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Development of a drug that will save lives today and generate immediate profits but years later pose grave risks to users will get the manager-developer promoted and keep stockholders—who are unaware of the risks a decade to come—happy. The manager may not even take time to become acquainted with those risks, or may underresearch them.

geopolitical analysis seems inordinately glued to a few states and to underresearch others. The major western countries have always been the main topic of interest.

the long-term functioning of a common-pool resource institution (CPRI) implies a sense of collective ownership of the resource (Ostrom 1990, 2010). […] While the use value of landscapes is put forward by powerful economic interests (e.g. the tourism industry), the defence of non-use values is by definition economically less profitable – at least in the short run. The initial focus of much of the neoinstitutionalist literature on relatively simple CPRI with model character (following rational choice approaches) might have led to underresearch power issues shaping the political decision-making procedures on the management of the commons (Theesfeld 2011; Kashwan 2015).

The authors begin by making a compelling case for why ethnic/racial identity is an important construct to study as a potential contributor to achievement pathways. They point to the established links of this construct with adolescent and young adult populations [Ogbu & Herbert, 1998; Spencer, 1999; Steele, 1997] and note the problem of undertheorizing and underresearch in middle childhood.

We find that within this Ghanaian context, household SES-based school readiness gaps exist, and parental investments—and particularly school involvement—account for some of these associations. These findings contribute to theory building by providing evidence in an underresearch context characterized by high levels of child poverty and low levels of adult literacy.