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El desarrollo como negocio

2002

Naciones Unidas / 2. Cumbre bajo mínimos

2005

Washington, une ville mondiale ?

2001

Washington DC is rarely mentioned in the scientific literature on world cities. However, its influence on the world economy is obvious (World Bank, IMF, Federal Reserve). As a new immigration center, Washington has grown rapidly into an international city. It is suggested that the concept of global city must be re-examined to propose a more flexible definition.

“‘As monumental bronze unchanged his look’: Washington Irving’s ‘Philip of Pokanoket’”

2015

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“‘As monumental bronze unchanged his look’: Washington Irving’s ‘Philip of Pokanoket’ (Or the Portrait of an American Hero of a Lost Cause)”

2009

International audience

"La Bolivie se retire du Cirdi"

2007

International audience

The Washington consensus and multinational banking in Latin America

2004

International audience; The dramatic increase in multinational banks in the late 1990s is a direct result of Washington Consensus-type policies that emphasize the removal of barriers to the free flow of financial capital. In Latin America, foreign banks now control almost half of the total banking activity. Inevitably, the direct implication of such circumstances is a fall in the profits of domestic banks. In response to this, domestic banks react by curtailing their overall lending in the short run, thereby preventing small borrowers from accession to credit, and eventually increasing their lending to riskier projects and borrowers in the medium run. Either way, the multinationalization of…

Socially Responsible Sector: B Lab Certification of For-Benefit Organizations

2019

Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 This is a study of the motivations of organizations to become certified B Corps through thenon-profit B Lab. The Abilities, Motivations and Opportunities framework, rooted in behavioraland organizational management literature is applied to the certified B Corp model, andtheoretically compared to corporate social responsibility. Empirical data collected comparescommon language used to describe 3,508 organizations and self reported motivations to becomecertified through survey responses of 279 active certified B Corps. The results of the study showthe difference between corporate social responsibility…

Booker T. Washington's moderate means to racial harmony : the ascendancy of the African American educator 1881-1915

1997

Samsung and Volkswagen Crisis Communication in Facebook and Twitter : A Comparative Study

2017

Since September 2015 at least two major crises have emerged where major industrial companies producing consumer products have been involved. In September 2015 diesel cars manufactured by Volkswagen turned out to be equipped with cheating software that caused NO2 and other emission values to be reduced to acceptable levels while tested from the real, unacceptable values in normal use. In August 2016 reports began to appear that the battery of a new smart phone produced by Samsung, Galaxy Note7, could begin to burn, or even explode, while the device was on. In Nov. 2016 also 34 washing machine models were reported to have caused damages due to disintegration. In all cases, the companies have …