255 research outputs found
Culture & Cognition in a Complex Megaorganization: Implications for Military Leadership
No full textBreena E. Coates, Ph.D., is chair, Department of Management, College of Business & Public Administration, California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2393.
Colonel (Ret.) Charles D. Allen, is an assistant professor of cultural science, Department Command, Leadership, and Management, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA 17013- 5234
The Increasingly Visible Hand of Government behind Corporate Citizenship & Conscious Capitalism
No full textThis paper examines three recent and significant policy actions by the governments in India, the United States, and the European Union that make dramatic changes in how global societies view corporate behavior in the home and host country regions where economic benefits are accrued. These interventions point to growth of sharper policy instruments to push for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) obligations in nation states. The familiar concept CSR has spun-off important notions of Corporate Citizenship, and Consciousness Capitalism. Both of these conceptualizations build on Elkington’s Triple Bottom Line (TBL)—which remains the central tenet of CSR philosophy. This paper discusses the three cases of government interventions in India, U.S. and EU. It argues that the new era of an increasingly visible hand of government has dawned to counteract market failure on the TBL, and to foster national and global sustainability values
“SMART ” GOVERNMENT IN A LESS-ADVANTAGED COMMUNITY: Meeting the Challenges In Imperial County
No full textAbstract: The new tools of e-government have begun to address and diffuse the weaknesses of government service delivery in the 21 st century. The state of California among other states has a strategic vision to add to its orderly, stable structures of bureaucracy, the virtues of speed, cost-effectiveness, and quality and quantity of response to citizens that e-government provides. Imperial County, California was chosen as the site for discussion of how less-advantaged communities in California are addressing egovernment. One partnership between two governmental entities—The Imperial County Office of Education and the Imperial Count
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Insecurity of the Black Body
No full textThe aim of this work is exploring questions of identity construction and the body in a context of insecurity, violence, and trauma, as presented by Ta-Nehisi Coates. In Between the World and Me (2015), winner of the National Book Award (non-fiction), Coates delivers an exploration of his personal history in an eloquent letter to his son, approaching the matter of the insecurity of the black body in the United States. The author states: “America understands itself as God’s handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men”, questioning the moral superiority of the American ideals and its exceptionalism, creating a deep analysis of blackness and americanness, connecting the feelings of growing up in the 1960s and 1970s with the experience of black life in our days. Coates is in deep conversation with James Baldwin, weaving an argument that demonstrates the ever-present linear path of violence inflicted upon the black body in the United States, from slavery to Reconstruction, the Civil Rights era and finally to the present state of police brutality and mass incarceration
Is there an Enhanced Role for Corporate Leadership to Integrate Its CSR Strategies into Supply Chain Management? A Conceptual Inquiry
No full textThis paper argues that there is an emergent and enhanced role for corporate governance in the area of supply chain oversight, due to on-going problems in the multi-tiered webs of today’s buyer-supplier relationships. The challenge is for corporate leadership in buyer firms to develop improved methods of ensuring that their suppliers manage with ethical values consonant with the sustainability strategies of those buyer firms, whose brands and reputations are at stake. For pragmatic reasons, today’s corporate leaders must view embedding of ethics in their supply chains not only as deontological value, but as crucial risk management tools. This study raises the question: what is the role of corporate leadership in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility (Note 1) in Supply Chain Management? (Note 2
Is the Paleomammalian Brain of Leaders an Immutable Barrier to Lasting World Harmony?
No full textThis exploratory paper hypothesizes that sustained universal peace is inexorably limited by the human genetic drive to survive. National and corporate leaders need to be particularly aware of their powerful, persistent, reptilian brains, especially when making decisions in conflict situations with the nuclear button readily accessible. Brain structure can explain the complexity. On the one hand, the slower, problem-solving, rational, neo cerebral brain is in the frontal cortex. On the other hand, the paleomammalian, subjective, primeval brain is located in the limbic system. The paleomammalian brain is fast, self-centered, and protective. Its quickness dominates. The unfortunate corrosive sides of humanity emerge from the limbic system when survival is, or perceived to be, threatened. War, cruelty, hypocrisy and impossible fantasies manifest from this brain structure. Given that some leaders—Trump, Putin, and Kim Jong Un, have the nuclear code, the possibility of destroying humanity is real
Refúgios dos Afro-Americanos cartografados na obra Between the World and Me de autoria de Ta-Nehisi Coates
No full textIn the aftermath of Black Lives Matter, a protest movement that arose following several deaths of young Afro-Americans at the hands of the police, Ta-Nehisi Coates, an Afro-American poet and journalist, published in 2015 the book Between the World and Me. In this work, the author maps out several places of refuge for the Afro-American urban communities, relating them with the presence of racism in the American society. My aim is to critically map out those places of refuge represented in Between the World and Me, always keeping in mind that the author writes from an individual point of view and his experience cannot be extrapolated to the whole of the Afro-American community.No rescaldo do movimento de protesto Black Lives Matter, motivado pela morte de jovens afro-americanos às mãos da polícia, Ta-Nehisi Coates, poeta e jornalista afro-americano, deu a lume em 2015 a obra Between the World and Me. Nela, o autor traça uma cartografia literária de espaços geográficos, respeitantes a comunidades urbanas afro-americanas, que na sua co-relação com o racismo se enquadram na categoria de refúgios. Tendo sempre em consideração que não se pode fazer deduções abusivas a partir da experiência individual de Coates, extrapolando-a a toda a comunidade afro-americana,proponho-me mapear criticamente esses espaços, esses refúgios dos afro-americanos, representados na obra em apreço
Approximate Personal Name-Matching Through Finite-State Graphs
No full textThis article shows how finite-state methods can be employed in a new and different task: the conflation of personal name variants in standard forms. In bibliographic databases and citation index systems, variant forms create problems of inaccuracy that affect information retrieval, the quality of information from databases, and the citation statistics used for the evaluation of scientists' work. A number of approximate string matching techniques have been developed to validate variant forms, based on similarity and equivalence relations. We classify the personal name variants as nonvalid and valid forms. In establishing an equivalence relation between valid variants and the standard form of its equivalence class, we defend the application of finite-state transducers. The process of variant identification requires the elaboration of: (a) binary matrices and (b) finite-state graphs. This procedure was tested on samples of author names from bibliographic records, selected from the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) databases. The evaluation involved calculating the measures of precision and recall, based on completeness and accuracy. The results demonstrate the usefulness of this approach, although it should be complemented with methods based on similarity relations for the recognition of spelling variants and misspellings
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