Can Women Have It All?: Hesitant Feminism in American Women\u27s Popular Writing

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins are two of the bestselling series of our generation. These series are meeting widespread popularity just as the contemporary feminist debate of: Can women have it all? is occurring around the country. Although Twilight and The Hunger Games are not considered overtly feminist texts, they have emerged in a time when women are reexamining the possibility of empowering themselves both in the public and the domestic sphere. Meyer and Collins have introduced female protagonists that deal with precisely this issue. First, I will be outlining why cultural studies are important to discussions of popular literature, as argued by both Jane Tompkins and Cathy N. Davidson, especially in terms of female readers and writers. I will also be exploring the bestselling works of Louisa May Alcott\u27s Little Women and Jacqueline Susann\u27s Valley of the Dolls which emerged during the first and second waves of feminism and how they expressed a hesitation to give women a happy ending outside domesticity within their respective historical contexts. Next, I will review the current lean in culture of the third wave of feminism. I will also show how both Twilight and The Hunger Games continue the pattern of female protagonists that cannot be empowered unless they are wives and mothers. Finally, I will analyze how my own creative writing has been affected by cultural debates involving women\u27s roles. Popular women\u27s writing that emerges in the context of major feminist moments in American history shows ambivalence towards empowering women outside the home. This ambivalence is also reflected in my own writing through poetry. By first examining the work of best-selling women writers in the last two centuries and then analyzing my own writing in concurrence with the evolution of feminist ideals, I will show that women writers display a hesitant feminism despite emerging alongside progressive cultural moments in American history

Developing dynamic design capabilities in software product development companies

This study employs the theory of dynamic capabilities within the resource-based view (RBV) theory of the firm and introduces a new concept dynamic design capabilities. The concept of dynamic design capabilities in this study is defined as a set of design and development capabilities of a [software] product development firm such as, experiences, skills, metaphors, languages, shared understandings, routines, mutual adjustment, and organizational rules and procedures that is adaptive to the external changes and is creative in delivering superior values to the firm and to the customers. Accordingly, the study introduces a conceptual model, drives hypotheses, and questions whether the development of dynamic design capabilities in software product development firms has significant and positive relationships with the review of similar product designs in the market and the involvement of lead users throughout product design and development processes or not? To address the research question, measure constructs for dynamic design capabilities, review of similar product designs in the market, and the involvement of lead users and lead customers are designed and developed. To collect quantitative data for these constructs, an online survey is conducted on 52 software product development firms in Canada. The target population of the survey is small and medium-sized software product development firms that design and develop software products, intended for a mass-market of individual or organizational end users. To triangulate the findings of the quantitative survey with the findings of a parallel study, 4 case studies are conducted on software product development firms in Canada and Finland. Then, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method is employed to assess the scale acceptability and to test the research model and the hypotheses. The statistical analysis on the quantitative data and the findings of the case studies show that the development of dynamic design capabilities has significant and positive relationships with the review of similar product designs in the market and the involvement of lead users throughout the product design and development processes. This study, by introducing the new concept of dynamic design capabilities and empirically testing the implication of the concept to software product development firms, contributes to the body of knowledge in software product business and theory of the firm. The study also provides practical insights to practitioners and product development and project managers. Keywords: Theory of the Firm, Dynamic Capabilities, Lead Users, Dynamic Design Capabilities, Software Product Development Companie

Developing dynamic design capabilities in software product development companies

This study employs the theory of dynamic capabilities within the resource-based view (RBV) theory of the firm and introduces a new concept dynamic design capabilities. The concept of dynamic design capabilities in this study is defined as a set of design and development capabilities of a [software] product development firm such as, experiences, skills, metaphors, languages, shared understandings, routines, mutual adjustment, and organizational rules and procedures that is adaptive to the external changes and is creative in delivering superior values to the firm and to the customers. Accordingly, the study introduces a conceptual model, drives hypotheses, and questions whether the development of dynamic design capabilities in software product development firms has significant and positive relationships with the review of similar product designs in the market and the involvement of lead users throughout product design and development processes or not? To address the research question, measure constructs for dynamic design capabilities, review of similar product designs in the market, and the involvement of lead users and lead customers are designed and developed. To collect quantitative data for these constructs, an online survey is conducted on 52 software product development firms in Canada. The target population of the survey is small and medium-sized software product development firms that design and develop software products, intended for a mass-market of individual or organizational end users. To triangulate the findings of the quantitative survey with the findings of a parallel study, 4 case studies are conducted on software product development firms in Canada and Finland. Then, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method is employed to assess the scale acceptability and to test the research model and the hypotheses. The statistical analysis on the quantitative data and the findings of the case studies show that the development of dynamic design capabilities has significant and positive relationships with the review of similar product designs in the market and the involvement of lead users throughout the product design and development processes. This study, by introducing the new concept of dynamic design capabilities and empirically testing the implication of the concept to software product development firms, contributes to the body of knowledge in software product business and theory of the firm. The study also provides practical insights to practitioners and product development and project managers. Keywords: Theory of the Firm, Dynamic Capabilities, Lead Users, Dynamic Design Capabilities, Software Product Development Companie

Can women have it all?: Hesitant feminism in American women's popular writing

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins are two of the bestselling series of our generation. These series are meeting widespread popularity just as the contemporary feminist debate of: "Can women have it all?" is occurring around the country. Although Twilight and The Hunger Games are not considered overtly feminist texts, they have emerged in a time when women are reexamining the possibility of empowering themselves both in the public and the domestic sphere. Meyer and Collins have introduced female protagonists that deal with precisely this issue. First, I will be outlining why cultural studies are important to discussions of popular literature, as argued by both Jane Tompkins and Cathy N. Davidson, especially in terms of female readers and writers. I will also be exploring the bestselling works of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls which emerged during the first and second waves of feminism and how they expressed a hesitation to give women a happy ending outside domesticity within their respective historical contexts. Next, I will review the current "lean in" culture of the third wave of feminism. I will also show how both Twilight and The Hunger Games continue the pattern of female protagonists that cannot be empowered unless they are wives and mothers. Finally, I will analyze how my own creative writing has been affected by cultural debates involving women's roles. Popular women's writing that emerges in the context of major feminist moments in American history shows ambivalence towards empowering women outside the home. This ambivalence is also reflected in my own writing through poetry. By first examining the work of best-selling women writers in the last two centuries and then analyzing my own writing in concurrence with the evolution of feminist ideals, I will show that women writers display a hesitant feminism despite emerging alongside progressive cultural moments in American history

FRONTIERS OF E-BUSINESS RESEARCH 2005 Postmodern Knowledge Creation Approach in Software Product Development Companies Abstract

This study applies the postmodern knowledge creation approach to the creation and development of knowledge in software product development companies and empirically tests the applicability of postmodern knowledge creation approach to software product design and development processes. The main characteristics of postmodern approach to knowledge creation are self-reflexivity in knowledge production, incredulity towards meta-narrative, capability of adaptation, and capability of being critical and suspicious of our own intellectual assumptions. It is hypnotized in this study that since the degrees of uncertainty and degree of change during software product design and development processes are relatively high, the characteristics of postmodern knowledge creation approach are applicable to the creation and development of knowledge in software product development companies. For testing the hypothesis, an empirical research is conducted on 52 small and medium-sized software product development companies in Canada. The findings of the empirical research support the main argument of this study and show that postmodern approach to knowledge is applicable to the creation and development of knowledge in most of surveyed software product development companies

Réactivité chimique et photochimique dans les milieux micellaires et microemulsions. VI. Exploration physicochimique du diagramme de phase de microemulsions

Des microémulsions préparées à partir de dodécyl sulfate de sodium, butanol-1, eau et cyclohexane, ont été étudiées à l’aide de différentes méthodes :