Protesters as the “Challengers of the Status Quo” in Embedded Democracies: The Cases of Iceland, the United Kingdom, and the United States

The introduction embeds the revival meetings American evangelist Billy Graham organized in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany in the 1950s in the existing historiography of religious life in the 1950s, America’s spiritual Cold War, and the interplay between religion, consumers, and business culture. It contends that transnational phenomena such as Cold War culture, white middle-class economic aspiration and increasing prosperity, and religious revivalism blended in Graham’s spiritual and ideological offer and explain its attractiveness on both sides of the Atlantic. By introducing the concepts of everyday and lived religion, the introduction argues for a fresh interpretation of the status of religious life and the process of secularization in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. In centering the voices and practices of ministers and ordinary Christians, this new approach makes the contours of a transatlantic revival visible.

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Enhancing theJournal

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology ◽

10.1155/2004/127635 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 18 (6) ◽

pp. 377-378

Author(s):

Keith A Sharkey

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Status Quo ◽

Medical Community ◽

Official Journal ◽

National Journal ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Canadian Association ◽

The Status ◽

Guidelines And Standards

The Canadian Journal of Gastroenterologycontinues to grow in strength as a national journal of importance to gastroenterologists and hepatologists. As the official journal of both the Canadian Association of Gastroenterolgy and the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver, it also serves as an important tool for the dissemination of guidelines and standards for the entire medical community in Canada. We should be proud of these accomplishments. But one also needs to ask, can theJournalbe better? Is there something more that can be achieved? Some would say the status quo is fine. But realistically, we regularly look to the journals of our sister associations in the United States and the United Kingdom -Gastroenterology, HepatologyandGut- for the latest and best in our field. So, I would argue, we can achieve more and make theJournalbetter.

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Before the Enron Collapse: What Corporate CFOs Around the World Said About the Status of Accounting and Disclosure Practices

Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies ◽

10.1142/s0219091503001158 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 06 (04) ◽

pp. 433-440 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

James R. Barth ◽

Susanne Trimbath ◽

Glenn Yago

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Kingdom ◽

The United States ◽

Financial Statement ◽

Chief Financial Officers ◽

Business Practices ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

Different Levels

Corporate Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in many countries at different levels of development and in various parts of the world considered financial statement disclosure and corporate corruption to be serious corporate problems long before the Enron debacle. This paper presents the results of a survey of CFOs conducted across 40 countries during the fall of 2000 and the spring of 2001. Most of the respondents, including those in the United States, considered the lack of adequate disclosure of information by companies to be a bigger issue than either corrupt business practices or a lack of effective accounting guidelines. Only in the United Kingdom did more CFOs consider the lack of effective accounting guidelines to be an issue of more concern than the lack of disclosure.

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The influence of entrepreneurial personality on franchisee performance: A cross-cultural analysis

International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship ◽

10.1177/0266242620914520 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 (7) ◽

pp. 605-628 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anna Watson ◽

Olufunmilola (Lola) Dada ◽

Begoña López-Fernández ◽

Rozenn Perrigot

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Locus Of Control ◽

Personality Traits ◽

The United States ◽

Performance Outcomes ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Status ◽

And Performance

Through a survey-based study of 761 franchisees from four countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Spain – this research examines how a franchisee’s entrepreneurial personality traits affects the financial and relational performance of franchise units. While there is consensus that franchisee characteristics are important for successful franchise networks, there is a long-standing debate within the franchise literature as to the status, and indeed desirability, of franchisees as entrepreneurs. First, we consider how the personality traits of proactivity, innovativeness and locus of control influence the manifestation of entrepreneurial behaviours within the franchise unit, and both the direct and indirect relationships with unit performance. Second, we explore these relationships in two contexts, one associated with high entrepreneurial values (the United States and the United Kingdom) and another with low entrepreneurial values (France and Spain) to determine if the results are consistent across cultures which value entrepreneurship differently. The results suggest that franchisee performance, in terms of both financial performance and relationship quality, are indirectly enhanced by a proactive disposition, mediated by entrepreneurial behaviours. A direct positive relationship was found between locus of control and performance outcomes, but interestingly, franchisees with more innovative personalities performed less well financially. The relationships between franchisee personality, entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and performance were found to be largely consistent across the two cultural groups.

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