Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance represents neither progress toward rule of law nor retreat from it. I propose instead that we are witnessing something I call “calibrated autonomy”—the strategic construction of spaces for private ordering that remain tethered to Party‐State oversight through multiple ...
M. Francis Cao
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Heterogeneity, reinforcement learning, and chaos in population games. [PDF]
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
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Enterprise Digital Transformation Strategy: The Impact of Digital Platforms. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Huang Q, Tang Y, Tang Y.
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CEO Overconfidence, Industry Competition, and ESG Performance
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the interplay among CEO overconfidence, industry competition, and firms' ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance. With the growing importance of ESG management, firms are investing more in ESG initiatives as a strategic approach to mitigating downside risk. However, overconfident CEOs, characterized by their
Taehyung Kim, Jaeseog Na
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Evolutionary dynamics of value co-creation within the industry-university-research network: A multi-agent game perspective. [PDF]
PLoS OneZhang X, Wang H, Islam SMN, Meng X.
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Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally +2 more
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The Role of Reinforcement Learning in Pragmatic Reasoning Tasks: Modeling and Validating the Sources of Individual Differences. [PDF]
Open Mind (Camb)Duff J, Mayn A, Demberg V.
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Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.Based on the 90 datasets, ERT and four optimization algorithms were used to build four hybrid models to predict the UCS of the backfill body. The SMA‐ERT model was the most effective model, and it can reliably guide the design of the backfill ratio parameters. Abstract This study analyzed the feasibility of using titanium (Ti) tailings as a backfilling
Weijun Liu, Zida Liu, Zhixiang Liu
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Mental health monitoring in 5G Edge-Enabled Cognitive IoT with Temporal Shift Transformer and integrated Stackelberg Game Theory and Nomadic People Optimizer. [PDF]
Sci RepPavithra M, Ramya G.
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