Professional blinders? The novel as an eye-opener in organizational analysis

ABSTRACT

Scholarly textbooks often follow a logic where suitable empirical cases are selected to illustrate the theoretical and analytical points that we as scholars want to make. But what would happen if we would do the opposite: build a textbook on a novel written by a novelist for such purpose and let the theories explain the actions and emotions of fictional characters? In this article, we share and reflect upon our experiences of co-authoring a textbook in organization theory together with a professional novelist. We argue that the novel can function as an eye-opener in organizational analysis, forcing us to look beyond more static and rationalistic perspectives on organizations as well as the stereotypes of such. We build and relate our experiences to the growing literature about using fiction in scholarly work and discuss the potential of such genre-bending work when we bring in flesh and blood into the analyses.     

Stigma, HIV/AIDS and prevention of mother-to-child transmission in Zambia

This report evaluates the extent of perceived and enacted HIV/AIDS-related stigma in a rural setting in Zambia. Stigmatisation is abundant, ranging from subtle actions to the most extreme degradation, rejection and abandonment. Women with HIV and pregnant women assumed to be HIV positive are repeatedly subjected to extensive forms of stigma, particularly once they become sick or if their child dies. Despite increasing access to prevention of mother to child transmission initiatives, including anti-retroviral drugs, the perceived disincentives of HIV testing, particularly for women, largely outweigh the potential gains from available treatments. HIV/AIDS related stigma drives the epidemic underground and is one of the main reasons that people do not wish to know their HIV status. Unless efforts to reduce stigma are, as one peer educator put it, “written in large letters in any HIV/AIDS campaign rather than small”, stigma will remain a major barrier to curbing the HIV/AIDS pandemic.     

脊波导宽频带电磁参数测试技术

针对高损耗介质材料电磁参数的宽频带测试问题,提出了利用脊波导进行测试的新方法,建立了电磁参数测试系统,并采用TRL技术进行了系统校准。该方法仅用3个波段的脊波导即可覆盖2.0～18.0GHz宽频带范围内的电磁参数测试,具有频带宽、体积小、测试精确度高等优点。     

建立高效的高校物流体系

将经济领域的物流引入高校,提出了高校物流体系概念;介绍了高校物流的组成要素及物流目标。为了增加高校在市场环境中的适应性及竞争能力,首先应提高物流系统中的管理水平,从整合、优化、预测的角度制定适应新形势下的物流战略。     

从《北回归线》看亨利·米勒的文体风格

亨利·米勒是美国20世纪的文学奇才,他的怪异文体使他备受针砭。《北回归线》不仅是他作品思想深度的代表作,也是其怪异文化的范本。以此为视点,米勒的文体风格主要可概括为卑琐素材、污秽物象、纵情声色、梦呓意识、拼贴构造等几个方面。     

材料化学与高技术新材料和信息材料

材料化学的研究对象是物质的组成、制备、结构与性能的变化规律及其应用。它强调现代精细材料合成与光电技术相互结合,深入系统地研究各种材料制备工艺及其与材料性能的关系,发展新型功能材料的人工设计技术,采用先进的实验技术和方法,研究和发展具有特定微结构和性能的新型功能材料。高技术新材料和信息材料的发展离不开材料化学,反过来,材料化学的发展进一步推动高技术新材料和信息材料的发展和进步。     

运用信息技术培养学生形象思维能力

从把握时机,掌握力度等方面提出遵循以学生为主体原则,符合学生认知过程的需要,同时保证语文教学按自身学科性质完成教学目标,在有利于学生形象思维发展的前提下,把握运用信息技术的最佳时机达到教学最佳效果.     

飞灰冲蚀条件下材料抗磨性能的试验研究

本文首先综述了国内外学者在研究塑性材料耐冲蚀磨损性能方面所取得的主要成果,并在专门建立的灰磨试验台上,对电站燃煤锅炉对流受热面常用材料20号钢、12Cr_1MoV合金铜以及铜、铝四种塑性材料进行了耐飞灰冲蚀磨损性能的试验研究。提出用材料的体积磨损率来定义材料的耐冲蚀磨损性能系数。并用它表征塑性材料的抗磨性能。该系数可直接应用于计算燃煤锅炉对流受热面的安全烟速。     

桥梁与人类文明的关系

从桥梁与人类文化历史的关系、桥梁与人类对材料的使用和创造的关系、桥梁与科学技术的关系等方面叙述了人类文明的成果与桥梁的关系 ,认为桥梁对于人类文明的意义已经远远超过了其本身的意义 ,成为人类文明程度的标志