scholarly journals Corporate restructuring, work intensification and perceptual politics: Exploring the ambiguity of managerial job insecurity

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hassard ◽  
Jonathan Morris
Keyword(s):  
Global Convergence ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Corporate Restructuring ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
Work Intensification ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Shareholder Capitalism ◽  
Managerial Experience

Whereas social theorists, qualitative investigators and survey-based analysts suggest advanced economies are increasingly characterized by managerial job insecurity, database and questionnaire researchers propose relatively stable tenure rates for managers. This article aims to make sense of this ambiguity. First, following interviews with managers in Japan, the UK and the USA, the authors offer support for the ‘global convergence’ thesis, through data reflecting greater job insecurity generated by comparable and recurrent corporate restructuring. Second, considering research suggesting relative stability in managerial tenure rates, the authors argue that their findings – signifying increased insecurity – can be explained in terms of the ‘perceptual politics’ of US-style shareholder capitalism impinging, hegemonically, upon occupational sensibilities. Third, in conclusion, they suggest that everyday managerial experience can be understood in light of corporations purposively instilling a perceptual ‘insecurity message’ in managers, essentially as part of a tangible control strategy directed at the inexorable ratcheting-up of management productivity demands globally.

scholarly journals Effect of easing lockdown and restriction measures on COVID-19 epidemic projection: A case study of Saudi Arabia

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. e0256958
Author(s):  
Shafiun Nahin Shimul ◽  
Angi Alradie-Mohamed ◽  
Russell Kabir ◽  
Abdulrahman Al-Mohaimeed ◽  
Ilias Mahmud
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Period Data ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Cost

Objectives In this study we compared two predictions of COVID-19 cases in the Kingdom Saudi Arabia (KSA) using pre–and post–relaxation of lockdown period data to provide an insight regarding rational exit strategies. We also applied these projections to understand economic costs versus health benefit of lockdown measures. Methods We analyzed open access data on COVID-19 cases from March 6 to January 16, 2021 in the KSA. To understand the epidemic projection during the pre- and post-lockdown period, we used two types of modeling: the SIR model, and the time series model. We also estimated the costs and benefits of lockdown- QALY gained compared to the costs of lockdown considering the payment threshold of the Government. Results Prediction using lockdown period data suggested that the epidemic might slow down significantly after 109 thousand cases and end on October 6, 2020. However, analysis with latest data after easing lockdown measures suggested that epidemic might be close to an end on October 28, 2021 with 358 thousand cases. The peak has also been shifted from May 18, 2020 to Jun 24, 2020. While earlier model predicted a steady growth in mid-June, the revised model with latest data predicted it in mid-August. In addition, we estimated that 4986 lives would have been saved if lockdown continued but the cost per life saved would be more than $378 thousand, which is way above not only the KSA threshold, but also the threshold of any other highly advanced economies such as the UK and the USA. Conclusions Our results suggest that relaxation of lockdown measures negatively impacts the epidemic. However, considering the negative impact of prolong lockdown measures on health and economy, countries must decide on the best timing and strategy to exit from such measures to safely return to normal life with minimum loss of lives and economy considering its economic and health systems’ capacity. Instead of focusing only on health, a balanced approach taking economy under consideration is recommended.

scholarly journals Comparing Capitalisms: Debates, Controversies and Future Directions

Sociology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 482-500
Author(s):  
Geoffrey T Wood ◽  
Matthew MC Allen
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Market Economies ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Comparative Capitalisms ◽  
The Uk

Various strands of the comparative capitalisms (CC) literature agree that the advanced economies have liberalized in recent years, bringing with it rising income and wealth inequality and job insecurity; although these perspectives differ in important ways, there is much common ground between them to explain this heightened level of inequality and insecurity. Through reviewing contributions to three key CC perspectives since 2007/2008, we argue that they have tended to focus on developments in co-ordinated market economies, leading to a neglect of growing structural crises in liberal market economies, which have contributed to the UK and the USA entering uncharted socio-political waters. We extend recent work that emphasizes how variation between countries in labour-market institutions, different corporate forms and states’ fiscal policies help to explain income and wealth inequality to highlight future research agendas that seek to combine more systematically these institutional areas to explain social inequalities, workers’ experiences and socio-political crises within capitalist systems.

Immigration and neoliberalism: three cases and counter accounts

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Lehman ◽  
Marcia Annisette ◽  
Gloria Agyemang
Keyword(s):  
Moral Agency ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Immigrant Narratives

Purpose – This paper advocates for critical accounting’s contribution to immigration deliberations as part of its agenda for advancing social justice. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate accounting as implicated in immigration policies of three advanced economies. Design/methodology/approach – The authors suggest that neoliberal immigration policies are operationalized through the responsibilization of individuals, corporations and universities. By examining three immigration policies from the USA, Canada and the UK, the paper clarifies how accounting technologies facilitate responsibilization techniques, making immigration governable. Additionally, by employing immigrant narratives as counter accounts, the impacts of immigrant lived experiences can be witnessed. Findings – Accounting upholds neoliberal principles of life by expanding market mentalities and governance, through technologies of measurement, reports, audits and surveillance. A neoliberal strategy of responsibilization contributes to divesting authority for immigration policy in an attempt to erase the social and moral agency of immigrants, with accounting integral to this process. However the social cannot be eradicated as the work illustrates in the narratives and counter accounts that immigrants create. Research limitations/implications – The work reveals the illusion of accounting as neutral. As no single story captures the nuances and complexities of immigration practices, further exploration is encouraged. Originality/value – The work is a unique contribution to the underdeveloped study of immigration in critical accounting. By unmasking accounting’s role and revealing techniques underpinning immigration discourses, enhanced ways of researching immigration are possible.

Co-movement of Banking Stress Across Emerging and Developed Economies: A Dynamic Factor Model and Wavelet Coherence Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 097215092110368
Author(s):  
S. P. Rajesh
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Recovery Phase ◽  
Wavelet Coherence ◽  
Dynamic Factor ◽  
Dynamic Factor Model ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Wavelet Coherence Analysis

This study develops a robust banking stability indicator for emerging and advanced economies and examines the linkage of banking stress across economies. We contribute by including interbank borrowings and banking sector volatility to measure contagious risk besides the traditional variables. Second, we use aggregate banking sector data for five countries (China, India, Japan, the UK and the USA) from 1998 to 2015 and employ dynamic factor model to develop the index. Results show higher stress levels in the UK and China, and all economies witness increased stress during the 2007–2009 crises, but the recovery phase varies. Finally, we use wavelet coherence analysis and find evidence of stress transmission from emerging economies to other emerging and advanced economies.

An early mainstream economist from Hungary: István Varga (1897–1962)

2003 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Majoros
Keyword(s):  
Austrian Economic ◽  
National Income ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
The Usa ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Economic Thinking ◽  
Lasting Influence

The study introduces a Hungarian economic thinker, István Varga*, whose valuable activity has remained unexplored up to now. He became an economic thinker during the 1920s, in a country that had not long before become independent of Austria. The role played by Austria in the modern economic thinking of that time was a form of competition with the thought adhered to by the UK and the USA. Hungarian economists mainly interpreted and commented on German and Austrian theories, reasons for this being that, for example, the majority of Hungarian economists had studied at German and Austrian universities, while at Hungarian universities principally German and Austrian economic theories were taught. István Varga was familiar not only with contemporary German economics but with the new ideas of Anglo-Saxon economics as well — and he introduced these ideas into Hungarian economic thinking. He lived and worked in turbulent times, and historians have only been able to appreciate his activity in a limited manner. The work of this excellent economist has all but been forgotten, although he was of international stature. After a brief summary of Varga’s profile the study will demonstrate the lasting influence he has had in four areas — namely, business cycle research and national income estimations, the 1946 Hungarian stabilisation program, corporate profit, and consumption economics — and will go on to summarise his most important achievements.

Neurosurgical activity during COVID-19 pandemic: an experts' opinion from China, South Korea, Italy, the USA, Colombia, and the UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco M. Fontanella ◽  
Giorgio Saraceno ◽  
Ting Lei ◽  
Joshua B. Bederson ◽  
Namkyu You ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

Benchmarking Risk Analysis Practice in the International Water Sector

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.H. MacGillivray ◽  
P.D. Hamilton ◽  
S.E. Hrudey ◽  
L. Reekie ◽  
S.J.T Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Water Utility ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The Usa ◽  
International Water ◽  
Practical Guidance ◽  
The Uk

Risk analysis in the water utility sector is fast becoming explicit. Here, we describe application of a capability model to benchmark the risk analysis maturity of a sub-sample of eight water utilities from the USA, the UK and Australia. Our analysis codifies risk analysis practice and offers practical guidance as to how utilities may more effectively employ their portfolio of risk analysis techniques for optimal, credible, and defensible decision making.

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