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Exploring production of social and economic value in social enterprises through a business model framework

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores how social enterprises create social and economic value through business models that support ex‐offenders. The work was motivated by a request for help from an entrepreneur wishing to establish a business that supports ex‐offender rehabilitation.
Elizabeth Green   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Invisible Resurrection: The Recreation of a Communist Party in South Africa in the 1950’s

open access: yesAfrican Studies Quarterly, 2007
Gwendolen Carter frequently mentioned communism in her seminal 1958 book, The Politics of Inequality: South Africa Since 1948. This paper will analyze South African communism in the opening decade and a half of apartheid.
Sheridan Johns
doaj  

Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia

open access: yesOceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
wiley   +1 more source

Was Communism Better?: A Comparison of Economic and Social Development of Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania

open access: yesAnali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2010
Political science discussions this year were focused on the following question: to what extent have the promises of European “annus mirabilis” been achieved and what does political and economic transition look like from today’s perspective?
Miljenko Antić, Jadranka Vlahovec
doaj  

Demystifying Non‐Western Administrative Traditions: An Empirical Comparison of Administrative Systems in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
wiley   +1 more source

The evolution of law under communism and post-communism: a system-theory analysis in the spirit of Luhmann

open access: yesFinancial Theory and Practice, 2016
The paper suggests that Luhmann’s theory of social systems and evolution offers a powerful approach for analyzing law and the economy. It considers Yugoslavia and some Central European countries before and after 1990.
Bruno Schönfelder
doaj   +1 more source

Digital fire technologies and community networks: Cultivating just sociotechnical practices for living with planetary change

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Fires are expanding in frequency and intensity worldwide due to climate change and land‐use transformations. At the same time, fire often plays a regenerative role in ecosystems. Traditional and cultural practices incorporate fire use for landscape management and landscape renewal. In this complex matrix of fire ecologies, digital technologies
Jennifer Gabrys   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Romanian communism and uncertainty border between the public sphere and private lives

open access: yesSfera Politicii, 2013
The paper aims to show that public-private report is a socio-cultural construction and examines the contextual (re)configuration of the two spheres and the border between them, from a gender perspective.
Alina Hurubean
doaj  

Post-Communism and the Second Birth of Capitalism

open access: yesThe Tocqueville Review, 2019
This article addresses the question of cultural preconditions for the second birth of capitalism in the post-communist context of Central and Eastern Europe with a special reference to Poland and Hungary. The theoretical background of the analysis presented is the so-called cultural paradigm and the concept of economic culture which can be used in ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Sensitivity of Irish Pyrenopeziza brassicae populations to methyl benzimidazole carbamate (MBC), quinone outside inhibitor (QoI) and succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor (SDHI) fungicides

open access: yesPest Management Science, EarlyView.
For three collections of Irish Pyrenopeziza brassicae populations fungicide sensitivity status to methyl benzimidazole carbamate (MBC), quinone outside inhibitor (QoI) and succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor (SDHI) fungicides was determined using sensitivity screening in vitro. Molecular mechanisms of insensitivity have been identified for MBC and QoI in
Diana E Bucur   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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