scholarly journals Mutuality and Concepts of Responsible Business

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Alastair Colin-Jones ◽  
Sudhir Rama Murthy
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Shareholder Value ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Boundaries Of The Firm ◽  
Contractual Arrangements ◽  
Ownership Rights

Chapter 6 places Economics of Mutuality in the context of a wider set of responsible business concepts, such as stakeholder theory. It considers whether these ideas represent fundamental ‘paradigm’ shifts in business or whether they are essentially modifications of existing theories It concludes that stakeholder theory was a significant shift away from shareholder-centric views of the firm, and, in line with stakeholder theory, Economics of Mutuality places corporate purposes other than shareholder value at the heart of the firm and derives business practices on the basis of that. But it differs from stakeholder theories in emphasizing the importance of relations with stakeholders in delivering corporate purposes not the interests of stakeholders themselves. It also differs from existing models in looking at the boundaries of the firm beyond traditional ownership rights and contractual arrangements. It is therefore a problem-solving view of the firm as against a financially or stakeholder-driven concept that embraces shareholders and stakeholders but does not put corporate purpose at the heart of either of them.

An Exploration of the Use of Emotional Discourse in Parliamentary Deliberations

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-267
Author(s):  
Magret Jongore
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Historical Periods

In Parliament, problem-solving argumentation calls for several thresholds of proof. This chapter presents the Rhetoric of Parliamentary. The role of such rhetoric is to articulate political motives and legitimize political action. This therefore calls for a review of language use as a concrete display of power: securing political power, challenging it, competing for it, or defending and consolidating it. In socio-historical periods marked by significant paradigm shifts and political polarizations, parliaments have played a decisive role in benchmarking current societal issues and exposing party-political agendas by debating the pros and cons of alternative political solutions. The chapter with the use of critical discourse analysis (CDA) reveals forms of power inherent in this discourse. CDA as a theoretical framework insists that there is no language that is neutral. Thus, CDA unravels unequal power relations, ideological inclinations and hegemony parliamentary discourse of this chapter.

Structuring an Emergent and Transdisciplinary Online Curriculum

2014 ◽  
pp. 299-331
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
One Health ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Emergent Curriculum ◽  
Online Curriculum ◽  
Health Course ◽  
New Research ◽  
Developmental Phases ◽  
Paradigm Shifting

Subject domains are in constant transition as new research and analysis reveal fresh insights, and occasionally, there may be paradigm shifts or new conceptual models. Transdisciplinary approaches may be understood as such a shift, with new approaches for conceptualization, analysis, and problem solving via recombinations of domain fields. Such transitory paradigm-shifting moments remove the usual touchpoints on which a curriculum is structured. There are often few or none of the accepted sequential developmental phases with identified concepts and learning outcomes in book chapters, thematic structures, and historical or chronological ordering. An emergent curriculum requires a different instructional design approach than those that have assumed curricular pre-structures. Based on a year-and-a-half One Health course build, this chapter offers some insights on the processes of defining and developing an emergent curriculum.

scholarly journals American Cronyism: How Executive Networks Inflated the Corporate Bubble

Contexts ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald F. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Shareholder Value ◽  
American Business ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Corporate Executives ◽  
The Creation

“Shareholder value” was the sacred mantra of American business in the 1990s. But creating shareholder value can be a fickle undertaking and corporate executives often followed the lead of their colleagues. The result was a contagion of questionable business practices that resulted in the creation of a corporate bubble—and its implosion.

Supply chain management and sustainability: the new boundaries of the firm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Livia Ventura
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Boundaries Of The Firm ◽  
The Impact

Abstract A directive on supply chain due diligence applicable to all companies operating on the European Union (EU) market is currently under consideration by the EU institutions. This project, which represents an example of harmonization at the regional level and whose presentation is expected in 2021, places the issue of enterprises’ private procurement process at the heart of the debate. Supply chain strategies are an essential element of any business ecosystem. Therefore, in order for firms to effectively address social and environmental concerns along with the economic dimension, it is necessary to adopt and spread the use of sustainable business practices across the entire supply chain. Currently, due to (i) the diffusion of the ‘triple bottom line’ approach; (ii) the reputational and economic damages arising from numerous scandals concerning the supply chain; and (iii) the growing market value of sustainability, an increasing number of firms have included sustainability requirements in their entire supply chain. This has led to the enhancement of ‘preferred procurement’ policies, such as the green, social, and sustainable procurements. After a brief analysis of the current legal framework and the best practices applied in the field of sustainable private procurement, this study offers some conclusions on (i) the impact of sustainability on the definition of the boundaries of the firm and (ii) the policy shift from self-regulation to statute law in private procurement governance and the benefit of a model statute designed to be adopted by different jurisdictions.

Teaching in a Computer-intensive Algebra Curriculum

1989 ◽  
Vol 82 (9) ◽  
pp. 688-694
Author(s):  
Joan K. Lynch ◽  
Peter Fischer ◽  
Sarah F. Green
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Classroom Organization ◽  
Guided Practice ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Critical Problems ◽  
Education Today

The report of a March 1984 NCTM conference (Corbitt 1985) argued that one of the critical problems facing mathematics education today is the need for curricula and instructional methods that reflect the influence of computing on mathematics and its teaching. The conference report suggested that emerging technology would make possible a significant shift in curricular priorities and in patterns of classroom organization. The curricular emphasis could shift from ma nipulative skills to concepts, relationships, structures, and problem solving. The instructional emphasis could shift from teacher presentations and guided practice of skills to student-directed learning that exploits technology to solve problems and explore concepts.

scholarly journals Systemic knowledge management in hydraulic systems: I. A postulate on paradigm shifts as a methodological tool

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahman H. Khatibi
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Methodological Problem ◽  
Hydraulic Systems ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Sense Of Direction ◽  
Generic Problem ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Conscious Process ◽  
Flow Of Information

Unravelling transparency among the various disciplines of science in the context of their evolving processes is a methodological problem and the focus of a series of two papers presented here. This first paper presents the concept of the paradigm as a generic problem-solving tool for creating transparency by postulating that a paradigm, after its formation, shifts through proliferating, norming and performing stages. Each stage is associated with generic features. A common conception of the paradigm is synonymous with frameworks in science and technology; this concept is revisited in this paper and is presented as a generic problem-solving framework. The paper argues that science selects and intertwines many paradigms and a paradigm is a particular form of evolution in action. In its pre-paradigm period there is randomness among the rudimentary components with no sense of direction. In its forming and proliferating stages, a paradigm is composed of workable components with a one-way flow of information subject to the law of natural selection. In the norming and performing stages, a conscious process of consolidation takes place among the components with emerging hierarchies and with influences on the orientation of the paradigm but without full determination of the overall direction. In this way, a picture emerges where science has generic foresight, the formation of which can be influenced but not be fixed. This paper substantiates this postulate through the paradigm of science and institutionalisation and the following paper substantiates it through hydraulic systems.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Intellectual Property Challenges in Crowdsourcing Platforms for Software Engineering

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.35) ◽  
pp. 354
Author(s):  
Hani Al-Bloush ◽  
Badariah Solemon
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Problem Solving Model ◽  
Crowd Intelligence ◽  
Engineering Practices ◽  
Ownership Rights ◽  
And Control

Crowdsourced Software Engineering (CSE) is an application of online problem-solving model that provides a dynamic way of harnessing crowd intelligence in obtaining creative solutions. It consists of four elements: crowdsourcer, crowd, platform, and tasks. Although CSE offers various advantages to software engineering practices, recent research highlighted that there is still a lack of thorough understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) ownership rights of CSE elements. Therefore, management and control of CSE for obtaining adequate IP from the crowd is inevitable to reduce the risks of using that IP.  This paper reviews existing CSE platforms and analyses associated IP challenges encountered by software engineering activities. 51 platforms were preselected and amongst these, analyses were performed on 37 CSE platforms. Exclusion of 11 platforms is on the basis of unavailability and 3 of which are linked to the same webpage. It also shows that 59% of the platforms acquire IP ownership of deliverables submitted by the crowd while 19% do not have a statement which provides clarity on IP ownership in their legal documents. This paper is significant in providing better understanding of IP risks of these CSE platforms and in assisting both crowdsourcers and the crowd in choosing crowdsourcing platforms based on the default IP ownership specification, which is often specified in legal documents of these platforms.

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