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Mapping the Influence of Ansoff's Corporate Strategy
Get PDFThis paper conducts a systematic, data-driven analysis of H. Igor Ansoff's enduring impact on strategic management scholarship. Despite Ansoff's recognition as the “father of strategic management” and the continued relevance of his frameworks—including the Ansoff matrix, weak signals analysis, and strategic thrust—a comprehensive understanding of his influence remains incomplete. While previous research has documented the adoption of his concepts, few studies have empirically examined how his theories have influenced subsequent literature or been critiqued over time. We address these shortcomings through topic modeling, citation context analysis, and historiography applied to Web of Science publications citing Ansoff's Corporate Strategy (1965–2024). Our methodology identifies which concepts are most frequently referenced, whether citations are substantial or peripheral, and how the literature developed over time. This empirical approach reveals thematic developments in Ansoff-related research, highlights underexplored theoretical elements, and demonstrates how his frameworks continue to shape contemporary strategic thinking. The findings contribute to understanding how classical strategic management theories maintain relevance in today's business landscape
Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing?
Get PDFBecause they are based on centralization and abstraction, our current sociopolitical structures are susceptible to being replaced by AI. This is not only exemplified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which was initiated by the second Trump administration; there are many less heavily publicized equivalents all over the world, including in Europe. Recognizing that our societies are on the verge of a techno-fascist takeover, Dan McQuillan evaluates the risks and offers practical strategies for resistance
Developing a narrative theory of deception for the analysis of mock-Covert Human Intelligence Source (CHIS) accounts
Get PDFHuman source intelligence (HUMINT) practitioners are concerned with detecting informant deception, and previous research indicates that the verbal content of an informant’s narrative can be used to identify potential deceit. The current study extends previous research by analysing the narrative structure and narrative identity of accounts provided by 22 participants undertaking the role of a mock-informant. Results indicate that deception affects the structure of a mock-informant narrative, with deceptive mock-informants employing abstract introductions and evaluative remarks to withhold information and to distract their listeners with emotional content. Additionally, deceptive mock-informants are more likely to express a low potency narrative role, such as a victim or tragic hero. Furthermore, there is tentative evidence to suggest that an analysis of narrative identity can also provide an indication of varying levels of motivation and cooperation among truthful mock-informants. These findings have implications for HUMINT practitioners in the field and add to the wider body of deception detection research
(Re)search results: Search engines and the logic of efficiency in scholarship
Get PDFThis article uses the search engine as a heuristic for reflecting upon the extent to which knowledge production within the academy both shapes and is shaped by the media that it studies and with which its research is enabled. More specifically, it argues that the efficiency that has helped make search both a paradigmatic feature of digital culture and a habitual, everyday activity is achieved not just through speediness of results, but through a rationalized, regimented, and standardized structuration of knowledge, ensuring the latter is amenable to computational processing and retrieval. Search engines exercise a crypto-normative function, establishing formal norms and constraints relating to knowledge production, including academic research outputs, at the same time that they furnish one of the principal means by which this research is conducted. The purpose of this article is not to decry bureaucratic modes of conduct (the bureaucratic-rationalist ethos being central to the responsibilities of academic life), but to stress the importance of scholars reflecting upon their own relationship to the technologies of which they make use and the temporalities these technologies engender
The British State, Citizenship Rights and Gendered Folk Devils: The Case of Shamima Begum
Get PDFThe revoking of Shamima Begum’s citizenship exemplifies much of the purposes of contemporary anti-Muslim racism and underlines its significant gendered element. Both state and media actors constructed the 15-year old as a problematic other, both to justify conditional citizenship ideologically, and to use her case to strengthen and add to the framework for making it legal. This comes in a context in which British Muslims and members of the British Windrush generation are being denied citizenship and the rights that go with it. We argue that Shamima Begum’s construction as a gendered folk devil must be understood in the context of nation states shifting their purpose and legitimacy from ‘civil rights’ to ‘national security’ and strengthening two-tier citizenship rights to control residents of colour, increase the state’s authoritarian purpose and, as part of an ongoing process, to transform the concept of ‘national security’ into legal reality, to further militarise the state and its borders against the ‘migrant crisis’ and, ultimately, to stifle dissent
Theatre Making "Space for the Unassimilable"
Get PDFAddressing the cultural politics of what Mihaela Mihai calls “mnemonic care”, this paper considers three questions concerning Jewish identity and testimonial justice that are posed in a recent play (including in its very title) by the Estonian-Russian theatre maker Julia Aug, Mum, is our cat also a Jew? The contrasting claims of and for official and unofficial national histories – both during and after the Soviet period – are explored here in terms of Mihai’s invitation for us to consider how such memory politics “make space for the unassimilable”
The mediating effect of positive and negative religious coping, compassion and resilience on the relationship between negative life events and wellbeing among women in Kenya, the Philippines, Nicaragua and Spain
Get PDFThe current study explores the mediating effect of positive and negative religious coping on the relationship between negative life events and wellbeing, via its link with compassion and resilience among women who are involved in women’s empowerment programs run by a US faith-based non-profit humanitarian and disaster relief organisation, Convoy of Hope. The sample includes women from four countries (N = 1041), Kenya, the Philippines, Nicaragua and Spain, who took part in a digital survey. A mediation analysis was used, and the results revealed a full mediation effect, so that the number of negative life events was linked to wellbeing via an increase in both positive and negative religious coping strategies, compassion and then resilience. It also revealed other mediation paths via religious coping and resilience. Positive religious coping was linked to higher resilience and then higher wellbeing, whereas negative religious coping was linkedto lower resilience and then lower wellbeing. The results highlight the role of compassion in adaptive religious coping and delineate the overall benefits of religious coping in the context of adversity
Learning for Life: skateboarding, public pedagogy and belonging
Get PDFThis chapter explores how skate pedagogy extends beyond the acquisition of technical skills to support the potential life-worlds that skateboarders can inhabit. The analysis contributes to an understanding of the pedagogy of skateboarding within the broader discourse of education's purpose. In this context, social pedagogies and cultural learning produce symbolic and embodied ways of knowing that help to shape the communities to which we belong. Drawing from research with instructors, learners, skate schools, summer courses, and coaches in skateparks, I explore how a sense of belonging to the people, space, and culture in which we skate is linked to the engagement and imagination necessary to build a life of meaningful connections. This chapter proposes that collective play can lead to learning-for-life rather than simply learning for reification
Collective narcissism of White supremacy and minority resistance
Get PDFIn four cross-sectional studies (N = 2,228; three preregistered), we hypothesized and found that U.S. American and White collective narcissism is associated with opposition to racial equality, whereas racial collective narcissism among Blacks and Latinx in the United States (US) is associated with support for racial equality. In Studies 1 and 2, American national and White racial collective narcissism was positively associated with support for state repression of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, antiegalitarianism, and legitimization of racial inequality. Black racial collective narcissism was negatively associated with the same variables. In Studies 3 and 4, American national and White racial collective narcissism was positively associated with antiegalitarianism, support for the alt-right movement, and opposition to policies to advance racial minorities. Latinx racial collective narcissism was negatively associated with the same variables. In sum, in the US, national collective narcissism among Whites and racial minorities and White racial collective narcissism hinder the pursuit of racial equality. However, Black and Latinx racial collective narcissism is associated with pursuit of racial equality
Resistencia sanguínea: Soñando un futuro para la sangre
No full textSpanish translation of my chapter 'Sanguine Resistance' in the Erotics of Deconstruction edited book https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34622