Using an extensive database of job adverts, we investigate the extent to which homeworking is likely to continue. We track how advertisement language has evolved to indicate homeworking opportunities ...and how the characteristics of jobs offering these opportunities have changed, including a greater degree of polarisation in opportunity by salary.
Affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed for a year. While getting through with the organizing of an Olympic Games amid a global pandemic is seen ...as a success by many (‘The Good’), it was overshadowed by the relentless virus as the Games closed with a muted spectacle in 2021 (‘The Bad’). Pushing on with the Games after the postponement, at the height of the pandemic, has resulted in strong criticisms and caused damage to the organizers (‘The Ugly’). This study seeks to assess the crisis communication strategies implemented by the organizers as they navigated the capricious condition of trudging on with a pandemic era sport spectacle. Through examining the organizers’ crisis communications to the challenges that emerged and public reactions to the strategies, this study seeks to understand the outcome of the strategies on the organizational image and reputation. It also provides reflections on the management of the Games through the COVID-19 pandemic. In this regard, it is argued that the situational crisis communication theory offers a useful framework that can provide theoretical connections between crisis management in a sports mega-event and organizational response strategies.
This article proposes a model of internal credit driven by variations in interest rates of loans for end borrowers. The variations in internal credit after the interest rate crises that have taken ...place around the world in recent years are analyzed by international panel comparison, and the median elasticity is evaluated. A prediction of internal credit variations in Russia in the near future is given in light of various scenarios of interest rate fluctuations.
El conflicto armado en Colombia ha impactado de manera diferencial a hombres y mujeres. Esta situación se reconoce en el Acuerdo Final para la Terminación del Conflicto y la Construcción de una Paz ...Estable y Duradera alcanzado con las Farc-EP. No obstante, la ideología que permea el periodo presidencial 2018-2022 plantea una serie de obstáculos para el cumplimiento del enfoque de género incorporado en dicho acuerdo. Por lo anterior, este artículo plantea un análisis de la implementación del enfoque de género a la luz de la ideología imperante identificando los obstáculos que esta representa para aquel. Para esto, se desarrolla una metodología cualitativa, utilizando técnicas de investigación documental y análisis textual; señalando la ausencia histórica del enfoque de género en procesos anteriores, su incorporación sustancial en el Acuerdo Final y la tergiversación y el consecuente abandono de esta perspectiva en los antecedentes ideológicos y las propuestas previstas para el nuevo periodo presidencial. Se indicará por qué esto último constituye un retroceso preocupante en la garantía de la diversidad.
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