scholarly journals Disorderly Identities: University Rankings and the Re-ordering of the Academic Mind

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Jon Nixon
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Market ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Pedagogical Action ◽  
Participative Research ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The Mind

AbstractThis chapter focuses on the use of university rankings as a means of ostensibly achieving increased transparency and covertly introducing a competitive market which has impacted on the sector as a whole, on institutions, and on individuals. The systemic characteristics of this new and now increasingly dominant market-driven order are outlined, followed by an exposition of how that order has impacted on the mind-set of academic practitioners by defining the norms of academic professionalism and academic practice. A new kind of orderliness now circumscribes and defines what it means to be an academic. Some of the emergent but pressing alternatives to this identity-kit of orderliness are suggested: disorderly identities that transgress the spatial boundaries of the dominant order, challenge its control of the chronology of that order, and begin to constitute participative and non-hierarchical foci of pedagogical action and participative research.

Evolution de la gestion des chablis ces 50 dernières années dans la région du Bas-Valais (essai)

2015 ◽  
Vol 166 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Roland Métral
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Dead Wood ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Forest Dieback ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Management Priorities

Trends in windthrow management during the last 50 years in Lower Valais (essay) A review on the measures taken in forests hit by storms during the last 50 years reveals the mind-set behind the evolution of management operations. In the 1960s, to remove all dead wood in a stand was perfectly normal due to timber prices. Between 1984 and 1990, vast sums of money were pumped into the improvement of forest structures facing the threat of a general forest dieback. As a consequence, only few of the windthrow areas caused by storm Vivian remained with no intervention. Vivian also marked the beginning of manifold research activities and practical terrain examination in windthrow gaps. Conclusions of this first research phase resulted in a critical assessment of the windthrow areas caused by Lothar in 1999, considering different goals than systematic removal of damage wood and the prevention of bark beetle outbreaks. Since the 1990s, retaining timber after windthrow has been lively discussed, as well as the maintenance of the protection function against natural hazards and opportunities for biodiversity. Several handbooks were developed and successfully used for the planning and defining of top priority measures in damaged forests that resulted from disturbances in 2011 and 2012 in Lower Valais. These recent disturbances together with the certainty that storms will recur led to the formation of a task force in the canton Valais, aiming to organize both logistics and funds, as well as to define management priorities regarding a next hazard.

Barriers to business model innovation in the agri-food industry: A systematic literature review

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 308-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia Ulvenblad ◽  
Henrik Barth ◽  
Jennie Cederholm* Björklund ◽  
Maya Hoveskog ◽  
Per-Ola Ulvenblad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Main Barrier ◽  
The Mind

The importance of business model innovation (BMI) is widely recognized. BMI is especially important in the agri-food industry that faces enormous challenges as the demand for food increases worldwide. Much of the BMI research focuses on the technology and biomedical industries. Far less attention has been paid to the agri-food industry. This article is a systematic literature review of the BMI research in the agri-food industry. The article’s aim is to identify and categorize various barriers to BMI as described in the literature (in English) published in peer-reviewed journals between 1990 and 2014. The findings show a fairly even distribution among external and internal BMI barriers. Because the main barrier is the mind-set that is resistant to change, it is recommended the researchers and practitioners should focus more on the cognitive barriers to BMI in the agri-food industry.

scholarly journals Foundations of Contemporary Economics: Israel Kirzner and the Function of Entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-127
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
Austrian School ◽  
Market Process ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Competitive Markets ◽  
Market Driven

Israel Kirzner has made profound contribu­tions to the theory of entrepreneurship. His con­siderable insights address the entrepreneurial function in the market process. Kirzner belongs to the Austrian school and hence assumes subjective decision-making, incomplete sets of knowledge for all subjects, and market disequi­libria. He ascribes to entrepreneurs the ability to detect through alertness market disequilibria in dynamic competitive markets. Entrepreneurs as arbitrageurs bring markets closer to equilib­ria even if in a dynamic competitive market an equilibrium remains a theoretical utopia. In this short paper, we outline the most important as­pects of Kirzner’s entrepreneurial approach and the function entrepreneurship has in market-driven processes.

scholarly journals The Perception of Neighbour in CMLL Publicistics

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-147
Author(s):  
Loreta Vaičiulytė-Semėnienė
Keyword(s):  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Favourable Response ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Distant Neighbour ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Dictionary Definitions ◽  
What Matters

This article deals with the content of neighbour on the basis of the forms of the noun ‘neighbour’ (Lith. kaimynas). Efforts are made to strike a balance between the structural and the cognitive approach to its meaning. The sample base for the study consists of 700 published sentences sourced in the Corpus of the Modern Lithuanian Language (CMLL) compiled by the Centre for Computational Linguistics at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas.The study has revealed a neighbour to be someone who experiences a certain mental state, someone who, in his or her (un)favourable response to the environment, affects another person in a relatively close space. Emotionally charged, this effect shows a neighbour who is a nice or a bad person to live next-doors with. The (dis)harmony of attitudes, values, and actions grounded on an (un)favourable mind-set defines a dynamic coexistenceof neighbours, or a failure to coexist.When it comes to the perception of neighbour that shifts in time, what matters is the shared space of the neighbours that has its relative boundaries and is measured as a distance – the closeness resulting in the distinction between a close > distant neighbour; yet even more important is the camaraderie – the proximity of attitudes, values, and the actions that they define – something that the dictionary definitions of the word neighbour tend to omit – and the related gradational differences between a homey > strange neighbour. When it comes to building and maintaining proximity, it is the neighbour’s temper, polite and supportive interaction, and behaviour that favours another person, such as sharing things with them and all kinds of assistance, especially in need, that matters. As the mind-sets, values, and behaviours assimilate, the neighbours become one – they become homey to each other. And the axis of oneness grounded on favour in neighbourhood is God.

The Mind-set of the Individual Consumer

1998 ◽  
pp. 58-89
Author(s):  
Hellmut Schütte ◽  
Deanna Ciarlante
Keyword(s):  
Individual Consumer ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind

Nobody understands me! The need for empathy

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-157
Author(s):  
Omer Topaloglu ◽  
Yusuf Erkaya
Keyword(s):  
Negative Mood ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Service Failures ◽  
Regular Consumption ◽  
Qualitative Work ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This paper aims to explore the mind-set of consumers with negative mood states during mundane consumption activities. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted in-depth interviews with 17 informants who have recently experienced severe yet temporary medical problems. Findings Consumers with severe medical problems experience an increased need for empathy during mundane business interactions, and their reaction to service failures is aggravated. Originality/value Although previous research has investigated the relationship between empathy and satisfaction in healthcare services, the current research provides a novel perspective by studying the mind-set of customers with medical problems during regular consumption activities. Further, previous research has called for a need for qualitative work in empathy research. This gap is also addressed by the current research.

Nature-Based Solutions in Tourism: A Review of the Literature and Conceptualization

2019 ◽  
pp. 109634801989005
Author(s):  
Panchapakesan Padma ◽  
Sundari Ramakrishna ◽  
S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Scientific Fields

“Nature based solutions” are innovative solutions, which are inspired from nature, and applied to contemporary societal problems such as climate change, overtourism, poverty alleviation, and so on. The research on “nature-based solutions” in tourism is rudimentary and the main objective of this study is to identify and conceptualize the nature-based solutions in tourism. For this purpose, a hybrid literature review has been conducted in the scientific fields of tourism and hospitality as well as agriculture, building sector, and urban planning. An examination of the characteristics of the nature-based solutions have led to its conceptualization based on six constituent dimensions such as empowerment of stakeholders, monitoring the state of natural environment, economic development of residents, adoption of environment-friendly solutions, and changing the mind-set of stakeholders. Finally, limitations of the current study have been identified and some recommendations for further research have been provided.

European Calvinism: history, providence, and martyrdom

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 227-252
Author(s):  
Andrew Pettegree
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Church

For students of the Reformation one of the main conceptual problems is undoubtedly the distance between the mind-set of our age and theirs. We look at the Reformation as a new beginning, the moment when the Church fragmented into competing Churches, and one of the fundamental developments of the Early Modern Age: a term which in itself presents a view of progress and change as one of the determining characteristics of the age.Contemporaries, however, had a very different perception; they saw the movement for evangelical reform as one of renovation and renewal. They believed that they were attempting to recover what was best in the past of the Church, which had since become hopelessly corrupted. With others of their contemporaries they despised innovation. One can surely only understand Martin Luther if one recognizes the depth of his conservatism; that his personal crusade was to a large extent fuelled by a sense of moral outrage and indignation at what the papacy had done to his Church.

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