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Psychoanalysis and early education: a study of the educational ideas of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Anna Freud (1895-1982), Melanie Klein (1882-1960), and Susan Isaacs (1885-1948)
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Inquiry in question
What follows is the transcript of an inquiry which takes itself as its object: an inquiry into its own inquiry. It opens out of a mere marking of its questioning, `?', and proceeds by questioning that mark, and the progress of its inquiry as transcription of something `open' into marks and questions - such transcription itself marked as only one thing open to the `writer'. Each successive attempt to transcribe into words the opening transition into `words', `text', `book', from some textually marked `context' in which the transition is open, simply leads into a questioning of each such attempted transcription, the bringing of its terms `into question'. The first section of the inquiry closes having marked out an internal `logical' space and time of these opening questions, coordinated around the initial question of marking a question: so many `dimensions' of lines of questioning `question' - in particular the external `physical' dimension of a `space' and `time' in which marking or transcription is (physically) open, and a `poetic' or figural dimension in which that `external' physical open-ness or space provides, like the `internal' logical space of logical, physical and poetic questions, and `image' for those three coordinate dimensions in whose textual and contextual interplay their transcription into a logical space and time of questions is open
Pacific Trade and Development II : Papers and proceedings of a conference held by the East-West Center, Honolulu in January 1969
The Second Conference on Pacific Trade and Development
was held at the East-West Center from 8th through 11th January
1969 both to follow-up the results of the first conference held in
Tokyo, January 1968, on the Pacific Free Trade Area scheme and
also to discuss the trade and aid relationships of the Asian developing
countries with the advanced Pacific countries. Contained in
this book are the papers and proceedings of the conference.
International trade and monetary policies in the Post-Kennedy
Round world and the Nixon Government era are in a fluid state
groping towards a new direction. Also the results of the Second
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development last spring
point to the conclusion that a new design for expanding trade and
for accelerating economic development both within and between advanced
Pacific countries and Asian developing countries must be
put into practice.
Really, the expansion of trade and the promotion of economic
development with closer cooperation in this Pacific and Asian region
which has a huge potential should be a critical focus for the
world which finds itself in a trade and monetary turmoil. A number
of useful proposals to meet these ends were thrashed out in the
conference. Several difficulties in realizing them were also envisaged
and everyone was well aware that further studies would have
to be undertaken.
As indicated in the communique issued by the conference, our
study should be continued. Our academic studies, I am confident,
will throw light, gradually but steadily, upon pragmatic policies of
the governments and business circles concerned.
I am deeply grateful to all the participants and the Hawaii
Committee who have worked so hard and who have created a new
design for the economic development of the Pacific/ Asia region
Alfred North Whitehead
Originally published in 1990. The second volume of Victor Lowe's definitive work on Alfred North Whitehead completes the biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential yet least understood philosophers. In 1910 Whitehead abruptly ended his thirty-year association with Trinity College of Cambridge and moved to London. The intellectual and personal restlessness that precipitated this move ultimately led Whiteheadâat the age of sixty-threeâto settle in America and change the focus of his work from mathematics to philosophy. Volume 2 of Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work follows Whitehead's journey to the United States and analyzes his expanding intellectual life. Although Whitehead wrote philosophy based on natural science while still in London, he began his most important work shortly after moving to Harvard in 1924. Science and the Modern World appeared in 1925, Religion in the Making in 1926, Symbolism in 1927, and Process and Reality in 1929. Discussing these and other important works, Lowe combines scholarly analysis with valuable insights gathered from Whitehead's friends and colleagues. Although Whitehead ordered that all his private papers be destroyed, Lowe was given access to letters the philosopher wrote to his son, North, and others. Never before published, the letters add a new personal dimension to Whitehead's life and thought. Photographs of the philosopher, his family, and associates provide an intimate look at a private and self-effacing man whose work has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century thought
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Valuing and managing brands: An internal accounting perspective. An empirical investigation of attitudes to internal brand valuation and organisational and behavioural implications associated with the way that the internal brand management accounting system is operated.
This thesis is concerned with accounting for the brand
management function. Two distinct perspectives are taken: the
first derives from aspects of organisational and behavioural
accounting research, and the second concerns organisational
implications of brand valuation.
Both perspectives were initially approached by means of
exploratory interviews and a literature review. Hypotheses
pertaining to the first perspective were analysed via survey
data collected in nine strongly-branded, fast-moving consumer
goods (FMCG) companies.
Propositions concerned with the implications of brand valuation
were developed and used as the basis for measuring attitudes to
brand valuation. A questionnaire concerned with brand valuation
attitudes was administered to senior-ranking officials in
strongly-branded, FMCG companies.
The final methodological phase, for both perspectives, involved
a case study conducted in a strongly-branded, FMCG company.
Significant findings arising from this study include:
1) Managers who see their company as being short-termist,
hold more positive attitudes to brand valuation.
2) Marketing-orientated managers are more favourably
disposed to brand valuation than accounting-orientated managers.
3) Organisational benefits arising from brand valuation are
more strategically, than operationally, orientated.
4) Brand manager budget participation is significantly
negatively-related to job-related tension, and positivelyrelated
to trust in superior and attitude to reliance on
accounting performance measures.
5) Budget participation is more effective in reducing jobrelated
tension in situations of high, compared to low, task
uncertainty situations.
6) Reliance on a brand manager's accounting performance is
positively related to brand manager performance and motivation,
and negatively associated with job-related tension
Entrepreneurial Dynamics of Internationalising Ventures: The Opportunity-Value Creation Nexus
International Entrepreneurship (IE) theory has developed extensively over the last two decades by drawing on various theoretical perspectives. While this growing body of knowledge has provided rich insights into the internationalisation behaviour of firms from multiple theoretical perspectives, it has also rendered IE theory fragmented and devoid of a unifying theoretical direction.
Using a qualitative approach, this study intends to address the gap identified above by developing a framework for the entrepreneurial internationalisation process. As such, the study focuses on the entrepreneurial aspects of âopportunity identification and exploitationâ: an area to which IE researchers have paid little attention. It is argued that this focus is appropriate as it can extend the scope of international business and IE research by strengthening the foundations of the entrepreneurial theory of internationalisation.
The study findings extend key insights into the internationalisation process of entrepreneurial firms. The research context provided unique perspectives of how firms in the agriculture-base primary industry in a developing country internationalise. The case findings identified prior knowledge, creativity, selfefficacy, perseverance, and passion as drivers of the opportunity development process. Also, the study supported the idea that both access to resources and entrepreneursâ social capital have significant influence on how opportunities are developed.
The results elucidated a new concept â âentrepreneurial insightâ â to explain how thinking, knowledge, and dynamic capabilities integrate to act as the core processes of opportunity development. These three factors can be identified as idiosyncratic entrepreneurial resources in the process of opportunity development and exploitation. The exploitation of opportunities thus leads to new strategic and operational paths and positions, which then affect the firmâs performance in terms of degree of internationalisation, growth, survival, and profitability.
The findings provide a better understanding of internationalisation using three defining elements in the internationalisation process: entrepreneurial intention, opportunity development, and value innovation. These factors provide an insightful explanation of different international trajectories that firms take, and how these trajectories sustain their international activities over time.
Finally, the study provides managerial and theoretical implications that can guide practitioners towards an appreciation of the dynamics of individual capacities, the value of networks, and the resources that need to be harnessed by learning, adapting, and taking timely decisions to generate value-creating opportunities in international markets