The Market for CSR Practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-39
Author(s):  
Irene Daskalopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
The Way

The aim of the paper is to stimulate a discussion about the market for CSR practices. This entails a shift of focus from contemporary approaches of analyzing the phenomenon that largely focus on the way in which CSR actions affect businesses and the markets. In contrast, the present paper proposes an analysis of the market for CSR actions and activities as a more integrative approach to conceptualizing the complex nature of the phenomenon. Three critical dimensions are identified as determinants of CSR market outcomes, namely the content of the demand and supply forces, the origin of the market, and the institutional terrain within which the market is developed. A tentative application of the proposed context is discussed with reference to the food sector.

The Market for CSR Practices

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-186
Author(s):  
Irene Daskalopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
The Way

The aim of the paper is to stimulate a discussion about the market for CSR practices. This entails a shift of focus from contemporary approaches of analyzing the phenomenon that largely focus on the way in which CSR actions affect businesses and the markets. In contrast, the present paper proposes an analysis of the market for CSR actions and activities as a more integrative approach to conceptualizing the complex nature of the phenomenon. Three critical dimensions are identified as determinants of CSR market outcomes, namely the content of the demand and supply forces, the origin of the market, and the institutional terrain within which the market is developed. A tentative application of the proposed context is discussed with reference to the food sector.

scholarly journals The most remarkable cave-specialized trechine beetles from China

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunbin Huang ◽  
Arnaud Faille ◽  
Mingyi Tian
Keyword(s):  
Southern China ◽  
Slender Body ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Limestone Cave ◽  
The World ◽  
Evolutionary Success ◽  
Single Locality ◽  
The Way

Limestone areas of China host remarkable radiations of cave animals. The subterranean trechine beetles (Carabidae: Trechini), the most diverse and modified group of subterranean beetles in the world, are extremely diverse in southern China. The first aphaenopsian trechine beetle, Sinaphaenops mirabilissimus Uéno & Wang, 1991 was reported from a limestone cave in Guizhou province. Up to now, 146 species within 48 genera of aphaenopsian trechine have been described in China after almost three decades. Among them, the genera Giraffaphaenops, Xuedytes, Dongodytes, Sinaphaenops and Pilosaphaenops from northwest Guangxi and south Guizhou are the most modified troglobitic trechine beetles known so far in the world. They are remarkable by their morphology combining extremely slender body and elongated appendages. Some of them are diversified or quite widespread, which is not the case of Xuedytes Tian & Huang, 2017, a remarkable monospecific genus known from a single locality so far. In addition to the surveys and collection of specimens, an integrative approach combining the study of systematics, phylogeny, diversification and biogeography patterns of the cave trechine beetles in China is on the way, in order to understand the origin of the remarkable biodiversity and evolutionary success of this group.

scholarly journals Terminology: Aboutness, Representation, and Metasemantics

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Herman Cappelen ◽  
Josh Dever
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

This short chapter does two things. First, it shows that in fact workers in AI frequently talk as if AI systems express contents. We present the argument that the complex nature of the actions and communications of AI systems, even if they are very different from the complex behaviours of human beings, and the way they have ‘aboutness’, strongly suggest a contentful interpretation of those actions and communications. It then introduces some philosophical terminology that captures various aspects of language use, such as the ones in the title, to better make clear what one is saying—philosophically speaking—when one claims AI systems communicate, and to provide a vocabulary for the next few chapters.

Part V Pass-On, 19 Economics of Pass-on

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veljanovski Cento
Keyword(s):  
Market Structure ◽  
Volume Effect ◽  
Deadweight Loss ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Pricing Policies ◽  
Full Compensation ◽  
Factors Of Production ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks at the economics of pass-on. The economics of pass-on is an aspect of the economists' theory of cost incidence. This is the study of the way a cost or tax increase is shifted and distributed between producers, consumers, and factors of production. It shows that the legal and economic incidence of a cost can differ radically and often in an unexpected way from its initial incidence. The extent of pass-on and any associated volume effect will depend on a range of factors including the nature of the overcharge; the demand and supply conditions; the market structure; and the pricing policies adopted by purchasers. The volume effect generates two losses: lost profits and the deadweight loss. Collecting all these losses together, full compensation requires that the direct purchasers as a group receive damages for the overcharge plus lost profits on the sales not made, minus the amount passed-on.

Optimizing Locator Position to Maximize Robustness in Critical Product Dimensions

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Lo¨o¨f ◽  
Lars Lindkvist ◽  
Rikard So¨derberg
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Heuristic Approach ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Geometrical Variation ◽  
Production Problems ◽  
The Way

The way parts are located in relation to each other or in fixtures is critical for how geometrical variation will propagate and cause variation in critical product dimensions. Therefore, more emphasis should be put on this activity in early design phases in order to avoid assembly and production problems later on. In earlier literature, locator positions have been defined using optimization to reach a robust locating scheme. This implies that the total robustness of a part is optimized by placing the locators in an optimal way. Sometimes there are areas on parts that are more sensitive to variation than others. Therefore, this paper suggests an approach for optimizing the positions of locators in a locating scheme to maximize robustness in defined critical dimensions. A formulation of an optimization problem is presented, and an algorithm solving this in a heuristic approach is developed. Finally, this algorithm is applied on an industrial example.

scholarly journals Celebrity gossip as a genre in English-language mass media discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-418
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Ivanova ◽  
Gulnara Sharifullovna Khakimova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
English Language ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Celebrity Gossip ◽  
Theory Of Discourse

The multidimensionality of rumours as part and parcel of mass communication has stipulated the research in their linguistic nature. The present paper studies this specific communication phenomenon and the discursive practices by means of which it is realized across the Anglophone mass media discourse continuum. The theory of discourse-analysis underpinning the present paper predetermines an integrative approach with various methods employed. This approach makes it possible to gain an insight into the complex nature of the object under study. The research is targeted at media rumours, namely celebrity gossip, manifested in on-line versions of the printed press and original web outlets in 2015-2018. The main goal of the research is to reveal specific features of media rumors as a speech genre in the Anglophone media communication. Celebrity gossip texts make up the empiric material for the present study. This aim is achieved via the description of the content and form of the text-type structure supplemented by an application of stylistic analysis. In terms of the topics, the findings demonstrate a wide variety of topoi comprising both public (social interactions) and private spheres of celebrities’ life with an emphasis on privacy, sensationalism and scandalous impropriety as dominant discursive characteristics of the text-type samples under study. The structure of the celebrity gossip discourse is represented by texts in different journalistic forms: from informative genres to feature type variations used by authors as means of constructing celebrity culture. The information of trivial content and questionable validity because of its unverified character is disguised as reports of high testimonial trustworthiness and epistemic value with the help of a variety of language and textual resources. The results of the study enable us to argue that within the mass media communication there exists a specific discourse which is hybrid by nature and non-evidential by verification.

scholarly journals Agri-Food 4.0 and Innovations: Revamping the Supply Chain Operations

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Vasavi Dadi ◽  
Suryadevara Ram Nikhil ◽  
Rahul S Mor ◽  
Tripti Agarwal ◽  
Sapna Arora
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Block Chain ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Food Wastage

Abstract The agri-food sector contributes significantly to economic and social advancements globally despite numerous challenges such as food safety and security, demand and supply gaps, product quality, traceability, etc. Digital technologies offer effective and sustainable ways to these challenges through reduced human interference and improved data-accuracy. Innovations led by digital transformations in the agri-food supply chains (AFSCs) are the main aim of ‘Agri-Food 4.0’. This brings significant transformations in the agri-food sector by reducing food wastage, real-time product monitoring, reducing scalability issues, etc. This paper presents a systematic review of the innovations in the agri-food for digital technologies such as internet-of-things, artificial intelligence, big data, RFID, robotics, block-chain technology, etc. The employment of these technologies from the ‘farm to fork’ along AFSC emphasizes a review of 159 articles solicited from different sources. This paper also highlights digitization in developing smart, sensible, and sustainable agri-food supply chain systems.

scholarly journals The Kind of Problem a City Will Always Be: A Study of the Epistemological State of Urbanism and the Kind of Problem a City is

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Takeshi Kominami
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Entire Body ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Jane Jacobs ◽  
Common School ◽  
New Research ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The Way

<p>Jane Jacobs in her seminal work Death and Life of Great American Cities (1993) titled a chapter of her book, The Kind of Problem a City is, and in it, discussed how a city should be understood as a situation of a complex nature. Observers of cities have, from as early as the Renaissance, attempted to identify the kind of problem cities are by comparing them analogically to a variety of subjects and artefacts. This has been done to discuss and extrapolate the issues surrounding what a city is in a multitude of ways and to better grapple the complex issue that the subject of cities pose. However a single explanation or analogy will likely ever satisfy the discourse as a fundamental framework. The difficulty in reaching a single framework is twofold. Firstly cities and the way cities are inhabited, changes and evolves over time. And, secondly, and perhaps more problematically the way we think about them and come to know them also changes and evolves. To put simply, there are epistemological struggles in urbanism that require attending if the complex issue of a city is to ever be reconciled. Empirical observation and interpretation of the city – an alternative technique at the time of Jane Jacobs writing of Death and Life of Great American Cities, is the recording of events and occurrences and looking at how and why these might arise. This is what separated Jane Jacobs from the common school of thought at the time. It was a departure from the overly simplified rational logic of the Modernists – a school of thought made widespread by its success but had extended passed its limitations. Jacobs had observed an underlying and intricately delicate balance that had evolved out of the complex connections in the diversity of the people and their spatial conditions within a city; a balance she called a "ballet of the street". To Jacobs the Modernists obsession of order through ‘orthodox’ planning and zoning that had sought to impose homogeneity over populations and areas simply did not observe or appreciate the complexity of cities and streets that created the very emergent qualities of healthy urbanity. Qualities that Jacobs had noted “ought to be cherished and celebrated”. This thesis therefore delves into contemporary techniques of understanding and observing cities particularly by digitally modelling and dissecting areas to better interpret and come to know the existing urban condition so that we may build better knowledge foundations for urban discourse. It will identify that through changing and diversifying paradigms and epistemologies of knowledge, our perception and our a posteriori ability to identify the kind of problem that cities are, is not static and that it develops and evolves from generation to generation. This is a necessary change that occurs in order to revaluate and solve certain kinds of problems and puzzles that pertain to the generation taking place. The significant point that I argue is that such change, at an epistemological level, is inevitable and necessary. And as these evolving epistemic foundations can dramatically alter the significance and legitimation of the entire body of urban knowledge, then a continuing critical discussion of the contemporary state of epistemic urbanism or a philosophy of urbanism is a necessary task for identifying and framing the kind of problem a city is. Furthermore, this thesis will outline methods of (re-)framing those foundations to better carry over constructive and applicable knowledge that will help build new and contemporary understanding of cities and urbanism. These frameworks and methods will be tested through hypothetical re-design of existing city fabric in order to help realise the applicability of new research techniques.</p>

scholarly journals A HUMANISING ECONOMIC APPROACH ON COMPETITION POLICY OR HOW THE BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS BLENDS WITH “TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS”

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liviana Andreea Niminet
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Competition Policy ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Successful Model ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Information Framing ◽  
Time Inconsistent

Behavioral are crucial for understanding both the consumer’s attitude and firms’ attitude as well as for understanding the market outcomes. The past ten years brought a lot of attention from researchers and policy-makers on the behavioral economics issue. Classical, traditional economic models rely on the assumptions of rationality and ordered preferences. Behavioral economics explores interactions between demand and supply including information framing, the use of heuristics in decision-making and time-inconsistent preferences. The research on behavioral economics has led to an extensive debate about the relative merits of both traditional and behavioral economics. First of all we propose to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of behavioral economics versus traditional economics on a very sensitive issue: the competition policy. Then we address market issues that can be solved by means of behavioral economics afterwards turning out attention to the remedies of behavioral economics and ,last but not least, the United Kingdom successful model on the matter of competition policy.

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