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Corporate social responsibility and financial performance: Fact or fiction? A look at Ghanaian banks [PDF]

, 2014
This article examined the impact of corporate social responsibility on financial performance using empirical evidence from the Ghanaian banking sector. Although corporate social responsibility is a hot topic in Ghana and banks do practise it, no detailed
Nyuur, Richard, Ofori, Daniel, S-Darko, Mildred   +2 more
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Customers' social interactions and panic buying behavior: Insights from social media practices

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic led to social distancing and lockdown practices, which increased social interactions and information exchange on social media for timely decision making This study explores how social practices and social influence generated through
Muhammad Naeem, Wilson Ozuem
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Psychology and social practice.

Psychological Review, 1900
Mode of access: Internet.
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The Necessity of Holistic Values, Approaches, and Practices in Social Work [PDF]

, 2020
Despite growing evidence of the effectiveness of holistic perspectives in social work, there is not one all-encompassing definition or view of wholeness or holistic wellbeing in the field of social work.
Robinson, Abigail
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Diagramming social practice theory:An interdisciplinary experiment exploring practices as networks [PDF]

, 2015
Achieving a transition to a low-carbon energy system is now widely recognised as a key challenge facing humanity. To date, the vast majority of research addressing this challenge has been conducted within the disciplines of science, engineering and ...
Balke T, Bellotti E, Chatterton T, Dolan P, Eoghan McKenna, Irwin A, Jason Chilvers, Latour B, Murray Thomson, Nicolini D, Nowotny H, Sarah Higginson, Schatzki TR, Scott J, Shove E, Shove E, Shove E, Thaler RH, Tom Hargreaves   +18 more
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Social and Geographical Distribution of Mobility-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Poznań and Tri-City Functional Urban Areas

Quaestiones Geographicae
Mobility is an important source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and a major contributor to human-induced climate change. Much of these emissions result from urban residents’ travel within urban areas (i.e.
Czepkiewicz Michał, Brudka Cezary, Krysiński Dawid, Schmidt Filip   +3 more
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Psychosocial Stressors at Work and Atrial Fibrillation Incidence: An 18‐Year Prospective Study

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Background Psychosocial stressors at work, defined by the job strain and effort–reward imbalance at work (ERI) models, were shown to increase coronary heart disease risk. No previous study has examined the adverse effect of psychosocial stressors at work
Edwige Tiwa Diffo, Mathilde Lavigne‐Robichaud, Alain Milot, Chantal Brisson, Mahée Gilbert‐Ouimet, Michel Vézina, Denis Talbot, Xavier Trudel   +7 more
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“AND IT ALL HAPPENED IN OUR LIFETIME” – PROGRESS AND COMFORT: THE MEANING OF TECHNOLOGY DOMESTICATION PRACTICES

Etnografia Polska, 2020
The domestication of technology in People’s Republic of Poland was the key factor in the shift towards consumer society. Drawing upon ethnographic data, this article discusses the meanings of the social practices of domestication of technologies in the ...
Joanna Zalewska
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The Constitution of Social Practices [PDF]

, 2017
Practices – specific, recurrent types of human action and activity – are perhaps the most fundamental "building blocks" of social reality. This book argues that the detailed empirical study of practices is essential to effective social-scientific ...
McMillan, Kevin
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Social Boundaries and Economic Dilemmas: Microfinancial Practices in Western Mexico [PDF]

, 2014
Latin American ...
Villarreal, Magdalena
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