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Stakeholder Engagement though Empowerment: The case of Coffee Farmers
No full textInternational audienceWhile most studies on stakeholder engagement focus on high‐power stakeholders (typically, employees), limited attention has been devoted to the engagement of low‐power stakeholders. These have been defined as vulnerable stakeholders for their low capacity to influence corporations. Our research is framed around the engagement of low‐power stakeholders in the coffee industry who are, paradoxically, critical resource providers for the major roasters. Through the case study of Lavazza—the leading Italian roaster—we investigate empowerment actions addressed to smallholder farmers located in Brazil, India, East Africa, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. We contribute to the theoretical discussion around engagement and empowerment by developing a framework linking together areas of empowerment (defined in the literature) and specific empowerment actions (emerging from our interviews). Our insights shed light on how organizations can design empowerment strategies leading to more effective stakeholder engagement and how empowerment actions can contribute to turn low‐power stakeholders into active business partners. We demonstrate that moving from a traditional competitive view of corporate–stakeholder relationships to a stakeholder theory view based on a logic of cooperative partnerships reinforces the idea that stakeholder engagement and empowerment are both entangled with the value creation process
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Corporate social responsibility and the environment - by Farah Daher Abi-Haila
No full textProject (M.B.A.)--American University of Beirut, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, 2010.;"First Reader : Dr. Dima Jamali, Associate Professor, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business--Second Reader : Dr. Mutasem El-Fadel, Professor, Civil and EnvironmentBibliography : leaves 73-76.No longer must any business overlook the three big words of our age: globalization and global warming . Globalisation extended the responsibility of local companies to the natural environment. Disney, Gucci, Johnson and Johnson, GE, Mitsubishi Electri
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) managers involvement and influence - by Mazen Abbas Yehia
No full textProject (M.B.A.)--American University of Beirut, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, 2007.;"First Reader : Dr. Dima Jamali, Assistant Professor, Business--Second Reader : Dr. Yusuf Sidani, Assistant Professor, Business."Bibliography : leaves 107-108.The present research aspires to offer a better understanding of the concept of C orporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which is very controversial, evolving and not easily defined. It sheds light on the role of managers and CEOs on implement ing CSR stra
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is this what Lebanese consumers want?
No full textProject (M.B.A.)--American University of Beirut, Suliman S. Olayan school of Business, 2011.;"First Reader : Dr. Dima Jamali, Associate Professor, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business--Second Reader : Dr. Imad Baalbaki, Assistant Vice President, DevelopmeBibliography : leaves 78-82.Purpose - Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a hot subject lately across the globe, and has gained a lot of attention lately in the Middle East. The purpose of this paper is to study CSR from a consumer perspective, through trying to define and tes
Auditing and reporting corporate social responsibility - by Zein George Haddad
No full textProject (M.B.A.)--American University of Beirut, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, 2009.;"First Reader : Dr. Yusuf Sidani, Associate Professor ,Suliman S. Olayan School of Business--Second Reader : Dr. Dima Jamali, Associate Professor, Suliman S. OlayBibliography : leaves 69-71.The focus of this paper is to provide an overview about the corporate social res ponsibility reporting frameworks and practices worldwide, and accordingly, appra ise the Lebanese organizations' practices in this field. In that respect, an in-depth resear
Client representative's role in conflict management and dispute resolution - by Maya Amine El-Mehtar.
No full textProject (M.E.M.)--American University of Beirut, Engineering Management Program, 2004.;"First Reader: Dr. M. Assem Abdul Malak, Professor, Engineering Management Second Reader: Dr. Dima Jamali, Assistant Professor, Suliman S. Olayan School of BusinessBibliography: leaves 113-116.Conflict can be defined as an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties who perceive incompatible goals, scarce resources, and interference from others in achieving their goals . Given the highly interdependent nature of constructio
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