scholarly journals So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Scholar — Well You Need to Get an MBA

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Rob Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Rock And Roll ◽  
Record Industry ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Stax Records

Stax Records was a record label based in Memphis, Tennessee from the late 1950s through December 1975, when it was forced into involuntary bankruptcy. "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Scholar — Well You Need to Get an MBA" uses Stax Records as a case study to problematize what has often been a tendency within popular music scholarship to attempt to understand the political economy of the record industry primarily via the mechanical application of Marxist theory on a macro level. In looking in detail at the relationship between CBS Records and Stax from 1972 through 1975, the author concludes that to fully understand the nature of the distribution agreement between the two companies, its ramifications, and the consequent subsequent actions of the various principals involved, all of which eventually led to Stax's bankruptcy, one needs to take into account on a micro level the different modi operandi of independent and major labels, differences in the retail world of black and white America, and individual agency. Finally, all of the above needs to be considered very specifically within a temporal framework. The final conclusions prove to be significantly different from what would have resulted from solely from a Marxist analysis on a macro level.

The prospects for pluralism in contract theory

Legal Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Zhong Xing Tan
Keyword(s):  
Contract Theory ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Micro Level

Abstract This paper explores the promise of pluralism in the realm of contract law. I begin by identifying and rejecting conceptual strategies adopted by monistic and dualistic approaches. Turning towards pluralism, I evaluate three versions in contemporary literature: pluralism across contracting spheres and types, pluralism through consensus and convergence, and pluralism through localised values-balancing and practical reasoning. I suggest embracing some pluralism about contract pluralism, by using these models to construct a framework of ‘meta-pluralism’, where at the macro-level, we are concerned with plural spheres of contracting activity; at the meso-level, a variety of trans-substantive interpretive concepts that receive some measure of juristic consensus; and at the micro-level, practical reasoning through particularistic analysis of case-specific considerations. I illustrate the meta-pluralistic framework through a case study on the varieties of specific performance, and explain how the proposed pluralistic framework enriches our understanding of the nature of contract.

Oppression

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Garcia ◽  
Dorothy Van Soest
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Power Arrangements

A firm grasp of the nature of oppression, with its dynamics of power and its systemic character, is required so that social workers can avoid unintended collusion with pervasive oppressive systems if they are to be successful in promoting social and economic justice. Recognizing the relationship between macro-level and micro-level dynamics and their implications for practice is an substantive part of social work practice. This perspective includes attention to the ubiquitousness of privilege and oppression and the potential consequences of ignoring this reality as complicity in and normalizing exclusionary and marginalizing behaviors. This article discusses the concept of oppression, its dynamics and common elements, and anti-oppressive practices that can expose and dismantle oppressive relationships and systemic power arrangements.

Bridging Levels of Public Administration: How Macro Shapes Meso and Micro

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasdair Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
American History ◽  
The State ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship

Scholars in public administration now recognize three levels of analysis: macro, meso, and micro. But there is uncertainty about the relationship between levels and concern about a “schism” in research. However, linkages between levels can be demonstrated easily. At the macro-level, leaders develop an overall strategy for pursuing national priorities, which determines the broad architecture of the state. Institutions must be built, renovated, or managed to give effect to these strategies: This is the meso-level of public administration. Overall, strategies also shape the micro-level relationship between people who rule and people who are ruled. This is done by categorizing people—as subjects or citizens, for example—and by redefining categories. Macro-level strategies evolve, with consequences for the agenda at the meso- and micro-levels. Experience at lower levels also shapes strategy at the macro-level. The interaction among levels is illustrated by comparison of three eras in modern American history.

Entrepreneurs' Social Skills and New Venture Performance: Mediating Mechanisms and Cultural Generality

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Baron ◽  
Jintong Tang
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
Mediating Variables ◽  
Mediating Mechanisms ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Venture Performance

This research seeks to extend previous findings concerning the relationship between entrepreneurs' social skills and new venture performance. Two potential mediators of such effects (entrepreneurs' success in obtaining information and essential resources) were investigated, and data were collected in a culture not included in previous studies (China). Results indicate that several social skills (e.g., social perception, expressiveness) are significantly related to measures of new venture performance and that these effects are indeed mediated by the two proposed mediating variables. Implications of these findings for efforts to understand how micro-level variables influence macro-level measures of new venture performance are discussed.

The Beginnings of a Postal E-Marketplace

2011 ◽  
pp. 124-147
Author(s):  
Kim Hassall ◽  
Karyn Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Learning Curve ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
New Business ◽  
Business Case Study ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Dot Com ◽  
The Way

This e-business case study of the corProcure enterprise is instructive as it reflects three recurrent themes of the dot-com period: 1. First, the seemingly powerful but unstable corProcure’s business model was created between a number of large corporate institutions in response to the corporate pressure to enter the dot-com world. 2. The quick revelation that the initial business model was incompatible for the founding corporate partners. 3. The buyout of the venture by one of the partners, Australia Post, and re-engineering the direction of corProcure for a more workable e-marketplace business direction. This was considered to be the way forward. This evolution, learning curve, and redirection of the e-purchasing cartel was in one way just a snapshot at the macro-level of what happened to many ventures during the dot-com boom. At the micro-level, the change in direction was reflective of a more pragmatic business sense approach, when all the late 1990s hype was stripped away from the initial e-business model. The new business model incorporating an e-marketplace also reflected the need for the new owner to diversify into non-traditional products as part of new e-business and e-logistic strategies. These strategies were being examined globally by Postal Authorities.

scholarly journals Comics Polysystem in Iran: A Case Study of the Persian Translations of Les Aventures de Tintin

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Mohammad Sadegh Kenevisi ◽  
Mohammad Saleh Sanatifar
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Target Culture ◽  
Shed Light

Despite the popularity of comics, the subject of their translation has remained notably underexplored. Comics swept into the market of Iran in the 1970s; however, they were a new and unfamiliar genre in the country. One of the earliest comic series to appear in Iran was Les Aventures de Tintin, translated by Khosro Sami’i and published by Universal Publications before the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979. Following the Revolution, Universal discontinued the series in Iran and other publishers briefly took it up; after a few years, publication of the books was discontinued. It was not until 2000 that the series was re-introduced by Tarikh-o Farhang and Andishe-ye No Publications. Moreover, as a result of the ubiquitous availability of comic books on the Internet, scanlations made by Tintinophiles have burgeoned recently. This study examines the translations into Persian of Les Aventures de Tintin from these three groups (the early editions of the 1970s and 1980s, the revived publications of 2000, and the Internet scanlations) and attempts to shed light on the position of comics in the translated polysystem of Iran. For this purpose, Even-Zohar’s Polysystem theory (“Polysystem Studies” 9-26) and Tamaki’s approach (119-146) are employed. The synthetic model of translation description proposed by Lambert and Van Gorp (42-53) is used to examine the translations in three layers: 1) preliminary data, 2) macro-level, and 3) micro-level. Onomatopoeic representations are analysed at the micro-level to investigate the extent to which their translations have broken target culture norms and conventions. The results of the study reveal a gap for comics, an empty niche to be filled, in the translated polysystem of Iran and, accordingly, a canonized position for this genre and its translations. This position, however, has migrated to a less central place in more recent translations.

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship Between Managerial Cognitive Capabilities and Dynamic Managerial Capabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Elnivan Moreira de Souza ◽  
Sergio Henrique Arruda Cavalcante Forte
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Primary Motivation ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Dynamic Managerial Capabilities ◽  
Managerial Capabilities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Micro Foundations

The micro-foundations research agenda's primary motivation in strategy is to dissect macro-level constructs in terms of actions and organizational members' interactions to the micro-level. This work seeks to evolve the understanding of these micro-foundations to explain the relationship between Managerial Cognitive Capabilities and Dynamic Managerial Capabilities. We conducted a laboratory experiment with a sample of 111 participants, divided into two groups, containing 57 and 54 participants, each one. The results revealed that Sensing Opportunity and Seizing Opportunity, components of the Dynamic Managerial Capability, and the Language and Communication, which are part of the Cognitive Managerial Capability, can be predictive of the ability to Reconfigure Tangible and Intangible Assets. Our research contributes by extending central literature on micro-foundations through an experiment. We empirically show that managerial and cognitive dynamic capabilities can be a preeminent field to improve the comprehension of dynamic capabilities' micro-foundations.

scholarly journals A Case Study On Financial Performance Of Centurion Bank And Bank Of Punjab-In Pre And Post Merger Period

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-221
Author(s):  
P. Chellasamy ◽  
J. Udhaya Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
One Year ◽  
Level Analysis ◽  
Rare Opportunity

Merger of commercial banks provide a very rare opportunity for examining whether the merger has been successful or not, most of the attempts would either concentrate on anticipated economics or they have been conducted on a macro level. Independent micro level analysis is, therefore, necessary to examine the various aspects of merger. Accordingly centurion bank- bank of Punjab merger has been opted for a case study. It has been intentionally selected as this deal has been the recent merger (i.e.) one year deal between two private sector banks.

scholarly journals Routine Activity Theory and Farm Equipment Theft: A Macro-Level Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Dustin L. Osborne ◽  
Kristin Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Activity Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Routine Activity Theory ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
United States Census ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Farm Equipment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theory Framework

Though a handful of studies have explored the relationship between farm characteristics and theft of farm equipment, all have been focused at the micro level. Put differently, they have sought to determine whether a relationship exists between likelihood of theft victimization and the characteristics (e.g., size, location) of individual farming operations. The current study builds upon this work by seeking to determine whether county-level factors (in line with the routine activity theory framework) serve to influence the incidence of farm equipment theft within counties. Data are derived from the National Incident-Based Reporting System, the Census of Agriculture and the United States Census of the Population.  Results are on the whole supportive of the theory's application to the problem and suggest that macro-level investigations constitute a worthwhile approach to better understanding agricultural victimization.

Federada Testimonios on the Ground

Meridians ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-201
Author(s):  
Alyssa Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Fidel Castro ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In 1961, several mass organizations in Cuba collaborated as Fidel Castro launched a national campaign against prostitution. By 1965, only four years later, the Revolution proclaimed “the elimination of prostitution” in Cuba. This article examines the Cuban Revolution’s national campaign to end prostitution as a case study to investigate how gender and patriarchy affect the ways social change is operationalized. Interested in the relationship between social and cultural change, following the tradition of feminist historians, this article utilizes the oral histories of two Cuban federada women involved in the State’s campaign to consider how the Revolution’s macro program was implemented and carried out at micro level. The narratives of these local agents in the everyday spaces of the campaign provide a bottom-up lens which can be juxtaposed with the Revolution’s proclaimed “success.” These testimonios detail how gender and patriarchy played out on the ground, limiting the campaign’s efforts toward social change, therefore demonstrating the tensions and contradictions of how social change is exercised within human agency and constraint.

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