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Male and stale? Questioning the role of “opinion leaders” in agricultural programs
Social networks can influence people’s behaviour and therefore it is assumed that central individuals in social networks, also called “opinion...
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The hunger strike in prison: bioethical and medico-legal insights arising from a recent opinion of the Italian national bioethics committee
This contribution addresses some bioethical and medico-legal issues of the opinion formulated by the Italian National Bioethics Committee (CNB) in...
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Interactive agential dynamics
The study of active matter systems demonstrates how interactions might co-constitute agential dynamics. Active matter systems are comprised of...
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Collective Opinion as Tendency Towards Consensus
Group beliefs in social networks are often construed as arising from individual beliefs through processes of update and aggregation. In this paper,...
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Does CEO–Auditor Dialect Connectedness Trigger Audit Opinion Shop**? Evidence from China
Using the original information from the identification cards of CEOs and signing auditors to hand-collect the data on CEO–auditor dialect...
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Welcome on Board? Appointment Dynamics of Women as Directors
Increasing the participation of women in top-level corporate boards is high on the agenda of policy-makers. Yet, we know little about director...
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Harvesting connections: the role of stakeholders’ network structure, dynamics and actors’ influence in sha** farmers’ markets
Farmers’ markets (FMs) represent a crucial player in urban food systems, being the interconnection of local agricultural production and consumption,...
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Conclusion: Contingently Situated Literature and Court Dynamics
Over the course of this book, the definition ‘courtly writing’ eventually proves unproductively fuzzy and limiting, giving way instead to a portrait...
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Narcissism Dynamics and Auditor Skepticism
The process by which auditors consider fraud risk in assessing management’s motivation and character remains under-addressed. This is problematic...
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Belief Base: A Minimal Logic of Fine-Grained Information Dynamics
This paper proposes a minimal logic of fine-grained information dynamics via belief bases. The framework is shown to be able to accommodate explicit...
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Dynamics, Forms, and Consequences of Defense. An Overview
Although it is not easy to distinguish between the psychological and the social forms of defense, but this makes sense for several reasons. The...
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FRAME Dynamics: A Theory of General Evolution
Natural selection is generally considered to be a process exclusive to the domain of biotic systems. In this paper, a universal, five phase set of...
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Accounting for groups: the dynamics of intragroup deliberation
In a highly influential work, List and Pettit (Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents, Oxford University Press, 2011)...
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The Dynamics of Argumentative Discourse
Arguments have always played a central role within logic and philosophy. But little attention has been paid to arguments as a distinctive kind of...
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Influence theory
Influence theory is a systematic study of formal models of the communicative influence of one person or group of people on another person or group....
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Gender Bias and Conversational Agents: an ethical perspective on Social Robotics
The increase in the spread of conversational agents urgently requires to tackle the ethical issues linked to their design. In fact, developers...
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Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of G.W. Leibniz II
Is Leibnizian dynamics the New Physics sought in his youth to provide a solution to the problem of body unity/composition? This question can only be...
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The Professional Logic of Sustainability Managers: Finding Underlying Dynamics
The role of the Sustainability Manager (SM) is expanding. Whether SMs are turning into a new profession is under debate. Pointing to the need for a...
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Do corporate governance dynamics drive performance of state-owned and non-state-owned enterprises? An Indian perspective
The current study examines how corporate governance ( CG ) affects the business performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-state-owned...
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Feminism as an antiwar strategy and practice: the case of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine
The dynamics of political processes in the postcommunist states of Eastern Europe in the 2000s to early 2020s demonstrated a significant number of...