depression.
Kimberley Y. Morris +3 more
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Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Heavy metals have been documented in dietary supplements for people and animals. Cadmium, selenium, lead, and mercury are of particular concern. Our objective was to determine the concentrations of five essential minerals and 12 heavy metals in 70 canine and feline dietary supplements, and to evaluate potential toxicity risks.
Taryn K. Pestalozzi +2 more
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do the strategies that governments employ when they encounter crisis‐induced turbulence affect the robustness of the political regime in which they operate? Comparative studies of the connection between government strategies and political regime robustness under different cultural and institutional conditions are few and far between.
Eva Sørensen +5 more
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Sin taxes in a sealed market: dilution and leakage related to cross‐border shopping
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Excise taxes on goods with negative health outcomes (so‐called “sin taxes”) effectively reduce demand but are less effective when consumers can purchase similar goods in tax‐exempt markets. We investigate how cross‐border shopping affects the effectiveness of sin taxes by exploiting the de facto ban on cross‐border shopping during the COVID‐19
Magnus Munk Bjerg +3 more
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Group housing in row cages: an alternative housing system for juvenile mink
Animal, 2008 We studied a group housing system as an alternative to the traditional pair housing of juvenile mink. The focus was on both the welfare and production of mink.
S. Hänninen +4 more
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Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the possibility to think through the concept of animal segregation to understand the more‐than‐human geographies of livestock animals. By redirecting the analytical tools for studying the spatial separation of humans to the segregation of animals, this paper contributes to understanding the geographical processes of ...
Willem Rogier Boterman
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