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Graham, Laura. "Governing Sex Work Through Crime." Journal of Criminal Law 81, no. 3 (June 2017): 201–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022018317702802.
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This article uses Jonathan Simon’s concept of ‘governing through crime’ as a framework to argue that the state has framed sex work, and its surrounding problems, as issues of crime. There has been a privileging and proliferation of criminal justice responses to sex work in England and Wales, at the expense of more social or welfare-based responses and at the expense of creating safer environments for sex workers to work. Criminal law is used to manage and control sex work, to reinforce other policies, such as immigration and border control, and to appear to be doing something about the ‘problem’ of sex work without providing rights to sex workers. By framing sex work as an issue of crime, with sex workers being both the perpetrators of crime and the potential victims of exploitative crime, the state is able to legitimise its actions against sex workers, while ignoring the harm done to sex workers by the state.
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Hjärpe, Teres. "Social Work on the Whiteboard: Governing by Comparing Performance." Social Inclusion 7, no. 1 (February 28, 2019): 185–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i1.1829.
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This article explores a number-based comparative logic unfolding around a particular kind of meeting in a social work setting: a daily and short gathering referred to as a “pulse meeting”. At such meetings, staff gather around a whiteboard visualizing individual statistics in terms of the number of client meetings performed or assistance decisions made. The statistics function as a basis for further division of work tasks. As such, it is a particular way of representing what social workers do at work. Ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the social services revealed how such openly exposed individual performance and the related number-based comparative logic can trump alternative logics ranging from the overall collective performance, competing views on clients’ needs and efficiency, and the social worker’s sense of professionalism. When participants of the study compared themselves to each other and in relation to standards and goals, certain conclusions were drawn about what should be done by whom and in what order. Such conclusions became embedded in an objectivity status difficult for anyone to argue against. Finally, the number-based logic also found its way into the counter-practices formulated by social workers unsatisfied with what was visualized on the whiteboard.
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Jacobsson, Katarina, and Anna Meeuwisse. "‘State governing of knowledge’ – constraining social work research and practice." European Journal of Social Work 23, no. 2 (October 11, 2018): 277–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2018.1530642.
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Beckett, Jonathan P. "The changing nature of social work." International Social Work 61, no. 6 (March 7, 2017): 968–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872817695645.
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Defining the nature of social work can be both complex and nebulous. This article seeks to analyse the three historical strands to the subject: (1) the centralisation of poor relief, (2) the development of the philanthropic ‘settlement’ movement and (3) the proliferation of charitable outreach projects into the community. In so doing, it examines social work and social change, the interface of social work and the law, and the tensions and contradictions within the law governing social work and practice. The boundaries between society, the law and social work practice appear ambiguous, and changes within the state and law have left paradoxes.
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Baeza, Sam. "Governing Risk: Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work, Mark Hardy." British Journal of Social Work 47, no. 5 (May 19, 2016): 1593–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcw055.
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Stanley, Tony. "Governing risk: Care and control in contemporary social work Mark Hardy." Qualitative Social Work 14, no. 5 (September 2015): 726–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325015600350b.
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Tangen, James. "Governing risk: Care and control in contemporary social work Mark Hardy." Journal of Social Work 16, no. 4 (June 8, 2016): 511–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468017316633922.
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Mareková, HermĂna. "ETHICAL ASPECTS OF SOCIAL WORK IN MODERN SOCIETY." CBU International Conference Proceedings 5 (September 23, 2017): 710–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v5.1012.
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The basic principle for the exercise of professional social work is the respect for human rights and social justice. The social worker's activity is associated with high expectations on the part of society, although the moral standards of society are typically on a lower level. The legislative environment or norms governing the decisions of social workers are determined by legislation as well as generally applicable ethical norms. In practice, this creates ethical dilemmas consisting in the acceptance of a hierarchy or priorities of individual norms, whereas the adopted and applied values and norms can be counterproductive. This situation may cause a conflict between professional ethics and valid social norms. The following article tackles the issues in social work arising from the stereotypes surviving in society and a lack of competence of many social workers.
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Madden, Robert G. "Disability Law and Undergraduate Social Work Education: Practicing What We Preach." Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work 1, no. 1 (October 1, 1995): 71–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.18084/1084-7219.1.1.71.
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There are a variety of laws and regulations governing the relationship between a postsecondary education institution and a student with a disability. This paper reviews the laws by analyzing cases brought by students who claimed their rights had been violated. Specific recommendations are made for undergraduate social work programs. Student rights can be protected while maintaining program integrity if programs can respond flexibly to the needs of students with disabilities.
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Bochsler, Yann. "Governing Young Poor in Switzerland and Reinforcing Their Work Ethics." Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 66, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 471–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zsr-2020-0020.
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Abstract The present research deals with the policies directed at young adults on social assistance (YAS) without vocational training and the way implementers themselves as well as the YAS perceive policy implementation. In Switzerland, a currently on-going strategic shift in the policy field of welfare and youth policies has renewed emphasis on vocational education and training (VET) as a first and primary integration step. This policy shift has implications for the socio-political alignment of the cantonal administration. As a guideline, the renewed emphasis on “education first” dictates an approach that follows an economic and paternalistic logic. Building on collected data within cantonal administrations (Basel-City and Geneva) and encounters with YAS, this paper discusses the underlying narratives of these policies and their moral justification patterns.
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Kettner, Verena. "Otto Penz, Birgit Sauer (2020): Governing Affects. Neoliberalism, Neo-Bureaucracies, and Service Work." Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 45, no. 3 (May 19, 2020): 375–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11614-020-00418-9.
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Abu-Hassan, Reem. "The Laws Governing The Work Of Women In Muslim Countries Today: The Jordanian Case." Hawwa 1, no. 3 (2003): 351–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920803322765173.
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AbstractIn the Muslim world, women have equal opportunities of work on theoretical and legislative bases, but in practice women benefit less than men because of the de facto discrimination practices of society. This paper deals with the laws guiding the work of women in Muslim countries by using the Jordanian legal system as an example. It will be argued that law is an important area of practice for social transformation. By recognizing that power is diffused throughout society rather than located solely in the state and related institutions, law can be used to facilitate transitions in social and economic transformations even where traditions and social constraints severely hinder change.
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Sheldon, James R., and John S. Trach. "Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income Work Incentives with Recommendations for Policy Change." Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling 29, no. 4 (December 1, 1998): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0047-2220.29.4.8.
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This paper summarizes current Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) rules governing how work affects benefits, and explains how work activity affects Medicare and Medicaid. Recommendations are provided for policy change in order for the SSDI and SSI rules to operate as true work incentives.
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Adey, Peter, Ben Anderson, and Stephen Graham. "Introduction: Governing Emergencies: Beyond Exceptionality." Theory, Culture & Society 32, no. 2 (January 27, 2015): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276414565719.
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What characterizes emergency today is the proliferation of the term. Any event or situation supposedly has the potential to become an emergency. Emergencies may happen anywhere and at any time. They are not contained within one functional sector or one domain of life. The substantive focus of the articles collected in this special issue reflects this proliferation: they explore ways of governing in, by and through emergencies across different types of emergencies and different domains of life. In response to this proliferation, the issue opens up critical work on the politics of emergency beyond the ‘state of exception’ as dominant paradigm. Emergency is treated as a problem for government that calls for the invention of new techniques or the redeployment of existing techniques. Through this shift in emphasis, the articles in this issue disclose relations between modalities of power and emergency life that differ from the ‘lightening flash’ of a sovereign decision on the exception taken from outside of life, or the capacity to ‘mould’ an always-already emergent life from within life.
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Tudor, Raewyn. "Governing Through Relationship: A Positive Critique of School Social Work Practice in Post-Earthquake, Christchurch, New Zealand." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 5 (November 27, 2019): 1457–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz140.
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Abstract This article outlines some findings from an inquiry undertaken in the aftermath of 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which positive critique was used to examine the practice accounts of twelve school social workers alongside characteristics of recovery policies. Consistent with Foucault’s (1988, 2003a,b, 2013a) mode of critique and his theorisation of biopolitics and pastoral power, positive critique recognises the multiplicity and productivity of contemporary power relations operating at the populational, collective and individual levels of life. A feature of the participants’ accounts of their practices with affected schoolchildren in the recovery space is their commitment to restoring and protecting their clients’ well-being through therapeutically inclined relational practice. The Christchurch earthquake recovery strategy also sets out the provision of specialised, individual assistance for vulnerable populations excluded from ‘normal’ psychosocial recovery processes because of their inability to participate in community self-help initiatives. The findings presented in this article provide a critical space for social workers to reflect on the dimensions of their relational work that function as therapeutic governance practices that can both strengthen and resist the normative notions of vulnerability and recovering well.
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Braakenburg, Henri. "Quality Management in Social Work in the Netherlands: Principles and Approach." Socialinė teorija, empirija, politika ir praktika 1 (October 3, 2015): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/stepp.2001.0.8496.
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The development of social work quality management in the Netherlands is presented in the article. There are two parts of the article. The development of social work quality conception and policy is described in the first part of the article. Prior to 1970 the paternalistic approach was dominant in the field of social care quality – the legitimacy of organization was dependent on the standards and rules managed by the authorities. Later due to the increasing complexity and the specialization in the care sector , the idea of a self-governing system emerged and was supported by the actors of social care system. The providers, insurers and clients' organizations were expected to ensure quality by mutual agreement. At present day the quality of social work is understood in the perspective of total quality management in Netherlands. Total quality management is the best strategy in order to make trade offs between different interests and understandings of social work quality. The methods and instruments to further the quality in to practice are presented in the second part of the article.
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Lillis, Theresa, Maria Leedham, and Alison Twiner. "Time, the Written Record, and Professional Practice: The Case of Contemporary Social Work." Written Communication 37, no. 4 (July 25, 2020): 431–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741088320938804.
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Drawing on a three-year ethnographically oriented study exploring contemporary professional social work writing, this article focuses on a key concern: the amount of time taken up with writing, or “paperwork.” We explore the relationship between time and professional social work writing in three key ways: (a) as a discrete, measurable phenomenon—how much time is spent on writing? (b) as a textual dimension to social work writing—how do institutional documents drive particular entextualizations of time and how do social worker texts entextualize time? (c) as a particular timespace configuration of lived experience—how is time experienced by professional social workers? Findings indicate that a dominant institutional chronotope is governing social work textual practice underpinned by an ideology of writing that is at odds with social workers’ desired practice and professional goals. Methodologically, this article illustrates the value of combining a range of data and analytic tools, using textual and contextual data as well as qualitative and quantitative frames of analysis.
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Werbrouck, Jakob. "Understanding Bismarck’s legacy: The role of work history in Belgian social security law." European Journal of Social Security 21, no. 4 (December 2019): 326–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1388262719895325.
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This article examines the role that work history plays in income replacement social security benefits in Belgium. The central premise is that, due to the Bismarckian origins of Belgian social security, work history is a concept that is structurally at the core of this system. However, the fact that this element is, from a legal perspective, considered to be self-evident and a prerequisite for the functioning of social security, should not preclude us from exploring its contingent nature. The article argues that the way in which work history is expressed in the laws governing different social security benefits can sometimes create or perpetuate a certain state of affairs, based on an underlying value judgement. In this sense, work history supersedes the mere technical or neutral character that can be attributed to it, and in fact functions as an implicit or explicit policy tool to help model social security in a particular way
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Томашевська, Т. В. "Priority functions of political and governing elite on the modern stage of creation of the state." PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ASPECTS 4, no. 1-2 (February 4, 2016): 51–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/1516006.
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Relevance of the study of theoretical developments on the formation of political and governing elite, including its functions, due to the need of compliance of the role of politi-cal and governing elite and social needs.The article is devoted to the priority functions of political and governing elite at pre-sent state.In this work studied scientific approaches to defining the role of the elite. It was es-tablished that the main and most essential function of political and governing elite, which actually led to the selection of this category, is political control. It is shown that political and governing elite level for personalized serves as the political system, namely strate-gic, integrative and regulatory. The main functions of political and governing elite also includes: mobilization, communication, function representation in the political system of society social interests.Determined that in terms of military aggression from Russia, the loss of economics and the state, when Ukraine needs a final exercise their geopolitical choice by the practi-cal implementation of the course towards european integration through reforms in all spheres of public life, political and governing elite should focus on specific primary func-tions. Analysis of public inquiries allowed to formulate these functions, referring to re-cent peacekeeping, communicative, integrative and regulatory.
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Mulder, Femke. "Governing the Humanitarian Knowledge Commons." Politics and Governance 8, no. 4 (December 10, 2020): 407–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3138.
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Humanitarians and bureaucrats who are mandated to work together in complex emergencies face many challenges, especially in settings marked by conflict and displacement. High on the list of challenges are barriers to sharing knowledge freely. These barriers include (self)censorship, contested framings and priorities, deliberate ICT black-outs, and the withholding (or not collecting) of mission-critical information. These barriers exacerbate the gaps in knowledge sharing that occur as a result of a lack of time or capacity. This article conceptualises crisis knowledge as a ‘commons’: a shared resource that is subject to social dilemmas. The enclosure of the knowledge commons—brought about by the barriers outlined above—hampers daily operations as well as efforts to improve the situation in the long term. Trust is key to effective commons governance, as actors need to sacrifice personal benefits (e.g., control over information) for a collective good (e.g., shared learning). Knowledge and trust are deeply interlinked, as shared ways of knowing (alignment) foster trust, and trust fosters the sharing of knowledge. Given the hierarchical nature of humanitarian relationships, this article explores how power and networks shape this dynamic. It focuses on the humanitarian response to the 2018 Guji-Gedeo displacement crisis in the south of Ethiopia. It presents a qualitative analysis of how the governance arrangements that marked this response shaped emergency operations centres’ ability to manage the local knowledge commons effectively. It shows how in Guji-Gedeo, these arrangements resulted in a clustering of trust that strengthened barriers to knowledge sharing, resulting in a partial enclosure of the knowledge commons.
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De Waele, Els, and Lesley Hustinx. "Governing Through Volunteering: The Discursive Field of Government-Initiated Volunteering in the Form of Workfare Volunteering." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 48, no. 2_suppl (July 9, 2018): 72S—102S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764018783094.
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Increasing third-party intervention in volunteering represents a key change in the environment of volunteering. One significant expression is “workfare volunteering”: the governmental use of volunteering to foster the economic and/or social reintegration of social assistance recipients. We contribute to existing theory on “third-party volunteering” by studying the shifting discursive field in which volunteering becomes re-entangled with workfare volunteering. Our contribution is based on a governmentality-inspired discourse analysis of internal documents on workfare volunteering in one Belgian social assistance center. We conclude that workfare volunteering entails a strong violation of “voluntary” and “unpaid” properties of volunteering, relegates volunteering to an inferior status relative to paid work, and depicts workfare volunteers as suffering from a clear deficit: the inability to work under regular labor market condition. Through the discursive entanglement of various citizenship frames, the workfare volunteer is cast as an ever-aspiring, yet permanently failing citizen.
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Cowlishaw, Gillian. "Governing Sex: Removing the Right to Take Responsibility." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 3, no. 1 (April 2, 2014): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v3i1.139.
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The exposure in 2006 of horrific cases of sexual violence that allegedly characterised Northern Territory Aboriginal communities, evoked responses dominated by a predictable moral panic. Thus the Commonwealth Intervention of 2007 largely missed its ostensible aim of protecting sexually abused children. This essay moves beyond a moralising analysis to consider relevant social, cultural and historical factors based on specific ethnographic work. First I present a sense of some profound historically established differences and common themes in traditional Aboriginal and mainstream law in relation to the regulation of sexuality. Then I draw on evidence that Aboriginal people embraced the notion of ‘two laws’, even as the new era created profound difficulties in relation to sexual norms. Their ‘right to take responsibility’ (Pearson 2000) was further undermined by ‘Interventions’ that unashamedly diminished the ability of NT Aborigines to govern their own communities. Finally, mainstream institutions that are deeply engaged with Aboriginal communities need to consider the ways they may be perpetuating entrenched difficulties.
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Ramsay, Sylvia. "Let’s not return to business as usual: Integrating environmental and social wellbeing through hybrid business models post COVID-19." International Social Work 63, no. 6 (August 20, 2020): 798–802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872820944996.
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Social workers were among many researchers urging systemic change before the COVID 19 pandemic, because the dominant socio-economic system governing society was causing environmental injustice and an ecological crisis. This is a brief introduction to hybrid businesses that provide a model to strengthen social and environmental wellbeing. It is based on data collected from the author’s PhD research project, which aims to provide guidance for environmental social work practitioners.
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Humpage, Louise, and Simone Baillie. "Workfare: conditioning the attitudes of benefit recipients towards social security?" Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy 32, no. 1 (February 2016): 17–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2015.1131731.
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Have increasing levels of conditionality fundamentally changed the attitudes of the unemployed towards social security, work obligations and welfare dependency? Both neopaternalist and governmentalist theorising suggests that workfare policies should have shifted this group's conceptions of self-interest over time yet previous evidence has been rather mixed. This article makes a fresh contribution to the literature by drawing upon New Zealand Election Study data (1990–2014) and New Zealand qualitative data (2007–2008; 2014) to analyse the attitudes of “undeserving” unemployed benefit recipients who are subject to work obligations over 21 years and by comparing their attitudes to those of “deserving” benefit recipients not subject to work obligations (the retired and students) and wage/salary earners. It finds a notable hardening of unemployed people's attitudes towards some welfare dependency propositions over time and evidence of “self-governing rationalities” being adopted by some unemployed individuals but, overall, attitudes amongst this group remain nuanced and ambivalent.
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Wu, Qingchu, and Wenfang Zhu. "Toward a generalized theory of epidemic awareness in social networks." International Journal of Modern Physics C 28, no. 05 (March 21, 2017): 1750070. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s012918311750070x.
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We discuss the dynamics of a susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model with local awareness in networks. Individual awareness to the infectious disease is characterized by a general function of epidemic information in its neighborhood. We build a high-accuracy approximate equation governing the spreading dynamics and derive an approximate epidemic threshold above which the epidemic spreads over the whole network. Our results extend the previous work and show that the epidemic threshold is dependent on the awareness function in terms of one infectious neighbor. Interestingly, when a pow-law awareness function is chosen, the epidemic threshold can emerge in infinite networks.
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Pandey, Ajay Kumar, and Meenal Sharma Jagtap. "CSR In India: The Governing Policy Frame-Work and Its Consequent Corporate Spending and Composition." Journal of Global Economy 14, no. 3 (November 8, 2018): 231–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1956/jge.v14i3.506.
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Over the past few years CSR, as a concept, has been the focus of many deliberations and research. It has grown in importance both academically as well as in the business sense. It captures a spectrum of values and criteria for measuring a company’s contribution to social development. As the term “CSR†is used continually, many complementary and overlapping concepts, such as corporate citizenship, business ethics, stakeholder management and sustainability, have emerged. These extensive ranges of synonymously used terms indicate that multiple perspectives and by those in facilitating roles such as the corporate sector, government agencies, academics and the public sector. The PSUs are intensely involved in CSR activities than Private Companies but as Private Companies are larger chunk of stock listed companies in India, their cumulative financial muscle is much stronger than PSUs to contribute in CSR activities and still a substantial potential exist for Private Companies to increase their CSR contributions. To fill this unrealised financial potential of Private Companies and also of PSUs for CSR and for ensuring their responsible business behaviour to cast a significant impact on all stakeholders, the enactment of Companies Bill 2012, clause 135, for mandatory spending 2% of their average three years Profit After Tax (PAT) on CSR is rational and necessary otherwise the gap cannot be filled up.
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Markoff, John. "Overflowing Channels: How Democracy Didn’t Work as Planned (and Perhaps a Good Thing It Didn’t)." Sociological Theory 37, no. 2 (June 2019): 184–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0735275119850866.
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When eighteenth-century revolutionary elites set about designing new political orders, they drew on commonplace theoretical understandings of “democracy” as highly undesirable. They therefore designed government institutions in which popular participation was to be extremely limited. The new political constructions, in both France and the United States, never worked as planned. The mobilizations of the revolutionary era did not vanish as the constitutional designers hoped. More profoundly, challenging social movements were unintentionally woven into the fabric of modern democracy due to the confluence of three processes: The legitimacy claims of democratic powerholders also legitimate protest; the institutional architecture of modern democracy, especially the allocation of office through elections, provides structural support for social movements as well; and the practices of democracy recurrently trigger politically powerful emotions that energize protest. Understanding democracy therefore demands a theory of the interplay of social movements and governing institutions from the foundational moment.
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KORCZYNSKI, MAREK, and KEITH JONES. "Instrumental music? The social origins of broadcast music in British factories." Popular Music 25, no. 2 (May 2006): 145–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143006000882.
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This paper explores the social origins and development of music relayed through loudspeakers in British factories during World War Two, focusing on the BBC programme Music While You Work, which provided a national soundtrack for factory work, and the contemporary institutions of Industrial Psychology, which promoted music as a highly ‘valuable’ accompaniment to work and formulated scientific principles governing its broadcast. Combining archival evidence from these organisations, the paper first outlines the historical circumstances of development, detailing the form of broadcasts and of the music itself. Subsequently, the causes of music's introduction to the factory are analysed. The central argument advanced is that the music resulted centrally from top-down initiatives from a ‘human relations school’ coalition of institutions and individuals, in which the aims of increased productivity and the humanisation of the workplace intermingled, but in which the aim of increased productivity dominated. Concluding remarks assess the argument and relate it to the growing literature on contemporary practices of the sound-tracking of social life.
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Philipsen, Niels J., and Michael G. Faure. "The Role of Private Insurance in Governing Work-Related Risks: A Law and Economics Perspective." Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 66, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 285–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zsr-2020-0013.
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Abstract This contribution focuses on the governance of industrial accidents and occupational diseases. Prevention of work-related accidents and diseases and compensation of employee-victims can be the subject of public regulation, such as OHS regulation and social security. However, also private actors may be involved in the regulation of work-related accidents, especially when compensation of damage caused by work-related risks is not (sufficiently) covered by public regulation. These private actors include representatives of employers and employees, but may also include private insurers. In some jurisdictions liability insurers provide supplementary cover for OHS risks and policy-makers often expect that the monitoring by liability insurers will increase safety at work. The main research question addressed in this paper is whether insurers (and more particularly insurers of employers’ liability) are indeed able to contribute to safety at work. Taking a law and economics perspective, we expect that this depends crucially on the possibilities insurers have to control moral hazard and adverse selection. However, the extent to which liability insurers have a financial interest in combatting these phenomena plays an important role. That may crucially depend upon the generosity of the public compensation scheme. First, we recapitulate the economic theory of insurance to the extent that it relates to work-related risks. Second, we address the question whether in some jurisdictions insurers have actually made use of these instruments, based on a literature survey. Third, we examine information on insurance policies offered by insurers in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom, to analyse to what extent theory matches practice.
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Pates, Rebecca. "Liberal Laws Juxtaposed with Rigid Control: an Analysis of the Logics of Governing Sex Work in Germany." Sexuality Research and Social Policy 9, no. 3 (August 8, 2012): 212–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13178-012-0092-3.
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Di Giorgio, Alexander Vitaniello, and Daphne Habibis. "Governing pluralistic liberal democratic societies and metis knowledge: The problem of Indigenous unemployment." Journal of Sociology 55, no. 1 (April 20, 2018): 37–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783318766676.
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High rates of unemployment among Indigenous Australians in comparison to non-Indigenous Australians have been rendered a public policy problem by successive Australian governments. The solutions are often coercive forms of neoliberal governance. However, where Indigenous people are driven by different motivations, ideas and aspirations in relation to work, Indigenous employment policies face the issue of epistemological dissonance. This article aims to contribute to understandings of unsuccessful Indigenous employment policy outcomes by introducing a new conceptualisation of policy and governance limitations and social action. An overview of governmentality literature is coupled with a review of the concept of metis knowledge – a form of know-how that comes from contextualised, practical experience – and its role in limiting the aims of governance. Indigenous employment policy that governs through pedagogical technologies applied to the Indigenous workforce demonstrates this limitation through its assumptions that the metis knowledge required to become ‘work-ready’ can be transferred unproblematically.
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Greenhalgh, Susanne. "A World Elsewhere." Critical Survey 31, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 77–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/cs.2019.310408.
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Documentaries about the use of Shakespeare in applied theatre publicise and endorse the work of practitioners to scholars as well as the general public, and have influenced the growth of academic interest in what this article terms Social Shakespeare: practices in which Shakespeare and social work interact with each other to bring about change. However, in the quest for touching and uplifting individual stories, such media treatments risk ignoring the actual values and strategies governing the work in favour of narratives that normalise social differences through emphasis on the transformative power of Shakespearean theatre, viewed as a sanctified space. Documentaries about three different constituencies – prisoners, young people with learning disabilities, and combat veterans – are examined to determine how far they locate the need for change in society rather than in the individual.
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Robertson, Susan L., and Tore Sorensen. "Global transformations of the state, governance and teachers’ labour: Putting Bernstein’s conceptual grammar to work." European Educational Research Journal 17, no. 4 (August 21, 2017): 470–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474904117724573.
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This paper presents and engages with Basil Bernstein’s rich conceptual grammar in order to generate a sociological account of the outcomes for teachers’ work, identity and social class, of strategic shifts in governance to the global scale. Our aim is to develop a two-way conversation between Bernstein’s conceptual grammar and how best to theorise the nature of the social regulation of teachers as a result of the dominance of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in setting the rules for pedagogic governance of teachers through its Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). We show that important functions for symbolic agents have been relocated to the economic arena away from the state, as well as being rescaled to sit within the governing ambit of the OECD. We also reflect on the prominence of constructivism in TALIS as a preferred pedagogy and the eschewing of disciplinary knowledge as the basis of expertise. We ask what this new market identity means for teacher knowledge, consciousness, identity, the division of labour, and the social base.
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Jonsson, Kristina. "Principals’ Perspectives on Pupils’ Social Learning in Swedish School-Age Educare." International Journal for Research on Extended Education 8, no. 1-2020 (November 17, 2020): 5–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/ijree.v8i1.02.
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This article aims to investigate social learning in the Swedish school-age educare (SAEC) from a number of principals’ perspectives. An abductive approach has been adopted to analyse the data from individual interviews with seven principals in school-age educare. The results are understood through an interactionist perspective, with Bronfenbrenner’s (2005) bioecological system theory as a raster, which gives a didactic view on the principals’ governing of the SAEC. Three themes were identified in the principals’ perspectives, which are the core aim of the work in the SAEC, the staff’s approach and pupils’ democratic learning. The results suggest that the perspective of the principals is characterized by having the pupil in focus.
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PEREIRA, MÁRCIO DE ARAÚJO, SÉRGIO SCHNEIDER, JAN DOUWE VAN DER PLOEG, and MARCELINO DE SOUZA. "THE COLLECTIVE ACTION ON GOVERNING THE COMMONS IN THE SURROUNDINGS OF PROTECTED AREAS." Ambiente & Sociedade 19, no. 4 (December 2016): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc134199v1942016.
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Abstract This work has as its theme the common natural resources and the management models that allow new governance systems in the rural areas in the surrounding of protected areas. In this sense, this paper aims to discuss the collective action of social actors in the management of common natural resources in the surroundings of the National Park of Serra da Bodoquena (PNSB). Based on institutional approach for the study of the self-organisation and self-governance in common-pool resources situations developed by Elinor Ostrom, the investigation sought the theoretical explanation of phenomena. The conclusions point out that the expected mobilisation of groups of individuals in the pursuit of common goals is twofold. In this case, the participants of the action arena create different goals and different collective actions according to their interests.
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Heemsbergen, Luke. "Killing secrets from Panama to Paradise: Understanding the ICIJ through bifurcating communicative and political affordances." New Media & Society 21, no. 3 (October 15, 2018): 693–711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444818804847.
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This Machine Kills Secrets is how Greenberg explains the widespread adoption of digital encryption and anonymity tools in practices of disclosure. We consider how that machine works, to the extent that new and sustained political practices in society have emerged through digital disclosures. We offer the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) as a paradigmatic case to inform new metaphors of what disclosure is and what it does in democratic governing. The empirical work focuses on how ICIJ’s data mining, manipulation and visualisation interface with traditional governing institutions of accountability. The article relates the affordances present in the ICIJ to modes of societal control that are available through Brighenti’s consideration of visibility as a social category and governmentality scholarship through three theoretical moves: bifurcating affordance theory on communicative and political planes, relaying a complimentarily delineated model of media apparatus and considering how such apparatuses shift towards proto-institutions.
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Kanani, Karima, and Cheryl Regehr. "Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Issues in E-therapy." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 84, no. 2 (April 2003): 155–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.98.
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In recent years, many social workers have joined the ranks of virtual or e-therapists. While this offers exciting new opportunities for social work practice, the advent of e-therapy has come with a host of challenges particular to Internet communication that may not be reconcilable with current social work regulation. This paper reviews the social work codes of ethics in both the United States and Canada, legislation governing treatment, and case law with respect to several important issues related to e-therapy. The paper begins with a discussion of jurisdictional issues and expertise to practice e-therapy. Next, it suggests that if e-therapy fits within the purview of acceptable social work practice, the establishment of therapist–patient relationships creates professional duties of care owed to patients and to the public. Four of the most critical duties in a therapeutic encounter are considered: the duty to obtain informed consent, the duty to maintain confidentiality, the duty to warn third parties of harm, and the duty to maintain professional boundaries.
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Zubcic, Marko-Luka. "Social epistemic inequalities, redundancy and epistemic reliability in governance." Filozofija i drustvo 31, no. 1 (2020): 43–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid2001043z.
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In this paper I argue that social epistemic inequalities, exemplified by expert structures and their introduction into various social and political processes, may be a collective epistemic virtue only if they are discovered under the conditions of free possibility of redundant disagreement. In the first part of the paper, following Snjezana Prijic Samarzija?s work in Democracy and Truth, I explicate the epistemic value of social epistemic inequalities, and address the epistemic defectiveness of both the complete social disregard for any expertize (flat epistemology) and the rule of experts. In the second part of the paper, I argue that social epistemic inequalities governing a large and complex population of epistemically suboptimal agents may be a collective epistemic virtue, reflective of discovery of epistemically reliable processes, if they can be contested and, in principle, withstand redundant disagreement.
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Crișan-Mitra, Cătălina Silvia, Liana Stanca, and Dan-Cristian Dabija. "Corporate Social Performance: An Assessment Model on an Emerging Market." Sustainability 12, no. 10 (May 15, 2020): 4077. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12104077.
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This paper investigates the priorities governing large companies in an emerging market regarding corporate social performance (CSP). The authors propose profile patterns of responsible managerial behavior and a framework for evaluating CSP relying on stakeholder theory. The study relies on a statistical analysis which is designed to examine the significance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice as it emerges from company business strategies. Taking the form of an empirical study involving 87 managers, this work relies on the cluster analysis theory, identifying six behavioral patterns when considering CSR practices: “lethargic”, “compliant, “pragmatist”, “auditor”, “formalist”, and “performer”. The cluster typology indicates the complexity of CSR practices and highlights the role of CSR in company strategy development. The proposed assessment model is intended to empower CSP diagnosis, while supporting management towards achieving sustainable growth.
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Maddox, Jessica, and Jennifer Malson. "Guidelines Without Lines, Communities Without Borders: The Marketplace of Ideas and Digital Manifest Destiny in Social Media Platform Policies." Social Media + Society 6, no. 2 (April 2020): 205630512092662. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305120926622.
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When faced with conflicts, social media platforms harken back to their front-facing, user-friendly documents. These documents, often called community standards, or something similar, lay out the practices allowed on their sites. It is well documented in legal scholarship how technology companies incorporate particular First Amendment jurisprudence into these community standards documents, and this work aims to empirically examine this claim. Specifically, we were interested in how the backbone of American free expression—the marketplace of ideas metaphor—was incorporated into these governing documents. We conducted a textual analysis of five US-based social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Tumblr) to analyze how the marketplace of ideas metaphor may be invoked. We found these documents do rely heavily on the metaphor for presenting governing strategies. They also rely heavily on an oft-referenced ambiguous moderation line and the idea of a singular, global, borderless community, both of which bolster the marketplace metaphor. Given this, US-based social media platforms are holding the rest of the world to US-based ideas of free expression, thus engaging in digital manifest destiny.
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McIntyre-Mills, Janet. "Recognizing our hybridity and interconnectedness: Implications for social and environmental justice." Current Sociology 66, no. 6 (July 4, 2017): 886–910. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392117715898.
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A core capability for sociologists who wish to respond to the complex interconnected social, cultural, political and economic challenges will be the ability to transcend disciplinary boundaries and to work with diverse perspectives. Thus those who inform the argument for this article include De Waal and Dawkins (primatology and philosophy), Kymlicka and Donaldson (animal rights and shared habitat), Hirschman and Hannah Arendt (on economics and politics), Amartya Sen (on economics and morality), Stuart Hall (on identity) and Martha Nussbaum (on social justice). The work of Stiglitz on wellbeing stocks is extended through drawing on Vandana Shiva (on the intersections spanning economics, politics and the environment) and a recognition of our interconnectedness as part of a living system. This provides the basis for intersectional policy approaches to address violence against the planet and violence against those without a voice. This capability is important if we are to inform praxis on governing the Anthropocene, in order to protect both human and animal rights along with their shared and separate habitats.
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Villadsen, Kaspar. "Filantropiens genkomst: Medborgerskab, fællesskab og frihed under ombrydning." Dansk Sociologi 15, no. 1 (December 16, 2005): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v15i1.228.
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Kaspar Villadsen: The reappearance of philanthropy: the break up of citizenship, community and freedom ?
That article argues that philanthropic principles for social work have achieved growing prominence in social policy and social work during the last 10-15 years. As a result of this process, new ways of categorising and governing social clients have begun to prevail at the expense of currently existing ones. Therefore, we need to ask what kind of regime is now being introduced in social work. Among the crucial questions are which forms of observation, discourse and power are now made possible, and which are consequently made impossible, how can knowledge be produced about social clients, and how can we turn them into objects of government. Other important issues are what is being displaced or transformed in the existing social work regime, can one no longer speak of obobjective human needs, societal conditions or social problems as structural effects, and, even more important, what kind of subject is now to be fostered in the social
client. The article analyses these issues and concludes that the re-activation of concepts and techniques invented by
19th century philanthropy puts existing forms of knowledge and government in social work in jeopardy. It also raises questions about general transformations of the welfare state and its concepts of citizenship, community and freedom.
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Paletta, Angelo, and Alessandra Bonoli. "Governing the university in the perspective of the United Nations 2030 Agenda." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 20, no. 3 (March 4, 2019): 500–514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-02-2019-0083.
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Purpose Starting from the experience of the University of Bologna, this paper provides an innovative framework to analyse how universities are rethinking courses and curricula, teaching, research programmes, campus operation and partnership to address the Agenda 2030. Design/methodology/approach The paper proposes a methodological approach to represent direct and indirect impacts produced by all universities’ activities. Findings The commitment to sustainability of the University of Bologna was made clear through the last Strategic Plan approach explicitly aimed at the consideration of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Parallel to the process of integration of the SDGs in strategic planning, the University has an additional tool for reporting on the extended performance, which was presented during the G7 Environment held in Bologna in June 2017. Research limitations/implications This study focussed on the University of Bologna experience, according with HEIs sustainability approach over the world. A bit too technical sometimes to explain each practical point of activity related with the commitment in SDGs. Practical implications The multi-year experience acquired by the University of Bologna through a process of reporting that combines the economic dimension with the social and environmental, has as a natural outlet questioning the priorities to be pursued in teaching, research and the third mission to contribute to the Agenda 2030. Social implications It is shown as Alma Mater promotes actively the principles of sustainability also in terms of enhancement of collectivity welfare, the economic growth, the social equity and the capability of involved people to actually work together for the common good. Originality/value On the basis of the experience of the University of Bologna, an innovative framework can be provided to analyse how universities are rethinking all their activities to address the Agenda 2030.
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Lakitsch, Maximilian. "Hobbes in the Anthropocene: Reconsidering the State of Nature in Its Relevance for Governing." Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 46, no. 1 (February 2021): 3–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03043754211008677.
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The theoretical work of Thomas Hobbes marks the dawn of political modernity and thus also the beginning of modern reasoning about governing. In his Leviathan, Hobbes creates the modern space of the political through the exclusion of the world’s social and natural abundance. This crossroads of political thinking might not least be of relevance for the Anthropocene. After all, affirming the Anthropocene returns mankind to a cosmos of infinite human–nature interrelationships, which strongly resembles Hobbes’s conceptual depiction of the premodern state of nature and its incomprehensible, contingent, and precarious world, a world that Hobbes had intended to ban for good. In this context, this article reconsiders the state of nature’s internal dynamics in its relevance for governing in the Anthropocene—at the expense of the normative claims of modernist governing. After all, embracing the complex ontologies of the Anthropocene and the state of nature disperses agency among the human and nonhuman world, which questions the idea of ethical and political accountability. Without such a reference, governing runs the risk of becoming arbitrary and thereby another shallow projection of modernist conceptions. This article develops an interpretation of political subjectivity as a reference for governing, deriving from the materialistic world of the Hobbesian state of nature. On this foundation, the article elaborates on how this reading of subjectivity reconfigures the conception of political space and how this shift affects the scope of governing.
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Parton, Nigel. "Reflections on 'governing the family': the close relationship between child protection and social work in advanced Western societies – the example of England." Families, Relationships and Societies 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 87–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674312x633180.
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Cheong, Pauline Hope. "Bounded Religious Automation at Work: Communicating Human Authority in Artificial Intelligence Networks." Journal of Communication Inquiry 45, no. 1 (December 11, 2020): 5–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859920977133.
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Existential threats to human work and leadership have been expressed over intensifying human-machine communication, and the development of robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Yet popular texts and techno-centric approaches to AI assume a flat ontology in human-machine communication which obscures power relations governing new technologies, necessitating a bounded automation approach integrating socio-economic influences that shape AI diffusion in distinctive occupational settings. This article advances three critical lines of enquiry to interrogate abstract labor displacement propositions by contextualizing human authority and communication in spiritual work. By explicating the dynamic and relational ways in which clerics strategically manage emerging social robotics, discussion of the case of ‘the world’s first robot monk’ illustrates how organizational leaders can influence AI agents to (re)produce values and cultural realities. In the process, priests strengthen normative regulation of power by aligning epistemic knowledge shared about AI and during human-machine communication to extant understandings of collective ideals.
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Dibley, Ben, and Michelle Kelly. "Morale and Mass Observation: Governing the Affective Atmosphere on the Home-Front." Museum and Society 13, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 22–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i1.315.
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This paper focuses on Mass Observation (MO)’s morale work, commissioned by the British Government over the period 1939–41. It examines the ways in which MO’s earlier collecting practices were recomposed through its research into civilian morale, and linked up with national centres of calculation, in particular the Ministry of Information (MoI). We explore the associations through which civilian morale was established, simultaneously, as an autonomous object of knowledge and as a particular field of intervention. As an object of knowledge, morale posited the existence of a dynamic affective ‘atmosphere’ associated with collective everyday life, which could be calibrated through various social scientific methods. As a particular field of intervention, technicians of morale postulated that this atmosphere might be regulated through various policy instruments. This paper traces the ways in which MO practices were implicated along these two axes in the emergence of civilian morale as a domain warranting the state’s ‘constant attention and supervision’.
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Bruce, Raymon R. "Founding an Organization Theory of Work Policy as Imperative Regimes of Regulated Freedom for ITC Development." International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development 4, no. 3 (July 2012): 39–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jicthd.2012070104.
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This paper proposes a theory of imperative regimes of regulated freedom as they relate to the development of policy for Information Communication Technology. Policy is characterized here as an imperative regime of regulated freedom, guiding people in both objective (regulated reasoning) and subjective (heuristic common-sense freedom) decision making to guide communities’ to achieve needed work outcomes. The paper includes: researching organizing as being the practical nature of our work, building a new theory of reorganization for people working, developing human imperative regimes of regulated freedom to guide communities’ work, and developing policies which are societies’ own artifacts helping communities work together. The paper then focuses on the human work domain, which involves policy making governing societies’ cultural and social organizations, in general, and the importance of policymaking for Information Communication Technology, in particular.
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ANTKOWIAK, Paweł. "Samorząd zawodowy adwokatów w opinii jego członków." Przegląd Politologiczny, no. 4 (November 2, 2018): 79–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pp.2011.16.4.7.
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The model of public administration which emerged in Poland after 1989 assumes that its tasks are performed by the apparatus of the centralized government administration as well as by a diversified system of bodies or institutions that operate independently and fulfill public tasks, vested in them by virtue of law, in their own names and on their own accounts. Administrative tasks are performed by obligatory units and by the professional self-governing bodies, among other entities. They play a very important role in the system of representing defined so- cial groups’ interests because they are set up by the professions whose social significance re- quires the highest vocational and moral qualifications. The Chamber of Lawyers is worthy of particular attention, with its rich history and the fact that it forms the kernel of several corpora- tions of professions of public trust. However, recently there are increasing concerns about the justification for such structures and their operation in the public realm. Professional self-governing bodies are being subjected to social and media criticism, and are also criticized by their own members. The main accusa- tion of the representatives of a given profession concerns the apparent clash of their group’s interests with the social interest. All these doubts have resulted in a clear tendency of the progressive limitation of the com- petences of professional self-governing bodies in Poland and their takeover by the state ad- ministration. Several decades of self-government experience is a sufficient period to reveal the shortcomings of a given organization and to demonstrate the need to critically review cur- rent solutions. It is beyond doubt, however, that such a review should be performed by those who are most concerned with the development of a given profession, that is, by the members of a given professional self-governing body. For this purpose a questionnaire has been carried out with the approval of the Supreme Bar Council and with assistance from its officers. The purpose was to answer the question of what is the actual assessment of the work of the Chamber of Lawyers by the members of this pro- fession? The survey results show that lawyers have extensive knowledge of how their own professional self-governing body works. Although the general conclusions are mostly posi- tive, lawyers indicate numerous fields where changes should be introduced. It is clear that self-government has become an inherent part of this profession. Lawyers deem the existence of their professional self-government to be an institution required not only by themselves, but also by social interest.
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Alegre, Ines, and Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent. "Social innovation success factors: hospitality and tourism social enterprises." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 28, no. 6 (June 13, 2016): 1155–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-05-2014-0231.
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Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the existing literature on social enterprises and business model innovation. Particularly, it sheds some light on those factors that turn a social innovation initiative into a success, both in terms of meeting social needs and achieving economic sustainability. Design/methodology/approach By using a grounded theory approach, an inductive comparative case study is conducted. Two work integration social enterprises in the hospitality and tourism sector are selected. Both companies are located in Barcelona (Spain) under the same legal regulation and economic situation and initially run a manufacturing business. Due to the economic crisis they were forced to reinvent themselves to survive. Data were collected from different sources and coded using content analysis procedures. Findings Results indicate that three factors, namely, value proposition, appropriate market research and stakeholder involvement, heavily contributed to firm’s success, corroborating previous studies. Furthermore, our study reveals that social need pressures and managerial trust on employees are additional factors that drive social business model innovation. Practical implications Changes in the demand, the rules governing the market or economic downturns are external drivers for demand-pull innovations. In such context, firms need to reformulate their business models if they wish to survive. Acknowledging the factors that help firms overcome these obstacles is of great interest for both academics and entrepreneurs. Originality/value Social innovation in business models is a topic still poorly defined in the literature, yet, its boundaries to other fields are still fuzzy. This paper aims to fulfill this gap by presenting the theoretical domain in which this topic fits in and evidencing those successful factors that should be considered when designing and implementing a business model innovation which may help other firms facing a similar process.