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Correspondence: Laura Kephart and Arthur Stupka
No full textThis 1936 correspondence, between Laura Kephart (Mrs. Horace Kephart) and Arthur Stupka, concerns a possible Kephart Memorial. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Arthur Stupka (1905-1999) was the first park naturalist to work at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
Dr. Arthur Pindle, Spelman College, April, 2012
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Arthur Pindle. Dr. Pindle talks about his book, "Bayou St. John". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Management Control in Family Firms : the Influence of Family Involvement on Decision-Facilitating and Decision-Influencing Roles of Management Control Systems
No full textThis dissertation analyzes the effect of family involvement on management control systems (MCS). Despite their economic relevance, family firms are largely ignored in extant management accounting research. Drawing on the idiosyncrasies of family firms, this thesis argues in a theory-driven way that family involvement is a contingency factor that explains variation in MCS across firms. This thesis posits that family firms display significant differences compared to non-family firms with regard to both decision-facilitating and decision-influencing roles of MCS. Furthermore, the performance implications of MCS in family firms are also investigated. Drawing on survey data from 230 firms from a single industry in the German-speaking countries, this thesis provides empirical evidence for the difference between family and non-family firms with regard to MCS. The results thus underline the relevance of family involvement as an additional contingency factor that drives the design and use of MCS. In a second step, this thesis looks at the performance effects of MCS use in family firms and subsequently derives recommendations as to how MCS should be used in family firms. Generally speaking, the results reveal that the different MCS use of family firms compared to non-family firms does not necessarily exert a negative influence on performance. Therefore, the results of this dissertation contradict the common proposition that family firms could be more successful if they behaved more similarly to non-family firms (i. e. more professionally)
When Action Controls Take Over: The Interrelationship between Action Accountability and Job Autonomy
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Bartholomew Tardiveau letter to Arthur St. Clair, June 30, 1789
No full textThis letter written by B. Cardiveau to Arthur St. Clair in June 1789 argues that slaves from the Southern states should be allowed to continue their servitude in the Northwest Territory even though slavery was outlawed by the Northwest Ordinance. Cardiveau predicts that if slaves are not allowed to be kept in the territory, southerners will not settle north of the Ohio River, and the area "will infallibly remain for a long time in a state of infancy." Cardiveau also suggests that slavery could be completely repealed if and when Ohio became a state and the citizens had a right to decide for themselves. The seven-page letter measures 9" by 13" (10 by 32 cm) and is part of a larger collection of Arthur St. Clair letters that is owned by the State Library of Ohio and on permanent deposit at the Ohio History Connection.
Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818) was governor of the Northwest Territory and administrator of Indian affairs for the western territories from 1787 to 1802. St. Clair led an army against a large alliance of American Indians, led by Shawnee chief Weyapiersenwah (Blue Jacket) and Miami chief Mishikinakwa (Little Turtle), who threatened war after their land was given to the U. S. government without their authorization, in November 1791. St. Clair suffered a disastrous defeat, losing half of his men. In response, President George Washington appointed General Anthony Wayne to defeat the region's American Indian tribes, which he did in 1794 at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. St. Clair also had many disagreements with the territorial legislature. He supported the division of the territory into different states that would be admitted separately to the Union despite the opposition of members of the legislature, including Thomas Worthington, who wished to hasten Ohio's admission for statehood. In 1802, Worthington and others asked President Thomas Jefferson to dismiss St. Clair from office, which he did on November 22, thus clearing the way for the legislature to begin drafting Ohio's constitution. St. Clair retired to his home in Lingonier, Pennsylvania, and died there in 1818
A Management-Control Perspective on Risk Management: The Complementarity between Risk-Focused Results Controls and Risk-Focused Information Sharing
No full textIn this study, I investigate how companies design risk-focused control systems in a way that aligns employee risk-taking behavior with overall organizational goals. To investigate how firms go about this control problem, I consider risk-focused results controls (i.e. expanding results controls by risk aspects) and risk-focused information sharing (i.e. fostering risk dialogue). When companies design risk-focused control systems, they face a dilemma. Firms on the one hand need to keep employees in line by monitoring goal attainment and risks taken, but on the other hand they also need to make sure that employees still have leeway to search for novel solutions and emerging opportunities. The difficulty to balance control and empowerment is reflected in the use of risk-focused results controls. While overly emphasizing the use of risk-focused results controls might lead to a loss of flexibility among employees, no use of risk-focused results controls might cause excessive employee risk-taking at the firm’s expense. I argue theoretically and show empirically that companies go about solving this control problem by jointly using risk-focused results controls and risk-focused information sharing. Moreover, drawing on complementarity theory I predict and empirically show that risk-focused results controls, risk-focused information sharing, and an active growth orientation form a set of complementary firm choices. This implies that two choices together reinforce each other stronger with an increasing use of the third choice variable. Using data from a survey of 202 companies, I find empirical support for my hypotheses
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