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Philanthropy and Indigenous Initiatives: Insights From Australian Donors

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on a survey and interview data, collected from a group of 180 donors who made monetary gifts to an Australian higher education institution, to better understand what drives individuals and organisations to donate to Indigenous initiatives.
Celina McEwen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable entrepreneurship and legitimacy building in protected areas: Overcoming distinctive barriers through activism

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 72-95, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Sustainable entrepreneurs operating in protected areas face distinctive barriers that place additional emphasis on the need to build legitimacy. To date, how they do this has not been entirely explored. This paper addresses this need through an exploratory study of sustainable entrepreneurs in a transnational protected area.
Hellen Lillian Atieno Dawo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Întoarcerea la imaginația sociologică. Provocările sociologiei publice pentru România

open access: yesSociologie Românească, 2014
The present article starts with a discussion detached from the academic community of American sociologists, which is based on public sociology, with reference on relevancy and utility of sociological  knowledge production: “Sociology for whom”; “What ...
Delia Bădoi
doaj  

Sociology and history in the work of Mirko Kosić: Eight decades later [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2018
This work is focused on examining the relationship between two sciences-namely sociology and history. Although the latter can be treated in various ways, it is perceived through the lenses of the sociological work of Mirko M. Kosić. This view is outlined
Jovanović Ivan M.
doaj  

Assessing Community Progress on the Blueprint to End Homelessness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In 2002, the Indianapolis Housing Task Force published the Blueprint to End Homelessness, an ambitious 10-year strategy to end homelessness in Indianapolis by 2012.
Colburn, Kenneth   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Who owns the theorem? [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Mathematical Society Newsletter, No. 118 (2020), 59--60, 2020
Epistemological and sociological questions about ownership of mathematical and scientific discoveries.
arxiv  

Modelling Net Loan Loss with Bayesian and Frequentist Regression Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
We create two distinct nonlinear regression models relating net loan loss (as an outcome) to several other financial and sociological quantities. We consider these data for the time interval between April 1st 2011 and April 1st 2020. We also include temporal quantities (month and year) in our model to improve accuracy. One model follows the frequentist
arxiv  

The Interface Between Australia's Aged Care System and the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Population Perspectives

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The interface between Australia's aged care and disability systems has come into sharper focus with the 2023 Review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme recommendation to retain the upper age limit for entry and the introduction of an age criterion for assessment in the Aged Care Act 2024. Both are set at age 65.
Anna L. Howe
wiley   +1 more source

Voluntary sustainability assurance in small and medium‐sized entities: The role of country origin in Europe

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 462-483, January 2023., 2023
Abstract The assurance of sustainability information by small and medium‐sized entities (SMEs) has not attracted much research interest to date. To rectify this, we draw on a sample of European firms (from the EU, the United Kingdom and Norway) extracted from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) database and explore the disclosure variable in relation
Antonio Somoza
wiley   +1 more source

Latin american sociology's contribution to sociological imagination: analysis, criticism, and social commitment

open access: yesSociologias, 2006
This paper tackles the role played by sociology in the analysis of the transformation processes in the Latin American societies, in following the construction process of both State and Nation, and in questioning the social issues in Latin America.
José Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos   +2 more
doaj  

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