scholarly journals Locating Power in Platformization: Music Streaming Playlists and Curatorial Power

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512093329
Author(s):  
Robert Prey
Keyword(s):  
Structural Dynamics ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Music Market ◽  
Music Streaming ◽  
Platform Economy

Where does the “power” of platformization reside? As is widely recognized, platforms are matchmakers which interface between different markets or “sides.” This article analyzes platform power dynamics through three of the most important markets that Spotify—the leading audio streaming platform—is embedded within: the music market; the advertising market; and the finance market. It does so through the lens of the playlist. Playlists can be seen as a central example of how platforms like Spotify employ curation or “curatorial power” to mediate markets in the attempt to advance their own interests. At the same time, playlists are an outcome of the conflicting pressures and tensions between these markets. As such, they provide a lens through which to view broader structural dynamics within the platform economy. As this case study of Spotify demonstrates, platform “power” is an always unstable and shifting outcome of the ongoing attempt to coordinate between various markets and actors.

Functional and sociocultural attitudes of code-switching and its relation to the meaning-making process: The case of dubbing Kim Possible into Arabic

2021 ◽  
pp. 136700692110194
Author(s):  
Rashid Yahiaoui ◽  
Marwa J Aldous ◽  
Ashraf Fattah
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Sociocultural Attitudes ◽  
Switching Patterns ◽  
Switching Functions ◽  
Switching Type ◽  
Lebanese Arabic ◽  
Research Questions

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The aim of this study is to investigate the sociolinguistic functions of code-switching and its relation to the meaning-making process by using the animated series Kim Possible as a case study. Design/methodology/approach: This study employs Muysken’s taxonomy to draw on code-switching patterns in lexico-grammar in relation to human behavior. The study also uses the functional approaches of Muysken and Appel and Gumperz as binary investigatory frameworks to locate interlingual and intralingual code-switching particularities and to elaborate on code-switching functions. Data and analysis: The analysis encompasses 48 episodes. Firstly, we extracted and transcribed code-switching occurrences in light of Muysken’s typology episode-by-episode and categorized them according to their code-switching type (interlingual or intralingual). Secondly, we quantified the occurrences according to their syntactic form to make more systematic claims about code-switching patterns. Next, we triangulated the patterns by examining the context of utterances and extralinguistic factors in the original series vis-à-vis the dubbed version to draw upon information beyond the structure or grammar. Findings/conclusions: The Arabic dubbed version was able to communicate the characters’ cosmopolitan diversity, which correlates with the series’ sense of linguistic modernity and humor. At the same time, the Arabic version was able to portray the extralinguistic reality of Lebanon and its multi-linguistic tapestry. Originality: This research is original because it focuses on Lebanese-Arabic, a dialect seldom discussed in the context of translation. The research also examines language variations in the context of dubbed discourse, where code-switching is integrally pertinent to visual-signs and the cultural background of characters. Significance/implications: The study recognizes the intricacy of code-switching as a reflective phenomenon of social reality and power dynamics; therefore, it contributes in the fields of translation and sociolinguistics.

Contracting for Work in Tourism and Catering in Greece: Beyond a State/Market Dichotomy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregoris Ioannou
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spatial Parameters ◽  
Simple Matrix

Abstract Drawing on a case study of contemporary employment relations in tourism and catering in Greece, this paper seeks to contribute to our empirical understanding of employment law. Which factors determine the ways in which the law is perceived by employers and workers and complied with, breached or avoided? The main argument of the paper is that not only market forces are relevant here; several other factors need to be taken into consideration, which when combined with market forces can re-regulate as well as deregulate the field of employment. These tend to be informal, locally embedded and influenced by wider social relations. By constructing a simple matrix of employment settings based on locale and seasonality on one axis, and size of enterprise and scope of services provided on the other, the paper demonstrates how organisational and spatial parameters and the social environment interact with market forces and legal forces to shape prevailing norms and to influence the behaviour of parties to the contract for work. It further demonstrates that the structuring of the sectoral labour market is a process determined by broader social power dynamics. Beyond serving as part of the context within which contracting for work takes place, legal rules are a resource to be mobilised by both employers and workers.

Governance Practices and CEO Hubris

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-182
Author(s):  
Paola Ferretti ◽  
Cristina Gonnella
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Managerial Entrenchment ◽  
Governance Practices

This chapter analyzes the connection between CEO hubris and corporate governance contingencies, including a case study of an Italian bank for which the state of financial distress shall be linkable also to bad governance. The main objective is to verify whether, in presence of hubristic CEO, the internal control mechanisms, set to ensure the board vigilance and limit the overconfidence of the leader, are implemented, and if so, whether such mechanisms, even when formally respected, may be not so appropriate to guarantee a good governance. Particularly, the existence of a CEO hubris could neutralize their positive expected balancing effects on the power dynamics between CEO and board, such as to give prevalence to substance over form. Therefore, it may occur that some governance mechanisms (e.g., independence, non-duality), even if formally implemented, are unable to stem the managerial entrenchment of the CEO, who succeeds in enhancing immoderately his substantial power in the decision-making process.

scholarly journals External Stakeholder Management Strategies and Resources in Megaprojects: An Organizational Power Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 625-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Ninan ◽  
Ashwin Mahalingam ◽  
Stewart Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Organizational Power ◽  
External Stakeholder ◽  
External Stakeholders

Megaprojects involve managing external stakeholders with diverse interests. Using an Indian megaproject case study, we discuss how the project managed external stakeholders through strategies such as: persuasion, deputation, give and take, extra work for stakeholders, and flexibility. Drawing from theories and frameworks of power, we explain how these strategies emerge through a process of tactical clustering. We also analyze the resources available to the project team—such as recruitment discretion, government backing, and fund discretion—that influence these power dynamics and enable these strategies. We posit that changes in the resource base can significantly affect strategic action and, in turn, megaproject outcomes.

scholarly journals The Research on the Factors Analysis of Platform Economy City: A Case Study of Shanghai

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Ying Chen ◽  
Zhengyang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
City Development ◽  
The Real ◽  
Factors Analysis ◽  
Leading Industry ◽  
Trading Activities ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
The City ◽  
Platform Economy

<p align="left">The enterprises of platform economy became the driving force and the engine for the development of economy. The industry of platform economy would be the leading industry and accelerate the city development and transformation in the future. The platform economy cities were the cities which provided the real or virtual platform space for the enterprises or individuals dealing with the trading activities and collaborating with externalities of urban platforms. The development of Shanghai was becoming the highly influential city in the network of global cities.</p>

scholarly journals Governance and Power Dynamics in a Small-Scale Hilsa Shad (Tenualosa ilisha) Fishery: A Case Study from Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5738
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mojibul Hoque Mozumder ◽  
Aili Pyhälä ◽  
Md. Abdul Wahab ◽  
Simo Sarkki ◽  
Petra Schneider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Governance Structure ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Tenualosa Ilisha ◽  
Fishery Governance

This paper considers the hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) fishery of southern Bangladesh as a case study regarding governance and power dynamics at play in a small-scale fishery, and the relevance of these for the sustainable management of coastal fisheries. Qualitative methods, involving in-depth individual interviews (n = 128) and focus group discussions (n = 8) with key stakeholders in the hilsa fishery, were used to capture multiple perspectives on governance from those in different positions in the relative power structures studied, while facilitating insightful discussions and reflections. The analysis here is based on a power cube framework along three power dimensions (levels, spaces, and forms) in Bangladesh’s hilsa fishery. The study displays an imbalance in the present hilsa governance structure, with some stakeholders exercising more power than others, sidelining small-scale fishers, and encouraging increasing illegal fishing levels that ultimately harm both the fisheries and those dependent on them. To overcome this, we propose a co-management system that can play a vital role in equalizing power asymmetry among hilsa fishery stakeholders and ensure effective hilsa fishery governance. Our results suggest that recognizing analyzed power dynamics has substantial implications for the planning and implementation of such co-management and the long-term sustainability of the hilsa fishery.

Reading Geldenhuys: Constructing and Deconstructing the Norwood Killer

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Hook
Keyword(s):  
Structural Dynamics ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Psychoanalytic Interpretation

This article takes the form of an autocritique, plotting the progression and ultimate dissolution of a developmental psychopathology research project on Kobus Geldenhuys, the notorious Norwood serial killer. The topic is introduced with a detailed case study, which gives way to a classical psychoanalytic interpretation, that is, an engagement that explores Geldenhuys's psychopathology through the interlocking accounts of the zonal stages, the Oedipus complex and the id/ego/superego structural dynamics of personality. This and other similar regularising engagements with the topic are then themselves analysed and critiqued as producing multiple lines of objectification, fictionalisation, prurience and distance. By way of resolution, the article lists a series of concerns about particular trends of attempted knowledge production in psychology.

Commodified Sexuality and Mother-Daughter Power Dynamics in the Mekong Delta

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Lainez
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Transactional Sex ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Southern Vietnam ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship

This essay explores how the family commodifies the sexuality and emotional labor of the daughter for the interests of the family. The case study presented above illustrates the ways in which a commodified sexual economy occurs in the context of an indebted and economically vulnerable household in An Giang Province (Mekong Delta, southern Vietnam). In this family, “transactional sex” is one of the resources employed to ameliorate the debt incurred. The study shows the ways in which the mother provides, initiates, and maintains the conditions for the sexual commodification of her daughter through the power situated within the mother-daughter relationship and the narrative of gratitude and duty.

When institutional entrepreneurship failed

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 1199-1229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Major ◽  
Ana Conceição ◽  
Stewart Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Change Process ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
Political Economic

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the role of power relations in initiating and blocking accounting change that involves increased “responsibilisation” and “incentivisation”, and to understand how institutional entrepreneurship is steered by power strategies. Design/methodology/approach An in-depth case study was carried out between 2010 and 2015 in a cardiothoracic surgery service (CSS) where a responsibility centre was introduced. Findings Introducing a responsibility centre within a CSS led to a change process, despite pressures for stability. The institutionalisation of change was conditioned by entrepreneurship that flowed through three circuits of power. Strategies were adapted according to changes in exogenous environmental contingencies and alterations in the actors’ relationships. Originality/value The contributions of the paper are several: first, it demonstrates that the existing literature discussing the implementation of responsibility centres cannot be isolated from power issues; second, it expands understanding of the power dynamics and processes of institutional entrepreneurship when implementing accounting change; third, it shows how change introduced by exogenous political economic events structured organisational circuits of power and blocked the introduction of the change initiative.

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