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The biological species concept and contemporary extinction risk

Gould's and Mayr's biological species concept, as presented by Stamos (2008). According to these scientists and to this species concept, two populations are termed as belonging to the same species if they are capable of interbreeding.

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1,617 words

Unethical leadership and accounting fraud at Enron

Enron was a company that imploded in the early 2000s after a public scandal involving its accounting books and organizational leaders. The unethical practices at Enron were essentially accounting fraud.

~9 min read

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Research Paper Graduate 5,700 words

Further Education and Teacher Professionalization in the UK

Examines how UK further education programs, QTLS certification, and continuing professional development support teacher retention and professionalization.

Education

~29 min read

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Research Paper Graduate 12,331 words

Business Ethics in Management: Big Business vs. Small Business

A case study comparing scholarly business ethics literature with a small business owner's real ethical dilemmas involving gender, culture, and environment.

Ethics

~62 min read

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Research Paper Graduate 5,029 words

EI, SI, and CI Competencies and Leadership Effectiveness

Explores how emotional, social, and cognitive intelligence competencies relate to leadership effectiveness and experience, with research design and hypotheses.

Business

~26 min read

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Literature Review Graduate 3,332 words

MNCs in Developing Countries: Impacts, Theories & Policy

A literature review examining multinational corporations' economic, social, and environmental impacts on developing countries, with key theories and policy propositions.

World Studies

~17 min read

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1,162 words

Cap and trade policy implementation challenges and effectiveness concerns

Cap and trade policy is a system that allows the management of pollution and targets at reducing the overall pollution within a region, country or industry.

~6 min read

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4,861 words

Cultural borrowing and innovation across Western civilizations from Mesopotamia onward

But while, of course, there are core practices, habits, and beliefs -- and historical moments -- that set off these and other societies from each other, there are many key connections as well.

~25 min read

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Continuity in U.S. foreign policy from Bush to Obama administrations

When the speech writer for the former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, Christian Brose (2009) predicted that the continuum in foreign policy initiatives as undertaken by contemporary U.S. presidents would be advanced by Barack Obama in the Making of George W.

~23 min read

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Human dependence on ecosystems and environmental services

The dependence of man on the environment is crucial as the environment provides us with every basic necessity of life such as food, energy, power, shelter as well as relative climactic constancy (WHO 2005). Ecosystems are the planet's -- and man's -- life support system (2005).

~13 min read

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