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Gender equality and innovation – towards sustainable development and social innovation using the example of activities undertaken by the European Union [PDF]
The main aim of the article is to analyse the importance of gender equality in the context of implementing social innovations and the principles of sustainable development.
Leszek Kwieciński
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NEO-INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
The article is devoted to the neo-institutional approach as a methodological basis in the study of electronic government. In this article substantiates the choice of neo-institutional approach to the study of the processes of implementation of ...
Y. I. Vaslavskiy, S. V. Gabuev
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Organisational neoinstitutionalism is formed by a plethora of analytic approaches for understanding the institutions, presenting both macro and micro-sociological perspectives. In the former, the action is defined by the institutions and, in the latter,
Ana Carolina Simões Braga +1 more
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Stitching the Social World: The Processing of Multiple Social Structures in Communication
Sociological theory has rarely engaged with the processing of multiple social and cultural structures in communication. The concept of “stitching” is suggested to capture this coprocessing of contexts.
Jan A. Fuhse
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Credit unions are one of the most widely established corporate entities in the financial systems of most of the world’s nations. Their historical support to the financing needs of small savers, as well as their assimilation into the framework of contemporary microfinance, gives them an important specific weight in the economic‐financial literature of ...
Carlos Gabriel Parrales Choez +3 more
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Abstract As the world starts reopening following the lockdowns prompted by the COVID‐19 pandemic, regional collaborations and trade matters have resurfaced. While the Brexit (British exit from the EU) negotiations have dominated regional trade headlines, the fate of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement is also being rethought.
Paul Agu Igwe +2 more
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Parents, individualism and education: three paradigms and four countries
Abstract The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is an important indicator of the increased global importance of education. It defines the goal of education at the level of the child rather than the state, the community or household. The requirement that each child be treated as an individual who can expect to see their ‘personality ...
Ralph Fevre, Isabel Guimarães, Wei Zhao
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Abstract This article demonstrates that arbitration system design and the training that arbitrators receive shape the extent to which repeat players gain advantages in arbitration hearings. While prior arbitration research does suggest that arbitrator training matters, this is the first article to show how it matters, as we observe actual arbitration ...
Shauhin A. Talesh, Peter C. Alter
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Review of Education, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 727-732, October 2020.
Ralph Fevre, Isabel Guimarães, Wei Zhao
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Consultocracy and its discontents: A critical typology and a call for a research agenda
In the past few decades, many sector‐specific case studies have been conducted on the use of consultants in the public sector. However, the overall picture of the qualitative changes facilitated by consultants remains fragmented, and a comprehensive framework on how “consultocracy” affects governance is lacking. This article shows how the increased use
Matti Ylönen, Hanna Kuusela
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