scholarly journals Institutional Innovations in India: An Assessment of Producer Companies as New-Generation Co-operative Companies

2021 ◽  
pp. 2633190X2110335
Author(s):  
Sukhpal Singh
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Innovation ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Institutional Form ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Corporate Entity ◽  
The World ◽  
Primary Producer ◽  
Social Product ◽  
New Generation

There are many types of innovations such as technological, social, product, process, marketing and organizational, and institutional innovation is one type. The producer companies (PCs), which are a case of legal institutional innovation in the Indian domain of primary producer organization are more market-oriented co-operative companies and can help farmers buy and sell more effectively. They have gained currency across India during the past 15 years since the amendment to the Companies Act made this possible in 2003, and India now has thousands of such PCs, with many of them being supported by state agencies. This article examines the uniqueness of these entities as an institutional form wherein principles of co-operation and corporate entity have been combined so that they could be more relevant entities in a globalized and liberalized market environment. It discusses their competitive edge over other forms of producer organizations like co-operative societies in India and farmer companies in Sri Lanka, and new-generation co-operatives in other parts of the world. After discussing some innovations in their governance and management, it concludes by making suggestions for augmenting this institutional innovation for inclusive and sustainable agricultural and rural development.

History and Theory in Anthropology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Barnard
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
New Generation ◽  
History And Theory

In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook on the history and theory of anthropology has been revised and expanded to include up-to-date coverage on all the most important topics in the field. Its coverage ranges from traditional topics like the beginnings of the subject, evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism, and Marxism, to ideas about globalization, post-colonialism, and notions of 'race' and of being 'indigenous'. There are several new chapters, along with an extensive glossary, index, dates of birth and death, and award-winning diagrams. Although anthropology is often dominated by trends in Europe and North America, this edition makes plain the contributions of trendsetters in the rest of the world too. With its comprehensive yet clear coverage of concepts, this is essential reading for a new generation of anthropology students.

scholarly journals Ancestry.com and the Evolving Nature of Historical Information Companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-28
Author(s):  
Jerome de Groot
Keyword(s):  
Dna Sequencing ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Corporate Entity ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
A Company ◽  
Historical Institution ◽  
The Way

This study of the genealogy and biotech company Ancestry analyzes the ways in which the organization has evolved over the past few years. Ancestry is difficult to categorize as a corporate entity. The company trades in servicing both “traditional” types of history (genealogical records) and, more recently, biotech-based investigation through the use of DNA sequencing. Ancestry is highly influential in the way that millions of people around the world access the past. Given this, the company’s shifts in focus are of great interest. Through considering various new elements of the way that Ancestry functions, and illustrating that this complexity is foundational to its purpose, the article suggests the company is redefining what a public historian or public historical institution might be, adding a scientific dimension to historical data and also acting to present a particular model of the past through its advertising campaigns. The article suggests that public history’s models for considering such protean organizations are in need of attention, and the complexity of such a company demonstrates new challenges and opportunities for scholars in the field.

scholarly journals Entre The Fame e Joanne: paralelos da carreira de Lady Gaga com estratégias de negócio em ambientes competitivos

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 384
Author(s):  
Israel Bueno Simões ◽  
Carlos Alberto Gonçalves ◽  
Márcio Augusto Gonçalves ◽  
Shirlei Da Conceição Domingos Silva ◽  
Elimar Silva Melo
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Corporate Context ◽  
Competitive Environments ◽  
The World ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Lady Gaga

In 2018, the American singer Lady Gaga celebrates a decade of the release of her first pop album, The Fame. Ten years ago, the world through a series of more successful and awarded songs of the new generation, capable of breaking records in the disputed music industry. As every product has its lifecycle, Lady Gaga's music has come to decline, but the singer has been able to react and maintain her competitive edge. In the ups and downs of the market, Lady Gaga is a strong analogy of product changes, amalgamating itself to revitalize her sector, articulating the internal activities, repositioning herself; an image of the challenge that is accomplished in reinventing herself. Thus, from this historical analysis in which the organisation is viewed as a persona, this work reflects on survival strategies in an environment of rapid change and that requires at the same time, identity and constant adaptation. The approach is qualitative and descriptive, based on real cases of the corporate context that work as parallel to the storytelling created from the Gaga case. As a result, a conceptual model on business strategy in competitive environments is presented, which aggregates different schools of thought of the organizational strategy and that can be verified in future researches.

Introduction: a new housing crisis

Housing Shock ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Rory Hearne
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Housing Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Rental Markets ◽  
New Generation

This Chapter details how the Irish housing systems, and housing systems across the world, are experiencing a structural ‘shock’. We are in the midst of an unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis. This details the dramatic increase in housing inequalities and exclusion, from the rise in homelessness, mortgage arrears and foreclosures, to the collapse in home-ownership rates and, in particular, the emergence of ‘Generation Rent’ and ‘Generation Stuck at Home’. This new Generation Rent is being locked out of traditional routes to affordable secure housing such as home ownership, social housing and secure low-rent housing. They are being pushed into private rental markets with unaffordable high rents and insecurity of tenure, or forced into hidden homelessness, couchsurfing, sleeping in cars, or pushed back to live with their parents. Ireland has had the largest fall in home ownership rates among European Union (EU) countries in the past three decades. This chapter shows that the current housing situation and crisis is not a temporary blip, but a deep and profound structural crisis that is in danger of becoming a permanent crisis. Our national and global housing systems are in crisis and this is a key juncture.

scholarly journals Effectively Equivalent

2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-198
Author(s):  
SIGI JÖÖTTKANDT
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Central Place ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Ethical Thought ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Primary Producer

Walter Pater's theoretical "come-back" over the past forty years or so has been dominated by the competing claims of the new historicism and deconstruction, both of which discover prescient forerunners of their own, seemingly mutually exclusive, theoretical concerns in Pater's aesthetic criticism and in his historical novel Marius the Epicurean(1885). Yet despite their obvious differences, both critical approaches share one thing in common: the same post-humanist denigration of the trope of metaphor in favor of the seemingly more ethically responsive (because inclusive) trope of metonymy. In this essay I observe how the new historicism's and deconstruction's privilegings of metonymy as the prime trope of difference poses an immediate problem for ethical thought that, largely under the influence of Alain Badiou, has become increasingly cognizant of the need for a workable conception of sameness (or universality), traditionally supplied by metaphor. Accordingly, this close reading of the metaphorical dialectic of one of Pater's surprisingly underread Imaginary Portraits, "Sebastian van Storck" (1887), explores the basic charge against metaphor-namely, that it is an essentially"theological" trope insofar as it invariably pre-posits the "identity" that it modestly claims to have merely discovered. Employing the central figure of Sebastian's idealism-equation-I venture that, once rethought as a relation not of identity but of equivalence, metaphor is capable of shouldering the rhetorical burden of similarity without relinquishing its ethical claim as a primary producer of new differences in the world and is, hence, deserving of a central place in a post-deconstructive ethics.

scholarly journals Modelling the past: new generation approaches to understanding biological patterns in the fossil record

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew B. Smith ◽  
Paul M. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Record ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Geological Record ◽  
The Past ◽  
Partial Data ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Biological Patterns ◽  
New Generation

The history of life on this planet is gleaned from analysing how fossils are distributed through time and space. While these patterns are now rather securely known, at least for well-studied parts of the world, their interpretation remains far from simple. Fossils preserve only partial data from which to reconstruct their biology and the geological record is incomplete and biased, so that taxonomic ranges and palaeocommunity structure are imperfectly known. To better understand the often highly complex deep-time processes that gave rise to the empirical fossil record, palaeontologists have turned to modelling the past. Here, we summarize a series of 11 papers that showcase where modelling the past is being applied to advance our understanding across a wide spectrum of current palaeontological endeavours.

Epilogue

Industry ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 221-230
Author(s):  
William Robin
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
New Music ◽  
First Century ◽  
Summer Institute ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The World ◽  
Bang On A Can ◽  
New Generation

By the early twenty-first century, new music’s marketplace turn was complete, though Bang on a Can’s journey had only begun: in the past two decades, they have received Pulitzer Prizes and grown into a multi-faced, multi-million dollar organization. The three founders began writing more large-scale works, and Bang on a Can’s marathons at the World Financial Center expanded their audience and diversified their programming. With their summer institute in the Berkshires, Bang on a Can has cultivated their ethos among a new generation of entrepreneurial composers, including the prominent indie classical scene, while American new music has grown from a fringe phenomenon to a cottage industry. But in the wake of the Great Recession, younger musicians are emerging amidst a crowded and precarious market, in which opportunities proliferate but stability remains elusive.

Students in the New Millennium

2013 ◽  
pp. 118-139
Author(s):  
Jianxiong Wu
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
New Generation ◽  
New Millennium

Vast and fast technological advancements mark the new millennium. New emerging technologies are changing the world and our society at a magnitude and scope never witnessed before. Who are our students in this new millennium? What do they look like? Are they a fundamentally different new generation as some claim, or do they still look similar to us in many ways? A clear understanding of the characteristics of our students is vitally important for our educational practice. The current study was conducted to contribute to this understanding. The findings of the study show that while students nowadays do enjoy a much broader access to new technology than students of the past, they still look similar to us in many ways. As educators, it is important for us to treat our students as individuals instead of just labeling them and placing them in a black and white dichotomy.

scholarly journals LATEST ATTEMPTS IN CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ARCHITECTURE IN SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-187
Author(s):  
Ghazal Farjami ◽  
Guita Farivarsadri
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Values ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Period ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Generation

The conflictions between homogeneity and universal values suggested by Modernism and traditional values resulted in a variety of ideas generated as a search for authenticity all over the world. Iran is known as one of the countries which imported the modern ideas directly to a society, which was still living with and respecting the traditional values. This challenge between the two seemingly conflicting poles of tradition and modernism resulted in three periods in the history of contemporary Iranian architecture. Now, it seems that Iranian architecture has entered to a new period regarding the interpretation of authenticity. Since novelty and relation with the past are known as the main indicators of the concept of authenticity, in this research it is tried to explore the ideas of seven pioneers of the new generation of architects in Iran around these concepts. These architects are amongst the most well-known young architects of Iran who have won more than 3 prizes in Memar (Architect) competition which is the most prestigious architectural competition in the country. To find out the interpretation of these architects about the concept of authenticity, inclusive interviews have been realized with these architects. Then, using recursive abstraction method, it is tried to find out the main points in definition of the concept of authenticity by each architect. In addition, some of the completed projects of theses architects have been visited and analyzed to find out the reflection of their ideas related to authenticity in their projects.

A basic introduction to image processing using NIH-Image as a model

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
John Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Digital Instrument ◽  
Novice User ◽  
Nih Image ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Instrument Control

Advances in camera technology and digital instrument control have meant that in modern microscopy, the image that was, in the past, typically recorded on a piece of film is now recorded directly into a computer. The transfer of the analog image seen in the microscope to the digitized picture in the computer does not mean, however, that the problems associated with recording images, analyzing them, and preparing them for publication, have all miraculously been solved. The steps involved in the recording an image to film remain largely intact in the digital world. The image is recorded, prepared for measurement in some way, analyzed, and then prepared for presentation.Digital image acquisition schemes are largely the realm of the microscope manufacturers, however, there are also a multitude of “homemade” acquisition systems in microscope laboratories around the world. It is not the mission of this tutorial to deal with the various acquisition systems, but rather to introduce the novice user to rudimentary image processing and measurement.

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