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A decadência da cidade européia: tendência social ou repetição de uma figura retórica? Decline of the European city: a social tendency or a rhetoric figure?

open access: yesSociedade e Estado, 2006
Há décadas, a sociologia urbana discute a "decadência da cidade européia". Nas diagnoses de teóricos como Saskia Sassen ou Manuel Castells, a cidade européia é descrita como conceito antiquado que não tem futuro nas condições da globalização. Ultimamente,
Martin Gegner
doaj   +1 more source

Firm Financial Performance: Disentangling the Corporate Gender Diversity as Driver of ESG Disclosure in EU Companies

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between gender diversity in senior corporate positions and environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives, alongside their impact on corporate financial performance across European Union companies.
Paolo Saona, Laura Muro
wiley   +1 more source

The 'global city' misconceived: the myth of 'global management' in transnational service firms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The ‘global city hypothesis' proposed by Saskia Sassen – and subsequently developed by Manuel Castells and others in the theory of a globalized urban network – has in recent years formed the basis for the argument that power and control in transnational ...
Jones, A., Jones, Andrew M.
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El reposicionamiento de las ciudades y regiones urbanas en una economía global: ampliando las opciones de políticas y gobernanza

open access: yesEURE (Santiago) - Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales, 2007
Este artículo da cuenta de dos temas críticos de políticas urbanas y regionales. El primero se refiere a los cambios recientes en las escalas, espacios y contenidos de la actividad económica, concentrándose en tres tipos de procesos críticos: la actual ...
Saskia Sassen
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Steering Sustainability: Empirical Insights Into Enhancing ESG Ratings via CSR Committees

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to the ongoing discussion on the increasing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) committees and their characteristics in driving a stronger focus on sustainability. Using ESG and financial data from Refinitiv/Datastream, governance information from BoardEx, and country‐level indicators from Eurostat, we ...
Andrea Caccialanza   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SDFs from Unoriented Point Clouds using Neural Variational Heat Distances

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
We propose a novel variational approach for computing neural Signed Distance Fields (SDF) from unoriented point clouds. We first compute a small time step of heat flow (middle) and then use its gradient directions to solve for a neural SDF (right). Abstract We propose a novel variational approach for computing neural Signed Distance Fields (SDF) from ...
Samuel Weidemaier   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

O QUE NÃO SE VÊ: POR UMA ANÁLISE FEMINISTA DA ECONOMIA GLOBAL [PDF]

open access: yes
Tradução do texto Sassen, Saskia. (2003). Contrageografías de la globalización. Género y ciudadanía en los circuitos transfonterizos. Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, pp. 81-104.
Sassen, Saskia
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Environmental Injustices in European Climate Hotspots

open access: yesSociologie Românească, 2019
This paper starts from the observation that development projects that create various forms of environmental injustice in Europe are an integral part of the process of biospheric expulsions, that is of pushing out groups from adequate land, water or air ...
Filip Alexandrescu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
wiley   +1 more source

Formaciones digitales de los poderosos y los débiles: el caso del conocimiento político informal

open access: yesKepes, 2011
En el presente artículo la autora discurre sobre la construcción y distribución de conocimiento en un mundo en el que el auge de las tecnologías digitales contrasta con la posibilidades no digitales.
Saskia . Sassen
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