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The Blurry Line Between Corporation And Cult: A Retrospective Autoethnographic Study, Ernst Graamans
The Blurry Line Between Corporation And Cult: A Retrospective Autoethnographic Study, Ernst Graamans
The Qualitative Report
In popular management literature corporations are sometimes loosely compared to cults. The comparison is a severe allegation as it implies the transgression of subordinate employees’ integrity. This paper explores to what extent such comparisons with cults are warranted as well as the implications this has for the practice of corporate culture management. On grounds of the author’s unique, first-hand experience in both corporate and cultic environments a retrospective autoethnographic (RAE) approach was chosen to further explore the supposed resemblance. The comparison is structured along Lifton’s eight criteria of thought reform and reveals that although akin to cults in all aspects …
The History Of The Development And Propagation Of Qda Software, Urszula Wolski Phd
The History Of The Development And Propagation Of Qda Software, Urszula Wolski Phd
The Qualitative Report
In the 1980s researchers began to develop software for the analysis of qualitative data. Since then such computer packages have transformed the nature and practice of qualitative research. This paper identifies and examines the processes that led to the development of a QDAS community from the perspective of social worlds theory. Based on interviews with developers and propagators of qualitative data analysis software (QDAS), this paper discusses its history and development, illustrating how a community emerged from the intersection of two social worlds, the computing world and the social science world. It shows use of QDAS spread to the wider …
Looking Through A Glass Darkly: Applying The Lens Of Social Cubism To The Police-Minority Group Conflict In America, K. Michelle Scott
Looking Through A Glass Darkly: Applying The Lens Of Social Cubism To The Police-Minority Group Conflict In America, K. Michelle Scott
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
In recent years, there has been a steady stream of growing concern in nations throughout the world about police officers' use of excessive, brutal, and sometimes deadly force where circumstances do not warrant such actions.
Mirando A Traves De Un Cristal Oscuramente: Aplicando Los Lentes Del Cubism Social Al Conflicto De Policia-Minoria En America, K. Michelle Scott
Mirando A Traves De Un Cristal Oscuramente: Aplicando Los Lentes Del Cubism Social Al Conflicto De Policia-Minoria En America, K. Michelle Scott
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
En los tiltimos afios, ha habido una corriente continua de preocupaci6n e inter6s creciente en las naciones del mundo sobre el empleo por parte de las autoridades de fuerza excesiva y brutal, a veces mortal donde las circumstancias no garantizan tales acciones.