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Francie who rides an ostrich on top of a mountain in North Africa. The choice of an ostrich as King Philip III's mount on the Vercelli Mappa Mundi offers a unique intersection of religiosity and political ... : after MSI Processing by Helen Davies. Data collected by the Lazarus Project. demonstrates the map’s awareness of larger geopolitics and a potentially aspirational political hegemony. The pedagogical
marginalizes religion as a private or non-political concern. For over a century, a dominant assumption among social scientists is that secularization is strongly associated with modernization, with religion ... at ensuring that research is not used to support one’s beliefs or preferences, or specific political or social agendas. Yet, axiological neutrality is not easy to attain, especially in the social
the life of Christ, and the political control of a Christian Holy Land connecting Jerusalem to the whole of Europe. Amongst the complex iconography and ministerial metaphors are recognizable motifs of ... authenticate her relics in Hautvillers that had been recovered around 840. These claims were later reiterated in the 12th-century Gesta Trevorum.21 It was these political literary maneuvers that strengthened
billionaire entrepreneurs (e.g., Jack Ma) could mitigate political economy as well as financial frictions via capital injections from foreign venture capitalists. By building a unique database, I report that (i ... Economics and Political Science (LSE). This paper has been presented with helpful comments and feedbacks at Growth and Development Seminar , LSE (May, 2018) , Government- Business Symposium, Hunan Business
social interchange and the direct involvement of civil society in political processes are two dimensions of democracy driving such effect. We additionally observe that entrepreneurship is sensitive to both ... political processes, which enhances institutional trust, are two channels driving the positive effect. We also find that entrepreneurship is sensitive to both contemporaneous and historical level of
. Interestingly, we find no significant relationship between governor party and venture creation. However, we find that when the governor and legislature were unified in their political party — irrespective of ... political environment — party affiliation and discretion — impacted new venture creation within the food and restaurant industry, which is an important indicator of economic recovery. Using a publicly
socioeconomic benefits both for the refugees and for their host countries (OECD, 2019a) . Refugee entrepreneurship has received growing academic and political attention as a topic of its own (Abebe, 2023 ... , comprehensive quantitative studies and focused analyses on everyday strategies for refugees’ labor market integration are needed, especially intercountry studies that can inform and inspire political action and
entrepreneurial identities in relation to their interpretations. Relying on the life story narratives of 21 women entrepreneurs, we analyse social, political and institutional opportunity structures and the ... environment’ and categorised into three types—social, political and institutional—based on the literature review (Koopmans and Statham, 2000; Hooghe, 2005; Nicolini, 2012) . In this analysis, we treated
Hybrid ownership—sharing partial business ownership with the state—is a new form of political connections that entrepreneurs in developing countries may employ to improve their access to key ... agency costs. Also, the involvement of the state in firm governance reduces the benefits gained from having state ownership. Hybrid firms; Political connections; Firm performance; Vietnam; Weak
particular interest in the relations of power and the political consequences that are inherent in such cultural practices” (Barker, 2004, p. xix) . Apart from the cultural studies approach, culture appears ... entrepreneurship impacts societal or regional inequality (Halvarrsson et al., 2018; Lippman et al., 2005), which is at the core of disciplines such as sociology and political science. This argument holds not only
unearthed a 14th-century medieval bronze ring that might have been used for political murders some 700 years ago. Found at the site of a former medieval fortress in Cape Kaliakra, not far from the Black Sea
the economic, political, and other spheres in kinship terms, or as Fox argues, “kinship is to anthropology what logic is to philosophy and the nude is to art” (1983, p. 10). Following Carsten, kinship ... economy that is held together by smallscale credit arrangements among a class of traders, and the “prince” as the type that emerged from the indigenous aristocracy, who moved from political leadership to
method to cocreate purposes and futures worth achieving. It does not prescribe what is worth doing, like ethics or moral philosophy might do. It also does not offer explanations for why we find something ... challenge preconceived notions of what might count as the good life and even what it means to be human, daily lives of ordinary human beings and hence socio-political realities and contours of the economy all
depth by experts in the philosophy of science and/or the history of ideas. My reflections are intended as a complement based on rich experience from the field of entrepreneurship research, whose journey ... other factors related to unemployment, personal wealth, liberal political climate, and policy initiatives had weak or mixed impact. Not only did this amount to the perhaps strongest cumulative evidence
- 125 . https://doi.org/10.1504/ijte. 2007 .014731 Brennen , J. S. , & Kreiss , D. ( 2016 ). Digitalization. The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy , 1 - 11 . https ... - 116 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj. 2010 . 11 .002 Freedman , D. A. , & Sekhon , J. S. ( 2010 ). Endogeneity in probit response models . Political Analysis , 18 ( 2 ), 138 - 150 . https://doi.org
, Patricia Stirnemann and Judith Kogel, “A Portrait of Abraham Ibn Ezra (Paris, Bibliotheque de la Arsenal MS. 1186).” Aristotelian philosophy, and representations of Aristotle in manuscript illuminations ... program and illuminated manuscripts. Even if one is not familiar with the political machinations of Norman Sicily, Takiguchi provides the necessary historical background to make her analysis of the Monreale
. As the UK’s industrial decline accelerated at pace throughout the 1970s and 1980s, there were also important changes in the political landscape in the UK with the arrival of a new prime minister ... reducing the role of the state in the socio-economic landscape. The following decade was the most significant in terms of political and policy support for individuals seeking to transition into self
In this review, voltage-gated proton channels are considered from a mainly teleological perspective. Why do proton channels exist? What good are they? Why did they go to such lengths to develop several unique hallmark properties such as extreme selectivity and ΔpH-dependent gating? Why is their current so minuscule? How do they manage to be so selective? What is the basis for our...
behaviors, and that Buddhism can bring the essence of entrepreneurship, such as social capital, political connections, and legitimacy, to entrepreneurs and stimulate them, through an isomorphic effect, to ... like the Four Immeasurables can trigger entrepreneurs’ charitable behaviors; essential features of entrepreneurship like social capital, political connections, and legitimacy underlie the effect of
government. These windfalls arise in a variety of international settings through transfer payments made to units of governments by other political entities. Prominent examples include EU structural funds ... carry any offsetting tax burden, which is instead borne by the granting political body. Transfer payments represent a widespread and important feature of public finance, and we seek to understand their
