Despite widespread acknowledgment of the climate crisis, ambitious climate action remains constrained by competing visions of socio-ecological transformation (SET). Drawing on critical state theory, which conceptualizes the state as a "strategic terrain" where social forces struggle over...

Critical minerals (CMs) have become a strategic priority for the European Union (EU) amid the green and digital transitions. These resources – including lithium, cobalt, rare earths and nickel – are essential for clean energy technologies, defence systems and electronics. Yet, their...

Does the outbreak of a major international war change political discourse? Drawing on theories of political communication and elite cueing, identity salience, and threat perception, we hypothesize that the outbreak of a war of aggression by a major power increases the use of nationalist rhetoric...

Socio-ecological transformations are long-term reconfigurations of socio-technical and socio-economic provisioning systems, contested through struggles over pathways, timelines, and distributive consequences. Because these struggles are fought through public sense-making as well as policy and...

Brain drain, the emigration of highly skilled workers, is both a pressing policy issue and a cultural frame for examining how societies negotiate belonging, loss, and opportunity. Using data from X (formerly known as Twitter) across English, Spanish, and Italian debates, this study examines...

This article examines the nexus between crisis and change in the context of German security policy after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s announcement of a Zeitenwende (historic turning point) on 27 February 2022, a few days after the Russian attack, suggests a...

This study conducts an exploratory and integrative literature review to investigate the discourse on various concepts and terms related to the green alignment of vocational education and training (VET). The study focuses on the key actors setting the discourse, the content within it and the...

This study examines the discursive positioning of motherhood in navigating caregiving responsibilities and professional aspirations, employing Q-methodology to explore how contemporary maternal identities are negotiated within varying social expectations. Through the analysis of Q-sorts from 46...

Discourses on Authorised Push Payment fraud ("APPF"), through which a victim is deceived into authorising fund transfers to a fraudster, often converged on normative questions of victim negligence and liability. Recent regulatory changes in the UK, which introduced a new mandatory reimbursement...

This paper examines the causal effect of public discourse in one or both sides of the market on overall market socially responsible behavior. In a laboratory setting, we vary whether firms and/or consumers participate in a public discussion before trading begins. When both sides take part, the...

This research explores the language features used by leading consumer brands with successful marketing in their promotional messages. Coca-Cola, McDonald's, PepsiCo, Mondelez, and Unilever were selected because they appear in Effie's Most Effective Marketers' Index and are active on a range of...

Digital transformation is widely considered to be a critical issue with far-reaching impacts on corporations, industries, and society. While business research generally supports this view, there has been limited insight into how corporations, as both primary drivers and recipients of digital...

The Water Resilience Experiment aims to contribute to the European Commission's Water Resilience Strategy through the lens of design for policy and behavioural insights. The project focused on increasing cross-DG collaboration around the water topic and reducing the policy-implementation gap by...

The aim of this paper is to identify the main moderating aspects of entrepreneurship in people with disabilities in Spain in relation to the main explanatory theories on the subject via a discourse analysis of a group of entrepreneurs and qualified witnesses. Several key elements were identified...

Critical minerals (CMs) have become a strategic priority for the European Union (EU) amid the green and digital transitions. These resources - including lithium, cobalt, rare earths and nickel - are essential for clean energy technologies, defence systems and electronics. Yet, their processing...

Are we in a new "Polanyian moment"? If we are, it is essential to examine how "spontaneous" and punctual expressions of discontent at the individual level may give rise to collective discourses driving social and political change. It is also important to examine whether and how the framing of...

Are we in a new "Polanyian moment"? If we are, it is essential to examine how "spontaneous" and punctual expressions of discontent at the individual level may give rise to collective discourses driving social and political change. It is also important to examine whether and how the framing of...

How were arms deliveries to Ukraine (de)legitimized in the German Bundestag? This paper is based on a discourse analysis of parliamentary debates held between December 2021 and January 2023 on the question of military support for Ukraine. It shows how the legitimization of arms deliveries and...

Research Question- How have the Big Four accounting firms taken advantage of impression management in reacting/responding to the public scrutiny regarding Carillion plc's collapse? Motivation- Despite the contribution of previous research through narrative analysis domains, the conceptualisation...

Purpose This study operationalizes risks in stakeholder dialog (SD). It conceptualizes SD as co-produced organizational discourse and examines the capacities of organizers' and stakeholders' practices to create a shared understanding of an organization’s risks to their mutual benefit. The...