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On MNC-Host Government Relations: How Finnish Firms Respond to National and Regional Policies in ASEAN
Get PDFCombining literature from international political economy, international business, and institutional approaches to business studies, this article discusses foreign firms' relationship with the public sector in Southeast Asia. It focuses on the perceptions of the firms on host country policies toward foreign direct investments (FDI) and the impact of global financial crises and regional economic integration on the firms' strategies. The multinational company (MNC)-host government relationship is seen as a cooperative and continual bargaining within a specific institutional framework. Based on interviews with managers of subsidiaries originating from Finland, it is found that the regulatory environment of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries varies from easy to difficult with regard to policies, bureaucracy and protectionism. These pose institutional constraints for the firms, with additional economic constraints caused by global financial crises. Contrary to expectations, the ASEAN free trade agreement does not figure in the firms' investment strategies. This is explained by three findings: most of the firms serve the domestic host country market; the firms operate global rather than ASEAN-wide regional production chains; the firms represent industries that are not typical in Southeast Asian regional production networks
NEFUS inviterer til Open Space - Et konferenceformat hvor du sætter dagsordenen
Get PDFSynes du også det bedste ved temadage og konferencer er kaffepausen? Synes du ofte, at du kommer hjem fra en spændende konference med masser af inspiration, men også med en fornemmelse af, at det alligevel ikke har handlet om lige netop de udfordringer, du sidder med i hverdagen, eller har givet indspark til, hvordan du løser dem? Er du lidt træt af workshops, hvor emnet er lagt i faste rammer, og man hurtigt løber tør for stof, eller bliver afbrudt midt i at løse gåden om
Fremtiden for fag, forsknings- og uddannelsesbibliotekerne er nu
Get PDFDe store universitetsbiblioteker fusionerer. Hensigten er at centralisere en række områder, f.eks. licensområdet og systemarkitektur, og herved opnå en mulig stordriftsfordel. Set ud fra et samfundsøkonomisk perspektiv, kan det give god mening, men der er tale om store omvæltninger i biblioteksverdenen
Tilpasningsstrategier på Sexologisk Klinik – En undersøgelse af transkønnede klienters forhandling af identitet
Get PDFDenne artikel præsenterer resultaterne fra 9 kvalitative interviews med transpersoner, der enten er eller har været i behandling på den offentlige institution Sexologisk Klinik på Rigshospitalet i København. I Danmark har de to offentlige institutioner Sexologisk Klinik og Sexologisk Center Aalborg monopol på behandling af transpersoner. Klienter der ønsker hormonel eller kropsmodificerende behandling må således gennemgå et udredningsforløb på en af disse institutioner. Artiklen viser, hvordan identiteten transseksuel kan siges at udgøre en institutionel identitet på Sexologisk Klinik, som klienterne aktivt udfordrer, følger eller indretter sig strategisk efter. I artiklen analyserer vi, ved hjælp af Goffmans teoriapparat fra hans analyse om den totale institution, hvordan klienterne gør brug af tilpasningsstrategier i et forsøg på at håndtere de institutionelle identiteter, de tilbydes. Vi viser, at klienterne i udpræget grad anvender, hvad Goffman betegner som en koloniserende tilpasningsstrategi på klinikken og således bestræber sig på at få mest ud af institutionens muligheder ved at omstrukturere deres livshistorier, så de passer til institutionens kriterier for godkendelse til behandling. I analysen benyttes en kombination af symbolsk interaktionisme og socialkonstruktivisme til at undersøge den relationelle karakter af reproduktionen af den institutionelle identitet transseksuel.
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Ida Friis Thing and Viola Marie Skovgaard: Strategies ofadaptation at a sexology clinic: a study of transgenderclients’ negotiation of identity
This article presents the results from nine qualitative interviews with transgender
clients concerning their experiences with a public healthcare sexology
clinic. At this institution transgender clients apply for approval to receive hormonal
treatment and body modifying surgery. The article analyses the social
process of clientisation in encounters between clients and mental health professionals,
which involve the construction of the institutional identity transsexual,
that is, some conditions for how the clients might perceive and present
themselves. We employ Goffman’s theoretical concepts from his analysis of
the total institution to describe how clients adapt to this process of clientisation
by making use of a variety of strategies. Some clients are continuingly
resisting the institution and the mental health professionals, while other clients
adapt fully to the institutional ideology of therapy. However most clients
take advantage of possibilities within the institution by creating narratives
that correspond with the institutional criteria for the diagnosis transsexual. We
employ a combination of the symbolic interactionist and the social constructivist
approaches to emphasize the relational character of the reproduction of
the institutional identity transsexual.
Keywords: Clientisation, Adaptation Strategies, Goffman, Institutional Identities, transgende
Julian Reid on Foucault – applying his work on war, resilience, imagination and political subjectivity
Get PDFThe Machine in the Garden in the 21st Century
Get PDFIn this essay I will suggest Leo Marx’s debt to a style of thinking about technology which cuts against the grain of the liberal humanism and liberal progressive ideology that informs his writing. This style of thinking, associated with the word technicity, underscores the intimacy of our relation to technology. The Machine in the Garden insists that technology is a crucial aspect of our human nature—it encourages us to see that nature is inseparable from our technological condition. In this sense, the machine and the garden are confounded in Marx’s book. The book’s key themes and conflicts short-circuit the mission to promote the liberal individualist illusion of escape from the shaping forces of history. What we can begin to glean in The Machine in the Garden is that there is no place for a transcendence that guarantees the “naturalness” of nature, or the romantic integrity of the self. There is only the world—an increasingly technologically mediated world—which on the one hand creates the very means for our access to nature, and on the other hand, dispels the very ‘Nature’ it reveals through an inevitable process of contamination across the nature/culture divide
Complicit Positioning: Anthropological Knowledge and Problems of ‘Studying Up’ for Ethnographer-Employees of Corporations
Get PDFContemporary work by ‘corporate ethnographers’, as employees of businesses, offers a refreshing perspective on Anthropology’s ‘crisis of representation’ and its extensions—from neo-colonial concerns and reflexivity, to para-ethnographic and recursive approaches—that are increasingly characterized by complicit relations between ethnographers and their informants/‘collaborators’. This article focusses on the history and politics of ethnographers’ positionality in field research and the analytic products of, and audiences for, their work. It contrasts the often confounded labor of ‘anthropologists of business’ with that of ‘corporate ethnographers’, who work for businesses, while highlighting that, for both, the ‘studying up’ (Nader 1974 [1969]) methodology required for research at business sites disrupts assumptions surrounding the politics of traditional ethnographic fieldwork. Tracing shifts in core interests across general Anthropology, it is argued that close attention to new sitings and circumstances of fieldwork—including studying up in businesses—could productively drive reconsiderations of methodology, ethics and, therefore, epistemology in Anthropology.In this context, corporate ethnographers, who are often formally trained in Anthropology, are specifically encouraged to analytically engage with the problematics of their perhaps-awkward complicities with their employers. It is suggested that, alongside the work of anthropologists of business, corporate ethnographers—should they choose to do so—are well-positioned to assist in exposing the black box of the culture(s) of secrecy through which the work of corporations intimately penetrates modern life