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Editorial: Islands of Organised Crime: Spatiality, Mobility and Confinement

open access: yes, 2019
International audienceThis special issue aims to explore organised crime and counter-crime responses through the lens of spatiality. We focus on islands—i.e., bounded spaces that are territorially discontinuous vis-à-vis mainland—but we reject geographic
RUSSO, Alessandra, STRAZZARI, Francesco
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The life and work of Ernest Sydney Keeping

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reviews the life and contributions of Ernest S. Keeping (1895–1984), a British‐born physicist who became a mathematics professor at the University of Alberta in 1929. He played a pivotal role in shaping the university's Mathematics Department, serving as its head from 1954 to 1961, and continuing to teach until 1970, nine years ...
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Gamify Your Lab – spieltypische Elemente zur Motivations‐ und Aktivierungssteigerung im Schülerlabor

open access: yesCHEMKON, EarlyView.
Das Projekt „Gamify your Lab“ verbindet experimentellen Chemieunterricht im Schülerlabor mit spieltypischen Elementen wie Narrativ, Rätselstruktur und Feedback. Zwei exemplarische Lerneinheiten zeigen, wie Experimente mit und ohne digitale Lernumgebung in motivierende, problemorientierte Lernkontexte eingebettet werden können. Erste Evaluationen weisen
Daniela Krischer, Volker Hofheinz
wiley   +1 more source

Notions of Insecurity and Security Policy within the EU: A Historical Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper maps notions of insecurity and security policy within the European Union (EU), with a particular emphasis on terrorism and organised crime.
Regina Heller
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The Governance Gap: Democratizing Drug Development Through Decision Architecture

open access: yesClinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Drug development is most exposed to governance failure where it can least afford it, in global health. The field has more predictive power than at any point in its history and roughly the same failure rate it had a decade ago. We argue that this paradox persists because the field has invested heavily in prediction science while neglecting decision ...
Craig R. Rayner   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Organised crime’ and (some) ‘organised crime’ research in Greece

open access: yes, 2010
Although manifestations of what could be termed as ‘organised crime’ existed in Greece for centuries, the western world meaning of ‘organised crime’ was introduced in the country in the 1990s. Simultaneously, there has been very little empirical research
Antonopoulos, Georgios A
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Organised crime, corruption and punishment

open access: yes, 2004
We analyse an oligopoly model in which differentiated criminal organisations globally compete on criminal activities and engage in local corruption to avoid punishment.
Verdier, Thierry   +2 more
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Environmental Management Control Systems and Environmental and Economic Performance: Do Country Characteristics Matter?

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an integrated framework that combines the natural resource‐based view with contingency theory, this study examines how environmental management control systems (EMCS) build multinational firms' environmental capabilities and balance their environmental and economic performance while accounting for cross‐country contextual conditions.
Kimitaka Nishitani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Social Irresponsibility

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether and how firms' adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is associated with corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). Ex ante, theories provide conflicting predictions regarding this association, making it an important empirical question.
Tobias Steindl
wiley   +1 more source

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