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Fleshing out Law: Embodied Encounters and the Material Geographies of Legal Space

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article explores how legality is produced, negotiated and contested through embodied encounters in urban courtrooms. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in German district courts, it develops the modalities of appearing, suspending and filtering to analyse how bodies are made to perform, endure and navigate legal processes.
Sarah Klosterkamp
wiley   +1 more source

Bringing Nuance to Real Estate Financialisation: Insights From Brazil

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Real estate has re‐emerged as an object of inquiry in geography and urban studies in recent years, particularly through the lens of the financialisation debate. The literature on financialisation has extensively documented how finance has reshaped real estate markets, often prioritising short‐term rent extraction in ways that can undermine ...
Stefano Pagin, Daniel Sanfelici
wiley   +1 more source

Redefining Purpose: The Effect of the 2019 Business Roundtable Statement on Corporate Tax Strategies

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Business Roundtable (BRT) firms have faced intense scrutiny from investors, media, and the public following their 2019 “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation,” which marked a shift from shareholder‐centric governance to a stakeholder‐focused approach.
Sadok El Ghoul   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
wiley   +1 more source

Envisioning the Future of Work: From Ideas to Reforms

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Two different theoretical perspectives concerning technology and the future of work are examined. One is linked to mainstream economics, whereas the other is associated with critical (‘post‐work’) discourse. Ideas about work—its nature and impacts on well‐being—matter in both perspectives.
David A. Spencer
wiley   +1 more source

Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long‐standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, understood as an increase in employers’ discretion.
Vincenzo Maccarrone
wiley   +1 more source

‘I Do Not Feel Great About It, but It Was the Logical Decision’—An Exploration of Why England's Agency Social Workers Have Left Permanent Child Protection Roles

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2023, England's statutory children's services recorded the highest number of agency social workers since records began. The cost of these workers, and the impact of an unsettled workforce on the children in receipt of their services, has led to a new set of national rules for agency social workers in children's social care.
Ciarán Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

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