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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
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Trade growth in a heterogeneous firm model: Evidence from South Eastern Europe [PDF]

In 2007 a Free Trade Area (BFTA) will be created in the Balkans. In this paper we study the potential impact of BFTA on trade growth in the SEE. Given that welfare impacts associated with trade growth depend on the growth channels, more goods and ...
d'Artis Kancs
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Drilling the Marathousa palaeo‐lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site

Boreas, EarlyView.
The Megalopolis Basin is located in the central Peloponnese (Greece), a region that is situated along one of the primary Pleistocene biogeographical corridors for intracontinental hominin migration. The basin comprises several hundred metres of Plio‐Pleistocene sediments alternating between clastics and lignites.
Ines J. E. Bludau, Bernd Wagner, Uwe Kirscher, Maria Schindler, Charlotte Zachow, Johannes Schmidt, Niklas Leicher, Giovanni Muttoni, Serena Perini, Vangelis Tourloukis, Eleni Panagopoulou, Panagiotis Karkanas, Katerina Harvati, Annett Junginger   +13 more
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What Works Where? Scrutinizing How Personal Resources Spur Managers' Innovative Work Behaviour

Creativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whereas innovative work behaviour (IWB) is regarded as a desired positive behaviour for all organizational members, existing research has predominantly focused on employees, while only sparingly scrutinizing the IWB among managerial levels. To address this gap, we draw on upper echelons and positive organizational behaviour perspectives to ...
Rrezon Lajçi, Norbert Bach, Gentrit Berisha, Andreas Kallmuenzer   +3 more
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Differences in characteristics between naturalized threatened plants and other threatened plants

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Many non‐native plant species introduced by humans have become naturalized. At the same time many species are threatened in their native range. However, the number of plant species threatened in their native range that are naturalized elsewhere remains unknown.
Weihan Zhao, Trevor S. Fristoe, Amy J. S. Davis, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Patrick Weigelt, Marten Winter, Mark van Kleunen   +10 more
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Gradually European and Diminishingly Balkan

Annales, Series Historia et Sociologia
This paper explores the cultural representation of Croatia in international guidebooks published during the process of the country’s EU-accession (2003–2013).
Zlatan Krajina
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When Europeanization Hits Limited Statehood. The Western Balkans as a Test Case for the Transformative Power of Europe [PDF]

The EU seeks to transform the domestic structures of the Western Balkan countries in order to foster peace, stability and prosperity in the region ridden by war and ethnic conflict. Unlike in case of the Mediterranean and Newly Independent States, the EU
Tanja A. Börzel
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Representation of obligate groundwater‐dwelling copepod diversity in European protected areas

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Groundwaters sustain diverse surface ecosystems and are populated by metazoan species, mostly invertebrates, that provide fundamental ecological functions and are often of prominent conservation value due to narrow endemism and high phylogenetic rarity.
Francesco Cerasoli, Lorenzo Ricci, Mattia Di Cicco, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Michele Di Musciano, Stefano Mammola, Emma Galmarini, Diana Maria Paola Galassi   +7 more
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Providing regular and frequent maps of losses and gains of farmland birds based on European monitoring data

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Knowledge of species distributions is essential for informing policies on nature conservation and restoration. However, updating them on a regular basis and doing so in a harmonized manner at the international level is difficult. The European Bird Census Council integrated national monitoring data covering 5 years to update farmland bird ...
Sergi Herrando, Guillem Pocull, Sara Fraixedas, Anna Gamero, David Martí, Oriol Solà, Dani Villero, Verena Keller, Petr Voříšek, Alena Klvaňová, Gabriel Gargallo, Vitalie Ajder, Marc Anton, Ainars Aunins, Dawn Balmer, Mattia Brambilla, Tomasz Chodkiewicz, Przemysław Chylarecki, Cristi Domșa, Vlatka Dumbović Mazal, Virginia Escandell, Néstor Fernández, Ruud Foppen, Juan Gallego‐Zamorano, Carlos Godinho, Irene Guerrero, Christina Ieronymidou, Frédéric Jiguet, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Primož Kmecl, Peter Knaus, Lechosław Kuczyński, Åke Lindström, Qenan Maxhuni, Blas Molina, Jean‐Yves Paquet, Maria Luisa Paracchini, Danae Portolou, Draženko Z. Rajković, Dimitrije Radišić, Jiří Reif, Paul Shimmings, Henk Sierdsema, Jovica Sjeničić, Karel Šťastný, Bård G. Stokke, Nicolas Strebel, Zoltán D. Szabó, Tibor Szép, Norbert Teufelbauer, Nicolas Titeux, Sven Trautmann, Judit Veres‐Szászkac, Thomas Vikstrøm, Lluís Brotons   +54 more
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Survey Report Kosovo

, 2019
During April and May 2019, approximately 120 surveys were distributed to high-level individuals involved in political, economic and cultural spheres in ...
Shehu, Romario
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