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Sport's social provisions

Sport Management Review, 2013
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Nicholson, Matthew, Brown, Kevin, Hoye, Russell   +2 more
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Sharing Is Caring: Social Support Provision and Companionship Activities in Healthcare Virtual Support Communities

MIS Q., 2019
Individuals increasingly rely on healthcare virtual support communities (HVSCs) for social support and companionship. While research provides interesting insights into the drivers of informational support in knowledge-sharing virtual communities, there ...
Kuang-Yuan Huang, I. Chengalur-Smith, A. Pinsonneault   +2 more
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Corporate social responsibility and provision of trade credit

Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, 2019
In this article, we identify and examine three different views of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the relationship between CSR and firms’ provision of trade credit.
A. Cheung, Wee Ching Pok
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Social innovation and care provision

2018
This chapter introduces and discusses examples of social innovation in response to the growing and pressing need to provide care for different groups. Social innovations in this area are often user-led and highly participatory. Many of the most imaginative such initiatives emerge from bottom-up responses developed by citizens’ groups.
Simone Baglioni, Stephen Sinclair
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Private Provision of Public Goods

Social Science Research Network, 2016
This note argues that it is hard for private institutions to provide the public goods that the government provides. In other words, there will tend to be an under provision of public goods if private institutions provided them.
P. Debaere
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The role of Zakat in the provision of social protection

International journal of sociology and social policy, 2018
PurposeThis paper discusses the role of Zakat Funds in the provision of social protection in the Middle East and North Africa region, based on the examples of Jordan and Sudan.
Charlotte Bilo, Anna Carolina Machado
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Oocyte provision as a (quasi) social market: Insights from Spain.

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2019
The provision of oocytes plays an important role in human fertility treatments. Spain alone performs half of oocyte provision cycles in the European Union whilst all other European countries face an oocyte shortage.
Sara Degli Esposti, V. Pavone
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Social Housing Provision in Copenhagen [PDF]

, 2011
The paper provides an overview of trends and processes of change affecting new social housing provision in Denmark with a focus on Copenhagen. The local responses are reviewed within the context of changes to the unitary national housing system that functions with a robust range of private and non-profit housing providers, and a wide range of fiscal ...
Tsenkova , Sasha, Vestergaard, Hedvig
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Exemption from Social Security Provisions

2016
Abstract This chapter examines Article 33 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations which deals with the exemption from social security provisions. The Article states that, subject to Article 33.3, a diplomatic agent shall exempt from social security provisions in the receiving State.
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CSOs and Social Service Provision

2017
The 2008, 2012, and 2014 Israeli wars on Gaza, with their destruction and loss of human life, required a large scale intervention by international donors to support Gaza’s recovery and reconstruction efforts. However, the highly isolated and impoverished Strip was under the control of the de facto Hamas government, which is considered a terrorist ...
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