5 research outputs found
Magic Glove: An Interactive Hardware/Software System to Animate Objects. An Exploratory Study in Rehabilitation Setting.
No full textA Service of zbw Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre for Economics The Adverse Consequences of Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment The Adverse Consequences of Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment The Advers
No full textStandard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S The The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian University who took an intermediate exam in which one part was awarded on the basis of their relative performance. Students were matched in pairs on the basis of their high school grades and each pair was randomly assigned to one of three different tournaments. Random assignment neutralizes selection effects and allows us to investigate if larger prize spreads increase individual effort. We do not find any positive effect of larger prizes on students' performance and in several specifications we do find a negative effect. Furthermore, we show that the effect of prize spreads on students' performance depends on their degree of risk-aversion: competing in tournaments with large spreads negatively affects the performance of risk-averse students, while it does not produce any effect on students who are more prone to take risks. JEL Classification: J33, J31, J24, D81, D82, C9
Corporate Governance Rating and Family Firms: The Greek Case
No full textCorporate governance (CG) studies have mostly focused on highly dispersed corporations. However, there is an important need for research exploring the governance structure of family-owned firms. The main characteristics that distinguish the family firm from the other types of corporations are the presence of one or more controlling family and the involvement of the owners in the management. Family firm is the most common form of business in Greece. Hence, the governance structures and the performance of the family firms affect the growth opportunities of the capital market. The aim of the paper is to explore the main aspects of CG of family-owned listed companies in Greece. For this purpose, we apply a specific CG rating methodology, using five core CG criteria to distinguish family from non-family firms: shareholders' rights and obligations; transparency, disclosure of information and auditing; board of directors; CEO and executive management and corporate social responsibility and corporate governance commitment. The overall research objective of the study is to develop a CG rating methodology on the current state of corporate governance in Greece. Each firm is rated among the 120 total number of companies (both family-owned and widely- held). The results disclose the potential strengths and weaknesses of the existing corporate governance framework of the family-owned firms and provide specific policy recommendations.family firms, corporate governance rating, Greece
Nepotism in the Arab World: An institutional theory perspective
No full textWe examine the practice of nepotism in the Arab World and analyze how a rational-legal model of bureaucracy was never able to take hold. We draw upon ideas from institutional theory and related notions of legitimacy to provide an explanation of nepotism's extraordinary persistence. Then we use arguments to speculate how the appearance of institutional entrepreneurs who are advocates for a new hybrid form of nepotism might begin to colonize a social space created by larger political and economic changes that are sweeping the Arab World. Those entrepreneurs must persuade other members of an extended family that the current practice of nepotism is typically destructive of a firm's competitive performance. In addition, they will argue that nepotism as currently practiced violates teachings of Islam. 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Two Decades Later: Approaches to Teaching Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy, an Edited volume of Essays
No full textIn 1992, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker performed a laudable act for humanity: she
became the first major author to dedicate a novel “to the blameless vulva” and thereby set an
egregious abuse of girl’s and women’s rights -- female genital mutilation or FGM -- in the public
spotlight. 2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of this landmark publication. In response,
UnCUT/VOICES Press will bring out a collection of essays on the book and its global reception – Two
Decades Later: Revisiting Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy [working title]. Dr. Levin wrote the Chapter 1: Introduction by Tobe Levin drawing on and adding to reception histories in the following sources:
- Levin, Tobe. “Feminist (and “Womanist”) as Public Intellectuals: Elfriede Jelinek and Alice Walker.”
In The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond. Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity,
and the American Protest Tradition. Eds. E. Goffman and D. Morris. W. Lafayette, IN: Purdue
U.P., 2009. 243-274.
- Levin, Tobe. “FGM or Cutting the Rose in Alice Walker’s Garden.” Rose Lore. Essays in Cultural
Criticism and Semiotics. Ed. Frankie Hutton. NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. 19-32. [rpt.
UnCUT/VOICES Press, 2012, 45-71]
- Levin, Tobe. "Alice Walker: Matron of FORWARD." Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. Eds.
Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Carl Pedersen. NY: Oxford UP, 1999. 240-254.
[Germany]Tobe Levin’s Faculty Research Grant Report
In 1992, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker performed a laudable act for humanity: she
became the first major author to dedicate a novel “to the blameless vulva” and thereby set an
egregious abuse of girl’s and women’s rights -- female genital mutilation or FGM -- in the public
spotlight. 2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of this landmark publication. In response,
UnCUT/VOICES Press will bring out a collection of essays on the book and its global reception – Two
Decades Later: Revisiting Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy [working title]. The outlook is
deliberately laudatory, for the controversy generated by this text challenges those who would praise
it to do so.
Evelyn C. White’s biography, Alice Walker. A Life (NY: Norton, 2004) opens its prologue with a scene
in which Walker, guest at “an elite college near Boston in the early 1990s” (xiii) [my very good guess
is Wellesley where a considerable amount of criticism emerged], has just read from Possessing the
Secret of Joy only to be confronted by a “middle-aged white woman who identified herself as a
college official” (xiii). The very first question is really a finger-wagging, for the “luncheon guests”
have purportedly been so shocked by the words “clitoris” and “vagina” that a firestorm of ire is
expected along with fear that financial support will be withheld. Asked for advice on how to deal
with the “complaints,” Alice gives a restrained but passionate response. Like her heroine Tashi, she
instructs the college employee to set the callers straight, specifically to understand that their issues
as privileged, presumed rich white women differ from those of “impoverished women of color” (xiv).
Clearly, Alice sees herself as representing African-American demography in terms of class and
history. The exchange is therefore framed in terms of Black and White.
Imagine Walker’s pain on finding out that the categories slip, and that addressing FGM elicits even
greater, more virulent hostility from those whose support had been taken for granted – namely
“women of color” who had emigrated from Africa and were not, like Walker, descendants of
American slaves. The early outcry against the book was in fact fueled not by white opposition but by
black: early opponents resented Walker’s assumption of kinship. They resented the misrecognition of
their status and conflation of it with persons whose ancestors had been abducted and enslaved (this
being my interpretation of the subtext). Among outspoken African critics had been scions of national
leaders; turbulence in their countries, coup d’états, and political upheavals had led to their
resettlement in the USA. And most were wealthy, even ‘aristocratic’ or, at the very least, well-educated
and upper middle class.
My introduction to the collection cites these critics whose clout enabled them to publish in places
like the New York Times. In important academic positions, they set the tone for reception in major
feminist outlets like The Women’s Review of Books and Meridians. And when Walker pushed on to
reach an even broader audience through film, debate exploded. Co-authored and produced with
Pratibha Parmar, Warrior Marks, a video and a book that appeared in 1993, elicited the following
comments from biographer White: “Screened primarily at film festivals and at fund-raising events,
Warrior Marks was repudiated, in the United States and abroad, by a cadre of activists who branded
Alice a ‘cultural imperialist’ for bringing attention to a practice they asserted was a ‘private affair’
best left to Africans” (459).
White is mistaken. Perhaps the phrase “in the U.S. and abroad” slipped without thought from her
pen. In fact, reception abroad was positive – in both Europe and in Africa. After all, Possessing the
Secret of Joy and Warrior Marks were created in consultation with African pioneers in the struggle to
end FGM – none of whom resided in the USA but included African women with whom I’ve had a
close working relationship for three decades: Efua Dorkenoo, Comfort Ottah, Awa Thiam and others.
This collection of essays by an international group of scholars has among its aims to show how
Walker served the global movement against FGM with her fiction; to broaden the parochial
viewpoint floated in the United States concerning ‘ownership’ of the issue; and to present, perhaps
too long after the fact, a counter-portrait of successful intervention and thereby contribute to
justifying this contorted aspect of Walker’s legacy.
Chapters include
Chapter 1. Introduction by Tobe Levin drawing on and adding to reception histories in the following
sources:
Levin, Tobe. “Feminist (and “Womanist”) as Public Intellectuals: Elfriede Jelinek and Alice Walker.”
In The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond. Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity,
and the American Protest Tradition. Eds. E. Goffman and D. Morris. W. Lafayette, IN: Purdue
U.P., 2009. 243-274.
Levin, Tobe. “FGM or Cutting the Rose in Alice Walker’s Garden.” Rose Lore. Essays in Cultural
Criticism and Semiotics. Ed. Frankie Hutton. NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. 19-32. [rpt.
UnCUT/VOICES Press, 2012, 45-71]
Levin, Tobe. "Alice Walker: Matron of FORWARD." Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. Eds.
Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Carl Pedersen. NY: Oxford UP, 1999. 240-254.
[Germany]
Chapter 2. Verena Stefan. “Die Verstümmelung der Vulva und andere Beschneidungen der
weiblichen Freiheit – Die vollkommene Vulva und ihr Glanz – Widerstand” [Mutilation of the
Vulva and the circumcision of other female freedoms or the perfect vulva, its aura and revolt]
from “Why was the Little Girl Crying?” in Rauh, wild & frei. Mädchengestalten in der
Literatur. [Tough, Wild and Free. Images of Girls in Literature] Frankfurt am Main: Fischer,
1997. Trans. Tobe Levin. With permission. [Germany/Switzerland]
Chapter 3. Claudia Landi. “Rappresentazione e Simbologia degli Animali in Possessing the Secret of
Joy” [Representation and Symbols of the Body in Possessing the Secret of Joy] from Les
Parole di Cassandra. [Cassandra’s Words] Eds. Ilaria Bellini, et. al. Firenze: Facoltà di Lettere e
Filosofia (University of Florence), 1995. Trans. Tobe Levin. With permission. [Italy]
Chapter 4. Elisabeth Bekers. “Walker’s Traumatized Woman Warrior in Possessing the Secret of Joy.”
From Rising Anthills. African & African American Writing on Female Genital Excision 1960-
2000. Madison: U. of Wisconsin P., 2010. [156-164.] With permission. [Belgium]
Chapter 5. M. Giulia Fabi. “Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic. On Alice Walker’s Possessing the
Secret of Joy.” From Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. Eds. Maria Diedrich, Henry
Louis Gates, Jr., and Carl Pedersen. NY: Oxford UP, 1999. [228-239]. With permission. [Italy]
Chapter 6. John Gruesser. “Breaking the Silence about Female Genital Mutilation in Possessing the
Secret of Joy.” Adapted from CONFLUENCES: POSTCOLONIALISM, AFRICAN AMERICAN
LITERARY STUDIES, AND THE BLACK ATLANTIC. Athens: U. of Georgia P., 2005; paperback
2007. With permission. [USA]
Chapter 7. Mihaela Mudure. “Comparative Blacknesses in Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy:
African-Americans, the Roma people, early marriage and excision.” Original contribution.
[University of Cluj, Romania]
Chapter 8. Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez. “The Fictionalized Universal or Possessing the Secret of Joy
in the classroom.” Original contribution. [Simon’s Rock College of Bard. USA]
Chapter 9. Sachiko Mitsumori. “Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy. Towards the Universal
Self.” Original contribution. [University of Hiroshima. Japan]
Chapter 10. Hilda Twongyeirwe. “Possessing the Secret of Joy and Women’s Fiction against FGM in
Uganda.” Original contribution. [FemRite Women’s Writers’ Collective, Kampala. Uganda]
UNCUT/VOICES PRESS
Publishing against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Blood Stains
A Child of Africa Reclaims Her Human Rights
by KHADY with Marie-Thérèse Cuny
Translated by Tobe Levin
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Forthcoming:
Hubert Prolongeau. Undoing FGM. Pierre Foldes, the Surgeon Who Restores the Clitoris. Foreword by Bernard
Kouchner, former French Foreign Minister. Trans. Tobe Levin. ISBN: 978-3-9813863-1-8. Biography of the
sought-after pioneer urologist who discovered how to return sensation to victims of clitoridectomy. JULY
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Honorary Advisory Board
Elfriede Jelinek, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Vera I. Grant, Executive Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African
and African American Research, Harvard University
Diane Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Maria Jaschok, Director, International Gender Studies, Oxford Depart-ment
of International Development, University of Oxford
Owolabi Bjalkander, former Parliamentary Assistant to Christine
McCafferty, MP (2003 UK Female Genital Mutilation Bill), Sierra
Leone
Obioma Nnaemeka, Professor of French & Women’s Studies, Indiana
University, Indianapolis, and Founder, AAWS (Association of Afri-can
Women Scholars), Nigeria/ USA
Fatoumata Siré-Diakité, Ambassador from Mali to Germany and
Founder/President, Association pour le Progrès et la Défense des
Femmes Maliennes, Bamako/Berlin
Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, City Councilwoman and author, Erlangen,
Germany
Angelika Köster-Lossack, FORWARD–Germany board and former Mem-ber
of the German Parliament (MdB)
Florence Howe, Founding Publisher/Director of The Feminist Press at
CUNY
Shulamit Reinharz, Founding Director, Women’s Studies Center and
Hadasseh-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University, USA
Mariame Racine Sow, Project Officer, Groupe pour l'Etude et l’Enseig-nement
de la Population, Dakar, Senegal
Els Leye, International Centre for Reproductive Health (WHO Colla-borating
Centre), Ghent University, Belgium
Fana Habteab, President, European Network against Harmful Tradi-tional
Practices, especially Female Genital Mutilation (EuroNet-
FGM), Sweden
Frankie Hutton, Amistad Commission Member, State of New Jersey
and founder, The Rose Project
Godfrey Williams-Okorodus, Artist, Nigeria/Belgium
Erica Pomerance, Filmmaker, Montreal, Canada
Etenesh Hadis, African Women’s Organization Coordinator, Vienna,
Austria
Yayehyirad Kitaw, Physician, Advisory Council, Ethiopian Public
Health Authority and Editor-in-Chief, Journal on Female Genital
Mutilation. Scientific Organ of the Inter-African Committee. Uni-versity
of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Berhane Ras-Work, Founding President, Inter-African Committee,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia/Geneva, Switzerland
Adriana Kaplan Marcusan, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona and
Founder, Wassukafo, The Gambia
Augustine H. Asaah, Head, Department of Modern Languages,
University of Ghana
Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, Activist and Author, USA
Soraya Mire, Activist, Filmmaker and Author, Somalia/ USA
Nikki Denholm, Director, New Zealand FGM Education Programme,
Auckland, New Zealand
Comfort Momoh, M.B.E., FGM Specialist Midwife, African Well Woman
Clinic, St. Thomas' Hospital, London
Marianne Sarkis, Medical Anthropologist and Director/Webmaster FGM
Education and Networking Project, Worcester, MA
Linda May Kallestein, Journalist and Filmmaker (The CUT), Norway
Marilyn Safir, Professor of Women’s Studies and Psychology, Univer-sity
of Haifa, Israel
Dagmar Schultz, Founding Publisher, Orlanda Frauenverlag, Berlin
Lucy Mashua, Global Ambassador Fighting Female Genital Mutilation
(FGM), Kenya/USA
Waltraud Dumont du Voitel, German Foundation for Gender Studies/
Feminist Europa, Heidelberg
Cristiana Scoppa, FGM project manager, AIDOS, Rome, Italy
Sarah McCulloch, Founder and Director, ACCM – UK
Mary Ann Smorra, Professor of Education, Georgian Court University,
NJ, USA
Sachiko Mitsumori, Women’s Action against FGM, Tokyo, Japan
Raymond Lloyd, Honorary Secretary Council for Parity Democracy, UK
www.shequality.org
Efua Dorkenoo, OBE, Advocacy Director-FGM Programme, Equality
Now; former WHO Technical Expert on FGM (1995-2001) and
Founder, FORWARD UK
Lois A. Herman, Coordinator, Women’s UN Report Network (WUNRN)
Gabi Helfert, Photographer, Sustainability Project Manager and Social
Media Consultant, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Publishing against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Undoing FGM
Pierre Foldes –
The Surgeon Who Restores the Clitoris
by Hubert Prolongeau
Foreword by Bernard Kouchner
Co-Founder of Doctors without Borders
Translation and Afterword by Tobe Levin
Frankfurt am Main: UNCUT/VOICES PRESS, 2011
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