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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In South Africa, citizens in both low‐ and high‐income areas are increasingly providing their own services to mitigate the unreliability, unaffordability and inaccessibility of state services. This article examines diverse case studies across socio‐economic and residential typologies to explore shifts in service provision responsibilities from
Fiona Anciano +3 more
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Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?
Area, EarlyView.Abstract Friendships play a fundamental role in everyday life, offering companionship, mutuality, and care, across multiple and intersecting socio‐spatial contexts. Drawing on scholarship and activism across feminist geographies, and contributing to this growing field of geographical interest, this piece brings together considerations of solidaristic ...
Sarah Marie Hall
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) engagement and family firms. Drawing from mainstream databases, it identifies and analyzes 34 pivotal articles. Research on ESG and family firms is still emerging, but inconsistent findings and paradoxes obscure the field.
ChangYi Zhu +2 more
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Corruption Detection Through Textual Analysis: Evidence From Eurozone Banks
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research investigates the disclosure of banking institutions by analyzing their annual reports to identify the determinants capable of signaling possible corruption scandals. A textual analysis was conducted on the financial reports of 42 Eurozone banks from the period 2013 to 2022.
Rodolfo Damiano +3 more
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Matrilateral Bias in Human Grandmothering
Frontiers in Sociology, 2017 Children receive more care and resources from their maternal grandmothers than from their paternal grandmothers. This asymmetry is the “matrilateral bias” in grandmaternal investment. Here, we synopsize the evolutionary theories that predict such a bias,
Martin Daly, Gretchen Perry
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corruption is a major problem that undermines the foundations of democracy and reduces citizens' trust in institutions. However, even in the world's most advanced countries, citizens accept certain levels of corruption. This tolerance towards corruption (TC) reduces the impact of anti‐corruption actions and ends up giving a patina of normality
Begoña Alvarez‐García +3 more
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Child and Youth Engagement in Research, Policymaking, Practice: A Narrative Review of the Evidence
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A growing body of scholarly literature has analysed the realities of child and youth engagement (CYE) in a range of sectors (including healthcare, education, child welfare/protection) and settings (research, policymaking, practice). Our narrative review of this literature seeks to identify what is known and unknown about how effective and ...
Nadia Hausfather +3 more
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Overcoming theological voicelessness in the new millennium
Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2012 This opening paper of the Voicelessness conference in October 2011 gives an introduction to the theme. After tracing the semantic fields in which voicelessness is used, the paper develops a phenomenology of the concept.
Kritzinger, J. N. J. (Klippies)
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The Quality of Government and Educational Performance Across Countries
Economics &Politics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a new indicator of government quality, two different indicators of educational performance and two different datasets covering up to 120 countries, this study finds robust evidence that a higher quality of government improves educational performance.
Horst Feldmann
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Designing and Explaining a Model for the Formation of Cronyism in the Organization [PDF]
فرایند مدیریت و توسعه, 2023 Purpose: This research was conducted with the goal of identifying the causes and roots of Cronyism in governmental organizations of Lorestan Province.
Masood Sepahvand +3 more
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