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Book Review: Stephen Bottomley, The Responsible Shareholder
No full textThe role that shareholders should play in the governance of modern companies is one of the most debated issues among corporate law scholars. In his new book, Professor Stephen Bottomley contributes to this body of literature by arguing that more should be expected of shareholders, both morally and legally, and that they should think of themselves as agents responsible for the actions of the companies from which they derive financial benefi
Peggy J. Blair on Commercial Law and Human Rights edited by Stephen Bottomley and David Kinley. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001. 356pp.
Full text linkA review of:
Commercial Law and Human Rights edited by Stephen Bottomley and David Kinley. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001. 356pp
The new corporate law
No full textCorporate social responsibility is back on the corporate law reform agenda. From an Australian perspective, the evidence for this is found in the simultaneous but separate inquiries that, at the time of writing this paper, are being conducted into this topic by the Australian Parliament’s Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, and by the Australian Government’s Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC). These developments are supported by the many standards, guidelines, principles, and codes promulgated by non-government bodies, industry groups and other international organisations. Cynics might dismiss these developments as part of a regular cycle of corporate law reform. After all, as we will see, this is not the first time that corporate social responsibility has appeared on the reform agenda. Others might suggest that, finally, this is an idea whose time has come. The purpose of this paper by Stephen Bottomley and Anthony Forsyth is to examine the extent to which this renewed, and widespread, attention to corporate social responsibility is being reflected in the substance of our systems of corporate law. Is it possible, and meaningful, to talk of a ‘new corporate law’ in which the concerns of people other than shareholders (or, indeed, the non-financial concerns of shareholders) are to be given serious attention
Work Exhibited at TRANSFORMA(C)TIONS: MATTER DIALOGUES. Munich 2026
No full text3 x Collider brooches, Silicon, Aluminium, Enamel, Steel, 2026
The ‘Collider’ brooches reflects a moment of impact between heritage metalworking and modern Space Age synthetic materials and techniques.
A silicon disc, scientifically grown in a laboratory for the electronics industry, is bombarded with particles of vitreous enamel and fired to 900 degrees Celsius. Vitreous enamel was invented for use with metal, not man-made silicon, where the fired particles fuse and bond, or resist and spring away, leaving the starry marks of their passage and flight. (Bottomley)
Exhibition information / context:
Minerals, are not inert, but vital and articulate. Shaped over time by elemental forces, they embody transformation. This exhibition approaches matter not solely as geological phenomena, but as vibrant agents that can provoke, inspire, influence, transform and direct creative processes. Between light and dark, solid and liquid, stable and unstable, matter operates as a mediator, forms through which meaning, symbolic, and metaphysical metamorphoses unfold. They speak in rhythms of transformation, growth, shimmer, and resistance.
The exhibition unfolds across four cabinets on the museum’s ground floor. Each zone invites you to engage in a dialogue with matter focussing on light, form, growth, and energy, pairing mineral specimens from the collection with contemporary jewellery and metal work objects that respond, resonate, or interrupt. The show invites visitors into a multisensory dialogue between matter formations and their enacted contemporary artistic (re)interpretations.
Zone 1 ‘Energetics’
In this zone the vitality of matter is investigated through function and force. Crystals are essential to modern technologies from semiconductors to timekeeping. Quartz generates an electric charge under mechanical stress, making it a cornerstone of modern electronics. Silicon is the backbone of modern computing, its crystalline structure enabling the flow and control of electrons that power our digital world. In this zone, crystals are not passive components, but explored as active collaborators of which energetic potentials can be reinterpreted beyond utility. Artists' works create a dialogue of how crystals shape our technological realities while inviting new narratives of energy, resonance, and transformation.
(Booons & Zhang)
Artists in this Zone: Stephen Bottomley, Lin Cheung, Katharina Dettar, Adi Toch, Grace Wilson, Marina Ito, Lili Barglowska, Nicholas Yiannarakis, Syd Kendal
Reworthit! Woolworths
No full textOnline exhibition of jewellery and objects made in response to the closure of Woolworths stores. Curated by Stephen Bottomley of Edinburgh College of Art. The work was researched, designed, made, exhibited and catalogued ‘on line’ via flickr and blurb.</p
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
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
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