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The marriage of reason & squalor
No full textIn his first work of fiction, artist Jake Chapman slashes the romantic novel down to bare bone and constructs his own disfigured version from the slaughtered remains.Chlamydia Love is gifted her very own tropical island by her fiancé, where she develops a grudging adoration for its real owner, the enigmatic bestselling author, Helmut Mandragorass. A battle between her fiancé and Helmut ensues, for ownership of the island and ultimately for the love of Chlamydia.This mercilessly subversive tale is illustrated by Chlamydia's watercolours entitled Visions of Morass, images inspired by the island as she struggles with her feelings of agony and ecstasy.<br/
Jake and Iris Burritt Residence
No full textPhotograph - Jake and Iris Burritt residence, Athabasca, Alberta was built in 191
Pre-Biblical and Old Testament rape law parallels: recurring androcentric themes in historic Biblical text
No full textRape legislation in ancient Near Eastern texts is very slanted in respect to a pervasive androcentric ideology that drives the punitive outcomes. Unfortunately, evidence shows the lives of women in terms of their perceived societal value are affected (often negatively) in regard to their social status; regardless of region or period. Women did not wield much social power in ancient times and the laws demonstrate resolutions for prescribed transgressions that neglected to include any consideration for the viewpoint of women; who were the primary victims of the rape offense. As a result, women suffered and were historically antagonized by the these laws which failed to protect them. This research will illuminate the disparities by examining the laws in various regions of the period and challenge the underlying themes.M.A.L.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Jake J. Jone
Jake and Iris Burritt Residence - 02
No full textPhotograph - Jake and Iris Burritt residence, Athabasca, Alberta was built in 191
Chinese SME development and industrial upgrading
No full textPurpose: Drawing from industrial upgrading theories, this study aims to explore the issues of industrial upgrading and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) development in an emerging market – China. Design/methodology/approach: A contextual stepwise approach is undertaken by applying netnography and interviews to investigate manufacturing SMEs' perceptions on upgrading. Findings: The study outlines three economic actors – government, industry and manufacturer; two upgrading factors – internal and external; a vicious circle that consists of thin profit, quality and imitation issues; and a benign circle that incorporates a list of upgrading capabilities – research and development (R&D), creativity, design and branding – in the context of upgrading to the value-added supply chain. Research limitations/implications: By integrating the findings with relevant literature, the authors propose a framework to best illustrate manufacturing SME upgrading. The findings reveal that Chinese manufacturing SMEs acquire upgrading capabilities through organizational learning during the upgrading process, which is affected by both external and internal factors in the constraints imposed by the interplay of relevant actors. Originality/value: Through the innovative methodological approach, this study affords great insights into industrial upgrading from the perspective of manufacturing SMEs in an emerging economy – China.</p
Product innovativeness under market uncertainty: the mediating impact of market orientation and absorptive capacity
No full textIn increasingly uncertain market environments, businesses often struggle to maintain competitiveness through product innovation. Therefore, understanding how business entities, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), leverage their internal resources and capabilities to drive product innovation requires further exploration. This study, based on a survey of 313 Chinese technology-based SMEs, examines how SMEs utilise resources such as market orientation (i.e. customer orientation and competitor orientation) and absorptive capacity to enhance product development innovation in uncertain market conditions. Our findings indicate that market environmental uncertainty positively influences product innovativeness. Additionally, SMEs are more likely to prioritise processing competitor information to enhance product innovation while placing less emphasis on adopting a customer-oriented strategy in highly dynamic and uncertain markets. This study contributes to the literature by conceptualising market uncertainty as a driver of business activities and empirically testing its alignment with internal contingencies to reveal its effects on product innovativeness
Managing and building B2B SME brands: an emerging market perspective
No full textPurposeThis paper aims to distil the management challenge pertaining to B2B SME branding strategy, communication and constraint in the emerging market context of Chinese manufacturing.Design/methodology/approachComplemented by 19 interviews, this paper adopted a novel methodological approach – netnographic analysis – to investigate a selection of Chinese manufacturing SMEs.FindingsFindings revealed three managerial approaches to B2B brand management: conservative, flexible and integrated-exploratory.Practical implicationsUnderstanding the three approaches offers managerial implications for Chinese manufacturer SMEs to redesign their branding practice. Informed with a better understanding of the available option, they will be able to achieve high value-added production through branding to gain competitiveness. This study sheds light on B2B SME branding from an emerging market perspective, an area that has been largely neglected in the existing literature.Originality/valueFindings make a novel contribution to B2B SME brand management literature by clarifying practical management issues pertinent to Chinese emerging market manufacturers in particular, and offering widely generalizable lessons for B2B brand management research
Oregon's urban cores saw steep declines in commuter-adjusted population
No full textby Jake Procino.Converted from HTML.This 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
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