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Technology‐Enabled Cross‐Border Entrepreneurship: The Role of Digital Platforms in SME Expansion Through the Lens of Institutional Theory

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) face significant institutional barriers when expanding across borders, including regulatory constraints, financial accessibility issues, and market entry challenges. Institutional theory provides a useful framework for understanding how external regulative, normative, and cognitive institutional forces
Sharmin Nahar, Muntasir Alam
wiley   +1 more source

The Breakdown and Self‐Clearing Performance During the Energy Harvesting Process of Dielectric Elastomer Generators Using Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes Electrodes

open access: yesHigh Voltage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For dielectric elastomer generators (DEG), electrical breakdown is the main failure mode during their working cycle. The application of self‐clearing electrodes is of great significance to avoid a single breakdown leading to the failure of the entire generator.
Zihang Xu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal control of the heave motion of marine cable subsea-unit systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
One of the key problems associated with subsea operations involving tethered subsea units is the motions of support vessels on the ocean surface which can be transmitted to the subsea unit through the cable and increase the tension.
Huang, S., Vassalos, D.
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Women's sense of their hak, divine justice, and economies of divorce in Istanbul Sens du hak des femmes, justice divine et économies du divorce à Istanbul

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Building on life story interviews with Muslim women – divorced and living in Istanbul – this article traces women's evocations of hak (haqq, , right) and other related terms in their narratives about financial arrangements during divorce proceedings. Mainly denoting right, justice, truth and due, the polysemic notion of hak encompasses a complex set of
Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of mooring performance and layout parameters of multi-segment mooring system for a 15 MW floating wind turbine

open access: yesFrontiers in Energy Research
IntroductionFloating wind power is the important path for the development of offshore wind energy, and the performance of the mooring system of floating wind turbines (FOWTs) significantly affects their economic viability, safety, and sustainability ...
Jianwu Huang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coming of age in‐ and out‐of‐place: frictions of adolescent mobility in island Southeast Asia Devenir adulte, à sa place ou non : frictions de la mobilité adolescente dans les îles d'Asie du Sud‐Est

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Through a comparison of adolescent experience in Manggarai, eastern Indonesia, and amongst children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia, this article argues for the value of attending to the spatiality of adolescence as a period of transition. Biocultural development expands both adolescents’ concrete experiences of mobility and their sense of the ...
Catherine Allerton
wiley   +1 more source

Low frequency shelf current fluctuations in the Gulf of Alaska [PDF]

open access: yes, 1977
Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1977A general oceanographic study of a shelf region in the Gulf of Alaska has revealed low-frequency, current fluctuations.
Worley, Steven James
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‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
wiley   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trust is both a prerequisite and a product of insurance, as insurance contracts are built on and create trust relations that enable a risk‐averse perspective towards the future. At the same time, insurer‐policyholder relationships are characterised by a persistent distrust, rooted in insurance economics and industry reputation. In this article,
Maiju Tanninen, Gert Meyers
wiley   +1 more source

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