46 research outputs found

    Special issue: Customer empowerment

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    The second French-German workshop about Consumer Empowerment took place at the University of Karlsruhe (KIT) between January 10-11, 2013. Within the scope of consumer empowerment scientists discussed recent developments in this field and established cross-disciplinary coop- erations in their own fields of research

    The Murray Ledger and Times, July 16, 1988

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    Whistleblowing, Communication and Consequences

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    Whistleblowing, Communication and Consequences offers the first in-depth analysis of the most publicized, and morally complex, case of whistleblowing in recent European history: the Norwegian national lottery, Norsk Tipping. With contributions from the whistleblower himself, as well as from key voices in the field, this book offers unique perspectives and insights into not only this fascinating case, but into whistleblowing and wrongdoing in organizations more broadly. An international team of scholars use fourteen different theoretical lenses to show the complex and multi-faceted nature of whistleblowing. The book begins with an ethnographic account by the whistleblower story and proceeds into an analysis of the literature and conceptual topics related to that whistleblowing incident to present the lessons that can be learnt from this extreme example of institutional failure. This fascinating, complex, and multi-theoretical book will be of great interest to scholars, students and industry leaders in the areas of public relations, corporate communication, leadership, corporate social responsibility, whistleblowing and organizational resistance

    The Trinity Reporter, Summer 1986

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    https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/2061/thumbnail.jp

    The Future of Information Sciences : INFuture2011 : Information Sciences and e-Society

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    GENOME HACKERS. REBEL BIOLOGY, OPEN SOURCE AND SCIENCE ETHIC

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    Crack the code, share your data, have fun, save the world, be independent, become famous and make a lot of money. The remix between the Mertonian ethic of 20th century science and the hacker ethic is producing an emergent open science culture that is redefining the relation between researchers, scientific institutions and intellectual property is redefined. The case studies, analysed through extensive media analysis, interviews and participatory observation, include the open access turn of the American biologist Craig Venter, the rebellion of the Italian virologist Ilaria Capua against WHO data sharing policies and the emergence of citizen biology projects that explicitly refer to the hacking history. In these cases the problem of access to and sharing of the data emerge as a crucial public issue, and open science tools such as open databases, open access journals and open platforms for data sharing are used. Finally, they operate in different and often opposing institutional settings. These biologists can be a rich model for current transformations in both life sciences and informational capitalism. They use open access tools but also rebel against bureaucracy and claim independence from both academic and corporate institutions. Autonomy, independence and radical openness coexist with other elements such as a radical refusal of interference coming from both academic and corporate incumbents. They insist on bare information as good per se, as long as it is shared and accessible. They rebel against the mechanisms of scholarly publishing and peer review. In some cases they express an explicit drive towards profit and entrepreneurship. Their public images are part of a transformation that involves the proprietary structure of scientific information - who owns and disposes of biological data and knowledge? - and challenges the institutional environment in which biological research takes place. Open science means both open to more participation and cooperation and open to a more diverse set of modes of capitalist appropriation

    GENOME HACKERS. REBEL BIOLOGY, OPEN SOURCE AND SCIENCE ETHIC

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    Crack the code, share your data, have fun, save the world, be independent, become famous and make a lot of money. The remix between the Mertonian ethic of 20th century science and the hacker ethic is producing an emergent open science culture that is redefining the relation between researchers, scientific institutions and intellectual property is redefined. The case studies, analysed through extensive media analysis, interviews and participatory observation, include the open access turn of the American biologist Craig Venter, the rebellion of the Italian virologist Ilaria Capua against WHO data sharing policies and the emergence of citizen biology projects that explicitly refer to the hacking history. In these cases the problem of access to and sharing of the data emerge as a crucial public issue, and open science tools such as open databases, open access journals and open platforms for data sharing are used. Finally, they operate in different and often opposing institutional settings. These biologists can be a rich model for current transformations in both life sciences and informational capitalism. They use open access tools but also rebel against bureaucracy and claim independence from both academic and corporate institutions. Autonomy, independence and radical openness coexist with other elements such as a radical refusal of interference coming from both academic and corporate incumbents. They insist on bare information as good per se, as long as it is shared and accessible. They rebel against the mechanisms of scholarly publishing and peer review. In some cases they express an explicit drive towards profit and entrepreneurship. Their public images are part of a transformation that involves the proprietary structure of scientific information - who owns and disposes of biological data and knowledge? - and challenges the institutional environment in which biological research takes place. Open science means both open to more participation and cooperation and open to a more diverse set of modes of capitalist appropriation

    How did DNA become hackable and biology personal? Tracing the self-fashioning of the DIYbio network

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    The DIYbio (Do-It-Yourself biology) group was established with the aim of turning biology and biotechnology into a creative practice accessible to everyone. The group is composed of graduate and post-graduate students and drop-out graduate students, but also disenfranchised researchers and professionals who see in the initiative the possibility of reviving their passion for science. Inspired by the analogy of the personal computer as a 'spokes-technology' for a free, egalitarian and decentralized society, that of the free and open-source software movement, and inspired by the image of the Victorian amateur and his home laboratory, DIYbio members organize regionally in what they call 'community laboratories,' or they practice in the comfort of their homes. Based on a series of interviews with DIYbio members, participants' observations of DIYbio's transient practices and a literary analysis of DIYbio members' use of social media, this thesis traces what I provisionally call 'the making of a personal biology.' Starting from the narrative formation the network, it then moves from the foundation of the DIYbio network in 2008 to the establishment of the first 'community laboratories', tracing the contingent orchestration of a diverse set of people, sites, tools and events, into a four-year community building effort. Due to its recent emergence in the field of Science and Technology Studies, only a limited number of research initiatives engage with the DIYbio network. Such works, mainly in the form of dissertations chapters and short articles, are analytically rich but limited in their observations, and often focus only on specific aspects of the network (Aguiton, 2010; Roosth, 2010; Delfanti, 2011; Meyer, 2012). This thesis recognizes the emergence of the DIYbio network as a cultural phenomenon in itself, and addresses the gap in the literature by tracing how DNA became hackable and biology became personal. Following Donna Haraway's effort to critically address the politics of technoscience as a practice of 'turning tropes into worlds' (1997: 59), the overarching topic of this research is how the trope of the biohacker became a world, and what type of world it became. The aim of this research is, therefore, to explore how members of the DIYbio network and biohackers define themselves, construct their identities and organize their work. This research also aims to situate the discourses and practices of DIYbio members in a context where governments and industries are intensifying their effort to make the coming century of biology into a reality

    The Key 1990

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    Bowling Green State University 1990 Key Yearbookhttps://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/yearbooks/1150/thumbnail.jp

    Managing economic growth: marketing, management, and innovations

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    The completion of the downward wave of the 5th technological or-der and the beginning of the 4th industrial revolution are character-ized by rapid change of the socio-economic development vector of in-dividual organizations, industries, states and etc. These changes are dualistic in nature. On one hand, they dramatically increase market uncer-tainty and risks caused by it, on the other – provide the opportunity for the advanced development based on the various types of innova-tion creation and implementation. The information and knowledge embodied in new products, their production technologies and mar-keting, management methods, and etc. come out on the leading posi-tion among the factors different levels of business entities (individual organization, industry, market, national or international) economic growth
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