An Epistemology of Intellectual Capital and its Transition to a Practical Application

2010 ◽  
pp. 17-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Carrell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Midwestern United States ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The World

Organization requirements for survival evolve reflective of the environment in which they exist. It has been theorized the organizational tool for survival of the 21st century is intellectual capital. As with new concepts the transition from theory to practical implementation is not without challenges. Intellectual capital struggles with transitioning into the world of business. This chapter includes a limited study of organizations in the Midwestern United States whose executives espouse a valuation of their organizations’ intellectual capital but have not bridged the gap from the theoretical understanding of intellectual capital to the practical documentation of their organizational intellectual capital in practice. This finding illustrates an estrangement between the academic field of theory and the practical implementation in the organizations.

The World of Uncertainty: Is America Losing Its Leverage Towards a Looming New China–Russia Alliance?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Vitaly KOZYREV
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Alliance Building

The recent deterioration of US–China and US–Russia relations has stumbled the formation of a better world order in the 21st century. Washington’s concerns of the “great power realignment”, as well as its Manichean battle against China’s and Russia’s “illiberal regimes” have resulted in the activated alliance-building efforts between Beijing and Moscow, prompting the Biden administration to consider some wedging strategies. Despite their coordinated preparation to deter the US power, the Chinese and Russian leaderships seek to avert a conflict with Washington by diplomatic means, and the characteristic of their partnership is still leaving a “window of opportunity” for the United States to lever against the establishment of a formal Sino–Russian alliance.

scholarly journals United States and China: One evidence of the changing global geopolitical environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 6-16
Author(s):  
Ruth Ortiz ◽  
Eusebio Ortiz Zarco ◽  
Gerardo Suárez Barrera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
International System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
The World

This research paper examines the commercial and monetary interdependence that has been built during the period 1990 - 2018 between two main economies of the world; this is an empirical analysis, based on a statistical scrutiny of economic indicators and Granger causalty tests. The result is a contribution to the understanding of the 21st century bundled international system, characterized by a changing global geopolitical environment, where the United States and China are the main actors.  

Conclusions

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. W. Rostow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
The Political ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

I have tried in this book to summarize where the world economy has come from in the past three centuries and to set out the core of the agenda that lies before us as we face the century ahead. This century, for the first time since the mid-18th century, will come to be dominated by stagnant or falling populations. The conclusions at which I have arrived can usefully be divided in two parts: one relates to what can be called the political economy of the 21st century; the other relates to the links between the problem of the United States playing steadily the role of critical margin on the world scene and moving at home toward a solution to the multiple facets of the urban problem. As for the political economy of the 21st century, the following points relate both to U.S. domestic policy and U.S. policy within the OECD, APEC, OAS, and other relevant international organizations. There is a good chance that the economic rise of China and Asia as well as Latin America, plus the convergence of economic stagnation and population increase in Africa, will raise for a time the relative prices of food and industrial materials, as well as lead to an increase in expen ditures in support of the environment. This should occur in the early part of the next century, If corrective action is taken in the private markets and the political process, these strains on the supply side should diminish with the passage of time, the advance of science and innovation, and the progressively reduced rate of population increase. The government, the universities, the private sector, and the professions might soon place on their common agenda the delicate balance of maintaining full employment with stagnant or falling populations. The existing literature, which largely stems from the 1930s, is quite illuminating but inadequate. And the experience with stagnant or falling population in the the world economy during post-Industrial Revolution times is extremely limited. This is a subject best approached in the United States on a bipartisan basis, abroad as an international problem. It is much too serious to be dealt with, as it is at present, as a domestic political football.

Borders, Mobility and Belonging in the Era of Brexit and Trump

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Gilmartin ◽  
Patricia Wood ◽  
Cian O'Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Ripple Effects ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

Questions of migration and citizenship are at the heart of global political debate with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump having ripple effects around the world. Providing new insights into the politics of migration and citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States, this book challenges the increasingly prevalent view of migration and migrants as threats and of formal citizenship as a necessary marker of belonging. Instead the book offers an analysis of migration and citizenship in practice, as a counterpoint to simplistic discourses. It uses cutting-edge academic work on migration and citizenship to address three themes central to current debates: borders and walls, mobility and travel, and belonging. Through this analysis, a clearer picture of the roots of these politics emerges as well as of the consequences for mobility, political participation and belonging in the 21st century.

Small Is Beautiful

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyrus Schayegh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Social History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Political Economic

In scholarship on the Middle East, as on other regions of the world, the sort of social history that climaxed from the 1960s through the 1980s, and in Middle East history through the 1990s—that is, studies of categories such as “class” or “peasant”—has been declining for some time. The cultural history that replaced social history has peaked, too. In the 21st century, the trend, set by non-Middle East historians, has been to combine an updated social-historical focus on structure and groups with a cultural–historical focus on meaning making. Defining societyagainstculture and policing their boundaries is out. In is picking a theme—consumption or travel, say—then studying it from distinct yet linked social and cultural or political/economic angles. This trend has spawned new journals likeCultural and Social History, established in 2004, and has been debated in established journals and memoirs by leading historians of the United States and Europe.

scholarly journals GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES AND THEIR EFFECTS IN 21st CENTURY A CASE STUDY OF USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Rani Erum, Prof. Dr Sayeda Daud
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Precautionary Measures

Global environmental challenges in 21st century are more threatening than traditional national security threats on the world because it has had effects globally and victims are completely in a state of natural disaster. The only things which can be secured from these threats are the precautionary measures before these threats occur. The excessive number of natural disaster particularly in past ten year horrified the world and transfers their attention more towards the environmental changes. The geographical location of American continent and growing military activities and WMDs testing of USA needed to focus on the rapid environmental changes around the world especially after the 20th century, because these changes affected the entire world in the shape of excessive rains, tornados and cyclones. The paper analyzes the various challenges of environment for North America particularly for United States by its own actions and in general to the world faces today, as well as measures that have been taken by entire world and United States and their future impact.

scholarly journals The Entanglement of Nation and Epistemology: Glances into the Backyard of Academic Dignity

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Fox
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Education Research ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
The United States ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Thought Styles ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the phenomenon of ‘national epistemologies’ that areunderstood as particular ways to think about the world, both enabled and restrictedby national(ist) ideologies as cultural thesis about distinct commonality andtogetherness. With regard to methodology, the article describes on a general levelhow these ‘national epistemologies’ can be identified and particularly how theirdevelopment as nationally idiosyncratic ways of conceptualizing and conductingresearch can be explained, taking the academic field of education as an example. Theexistence of such distinct national research thought styles can be detected, at leastin the West: in the United States, in France, in England and in Germany. Thereby,imperial aspirations of these nationally connoted and configured phenomena cometo the fore, indicating their efforts of spreading from epistemologically strongernation(-state)s into weaker ones in the way of ‘travelling ideas’. Starting from thethought style represented by German Idealism, two major reasons or purposes forthese travels can be distinguished: One ‘by invitation’ and one ‘as occupation’, asrepresented by the case of Austria.Key words: Austria; education research; national epistemologies; nationalism;travelling ideas.

Global India in 21st-Century Asian American Literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Literature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Call Center ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Asian American Literature ◽  
The World

Twenty-first-century Asian American literature is a developing archive of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and multimodal cultural texts. As a field, it is marked by its simultaneous investments in exploring the United States’ imperial geopolitical relations and the concurrent rise of Asia. Global India, a shorthand for the nation’s ascendance onto the world stage after the liberalizing market reforms of the early 1990s, is discernible in Asian American—and particularly South Asian American—depictions of a range of figures including call center agents, entrepreneurial farmers, art gallery owners, and globe-trotting filmmakers. It is an India to which many writers imagine returning, given its heightened standing in the world economy and the prospect of American decline. This change marks a shift in the literature from the Americas being the primary locus of attachment to Asia as a site of possible reinvestment, both psychic and material. Asian American writers frequently focus on parallels between the experience of international migration and that of in-country migration to India’s major cities. They also tacitly register the rise of India in narratives about the abortive promises of the American dream. In comparison to Asian American literatures of the 20th century, which were primarily read as part of the multiethnic canon of American literature, Asian American literatures written under the sign of Global India are equally legible as part of diasporic, postcolonial, world, and global Anglophone literary formations. Many writers considered postcolonial in the 20th century may be profitably read in the 21st century as Asian American as well, whether because of a move to the United States or a professed affiliation. This expansion of the field is a consequence of the evolving diasporic and global imaginaries of Asian American writers and scholars.

Falun Gong: Origins, Growth, Conflict

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Lewis ◽  
Huang Chao
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Folk Religion ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Falun Gong ◽  
Qi Gong ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The World

Falun Gong (FLG) is a Qi Gong group that entered into conflict with the Chinese state around the turn of the 21st century, and gradually transformed into a political movement. Qi Gong, in turn, is an ancient system of exercises that has been compared to yoga. Falun Gong was founded in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by Li Hongzhi (LHZ) in 1992, in the latter part of what has been termed the Qi Gong “boom.” As the leadership of the PRC became increasingly critical of the traditional folk religion and superstition that was emerging within some of the Qi Gong groups, Li Hongzhi and his family emigrated to the United States. From the safety of his new country of residence, LHZ directed his Chinese followers to become increasingly confrontational, eventually staging a mass demonstration in front of government offices in Beijing on April 25, 1999. The movement was subsequently banned. Falun Gong’s story does not, however, end there. Prior to the banning of FLG, Li Hongzhi had gained a following outside of China, both among the overseas Chinese expat community as well as among citizens of other countries, particularly Western countries. These followers quickly created websites and other alternative media that helped shape public opinion outside of China. Falun Gong sources portrayed the crackdown against FLG practitioners as particularly harsh, eventually claiming that thousands of followers had been brutalized and murdered. These claims gradually expanded to include the accusation that the PRC was “harvesting” organs from live practitioners and selling them on the international organ market. In more recent years, FLG “Shen Yun” troupes have been touring the world, marketing their critique of the PRC as part of music and dance routines.

scholarly journals The gateway to successful business relationships in the 21st century

2010 ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Ricki Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Business Relationships ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The World ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
High Level ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
Different Cultures

La empresa de hoy en día necesita un nuevo concepto porque el negocio entendido como tal no se limita sólo al trabajo. La conciencia medioambiental está explotando, la desconfianza pública en los negocios se sitúa a una altura histórica, muchos empleados y clientes están desconectados de las compañías en las que trabajan o en las que compran, los proveedores se sienten exprimidos, las comunidades a menudo se organizan para mantenerse a distancia de ciertas empresas. La disciplina empresarial está cambiando rápidamente hoy, y requiere nuevas clases de herramientas para mejorar y mantener las relaciones de negocios. Herramientas como las redes empresariales, la innovación, formación, y la comprensión de las diferentes culturas son algunas de ellas. Hoy en día las multinacionales se establecen en todo el mundo (globalización) para reducir gastos y aumentar los beneficios. Sectores como centros de llamada, industrias del automóvil, empresas de informática, industrias textiles, empresas farmacéuticas, solamente para mencionar algunos de ellos. Al mismo tiempo las multinacionales mezclan trabajadores con habilidades diferentes como el idioma, la cultura, la cultura de negocio etc. y esto lo convierte en un gran desafío de cara a la obtención del éxito en relaciones de negocio.<br /><br />Business today needs new concepts, because business as usual is just not working anymore. Environmental consciousness is exploding, public distrust of business is at a historic high level, many employees and customers are disconnected from the companies they work for or buy from; suppliers feel squeezed, communities often organize to keep certain businesses out. Business discipline is changing rapidly today, and demands new kinds of tools to improve and maintain business relationships. Tools as networking, innovation, coaching staff, understanding different cultures are a part of this. Nowadays multinationals pup up all over the world (globalisation) in order to reduce costs and increase benefits. Sectors such as call centers, car industries, IT companies, textile industry, pharmacy companies, just to mention some of them. At the same time the multinationals mix emplyoees with different skills such as language, culture, business culture etc. and this makes it into a great challenge to obtain success in business relationships.<br />

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