Changing Times at Cuban Universities: Looking into the Transition towards a Social, Entrepreneurial and Innovative Organization

Since the 1990s, the socialist higher education system has faced several reforms oriented to satisfy the social, economic, and technological demands. However, little is known about the transformation process of the socialist university system over the past two decades. This study provides a better understanding of the entrepreneurial and innovative transition of universities located in socialist economies. By adopting mixed theoretical approaches, we proposed a conceptual model to understand the social, the innovative and the entrepreneurial transformation of socialist universities. We revised/tested this model in the context of the Cuban University by implementing a prospective case study approach. Our findings show insights about the transition towards a business model innovation within the Cuban university. The determinants have been the state regulations, the closing of the complete cycle from teaching to the commercialization of results and the creation of hybrid structures to manage knowledge. Consequently, the university is facing managerial challenges related to its ability to explore/exploit its activities to generate social, innovative and economic outcomes. Our results provide practical implications for the university managers and actors involved in the transformation process of the Cuban Universit

The Crimes in the Murderer’s Mind: An Analytic Approach to Edgar Allan Poe’s Criminals.

Trabajo de fin de Grado. Grado en Estudios Ingleses. Curso académico 2021-2022Este ensayo es un análisis de la figura del criminal en los cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe. Estos relatos presentan personajes desequilibrados que representan mejor la imagen de un criminal psicótico. Poe es muy hábil a la hora de infundir un choque emocional en sus crímenes de ficción, permitiendo a los lectores seguir únicamente los pensamientos de un narrador desequilibrado. Los criminales dementes de los relatos de Poe sirven como fuentes de información poco fiables para entender la propia historia. Los lectores no son más que marionetas de los manipuladores narradores, que les obligan a seguir los propios impulsos de los personajes, invirtiendo así el efecto moral de los cuentos de Poe. Poe inculca a algunos de sus criminales un fuerte deseo de cometer un asesinato. Ningún ser humano puede escapar o controlar este deseo porque satisface todos los deseos secretos de los criminales desequilibrados. Lo absurdo de los actos de los criminales representa el vínculo entre el hombre y su propia destrucción. Lo cierto es que muchos de los narradores de los relatos encarnan la caída y la destrucción del hombre. El hombre encuentra su propia deposición al romper con una fuente superior de vida y luz, en última instancia Dios. La identidad de los criminales de Poe está en Dios, pero cuando rechazan al creador para erigirse en creadores y diseñadores de su propia realidad, se convierten en proscritos de la naturaleza y de lo divino.This essay is an analysis of the figure of the criminal in the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. These stories feature unbalanced characters who best represent the image of a psychotic criminal. Poe is skilled at instilling emotional shock in his fictional crimes, allowing readers to only follow the thoughts of an unbalanced narrator. The insane criminals in Poe's stories serve as untrustworthy sources of information for understanding the story itself. Readers are merely puppets of the manipulative narrators, who force them to follow the characters' own impulses and thus reverse the moral effect of Poe's tales. Poe instills in some of his criminals a strong desire to commit murder. No human being can escape or control this desire because it satisfies all of the unbalanced criminals' secret desires. The preposterousness of the criminals’ acts represents the link between man and his own destruction. The truth is that many of the narrators of the stories embody the downfall and destruction of man. Man finds his own deposition by breaking with a higher source of life and light, ultimately God. Poe’s criminals’ identity is in God, but when they reject the creator to establish themselves as creators and designers of their own reality, they become outlaws of nature and the divine

Cross-Border Bodies: How to Fit When Your Body Does Not

Review of: Brun-Cosme, Nadine and Aurélie Guillerey. Daddy Long Legs. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2017. Cali, Davide and Sébastien Mourrain. The Tiny Tale of Little Pea. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2017. Leng, Qin. I Am Small. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2018. Renaud, Anne and Marie Lafrance. The True Tale of a Giantess: The Story of Anna Swan. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2018.   DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2020.001