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Our extractive age: Expressions of violence and resistance

Shapiro, Judith (contributor); … - 2021

"Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and...

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Public Innovation and Digital Transformation

Väyrynen, Hannele (contributor); Helander, Nina (contributor) - 2023

Public innovation and digitalization are reshaping organizations and society in various ways and within multiple fields, as innovations are essential in transforming our world and addressing global sustainability and development challenges. This book addresses the fascinating relationship of...

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The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead

Williams, Terry M. (contributor); Samset, Knut (contributor) - 2022

Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop, manage and deliver such projects, practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book, researchers from the Norwegian Concept Research Programme explore the...

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Management and Visualisation: Seeing Beyond the Strategic

Fletcher, Gordon - 2023

As organisations of all sizes become increasingly digitalised, a core management challenge remains unresolved. The ability to successfully and sustainably connect the stated vision of an organisation with its strategic plans and, in turn, with the reported reality of day-to-day operations, is...

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Leading a Business School

Davies, Julie; Thomas, Howard; Cornuel, Eric; Cremer, … - 2023

Business schools are critical players in higher education, educating current and future leaders to make a difference in … management education, organizations and society more broadly. Written by renowned experts on the role of the dean, Julie Davies … education leaders. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available …

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The competency niche: An exploratory study

Dobrowolski, Zbysław; Drozdowski, Grzegorz; … - In: Risks 9 (2021) 11, pp. 1-11

In the era of a turbulent and less-predictable business environment, as confirmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability to efficiently use human resources has become particularly important. There is a need to reduce employees' competency niche, and competency mismatches have become noticeable in...

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A U.S. Analysis of the Macro- and Micro-Economics of Family Formation: Marrying in the Great Recession and Prior Post-Industrial Recessions

Espinoza, C. Soledad - 2014

, education, and earnings life histories merged from the SIPP survey and federal administrative sources. Using ordinary logit …

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Laptops in the long-run: Evidence from the one laptop per child program in rural Peru

Cueto, Santiago; Beuermann, Diether W.; Cristia, Julian; … - 2024

university. We find negative and significant effects on completing primary and secondary education on time but no effects on …

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Development over time in cognitive function among European 55-69-year-olds from 2006 to 2015, and differences of region, gender, and education

Zhou, Ying - In: Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) 47 (2022), pp. 119-142

to 2015, and compares these trends by region, gender, and education. This study analyzes 40,689 subjects in Waves 2, 4, 5 … confounders. Further stratification analysis using GEE models was conducted, stratified by region, gender and education. Cognitive … Europe. Those with relative low levels of formal education displayed the most rapid increases in cognitive function in …

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Expectations about fertility and field of study among adolescents: A case of self-selection?

Keijer, Micha G.; Liefbroer, Aart C.; Nagel, Ineke - In: Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) 44 (2019), pp. 85-106

In recent studies on the association between education and fertility, increased attention has been paid to the field of … expectations concerning fertility and field of study are already interrelated during secondary education. Both female and male …

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