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Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ISRAEL (Pluto 2002). The authors also seem inspired, incognito, by our more recent papers … creativity of society that society itself can be controlled. The second section of the paper explains how the appropriators of …

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A comparison of ethical perceptions of earnings-management practices - MENA region and USA

Jooste, Leonie - In: Global Business and Economics Review 16 (2014) 1, pp. 46-59

Businesses fail not only because of financial problems but also due to factors such as earnings-management and personal values. The problem with managing earnings is it becomes an ethical practice, regardless of who is or may be affected by the practice or the information that flows from it....

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Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

several data sets (the International Social Survey Program – ISSP: Module Religion, 2008; the European Social Survey – ESS … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state-religion …

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Religion, religiousness and fertility in the U.S. and in Europe

Frejka, Tomas; Westoff, Charles F. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

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The effect of belonging to an alcohol-proscribing religious group on the relationship between moderate alcohol consumption and mortality

Hayward, R. David; Krause, Neal - In: Social Science & Medicine 101 (2014) C, pp. 1-8

The purpose of this study was to examine whether belonging to a religious group that proscribes alcohol use moderated the relationship between moderate alcohol use and mortality. Data came from the Americans' Changing Lives study, based on a representative probability sample of adults 25 and...

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Attitudes and beliefs related to HIV/AIDS in urban religious congregations: Barriers and opportunities for HIV-related interventions

Bluthenthal, Ricky N.; Palar, Kartika; Mendel, Peter; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 10, pp. 1520-1527

HIV-related stigmas have been seen as a barrier to greater religious congregation involvement in HIV prevention and care in the United States and elsewhere. We explored congregational and community norms and attitudes regarding HIV, sexuality, and drug use through a qualitative case study of 14...

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Maternal religious attendance and low birth weight

Burdette, Amy M.; Weeks, Janet; Hill, Terrence D.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 12, pp. 1961-1967

We use data from the U.S. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to test whether maternal religious attendance is protective against low birth weight. Building on previous research, we also consider the mediating influence of mental health, cigarette use, alcohol use, illicit drug use, poor...

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Amish enterprise: the collective power of ethnic entrepreneurship

Kraybill, Donald B.; Nolt, Steven M.; Wesner, Erik J. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 12 (2010) 1/2, pp. 3-20

This paper examines how Amish communities build and sustain enterprises that produce and/or sell goods to both ethnic and non-ethnic markets. Based on qualitative research including interviews with 161 Amish entrepreneurs in 23 communities in the USA, the authors develop a transformative model...

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The church in place and space: the case of the Springfield diocese

Formosi, Michael; Kotval, Zenia; Mullin, John - In: International Journal of Public Policy 6 (2010) 3/4, pp. 386-396

In community after community across the USA our churches have long served as iconic anchors to our village and town centres. While businesses would come and go, the population base would change and the physical character of our communities would evolve, our churches tended to remain as a...

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The ethics of future business leaders: a cross-cultural comparison

Elkin, Graham; King, Stuart - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 1 (2009) 3, pp. 263-276

student attitudes towards business ethics is needed. Attempts at developing universal business ethics are problematic due to …. Our research examined attitudes towards business ethics among business students in the USA and New Zealand. We surveyed … New Zealand undergraduate business students regarding their attitudes towards a number of statements about business ethics …

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