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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although organizational social networks are extensively researched, the gendered implications of informal networks embedded in distinctive socio‐cultural contexts remains underexplored. This conceptual paper focuses on wasta, a pervasive form of informal network and social capital in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which ...
Maryam Aldossari +3 more
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An Equilibrium Analysis of Marriage, Divorce and Risk-Sharing [PDF]
, 2001 This paper considers family formation and reciprocity-based cooperation in the form of sharing of earnings-risk. While risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk.
Anderberg, Dan
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When in Doubt, Tax More Progressively? Uncertainty and Progressive Income Taxation
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study the optimal income tax problem under parameter uncertainty about household preferences and wage dynamics. We derive conditions characterizing how such uncertainty affects optimal tax policy. To quantify the effect, we estimate a life‐cycle model using US data and a Bayesian approach.
Minsu Chang, Chunzan Wu
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While English‐medium instruction (EMI) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses are designed to promote language and content learning, their prevailing English‐only approaches often undermine students’ learning motivation. Against this backdrop, translanguaging has gained recognition as an effective pedagogical practice to support ...
Yihai Wen, Fan Fang
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User-Defined Material Model for Progressive Failure Analysis [PDF]
An overview of different types of composite material system architectures and a brief review of progressive failure material modeling methods used for structural analysis including failure initiation and material degradation are presented.
Knight, Norman F. Jr., Reeder, James R.
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How Formal and Informal Nurse Leaders Enact Shared Implementation Leadership in a Hospital Setting
Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To describe how implementation leadership manifests among formal and informal point of care nurse leaders during a successful evidence‐based practice implementation. Design A collective case study. Methods A conceptual framework on shared implementation leadership guided the study. Two units known for strong implementation were selected as
Sonia Angela Castiglione +4 more
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Alternative organizations must continuously address conflicts that emerge regarding diverging prioritizations and interpretations of autonomy, solidarity, and responsibility. We explore how tensions around alternative moral principles can be navigated through relational processes that attune to others' needs, emotions, and concerns.
Jonas Friedrich, Christina Lüthy
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Our study challenges a commonly held assumption in the legitimacy and organizational change literatures: that the legitimacy of a change project is closely tied to, and dependent upon, the legitimacy of the change agent promoting it. Drawing on an in‐depth, three‐and‐a‐half‐year qualitative study of a major transformation within a French ...
Alaric Bourgoin +2 more
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Municipal size and local electoral participation [PDF]
, 2014 The issue of the appropriate scale for local government has regularly appeared on the agenda of public sector reformers. In the empirical work devoted to this issue, the principal focus has been on the implications of size for efficiency in local service
Denters, Bas +2 more
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract When actors emerge on the periphery of a field, incumbents either engage in protective boundary work to enforce the field's membership criteria, or opt for membership expansion by adapting these criteria to accommodate peripheral actors. Less explored is the divergence configuration where a minority of incumbents pursue expansion whereas the ...
Benjamin Huybrechts +2 more
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