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International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.Abstract We address the scheduling conflicting jobs on parallel identical machines problem with makespan minimization, a classical and computationally challenging variant of parallel machine scheduling. We develop and evaluate three distinct solution methodologies: a novel constraint programming (CP) formulation, and two metaheuristics: a multi ...
Roberto Maria Rosati +3 more
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The Agencies of the European Union: A Glimmer of Hope for Enlargement?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In recent years, the process of EU enlargement has become increasingly difficult. The longer the process drags on and the less likely accession appears, the more the candidate states are discouraged and the less influential the EU becomes. A different approach to integration must therefore be used.
Matis Poussardin
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Absent Europe: Civic Protest and the Erosion of EU Symbolism in Serbia
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the strategic management of European Union (EU) references in Serbia's 2024–2025 student mobilisation. Drawing on original fieldwork and 18 semi‐structured interviews, the article integrates framing theory with the Discourse‐Historical Approach to reconstruct how EU‐related meanings were produced and operationalised.
Anna Seliverstova
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on agglomeration theory, embeddedness theory, and the community assembly metaphor, this study examines how regional industrial ecosystems (RIEs) shape firm performance in China's manufacturing sector. Using longitudinal data on 1012 listed manufacturing firms across China between 2008 and 2019, we combine input–output analysis with ...
Ling Zhang +3 more
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We theorize how state ownership reweights organizational objectives when political and market conditions shift. Using a mixed‐method, history‐to‐theory design, we examine 160 state‐owned and 132 private Brazilian firms from 1973 to 1993. We argue that two mechanisms – appointment politicization and constituency‐protection salience – alter ...
Paul Ferreira +2 more
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Shape of Water: Power Dynamics for Supply Chain Resilience
Journal of Supply Chain Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The world is facing climate change‐driven disruptions such as extreme weather events, which affect nature as well as firms and their supply chains. Nonetheless, little is known about how supply chain players shape their socioecological resilience, including from a power perspective.
Aristides R. Oliveira Junior +3 more
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
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The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Skills‐to‐Job Mismatches
New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A pervasive discourse calls for worker upskilling amid ongoing digital transformation. This study introduces a skills‐to‐job mismatch perspective into research on the digital transformation of work by conceptualising technological adoption as a process that reshapes the relationship between workers’ skill endowments and evolving job ...
Ana Santiago‐Vela
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Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic exposed critical vulnerabilities in U.S. transportation infrastructure, resulting in widespread project delays, suspensions, and cancellations. In response, borrowers turned to refinancing to mitigate revenue shortfalls and benefit from historically low interest rates. This paper analyzes the surge in refinancing activity
Muhammet Mustafa Sever +2 more
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