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How can the board add value?
No full textThere are at least three main areas in which boards of directors can add value to their corporate enterprise. Ada Demb and F.-Friedrich Neubauer evaluate two -- monitoring management and helping to formulate corporate strategy -- and find them valuable. But it is the third area where the board has a unique and unequivocal role. It can make itself responsible for identifying and prioritising standards against which the corporation will allow itself to be judged. These standards range widely from financial to environmental and all impinge on the "corporate lifespace". Demb and Neubauer argue that the external vision and judgement brought about by board directors to mediate this lifespace provide the greatest added-value of all.
Defining responsible ownership: Cross-national persperctives
No full textAs corporate ownership patterns change, institutional investors across the industrialized world are experimenting to find behaviors consistent with the responbibilities of their new ownership roles. Ada Demb and Brenda Richey explore the potential corporate governance role of these investors with a discussion of the major factors affecting both the logic and action of institutional owners. A comprehensive framework for cross national analysis of these issues is developed, with special emphasis on the previously unexplored issue of CEO leadership. The article concludes with a discussion of the practical questions these factors raise for institutional executives and an identification of those factors that present the most promising areas for future inquiry
ADA newsletter
No full textThis archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Transnational Governance for a Global Economy
No full textAs the 21st century approaches, there are many pressures prompting changes in corporate board behavior. The author characterizes the current responses as TQM (more of the same, only better) or reengineering (transformation). To respond adequately to the reality and complexities of a global economy, the author argues that approaches to both corporate governance and boards are in need of reengineering. Directions for board transformation are illustrated with a new framework based on the orientation and constitution of boards. Five new board configurations and the path of evolution are presented
The very short story in the time of revolution. al-Mihmāz (the Spur) and the Syrian author Zakariyā Tāmir
No full textThe mass protests swept through the Middle East in early 2011 underlined the role of modern information-communication technologies (ICT). From a literary point of view, the “Arab Spring” inevitably marked the birth of a new model of writing, characterised by a more participatory, global and immediate manner of expression that could be defined as Humanism 2.0. In this context, we may insert the experimental writing by the famous Syrian author Zakariyā Tāmir: on the al-Mihmāz (The Spur) Facebook page the writer begins a literary journey publishing daily posts and explicitly supporting the Syrian revolution. This contribution intends to analyse a few of Tāmir’s most significant posts published on Facebook. The time span is 2012, just one year after the Syrian revolution: thanks to aphorisms, posts and short stories, a new literary pact with potential readers is inaugurated, within a phenomenon that we can call al-adab al-raqmī (digital literature
Introduction a "Iraq After 2003: When Trauma Becomes Art. Myth, History, and Literature"
No full textThe article aims at introducing the volume "Iraq After 2003: When Trauma Becomes Art. Myth, History, and Literature", edited By Ada Barbaro. The volume aims to provide lenses that examine, from various angles, a country, Iraq, in the aftermath of the quintessential trauma of its contemporary history, namely, 2003.The volume is thus a collection of "narratives", of
narrative acts that render the relationship between reality and its discourse almost oxymoronic. The present work, born in the wake of the conference «Iraq After 2003: When Trauma Becomes Art. Myth, History, and Literature», is therefore published as an outcome of the scientific project "Forms, Languages, and [Con]texts of Tàrìkh: Writing and Rewriting History in Iraq", of which the author of these pages is the Principal Investigator
Faculty perceptions of innovation and change dynamics in interprofessional education
No full textSession presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015:
The effectiveness of interprofessional teams is critical to the safe and effective delivery of health care. Improvements in team behavior rely on collaboration, and, result in reductions in medical error. Educators in the health professions are consequently encouraged to embed interprofessional education (IPE) into their curricula. However, integrating IPE presents structural, curricular and human factor challenges. Nurses and physicians comprise the dominant dyad in health care teams, therefore insights from nursing and medical faculty are essential for guiding IPE strategy. IPE research has focused heavily on learners, in pre-licensure and continuing education settings, but less is known about IPE from the faculty point of view. A phenomenological study of nursing and medical faculty perceptions regarding key factors in IPE was conducted to that end. This poster presents findings focused on the structural and change aspects revealed in that study. Collaboration and cooperation theories guided development of the study and construction of the research questions, a semi-structured interview guide, and data analysis. Faculty were asked to reflect on the pedagogical and environmental factors that helped students learn interprofessional teamwork and collaboration, and to describe their experiences. Interviews were conducted with 32 faculty from three Midwest universities. Approximately half the participants were nursing and half medical faculty. Data were analyzed thematically, and the perceived realities of the two faculty groups explored and compared for common themes. Two major thematic categories, student-centered, and environment and cultures, were used to organize 6 emergent themes: curricular methods/pedagogy, clinical environments, student roles/role understanding, educational program structures/cultures, faculty engagement/competency and development, and curricular change considerations. Findings related to the six major themes are reported elsewhere (Loversidge & Demb, 2014). During the data analysis, the researchers noticed strong references to innovation and change threaded throughout the participant\u27s descriptions of their lived experiences and felt this warranted a secondary analysis of the data. Innovation and change theories guided the secondary analysis. Two rounds of data coding, reduction, and analysis were conducted using NVivo10. Findings revealed faculty perspectives related to IPE innovation and change. Participants discussed processes they engaged in or observed that advanced or hindered IPE and focused on aspects of academic medical center structures, the presence of committed leadership, curricular restructuring, curricular funding, inter-college and departmental relationships and partnerships, and authentic/comprehensive faculty engagement. Changes in education and practice partnerships emphasizing the cultivation of positive collaborative environments were considered essential. Not only does IPE require innovative pedagogy and faculty proficiency, but supportive academic structures and clinical environments are also necessary. Achieving real change toward embedding IPE in curricula was described as an achievable but formidable task: an effort requiring both innovation and organizational change. These findings reveal implications for nursing and medical educators, which include addressing the structure of relationships between colleges and departments in academic medical centers, developing processes essential for realizing fundamental curriculum change, and managing forces for improving faculty engagement in IPE
Il culto di san Michele in Campania. Antonino e Catello
No full textIl volume, diviso in quattro sezioni, approfondisce l'origine e la diffusione del culto di San Michele in Campania, nelle sue varie espressioni. Nella prima parte vengono indagati gli insediamenti micaelici, con particolare riferimento alle numerose grotte che, sull'esempio di quella garganica, furono dedicate a San Michele soprattutto lungo l'asse Salerno-Avellino- Benevento. Il volume analizza numerosi testi agiografici campani che attestano la presenza dell'Angelo talvolta con generiche funzioni di angelo custode, talaltra con gli attributi tipici di San Michele. Una cospicua sezione del volume è dedicata al dossier agiografico di Antonino e Catello, rispettivamente monaco e vescovo di Sorrento e Stabia, un'area da sempre roccaforte bizantina. Sulla base di elementi storici e di elementi rivenienti dal dossier agiografico viene posticipata all'XI secolo - e quindi di oltre un secolo rispetto alle posizioni della critica- l'epoca di composizione della Vita Antonini (XI secolo). In quest'epoca Sorrento vive un particolare momento di vivacità e di rinnovamento a livello politico, sociale e religioso. Nei testi agiografici Antonino e Catello sono co-fondatori del Santuario del Monte Faito, considerato il santuario nazionale dei Bizantini, anche per ragioni di antagonismo e rivalità con il Santuario di San Michele del Gargano, santuario nazionale dei LongobardiThe book, divided into four parts, is a thorough analysis of the cult of St. Michael in Campania, in its various expressions.
In the first part the author presents micaelici settlements with particular reference to the numerous caves that, based on the example of the Gargano, were dedicated to the Angel, especially along the road Salerno-Avellino-Benevento. The book contains an examination of the hagiographic texts from Campania attesting the presence of Angel, sometimes in its generic function of custos, sometimes with attributes typical of Michael.
The author analyzes the hagiographic dossier of Antoninus and Catello, respectively monaco and bishop of Sorrento and Stabiae. The author basing on historical data and data emerging from the same dossier, delaies more than a century the composition of the Vita Antonini (11th century). In this century Sorrento lived a revival on political-institutional-religious level. The anonymous author of Life - probably a monaco /bishop - approaches Antonino (IX century) and Catello (sixth century) making the abbot of Sorrento co-starred in the foundation of the sanctuary of St. Michael on Mount Fait, considered a national shrine of the Byzantines in Naples, also for reasons of competition with the sanctuary of Mount St. Michael Gargano, traditionally linked to the Lombards
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
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