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Bigger than Bitcoin: A Theoretical Typology and Research Agenda for Digital Currencies 比比特币更大:数字货币的理论类型学与研究议程

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Business and Politics Pub Date : 2021-08-18 DOI: 10.1017/bap.2021.12

T. Marple

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引用次数: 4

Interacting Corporate Political Activities with Evidence from the Tobacco Industry 企业政治活动与烟草业证据的互动

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Business and Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-30 DOI: 10.1017/bap.2021.7

Kartik Rao, B. Schaufele

引用次数: 0

Resistance Is Not Futile: Co-operatives, Demutualization, Agriculture, and Neoliberalism in Australia 抵抗并非徒劳:澳大利亚的合作社、非公有制、农业和新自由主义

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Business and Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-22 DOI: 10.1017/bap.2021.10

G. Patmore, Nikola Balnave, O. Marjanovic

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引用次数: 6

How does business power operate? A framework for its working mechanisms 商业权力是如何运作的?工作机制框架

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Business and Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-15 DOI: 10.1017/bap.2021.19

M. Babić, Jouke Huijzer, Javier Garcia-Bernardo, D. Valeeva

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引用次数: 3

Cosponsoring and Cashing In: US House Members’ Support for Punitive Immigration Policy and Financial Payoffs from the Private Prison Industry 共同赞助和兑现:美国众议院议员对惩罚性移民政策的支持和私营监狱行业的经济回报

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Business and Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-05 DOI: 10.1017/bap.2021.6

Jason L. Morín, R. Torres, Loren Collingwood

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引用次数: 1

Who's Afraid of Sunlight? Explaining Opposition to Transparency in Economic Development 谁害怕阳光?解释经济发展中对透明度的反对

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Business and Politics Pub Date : 2021-06-21 DOI: 10.1017/bap.2021.8

Nathan M. Jensen, Calvin Thrall

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引用次数: 6

Personnel Power: Governing State-Owned Enterprises 人事权力:治理国有企业

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Business and Politics Pub Date : 2021-06-07 DOI: 10.1017/bap.2021.5

Wendy Leutert, Samantha A. Vortherms

引用次数: 8

Soft Law Engagements and Hard Law Preferences: Comparing EU Lobbying Positions between UN Global Compact Signatory Firms and Other Interest Group Types 软法律参与和硬法律偏好:比较欧盟在联合国全球契约签署公司和其他利益集团类型之间的游说立场

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Business and Politics Pub Date : 2021-06-07 DOI: 10.1017/bap.2021.2

Onna Malou van den Broek

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引用次数: 9

Foreign Investment and Right-to-Work Laws 外国投资和工作权法

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Business and Politics Pub Date : 2021-06-07 DOI: 10.1017/bap.2021.4

Paulo Cavallo, Clint Peinhardt

引用次数: 0

BAP volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Front matter BAP第23卷第2期封面和封面问题

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Business and Politics Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1017/bap.2021.3

引用次数: 0