Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
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Developing the Next Generation of Physician Changemakers: "You Have to Love the People, and Love the Process". [PDF]
CureusAustin AL +3 more
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The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
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Use of lethal weapons to kill protesters by Bangladesh police: A discussion analyzing 253 deaths of July 24 revolution. [PDF]
Dialogues HealthSiddik MAB +3 more
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Strategic search: Adaptation of internal fit and market positioning under competition
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Firms seeking competitive advantage need both internal fit and a distinctive market position, yet strategy research says little about how the search for the two is related. We develop a model of strategic search that integrates an NK landscape with differentiated Cournot competition, allowing a firm's position to shape both ...
Gianluigi Giustiziero +2 more
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The Reverse Risk Register Approach to Understanding Systemic Factors in Risk Analysis and Management Case Studies. [PDF]
Risk AnalThekdi S, Aven T.
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Does innovation success need advocacy? Stakeholder involvement in firm innovation
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Prior research documents that firms often collaborate with advocacy groups to mitigate stakeholder contention. Integrating stakeholder theory into a performance model of collaborative innovation, we propose an overlooked explanation for such collaborations: to enhance the adoption of firms' innovations.
Paolo Carioli +3 more
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Long-term care residents and staff perspectives on PARO using video-reflexive ethnography (VRE). [PDF]
Front DementOhno Y, Zeid J, Wong KLY, Hung L.
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Why Does Individualism Affect Economic Development: Is It Values, Policies, or Institutions?
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature highlights the positive roles of individualism and economic freedom in fostering prosperity, and recent work links the two. This paper disentangles their contributions to economic development. In cross‐country data, we show that both are independently associated with per capita income, even after extensive ...
Lewis S. Davis +1 more
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Facilitating System Change With GOSR: Integrating AI and Human Collaboration
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Problem solving in complex domains requires approaches that encourage systems thinking, collaboration, and recognize multiple simultaneous solutions. Building from principles of General Systems Theory and existing problem structuring methods, we present a new method for supporting system partners working to address complex problems called GOSR.
Annika Voltan, Kevin Kells
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