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The Fragility of Responsibility
Attempts to steer research, innovation and business in desirable directions have failed to meet expectations. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and responsible research and innovation (RRI) seem to be losing ground, while the challenges they sought to address remain. Despite their shortcomings, these concepts remind us of the need to take responsibility for what we as researchers and entrepreneurs bring into the world, and to keep questioning the given framework. Drawing from the experience of the AFINO project, a unique attempt to bring together RRI and CSR and to promote networks, learning and skills building in Norway, this book contextualises and explores the practical challenges of actualising responsible practices even in the propitious Norwegian context. Readers interested in RRI, CSR, transdisciplinarity, and in the governance of research and innovation will find extensive information and insights about the challenges of steering research and business practices towards desirable ends and how to address them.
Reforming the Russian Industrial Workplace
Based on extensive original research, this book explores how far the Soviet pattern of industrial workplace organisation, characterised by a high level of management discretion, authoritarian control and the use of punitive methods on the shop-floor, has been replaced by internationally established practices, with a greater emphasis on a lean organisation and employee involvement in quality improvement. The book explores how the market reforms of the 1990s raised companies’ attention to product quality but did not lead to a change in the management methods, which only began with the increased internationalisation of the Russian economy in the 2000s. The book includes a rich in-depth study of multinational and domestic companies, and argues that a move from the Soviet pattern of workplace organisation to new practices is only likely to occur in companies with strong ties to international partners, who provide support for, and audit the implementation and upholding of, international management standards. The research shows that local companies not exposed to such international collaboration continue with the old methods.
Rights of Nature in Europe
This book addresses the recognition of the Rights of Nature (RoN) in Europe, examining their conceptualisation and implementation. RoN refers to a diverse set of legal developments that seek to redefine Nature's status within the law, gradually emerging as a novel template for environmental protection. Countries like Ecuador and New Zealand, each with distinct histories and ways of dwelling in the world, have pioneered a new era in environmental governance by legally acknowledging rights or personhood for nature, ecosystems, and more-than-human populations. In recent years, Europe has witnessed growing interest in RoN, with academic, legislative, and political initiatives gaining momentum. A...
Procyclical Fiscal Policy
Conventional wisdom dictates that a fiscal policy should be counter-cyclical. However, contrary to this conventional views, recent research has demonstrated that fiscal policy is actually procyclical in most developing countries. In this book, we attempt to propose a new interpretation of this procyclicality after reviewing theoretical and empirical evolution of the research. In particular, by incorporating the political effort behavior of private agents into a weak government model, we explore how income fluctuations affect the optimal budget deficits in a political economy. If the government can control the political behavior, normally, the optimal budget deficit should rise in a recession...
Pausens kraft
Alle vil vi gerne leve et aktivt liv med fuldt tryk på så vel arbejdsliv som fritid. Men skal vi yde for fuld kraft, skal vi også lære at tanke op og holde pause. Uden perioder med ro og eftertanke tørrer vi ud og mister energien, koncentrationen og arbejdsglæden. Birgit Signora Toft fortæller med udgangspunkt i sine personlige erfaringer fra et langt liv som leder og lederudvikler, hvad der sker med os, når vi ikke hører efter, hvad kroppen og sindet fortæller os. På en enkel og jordnær måde bruger hun stilhed i krop og sind som ledelsesredskab og giver en lang række råd om, hvordan vi får mere ro og fordybelse ind i den travle hverdag.
Ratingagenturen auf den internationalen Finanzmärkten: Ihre Rolle in der Finanz- und Eurokrise
Vor mehr als einem Jahrhundert haben sich, ausgehend von den USA, Unternehmen entwickelt, die sich auf die Bonitatsbeurteilungen von Schuldnern spezialisiert haben: Die Ratingagenturen. Begonnen hat alles mit einem dunnen Buch, welches John Moody im Jahre 1909 veroffentlichte. Heute hat sich der Ratingmarkt zu einer "Multi-Milliarden-Dollar-Industrie" entwickelt und die grossen Agenturen wie Standard & Poor's, Moody's und Fitch zahlen zu den machtigsten Akteuren auf den Finanzmarkten. Doch die Agenturen, die fur Transparenz und Effizienz auf den Finanzmarkten sorgen sollen, stehen seit Beginn des neuen Jahrtausends fast pausenlos in der Kritik. Ihre Finanzierung sei fragwurdig, ihre Bewertun...
Einheit und Freiheit
1999 jährt sich zum 50. Mal die Verabschiedung des Grundgesetzes der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Dieses Jubiläum ist Anlaß, diejenigen hessischen Persönlichkeiten zu würdigen, die sich nach dem Krieg um die Gründung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die Grundsteinlegung einer freiheitlichen Demokratie und die Erarbeitung des Grundgesetzes verdient gemacht haben. Das gilt sowohl für die Mitglieder des Parlamentarischen Rates (z.B. Heinrich von Brentano, Walter Strauß, Georg August Zinn, Ludwig Bergsträsser, Max Becker, Elisabeth Selbert) als auch für die wichtigsten hessischen Politiker der ersten Stunde (z.B. Karl Geiler, Christian Stock, Werner Hilpert). Die Thematik ist vor allem d...
