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Transgender Identity in Pre-modern Japan
Get PDFThis paper examines the documented history of transgender identity in pre-modern Japan. Through literary analysis of the Torikaebaya Monogatari and depictions of Kabuki actors and sex workers in woodblock prints, transgender individuals’s place in Japanese society is deconstructed, societal view of LGBTQIA+ individuals during these periods is interpreted, and where trasngender people were most prevalent in society is determined
Investigations in Wearable, Fiber, and Mixed Media Works of Art
Get PDFThis project focuses on learning and improving sewing skills, working with different materials, and time management skills. Each piece relates to the artist in some way shape or form and explores bringing abstract concepts into the physical world
A Walk Around the Block II
No full textThe video works address the mundane, stay-at-home, pandemic situation. I created six videos based events, news and banal of the pandemic. I am working on another series based on nests and nesting. Each work is a daily expression of hearing, seeing and processing
COVID-19 : Unfortunate Reality.
No full textThe documentary is about my experience with COVID-19 and how it\u27s been affecting my life. This was shot around my house and my local area throughout the month of March
Compassion in the Face of Internment: The Story of the Cunningham Family
Get PDF“Just one week ago today we arrived in one of the most ancient and picturesque cities of the world – Peking, North China,” wrote Brethren missionary Ellen Cunningham to her “dear American friends” in 1938. “And just a month ago today we bid farewell to dear old USA which no doubt will change in a good many ways before we set foot on her soil again.” Cunningham was right in thinking about the changes that would transform the United States before she and her husband, Lloyd, would return. What she did not anticipate was how sweeping the changes across China would be in the coming years, how those changes would upend her life, and how long it would be before she could go back to the United States
Succession Challenges in Family Businesses from the First to the Second Generation
Get PDFFamily businesses are the backbone of the world economy creating two-thirds of the global GDP (Family Firm Institute, 2017). In the U.S. alone over half of GDP is accounted for from family businesses (Vera and Dean, 2005). Although the family business sector has been more thoroughly investigated over the past years (Chalus-Sauvannet, Deschamps & Cisneros, 2016), there are still many areas that require further efforts. Among these topics, succession planning plays a crucial role for the family business continuity and renewal. It is estimated that more than 70 percent of family owned businesses to not survive the transition from founder to second generation (Grassi Jr. & Giarmarco, 2008). Following a qualitative methodology, this research aims to further the understanding of the challenges faces by family business successors in transitioning from the first to the second generation. The research is focused mainly on leadership succession with less emphasis on ownership transfer. Interviews with leadership successors of ten family businesses, who inherited the leadership from the founders of the business, were conducted. The semi-structured interviews lasted for about one hour. Six of the interviews were conducted face to face and the remaining four were conducted over the phone. There were two additional interviews that needed to be discarded because the companies did not fit the criteria needed for the research. The family firms were selected from the members of the High Center for Family Business at Elizabethtown College and other businesses in the area, across a variety of industries. The interviews were then analyzed, and the names of the companies were coded in order to keep companies\u27 anonymity. As a result of the analysis the challenges that the companies faced and their response to each challenge were structured. The main challenges that were identified were: lack of support from employees, lack of knowledge on how to transition, lack of stewardship, different leadership styles, working with siblings, incumbent\u27s inability of letting go, and strategic changes brought by the successor. Not all the successors went through the same challenges and the particular context and industry factors may have influenced some of the challenges. For example, for some families the ownership of other family businesses has help them to gain knowledge on how the succession should take place and when to start the process. Another example is that not all the companies had siblings working in the company. Only four of the companies had siblings currently working in the company and of those four, three stated that their siblings had complimentary skills to their own and this is what allowed them to work so well together and has helped them avoid conflicts. The findings, conclusions, and further research directions are presented in the paper.
a crucial role on a global scale and it has been researched in depth in recent years (Chalus-Sauvannet, Deschamps & Cisneros, 2016). Family businesses make up a large section of the world’s GDP (Van der Merwe, 2011), and in the U.S. alone, over half of GDP is accounted for from family businesses (Vera, Dean, 2005). In 2014, family businesses made up 19% of the global economy, which had increased significantly from 15% in 2005 (Heidrich, Makó & Csizmadia, 2016). Among the important roles that family businesses play are job creation, knowledge transfer, and the stabilization of the economy (Heidrich, Makó & Csizmadia, 2016)