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Geography and the Enterprise in Higher Education initiative: problems and potential.
Full text linkThe book includes all twelve papers given at a conference held in Lancaster in 1991 on the Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative. This chapter evaluates the EHE Initiative as it was constructed and implemented in the Department of Geography at Lancaster University using "enterprise dissertations". These were placement-based undergraduate research dissertations, somewhat ahead of their time for geography
Pension Security in the 21st Century: Redrawing the Public-Private Debate: Introduction.
No full textBio-Bibliography: William Clark Gordon (1865-1936)
Full text linkWilliam Clark Gordon was a clergyman and an early theorist of the relationships between literature and sociology. He earned a Ph.D. in the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1899 where he majored — within the School’s own Department of Sociology — in social institutions. As such, he completed his doctorate during the first full decade of Chicago’s pioneering sociological project — a fact noted but misattributed by Robert E. L. Faris (1967) to work in the University’s Department of Sociology in the Graduate School of Arts and Literature (Hill 2005). As a practicing clergyman, Gordon’s professional attentions focused on pastoral duties for many years, becoming a university professor only in later life. Although sociologically trained, there is no evidence that he ever taught a formal sociology course2 or participated in the activities of the American Sociological Society
Alien Registration- Clark, Gordon T. (Mars Hill, Aroostook County)
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A corporate geography of Canada: governance and networks
Full text linkUnderstanding corporate governance from an academic, practical, legislative, and social perspective has never been more important given the increasingly internationalized and financialized global economy. The global financial crisis of 2008 and resultant recession painfully evidence what many scholars have argued throughout the last century: in market-based economies, the economic and the social spheres remain inseparable. Today, such economies rest on the backs of publicly-traded corporations and understanding how such corporations are governed is the goal of this research effort. I argue that corporate governance is not a set of characteristics to be measured, modelled, and packaged as prescriptive principles but rather it is a series of exercises in decision-making across space and time rife with idiosyncrasies. As such, I present a novel corporate governance research agenda which focuses on the two pillars of decision-making, namely the environmental contexts within which the decision-making processes are embedded and the networks of agents involved in such processes. In a globalized economic setting, both the environmental contexts and the networks of agents readily transcend multiple social, cultural, and geo-political boundaries—resultantly, the research agenda I present is one predicated on the geography of governance. I apply my research agenda to the Canadian setting in efforts to demonstrate the utility of this research agenda while providing a better understanding of the Canadian model of corporate governance. This research is the first to systematically investigate the Canadian model of corporate governance and concludes that, contrary to predominant assumptions, there is no single harmonious national model but rather a mosaic of thirteen distinct provincial and territorial models which are asymmetrically linked by means of market actors and interactions and which exists in a temporary balance of parochial and cosmopolitan forces
Scarcity and wealth revisited: perspectives on commodity markets in the 21st century
Full text linkThis thesis explores a selection of the ways in which an era of high mineral commodity prices - commonly dubbed the 'super-cycle' of the 2000s - is reshaping the map of global commodity markets. It pursues this agenda through three research aims: (1) to recast the relationship between geophysical resource supply, prices, and markets; (2) to examine some of the institutions that channel and benefit from resource wealth; and (3) to 'open the black box' of the commodity price formation process. The thesis pursues this agenda through four substantive papers, each with its own set of research objectives and findings, and primarily uses the example of phosphate as a vehicle for discussion. The first half of the thesis focuses on the production side of commodity markets. It begins by exploring the multidimensional nature of the concept of resource scarcity, both in its geophysical and socioeconomic aspects, by interrogating a prominent inherited conception of natural resource scarcity: 'peak' natural resources, specifically peak phosphorus discourses (chapter 3). The thesis then carries on the research agenda suggested by this initial study by conducting a field research-based case study of the little-known Moroccan state-owned phosphate mining and fertilizer company, OCP Group (chapter 4). It explores the particular type of principal-agent problem in generating and distributing national resource wealth that national extractive companies (NECs) such as OCP face. The second substantive half of the thesis is concerned with global commodity trading and price formation. It constructs an 'anatomy' of global phosphate markets in order to shed light on the phosphate price formation process (chapter 5). Based on this investigation, the thesis argues that despite the opacity of the processes by which phosphate is priced, an apparent lack of a 'benchmark' or reference price is not necessarily as problematic as market theorists might assume. Finally, the thesis takes a macro-level perspective of the relationship between finance and physical commodity trade by examining the role of financial trading in the governance of commodity markets (chapter 6). Overall the thesis distils the following findings. To begin with, a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the concept of resource scarcity puts short-term price movements as indicators of resource availability into perspective while revealing an unforeseen degree of complexity, as well as certain 'blind spots', in the geopolitical and institutional aspects of resource supply and trading. Second, the power of two particular, less-researched types of institutions that channel and benefit from resource wealth - names, national extractive companies and financial investors - is both less great and different in nature than is commonly assumed. Third, for institutional as well as geographic reasons that are specific to different types of commodities, the commodity price formation process is even further from the joint ideals of market transparency and liquidity than is commonly assumed. Finally, insofar as commodity production and trade can be conceived as part of the 'real economy', it cannot succumb to what is widely feared as the hegemony of 'financial logic'
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