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Beyond the Binary of Formal and Informal: Negotiating Hybrid Land Control by Chinese Banana Entrepreneurs in Laos

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As transnational land investments continue to expand across the Global South, land governance in many settings is shifting from largely informal arrangements towards greater formalization. However, we know less about how entrepreneurs sustain and rework land control as host states tighten regulation and introduce new formal requirements and ...
Ben Fan, Xiaobo Hua, Yasuyuki Kono
wiley   +1 more source

Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
wiley   +1 more source

How Change Recipients Become Rivals: Legitimacy Dynamics and ‘Cooptive Rejection’ in Organizational Change

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Our study challenges a commonly held assumption in the legitimacy and organizational change literatures: that the legitimacy of a change project is closely tied to, and dependent upon, the legitimacy of the change agent promoting it. Drawing on an in‐depth, three‐and‐a‐half‐year qualitative study of a major transformation within a French ...
Alaric Bourgoin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Property Rights Theory, Justice, and Reciprocity

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract What really happens when situations arise that were not anticipated in contracts? The phenomenon of quiet quitting is an example of behaviour that is legally within the bounds of the contract governing a relationship while also generating variance in performance.
Douglas A. Bosse, Robert A. Phillips
wiley   +1 more source

Driven by risk: Understanding reference‐dependent preferences using simulated auto racing

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Using data from over 56,000 simulated auto races worldwide, we analyze risk‐taking at the margins, consistent with reference‐dependent preferences. We show that participants' risk‐taking changes when a desired intermittent outcome is presented, sometimes at the expense of a more favorable expected end state.
James Hilliard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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