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¿El declive del significado social de la música?

open access: yesRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2016
Are we witnessing a decline in the social significance of music? On one hand, technological innovations, especially digitalization, have changed social forms of accessing music, with the increasing importance of individual modes that do not require the ...
Ion Andoni del Amo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries inhealth outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007.
Badi H. Baltagi   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Environmental, Social, and Governance Factors as Tools for Improving Market Efficiency: A Study on Equity Misvaluation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated whether superior environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices enhance corporate value and market efficiency under various economic theories. Using a multi‐country panel of 31 economies from 2015 to 2022, we find that both ESG performance and disclosure improve intrinsic value and mitigate equity misvaluation ...
Xinyu Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumption: conceptualization of notion in foreign classical sociology

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Humanitarian Series, 2021
Bases for the concept of “consumption” in foreign classical sociology have been considered. The author’s theoretical scheme of consumption analysis is developed. Approaches to consumption within the framework of structural functionalism at the level of macrosocial analysis are presented – these are class and institutional approaches, based on the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Creating Low-carbon Communities: Evaluating the Role of Individual Agency and Systemic Inequality in San Jose, CA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Following a scholarly need to test compelling community level sociodemographic representations of environmental behaviors and outcomes, a sequential mixed method approach was used to evaluate the connections of human agency and systemic inequalities with
Ronald, Erin Jessica
core   +2 more sources

Integrated Reporting in the Public Sector: Theoretical Foundations and Determinants of Quality

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Integrated reporting (IR) has gained attention as the IFRS Foundation promotes its use through the International Integrated Reporting Council framework (IIRF). Public sector (PS) organizations, as key drivers of economic, social and environmental sustainability, are increasingly adopting IR to enhance transparency and accountability.
Ana Zorio‐Grima, Andreea Hancu‐Budui
wiley   +1 more source

CONSUMPTION OF AFFORDABLE LUXURY AMONG YOUNG WOMEN: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

open access: yesHumanities and Social Sciences
In recent decades a new category of luxury products have emerged. It is referred to as affordable luxury or luxury for the masses. The article contains the analysis of the definition of luxury, luxury market as well as sociological and psychological ...
Krzysztof CZUBOCHA   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

TRANSMITTING ISLAM THROUGH STORIES: The Sociology of Production and Consumption of Islam in Novel Literature

open access: yesJournal of Indonesian Islam, 2017
Islamic novel literature has become a new commodity in Indonesia. This paper examines the Islamic creative and cultural industry in recent development in Indonesia, exploring the Islamic publication through its exploitation of storytelling method as a ...
Akh. Muzakki
doaj   +1 more source

Nature, society and social change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Environmental destruction has become an everyday reality in the contemporary world. Major concerns are being put forward regarding the dangers to the environment in general and to human societies in particular, with strong focus currently being put on ...
Briguglio, Michael
core   +1 more source

Green Talk, Costly Walk: The Financial Cost of Greenwashing

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial consequences of greenwashing, operationalized as the misalignment between ESG disclosure and actual ESG performance. While prior research has explored the reputational and ethical dimensions of greenwashing, its impact on firms' cost of debt remains underexamined.
S. Taddeo, A. Regoli, O. Weber, R. Carè
wiley   +1 more source

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