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Dougherty, Deborah. Organizational capacities for sustained product innovation. Marketing Science Institute, 1998.
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Dougherty, Deborah. Organizational capacities for sustained product innovation. Marketing Science Institute, 1998.
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DeBresson, Chris. L' innovation au Québec: Les capacités innovatrices de l'industrie au Québec. Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la science, 1986.
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Yeoman, Ruth. From Traditional to Innovative Multi-Stakeholder Mutuals. Edited by Jonathan Michie, Joseph R. Blasi, and Carlo Borzaga. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199684977.013.34.
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The UK Coalition Government’s public-sector transformation initiatives produced a growing number of public-service mutuals. Despite this, there is little understanding of the transition experiences of such organizations, and associated processes of organizational change. This chapter describes the case of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH), an affordable housing provider, and now a dual constituency mutual, jointly owned by staff and tenants. A key characteristic of the change was the need for individuals to craft new self-identities by holding in tension the identity of being a co-owner with that of being a public-service worker or tenant. Smith and Graetz’s (2011) ‘paradox management’ was used to investigate new values arising from the proliferation of dualities. Although the stresses of change were not avoided, the co-owners of RBH created new capabilities with the potential to, not only sustain the organization, but also increase the resilience and innovative capacities of the communities it exists to serve.
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IAEA. Nuclear Power in Countries with Limited Electrical Grid Capacities : the Case of Armenia: A Report of the International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles. International Atomic Energy Agency, 2015.
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Developing capacities for agricultural innovation systems. Agrinatura and FAO, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4060/cb1251en.
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Rodenhäuser, Tilman. General Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821946.003.0015.
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The book’s general conclusion summarizes the different thresholds of organization, power, or capacity required from armed groups as identified in the book’s three parts. It presents them in two concise and innovative tables. In a second step, the conclusion compares the different thresholds in order to identify similarities and differences. Comparing how the different fields of law have addressed armed groups over the past years and decades, and which challenges different fields have faced, the general conclusion also makes suggestions on how international law should further develop in order to better address the very different natures and capacities of armed groups. Moreover, it discusses how the conclusions drawn in this book might be relevant in the analysis of possible legal obligations of other non-state actors.
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Karlsson, Charlie, Urban Gråsjö, and Iréne Bernhard. Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Potential for Increasing Capacities. Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward, 2021.
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Century, Michael. Northern Sparks. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10818.001.0001.
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An “episode of light” in Canada sparked by Expo 67 when new art forms, innovative technologies, and novel institutional and policy frameworks emerged together. Understanding how experimental art catalyzes technological innovation is often prized yet typically reduced to the magic formula of “creativity.” In Northern Sparks, Michael Century emphasizes the role of policy and institutions by showing how novel art forms and media technologies in Canada emerged during a period of political and social reinvention, starting in the 1960s with the energies unleashed by Expo 67. Debunking conventional wisdom, Century reclaims innovation from both its present-day devotees and detractors by revealing how experimental artists critically challenge as well as discover and extend the capacities of new technologies. Century offers a series of detailed cross-media case studies that illustrate the cross-fertilization of art, technology, and policy. These cases span animation, music, sound art and acoustic ecology, cybernetic cinema, interactive installation art, virtual reality, telecommunications art, software applications, and the emergent metadiscipline of human-computer interaction. They include Norman McLaren's “proto-computational” film animations; projects in which the computer itself became an agent, as in computer-aided musical composition and choreography; an ill-fated government foray into interactive networking, the videotext system Telidon; and the beginnings of virtual reality at the Banff Centre. Century shows how Canadian artists approached new media technologies as malleable creative materials, while Canada undertook a political reinvention alongside its centennial celebrations. Northern Sparks offers a uniquely nuanced account of innovation in art and technology illuminated by critical policy analysis.
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Featherstone, Brid, Anna Gupta, Kate Morris, and Sue White. Protecting Children. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447332732.001.0001.
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The state is increasingly experienced as both intrusive and neglectful, particularly by those living in poverty, leading to loss of trust and widespread feelings of alienation and disconnection. Against this tense background, this innovative book argues that child protection policies and practices have become part of the problem, rather than ensuring children's well-being and safety. Building on the ideas in the best-selling Re-imagining Child Protection and drawing together a wide range of social theorists and disciplines, the book challenges existing notions of child protection, revealing their limits. It ensures that the harms which children and families experience are explored in a way that acknowledges the social and economic contexts in which they live, and explains how the protective capacities within families and communities can be mobilised and practices of co-production adopted. The book places ethics and human rights at the centre of everyday conversations and practices.
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Zuñiga, Pluvia, Luis Rubalcaba, and Rafael Carvalho de Fassio. Catapulting Innovation: Linking Open Innovation with Innovation Procurement. Inter-American Development Bank, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003817.
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The unprecedented speed of technological change--impacting all sectors of the economy--is changing how research is done, how companies work and do business, and how governments operate and relate to citizens. Innovation may be open, but it is not free. Innovation procurement does not end with the establishment of a supportive legal framework. To cope with the speed of these changes, systematic and mission-driven investments in science and technology capabilities are critical. At the same time, investments must enhance the capabilities of the public and private sectors to work collaboratively, with a supply and demand focus and a shared vision of the risks and returns on investments. This publication emphasizes the increasingly multidimensional and interconnected knowledge flows to accelerate innovation and endogenous capacities between institutions. It is the second in a series of three IDB documents on innovation procurement and open innovation in Brazil. Through this series, the Bank shows its commitment to investing in science, technology, and innovation and strengthening digital transformation.
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Penna, Caetano C. R., and Vanderléia Radaelli. Upgrading Institutional Capacities in Innovation Policy in Chile: Choices, Design, and Assessments. Inter-American Development Bank, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003815.
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Innovation is crucial for development. A set of institutional capacities and coordinated actions between the public and private sectors are required to drive large mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIPs) to address priority issues and set a direction for the path of development. This work identifies what restrictions exist in institutional and policy capacities that hinder the design and implementation of MOPs in Chile. This work is based on a case study design. The study analyzes the design and implementation of two strategic programs for innovation and development in the solar energy and mining sectors. The study showed that the capacities of the programs analyzed were evident in the construction of a shared vision and the identification of innovation-led solutions for the development of the two sectors, but the lack of leadership from the government hinders the implementation of the programs, particularly because of the lack of coordination between government agencies and ministries for budget allocation and strategy definition.
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Boutellis, Arthur J. The Democratic Republic of Congo. Edited by Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198753841.013.39.
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Authorized in the wake of the Srebrenica massacre and Rwandan genocide, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was the first of two UN peacekeeping missions to receive an explicit protection of civilians (POC) mandate in 2000. This chapter discusses the challenges the UN mission faced in implementing this POC mandate over 15 years of existence. It analyses how lessons from early protection crises led the mission to develop a series of innovative tools for a better peacekeeping response, up to the establishment of the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) in 2013. This chapter concludes with some lessons including the need for a shift from a largely UN-centric and troop-intensive approach to physical protection to a greater focus on strengthening national protection capacities as part of a broader political/stabilization strategy, which encourages and empowers the host government to shoulder its primary responsibility to protect its citizens.
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Turner, Henry S., ed. Early Modern Theatricality. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199641352.001.0001.
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The original essays inOxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literaturemean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. Following the models established by previous volumes in the series,Early Modern Theatricalitylaunches a new generation of scholarship on early modern drama by focusing on the rich formal capacities of theatrical performance. The collection gathers some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the techniques, objects, bodies, and conventions that characterized early modern theatricality, from the Tudor period to the Restoration. Taking their cues from a series of guiding keywords, the contributors identify the fundamental features of theatricality in the period, using them to launch conceptually adventurous arguments that provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama in all its complexity and inventiveness.
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Bhagat, Rabi S. Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Innovation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190241490.003.0005.
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Three techniques for accessing strategic resources and talent on a worldwide basis are outsourcing, offshoring, and innovation. Offshoring is the process of manufacturing in foreign locations of strategic significance. It can enable global organizations to create strategic centers for providing services in locations where there is significant cost advantage. The strategy of outsourcing white collar jobs to foreign locations in an attempt to reduce overall costs is a regular practice for large global organizations. Offshore outsourcing enhances global competitiveness by enabling small- and medium-scale enterprises to reduce costs, expand relational ties, serve customers, free up scarce resources, and leverage the capacities of joint venture and strategic alliance partners. Given that these strategies are increasingly common, the chapter devotes a significant amount of attention to their discussion. The technique of innovation for improving products and services on an ongoing basis is discussed, with attention to the factors that foster innovation.
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Toillier, A., R. Guillonnet, M. Bucciarelli, and R. Hawkins. Developing Capacities for Agricultural Innovation Systems: Lessons from Implementing a Common Framework in Eight Countries. Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2021.
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Durch, William, Joris Larik, and Richard Ponzio, eds. Just Security in an Undergoverned World. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805373.001.0001.
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This book is about how humankind can manage global problems to achieve both security and justice in an age of antithesis. Global connectivity is increasing, visibly and invisibly—in trade, finance, culture, and information—helping to spur economic growth, technological advance, and greater understanding and freedom, but global disconnects are growing as well. Ubiquitous electronics rely on high-value minerals scraped from the earth by miners kept dirt-poor by corruption and war. People abandon burning states for the often indifferent welcome of wealthier lands whose people, in turn, pull in on themselves. International bucket brigades are too little, too late—and some throw gas on the flames. Humanity’s very success, underwritten in large part by lighting up gigatons of long-buried carbon for 200 years, now threatens humanity’s future. The global governance institutions established after World War Two to manage global threats, especially the twin scourges of war and poverty, have expanded in reach and impact, while paradoxically losing the political support of their wealthiest and most powerful members. Their problems mimic those of their members in struggling to adapt to new problems and maintain trust in institutions. This volume argues, however, that a properly mandated, managed, and modernized global architecture offers unparalleled potential to midwife solutions to vexing issues that transcend borders and capacities of individual actors, from conflict and climate change to poverty and pandemic disease. The volume offers “just security” as a new conceptual framework for evaluating innovative solutions and strategies for institutional reform.
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Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. Beyond Technonationalism. Stanford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503605473.001.0001.
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What explains the rapid and sustained economic rise of Asian countries in high-technology industries, including biomedicals? The biomedical industry, comprised mainly of biopharmaceuticals and medical devices, is among the fastest growing globally and has been an economic-development target of national governments around the world. The book presents a conceptual framework to assess national government management of innovation and entrepreneurship in the fast-growing biomedical industry in Asia, which at current growth rates is on track to become the center of the world economy. Four Asian countries—China, India, Japan, and Singapore—are compared in terms of innovation capacities, government policy, and firm-level strategies underlying competitive advantages in high technology. The book argues that countries that pursue networked technonationalism have been effective in upgrading innovation capacity and also encouraging entrepreneurial activity in targeted industries. The study begins with a global-level analysis of biomedical innovation and entrepreneurship, identifying emerging concentrations of scientific citation, patenting, and firm creation—paying close attention to trends in Asian economies and future prospects. Findings indicate a gradual shift to Asian economies of many biomedical-innovation and new-business-creation activities. The book concludes with implications for innovation policy and entrepreneurship strategy in Asia and elsewhere.
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Knieps, Günter, and Volker Stocker, eds. The Future of the Internet. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748902096.
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Strong dynamics and multifaceted innovations characterise the Internet. In this rapidly evolving ecosystem, challenges but also questions concerning innovation, integration and sustainability arise. The Internet of things brings disruptive innovations which are no longer limited to communication applications, but rather spur the transition of traditional network industries into intelligent (smart) networks. Critical requirements are QoS differentiated All-IP bandwidth capacities combined with sensor networks, geopositioning services and big data. In this volume, leading international researchers present their latest findings on the dynamics of the Internet in the future, covering a variety of current and highly relevant issues related to the Internet of things, 5G, interconnection, Internet ecosystem innovation and network neutrality. With contributions by Günter Knieps, Volker Stocker, Bert Sadowski, Onder Nomaler, Jason Whalley, Thomas Fetzer, Johannes M. Bauer, William Lehr, Iris Henseler-Unger, Falk von Bornstaedt, Marlies Van der Wee, Frederic Vannieuwenborg, Sofie Verbrugge, Christopher S. Yoo, Jesse Lambert
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Stone, Diane. Global Governance Depoliticized. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748977.003.0005.
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In the diverse ecosystem of global governance, this chapter focuses upon networks and partnerships as depoliticizing tactics of global governance. Global and regional public–private partnerships alongside transnational knowledge networks of experts, scientists, and other professionals have emerged from dissatisfaction with the limited policy capacities of traditional institutions—states, intergovernmental organizations, and multilateral agreements—to cope with global policy problems. As new governance institutions, these networks and partnerships are not only tools of depoliticization that take the management of global problems to distant and technocratic administrative realms. Viewed as a type of ‘experimentalist governance’, these networks also represent venues of creativity and innovation on the global governance landscape.
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Feldman, Maryann P., and Michael Storper. Economic Growth and Economic Development: Geographical Dimensions, Definition, and Disparities. Edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, Meric S. Gertler, and Dariusz Wójcik. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755609.013.13.
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This chapter reviews and critiques conventional ideas about the relationship of economics to geography and the implications for growth and development. While economic development occupies our collective imagination, the term is often not well defined, or defined in a limited manner that does not accommodate the full range of places faced with restructuring and economic uncertainty. All too often the emphasis is on innovation and entrepreneurship as ends to themselves rather than as a means to the end of widely shared prosperity and human fulfillment. This chapter summarizes recent work that differentiates economic development for economic growth, and provides a definition of economic development that argues for policy focused on building capacities in order to reduce the highly unequal social and geographical distributions that result from current frameworks.
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Barnett, Jonathan M. Innovators, Firms, and Markets. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190908591.001.0001.
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This book presents a theoretical, historical, and empirical account of the relationship between intellectual property (IP) rights, organizational type, and market structure. Patents expand transactional choice by enabling smaller research-and-development (R&D)-intensive firms to compete against larger firms that wield difficult-to-replicate financing, production, and distribution capacities. In particular, patents enable upstream firms that specialize in innovation to exchange informational assets with downstream firms that specialize in commercialization, lowering capital and technical requirements that might otherwise impede entry. These theoretical expectations track a novel organizational history of the U.S. patent system during 1890–2006. Periods of strong patent protection tend to support innovation ecosystems in which smaller innovators can monetize R&D through financing, licensing, and other relationships with funding and commercialization partners. Periods of weak patent protection tend to support innovation ecosystems in which innovation and commercialization mostly take place within the end-to-end structures of large integrated firms. The proposed link between IP rights and organizational type tracks evidence on historical and contemporary patterns in IP lobbying and advocacy activities. In general, larger and more integrated firms (outside pharmaceuticals) tend to advocate for weaker patents, while smaller and less integrated firms (and venture capitalists who back those firms) tend to advocate for stronger patents. Contrary to conventional assumptions, the economics, history, and politics of the U.S. patent system suggest that weak IP rights often shelter large incumbents from the entry threat posed by smaller R&D-specialist entities.
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Doner, Richard F., Gregory W. Noble, and John Ravenhill. The Political Economy of Automotive Industrialization in East Asia. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197520253.001.0001.
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This book offers a political economy explanation for the striking cross-national differences in strategies and performance among East Asia’s automotive industries. Some countries—China, South Korea, and Taiwan—have successfully pursued “intensive” growth strategies by increasing local value added based on domestic inputs and technological competencies. Malaysia has attempted but failed to pursue this path. In contrast, Thailand has become a champion of “extensive” growth, relying on foreign assemblers and their suppliers to achieve an impressive expansion of production, assembly, and exports. Latecomer Indonesia has followed Thailand with some success, whereas the Philippines has remained an automotive backwater. Through cross-case and within-case analyses of the seven countries, the book argues that variation is a function of the institutional and political contexts in which firms operate. Different strategies require different institutions and institutional capacities. Intensive development is especially institutionally demanding. Effective institutions emerge when political leaders face severe claims on resources (security threats and domestic pressures for welfare improvement) in the absence of easily accessible revenues to satisfy such needs. Brief comparisons with Brazil, Mexico, and other developing countries confirm the utility of the analytic framework. This explanation is superior to neoclassical accounts. It is consistent with but provides more insight than other prominent approaches to development: national innovation systems, global value chains, and developmental states. New challenges facing auto assemblers and suppliers, such as the transition to electric and autonomous vehicles, will call heavily upon the institutional capacities highlighted in this book.
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Clark, Jennifer. Policy Through Practice: Local Communities, Self-Organization, and Policy. Edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, Meric S. Gertler, and Dariusz Wójcik. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755609.013.54.
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Economic geography fixes the lens of analysis on both the scale of economic action and the processes that determine how economic resources are distributed and concentrated across places. This chapter focuses on institutional intermediaries and how they contribute to the evolving practices of self-organizing within local communities through third-sector strategies. The chapter presents three models of ‘third-sector intermediaries’ in cities and regions across the USA illustrating the ways in which third-sector policy strategies operate in local and regional economies both through city governments and in parallel to them. These strategies are the result of variations in the capacities of local communities to address regional economic challenges and increasingly contribute to that diverse landscape. The chapter concludes with a discussion of economic policy implications of these modes of policy design, delivery, and decision-making affecting regional economies and uneven development, local autonomy, institutional intermediaries, city governance, technology diffusion, and policy innovation.
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Ramsden, Edmund. Science and Medicine in the United States of America. Edited by Mark Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546497.013.0013.
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This article begins with great optimism expressed by Tocqueville for America's future as the embodiment of the democratic state. It discusses the opportunity to express the liberal political ideals, arguing that its success was based on a community of common sensibility. An understanding of society and politics endowed the historian with the power to help remake health care. This article explores and compares the ways in which medicine is developed and applied in a number of different social, cultural, and physical contexts. It shows rapid growth, from a period in which European ideas, methods, and structures were adapted to the American context, to one in which the United States is at the forefront of large-scale initiatives in public health, disease control, and innovation in the biomedical sciences. Finally, it mentions the contradiction, most notably between profound faith in the technical capacities of medical science and equally profound dissatisfaction with the provision of health care.
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Moss, Gemma. Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429900.001.0001.
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Why was music so prominent in modernist literature? Why did so many modernist writers turn to an abstract art form like music to help them explore politics, gender, war, capitalism, technology and the social functions of art? Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like musical and literary forms. Re-assessing music in James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Sylvia Townsend Warner, this book re-shapes temporal, aesthetic and political understandings of modernism by arguing that music plays a crucial role in on-going attempts to investigate language, rational thought and ideology using aesthetic forms. Finally, through an analysis of twenty-first-century novelists who have returned to modernist music and methods of formal innovation, this book argues that we need a new account of modernism, which is still being produced today. Since contemporary writers continue to ask what can be achieved by combining musical and literary forms, and to debate the value of linguistic and rational meaning against music’s non-referential, emotive communicative capacities, this book provides a methodology that offers a purchase on matters we have not yet found our way out of.
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Bowen, Liz, Joel Michael Reynolds, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Erik Parens, eds. The Art of Flourishing. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197625743.001.0001.
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Abstract The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability is an edited volume in which scholars, artists, writers, and thought leaders with disabilities reflect on what “flourishing” means to them. Based on a series of public talks hosted by The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this collection demonstrates the incredible range of priorities, practices, and possibilities that characterize disabled experience. Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge, but one that speaks to a fundamental question about how we should live together—and even thrive together—amid the vast landscape of human difference. In pieces discussing everything from moving with guide dogs to hiking on wheels to nurturing chosen family, this volume offers a window into the innumerable ways people with disabilities understand what it means to flourish. By bringing together members of disabled communities in academia, activism, the arts, and public policy, the volume invites both scholarly and public audiences to imagine what it would take to build a world in which everyone gets to exercise their own capacities, in ways they find meaningful.
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Fiorino, Daniel J. A Good Life on a Finite Earth. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190605803.001.0001.
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Green growth is the idea that a society’s ecological and economic goals can be pursued as a mutually reinforcing, positive sum. It accepts that economies increase in scale and efficiency, but that economic growth may occur in less harmful ways ecologically through the use of new policies, patterns of investment, technology innovation, and behavioral change. The ultimate goal is a green economic transition, in which ecological objectives and policies are effectively integrated with many others—energy, transportation, manufacturing, and infrastructure, to name a few—and all sectors of society work more collaboratively to maximize opportunities for positive-sum solutions. The concept of green growth offers a means of reframing ecology–economy relationships and defining a pragmatic framework for making and implementing policy choices. The feasibility of and capacity for green growth depends on three sets of factors: understanding ways of linking ecological and economic goals; having governance capacities for ecological protection and policy integration; and creating the social conditions for acting collectively and valuing ecological public goods. Political systems vary in their ability to meet these conditions. For the United States, which exhibits both advantages and disadvantages in the pursuit of a green growth path, the challenge is to achieve the political conditions for promoting change. Principal among these conditions are to build a political coalition in support of a green economic transition, implement institutional reforms that enhance democracy, reduce economic inequality, and stress global action and interdependency.
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May, Katja. Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350283619.
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Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation explores the affectivity – the un/conscious emotive capacities – of practices of needlework in the context of feminist political activism. Through a diverse and wide-ranging set of case studies, the book explores some of the textures that emerge from everyday practices of needlework. It shows how practices of needlework influence people’s sense of self and their relationships with the world. May argues that practices of needlework provide a mode for being with or dwelling in the discomfort and affective tensions that may arise as a result of experiencing such reconfigurations. May offers a nuanced theoretical approach for understanding the political potential and meaning of practices of needlework through developing texture as a dynamic concept, materiality and interpretive framework. She highlights how narrative, affect, and bodily movement shape the meaning of practices of needlework and the types of resistant acts they make possible. From novels by African-American women writers; the US based youth organization the Social Justice Sewing Academy; the Afghan–European embroidery initiative Guldusi; and the Women’s March Washington to the craftivism of the Kudzu Project – each case study innovatively demonstrates how practices of needlework can be turned into vehicles for individual and collective meaning-making with a range of socio-political implications. As a result, the book makes a salient case for recognising the importance of affect to the complex interplay of personal and social transformation.
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Sarathy, Ravi. Enterprise Strategy for Blockchain. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14085.001.0001.
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How companies can gain strategic advantage by developing blockchain capabilities. Blockchain is far more than cryptocurrency. Regarded for a decade as complex and with limited application, blockchain has now matured to be on the verge of fully realizing its disruptive potential. In Enterprise Strategy for Blockchain, business strategy expert Ravi Sarathy shows how companies can gain competitive advantage by developing and deploying blockchain capabilities. Sarathy explains what makes blockchain unique, including its capacities to eliminate intermediaries, guard against hackers, decentralize, and protect privacy. Presenting examples drawn from such sectors as finance, supply chains, computer services, consumer products, and entertainment, he describes how executives can strategically assess blockchain's applicability to their business. After outlining blockchain's technological features—and its technological obstacles—Sarathy describes disruptive technologies already happening in the financial services market with the emergence of decentralized finance, or DeFi, arguing that a wave of innovation might be positioning DeFi as blockchain's “killer app.” He also explores, among many other uses, a blockchain application that addresses chronic supply chain problems, pilot blockchain programs aimed at facilitating cross-border payments, and the use of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) that allow digital art to be collected and traded. And he outlines a path for organizations that includes establishing a business case for applying blockchain, evaluating enterprise cost-benefits, and preparing the organization to develop the requisite knowledge and people skills while overcoming resistance to change.Business leaders should invest, explore and experiment with blockchain now, positioning their organizations to be first in their fields, ahead of both rising startups and late-to-the game incumbent peers.
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Kramer, Robert. Otto Rank and the Creation of Modern Psychotherapy. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197698303.001.0001.
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Abstract Robert Kramer argues that Otto Rank created the principles of modern psychotherapy. Drawing on Sigmund Freud’s invention of the analytic hour, Rank proposed that an authentic relationship heals emotional suffering, with self-empowerment of clients the goal. Today, the quality of the relationship is at the heart of all social work, counseling, and psychotherapy. In the late 1920s, Jessie Taft and Virginia Robinson applied Rank’s ideas on relationship therapy to develop the self-leadership capacities of social workers and their clients, mostly women, creating the first strengths-based approach to social work. Unlike Freud, Rank saw women as having the creative will to lead innovation for social justice. “The ‘creative will,’” said Anaïs Nin, “was Rank’s great contribution to the psychology of women.” Rank’s teachings on authenticity, respect, and empathy would have their biggest impact only after the Second World War, with the vast expansion of psychotherapy in America led by Carl Rogers, who learned relationship therapy from Rank—personally—in 1936. “I have long considered Otto Rank to be the great unacknowledged genius in Freud’s circle,” said Rollo May, the first American-born existential therapist. In addition, Rank’s thought influenced many prominent artists and writers, including Samuel Beckett, Martha Graham, Salvador Dalí, Nella Larsen, Betty Friedan, Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Jacques Lacan, D.W. Winnicott and, most significantly, Ernest Becker, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Denial of Death. Unpacking Rank’s dense, sometimes mystical, prose, this book offers an accessible Rank for social workers, counselors, and therapists—as well as for general readers.
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Denis, Jean-Louis, Sabrina Germain, Catherine Régis, and Gianluca Veronesi. Medical Doctors in Health Reforms. Policy Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447352150.001.0001.
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Medical doctors play a crucial role in the allocation and use of resources in health care systems. They shape capacities to renew policy orientations and innovate models of care. However, little attention has been paid to their specific role in health reforms. This book explores this aspect by looking at the role of the medical profession in health reforms in two mature welfare states with publicly-funded healthcare systems (PFHS): Canada and England. Specifically, the book investigates the multifaceted and paradoxical situation where a dominant profession – medicine – faces increasing pressures to become an active player and an ally in major policy efforts and system-wide reforms driven by governments. The conceptual underpinning of this work builds on the contribution of various areas of studies, namely the sociology of professions, studies on professions and organisations and law. The analysis investigates reformative processes from the inception of both PFHS and identifies the role of the medical profession in policy formulation. The focus is predominantly on the role of organised medicine (unions, professional associations and colleges) with their political struggles to promote and advance medical values and interests in a context where governments aim to transform health care systems. Empirically, the book builds on a socio-historical and institutional narrative of health care reforms and on the role played by the medical profession in both countries. The book offers insights into the government's ability to drive change in the health care system and to engage medical doctors as partners in health reforms.