The Management and Role of Highland Sporting Estates in the Early Twenty-First Century: The Owner's View of a Unique but Contested Form of Land Use

‘Though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well, none of them knew whence he had come.’ Despite his mysterious antecedents, Ferdinand Lopez aspires to join the ranks of British society. An unscrupulous financial speculator, he determines to marry into respectability and wealth, much against the wishes of his prospective father-in-law. One of the nineteenth century’s most memorable outsiders, Lopez’s story is set against that of the ultimate insider, Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium. Omnium reluctantly accepts the highest office of state; now, at last, he is ‘the greatest man in the greatest country in the world’. But his government is a fragile coalition and his wife’s enthusiastic assumption of the role of political hostess becomes a source of embarrassment. Their troubled relationship and that of Lopez and Emily Wharton is a conjunction that generates one of Trollope’s most complex and substantial novels. Part of the Palliser series, The Prime Minister’s tale of personal and political life in the 1870s has acquired a new topicality in the early twenty-first century.

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1. Origins

The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction ◽

10.1093/actrade/9780190079819.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. xx-13

Author(s):

Linda Greenhouse

Keyword(s):

Supreme Court ◽

National Court ◽

First Century ◽

Secure Base ◽

Early Twenty ◽

The Supreme Court ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

At Home

How does the Supreme Court in the early twenty-first century differ with regard to the intentions of the Framers in 1787? “Origins” looks at the Court’s development from a diffuse institution, with judges based at home or traveling around the country, to a secure base in the Capitol. Ever since Article III announced a national court with the authority to decide cases “arising under” the country’s Constitution, the role of the Supreme Court has been a matter of dispute. From the beginning, the Court has filled in the blanks contained in Article III. How has the modern Court become able to define and exercise its own power?

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Global Partnership Mission: The Re-Emerging Role Of The Local Church In World Mission In The Twenty First Century

10.2986/tren.083-0060 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Donald C. FROST

Keyword(s):

Local Church ◽

First Century ◽

Global Partnership ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

World Mission

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Reviewing the Role of the Army National Guard in the Twenty-First Century

10.21236/ada393657 ◽

2001 ◽

Author(s):

David W. Chase

Keyword(s):

National Guard ◽

First Century ◽

Army National Guard ◽

Twenty First Century

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Continuing Visions

10.1093/oso/9780198813279.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Linda Freedman

Keyword(s):

Social Activism ◽

William Blake ◽

First Century ◽

Ridley Scott ◽

American Novel ◽

Early Twenty ◽

Protest Group ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Dead Man

The questions that drove Blake’s American reception, from its earliest moments in the nineteenth century through to the explosion of Blakeanism in the mid-twentieth century, did not disappear. Visions of America continued to be part of Blake’s late twentieth- and early twenty-first century American legacy. This chapter begins with the 1982 film Blade Runner, which was directed by the British Ridley Scott but had an American-authored screenplay and was based on a 1968 American novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It moves to Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 film, Dead Man and Paul Chan’s twenty-first century social activism as part of a protest group called The Friends of William Blake, exploring common themes of democracy, freedom, limit, nationhood, and poetic shape.

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Corporate headquarters in the twenty-first century: an organization design perspective

Journal of Organization Design ◽

10.1186/s41469-020-00086-9 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sven Kunisch ◽

Markus Menz ◽

David Collis

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Organization Design ◽

Business Environment ◽

First Century ◽

Future Research ◽

Corporate Headquarters ◽

Special Collection ◽

Design Perspective ◽

Twenty First Century

Abstract The corporate headquarters (CHQ) of the multi-business enterprise, which emerged as the dominant organizational form for the conduct of business in the twentieth century, has attracted considerable scholarly attention. As the business environment undergoes a fundamental transition in the twenty-first century, we believe that understanding the evolving role of the CHQ from an organization design perspective will offer unique insights into the nature of business activity in the future. The purpose of this article, in keeping with the theme of the Journal of Organization Design Special Collection, is thus to invigorate research into the CHQ. We begin by explicating four canonical questions related to the design of the CHQ. We then survey fundamental changes in the business environment occurring in the twenty-first century, and discuss their potential implications for CHQ design. When suitable here we also refer to the contributions published in our Special Collection. Finally, we put forward recommendations for advancements and new directions for future research to foster a deeper and broader understanding of the topic. We believe that we are on the cusp of a change in the CHQ as radical as that which saw its initial emergence in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. Exactly what form that change will take remains for practitioners and researchers to inform.

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