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The Business Case for Sustainability: An Empirical Analysis of 21 Companies' Engagement With the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores why businesses engage with the United Nations SDG agenda, with a view to understanding how managers construct the business case for the SDGs. Building on and extending the responsibility literature's discussion of the business case for responsibility, the article develops a conceptual framework for analyzing why ...
Michael W. Hansen, Henrik Gundelach
wiley   +1 more source

Taking a pause - a narrative perspective on teaching and attention

open access: yesResearch and Humanities in Medical Education
With competing demands on attention, one option is to use the humanities and arts to 'hack' the attention of students. This is one experienced professor's journey to find balance, mindfulness and attention through the humanities and arts.
Janice Blumer
doaj  

Investigation of toy phenomenon in western psychology

open access: yesСовременная зарубежная психология, 2012
The article reviews the latest foreign psychological studies of toys. It presents the thematic variety of these studies and also different levels of analysis of the problem in the question.
Smirnova E.O.   +2 more
doaj  

Games, Toys, and Pastimes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Mikula, MH, Mikula, M
core   +1 more source

Abnormal Sustainability Reporting Tone and the Value Relevance of Accounting Fundamentals

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether and how abnormal sustainability reporting tone is associated with the firm's market value and conditions the value relevance of accounting fundamentals. Building on impression‐management theory, the value relevance literature, and recent advances in textual analysis, we focus on the discretionary component of ...
Alessandra Allini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The toy, kitsch and consumer society

open access: yesПроект Байкал
The relationship between toy design and architecture is examined. Both phenomena play the role of a link between the past and the future. The authors have conducted a study of a large array of toy images offered in today’s market.
Константин Лидин   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transition Metal Compounds as Thermochromic Materials: Classification, Properties, Limitations, and Applications

open access: yesEcoEnergy, EarlyView.
This review systematically examines how different transition metal compounds—such as binary and multinary metal oxides, halides, sulfides, and salts—exhibit thermochromism based on the d‐electron configurations of their transition metal cations. It focuses on three main mechanisms of thermochromism: phase transition, charge transfer, and bandgap change.
Jie Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Folkloric Doll

open access: yes, 1965
A plastic folkloric doll with braided brown hair with blue ribbon, blue eyes, pink lip, red vest, white-red apron, red baggy trousers with gold tinsels and white socks. The doll made by Ersan Toys in 1965.

core   +2 more sources

Industry Signals and the Dynamics of Stock Market Predictability

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate whether industry portfolios contain information that forecasts aggregate stock market returns. Earlier research reports evidence of their usefulness as predictors, yet later studies find weaker and unstable effects. Using updated U.S.
Michael Ellington   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negligible Details? On a Study of Terracotta Miniature Carts from a Harappan site in Gujarat

open access: yesAncient Asia, 2006
This paper deals with results obtained from an analysed assemblage of Harappan toy- or model carts. It aims to put forward the particular value of studying a limited number of objects while concentrating on details.
Elke Rogersdotter
doaj   +1 more source

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