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The Local and the Global: Hokusai's Great Wave in Contemporary Product Design [PDF]
, 2012 This article examines the impact and significance of Hokusai’s so-called The Great Wave in contemporary product promotion and design. Arguably Japan’s first global brand, this influential 19th-century woodcut has been widely adopted to style and ...
Guth, Christine
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The characteristics of sexual abuse in sport: A multidimensional scaling analysis of events described in media reports [PDF]
, 2008 Most research on sexual abuse has been conducted within family settings (Fergusson & Mullen, 1999). In recent years, following several high profile convictions and scandals, research into sexual abuse has also encompassed institutional and community ...
Acosta V. A. +28 more
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Beauty and Health: Anthropological Perspectives [PDF]
, 2008 This essay, written as a 'teaser' for an up-coming symposium, reflects on how human beauty can be understood from an anthropological and medical anthropological perspective.
Edmonds, Alexander
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The power of expressed humility: Early stage investors' reaction to humble entrepreneurs
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary We examine how entrepreneur‐expressed humility affects early stage investors' willingness to fund new ventures. In pitching contexts where investors rely on relational cues and implicit prototypes of entrepreneurs, we theorize three distinct pathways through which expressed humility shapes funding decisions. First, building on
Laurent Vilanova, Ivana Vitanova
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The virtual playground: an educational virtual reality environment for evaluating interactivity and conceptual learning [PDF]
, 2006 The research presented in this paper aims at investigating user interaction in immersive virtual learning environments (VLEs), focusing on the role and the effect of interactivity on conceptual learning.
Oliver, Martin +2 more
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Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
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On the Roots of Undiscipline [PDF]
, 2008 This document is the author deposited version.
Harfield, Steve
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Desired and Feared Identities and Their Role in Occupational Identity Regulation
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This paper extends theory by showing how occupational identity regulation operates jointly through both desired and feared identities which, in combination, enforce normative control. Taking a narrative identity perspective and drawing on an ethnographic and interview‐based study of veterinarians, we make three principal contributions to our ...
Sarah Page‐Jones, Andrew D. Brown
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that if the aspiration is to enhance regulatory and governance responses to white‐collar and corporate crimes, consideration of the organization of these offending behaviors must be central to the scholarly, practice, and policy discussion.
Nicholas Lord, Michael Levi
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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