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POLITICAL ONTOLOGY: Cultural Studies without 'cultures'?
In this article I seek to put into conversation two different but convergent intellectual/political projects, Lawrence Grossberg's 'radically contextualist cultural studies' and 'political ontology', an emergent analytical framework being developed by a loosely connected network of scholars. Central to both projects is the question of modernity, but while Grossberg's cultural studies focuses on…
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- Volume 23, Issue 5 & 6 September 2009 , pages 873
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- 09502386
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- Cultural Studies
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Deadwood abundance in recently harvested and old Nova Scotia hardwood forests
Deadwood (dead standing tree (snag), woody debris (WD; downed deadwood), buried wood and stump abundance) was estimated in northern hardwood forests of Nova Scotia dominated by Acer saccharum, Betula alleghaniensis, Fagus grandifolia, Betula papyrifera and Acer rubum. Three strata were examined (1) old forests, (2) forests clearcut 1–2 years before measurement and (3) forests clearcut 8 years b…
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- Volume 83, Number 2, April 2010. Pp. 219-227
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- 0015752x
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- Forestry an International Journal of Forest Research
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Problems as Building Blocks for Organizational Learning: A Roadmap for Experi…
This article explores the practice of problem-based learning (PBL) in organizational contexts and its contribution to organizational learning. It proposes a learning that is context dependent based on the collective participation of individuals through structured and spontaneous processes. A theory-elaboration approach was adopted by means of an interpretivist methodological paradigm. Rich data…
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- Vol. 35, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 243-275
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- 10596011
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- Group & Organization Management
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Learning Task Effectiveness and Social Interdependence Through the Mediating …
This study proposes a model by postulating antecedents and mediators related to interemployee linkages as the key drivers of task effectiveness, in which task effectiveness is affected indirectly by expressiveness, outcome, and task interdependence through the mediation of knowledge sharing and interemployee helping. This study conducts empirical testing of the proposed model by investigating o…
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- Vol. 35, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 299-328
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- Group & Organization Management
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Associations of Culture and Personality With McClelland’s Motives: A Cross-…
Using a cross-cultural sample of 17,538 managers from 24 countries, this study explores the interrelationships between McClelland’s motives and specific aggregate-level cultural dimensions and personality factors. The results reveal significant relationships between the Achievement, Affiliation, and Power Motives, and the cultural dimensions of Performance Orientation, Humane Orientation, and P…
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- Vol. 35, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 329-367
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Identity Without Boundaries: Public Administration’s Canon(s) of Integration
It is often charged that the study of public administration lacks boundaries and suffers from an identity crisis. This charge is grounded in a positivist belief in the unity of knowledge. From the perspective of positivists, the study of public administration lacks the epistemological unity that would make it a true science. Regarding public administration as an interdisciplinary study and prac…
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- Vol. 42, No. 2, April 2010. pp. 131-159
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- 00953997
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- Administration & Society
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Alignment and Results: Testing the Interaction Effects of Strategy, Structure…
Theory and evidence has grown on the role of strategy in public organizations. Miles and Snow suggest that strategy’s impact on organizational success will be greatest when external and internal factors are in alignment—when, for instance, managerial prospectors in decentralized organizations operate in a turbulent environment. This study examines three of the Miles and Snow factors—strategy, s…
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- Vol. 42, No. 2, April 2010. pp. 160-192
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Trust in Governance Networks: Its Impacts on Outcomes
Governance networks are characterized by complex interaction and decision making, and much uncertainty. Surprisingly, there is very little research on the impact of trust in achieving results in governance networks. This article asks two questions: (a) Does trust influence the outcomes of environmental projects? and (b) Does active network management improve the level of trust in networks? The …
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- Vol. 42, No. 2, April 2010. pp. 193-221
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Examining Intergovernmental and Interorganizational Response to Catastrophic …
This research focused on the interorganizational and intergovernmental response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The study used the concepts from the network and partnerships literature and used current techniques of network analysis. The study found that the use of intergovernmental and interorganizational response to coordinate complex operations in multiorganizational environments of …
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- Vol. 42, No. 2, April 2010. pp. 222-247
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Four Challenges to Accountability in Contemporary Public Administration: Less…
Using the Romzek–Dubnick typology of accountability, the authors analyze challenges that reinvention and new public management reforms in the United States and China present with regard to maintaining legal controls, protecting non-mission-based administrative objectives, pursuing public values, and sustaining hierarchical authority. The authors show that reforms—especially outsourcing and resu…
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- Vol. 42, No. 1 Suppl, April 2010. pp. 11S-33S
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Future Prospects for Performance Management in Chinese City Governments
Contrasting views are presented on the nature and rationale for public management reforms in China. One school argues that they are strongly influenced by international practice, whereas the other holds that they reflect the characteristics of Chinese politics and administration. The authors explore this proposition in the arena of performance management, where they pay particular attention to …
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- Vol. 42, No. 1 Suppl, April 2010. pp. 34S-55S
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Hitting the Target but Missing the Point: The Rise of Non-Mission-Based Targe…
A striking feature of the performance measurement system in Chinese local governments is the emphasis on non-mission-based targets. Drawing on data collected in a 5-year field research project in one inland Chinese county, this article examines the causes, dynamics, and consequences of the rise of non-mission-based targets in local China. It argues that non-mission-based targets are largely an …
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- Vol. 42, No. 1 Suppl, April 2010. pp. 56S-76S
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Dual Faces of Ministerial Leadership in South Korea: Does Political Responsiv…
This study is designed to examine dual faces of ministerial leadership that functions in the gray area of politics and administration when a minister performs his or her role as a political appointee and as a department head. The dual faces of ministerial leadership require somehow both political responsiveness and administrative responsibility for effective ministerial performance. Using the p…
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- Vol. 42, No. 1 Suppl, April 2010. pp. 77S-101S
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THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND AFTER: Recovery, reconstruction and cultural studies
This introductory article engages with possibilities for cultural studies during the economic crisis of 2008 and its aftermath. It begins by considering the nature of the crisis and the recovery that follows. It goes on to explore the relationship between cultural studies and economic discourse, arguing that the cultural studies of the economy and the 'economic' has always taken place in refere…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3 May 2010 , pages 283 - 294
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THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY: Economies of parable
The recent financial crisis has shattered lives and spread misery far and wide. The magnitude of damage has produced the desire for the economic equivalent of a truth and reconciliation commission. Yet the efforts to get the story right have pointed as much to a crisis of narrative, of theory, even of facticity among the standard-bearers of monied matters, public punditry and policy self-justif…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3 May 2010 , pages 418 - 430
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- 09502386
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CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DEBATE: Unfinished business: labour, management, and the …
In what follows I am going to argue that the rise of the creative industries has in general been understood too narrowly. This narrow understanding has had implications for the way that a politics of management and labour in the creative industries has been framed and contained, and it has held back an analysis of class struggle in the creative industries. To elaborate an understanding of labou…
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- Volume 24, Issue 3 May 2010 , pages 431 - 444
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Helping Behavior, Dispositional Empathic Concern, and the Principle of Care
This research investigates the relative strength of two correlates of helping behavior: dispositional empathic concern and a moral principle to care about others. The empathy–helping and care–helping relationships are investigated using data from the General Social Survey, a nationally representative random sample of the U.S. adult population. Ten helping behaviors are investigated. The results…
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- Vol. 73, No. 1, March 2010. pp. 11-32
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- 01902725
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent
The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical question in behavioral and social sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences (such as liberalism and athei…
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- Vol. 73, No. 1, March 2010. pp. 33-57
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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Do You See What I Am?: How Observers’ Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions …
Although race is one of the most salient status characteristics in American society, many observers cannot distinguish the racial ancestries of multiracial youth. This paper examines how people perceive multiracial adolescents: specifically, I investigate whether observers perceive the adolescents as multiracial and whether these racial perceptions are congruent with the multiracial adolescents…
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- Vol. 73, No. 1, March 2010. pp. 58-78
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Estimating Risk: Stereotype Amplification and the Perceived Risk of Criminal …
This paper considers the process by which individuals estimate the risk of adverse events, with particular attention to the social context in which risk estimates are formed. We compare subjective probability estimates of crime victimization to actual victimization experiences among respondents from the 1994 to 2002 waves of the Survey of Economic Expectations (Dominitz and Manski 2002). Using …
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- Vol. 73, No. 1, March 2010. pp. 79-104
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