scholarly journals Japanese Company Histories as Repositories of Tacit Knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Cover Story ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Japanese Company ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
Japanese Companies

A special issue commemorating 115 years of its publication of Shūkan Tōyō Keizai, devoted its cover story, comprising some 45 pages, to a survey of other Japanese companies that had passed the one hundred year milestone. Kunisada Fumitaka advises readers to seek the kind of tacit knowledge needed to revive Japanese economic engines by reading histories of successful companies that survived for more than a century,  “Company histories are treasure troves of business knowledge for turning point eras, such as the present. Read them!!” The appendices of shashi are rich in statistics, but the narrative portions of the books have their own value as primary sources as well. A well-known limitation of shashi is that the stories they tell are self- serving, extolling the feats of their founders and achievements over the years without any criticism. Those narratives can be used to derive insights into the past. Perhaps they can also be a stimulus for imagining the future.

scholarly journals Globalization, deglobalization and the liberal international order

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 1305-1316
Author(s):  
Markus Kornprobst ◽  
T V Paul
Keyword(s):  
International Order ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
The Past ◽  
Epochal Change ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One

Abstract For decades, globalization and the liberal international order evolved side by side. Recently, however, deglobalizing forces have been on the rise and the liberal international order has come to be increasingly beleaguered. The special issue ‘Deglobalization? The future of the liberal international order’ examines the interconnectedness of globalization and deglobalization processes on the one hand and the trajectory of the liberal international order on the other. This introduction provides a conceptual frame for the articles to follow. It discusses globalization and deglobalization processes, compares how they have been intertwined with the liberal international order in the past and presently, and explores how these differences are likely to affect the future of world politics. The special issue makes three important contributions. First, we examine globalization and deglobalization processes systematically. Second, we break new ground in studying the future of international order. Third, we generate novel insights into epochal change.

The One Hundred Days; 1965 Executive Actions; and the 1965—75 Timeframe

1965 ◽  
Vol 69 (657) ◽  
pp. 611-626
Author(s):  
Richard Worcester
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Government Investment ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
Heart And Mind

I took the unusual course of suggesting this lecture because I have something to say. I should have done this ten years ago. Better late than never. The position is that after £20 000 million spent on defence in the past 12 years, of which the air industry has had more than its full share, there is a culmination of industrial mismanagement, a crisis of confidence, a prevailing sense of bewilderment, an air of frustration and, therefore, a craving for new leadership in industry to make a true and worthy partnership of heart and mind with the active new leadership in Government. I sense moreover that behind the shadow boxing lies at this moment a more bi-partisan approach to meeting the future than immediately meets the eye. So this is not an exhortation but a demand to adopt new habits of thought that will lead to evolution of equipment calculated to sell well as a general rule instead of it being more the exception. And this is not a plea, but a demand, for a new resolve and leadership in industry coupled with a determination to make a better export showing in the 1970s on a smaller Government investment. The present Government's actions to promote research mergers and industrial co-operation with other countries seem a logical turning point for a re-start. So why not let us make resurgence date from now ?

scholarly journals Cocktails of pesticide residues in conventional and organic farming systems in Europe – legacy of the past and turning point for the future

2021 ◽  
pp. 116827
Author(s):  
Violette Geissen ◽  
Vera Silva ◽  
Esperanza Huerta Lwanga ◽  
Nicolas Beriot ◽  
Klaas Oostindie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Farming ◽  
Pesticide Residues ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Organic Farming Systems

scholarly journals Aquatic biomonitoring: Lessons from the past, challenges for the future

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (s1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossano Bolpagni ◽  
Mariano Bresciani ◽  
Stefano Fenoglio
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Responses ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Quality Classification ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Passionate Debate ◽  
Main Message ◽  
Special Symposium

This special issue stems from an increasing awareness on the key contribution made by biometrics and biological indices in the quality classification of aquatic ecosystems. This theme has been the subject of passionate debate during the 13th European Ecological Federation (EEF) and 25th Italian Society of Ecology’s (S.It.E.) joined congresses held in Rome in September 2015. In this frame, on the margins of the special symposium named “Biomonitoring: Lessons from the past, challenges for the future”, it was launched the idea of a special issue of the Journal of Limnology on the “aquatic” contributions presented at the conference. The present volume mainly reports these studies, enriched by few invited papers. Among the other things, the main message is the need of a better integration between sector knowledges and legislative instruments. This is even truer given the on-going climate change, and the necessity to record rapid changes in ecosystems and to elaborate effective/adaptive responses to them. 

Ecologies of Oil and Trauma of the Future in Curse of the Black Gold

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-91
Author(s):  
Cajetan Iheka
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Ecological Degradation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site

Mineral extraction in Africa has exacerbated ecological degradation across the continent. This article focuses on the example of the Niger Delta scene of oil exploration depicted in Michael Watts and Ed Kashi’s multimedia project, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta. Analyzing the infringement on human and nonhuman bodies due to fossil fuel extraction, I read the Delta, inscribed in Watts and Kashi’s image-text, as an ecology of suffering and as a site of trauma. Although trauma studies tend to foreground the past and the present, I argue that Curse of the Black Gold invites serious consideration of trauma of the future, of-the-yet-to-come, in apprehending the problematic of suffering in the Delta. I conclude with a discussion of the ethics of representing postcolonial wounding, which on the one hand can create awareness of ecological degradation and generate affect, but which on the other hand, exploits the vulnerability of the depicted and leaves an ecological footprint.

scholarly journals Special Issue “Digital Twin Technology in the AEC Industry”

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jisong Zhang ◽  
Lihua Zhao ◽  
Guoqian Ren ◽  
Haijiang Li ◽  
Xiaofei Li
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Structural Engineering ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Sustainable building design has become a hot topic over the past decades. Many standards, databases, and tools have been developed for achieving a sustainable building. Not until recently have the importance of structural engineering and its contribution to sustainable building design been full recognised. However, due to the highly fragmented and diversity of knowledge across building and infrastructure domains, there is a lack of approach that can address all the sustainable issues within the structural design. This paper reviews the sustainable design from the perspective of structural engineering: (1) reviewing the current situation; (2) identifying the gaps and difficulties; and (3) making recommendations for future improvements. The strategies and indicators, as well as BIM-enabled methodology, for sustainable structural design (SSD) are also discussed in a holistic way. The results of this investigation show that most of the methods are not doing well in terms of delivering a successful sustainable structural design. It is expected that the future BIM could probably provide such a platform to address these issues.

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