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Robinson, Toby. Partners in providing the goods: The changing relationship between large companies and their small suppliers. London: 3I, 1989.
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The performance of companies: The relationship between the external environment, management strategies and corporate performance. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995.
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Wood, Douglas. The cross industry and cross sectional variations in the relationship between market value added, economic rent and companies exploitation of investment potentials. Manchester: MBS, 1997.
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Leech, Dennis. The relationship between shareholding concentration and shareholder voting power in British companies: A study of the application of power indices for simple games. Coventry: University of Warwick Department of Economics, 1985.
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Maurer, Julia. Relationships between Foreign Subsidiaries: Competition and Cooperation in Multinational Plant Engineering Companies. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag / Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2011.
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Kilroy, Craig R. An assessment of the role of commitment in relationships between Irish application software companies and their foreign customers. Dublin: University College Dublin, 1992.
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Badykova, Idelya. Modeling the efficiency of project management of corporate innovation activity. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/monography_606ae36782b847.08806135.
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The role of innovation in the economy development is extremely significant. Within the framework of this work, the innovative activity of enterprises and its relation to corporate social responsibility (CSR) is of particular interest. This study is aimed at modeling the project management of corporate innovation activity on the basis of CSR.
The results obtained by the author for the Russian economy suggest that there is a positive relationship between the level of innovative development and CSR, both in general and in terms of investments in the transformation of human capital. In this regard, the model of project management of corporate innovation activity based on CSR is proposed. Author suggests, that this model's implementation for companies is promising, since transition to such a model should be resulted in an increase in the innovation activity of companies, regions and the whole country, as well as an increase in the economic, social and organizational effectiveness of innovative activity.
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Lane, Christel. Publicans Between the State and the Brewers: A Subordinate Relationship. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826187.003.0006.
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Throughout most of the period covered in this book, establishments that sell alcohol consumed on the premises have had regulation imposed on them. Regulation and control have weighed more heavily on pubs than on the other two types of hostelries and, given their chief customer base, on the working class. Another state instrument to weaken pubs has been high taxation. The conditions for running pubs and publicans’ livelihoods were just as strongly influenced by the giant breweries as they were by state regulation and taxation. Particular attention is paid to the ‘tied houses’ system from the early eighteenth century onwards and to the more recent Beer Orders Act (1989). Over time, this Act had the effect of substituting the tie of pubs to breweries with that of pub companies. The ensuing dependence of tenants and the adverse effect on their livelihoods is viewed as contributing to the large-scale pub closures in the twenty-first century.
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Relationship between Exporters and their Foreign Sales and Marketing Intermediaries, Volume 16 (Advances in International Marketing). JAI Press, 2006.
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James, Philip. Relationships. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827238.003.0006.
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Relationships between organisms within urban environments are many and varied. Plants are found in many households, and in addition to the benefits derived from their decorative properties, they also purify the air by removing pollutants. Over the course of history some animals have become domesticated: cows, horses, goats, providing food and transport. Of these, a select group have become companions (cats, dogs, and more exotic pets). Such domesticated and companion animals are an important part of the overall biology of urban environments and these relationships are explored and discussed. Some former companion or domestic animals have become feral, and other animals have never been domesticated and live freely in the urban environment. Some of these animals have beneficial relationships with humans whereas others are parasitic or are considered pests. These relationships are the focus for the later part of the exploration set out in this chapter.
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French, Derek. 15. Directors. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198815105.003.0015.
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This chapter explores the role of directors in corporate governance, beginning with a discussion of the principles of corporate governance as set out in the UK Corporate Governance Code. Rules on appointment and removal of a company’s directors are considered next, followed by public disclosure of the names of directors and their work as a board, their remuneration and their powers of management. The chapter also considers the legal categorisation of directors, whether as fiduciaries, agents or trustees; the distinction between executive directors and non-executive directors; the relationship between directors and shareholders of public companies; the issue of the separation of ownership and the control of a company; transparency; and general legal principles regarding the board of directors. Relevant legislation such as the Companies Act 2006 and the UK Corporate Governance Code, as well as particularly significant court cases, are mentioned.
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French, Derek, Stephen W. Mayson, and Christopher L. Ryan. 15. Directors. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198778301.003.0015.
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This chapter explores the role of directors in corporate governance, beginning with a discussion on the principles of corporate governance as set out in the UK Corporate Governance Code. Rules on appointment and removal of a company’s directors are considered next, followed by public disclosure of the names of directors and their work as a board, their remuneration, and their powers of management. The chapter also considers the legal categorisation of directors, whether as fiduciaries, agents, or trustees; the distinction between executive directors and non-executive directors; the relationship between directors and shareholders of public companies; the issue of the separation of ownership and the control of a company; transparency; and general legal principles regarding the board of directors. Relevant legislation such as the Companies Act 2006 and the UK Corporate Governance Code, as well as particularly significant court cases, are mentioned.
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French, Derek. 19. Acting for a company: agency and attribution. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198815105.003.0019.
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This chapter deals with the legal relationship of agency that exists between the company and the agent, explaining the process involved in an agent’s authentication and the execution of documents for the company he or she represents. It then considers two ways in which a company may become contractually bound to another person (a ‘contractor’) under the provisions of the Companies Act 2006: through a written contract to which the company’s common seal is affixed, or when someone has made a contract on behalf of the company. It also discusses the company’s capacity to enter into contracts, with emphasis on the ultra vires rule, and attribution by a court so as to impose criminal liability on a company. A number of court cases relevant to the discussion are cited.
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French, Derek, Stephen W. Mayson, and Christopher L. Ryan. 19. Acting for a company: agency and attribution. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198778301.003.0019.
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This chapter deals with the legal relationship of agency that exists between the company and the agent, explaining the process involved in an agent’s authentication and the execution of documents for the company he or she represents. It then considers two ways in which a company may become contractually bound to another person (a ‘contractor’) under the provisions of the Companies Act 2006: through a written contract to which the company’s common seal is affixed, or when someone has made a contract on behalf of the company. It also discusses the company’s capacity to enter into contracts, with emphasis on the ultra vires rule, and attribution by a court so as to impose criminal liability on a company. A number of court cases relevant to the discussion are cited.
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(Editor), Anthony L. Podberscek, Elizabeth S. Paul (Editor), and James A. Serpell (Editor), eds. Companion Animals and Us: Exploring the Relationships between People and Pets. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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1963-, Podberscek Anthony L., Paul Elizabeth S. 1964-, and Serpell James 1952-, eds. Companion animals and us: Exploring the relationships between people and pets. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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(Editor), Anthony L. Podberscek, Elizabeth S. Paul (Editor), and James A. Serpell (Editor), eds. Companion Animals and Us: Exploring the Relationships between People and Pets. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Moses, Jonathon W., and Bjørn Letnes. The Norwegian Petroleum Administration. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787174.003.0004.
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This chapter establishes the broad parameters for oil management. It considers the threat of the Resource Curse, and what can be done to address the challenges of corruption, and the imbalance of power between states, international oil companies, and domestic interests (including national oil companies). In particular, the chapter begins by discussing the relationship between politics and economics and between states and firms (including the Obsolescing Bargaining Mechanism), and the utility of separating responsibility for policymaking, regulation, and operational or commercial activities. The latter part of the chapter introduces Norway’s unique institutional solutions to these challenges, that is, the three-part division of administrative responsibility that is central to the Norwegian model, and the institutions where they reside (e.g., the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, and Statoil).
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Monshipouri, Mahmood. Pipeline Politics in Iran, Turkey, and the South Caucasus. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673604.003.0003.
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The relationship between Iran, Turkey and the South Caucasus states have been influenced by an array of geopolitical, strategic, cultural, and economic factors. The competition between Iran and Turkey and their roles in the South Caucasus are best defined by traditional balance-of-power relations and the broader context of the post-Soviet era. This chapter unpacks the complex dynamics of pipeline politics in the South Caucasus region by underlying the need to understand the “Great Power Game” involving geostrategic and geo-economic interests of local governments, regional actors, global powers, and international oil companies. The larger focus turns on underscoring the importance of the region’s large oil and gas reserves; its land connection between the Caspian Sea, South Caucasus, and Europe; and its long-standing territorial conflicts in the post-Soviet era. Iran and Turkey have fought for influence in the South Caucasus while maintaining relatively good bilateral relationships in the region.
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Mondoloka, Angel. Approaches to Supporting Local and Community Development. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817369.003.0029.
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Mining is the largest sector of the Zambian economy but the relationship between mining companies and their host communities has been fractious, without a clear path towards sustainability. The severe social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining have been compounded by perceived shortcomings in corporate social and environmental responsibility programming by the industry, and by fragile regulatory capacity on the government’s part. This chapter examines the modalities and results of mining community development programmes in Zambia as part of the broader discussion on how large international mining companies can, and do, contribute to local and community development. It narrates the approaches adopted by five multinational mining corporates, two of which are Chinese-owned, and discusses their advantages and disadvantages.
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Ward, Geoffrey C. Closest Companion: He Unknown Story of the Intimate Relationship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley. Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
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Brown, Andrew, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Forces Disrupting Relationships at Work: Litigation. Edited by Andrew Brown, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190697068.003.0005.
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This chapter discusses the psychological impact of litigation on workers and the workplace. Litigation disrupts workplace relationships because of the personal nature of the legal process. Employees and management alike experience litigation as a major breach of trust accompanied by anger, fear, shame, and over time, increasing dependency on legal representatives. Defendant companies may retreat behind organizational defenses that arise in response to litigation, including the creation of new policies and procedures, while managers are caught in the middle in negotiating conflict between aggrieved employees and the company. Litigant employees, who often feel that they have performed a positive societal action in revealing workplace deficiencies, may find themselves increasingly isolated by coworkers and managers. All of the emotional responses can create human and financial costs because of dysfunctional workplace behaviors and the resulting mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, and somatic or paranoid symptoms.
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Cup of Comfort for Horse Lovers: Stories That Celebrate the Relationship Between the Rider and Noble Companion. Adams Media Corporation, 2008.
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Timothy, Spangler. 4 The Legal Duties Arising from the Provision of Investment Advisory and Management Services. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198807247.003.0004.
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This chapter discusses the legal duties owed by investment managers to their clients arising from the provision of investment advisory and management services. It first considers the key documents that establish the legal relationship between fund managers and investors before explaining the investment manager’s duty of care and fiduciary duty of loyalty to the client. It then examines the contracts involved in private investment funds between the fund vehicle and the fund manager, along with the fiduciary duties of directors of limited companies. It also analyses the impact of structure of investment management firms on legal duties, taking into account multiple management vehicles, the effect of fund management economics on legal structures, and the dividing line between fund manager and investors.
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Roger, Mccormick, and Stears Chris. Part VI Early Perceptions of Legal Risk, 21 A Case of Conceptual Impossibility. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198749271.003.0022.
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This chapter discusses the case of Re Charge Card Services Ltd, which concerned the relationship between a company and a finance house that provided funds to it, pursuant to an invoice discounting agreement, by purchasing trade debts of the company. Under certain circumstances the company was obliged to repurchase trade debts, which it guaranteed would be paid. The accounting and payment system operating between the parties gave the finance house various rights to hold on to monies, make deductions from payments, and exercise set-offs. When the company went into liquidation, it was contended that certain rights of the finance house were void as against the liquidator because they constituted charges over book debts and they had not been registered as required under the Companies Act 1948.
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Klausner, Michael. The “Corporate Contract” Today. Edited by Jeffrey N. Gordon and Wolf-Georg Ringe. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743682.013.12.
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This chapter examines the theoretical and empirical validity of the “contractarian” theory of corporate governance Beginning with an overview of the contractarian theory and its conceptualization of the relationship between managers and shareholders of a public company, it explains how the theoretical assumptions of the contractarian theory have turned out to be invalid and how the empirical predictions of the theory have not been borne out. The process by which “corporate contracts” develop do not fit the neoclassical model of atomistic competition. As a result, the customization and innovation that the contractarian theory predicts do not occur—either at the IPO stage or at the “midstream” stage when companies are publicly traded.
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Moore, Imogen. 6. Company Management and Governance. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198745228.003.0006.
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The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam questions and coursework. Each book includes typical questions, suggested answers with commentary, illustrative diagrams, guidance on how to develop your answer, suggestions for further reading, and advice on exams and coursework. This chapter explores important issues in company management and corporate governance, starting by examining the role of directors and shareholders (and the relationship between them) and the separation of ‘ownership and control’. Since the early 1990s, the governance of listed companies has been dominated by self-regulatory codes (currently the UK Corporate Governance Code). This chapter examines how these codes operate and considers key themes in corporate governance, including the role of non-executive directors and auditors; the position of institutional investors; and executive remuneration.
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Gibson, James L., and Michael J. Nelson. Have Ferguson and Its Companions Contaminated Black Support for Legal Institutions? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865214.003.0004.
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Given that African Americans have been victimized by the abuses of individual police officers as well as by discriminatory public policies such as “stop-and-frisk,” it is no surprise that considerable alienation seems to characterize the contemporary relationship between African Americans and the legal institutions that govern them. But have those attitudes poisoned more general views of legal institutions such as the U.S. Supreme Court? Using a nationally-representative sample of African Americans, we assess whether blacks generalize from their experiences with local authorities to perceptions of legal system fairness, and further to institutional support for the high bench. While we find that perceptions of legal system fairness have not undermined Supreme Court legitimacy, all of the relationships we consider are found to be conditional upon the nature of group attachments.
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The Powerful Bond between People and Pets: Our Boundless Connections to Companion Animals (Practical and Applied Psychology). Praeger Publishers, 2008.
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Alter, Karen J., Laurence R. Helfer, and M. Florencia Guerzovich. Islands of Effective International Adjudication. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199680788.003.0005.
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This chapter explains how the Andean Tribunal of Justice (ATJ) became both active and effective with respect to intellectual property (IP) disputes, and why IP remains an island of effective adjudication that has not expanded to other areas of Andean law. It describes the ATJ's interactions with the domestic administrative agencies responsible for IP and explores how the ATJ's rulings shaped agency decisions and procedures to bolster adherence to the rule of law. The chapter also documents how the relationship between Andean judges and agency officials enabled the ATJ to confront national governments under pressure from the United States and multinational drug companies to violate Andean law. It demonstrates that Andean IP rules differ from those elsewhere in Latin America. Finally, this chapter explains how the legal and institutional contexts within which Andean IP rules are embedded help to bolster the island's stability and protect it from significant meddling by governments.
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Troisi, Alfonso. Care. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199393404.003.0009.
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This chapter focuses on the impact of the doctor–patient relationship on patients’ physiology and well-being. The core of the chapter reports recent data on the physiological changes associated with placebo and nocebo effects and relates these findings to the impact of social relationships on health and disease. On average, the placebo effect’s relative weight in therapeutic improvement is around 40%. The most important component of the placebo effect is the doctor–patient relationship, and this is addressed by looking at the evolution of the behavior that underlies any medical act: care of the sick. Natural selection favored the evolution of behaviors aimed at helping group companions who were wounded or sick, through two different mechanisms: kin selection and reciprocal altruism. For a long period of human evolutionary history, care of the sick followed the path of intimate and affectionate relationships. Delegation to unfamiliar experts trained in medical science came much later. The take-home message of the chapter is that the opposition between humanistic and scientific medicine fades if one looks with an open mind at what we currently know about the biological dynamics that regulate the doctor–patient relationship.
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Martin, Lou. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039454.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter argues that studies of the industrialization of rural places like Hancock County can help in understanding the nature of industrial capitalism, particularly the relationship between capital mobility and the working class. Industries periodically entered periods of crisis that required a general restructuring for companies to remain profitable, and relocations were a key component in the process. In “undeveloped” rural areas, some manufacturers believed that they could create new environments free of discord and find grateful and compliant pool of rural laborers—often women and other low-wage workers—to surround the core of handpicked skilled workers. Thus, manufacturers' old labor problems and their high hopes for an improved workforce figured prominently in the migration of capital to rural places. Eventually, rural migrants and young people from local farms brought their own ideas, goals, and culture—distinct from those of the skilled craftsmen—and came to constitute a truly rural-industrial workforce.
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Hughes, Charles. Country Music and the Recording Industry. Edited by Travis D. Stimeling. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190248178.013.6.
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This chapter explores the role of the recording industry in framing and fueling the development of country music from the 1920s to the present. It primarily examines the way that artists, producers, and record companies developed and manipulated the tenacious debate between “tradition” and “crossover” that continues to structure the music as art, commodity, and cultural symbol. The notion of country authenticity is a function of the attempt to establish country as a distinct and sellable genre. While the recording industry (particularly in Nashville) often gets cast as the villain in debates over country “authenticity,” this chapter suggests that a historical examination of this relationship reveals a more complicated story that has marked the careers of artists from Jimmie Rodgers to Taylor Swift. Swift’s notable work with social media, viral videos, and other components of the media landscape facing recording artists in the 2000s is the latest iteration of a much longer story for country artists, audiences, and record labels.
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Armstrong, John. The Vital Spark. Liverpool University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780986497308.001.0001.
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This book collects seventeen previously published essays by John Armstrong concerning the British coastal trade. Armstrong is a leading maritime historian and the essays provided here offer a thorough exploration of the British coastal trade, his specialisation, during the period of industrialisation and technological development that would lead to modern shipping. The purpose is to demonstrate the whether or not the coastal trade was the main carrier of internal trade and a pioneer of the technical developments that modernised the shipping industry. Each essay makes an original contribution to the field and covers a broad range of topics, including the fluctuating importance of the coastal trade and size of the coastal fleet over time; the relationship between coastal shipping, canals, and railways; a comparison between the coastal liner and coastal tramp trade; the significance of the river Thames in enabling trade; coastal trade economics; maritime freight rates; the early twentieth century shipping depression; competition between coastal liner companies; and a detailed study of the role of the government in coastal shipping. The book also contains case studies of the London coal trade; coastal trade through the River Dee port; and the Liverpool-Hull trade route. It contains a foreword, introduction, and bibliography of Armstrong’s writings. There is no overall conclusion, except the assertion that coastal shipping plays a tremendous role in British maritime history, and a call for further research into the field.
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Santos, Luciano Laurindo dos. Territórios, Territorialidades e Lutas Sociais na Amazônia Oriental. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-472-2.
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The book discusses the study of territorialities in the Bico do Papagaio mesoregion. New forces and strategies have been emerging as power forces and have inserted themselves in the region. This process is happening due to the creation of public policies and through cultural representations that go beyond state frontiers, promoting the relationship between states and creating a mesoregional unity. This book shows that there are many interrelations of power territoriality involving subjects with different identities of territory, companies, and the Brazilian State, through programs, projects, public policies and the work of public institutions. Specially after the beginning of the military dictatorship, the thinking of the Brazilian State about territory matters is one that has been making plans to and actually using this territory for purposes that are almost always related to the production of commodities. As a result of the actions of the Brazilian State in this territory, it’s possible to observe certain domains (mining companies, hydroelectric plants, livestock farms) working their territorialities with the aim to profit from the exhaustive exploration of the Empreso Brás territory. On the other hand, there are the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) and the quilombolas (descendants of Afro-Brazilian fugitive slaves) who have a completely different approach. Through the years these territorialities produced many collective strategies of power. All these strategies – unions, associations, cooperations, education - are connected to social networks which go beyond the Bico do Papagaio territory. They produce a unique territory, with territorialities and subjects who over the decades, in solidarity, have been empowering themselves to resist the transformations that the Brazilian State makes to the territory, transformations that are in line with the objectives of the national and international capital.
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Pollock, Emily Richmond. Opera After the Zero Hour. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190063733.001.0001.
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Opera after the Zero Hour argues that newly composed opera in West Germany after World War II was a site for the renegotiation of musical traditions during an era in which tradition had become politically fraught. The idea of the “Zero Hour,” which put a rhetorical caesura between National Socialism and postwar occupied and divided Germany, was belied by significant continuities with earlier periods and by repeated efforts at conservative restoration. Opera’s social, aesthetic, and political value systems made it an essential piece of this cultural ethos. Its conservatism was creative and multifaceted, and composers who wrote new operas developed a range of strategies to make opera modern while still drawing on the conventions of the genre. Different historical reference points and approaches to operatic tradition are exemplified through five case studies of works premiered in the first two postwar decades on the stages of West Germany. For these operas, this book presents source studies, close reading, and reviews as constellations to illuminate the politicized artistic environment that influenced both their creation and their reception. The argument also draws on historical information and the archives of German opera houses to contextualize new opera within institutions. Works written for postwar West German opera companies could be nuanced in their conception of and relationship to historic and modern ideas of what opera should be, and the reception of these works reveals tensions between particular interpretations of tradition, operaticism, and the future of opera.
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Madariaga, Aldo. Neoliberal Resilience. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691182599.001.0001.
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Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has withstood repeated economic shocks and financial crises to become the hegemonic economic policy worldwide. Why has neoliberalism remained so resilient? What is the relationship between this resiliency and the backsliding of Western democracy? Can democracy survive an increasingly authoritarian neoliberal capitalism? This book answers these questions by bringing the developing world's recent history to the forefront of our thinking about democratic capitalism's future. Looking at four decades of change in four countries once considered to be leading examples of effective neoliberal policy in Latin America and Eastern Europe — Argentina, Chile, Estonia, and Poland — the book examines the domestic actors and institutions responsible for defending neoliberalism. Delving into neoliberalism's political power, the book demonstrates that it is strongest in countries where traditional democratic principles have been slowly and purposefully weakened. It identifies three mechanisms through which coalitions of political, institutional, and financial forces have propagated neoliberalism's success: the privatization of state companies to create a supporting business class, the use of political institutions to block the representation of alternatives in congress, and the constitutionalization of key economic policies to shield them from partisan influence. The book reflects on today's most pressing issues, including the influence of increasing austerity measures and the rise of populism. As a comparative exploration of political economics at the peripheries of global capitalism, the book investigates the tensions between neoliberalism's longevity and democracy's gradual decline.
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Webber, David M. Morals and Medicines. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423564.003.0006.
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The second case study, explored here in chapter 6, addresses the commitment of the New Labour government to increase the availability of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs needed to combat HIV and AIDS in the developing world. This chapter extends the analysis that appears in chapter 3 concerning New Labour’s claim to be the ‘party of business’ and its special relationship with the UK pharmaceutical industry. In doing so, it reveals a clear tension between the priority that New Labour afforded to these drug companies, and the commitment that Brown and other government officials made concerning the delivery of ARV medicines. Despite the urgent need to roll-out these drugs to stem the rising tide of AIDS-related deaths in the global South, New Labour’s policies – again designed principally by Brown – appeared to prioritise the preferences of these firms and their shareholders. Although Brown was amongst a number of government officials concerned at the prohibitively high price of these drugs, this chapter finds that he was also instrumental in introducing a number of measures that incentivised rather than forced the industry into meeting its wider obligations towards addressing HIV and AIDS, and the other so-called ‘diseases of poverty’ in the global South.
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Coverdill, James E., and William Finlay. Contingency Headhunters: What They Do—and What Their Activities Tell Us About Jobs, Careers, and the Labor Market. Edited by Ute-Christine Klehe and Edwin van Hooft. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199764921.013.011.
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This chapter overviews the work of contingency headhunters, who earn a fee from a client company when a candidate they have identified and presented is hired. It begins by describing the financial footing of the industry and the three central activities of headhunting: establishing business relationships with client companies, identifying and presenting candidates for positions, and facilitating encounters between clients and candidates. A second section explores how headhunters provide insights into who is on the market for a new job, who fits a job well, and who appears to fit a job well. In a third section, it draws out several issues that demand more scholarly attention, such as a lack of information about the industry, international practices, client companies, and consequences for clients and candidates of headhunter-facilitated job changes. A final section offers guidelines for individuals who might encounter or use a headhunter.
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Brown, Catherine, and Susan Reid, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456623.001.0001.
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This book includes twenty-eight chapters by specialists from across the arts, reassessing Lawrence’s relationship to aesthetic categories and specific art forms in their historical and critical contexts. A new picture of Lawrence as a multi-disciplinary artist emerges, expanding from traditional areas of enquiry in prose and poetry into the fields of drama, painting, music, dance, sculpture, architecture, historiography, life writing and queer and Biblical aesthetics. The Companion explores topics such as Lawrence’s politics in his art, his representations of technology, his practice of revising and rewriting, his manifold modes of performance, and the relationship between his criticism and creation of prose, poetry and painting. Investigation of Lawrence’s engagements with the work and themes of his fellow modernists represents him as more ‘modernist’ and less anti-aesthetic than has hitherto been the case; and his attitudes towards the working-classes, and anticipation of the ideas of the Frankfurt School, modern ecocriticism and queer theory, are presented as revealing him to be more progressive than has previously been recognised. This interdisciplinary Companion also makes a strong case for Lawrence’s continuing aesthetic power, as represented by case studies of his afterlives in biofiction, cinema, musical settings and portraiture.
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Gheciu, Alexandra. Security Entrepreneurs. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813064.001.0001.
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Focusing on four East European polities—Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania—this book examines the dynamics and implications of processes of commercialization of security that have occurred following the collapse of communist regimes. These processes have been central to post-communist liberalization, and have profoundly shaped those states and their integration into European institutional structures and global economic and political circuits. They have also affected—and been shaped by—the behavior and power of regional and global actors (e.g. European institutions, regional and global corporations) in Eastern Europe. By virtue of the fact that they combine in complex ways local, national, regional, and global dynamics and actors, processes of security commercialization in the former Eastern bloc can be seen as instances of “glocalization.” Several aspects of security commercialization are particularly important. To begin with, private actors—specifically private security companies (PSCs)—have been reconstituted as partial agents of public power. As such, they have come to be systematically involved in performing security practices traditionally associated with the state. In addition, a potent commercial logic has come to permeate public security institutions. This has led to redefinition of the relationship between the state and its population in ways that defy conventional wisdom about the role of the state, and pose difficult normative challenges. More broadly, processes of security commercialization in Eastern Europe, which involve important performative dimensions, have led to the emergence of complex, hybrid networks of security providers that transcend domestic/international, public/private boundaries and behave, in many ways, as entrepreneurs.
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Krzywdzinski, Martin. Organizational Socialization. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198806486.003.0004.
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This chapter examines the organizational socialization mechanisms in automotive plants in Russia and China. The empirical analysis starts with selection processes. How do the companies select candidates during recruitment and whom do they select? Are they looking for a certain type of employee? The chapter continues with the analysis of onboarding concepts in China and Russia and then follows the employees within their teams. It analyzes the social relationships in the team, which influence the socialization processes within the company. Finally, overarching company activities intended to promote social integration (team building, competitions) are examined to determine the extent to which they shape work behaviors and generate identification with the company. The analysis shows considerable differences between the Russian and the Chinese plants regarding the intensity and the effects of organizational socialization.
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Kasperbauer, T. J. Dehumanization and Mentalizing Animals. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190695811.003.0004.
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This chapter applies the psychological account from chapter 3 on how we rank human beings above other animals, to the particular case of using mental states to assign animals moral status. Experiments on the psychology of mental state attribution are discussed, focusing on their implications for human moral psychology. The chapter argues that attributions of phenomenal states, like emotions, drive our assignments of moral status. It also describes how this is significantly impacted by the process of dehumanization. Psychological research on anthropocentrism and using animals as food and as companions is discussed in order to illuminate the relationship between dehumanization and mental state attribution.
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Roach, Lee. 2. Promotion of the company. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198759133.003.0002.
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EachConcentraterevision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more.Concentratesshow you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. This chapter discusses the legal position of persons in the process of incorporating a company (known as ‘promoters’), and the legal relationship that exists between them and the unformed company and with any third parties who contract with the promoters or the company prior to it being incorporated. A promoter cannot make a secret profit out of the company’s promotion and will usually be personally liable on a contract entered into on behalf of a company if that company had not been incorporated at the time the contract was entered into.
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Cheok, Adrian David, Kasun Karunanayaka, and Emma Yann Zhang. Lovotics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190652951.003.0013.
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Intimate relationships, such as love and sex, between human and machines, especially robots, has been one of the themes of science fiction. However, this topic has never been treated in the academic area until recently. It was first raised and discussed by David Levy in his book Love and Sex with Robotics (2007). Since then, researchers have come up with many implementations of robot companions, like sex robots, emotional robots, humanoid robots, and artificial intelligent systems that can simulate human emotions. This chapter presents a summary of significant recent activity in this field, predicts how the field is likely to develop, and discusses ethical and legal issues. We also discuss our research in physical devices for human–robot love and sex communication.
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Haddad, Youssef A. The Sociopragmatics of Attitude Datives in Levantine Arabic. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474434072.001.0001.
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This book analyses the sociopragmatics of attitude datives in four Levantine Arabic varieties; these are Syrian, Lebanese, Jordanian, and Palestinian Arabic. Attitude datives are optional pronominal pragmatic markers that serve two broad functions: (i) an evaluative function to express a stance toward an issue or an object, and/or (ii) a relational function to manage (e.g., affirm, challenge) relationships between social actors. The study provides ample data from a variety of sources: soap operas, movies, plays, talk shows, social media, and so on. It is supplemented with short videos of most data on a companion website https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/haddad. The study has four goals: to document the phenomenon of attitude datives in Levantine Arabic; to analyze their meaning contribution in interaction; to examine the contextual factors that inform and are informed by their use; to account for the cognitive coordination that social actors engage in when an attitude dative is used.
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Abbott, Kenneth W., Bernhard Zangl, Duncan Snidal, and Philipp Genschel, eds. The Governor's Dilemma. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855057.001.0001.
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The Governor’s Dilemma develops a general theory of indirect governance based on the tradeoff between governor control and intermediary competence; the empirical chapters apply that theory to a diverse range of cases encompassing both international relations and comparative politics. The theoretical framework paper starts from the observation that virtually all governance is indirect, carried out through intermediaries. But governors in indirect governance relationships face a dilemma: competent intermediaries gain power from the competencies they contribute, making them difficult to control, while efforts to control intermediary behavior limit important intermediary competencies, including expertise, credibility, and legitimacy. Thus, governors can obtain either high intermediary competence or strong control, but not both. The empirical chapters demonstrate that the competence–control tradeoff, and the governor’s dilemma, are common conditions of indirect governance, whether governors are domestic, international, or supranational, democratic or authoritarian; and whether governance addresses economic, security, or social issues. The empirical chapters analyze the operation and implications of the governor’s dilemma in cases involving the governance of violence (e.g. secret police, support for foreign rebel groups, private security companies), the governance of markets (e.g. the Euro crisis, capital markets, EU regulation, the G20), and cross-cutting governance issues (colonial empires, “Trump’s Dilemma”).
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Fay, Jessica, ed. Collected Letters of Sir George and Lady Beaumont to the Wordsworth Family, 1803-1829. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859531.001.0001.
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This edition presents and contextualizes an archive of letters -- belonging to the Wordsworth Trust -- that reveal the creative and personal significance of the friendship between William Wordsworth and Sir George Beaumont. Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British Art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a prominent patron, collector, and co-founder of the National Gallery. Wordsworth described Beaumont’s friendship as one of the chief blessings of his life, and the letters reveal that the two men became collaborators as well as companions. In addition to documenting unique perspectives on social, political, and cultural events of the early nineteenth century (providing new contexts for reading Wordsworth’s mature poetry) the letters chart the progress of an increasingly intimate inter-familial relationship that included Lady Beaumont and Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth. The picture that emerges is of a coterie that—in influence, creativity, and affection—rivals Wordsworth’s more famous exchange with Coleridge in the 1790s. The edition includes an extended critical study of how Wordsworth and Beaumont helped shape one another’s work, tracing processes of mutual artistic development that involved not only a meeting of aristocratic refinement and rural simplicity, of a socialite and a lover of retirement, of a painter and a poet, but also an aesthetic rapprochement between neoclassical and romantic values, between the impulse to idealize and the desire to particularize.
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Gilbert-Santamaria, Donald. The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474458047.001.0001.
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This book posits the Aristotelian-Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through a re-examination of Spanish critic Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce’s notion of the “tale of two friends” tradition, the book shows how the poetics of friendship evolves in relation to other key concepts from the period—most notably exemplarity and imitatio—in a series of carefully selected examples from several important genres including the pastoral novel, the picaresque, and the Spanish comedia. Particular attention is given to the trajectory whereby the highly formalized narrativization of the traditional Aristotelian paradigm for friendship gives way to representations of personal intimacy grounded in a recognition of the idiosyncratic particularity of human experience in the world beyond the text. This alternative modality for representing friendship, which encompasses a variety of relationships beyond the Aristotelian paradigm—between women, erstwhile lovers, and pícaros, to take just three examples—reaches its fullest expression in the depiction of the evolving intimacy that grows up between the two unlikely companions, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, whose shared experiences provide the main focus for Cervantes’s most important work.
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Mullan, Killian. A Child's Day. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529201697.001.0001.
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We routinely judge how well children are doing in their lives by how they spend their time, yet we know remarkably little about it. This rigorous review of four decades of data provides the clearest insights yet into the way children use their time. With analysis of changes in the time spent on family, education, culture and technology, as well as children's own views on their habits, it provides a fascinating perspective on behaviour, well-being, social change and more. This is an indispensable companion to the work of policy makers, academics and researchers, and anyone interested in the daily lives of children. The book begins by tracing some of the major strands of social change thought to have had an impact on different areas of children's daily time use. The past several decades have witnessed rapid social, economic, and technological change, widely thought to have affected many aspects of children's daily lives. It then examines the relationship between children's time use and outcomes relating to their health, development, and well-being, drawing together strands of thought from the sociology of childhood and research on child well-being. The book discusses overall trends in children's time doing homework and study. It examines associations between children's time use and a range of different health outcomes, and moves on to investigate the context of children's daily life linked to family, in particular concentrating on the time children spend at home and with parents. It evaluates children's time using technology, and focuses on the affective component of subjective well-being, specifically in connection with how children feel about how they spend their time. In conclusion, the book identifies areas of expected change as well as other areas of surprising stability. It reveals how change and stability in children's time use blend together to comprise a child's day, uncovering also the multi-layered contexts of a child's day.