Changing cultural stigma: A pilot study of LGBT and mental illness organizations

This study examines how an LGBT advocacy organization and a mental illness advocacy organization influence cultural byproducts that result in stereotypes. Burke's (1989) redemption ritual is adapted as a framework for conceptualizing the process that occurs when an advocacy organization expresses discontent with a cultural producer's byproducts.     

Disrupting 21st-Century In/Security

Abstract

This thematic issue probes into twenty-first-century security concerns in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and their transnational implications. In particular, it explores three tensions that characterise contemporary security concerns: national security vs. human security, policy measures vs. grassroots activism and scholarly discourses vs. artistic interventions. The 'War on Terror' launched by President George W. Bush marked the beginning of the century with issues of violence and insecurity, with major human rights ramifications. Grassroots activists, however, have resisted the imposition of security policy and stood up to the insecurities they face. This thematic journal issue discusses questions of in/security around a robust people-centred framework that delineates questions of insecurity as a complex nexus that intertwines policy-making, everyday experiences, cultural representations and formal and informal communication networks. This focus presents an alternative to more conventional approaches that examine issues of societal in/security solely from the viewpoint of nation states and law enforcement. The collection’s case studies address the ways in which ordinary people in a transnational North American context experience questions of insecurity. The articles highlight the central position of gender, race, class and sexuality in both strengthening and challenging danger, uncertainty and liminality.     

跨国公司与东道国政府关系之研究

研究跨国公司(TNCs)与东道国政府关系主要有自由主义(liberalism)、新帝国主义(neo-imperialism)和新重商主义(neo-metrcantilism)三种传统范式。20世纪90年代以前,新帝国主义和新重商主义分别被用来解释跨国公司与发展中国家和发达国家与政府之间的关系,并作为东道国制定外资政策的依据。90年代后全球跨国公司及其对外直接投资的发展表明,跨国公司与东道国政府之间的合作多于对抗。由于传统范式显而易见的局限性,因此必须寻找新的理论范式来解释基于合作和互惠的跨国公司与东道国政府关系。新范式基于社会性嵌入(social embeddedness)认为,跨国公司与东道国政府之间的合作多于对抗。     

The Processes of New Product Development Recentralization towards a Transnational Emphasis in Multinational Corporations

Studies on R&D internationalization have identified the decentralization-recentralization pattern of many multinational corporations (MNCs). Studies have also indicated that MNCs tend to pursue a transnational emphasis during R&D recentralization. This research focuses on recentralization of new product development (NPD) in MNCs and aims to reveal different processes of it towards a transnational emphasis. Through a qualitative case study of four MNCs, the NPD recentralization process was explored in two important dimensions – power centralization and pluralistic input. Four process variants were discovered, showing different approaches to power centralization and pluralistic input. The processes of recentralization are novel to the area of R&D internationalization. This study also advances our understanding of R&D recentralization with a focus on NPD fulfilling market demand, which has not been well addressed in prior studies. In addition, this study generates some insights into transnational management.