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Churchill and Spain: More Sancho than Quixote?

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a detailed analysis of Winston Churchill's relationship with Spain over the course of his long and eventful political and personal life. The article focuses on three key episodes: Churchill's ambivalent stance during the Spanish Civil War; his leadership and policy towards Spain during the crucial years of the Second World ...
EMILIO SÁENZ‐FRANCÉS
wiley   +1 more source

Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology and The Complexity of What Is Missing

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is ‘missed’ by sociological literature underpinned by assumptions of presence that a missing approach can rectify? I appropriate a metaphysics of presence and an alternative focus on what is missing as ontological foci to revisit complexity studies in sociology.
Konstantinos Poulis
wiley   +1 more source

Informed Trade of Earnings Announcements

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how market participants trade on private information about firm fundamentals using the largest known case of informed trade of earnings announcements. From 2011 to 2015, a cartel of sophisticated traders illegally obtained early access to and traded on over 1,000 firm earnings announcements.
CHLOE XIE
wiley   +1 more source

Real estate agent response to Hispanic/Latino clients: Homophily, local demographic, and regional differences

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We conduct a large‐scale correspondence experiment across 11 US states to assess differential treatment of Hispanic/Latino clients by real estate agents. The experiment covers an area with a wide range of underlying Hispanic/Latino population and a subject pool of agents that is ethnically diverse.
Andrew Hanson, Zackary Hawley
wiley   +1 more source

Emergence of Foresight Activities in Swedish Government Authorities [PDF]

This paper discusses and aims to explain the emergence of foresight activities in Swedish government authorities, including environmental scanning and analysis, futures studies and other activities trying to detect and analyse change in the surroundings ...
Lundqvist, Torbjörn
core  

Market orientation and national homicide rates

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract We studied the influence of market orientation on national homicide rates. Multiple theoretical traditions equate the development and dominance of markets with higher crime rates. Some traditional sociological theoretical claims, however, suggest market expansion should reduce violence.
William Alex Pridemore, Meghan L. Rogers
wiley   +1 more source

A Commentary on Post‐Pandemic Challenges and Opportunities for the Accounting Profession: Insights from a Systematic Literature Review*

Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 157-188, March 2025.
ABSTRACT This empirically grounded commentary explores the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the strategic direction of Canada's accounting profession and highlights opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in the post‐pandemic era. We undertake a systematic literature review using deductive and inductive approaches within both the academic ...
Merridee Bujaki, Irfan Butt, Camillo Lento, Patricia Meredith, Sara Wick   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prospective Validation of Circulating Tumor DNA Measurable Residual Disease After First-Line Therapy in Large B-Cell Lymphoma. [PDF]

J Clin Oncol
Wang S, Nijland M, Strobbe L, Oosterveld M, Boersma R, Koene H, Klerk C, de Jongh E, Koster A, Pruijt H, van der Poel M, van Werkhoven E, Zanders H, Dinmohamed A, Pegtel M, Meek S, Stowell SL, Warinske H, Alizadeh AA, Kurtz DM, Chamuleau MED.   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Marginal Tax Rates of Canadian Public Firms and the Applicability of Marginal Tax Rates in Corporate Decisions*

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While several US studies demonstrate the importance of using marginal tax rates (MTRs) to study corporate decisions and tax incentives, research using MTR in the Canadian setting is limited. The MTR literature has made several improvements on the estimation process using US firms, but these advances have not been made available for Canadian ...
Khin Phyo Hlaing, Bin (Betty) Xing
wiley   +1 more source