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Organizational Behavior and Theory

Selected Works

1997

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Changes In Central Technical Services: Backlog Elimination, Karen S. Calhoun, Jim Leblanc Jul 1997

Changes In Central Technical Services: Backlog Elimination, Karen S. Calhoun, Jim Leblanc

Karen S Calhoun

This report describes a cataloging backlog of about 97,000 items and outlines an innovative project to eliminate it without adding staff or slowing the processing of new receipts. Includes assessments of backlog content, growth rate, and underlying organizational issues that cause the backlog to be there and to grow.

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Report On Stack Collocation Loss, Karen S. Calhoun Jul 1997

Report On Stack Collocation Loss, Karen S. Calhoun

Karen S Calhoun

This internal report for Cornell University Library evaluates the probable impact of simply accepting call numbers in cataloging copy, rather than reviewing and adjusting them to assure stack order is maintained over time.

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The Beginning And End Of The Church, Vaughan S. Roberts Jun 1997

The Beginning And End Of The Church, Vaughan S. Roberts

Vaughan S Roberts

This paper brings together some organizational insights from within the Church (Carl Dudley’s ideas on rigorous and relational faith) and from outside the Church (Nils Brunsson’s thinking on action and political groupings) to explore how these might inform an understanding of the Church’s telos or purpose. It concludes by arguing that Alasdair MacIntyre’s notion of universities as places of constrained disagreement might also be a good model for this telos.

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The Sea Of Faith: After Dover Beach?, Vaughan S. Roberts Jun 1997

The Sea Of Faith: After Dover Beach?, Vaughan S. Roberts

Vaughan S Roberts

The metaphor of ‘the sea of faith’ comes from Matthew Arnold’s poem Dover Beach (1867) and has been explored subsequently by a number of theologians, notably Don Cupitt in his BBC TV series of the same name and the Sea of Faith Network founded to explore his ideas. This paper explores how the image of the sea functions in Arnold’s poem and his The Forsaken Merman before arguing that R. S. Thomas’s use of the sea in his poem Tidal provides a better theological metaphor than Arnold’s.

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Stakeholder Theory And A Principle Of Fairness, Robert Phillips Dec 1996

Stakeholder Theory And A Principle Of Fairness, Robert Phillips

Robert Phillips

Recent decades have witnessed an increase in the number and quality of discussions concerning the corporation’s obligations to other groups other than its share owners. Possibly the most frequent way framing such discussions is in terms of stakeholders. Hence stakeholder theory has become a central issue in the literature on business ethics / business and society. There has been, however, relatively little attention given to the source of these obligations that a firm has to its stakeholders. Many students of stakeholder theory are content to assert such obligations and move on to what they believe the substance of these obligations …

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