87 research outputs found
Whistleblowers in organisations: prophets at work?
No full textThis article argues that the study of biblical prophets offers a profound contribution to understanding the experience, role and attributes of whistleblowers. Little is known in the literature about the moral triggers that lead individuals to blow the whistle in organisations or why whistleblowers may show persistence against the harshness experienced as a result of their actions. This article argues that our understanding of the whistleblower’s work is highly informed by appreciating how moral values and norms are exercised by prophets in seeking to become agents for change. This article identifies three core implications that have practical and theoretical relevance. The first concerns how the whistleblowing activity challenges the established order of an organisation as this is comprised of institutional structures, policies and procedures. Institutions display an unusual fragility against the seemingly powerless individual who helps reveal the wrongdoing. By disclosing ‘hidden’ knowledge concerning illegitimate intentions and actions, the seemingly powerless individual creates tension that has implications for the stability and order of the organisation. The second implication concerns the degree of social concern and the individual’s interpretation of morality. Whistleblowers, like prophets, display concern for moral values that have implications for the welfare of others, and which they seek to promote through their whistleblowing act. The third implication concerns the importance of agency. By taking a moral stance, the whistleblower assumes an important agentic role facilitating change through his/her intervention. Although such change is sudden and unpredictable it brings about new conditions for the organisation and its members
Stephanos Peri poleōn = Stephanus De urbibus /
No full textErrata, last leaf.Signatures: pi² *⁶ chi² A-5S⁴ 5T². Chi1 signed *3.Includes index.Title page vignette. Engraving on leaf following t.p. has been ascribed to Romeyn de Hooghe, but is not included by J. Landwehr in his Romeyn de Hooghe as book illustrator.Pinedo's preface dated 1676, p. [738].Mode of access: Internet.Binding: vellum, tooled in blind with double frames and central strap-work medallions. Author & title written at head of spine
Management consulting
No full textThis important collection brings together some of the most influential papers that have contributed to our understanding of management consultancy work. The two-volume set encompasses the breadth of conceptual and empirical perspectives and explores those key ideas that have helped to advance our knowledge of this intriguing area. The volumes are divided into a series of thematic sections, affording the reader easy access to a great resource of information. Professors Clark and Avakian have written an original introduction which provides a comprehensive overview of the literature
Examining the relationship between trust and culture in the consultant-client relationship
Full text linkA study of the consultant-client relationship: examining aspects of legitimation
Full text linkThis thesis provides an in-depth study of the consultant client relationship. It focuses on the phenomenon of legitimation which has been neglected in the prior literature. Legitimation is critical because it is responsible for signifying how and why knowledge claims come to be accepted or rejected between the client-consultant parties. The consultants' perceived value by the client is an outcome that is dependent on the economic and socio-political processes by which judgements are made. How legitimation takes place helps provides a new locus of understanding about the communication of business advice between consultants and clients. Such exploration helps generate novel insights for how value is created. Through the conduct of in-depth interviews with both consultants and clients, we managed to obtain comprehensive empirical data that helps challenge already held assumptions. Drawing on 64 interviews, with clients and consultants, and through the use of prior theoretical frameworks that are mainly drawn from the work by Suchman (1995) and Habermas (1984a, 1984b), we identify four modes of legitimation. Such modes are characterised in terms of their cognitive, pragmatic, moral and discursive nuances. We argue that each of the legitimatory categories indicate a separate set of conditions that need to be justified and which are driven by a distinct ideological character. Legitimation becomes a process in which implicit and explicit ideological values are mutually managed between the involved organisational actors. Our discussion helps open up a new field of understanding for the consultant client relationship that is relevant for both academics and practitioners
Litany in My Slumber / Postcard
Full text linkStephanides, Stephanos. The Wind Under My Lips [«Ο άνεμος κάτω απ’τα χείλη μου»]. Bilingual Edition [English & Greek]. Trans. Despina Pirketti. Athens: To Rodakio, 2018.
The postscards in “Postcards from Cyprus (Made in India)” are made by Anandana Kapur and are reprinted here with her permission.
Work is re-printed here with the permission of the author and publisher
Un «Pseudo-Galien» dans le commentaire de Stephanos d'Athènes aux Aphorismes d'Hippocrate
No full textREB 56 1998 France p. 5-78
Wanda Wolska-Conus, Un «Pseudo-Galien» dans le commentaire de Stéphanos d'Athènes aux Aphorismes d'Hippocrate : Ό Νεώτερος 'Εξηγητής. — Reviewing carefully the forty-three passages which Stéphanos ascribes to Galen, the author reaches the conviction that this attribution is erroneous. Are not the passages in question to be attributed to the exeget called the «Newer Exeget», whom Stéphanos asserts «he is explaining him» ?Passant minutieusement en revue les quarante-trois passages attribués par Stephanos à Galien, l'auteur arrive à la conviction qu'il s'agit là de fausses attributions. Les passages incriminés ne reviennent-ils pas plutôt à l'exégète dit «le Nouvel Exégète» que Stephanos affirme «être en train d'expliquer» ? La question reste ouverte.Wolska-Conus Wanda. Un «Pseudo-Galien» dans le commentaire de Stephanos d'Athènes aux Aphorismes d'Hippocrate. In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 56, 1998. pp. 5-78
Masonry Buldings' Seismic Failures
No full textThe document is a teamwork coordinated by Stephanos E. Dritsos, and material has been shared
between the authors. However, the proposal of each chapter was drafted by a leading author, in
the following chapter order: Jon Moseley (Chapter 1), Andreas Lampropoulos (Chapter 2), Eftychia
Apostolidi (Chapter 3), and Christos Giarlelis (Chapter 4).
This document concerns reinforced concrete buildings and masonry buildings. It attempts to
categorize the types of seismic failures, explain the reasons of each failure, and propose good
practices to avoid such a failure. Suggestions for pre-earthquake strengthening of weak structures
or elements together with post-earthquake retrofitting measures when damage has occurred are
also presented. This document is intended as a comprehensive educational reference textbook
to benefit the engineering society and our society as a whole community. In addition, it is aimed
at all classes of engineers from novice to expert, as well as students, and it could be a unique document
that may be of considerable benefit to the IABSE community and practicing civil and
structural engineers in general. It may have considerable impact in developing countries where
the infrastructure is still being built, because it addresses, among other things, non-engineered
construction practice. The document’s purpose is to give background information, stimulate
focus on the earthquake problem, extend knowledge concerning earthquakes, and to give ideas
and reassurance to those faced with the task of building a safer future for the public and to save
lives
Accounting for Failure Through Morality:The IMF’s Involvement in (Mis)managing the Greek Crisis
Full text linkIn examining how reform-leading supranational institutions respond to public criticism, this article advances current theory on their institutional accountability mechanisms and extends research on this topic by focusing on their responses to public criticism of alleged reform failures. We consider the case of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) involvement in the Greek economic crisis, as the structural adjustment reforms it imposed to stabilize the economy. We show how these controversial and, by many accounts, failed policies have profoundly impacted the well-being of the recipient country by reducing social cohesion and impoverishing the most vulnerable groups. In explaining the IMF’s institutional response mechanism for fending off such criticism, we offer moral regulatory appropriation (MRA) as a processual framework and present the IMF’s organizing logic of institutional legitimation processes in four domains of action: agentic mission, reform policies, institutional policy negotiations, and moral appropriation. We argue that this enables institutions to maintain moral legitimacy despite evidence of their reforms’ policy failure and various negative consequences for their populations. The proposed framework has theoretical implications for conceptualizing the rhetorical deployment of moral legitimation to secure and defend institutional accountability. We also highlight the limitations and boundaries of such an approach by the IMF and similar reform-leading institutions
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