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Credit Unions as a Financing Source for the Social Economy
(2010-09-20)This proposal/plan outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This project conducted initial exploratory research concerning credit unions as a foundation for developing a ... -
Credit Unions as a Financing Source for the Social Economy and Rural Community Re-investment
(2009-04-06)This proposal/plan documetns a research project that examines the role of credit unions in supporting the social economy and is a second stage of research building on SERC 3’s research project C11. At the same time, this ... -
"Critical Illness, Family & Nurses: Connecting the Dots"
(2011-03-29)Critical Illness of an adult constitutes a crisis for family members. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to delineate nursing support for family members from their perspective. Results indicated that they were ... -
Cultural vs. Social Theory
(2010-06-23)This paper will explore the need for a distinctive methodological approach to interdisciplinary inquiry in the cultural as distinct from the social sphere. The challenge of multidisciplinary research within a complex nexus ... -
Current Technical Services Issues Forum
(2010-06-23)The Current Technical Services Issues Forum is an opportunity for people involved in the Technical Services area of libraries to share information about how they are implementing and using new technology to advance libraries ... -
A Day In The Life Of Le Boulot Vers
(Making Waves, 2004)For nearly a generation now, Montréal's Le Boulot vers ... has been helping young people make the break from poverty, alienation, and dependency, and discover instead a world of opportunity. Most often referred to as a ... -
Death Of A Co-op: The Quesnel Hardwood Co-Operative
(Making Waves, 2003)Struggling to survive drastic restructuring in BC's forest industry, small-time harvesters and processors in Quesnel, BC combined forces. They created a co-op to channel "nuisance" birch and aspen into hardwood markets in ... -
Deconstructing the Quest for Value: Language Games of Organizational Investment
(2010-04-14)Abstract of the paper For many years practitioners have attempted to define and measure what value project management brings an organization (see for example Kwak & Ibbs, 2000; Cooke-Davies, 2002; Reginato & Ibbs, 2002; ... -
Defining the Vision for the Next 100 Years
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Definition and Measurement of the Social Economy: Continuous Construct or Dichotomous Variable?
(2009-11-24)The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is collecting information on the scope and scale of the social economy in British Columbia and Alberta. This report to BALTA's 2009 symposium provides an update on ... -
Democracy and Ethics, Governance, and Corruption Perception in Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis”
(2010-06-23)This paper explores the relationship between democracy and corruption. Using data on African countries, I find the relationships between democracy and corruption measures to be statistically significant and nonlinear in ... -
Demography, Diet and Range Size in a Population of Black-handed Spider Monkey's
(2011-03-30)#1 Studies of wild Ateles geoffroyi yucatensis have occurred, or are ongoing in Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica, but no sites have been established in Belize. Across study sites, group composition, average sub-group ... -
Den stora omställningen: en seglats genom en turbulent tids sociala, ekonomiska och ekologiska förändringar
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2009-10)Swedish translation of an original paper in English. Trans-disciplinary thinking by evolutionary, social, and ecological economists from the mid-1970s pointed to a new paradigm from which working models are emerging. This ... -
Dene Understanding of the Land: On Habitats and Relationships, and Reflections on Change
(2008-05-22)Northern Athapaskan speakers experience shifting ecological conditions over the seasons, and over longer periods of time. People travel, animals travel, caribou migration routes shift. Traditional knowledge of Dene is ... -
Dene Understanding of the Land: On Habitats and Relationships, and Reflections on Change
(2008-04-16)Northern Athapaskan speakers experience shifting ecological conditions over the seasons, and over longer periods of time. People travel, animals travel, caribou migration routes shift. Traditional knowledge of Dene is ... -
‘Derrida’s “Economimesis’ and Laruelle’s Onto-Photo-Logical Critique of Photography Theory
(2012-11-15)In a key passage in his Copy, Archive, Signature, Derrida reflects on the hinge between the active and passive senses of the rhetorical trope of invention as it bears on the photographic act: “There is a concept of photography ... -
Designer - Supporting Teachers Experience in Learning Management Systems
(2012-11-15)In the lifelong learning context, the efficiency of learning is measured according to the users’ achievement of the target competences. However, in a virtual learning environment supporting the competence development process ... -
Designing a Multiagent System for Course-Offering Determination
(2014-01-16)This paper describes the design of a multiagent system that facilitates course-offering decision making for a program in an institution. We first model course offering determination for upcoming semester as a multi-winner ... -
The Determinants of the Corporate Hedging Decision: An Empirical Analysis
(2009-11-26)This paper is concerned with testing the hypotheses put forth by Smith and Stulz (1985) and Nance, Smith and Smithson (1993) regarding the four reasons for which a firm will hedge. In this paper, we extend the analysis ...