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Market Rebels
Great individuals are assumed to cause the success of radical innovations--thus Henry Ford is depicted as the one who established the automobile industry in America. Hayagreeva Rao tells a different story, one that will change the way you think about markets forever. He explains how \"market rebels\"--activists who defy authority and convention--are the real force behind the success or failure of radical innovations.
Rao shows how automobile enthusiasts were the ones who established the new automobile industry by staging highly publicized reliability races and lobbying governments to enact licensing laws. Ford exploited the popularity of the car by using new mass-production technologies.
Rao argues that market rebels also establish new niches and new cultural styles. If it were not for craft brewers who crusaded against \"industrial beer\" and proliferated brewpubs, there would be no specialty beers in America. But for nouvelle cuisine activists who broke the stranglehold of Escoffier's classical cuisine in France, there would have been little hybridization and experimentation in modern cooking.
Market rebels also thwart radical innovation. Rao demonstrates how consumer activists have faced down chain stores and big box retailers, and how anti-biotechnology activists in Germany penetrated pharmaceutical firms and delayed the commercialization of patents.
ReadMarket Rebelsto learn how activists succeed when they construct \"hot causes\" that arouse intense emotions, and exploit \"cool mobilization\"--unconventional techniques that engage audiences in collective action. You will realize how the hands that move markets are the joined hands of market rebels.
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Europe un-imagined : nation and culture at a French-German television channel
Europe Un-Imagined examines one of the world’s first and only trans nationally produced television channels, Association relative à la télévision européenne (ARTE). ARTE calls itself the European culture channel and was launched in 1991 with a French-German intergovernmental mandate to produce television and other media that promoted pan-European community and culture.
Damien Stankiewicz’s ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel. He argues that the reproduction of nationalism often goes unacknowledged and unremarked upon, and questions whether something like a European imagination can be produced. Stankiewicz describes the challenges that ARTE staff face, including rapidly changing media technologies and audiences, unreflective national stereotyping, and unwieldy bureaucratic infrastructure, which ultimately limit the channel’s abilities to cultivate a transnational, European public. Europe Un-Imagined challenges its readers to find new ways of thinking about how people belong in the world beyond the problematic logics of national categorization.
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The struggle to develop accounting practices in the Australian Girl Guides, 1945-9: a microhistorical approach
There has been limited accounting history research in the areas of nonprofit organizations and women in a non-business environment. This article addresses these two gaps by considering accounting history in a large female-managed nonprofit organization, the Australian Girl Guides Association (GGA). In order to do this the article uses a microhistorical reconstruction of an individual to penetrate underlying motivations (Parker, 1999, p.31) and to allow the reader “to draw conclusions from a story that illustrates a fragment of peoples' lives and activities” (Williams, 1999, p.75) by revealing what would otherwise be unknown about the struggle to develop appropriate accounting practices in the context of organizational culture and history. It discloses that pertinent recommendations by GGA's fourth treasurer, Mrs O'Malley Wood, were ignored by management in a fiscally irresponsible manner. This article demonstrates that by focusing close attention on a seemingly minor individual, the researcher is able to discover the possible constraints that shaped human behaviour at a specific moment in history.
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Feminists, Islam, and Nation
The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that \"feminism is Western\" and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half of this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam.
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On Asterisk Inflation
In recent years, many political science articles have changed the traditional and correct method for flagging statistically significant coefficients in tables. They now add extra asterisks at each significance level. This article describes the shift and why it should be reversed.
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Pragmatics, politics and moral purpose: the quest for an authentic national curriculum
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the development of a national curriculum for Australia. The paper challenges stakeholders to interrogate the question of national curriculum, its purpose, values and potential for delivering the type of education Australia wants for its citizens in the twenty-first century.Design methodology approach - The paper provides a general review of the literature, research and opinion associated with the politics, purpose, leadership and potential for change associated with national curriculum innovation.Findings - The national curriculum looms as the largest educational change in Australia's history and requires a thorough examination by stakeholders of the purposes and values underpinning it and how such a centralised curriculum can build the learning capacity of the nation. Authentic engagement of teachers, \"buy in\", bottom-up and top-down strategies, extensive time for negotiations and the engagement of educational and political leaders are seen as important for community ownership of the product.Practical implications - The paper challenges political and educational leaders to conduct the national curriculum building dialogue at the local, state and national level and to open up previous \"givens\" to interrogation. It calls for a long-term process to protect the authenticity and moral purpose of the process and maximise its ownership and potential for change.Originality value - The paper addresses the greatest challenge yet to face Australian education, to deliver a national curriculum that delivers authentic learning for the future needs of Australians and Australia. It presents a case for stakeholders to engage the challenge through a professionally informed and morally defensible approach.
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THE RADICAL REFORMS: A Historic Shift in the National Council for the Social Studies
The radical reforms of the early Seventies were preceded by several modest establishment reforms in the late Sixties. These initial changes involved concessions by the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) leadership in an effort to assuage a growing insurgency within the Council. Ultimately, these moderate measures proved inadequate and merely served as a prelude to a second, more far-reaching overhaul of the NCSS. The \"blueprint\" for this Council restructuring was the 1969 NCSS Task Force Report--a comprehensive list of seventeen recommendations for reinvigorating the association--embraced by President-elect Shirley Engle. The radical reforms included changes in NCSS governance, increased outreach, and a leadership change, but, arguably, the most profound departures from the past involved the Council's altering of the publications program and embracing social issue activism; therefore, they are the foci of this narrative. Here, Binford discusses about the radical reforms regarding on a historic shift in the National Council for the Social Studies.
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