22 research outputs found
Corporate philanthropy through the lens of ethical subjectivity
The dynamic organisational processes in businesses dilute the boundaries between the individual, organisational, and societal drivers of corporate philanthropy. This creates a complex framework in which charitable project selection occurs. Using the example of European tour operators, this study investigates the mechanisms through which companies invest in charitable projects in overseas destinations. Inextricably linked to this is the increasing contestation by local communities as to how they are able to engage effectively with tourism in order to realise the benefits tourism development can bring. This research furthers such debates by exploring the processes through which tour operators facilitate community development through charitable giving. Findings show, with no formal frameworks in existence, project selection depends upon emergent strategies that connect the professional with the personal, with trust being positioned as a central driver of these informal processes. Discretionary responsibilities are reworked through business leadersâ commitment to responsible business practises and the ethical subjectivity guiding these processes
Becoming culturpreneur:how the neoliberal âregime of truthâ affects and redefines artistic subject positions.
In relating to the politico-economic concept of âcreative industriesâ, the paper explores in what way the art field and its actors are discursively repositioned within âflexible cultural capitalismâ. Through empirical material from the independent Austrian theatre scene, the paper, moreover, illustrates how the âculturpreneurialâ transformation of the field affects the specific artistic practices, forms of organizing and conduct. In this regard, it will be shown that the artistsâ modes of conduct are, at least to some extent, precarious: due to their ascetic and disciplined self-concept, artists seem to contribute, in parts, to their own marginalization as well as to the strengthening of certain âneoliberal ordersâ and âculturpreneurial subject idealsâ of flexible capitalism â even though they are actually keen to resist current governmental technologies like the promotion of competition and market-determined assessment
Becoming âculturpreneurâ: How the âneoliberal regime of truthâ affects and redefines artistic subject positions
Cogs in the Wheel or Spanners in the Works? A Phenomenological Approach to the Difficulty and Meaning of Ethical Work for Financial Controllers
Late Cretaceous extension overprinting a steep belt in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Schesaplana, RĂ€tikon, Switzerland and Austria)
The Triassic to Cretaceous sediment succession of the Lechtal Nappe in the western part of the Northern Calcareous Alps (NCA) has been deformed into large-scale folds and crosscut by thrust and extensional faults during Late Cretaceous (Eoalpine) and Tertiary orogenic processes. The following sequence of deformation is developed from overprinting relations in the field: (D1) NW-vergent folds related to thrusting; (D2) NâS shortening leading to eastâwest-trending folds and to the formation of a steep belt (Arlberg Steep Zone) along the southern border of the NCA; (D3) EâW to NEâSW extension and vertical shortening, leading to low-angle normal faulting and recumbent âcollapse foldsâ like the Wildberg Syncline. D1 and D2 are Cretaceous in age and predate the Eocene emplacement of the Austroalpine on the Penninic Nappes along the Austroalpine basal thrust; the same is probably true for D3. Finally, the basal thrust was deformed by folds related to out-of-sequence thrusting. These results suggest that the NCA were at least partly in a state of extension during the sedimentation of the Gosau Group in the Late Cretaceous
How Can I Become a Responsible Subject? Towards a Practice-Based Ethics of Responsiveness
ethics of practice, giving account, limits of responsibility, responsiveness, subjectification,