One of the main goals of terrorism is to instill fear in a targeted populace. We investigate how information precision about rare, but highly devastating terrorist attacks influences psychological resilience, which we operationalize as the ability to continue to take optimum risks. First, we...

The lack of temporal disaggregation in conflict data has so far presented a strong obstacle to analyzing the short-term dynamics of military conflict. Using a novel data set of hourly dyadic conflict intensity scores drawn from Twitter and other social media sources during the Gaza Conflict...

1. Introduction : industrial relations and social democratic politics -- 2. Revolutionary ethical socialism in interwar Germany -- 3. Revolutionary socialism in a cold climate 1932-1939 --4. Trade unions under 'planned capitalism' 1939, 1946 -- 5. Democratic socialism in the Cold Wat 1946-1951...

States that the future of trade unionism depends partly on structural factors such as the level of unemployment and also on workers coming to believe that unionism is essential to protect their interests. Draws from the literature on social movements to analyse the ways in which workers arrive...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the state of knowledge on strikes and collective action. Design/methodology/approach – Review of theoretical and empirical literature, including comparative literature. Findings – Both strike activity and other forms of collective action...

Purpose – Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the economy, in terms of employment and their contribution to national wealth. A significant proportion of that contribution comes from innovation. SMEs are also the engine for future growth in the economy. Project...

Purpose – The authors propose that small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) need simpler, more people‐focused forms of project management than traditionally used by larger organizations. The authors have undertaken this research to identify to what extent SMEs use project management and...

Value management is a project-focused process that makes explicit and appraises the functional benefits of a product, process or service consistent with a value system determined by the client. The value system of the client necessarily requires a method for value setting using harder...