The gender paradox in mortality--where men die earlier than women despite having more socioeconomic resources--may be partly explained by men's lower levels of preventive health care. Stereotypical notions of masculinity reduce preventive health care; however, the relationship between masculinity, socioeconomic status (SES), and preventive health care is unknown. Using the Wisconsin Longitudina...

A growing body of research has centered on the issue of the relationship between financial and environmental performance. The lack of consensus in this literature can be attributed to several factors. The cost of complying with environmental regulation can be significant and detrimental to shareholder wealth maximization. Conversely, a firm that can effectively control pollution might also be a...

It is widely believed that happiness is strongly correlated with wealth and income, but according to the happiness–income paradox, this is not always true. The paradox predicates that there is a strong positive correlation between income and happiness nationally, but the correlation is essentially absent in international comparisons, or in a long-term longitudinal comparison. This paradox has b...

Paradox is one of the literary techniques in the poetry of the Safavid poets. Hazin-e Lahiji, like so many other poets of that age, employed this technique in his pursuit and showed that "unfamiliar meaning". Paradox is used in the poetry of Hazin-e Lahiji for the purpose of defamiliarization and exoticism. The poet in order to create new implications and subtle and insightful points and also t...

After the reform and continuous development, China's economy has now reached a new historical stage of promoting common prosperity. Common prosperity is essential requirement socialism, its realization must only be under socialist system, capitalist system can not break away from paradox wealth poverty. From poverty formed development traditional to victory alleviation achieved by practice in e...

Economic growth is a two-edged sword. Expanding economies and industries create wealth employment, but global economic expansion having unprecedented deleterious impacts on vital planetary systems. Despite this, the core strategic goal of all many businesses continues to be pursuit ongoing growth. To resolve this paradox, reconceptualization firm-level presented. I describe discuss organization...

While organisations continue to invest heavily in IS/IT, research studies and practitioner surveys report contradictory findings on the effect of the expenditures on organisational productivity (Grover et al., 1998). Therefore, it is not surprising to see that the term “productivity paradox” is gaining increasing notoriety as several studies point toward fairly static productivity and rising IS...

There is a paradox: While life courses are de facto pluralising, the pull to conform an imagined standard strong. In this thematic issue, we unpack question: To whose standards do people cohere over course of their lives? We seek answers through idea justice, by which mean critical inquiry into how wealth, opportunities, and privilege distributed constrained in certain stages situations, geogra...

Why did CEOs remuneration exploded during the 90s and persisted to high levels, even after the bursting out of the Internet bubble? This article surveys the alternative explanations that have been given of this paradox mainly by various economic theories with some extension to political science, business administration, social psychology, moral philosophy, network analysis. Basically, it is arg...