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Franchising Interest: an empirical study of university students’ entrepreneurial intentions

Cogent Education
The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of core personality-related dispositional traits, namely, desire for autonomy (DFA), need for achievement (NFA), and risk-taking propensity (RTP) in predicting university students’ intentions to pursue
Md. Abu Issa Gazi, Abdullah Al Masud, Mohammad Bin Amin, Sukanta Biswas, Amani Abdalatti, Arafat Jahan Yeana, Abdul Rahman bin S. Senathirajah, Veronika Fenyves   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rail Privatisation: The Practice – An Analysis of Seven Case Studies [PDF]

, 1994
After a brief description of the proposals for rail privatisation in Great Britain, this paper contrasts these with the proposals and experience in other countries around the world.
Nash, C.A., Preston, J.M., Shires, J.D., Wardman, M.   +3 more
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Drag as a meaningful occupation: A scoping review

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, Volume 73, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract Introduction Drag is a form of entertainment in which performers caricature or challenge gender norms. It is increasingly present in the media and research and seems to involve multiple interrelated activities. The objective of this study was to explore the scope of empirical research regarding the experience of drag performers and its ...
Louis‐Pierre Auger, Victoria Richard, Anastasija Ivanova, Shelby Walker, Sarah Cherrier, Julie Masse   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Improving Irish Bus Markets: But not by Competition Alone" [PDF]

qec
Casey, J. Jerome
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Rights, respect, and the duty to obey the law

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Shruta Swarup
wiley   +1 more source

Deposit and Lending Interest Rate Pass‐Through: Evidence From Selected Euro Area Countries

International Review of Finance, Volume 26, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how deposit and lending interest rates adjust to changes in two proxies for funding costs in the banking systems of the Euro area from January 2003 to July 2024. Using a panel framework and dynamic pooled least squares with cross‐section fixed effects, we analyze both long‐ and short‐run pass‐through from two funding‐cost ...
Viet Thanh Truc Tran, Abbas Valadkhani, Amir Moradi‐Motlagh, Reza Tajaddini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social franchising of community-based HIV counselling and testing services to increase HIV testing and linkage to care in Tshwane, South Africa: study protocol for a non-randomised implementation trial. [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2020
Shamu S, Chasela C, Slabbert J, Farirai T, Guloba G, Nkhwashu N.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Affirmative Biopolitics of Anxiety in China: Ambivalence, Marginalisation and Resistance Under the ‘Double Reduction’ Policy

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The ‘affirmative turn’ in Geography has generally been read positively for promoting care‐full urban governance, repairing inter‐group relations and enhancing socio‐spatial justice, while largely neglecting the biopolitics, marginalisation and resistance embedded therein.
Qiong He, Shenjing He
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming Business Models for a Better Future: Investigating Effects of Sustainable Business Model Archetypes on Consumer Adoption Behavior

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 4036-4054, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Global challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity and ecological degradation demand that companies rethink how they create, deliver and capture value. Sustainable business model innovations (SBMIs) offer a promising pathway, yet empirical insights into how different SBMI archetypes affect consumer adoption behavior are scarce.
Lennard Stutz, Franziska Janz, Slawka Jordanow, Sven Heidenreich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nation Branding and Policy transfer: Insights from Norden. EL-CSID Working Paper Issue 2018/22 • October 2018 [PDF]

, 2018
Recent years have seen an interesting development in practices and policies of nation branding. Alongside an emphasis in which nation branding programmes seek to activate desires of conspicuous consumption in consumers, or to use branded messages to ...
Browning, Christopher S.
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