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An Empirical Investigation Into The Power Behind Empowerment, Raymond D. Gordon

Organization Management Journal

Using the four dimensional frame that Hardy and Leiba-O’Sullivan (1998) developed to conceptually explore the “power behind empowerment” the study empirically illustrates how a police organization’s reform program, which was designed to empower lower level officers, foundered on its own innocence. The reform program adopts a resources dependency approach to power, which resonates with the first of the four dimensional frames of power; unobtrusive forms of power embedded at a deeper level of the organizations social system, which are consistent with the third and fourth dimensional frames, remain unaccounted for. A research and methodological framework is developed to bring the …

Rhizomes For Understanding The Production Of Social Science, Gustavo Seijo

Organization Management Journal

This article is about the social processes which produce social science knowledge. It is based on a discourse analysis of DELOS, a European research project into organizational learning in clusters of SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprises). The substantive focus is on the researchers’ core theoretical object: the “cluster of SMEs.” This construct remained a highly contested artifact which, for complex reasons, defied singular definition. The analysis draws on, among others, the labyrinthine novels of Franz Kafka and the theoretical musings of Deleuze and Guattari on rhizomic forms of organization in connection with actor-network theory. It is argued that the intrinsic …

Towards A Hermeneutics Of Narrative Identity: A Ricoeurian Framework For Exploring Narratives (And Narrators) Of Strategy, Steven Sonsino

Organization Management Journal

With notable exceptions, the organization studies literature has tended to exclude a consideration of time from considerations of narrative identity. Building on the work of Ricoeur, and starting from the position that narrative identity is dynamic and rests on a temporal structure, it is suggested that narrative identity emerges from the poetic composition of one or many narrative texts. Drawing upon Ricoeur’s conception of narrative identity, an analytic framework is developed and encompasses a dialectic where narrative is described as the path of character, and character as the path of narrative. Narrative identity, in conclusion, is a reflexive consideration of …

Center For Grassland Studies Newsletter, Winter 2005, Volume 11, No. 1

Center for Grassland Studies: Newsletters

Grass Seed Production Research in Nebraska Panhandle by David Baltensperger, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, UNL

Can Perennial Grass Pastures be Profitable in the Great Plains by Rob Mitchell, Ken Vogel, and Gary Varvel, USDA-ARS, Lincoln, NE Terry Klopfenstein (Animal Science), Dick Clark (Agricultural Economics), and Bruce Anderson (Agronomy and Horticulture), UNL

Forum – Monitoring Rangeland Health for an Experiment in Public Land Ownership

2005 Nebraska Grazing Conference to be Aug. 8-9

PGM Program Swings into 2nd Semester

Dates for 7th Nebraska Ranch Practicum Set

Changing Natural Landscapes: Ecological and Human Dimensions

Gratitude

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

Lady Hummingbird, Kristen Neuber

The Prairie Light Review

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Fear, Jenn Syperski

The Prairie Light Review

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A Writer Knows, Kathleen Ward

The Prairie Light Review

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Note Worthy, John Gordon

The Prairie Light Review

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Artistic Anthrax, Dan Hoger

The Prairie Light Review

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Morning, Laren Lofchy

The Prairie Light Review

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Twelve Steps To Successful Transitioning, Susan Hilty

The Prairie Light Review

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How Colorful Is Pain, Fyodor Sakhnovski

The Prairie Light Review

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Arrest, Steph Ziemann

The Prairie Light Review

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An Unexpected Kiss, Matthew Kovich

The Prairie Light Review

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The Wine Glass, Amanda Wengert

The Prairie Light Review

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Pritzker Pavilon Millennium Park, Andrew Cornillie

The Prairie Light Review

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December 2005, Pope Benedict Xvi

Marian Thoughts of Pope Benedict XVI

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Love, A True Fruit Of The Spirit, Courtney Ren

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"Love. Where would we be without love? Love is a strong reoccurring theme in our everyday lives and in the Bible. It is one of those emotions that we can not live without. Love causes so many different reactions and sensations that sometimes it is very overwhelming in both good and bad ways. But then again love makes everything better and the world would be nowhere without love. This raises another question; what is love and how do we know if it is “true” love or not? The Bible …

Other Gods, Carl Dates

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"Siddarta G, he might have sat underneath his bodhi tree, With the thoughts running in and out of his head. And then he said; “I think what the world needs is a good teacher, a good preacher,” “someone who could lay it all down for them.” And then he thought; “Why not me? I could be that man as well as anybody else could Be! Why not me? I’ll go and show them what they need to set them all free.” Because it’s about time that we saw, The …

Broken Truth On The Ocean Floor, Jeff Frate

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"The following paper will confuse you; there are several seemingly unrelated themes starkly juxtaposed throughout. The topics are thrown together in seemingly random order to mimic what we see on television everyday - coverage of genocide in Rwanda immediately followed by Michael Jordan in Hanes boxers. The world is far more confusing than this paper."

Prayer Of Bones And Rags, Catherine Agar

Verbum

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Crumbs, Dogs, And Border - Crossings: A Postcolonial - Feminist Rereading Of The Syrophoenician Woman Story, Jane E. Hicks

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"Recent scholarship in New Testament studies affords new insight into the character of the Syrophoenician woman in the Gospel of Mark, where she argues with a reluctant Jesus, urging, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” New insights build from materialist approaches to scripture, and taken together, the figure of the Syrophoenician woman as set in her likely social-historical context is suggestive for moral agency today. The passage as a whole has been interpreted in various ways. Some traditionalist Christian readings have found a moral about …

Sufism: Islamic Mysticism, James L. Smith Jr.

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"Sufism is the esoteric aspect of Islam. The aim of Sufis is to gain direct knowledge of the eternal, in this life, as opposed to the exoteric, or traditionalist, aspect of Islam which focuses on achieving a state of blessedness after death by way of carrying out divinely prescribed works. The history of Sufism is a long one, some tracing it directly back to The Prophet Muhammad."

Full Issue, No Author

Verbum

This is the full issue of Volume 3, Issue 1 of Verbum, published in Fall 2005 by the REST Club at St. John Fisher College. Articles from this issue are available as separate PDFs at http://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/verbum/vol3/iss1/

Obesity, Self-Complexity, And Compartmentalization: On The Implications Of Obesity For Self-Concept Organization, Bruce E. Blaine, C. E. Johnson

Statistics Faculty/Staff Publications

The relationship between obesity and structural aspects of the self-concept was examined in adult women. Participants were 119 adult women [age range: 18-73, M=26.9; body mass index (BMI) range: 16.2-54.7, M=27.3] who completed measures of self-esteem, self-complexity, and the spontaneous self-concept. BMI was associated with less complex and more compartmentalized self-knowledge and more frequent mention of weight-stereotypic traits as self-descriptive. The findings are discussed in the context of research on obesity- related stigma.

Jean Bertrand Aristide: Is It Politics As Usual In Haiti?, James Tillotson

International Studies Masters

The country of Haiti has had a vicious, tumultuous and revolutionary political history that has included a slave led revolution for freedom and subsequently two hundred years of political instability that can be measured by the thirty-two regime changes by political coup d'etat. In the 1980's a novel form of government was introduced to Haiti through the influential support of its northern neighbor the United States, as well as the United Nations. The new democracy that was created through a new constitution in the 1980' s would in turn lead to the presidential election of 1990 and subsequently the populace …

Terrorist Groups As Modern Organizations, Rachel Patrzalek

International Studies Masters

The intention of this paper is to provide a framework within which to categorize modem Islamic terrorism. Many have argued that terrorism in general and Al-Qaeda in particular spring from a rejection of modernity. There are still others who see terrorist groups as a modem construct. Specific attention will be paid to the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization as a prime example of how modern terrorist groups exhibit traits of both modernity and traditionalism. Through this paper I seek to show that Islamic terrorism is rather a hybrid of traditional and modem aspects formed together to create a post-modem structure.

Child Labor: An Omnipresent Reality, Katie Clymo

International Studies Masters

Child labor has been a problem historically and continues to be one during contemporary times. The United Nations, the International Labor Organization, and other agencies have tried to create and implement legislation, but have failed to effectively eliminate child labor. In this paper I argue that there are three steps that need to be taken to insure that the safety and welfare of children worldwide. The first step is to increase awareness of the problem. The second step is to increase investment in education. The third step is to follow through with total implementation. I believe these steps will ensure …

Georgia Controlled Substance Law, Paul Ghanouni

Law Library Student-Authored Works

No abstract provided.