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The Taliban and organized crime
, 2011 Desde 2001 que o crime organizado tem tido um papel importante na desestabilização do Afeganistão. Este artigo analisa a participação dos Taliban afegãos (denominados por Quetta Shura Taliban – QST) em actividades criminais no sul e sudoeste do país, descrevendo a forma como este envolvimento está a ser aprofundado e como o grupo interage com ...
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Breaking point: Identifying the factors that predict suspension from school
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract School suspensions are associated with adverse educational and psychosocial outcomes, yet little is known about how structural disadvantage, relational factors, health behaviours, well‐being indicators and school‐level factors jointly predict suspension risk in England.
Stephanie Cahill +5 more
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Contested borders: organized crime, governance, and bordering practices in Colombia-Venezuela borderlands. [PDF]
Trends Organ Crime, 2021 García Pinzón V, Mantilla J.
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Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón +38 more
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COVID-19 and Organized Crime: Strategies employed by criminal groups to increase their profits and power in the first months of the pandemic. [PDF]
Trends Organ Crime, 2023 Aziani A +3 more
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Organised Crime: Combating an Elusive Transnational Threat [PDF]
, 2010 Since the end of the Cold War; wide spread political, economic, social and technological changes have enabled organised criminal groups to develop transnational activities.
Senior, Angus John Henry
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between financial constraints and a firm's sustainability performance. Our empirical analysis utilises a panel of 40,445 observations from 9466 listed non‐financial firms across 44 countries, spanning the period from 2002 to 2019.
Boying Xu +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how environmental regulations can drive technological change, drawing on the innovation systems perspective and the strong Porter hypothesis (SPH). The SPH suggests that well‐designed stringent regulations can foster innovation and enhance firm competitiveness, performance, and survival, yet prior research remains largely ...
Muhammad Zubair Khan +3 more
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Outlaw bikers in the Swedish parliament : How MC clubs became organized crime
In the mid-1990s, the Nordic countries witnessed a number of spectacular shootings and deaths linked to motorcycle (mc) clubs, which at the time resulted in extensive attention in the media and to intensive debates in the parliament.
Flyghed, Janne,
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Corporate Political Ideology and Environmental Strategy: Evidence From US Toxic Releases
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines whether corporate political ideology shapes firms' environmental strategy and realized environmental performance. Using US political donation data matched to facility‐level toxic releases from the Toxics Release Inventory from 2000 to 2014, we measure corporate ideology by the share of firm and PAC contributions directed to
Mingyuan Chen +3 more
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