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Including the excluded: Sense-making and job crafting as drivers of dialogical change management in Italian universities for refugees' inclusion

Ceschel, Federico; Limata, Plinio; Marchegiani, Lucia - In: Administrative Sciences 13 (2023) 6, pp. 1-22

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are increasingly called to substantiate their impact on society in terms of inclusivity and social sustainability, as prioritized in the pursuit of the "Third Mission" (TM). Today, HEIs are confronted with the demand to ensure refugees' inclusivity. However,...

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Diffusion and persistence of false rumors in social media networks: implications of searchability on rumor self-correction on Twitter

Eismann, Kathrin - In: Journal of Business Economics 91 (2021) 9, pp. 1299-1329

Social media networks (SMN) such as Facebook and Twitter are infamous for facilitating the spread of potentially false rumors. Although it has been argued that SMN enable their users to identify and challenge false rumors through collective efforts to make sense of unverified information—a...

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Sustaining extended enterprise performance: A value co-creation perspective

Bobbink, Maria; Hartmann, Andreas; Dewulf, Geert - In: Journal of Organization Design 5 (2016) 3, pp. 1-10

new light on the formation of inter-organizational collaborations and addresses the role of organization design in this …

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Moving from fragmented to seamless sense-making in blended learning

Bi, Xiaofang - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 8 (2021) 3, pp. 251-275

connections, policy and institutional contexts, the inhabited pedagogical practices and curriculum design. Methods: This study … between different dynamics in BL is of great importance to mediate the curriculum design and pedagogical approaches used in BL …

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Virtual attractors, actual assemblages: How Luhmann’s theory of communication complements actor-network theory

Farías, Ignacio - In: European Journal of Social Theory 17 (2014) 1, pp. 24-41

This article proposes complementing actor-network theory (ANT) with Niklas Luhmann’s communication theory, in order to overcome one of ANT’s major shortcomings, namely, the lack of a conceptual repertoire to describe virtual processes such as sense-making. A highly problematic consequence of...

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On the sociology of cartels

Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina - In: European Journal of Law and Economics 56 (2023) 2, pp. 289-323

We analyze 15 German cartels, focusing on the personal characteristics of the individual participants, the methods and frequency of communication as well as the internal organizational structures within the cartels and their eventual breakup. Our results indicate that cartel members are highly...

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List Price Collusion

Boshoff, Willem H.; Paha, Johannes - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 21 (2021) 3, pp. 393-409

Firms sometimes collude by agreeing on increases in list prices. Yet, the efficacy of such list price collusion is subject to discussion as colluding firms might, in principle, deviate secretly from the elevated prices by granting their customers discounts. This article reviews cases of list...

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Optimal Incentives for Patent Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Böhme, Enrico; Frank, Jonas Severin; Kerber, Wolfgang - In: Review of Industrial Organization 59 (2021) 3, pp. 503-528

In this paper, we show that a provision in antitrust law to allow patent settlements with a later market entry of …

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Optimal destabilization of cartels

von Auer, Ludwig; Pham, Tu Anh - In: Journal of Regulatory Economics 59 (2021) 2, pp. 175-192

operate like one merged company), a group of competing fringe firms, and a welfare maximizing antitrust authority. The cartel …. The cartel is internally stable if none of its member firms finds it profitable to become a fringe firm. The antitrust … authority can destabilize the cartel in the sense of making the cartel internally instable. To this end, the antitrust authority …

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Evidence Production in Merger Control: The Role of Remedies

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - In: Review of Industrial Organization 59 (2021) 1, pp. 1-12

. The antitrust agency's incentives to produce evidence on the efficiency of a merger proposal depend critically on its …

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