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The Promise of Solid Lubricants for a Sustainable Future
Advanced Materials, Volume 38, Issue 8, 6 February 2026.Lubricants are vital for technology, saving energy and resources. The industry seeks sustainable solutions beyond fossil fuels. Solid lubricants offer extremely low friction and reduce environmental impact, especially in harsh conditions. Can these solids truly replace liquid lubricants, or are they limited to extreme applications?
Philipp G. Grützmacher +7 more
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Disentangling the potential of protected areas to promote sustainable development
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2026.Protected areas (PAs) and other effective area‐based conservation measures (OECMs) are crucial to sustainable development, yet their contributions to environmental, social, and economic dimensions remain unclear. We investigated the role of PAs and OECMs in advancing the sustainable development agenda by summarizing 400 effect‐size values and measuring
Aline Gaglia Alves +3 more
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Friction and inertia: business change, corporate real estate portfolios and the UK office market [PDF]
, 1998 It has been asserted that business reorganisation and new working practices are transforming the nature of demand for business space. Downsizing, delayering, business process reengineering and associated initiatives alter the amount, type and location of
Gibson, V., Lizieri, Colin
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The Politics of School Choice in Scandinavia: Why so Stark Differences?
Scandinavian Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT Since the 1980s, Scandinavian countries have pursued performance‐oriented education, yet only Sweden and Denmark adopted school choice reforms—while Norway stood apart by not introducing it. Sweden pioneered school choice reform in 1992, which included provisions for a universal voucher system and free schools.
Susanne Wiborg
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Phases of Cost Cutting: Downsizing is Dead; Long Live the Downsizing Phenomenon [PDF]
This downsizing research article presents a phase typology of job cutting which includes three distinct phases and three levels of argument. Conceptually, the paper draws heavily upon the seminal work of Littler and Gandolfi (2008) seeking to expand and ...
Franco GANDOLFI, Franco GANDOLFI
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From Bureaucracy to Enterprise? The Changing Jobs and Careers of Managers in Telecommunications Service [PDF]
, 1995 This paper analyzes how organizational restructuring is affecting managerial labor markets. Drawing on field research from several Bell operating companies plus a detailed survey of managers in one company, this paper considers how organizational ...
Batt, Rosemary
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Does downsizing improve organizational performance? An analysis of Spanish manufacturing firms [PDF]
The objective of this study is to examine the effect of downsizing on corporate performance, considering a sample of manufacturing firms drawn from the Spanish Survey of Business Strategies during the 1993- 2005 period. No significant differences in post-
Fernando Munoz-Bullon +1 more
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Organizational learning processes in downsizing [PDF]
The purpose of this article is to explore organizational learning processes by examining how companies learn to do something new, namely downsize, on the basis of a small sample of companies in Europe.
Antal, Ariane Berthoin
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, 2006 Compiled by Susan LaCette.International.pdf: 820 downloads, before Oct.
LaCette, Susan
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Privatization and labor force restructuring around the world [PDF]
Some critics of privatization argue that poor labor force restructuring is a key concern and that governments should establish better retrenchment programs.
Chong, Alberto +1 more
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