Sharing my way or your way? Institutional alignment of ideological tensions and justice narratives within a sharing community

Sharing is driven by different and partly contradicting ideologies such as ecological, social and capitalist point of views. By the means of an ethnographic approach we investigate how institutional structures align those ideologies within a sharing community and advance understanding of ideology and justice in the field of consumer behavior

Fair is good but what is fair? Discursive negotiations of justice in a community of foodsharing

By means of an ethnographic approach, this research advances understanding of ideology, justice and consumer behavior in a food sharing context. In contrast to capitalist market exchanges, which are defined by clear rules and principles of reciprocity, the redistribution of goods in a "sharing" context is in many cases less institutionalized and thus open to contestation. We map out the interplay of different and partly contradicting ideologies in a sharing community and explain how each ideology is translated into narratives regarding the redistribution of goods. We discuss our findings in terms of their implications for the understanding of the co-constitutive nature of ideologies and their alignment

Share Your Life and Get More of Yourself. Experience Sharing in CouchSurfing

By means of a multi-sited multi-method ethnography of CouchSurfing.org, this study explores what motivates consumers to share their homes with strangers. Our findings suggest that participation is best understood by focusing on experience sharing and identify four types of experiential capital as sources of self-enhancement

Supporting new product commercialization through managerial social ties and market knowledge development in an emerging economy

University of Tasmania, Australi

Can Charisma Be Taught? Tests of Two Interventions

We tested whether we could teach individuals to behave more charismatically, andwhether changes in charisma affected leader outcomes. In Study 1, a mixed-design fieldexperiment, we randomly assigned 34 middle-level managers to a control or anexperimental group. Three months later, we reassessed the managers using theircoworker ratings (Time 1 raters = 343; Time 2 raters = 321). In Study 2, a within-subjectslaboratory experiment, we videotaped 41 MBA participants giving a speech. We thentaught them how to behave more charismatically, and they redelivered the speech6 weeks later. Independent assessors (n = 135) rated the speeches. Results from thestudies indicated that the training had significant effects on ratings of leader charisma(mean D = .62) and that charisma had significant effects on ratings of leaderprototypicality and emergence...............................................................................................................................

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: what have we achieved and where are we now?: Follow-up to the 2015 Lorentz workshop

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an ultra-rare progressive genetic disease effecting one in a million individuals. During their life, patients with FOP progressively develop bone in the soft tissues resulting in increasing immobility and early death. A mutation in the ACVR1 gene was identified as the causative mutation of FOP in 2006. After this, the pathophysiology of FOP has been further elucidated through the efforts of research groups worldwide. In 2015, a workshop was held to gather these groups and discuss the new challenges in FOP research. Here we present an overview and update on these topics.Diabetes mellitus: pathophysiological changes and therap

Chaplin's World

This case examines the role of calculative practices in the creation of the Charlie Chaplin museum, a multiparty cultural project with the mission to ‘bring back’ the great entertainer in an ‘authentic’ and commercially viable way. As with many other cultural organizations, there are multiple parties with competing and even conflicting objectives, leading to disagreement not only about the final objectives but also about the evaluative principles that would guide the parties towards consensus and productive action. The case examines the transformative power of calculative practices during the creation of the Chaplin museum