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Learning Vicariously From Failure: The Case of Major League Soccer and the Co…
Organizations are often encouraged to learn from the failures of others. However, failures can be extremely complicated and multifaceted, defying clear cause attribution. Learning organizations face challenges in adopting and implementing the lessons of such failures and many times are unable to appropriately correct the root causes. Using a grounded theory approach, the authors present a learn…
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- Vol. 35 no. 5, October 2010.pp. 542-571
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- Group Organization Management
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Policy and Practice: Recursive Learning From Crisis
Data from the 2007 U.K. floods are examined using institutional theory and practice theory lenses. We note that learning from crisis ultimately results in “lessons learned” being institutionalized in new norms, tools, and infrastructure. As the basis of legitimate action for coping in the future, they may provide a measure of resilience, but crisis management and recovery is an active and emerg…
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- Vol. 35 no. 5, October 2010.pp. 572-605
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Why Do Product-Market Strategies Fail? A Sociostructural Examination Under Co…
The authors contend that structural and managerial antecedents of strategy failure exist and the extent to which these determine failure is different under conditions of high and low adherence to strategy. Our results support these arguments and demonstrate that the drivers of failure differ according to the unusual strategy process environment of both types of firms. Resource scarcity is found…
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- Vol. 35 no. 5, October 2010.pp. 606-635
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The Protracted Collapse of Ghana Airways: Lessons in Organizational Failure
Although the importance of organizational failure has fostered a steady stream of research, a review of the literature suggests that the majority of studies have focused on firms in the private sector and in developed economies. Despite the increasing occurrence of state-owned firms failing in many developing countries, empirical research on this issue remains scant. Using an in-depth case stud…
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- Vol. 35 no. 5, October 2010.pp. 636-665
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Antecedents of Failure for Newly Chartered Banks in the U.S. Banking Industry
In the United States, newly chartered banks are subject to increased regulatory scrutiny during their early years of operation to ensure their long-term viability. As the record number of bank failures in 2009 has shown, this additional regulation does not guarantee success. To better understand the internal factors in this environment that result in organizational distress, an antecedent failu…
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- Vol. 35 no. 5, October 2010.pp. 666-695
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The Ogaden War and the Demise of Détente
The failure of détente has been a popular theme among historians of American foreign policy, with opinions divided as to where the responsibility for this failure lies. A commonality among all points of view, however, is the importance of events in the third world, particularly in the “Arc of Crisis.” One such event—the Ogaden War between Ethiopia and Somalia— prompted Zbigniew Brzezinski, Pres…
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- Vol. 632 no. 1, November 2010.pp. 26-40
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- 00027162
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Black Africans in World War II: The Soldiers’ Stories
This article discusses the often forgotten contributions of black African infantry to the French and British war efforts from Europe to Asia during the Second World War. It traces the relationship between black African soldiers and their imperial rulers as it evolved over the course of two global conflicts from 1914 to 1945. The article points out how racist preconceptions about the “inferior” …
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- Vol. 632 no. 1, November 2010.pp. 12-25
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Decolonization or National Liberation: Debating the End of British Colonial R…
When discussing the end of British colonial rule in Africa, many historians have highlighted the role of postwar international relations and the impact of domestic imperial politics on decolonization and have failed to recognize the role of African nationalists. This article argues that such a viewpoint is flawed because it conceives of colonial policy makers as isolated and autonomous entities…
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- Vol. 632 no. 1, November 2010.pp. 41-54
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Radical Islam in East Africa
Islam has a 1,000-year history in West Africa; in East Africa it is even longer. What started out as liberating efforts by Muslims in Africa degenerated into oppressive regimes over time. Over the centuries, conquest increasingly came to define Islam’s approach in Africa. How Africa manages its necessity to accommodate Islamic elements in its midst is one of the continent’s most daunting challe…
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- Vol. 632 no. 1, November 2010.pp. 55-66
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Debating Darfur in the World
This article compares the debates and demonstrations about Darfur that have taken place in the Sudan, the United States, and Qatar and illuminates how political violence is apprehended and cultural identities are constructed. The rallies that occurred among Sudanese inside and outside the Sudan following the 2009 indictment of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court …
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- Vol. 632 no. 1, November 2010.pp. 67-85
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The United States of Africa: A Revisit
Pan-Africanism was developed over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to combat the political subjugation of black people and the vestiges of slavery. Its founding belief is that black peoples share common cultures, problems, and objectives. It was, therefore, imperative for blacks to unite to achieve their objectives. On the African continent, Pan-Africanism became the rallying c…
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- Vol. 632 no. 1, November 2010.pp. 86-102
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Afrocentricity and the Argument for Civic Commitment: Ideology and Citizenshi…
This article discusses an ideological framework, that is, a superstructure for continental civic commitment to African nationalism based on the perceived and practical relationships of Africans with each other. In an attempt to minimize the threats of regional, religious, or ethnic obstacles to continental integration and civic commitment to the continent, the author proposes both intellectual …
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- Vol. 632 no. 1, November 2010.pp. 121-131
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Introduction to the themed issue. Corporate power: Agency, communication, inf…
This paper introduces this themed issue of Critical Social Policy on the question of corporate power. Corporate power is recognized as an important agent in social policy making and delivery. However, to date there has been comparatively little attention to the crucial role that lobbying and corporate ‘spin’ play in helping to shape policy making contexts. This special issue of Critical Social…
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- Vol. 30 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 459-471
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- 02610183
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- Critical Social Policy
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Capitalist globalization, corporate social responsibility and social policy
This article outlines how the twin crises of capitalist globalization — of class polarization and ecological unsustainability — combine to produce the need for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to attempt to bridge the gap between the rhetoric and reality of corporate conduct. The first section outlines how CSR relates to capitalist globalization and how it is integrated into the activities…
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- Vol. 30 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 472-495
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Business-managed democracy: The trade agenda
The architecture of global governance that has emerged in the past two decades has been strongly influenced by transnational policy actors. This article examines the role of transnational corporate agency in social policy by focusing in particular on the role of business coalitions, elite networking bodies and policy planning groups in fostering unity amongst corporate actors and enrolling poli…
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- Vol. 30 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 496-518
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Corporate and political strategy in relation to the Private Finance Initiativ…
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) allows corporations to access guaranteed flows of public funds in exchange for the use of new facilities and the provision of asset-based services such as maintenance and estates management. The policy has been developed in the UK since 1992 and has been applied in fields of social policy analysis: notably, health and education. PFI has been a difficult poli…
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- Vol. 30 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 519-540
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Forging a ‘neoliberal pedagogy’: The ‘enterprising education’ agenda …
New Labour came to power with a stated commitment to ‘education, education, education’ and confirmed quickly that this commitment included a greater role for business in the modernization of state schools. One important, yet under-researched, element of direct business involvement is in school pupils’ personal and academic development evident in the increasingly pervasive embedding of rhetoric …
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- Vol. 30 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 541-563
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Corporate strategy, corporate capture: Food and alcohol industry lobbying and…
This article examines two industry sectors — those making and selling fast food and alcoholic beverages or associated products. We examine their role in influencing policy and decision making on the regulation of their products for health reasons. We argue that the food and alcohol industries engage in a very wide range of tactics and strategies to defend and indeed to promote their ‘licence to…
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- Vol. 30 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 564-589
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Winters, Summers, and Destructive Leadership Cultures in Rich Regions
Van de Vliert’s (2009) climato-economic theory of culture proposes that the impact of climatic demands on culture is influenced by wealth resources. In rich regions, much cold and heat in conjunction with relatively little wealth (undermatching) and little cold and heat in conjunction with relatively much wealth ( overmatching) both are thought to produce less destructive leadership cultures th…
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- Vol. 44 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 315-340
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- 10693971
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- Cross-Cultural Research
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Assessing Cross-National Invariance of the Three-Component Model of Organizat…
This study examined cross-national invariance of Meyer and Allen’s three-component model of organizational commitment using samples of university faculty from six European countries. The analysis revealed strict factorial measurement invariance of affective, continuance, and normative organizational commitment constructs (AC, CC, and NC, respectively). While the samples failed to differ in AC a…
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- Vol. 44 no. 4, November 2010.pp. 341-373
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