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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher, Darlene Himick, Leigh Ellen Walsh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of instruction based on movie and TV series clips on EFL learners' pragmatic competence: Speech acts in focus. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Omar FR, Razı Ö.
europepmc   +1 more source

Advancing Pharmacometrics in Africa: Insights and Perspectives From the 2025 Pharmacometrics Africa Conference

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Pharmacometrics (PMX) in Africa has transitioned from foundational capacity‐building to job creation, scientific leadership, regulatory influence, and health innovation. To accelerate this progress, the 2025 Pharmacometrics Africa Conference (PMXAC‐2025) convened key stakeholders to consolidate the continental PMX community, review progress in local ...
Babatunde Ayodeji Adeagbo, Innocent Gerald Asiimwe, Linda Chaba, Aida N. Kawuma, Francis Williams Ojara, Ochuko Maureen Orherhe, Simon Peter Asiimwe, Veshni Pillay‐Fuentes Lorente, Sharon Sawe, Cassius M. Phogole, Catriona Waitt, Samer Mouksassi, Goonaseelan (Colin) Pillai   +12 more
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EXPLORING EFL LEARNERS´ PRAGMATIC FAILURE: PERSPECTIVES FROM MOROCCAN EFL TEACHERS

آداب الكوفة
Acquiring a language necessitates not only exposure to isolated lexical items and grammar rules but also rules of language use. Such input is profusely available in first language acquisition. However, in foreign language learning contexts, students are
Abdelfattah Abidi, Lalla Meriem Ouahidi Ouahidi, Hassan Zaid   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Automatic Card Shufflers and Antitrust Litigation: An Arbitration Perspective

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines an American Arbitration Association (AAA) class action proceeding in which Mohawk Gaming Enterprises LLC alleges that Light & Wonder Inc. and L&W Gaming Inc. fraudulently obtained and enforced patents, thereby monopolizing the market for automatic card shufflers and violating Sections 2 and 3 of the Sherman Act.
Tariq K. Alhasan
wiley   +1 more source

Implementing humour techniques to develop geoinformatics students’ pragmatic competence in ESP classes [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
This article explores developing pragmatic competence of students who study geoinformatics in ESP classes. Through a mixed method approach of literature review and semi-structured interviews it explores if teachers use humour during the classes, if yes ...
Samatova Barnokhon, Kholmatov Aziz
doaj   +1 more source

Walking the Tightrope of Sustainability Reporting Standardization: Insights From Italian Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprises

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the challenges and support needs of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in adopting standardized sustainability reporting, taking the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) as an empirical case of formal standardization.
Filippo Cavaliere, Enrico Bellazzecca, Emma Edvige Zanchini di Castiglionchio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Pragmatics and Pragmatic Competence in ELT Materials

Journal of English Language and Culture, 2019
<p>Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics concerned with utterance and speaker meaning. With regard to English language teaching (ELT) materials, pragmatics may deal with function in English or language functions—that is what or which language expression commonly used in particular situations.
openaire   +2 more sources

Curiosity and its role in cross-cultural knowledge creation [PDF]

, 2016
This paper explores the role of curiosity in promoting cross-cultural knowledge creation and competence development. It is based on a study with four international higher educational institutions, all of which offer management and business education ...
Mikhaylov, Natalie S.
core   +1 more source

Do CSR Committees Moderate the Relationship Between Democratic Societies and Firm Innovation? An International Overview

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez, María Consuelo Pucheta‐Martínez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source