In this article, I argue for ‘bringing inequality back in’ to organizational research in order to investigate the role of management and organizational practices in macro-level economic inequality. ...To set an agenda in this area, I suggest considering three loci where the links between organizations and inequality may be observed: the organizational locus comprising the producer/employee, investor and consumer dimensions; the inter-organizational locus to help disentangle issues related to the distribution of economic rewards across value chains, large financial versus non-financial organizations, and across occupations and organizations in general; and socio-political system as a locus where issues related to social change, political influence and the institutional system may be unpacked. In addition, I suggest considering the link between organizations and inequality from other important vantage points: elites, demographics, global inequality and debt. I also briefly highlight issues related to data and analyses. Throughout, I discuss the contributions of the five articles in the special issue and how they push us towards this agenda. Finally, I suggest that it may be helpful to think of an ‘inequality footprint’ of management and organizational practices, potentially leading organizations to reduce and reverse this footprint and ensure that economic benefits reach wider society.
Introductory note Edwards, Paul K
Human relations (New York),
07/2015, Letnik:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
The topic of this special issue is an important and timely one, as all the articles explain. It is also a particularly challenging one for scholars: just how we turn the injunction to connect ...organizations to inequality into a meaningful research programme is harder than might seem. I am thus particularly grateful to the special issue editors for defining an agenda and producing a set of articles that addresses it. Given that the agenda is challenging, the format of the special issue is slightly unusual. We have the usual five articles on specific topics. Framing them are essays by each of the special issue editors that explain and address different aspects of the wider scholarly challenges of the agenda. Hari Bapuji synthesizes a mass of research that explores the links running from inequality to organizations; he also indicates the contributions of each of the articles. Suhaib Riaz looks at how organizations themselves generate inequality and the intersections between dimensions of inequality and the methodological challenges involved. Each offers a framework with different but potentially complementary ways of thinking about inequality and organizations. In this very short note I offer some very brief further reflections on the connections between agenda and articles.
The relevance of this article is determined by the conducted systematic study of theoretical issues and problems arising when considering the historical aspects of ethno-gender, manifestation of ...ethno-gender in accordance with the principles of democracy and equal rights of citizens in society and the state. The problems and questions of the realization of the ethnogender and its elements are studied using the example of international experience. In the article, we study step by step the different periods of time in which the ethnogender's questions were touched upon. The influence of the ethnogender on the national security of the state is proved. Identified problematic issues and some historical aspects of the development of the ethnogender in foreign countries and the formation in them of a special political culture of public administration. The paper explores theoretical and methodological ideas, solutions to problems arising when studying historical and political aspect of ethno-gender as a feature of a democratic society; it examines the historical and political aspects associated with the development of ethno-gender in different states. The study defines the main concepts and categories of ethno-gender, the structure and system of this institution, as well as the influence of ethno-gender on the formation of political systems in various states, the negative and positive consequences of ethno-gender for the political system of the society, and explores models of its formation during the adaptation of nations in various political systems. In the course of the research, the authors formulated the main theoretical propositions and recommendations on improving the application of the institution of ethno-gender in the political system of some states. The article examines the mechanisms of the ethno-gender influence on the internal political situation in different countries. The article proves the influence of ethno-gender on the national security of the state. The authors identified problematic issues and some historical aspects of the development of ethno-gender in different countries and the formation of a special political culture of public administration there.
It has been 112 years since the last play was written by Henrik Ibsen, and he still lives on through his works as a modern dramatist. His plays cannot be set aside; even in our time, they demand to ...be studied more than ever before. Ibsen has been studied and performed all around the world, especially in Asia, where he speaks to the political and social needs of that part of the world. The combination of current political circumstances, social inequalities, and human rights has given his plays a special urgency in Asia. However, even though Ibsen has seen a particular resurgence in Asia and the Middle East, the terrible events of 22 July 2011 in Oslo and Utøya bear certain traces of Ibsen in his country of birth as well. A false hero, trumpeting himself as a true philosopher in a land in need of rescue, brings only chaos and destruction.
Ibsen is considered, from one side, as an idealist whose heroes are divine for rescuing the society from their life-lie. On the other side, he is as a deflator of heroism and a derider of blind idealism. To the former, in his hypothetical society, there is a triangular form at the apex of which a leader stands to lead the masses up from the base.
The question is raised here: how do Ibsen’s plays enlighten the debate on the contemporary socio-political issues? By applying historical approach along with contextual methodology, this study answers the above question. The significance of conducting this study on Ibsen’s plays is to know the response of his plays to the current political matters.
The need of the description of the development of B.K. Zaytsev artistic method of 1900-1921 in the context of a large-scale theoretical and historic and literary problem of a ratio of realism and ...modernism in the Russian literature of the end of XIX - the beginning of the XX centuries causes the relevance of the article. In this regard the aim of the article is to identify the principles of the representation of reality in early stories by B.K. Zaytsev, in particular - the principle of historicism. The leading method of a research of this problem is the historic and literary method of a research allowing to consider the matter in a complex. The article presents the analysis of a number of B.K. Zaytsev stories of 1910-1921, the main motives (historical retrospectives, autobiographical, religious motives) which open the author's vision of life confirming manifestation of realism in works of the writer during this period. The materials of the article have the practical importance while drawing up methodical recommendations and manuals on studying both history of the Russian literature of the XX century and literature of the Russian Abroad.
L’apparition de la démocratie au Bénin a favorisé l’émergence des élitesreligieuses et traditionnelles sur la scène publique. Ces dernières ont saisil’opportunité que leur offraient les changements ...institutionnels au niveau de l’Étatpour s’organiser en groupes d’intérêts et essayer d’améliorer leur situation sociale.Mais leurs ambitions vont bien au-delà de leurs sphères de prédilection, car cesélites religieuses et traditionnelles entendent être associées à l’élaboration despolitiques publiques et participer au développement de l’État béninois. Ce souhaitmet en exergue la probabilité de l’existence d’une gouvernance conjointe ouplurielle, à échelons différents, de la cité, notamment au niveau local, entre élitespolitiques, religieuses et traditionnelles. D’autre part, si la position de l’Étatbéninois à l’endroit des chefferies religieuses et traditionnelles a varié depuis laproclamation de l’indépendance et qu’il leur est reconnu une certaine importance,le statut de ces institutions sociales n’est toujours pas éclairci. Il n’en demeure pasmoins que les gouvernements et les élites politiques au Bénin peuvent avoir uneconception instrumentale de ces relations. Par ailleurs, les élites religieuses ettraditionnelles ne restent pas passives face à l’action de l’État et des élitespolitiques. Aux questions de savoir quand, où et comment ces élites politiques,religieuses et traditionnelles se rencontrent, il peut y avoir plusieurs modalités deréponses qui entraînent à leur tour certaines configurations relationnelles non sansconséquences sur l’État béninois.
The apparition of democracy in Benin has contributed to the emergence ofreligious and traditional elites on the public stage. These elites have seized theopportunity that the institutional state transformations have offered them to organizethemselves into lobbies and to try to improve their social situation. However, theirambitions go beyond their traditional domains, and these religious and traditional eliteswish to participate in the development of public policy and of the Beninese state. Thisambition underlines the probability of the development of a joint or plural managementof cities, notably on a local level, between political, religious and traditional elites.Also, although the position of the Beninese state concerning religious and traditionalchieftainships has varied since the declaration of independence and the state recognizesthat these chieftainships have a certain importance, these the status of these socialinstitutions remains unclear. However, the country’s successive governments andpolitical elites can have an instrumental conception of these relations. It is also worthnoting that the religious and traditional elites do not remain passive concerning the stateand political elites’ actions. There can be several different kinds of response to thequestion of how these political, religious and traditional elites come together, responseswhich imply certain relational configurations which have an impact on the Beninesestate.
The spatial layout of a late prehistoric settlement is examined using comparative analysis, ethnohistorical documents and GIS analysis. The spatial organisation of the settlement is similar to the ...spatial layout of ethnographically documented Samoan villages, which has been posited to mirror social and political interaction. Spatial concepts developed from analysis of those historic villages are argued to be apparent within this prehistoric settlement, suggesting their origin within prehistory and not after European contact.
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Dostopno za:
BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NMLJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
10.
Integrated Assessment Tansey, James
A Companion to Environmental Geography,
01/2009
Book Chapter
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Integrated Assessment Modelling (IAM)
Prediction, Policy and IA
The Participatory Turn in IA
Conclusion
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