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Anthropology Of The Peripheral Labour Market. The Role Of Culture In Explaining The Process Of Hiring Employees In Microenterprises, Bartosz Sławecki

European Management Studies

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the process of hiring workers in small enterprises in the region of Wielkopolska. This phenomenon is analyzed from the perspective of anthropology, according to which culture is the primary source of knowledge of economic phenomena. The purpose of the paper is to describe and understand employment practices within the peripheral segment of the labour market. According to numerous studies entrepreneurs' social networks play a key role in hiring in microenterprises. The author of the paper is trying to convince the reader that the high rate of informal methods in microenterprises is an …

Berle And Veblen: An Intellectual Connection, Charles R.T. O'Kelley

Seattle University Law Review

For O’Kelley’s contribution to Berle II, he chose to highlight the need for further research into the connection between The Modern Corporation and Private Property and the work of Thorstein Veblen, the father and intellectual inspiration of institutional economics. While the connection between Veblen and Modern Corporation is indisputable, the meaning of that connection has not been explored in any depth. O’Kelley provides a framework for thinking about the nature of Veblen’s influence on Modern Corporation and suggests that further research on Veblen’s influence would be most fruitful. O’Kelley then provides an initial account of how Veblen’s work may …

The Cosmetic Independence Of Corporate Boards, Nicola Faith Sharpe

Seattle University Law Review

This Essay tackles a pervasive misperception on the part of regulators that director independence significantly increases the efficacy of corporate boards. In this Essay, I assert that such “cosmetic independence” is not enough to remedy the corporate failures of recent years. Cosmetic independence is independence that takes into account only a corporate director’s relationship with the corporation and not the tools a director needs to achieve substantive independence. These tools include time, information, and knowledge, all of which have been recognized as critical to effective decision-making processes in organizational behavior literature.

This Essay is critical of regulatory reforms intended to …

Ethnography As A Diagnostic Tool In The Scientific Advisory Process, Aleksander Chrostowski, Monika Kostera

European Management Studies

Scientific consulting is a consultative approach, combining the research process and the personal involvement of the researcher, involving the introduction of changes in the functioning of the organization. In the process the client's involvement is important at all stages, and the goal is to achieve organizational learning. The durability of this type of consulting is characteristic, but at the same time it offers a valuable opportunity to foster sustainable growth of the organization. Different research methods are used in the process of scientific consulting, including the qualitative ones. This article presents the advantages of using ethnography at the diagnostic stage. …

Mediator As An Anthropologist - Anthropological Approach To Labour Dispute Resolution, Leszek Cichobłaziński

European Management Studies

This paper focuses on the application of anthropological approach to the organizational conflict resolution. The similarities between the researcher of traditional cultures and the researcher of organizational culture are especially stressed; it is helpful for understanding the organization as a subject of anthropological studies. The theoretical foundations of anthropological understanding of organizations within the framework of constructivist and narrative approach are also described. The second part of this paper discusses anthropological approach to collective disputes resolution. A particular emphasis is placed on the methods from the arsenal of cultural anthropology - the methods which can be used to hammer out …

Direct Selling Distributors As Transnational Entrepreneurs - The Case Of Amway And Mary Kay Cosmetics, Paweł Krzyworzeka

European Management Studies

The aim of the article is to present concepts of transnational connections and transnational entrepreneurs as a useful analytical frame for description of actions of direct sellers engaged in a multi-level marketing. The two presented narratives - about Beata from Chicago and Piotr from Toronto - show how migrants faced with generalized uncertainty use their social capital - especially connections with people residing in the country of origin - for business purposes. For those entrepreneurs transnational business operations, apart from an economic value, are the means for strengthening family and social ties. The article is based on findings from an …

New Grounds, New Challenges? Exploring Stakeholder Research In Service Design, Fabian Segelström

Nordes Conference Series

This is a submission for the doctoral consortium at NorDes 2011. The research described herein focuses on how existing design tools and techniques need to be appropriated when used in a new context – in this case service design. It is argued that the nature of services poses new challenges for designers. A theoretical introduction to these challenges is given, presenting a view of service design as the intersection between the user-centred design tradition and thoughts on service from marketing and management. The specific challenges in conducting stakeholder research for service design are introduced. The research objectives of the PhD …

Building The Design Laboratory In A Public Cultural Organisation, Sissel Olander

Nordes Conference Series

This article presents the research objectives of a design research Ph.D project in the Municipality of Copenhagen. The aim of the project is to explore and develop an open platform of participatory inquiry and dialogue, within the organizational setting of three local cultural administration units (LCAU), consisting of public libraries and cultural centers at three different local sites in Copenhagen. The focus of the research project is to build a design laboratory, that will suit the organizational setting of the LCAUs, in such a way that the lab, and the methods that will be adapted and explored in the lab, …

The Forming Of Design Things: Reconciling Openness With The Urge For Completion, Maria Foverskov

Nordes Conference Series

The article introduces my PhD project Rehearsing and Forming the Future with attention on notions of form and completion. Designers of today have entered many fields and new disciplines have emerged such as design anthropology, service design and social design. The designer is often co-designing in interdisciplinary constellations. My interest concerns the role of the designer, her skills, tools and processes when co-visualising, co-forming and co-representing these intangible design outcomes in co-design. I ask questions like: How to apply the designer’s classical toolbox within co-design to engage stakeholders as actors? How can the co-design process be recognized as drama? How …

Reflections Of A Wireless Ruminant, Andrew Morrison

Nordes Conference Series

‘Design matters’ is interpreted in this exploratory article via a narrative pastiche that concerns recent developments in ubiquitous computing and their implications for emerging techno-material culture. The article has two research aims: 1) to connect discourses on ubicomp with ones on design fiction, and 2) to motivate design research to expand styles of playful, reflective and interpretative modes, and genres of research writing. A first person narrative perspective is located in bio-cultural contexts of design fiction future use, referring to WiFi, RFID and GPS technologies also of today. The narrative is a ‘tongue in cheek’ critique of hidden voices of …

Design At The Front, Otto Von Busch

Nordes Conference Series

Over the last year, fierce discussion have raged about the trend of socially engaged design, where such projects have been scolded as new forms of “design imperialism” (cf. Nussbaum 2010; Pilloton 2010; Sinclair 2010). Resonating with this discussion, the latest US Army Field Manual has included “design” as a central feature in the core battle doctrine. Are we seeing the birth of a “social design doctrine” employed to wage war? It is tempting to draw parallels between design and the developments of military thinking to reflect some of the issues at stake as design turns to address social, cultural and …

Reflection And Documentation In Practice-Led Design Research, Anna Maarit Mäkelä, Nithikul Nimkulrat

Nordes Conference Series

Practice-led research has been under debate for nearly three decades. One of the major issues of this form of research concerns how the researchers who are also the artists/designers can reflect on and document their creative processes in relation to their research topic. In this article, we review and discuss reflection and documentation in practice-led design research through four doctoral research projects completed at the Aalto University School of Art and Design. The cases come from craft related fields, i.e. from ceramics, glass, jewellery and textiles. This article poses twofold questions: firstly, it examines the role of creative processes and …

Design And Possibility, Mads Nygaard Folkmann

Nordes Conference Series

A central element in design is the search for the new and not-yet-existing. Thus, design is a matter of the possible, of which kind of products and meanings can be made possible through design. The article attempts to propose a way of theorizing the field of the possible in design. The ability to deal with, mediate and evoke new possibilities and thereby creatively explore new territories of use, meaning and impact is seen as a defining factor of design. Using a phenomenological framework and stating the imagination as a central concept, the article aims at pointing in new directions for …

Design Interventions As Multiple Becomings Of Healthcare, Tariq Andersen, Joachim Halse, Jonas Moll

Nordes Conference Series

Research on design of IT traditionally treats the scientific knowledge production and the design of new systems as related, but separate processes. We propose the fruitfulness of practicing a closer relation informed by interventionist design research (appreciating a problem through attempts at solving it) and actor network theory (reality is enacted and constructed through our engagement with it). Through three concrete design interventions with cardiatric healthcare, we illustrate how diverse agendas of sociological inquiry and practical design considerations can coexist and come to enact health care in specific ways. We suggest this as a strategy of multiple becomings, wherein assemblies …

Accounts Of A Critical Artefacts Approach To Design Anthropology, Tau Ulv Lenskjold

Nordes Conference Series

This article aims to contribute to a discussion of what design anthropology brings to the deployment of critical modes of engagement and artefacts in design. And, conversely, discuss how this specific framing of design anthropology may add to its disciplinary potential. I propose to do this by discussing how design provocations and critical artefacts, as transitional devices, and at different stages in a design process, can evoke a critical stance or render intrinsic controversies visible, while turning the artefacts into objects of mediation between heterogeneous assemblages of stakeholders, contexts and concerns. By framing design anthropology within a distinctly speculative and …

Living The (Co-Design) Lab, Thomas Binder, Eva Brandt, Joachim Halse, Maria Foverskov, Sissel Olander, Signe Yndigegn

Nordes Conference Series

Design research environments are becoming visible in many places, in universities, in design schools, in companies and in public organizations. What most of them have in common is a commitment to the exploration of the possible rather than the factual.

41st Chicano Commencement, 2011, San Jose State University, Associated Students

Chicano Commencement

41st Annual Chicano Commencement

"Aquí no se acabará, seguiremos triunfando con orgullo y dedicación!" The 41st Annual Chicano Commencement was held on May 29, 2011 at the SJSU Event Center.

Dealing With Barnard’S Regret: Accountability And The Zone Of Expectations, Melvin J. Dubnick, Justin P. O’Brien

Faculty Publications

This document discusses Barnard’s reflections on authority, responsibility, and organizational behavior, highlighting his regret over the limited focus on responsibility in his earlier work.

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, May 27, 2011, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The May 27, 2011, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

The 'Window Of Appearance' Re-Opened: New Perspectives On A New Kingdom Royal Venue, Branden Reid Fjerstad

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The aim of the present study is to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the ritualized appearance of the king in the 'Window of Appearance' by analyzing the artistic portrayal of this architectural venue throughout the New Kingdom. In order to do this, a corpus of all known tenanted 'Window of Appearance' scenes was gathered for the first time. By conducting an analysis of the artistic motifs depicted on the 'Window of Appearance' it is my goal to indicate that the variation in the decorative program is not simply artistic convention as has been previously implied, but reflects shifting …

Aacsb‐Accredited Schools’ Adoption Of Information Security Curriculum, Linda Lau, Cheryl Davis

Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law

The need to professionally and successfully conduct computer forensic investigations of incidents has never been greater. This has launched an increasing demand for a skilled computer security workforce (Locasto, et al., 2011). This paper examines the extent to which AACSB-accredited universities located in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. are working towards providing courses that will meet this demand. The authors conduct an online research of the information security courses and programs offered by the 27 AACSB-accredited business schools in the selected area.

The preliminary investigation revealed that eight of the 27 participating universities did not offer any courses in cybersecurity, …

Mcnair Scholars 2009-2010, Program Staff, University Administration

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Illuminating Distinction: Rural Modernization And The Invention Of The Countryside In Cajamarca, Perú, Jade Severson

Senior Theses

The district of La Encañada, located deep within the Andean sierra north of the city of Cajamarca, is in a state of transition. As the beneficiary of a 2006 collaborative project between ITDG-Soluciones Prácticas and the European Union, nine of the district’s communities received a solar panel stipulated for placement on each community’s local centro educativo, a school serving students at both the primary and secondary grade levels. Investment in solar panels was intended to complement a much more integral project designed to harness the resources available in the district and to thus empower peasant men and women and their …

Mustang Daily, May 25, 2011

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Uab Professor Discovers Lost Pyramids, Other Antiquities In Egypt, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Volume 48, Number 40: May 25, 2011, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Every Day Is Earth Day: Using A Latent Curriculum To Develop An Ethic Of Sustainability Among College Students, Robert Longwell-Grice, Rebecca Nordensten

New York Journal of Student Affairs

As educators, colleges are in a unique position to inform future leaders about environmental issues. This paper reviews a specific plan for developing an ethic of care for the environment in students, based on the work of Aldo Leopold. The plan focuses on the latent curriculum, and argues that divisions of student affairs are best suited to develop it.

Genes, Language, Cognition, And Culture: Towards Productive Inquiry, W. Tecumseh Fitch

Human Biology

The Queen Mary conference on “Integrating Genetic and Cultural Evolutionary Approaches to Language,” and the papers in this special issue, clearly illustrate the excitement and potential of trans-disciplinary approaches to language as an evolved biological capacity (phylogeny) and an evolving cultural entity (glossogeny). Excepting the present author, the presenters/authors are mostly young rising stars in their respective fields, and include scientists with backgrounds in linguistics, animal communication, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and computer science. On display was a clear willingness to engage with different approaches and terminology and a commitment to shared standards of scientific rigor, empirically driven theory, and …

Are Languages Really Independent From Genes? If Not, Whatwould A Genetic Bias Affecting Language Diversity Look Like?, Dan Dediu

Human Biology

It is generally accepted that the relationship between human genes and language is very complex and multifaceted. This has its roots in the “regular” complexity governing the interplay among genes and between genes and environment for most phenotypes, but with the added layer of supraontogenetic and supra-individual processes defining culture. At the coarsest level, focusing on the species, it is clear that human-specific—but not necessarily faculty-specific—genetic factors subtend our capacity for language and a currently very productive research program is aiming at uncovering them. At the other end of the spectrum, it is uncontroversial that individual-level variations in different aspects …

Introduction: Integrating Genetic And Cultural Evolutionary Approaches To Language, Alex Mesoudi, Alan G. Mcelligott, David Adger

Human Biology

The papers in this special issue of Human Biology address recent research in the field of language evolution, both the genetic evolution of the language faculty and the cultural evolution of specific languages. While both of these areas have received increasing interest in recent years, there is also a need to integrate these somewhat separate efforts and explore the relevant gene-culture coevolutionary interactions. Here we summarize the individual contributions, set them in the context of the wider literature, and identify outstanding future research questions. The first set of papers concerns the comparative study of nonhuman communication in primates and birds …