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Las barreras sociales en implementar las iniciativas de mejora continua: Una exploración cualitativa
No full textOrganizations report challenges in implementing continuous improvement or operational excellence initiatives as they strive for sustainability, yet few have considered the impact that social barriers have in creating resistance to implementation. Through a qualitative grounded theory method, this study highlights several contributions. First, social barriers are stronger than other challenges to implementing operational excellence. Second, these barriers include interpersonal (e.g., communication challenges, unwillingness to change, and workplace relationships) and organizational (e.g., employee treatment, cultural values, and formal organizational characteristics) issues. This article thus links sustainability to operational excellence and suggests that the greatest barriers to becoming more sustainable are likely social in nature. The study then concludes, in addition to these contributions, with a consideration of limitations and directions for future research.Las organizaciones reportan desafíos en implementar las mejoras continuas o iniciativas de excelencia operativa mientras se esfuerzan por la sostenibilidad. Sin embargo, pocos han considerado el efecto que tienen las barreras sociales sobre la creación de la resistencia a la implementación. A través de una teoría fundamentada en la investigación cualitativa, este estudio subraya varias contribuciones. Primero, que las barreras sociales son más fuertes que otros desafíos en la implementación de la excelencia operativa. Segundo, estas barreras incluyen los asuntos interpersonales (desafíos comunicativos, la falta de voluntad para cambiar y las relaciones laborales) y organizacionales (trato del empleado, valores culturales y características organizacionales formales). Este artículo relaciona entonces la sostenibilidad a la excelencia operativa y sugiere que las mayores barreras para ser más sostenible son probablemente de naturaleza social. Este estudio termina, además de estas contribuciones, con una consideración de las limitaciones e indicaciones para la investigación futura
Kabataan at Pagkabata sa Panitikang Bakla
Get PDFInilarawan ni Neil Garcia ang mga baklang manunulat bilang mga sensitibo at responsableng “participant observer” ng mga reyalidad na kanilang piniling talakayin sa kani-kanilang mga akda. Kung kaya ang mga akdang nilalaman ng Ladlad 3 (at maging siyempre ng naunang dalawa) ay pawang “…ethnographically informed textual renditions, by intimately involved actors and agents, of gay life as they have suffered and enjoyed it in the country today.” (Garcia and Remoto, “Ladlad 3” xxii)Ang etnograpikal na himig—ang bulong ng “totoo”—ang tinuntungan sa pagbasa ng mga textong susuriin sa papel na ito. Sa pagbabasa ng masining na rendisyong textual ng karanasan ng mga bakla tungkol sa kabataan at pagkabata, maaaring makita ang kanilang pakikipagtunggali at pakikipagnegosasyon sa rehimen ng heterosexualidad.Nahahati ang papel sa mga sumusunod na bahagi: paghahanap sa sarili, identipikasyon sa babae, pagkamulat sa homosexualidad, at pagpupulis sa sexualidad. Napili ang mga textong ito dahil sa kanilang paglalarawan ng kabataan at pagkabatang bakla mula sa punto de bista mismo ng bakla. Mahalaga ang implikasyon sa mga texto ng kasarian at subjectivity ng mga manunulat dahil ito ang nagbibigay bisa sa kanilang pakikitalad sa paghubog sa konsepto ng “bakla,” partikular ang paghubog sa bata at kabataang “bakla.”Neil Garcia describes gay writers as sensitive and responsible “participant observers” of the realities they choose to tackle in their respective works. The texts contained in Ladlad 3 (Coming Out 3) and even in the previous anthologies are “…ethnographically informed textual renditions, by intimately involved actors and agents, of gay life as they have suffered and enjoyed it in the country today.” (Garcia and Remoto, Ladlad 3, xxii)This ethnographic tone—the whispers of “truth”—becomes the stepping stone for the analysis of texts in this paper. Through the reading of artistic textual renditions of the gay experience on youth and childhood, one can see the conflicts and negotiations with the regime of heterosexuality.The paper is divided into the following parts: self-discovery, identification with women, homosexual awakening, and the monitoring and surveillance of sexuality. The texts were chosen because of their depictions of gay youth and childhood from perspectives that are decidedly gay. The gender and subjectivity of the writers bear significant implications to the text because it lends authenticity to their journey in shaping concepts of being “gay,” especially in developing children and “gay” youth
Loob as Relational Interiority: A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Human Person
Get PDFThis paper is a meditation on the Filipino philosophical concept of ‘loob.’ Literally, loob means ‘inside’ or ‘interior,’ but within the horizon of the Tagalog language and the culture that has nourished my interior conversation, my social relation, and my ecological conversion, loob has meant so much more than a circumscribed space, or a container of discursive baggage, or an object for academic project. As the paper reveals, loob has an inner structure that consists of the abot-malay (ambit of consciousness), the abot-dama (ambit of feeling), and the abot-kaya (ambit of strength). From its literal image to its spatial metaphor of a relational interiority, loob opens up a whole anthropological and moral discourse of pagpapakatao (being and becoming human) that promises to enrich our growing literature on alternative philosophical discourse
Albert Tzeng, William L. Richter and Ekaterina Koldunova, eds., Framing Asian Studies: Geopolitics and Institutions
No full textProducing Empty Socialized Housing Privatizing Gains, Socializing Costs, and Dispossessing the Filipino Poor
Get PDFThis paper explicates the moral hazard in the current privatepublic partnerships (PPPs) that produced empty socialized housing in the Philippines. It argues that not only do housing PPPs privatize profits and socialize risks and costs, these also strengthen the state housing agency’s efficacy as an instrument of neoliberal governance. It further argues that this moral hazard is built on and resolved by curtailing the urban poor’s right to democratic participation and adequate housing. Through the socialized housing program, a systematic spatial, political, and economic displacement of the poor is institutionalized to facilitate private gain and commodify housing for the poor. By focusing on the Philippine case, this research contributes to a better understanding of housing governance within actually existing neoliberalisms in the South
We the Divided: Partitions of Performance in the Ceramic State
Get PDFThe common association between theater and community is here inverted to explore the relationship between theatrical practice and immunity, or “affects of adjustment” between spectator and event. Drawing upon Roberto Esposito’s figuring of relations between community and immunity, on Jacques Ranciere’s propositions of the “emancipated spectator” and the part of those who have no part,” and Gerald Raunig’s conception of “Division” from his work on the Dividuum (2016), this essay examines a sequence of case studies central to the author’s own practiced experiences: Rotherhithe Theatre Workshop in the 1980s, Transhumance in the 1990s, and the Performance Biennial Athens in 2016. The dynamic here is to track an increasing scepticism about the social claims made for theater and ways of discussing performance that do not surrender to pseudo action in the absence of political commitment and change. The essay concludes amongst the Greek Attic Kraters of the 5th century BCE, curated from the Liverpool Museums at Tate Liverpool, contesting that the “ceramic state” continues at the interface between the continual promise of immersion and material histories of exclusion from the scene
Strategy for the Cultural Contents Industry to Secure Competitive Advantage Using Fourth Industrial Revolution Technology
Get PDFWith the coming of the fourth industrial revolution, cultural contents industry requires a new strategy to enhance its competitive advantages. As a result, governments and companies have been focusing their efforts on finding new business models and expanding the value chain in order to respond to the paradigm shift in a timely manner. This study aims to suggest new business model frameworks and strategies to create a paradigm shift by converging the characteristics of the fourth industrial revolution and cultural contents industry such as publishing, game, broadcasting, and character industry. First, we discuss how to upgrade cultural contents industry with the fourth industrial revolution technology and then suggest new contents business models and the change of value chain in the cultural contents industry. Finally, we consider strategies of innovation process development in the cultural contents industry. This study will contribute not only to economic policy-making but also to the business strategy of the company
Critical Crossings: Hybridity’s Fissures and Ruptures
Get PDFThe papers in this special section at once undertake and undermine the discourse of hybridity, at once to recognize the strength of its rhetorical force and critique the limits of its explanatory power. Rather than viewing hybridity as a kind of floating signifier in all its ambivalence as many postcolonial studies have been noted to have undertaken, the papers explore its conditions of possibility in the context of the materiality of the historical situation and specifically in the concreteness of the authors’ inscription in history and the worldly particularity of literature, literary form, and criticism. As a category, for a number of years now, hybridity has seemed indispensable for the renewed examination of the formation of the canon, the development of forms, modes of writing, or adaptation of texts in the exploration of its “subversive” possibilities. Apart from its literary inflection, hybridity studies have dealt with the transcultural amalgamation of diverse dimensions focusing variously from the racial to the religious, often interrogating cultural dynamics. But both as a literary trope and discursive category, among the issues that might bear emphasizing is that hybridity as a post-colonial condition has been so often decontextualized as if the experience were homogenous in its assumed universality, rather than heterogeneous in its particularity
Athens’ Shadows
Get PDFThis introductory essay attempts to communicate a sense of the articles and artist pages published in this Forum Kritika on Radical Cultural Responses to Crises in Urban Democracy, in the context of a symposium during which some of them were first argued. The contributors theorize relationships between art and protest, and the nature of performance, as well as critiquing interventionist performance projects, among dispatches from the front line of performance as public engagement. It also seeks to convey a sense of how culture—and especially performance—interacts, in Britain, with Project Austerity (2010-present). As culture and cultural workers, respond to neoliberalization, they are also increasingly shaped by its project of economizing public institutions, democratic processes, social services, and—some would argue—every social encounter. Influencing this critique is the mythos of Athens, as—across Europe—forces re-shape the democratic urban architecture which it has legitimised since the republican revolutions of the eighteenth century. It is in this context that artists struggle to conceptualize and enact a present public role