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Sensemaking and CSR Character in Multinational Corporations: A Comparative Study of Headquarters and Subsidiary Practices in the UAE

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening urban resilience in China through underground infrastructures management: Addressing global climate challenges with technological solutions

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This paper explores how climate‐resilient technologies, such as smart grids, digital twins, and self‐healing materials, can enhance urban resilience. It highlights the urgent need for proactive planning, public‐private collaboration, and data‐driven innovation to future‐proof underground infrastructure amid accelerating climate and urban pressures ...
Kai Chen Goh   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The possessive logic of settler‐invader nations in Olympic ceremonies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Staging Olympic Games offers hosts a unique opportunity to showcase their nation as a tourist destination. This opportunity is particularly exploited in the opening and closing ceremonies that are able to attract unparalleled international television ...
Ellis, Cath
core   +1 more source

Embracing Complexity in HRM Research: A Call for System and Process Perspectives

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human resource management (HRM) is inherently complex. It involves systems of principles, practices, and activities operating at individual, group, organizational, and macro levels, which are interlinked through complex processes. Yet, empirical research has not kept pace with this conceptual richness.
Rebecca Hewett, Madleen Meier‐Barthold
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological Contracts With Purpose: A Review and Path Forward

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review advances the understanding of psychological contracts (PCs) that include third‐party beneficiaries and transcend self‐interested goals, which we term “PCs with purpose.” PC theory has challenged the assumption that social exchange relies solely on balanced rewards and inducements, highlighting that individuals may wish to ...
Marjo‐Riitta Diehl   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

High Relative Accuracy Computations With Covariance Matrices of Order Statistics

open access: yesMathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many statistical applications, numerical computations with covariance matrices need to be performed. The error made when performing such numerical computations increases with the condition number of the covariance matrix, which is related to the number of variables and the strength of the correlation between the variables. In a recent work,
Juan Baz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human resources of the China Olympic volunteer program "Beijing 2022"

open access: yesНаука. Культура. Общество, 2022
The article presents the results of an online survey conducted among the volunteers of the Olympic and/or Paralympic Games 2022 (Beijing, China). The text discusses the experience of participation of Chinese Olympic volunteers in relevant activities ...
Marina P. Sukharkova
doaj   +1 more source

Exports and Olympic Games [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Sports Economics, 2012
A recent study finds that Olympic Games host countries experience significant positive, lasting effects on exports. They interpret their results as an indication that countries use the hosting of such events to signal openness and competitiveness. The authors challenge these empirical findings on the grounds that a comparison of structurally different ...
Wolfgang Maennig, Felix Richter
openaire   +2 more sources

Women's Career Pathways to Nonprofit Leadership Positions

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines women's leadership career pathways in nonprofit sport organizations. Drawing on a narrative approach and reflexive thematic analysis of 22 semi‐structured interviews with Finnish women leaders, we identify four career types—Progressive Growth Career, Mission Enthusiast, Externally Catalyzed Career, and Chance‐Driven Growth ...
Marjukka Mikkonen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Olympic education in all Greek schools: adoption and abandonment

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Kinanthropologica, 2016
Prior to the Olympic Games of 2004, Greece incorporated Olympic Education into the curriculum of its national educational system for one session per week in every grade from the ages of 6 to 18. The main forces behind this were: the International Olympic
Costas Mountakis
doaj   +1 more source

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