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This book demonstrates Dialogical Leadership which is the workplace application of the Dialogical Self Theory, first developed by Dutch psychologist Hubert Hermans in the 1990s. It encourages scientists and science-practitioners interested in leadership issues to discuss the power of dialogue in solving workplace culture problems. Van Loon's work extends the concept of Dialogical Self Theory to the leadership of organizations, drawing on social constructionism by the American psychologist Ken Gergen and the leadership framework of British academic Keith Grint. This book explicitly links the health of organizations to the psychological and emotional health of those who lead them, concluding with the factors of teamwork and motivation. Dialogical Leadership jettisons the idea that organizations are run by 'superheroes', presenting a more realistic picture of the workplace. This is the first book to isolate 'generative dialogue' as the key mechanism for successful change and transformation programs in organizations. It rejects the idea that successful organizations are 'rational systems' conforming to scripts laid down by leaders, and it places dialogue and co-creation - 'reciprocal exchange' - at the heart of successful change programs. It starts from the kinds of questions leaders ask themselves - their 'interior dialogue' - and the quality of their interactions with others - their external dialogues - which can as shown in this book, be the difference between success and failure.

When octogenarian writer Jin Yong (Louis Cha) joined the Chinese Writers' Assoc (CWA) in 2009, many were surprised that he cared to belong this stodgy, conformist organization. Jin Yong made his way to fame in the Hong Kong of the 1950s-1960s writing martial arts fiction. Many other CWA members have long since left the CWA, including science fiction writer Zheng Jun, who called it a "living fossil." Membership no longer carries prestige or material benefits; instead writers pay dues & receive little in return. Without the subsidization that writers used to receive from the socialist government, many have had to trade in their "iron rice bowl" for a beggar's bowl. This paper contends, however, that good literature is still championed by both private & public institutions. It plays a major role in liberal education, "the cornerstone of Western democracy," according to Martha C. Nussbaum (1997), in opposition to Fredric Jameson's (1986) nostalgia for third-world literature. In this light, the author attempts to explain what is good about (Chinese) literature of today. As current CWA president Tie Ning (2006) has declaimed, "Literature stands for a kind of courage to defend the spiritual health of humanity & its inner nobility.". S. Stanton

The purpose of this study is to extend the literature on grounded theory development to incorporate considerations for team-based, interdisciplinary longitudinal research projects in the domain of organizational studies. Every element of the research process is affected if the research questions call for team-based data collection and interpretation over a lengthy period of time. It is unusual for a team of scholars from different disciplines to work together, not because the need doesn't exist, but because the mechanisms for doing so are not well established. We draw from the writings of scholars in the fields of research methodology, team and work-group design, and project management to inform our thinking on the subject. The work presented here is based on the authors' experiences during 1995–1999 as members of the Radical Innovation Research Program (RIRP). The RIRP is an ongoing multidisciplinary study of the development and management of radical innovations in established firms. Here, we do not describe the findings or insights associated with the content of the study, radical innovation, which is surely a complex managerial phenomenon. Rather, we focus on the processes used to conduct the research that were affected by the need for a multidisciplinary research team. A framework is presented for thinking about managing such a project. Challenges that we encountered within this framework are identified. Mechanisms we used (or, in some cases, wish we had used in retrospect) for confronting those challenges are also described. Throughout, we compare our study objectives and resultant methodological design choices with those of other multidisciplinary research teams that are by now well known in the organizational management literature. Our objective is to help researchers who are considering launching interdisciplinary, longitudinal studies of organizational processes as they plan and manage those pursuits.

The essays in New Media/New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy pose an invention-based approach to new media studies. They represent a specific school of theory that has emerged from the work of graduates of the University of Florida. Working from the concept of electracy, as opposed to literacy, contributors pose various heuristics for new media rhetoric and theory.

This paper provides the first rigorous, empirical evidence of the existence of Giffen behavior, i.e., a situation in which consumers respond to an increase in the price of a good by demanding more of it. We begin by examining several theoretical approaches to the Giffen phenomenon and show that in each case Giffen behavior is closely associated with poor consumers' need to maintain subsistence consumption in the face of an increase in the price of a staple commodity. We then present evidence on the existence of Giffen behavior among extremely poor households in two provinces of China. In order to obtain an unbiased estimate of the key price elasticity, we conducted a field experiment in which we randomly subsidized households' primary dietary staple (rice in Hunan province and wheat flour in Gansu province). Using consumption data gathered before, during and after the intervention, we find strong evidence of Giffen behavior with respect to rice in Hunan province. We also find evidence for Giffen behavior in Gansu with respect to wheat; however, the evidence is less robust than for Hunan, due to the (unanticipated) failure of at least two of the theoretical conditions that appear necessary for Giffen behavior. Restricting the Gansu sample to households that meet these conditions provides stronger evidence of Giffen behavior.

This present study is intended to explore the phenomenon of the practice of functionally converting the irrigated rice fields in South Denpasar District. The present study focuses on the process of functionally converting the irrigated rice fields, the ideology leading to the phenomenon, and its implication on the local people. The data were collected through observation, in-depth interview and documentary analysis. The data were analyzed using the theory of hegemony, the theory of social practice and some other theories which were used eclectically based on the problems analyzed. The result of the study shows that the functional conversion of the irrigated rice fields resulted from the farmers' marginalized socio-cultural structure. The process started from the government's hegemony. The government treated the farmers as the subaltern. Then the dominated farmers got trapped by fatalism and pragmatism. The entrepreneur and government strengthen their hegemony. Then they negotiated with the local government such as the traditional village 'desa pakraman' and the administrative village 'desa dinas' and the land owners as individuals. The farmers were too weak to resist; they failed as they did not have the capital needed for that. Such a condition could not be separated from the capitalistic ideology as the government and entrepreneur collaborated to legitimate the converting process. In addition, the local people were also trapped by the consumptive way of life. As a result, they considered that functionally converting their irrigated rice fields was a proper solution. That affected the infrastructural order. Their infrastructural order changed. Their social structure also shifted from communalism into individualism. Their ideological, legal, governmental, family and religious superstructures changed as well, causing the South Denpasar community to be getting far from the agrarian cultural root which used to be their initial characteristic.

This study examine the influence of bonus plan hypothesis, debt/equity hypothesis, political cost hypothesis, earning management, institutional ownership, public ownership, independent board and audit committee on firm value with corporate social responsibility as the intervening variable. The study population is 65 natural resource companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2012-2015. Based on purposive sampling method, 21 natural resource companies were selected (or 84 observations). Data was selected from the companies' financial reports and analysed by using path analysis. This study found that corporate social responsibility can be used as an intervening variable to mediate the effect of political cost hypothesis, earning management, and audit committee to firm value. But, it cannot mediate the effect of bonus plan hypothesis, debt/equity hypothesis, institutional ownership, public ownership and independent board to firm value.

This study examines the civil society-state relationship in China through the debates on genetically modified rice. Due to the various types of civil society organizations and groups, this thesis take environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) as the primary research objectives. As the forerunner of the anti-GM campaigns, ENGOs played significant role in promoting public participation into environmental governance. By examining how these organizations mobilize adherents and obtain resources through strategic framing, it concludes the role and characteristics of ENGOs in China. Furthermore, through the analysis of the relational and functional aspects of ENGOs, this study attempt to describe their contributions on the emergence of pluralistic civil society and the state-society relations. Rather than stick to the relatively static western concept of civil society, this study acknowledge the embedded complexity within the socio-political context in China. Apart from the concept of civil society and strategic framing theory, this thesis use institutional theory to account for the dynamics of organizations and the relations between civil society and the state. ; M-IR

ALTHOUGH IT IS UNIVERSALLY AGREED THAT SOCIALIST POLITICAL ECONOMY FAILS TO SATISFY THE DEMAND FOR PRIVATE GOODS, IT IS OFTEN ASSUMED THAT SOCIALIST STATES ARE SUPERIOR PROVIDERS OF PUBLIC GOODS BY VIRTUE OF THE PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY AND APPEALS TO ALTRUISTIC IMPULSES. THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS SOCIAL CHOICE AND GAME THEORETIC APPROACHES TO COLLECTIVE ACTION, AND CONCLUDES TO THE CONTRARY THAT IN CHINA SUCH INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. BY CONTRAST, IT IS ARGUED THAT THE SELF-INTERESTED, MARKET-ORIENTED REFORMS INTRODUCED SINCE THE DEATH OF MAO CAN ACTUALLY ENHANCE COLLECTIVE ACTION, PROVIDED THAT THE REGIME ASSURES SOCIAL STABILITY AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF PROPERTY RIGHTS.

AbstractGuided by Allen's (2023) call for developing a critical consciousness, this paper applies feminist reflexive practice to uncover the personal curiosities and contradictions that have motivated my research program on diverse romantic relationships. Specifically, I examine faith, race, and heterosexism as the root of an unresolved collision of privilege and oppression that undergird my burgeoning research program. I begin by reviewing my own positionality before sharing how my personal experiences with family and identity collided with my profession. Finally, I discuss how the personal and professional have motivated praxis, or the leveraging of research as a pathway toward social justice. In doing so, I unveil how personal motivations and complacency in oppression shaped the development of my research program in hopes of spurring innovative theorizing and empirical research rooted in the authenticity of lived experiences.