24 research outputs found
Communitas and the commons: The open access movement and the dynamics of restructuration in scholarly publishing
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Corporate social responsibility: The good, the bad and the ugly
In this article I critically analyze contemporary discourses of corporate social responsibility and related discourses of sustainability and corporate citizenship. I argue that despite their emancipatory rhetoric, discourses of corporate citizenship, social responsibility and sustainability are defined by narrow business interests and serve to curtail interests of external stakeholders. I provide an alternate perspective, one that views discourses of corporate citizenship, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability as ideological movements that are intended to legitimize and consolidate the power of large corporations. I also problematize the popular notion of organizational 'stakeholders'. I argue that stakeholder theory of the firm represents a form of stakeholder colonialism that serves to regulate the behavior of stakeholders. I conclude by discussing implications for critical management studies
The growth and decline of direct demesne management in medieval England
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Open Access Issues and Engineering Faculty Attitudes and Practices
The two primary means for accomplishing Open Access (OA) goals are the “author pays” or Gold model and the “self- archiving” or Green model, both of which can have variations or hybrids. There is a growing schism between proponents of the Gold and Green models. Scholar uptake on self-archiving has been very limited. At the same time, a great deal of concern has been expressed regarding the Gold model, particularly with regard to cost and the role of peer-review lite journals. With the evolving OA environment as a backdrop, the authors conducted a survey of university engineering faculty in order to better understand their OA practices and attitudes. The scholarly communication needs and activities of engineering faculty are more diverse than other scholars in that they have a broader and more varied literature, which includes journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, standards, handbook information, patents, and grey literature. The survey was comprised of 12 Likert scale questions and 3 open comment questions. The results of the survey of engineering faculty were consistent with other studies that have revealed concerns over the author pays model and a reluctance to self-archive in the university institutional repository (IR). Survey results showed that engineering faculty do not extensively publish in author pays Gold journals and had limited plans to do so in the future. In line with other studies, the survey revealed that there was a lack of familiarity with campus IRs and a very small uptake rate for depositing research output in institutional repositories.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe
On the Activation of PhICl2 with Pyridine
It has been previously proposed that pyridines can activate PhICl2 by displacing a chloride and forming the [PhI(Pyr)(Cl)]+ cation as a reactive intermediate. Here we show that pyridine does not displace chloride, but rather forms a weak complex with the iodine via halogen bonding along the C-I bond axis. This interaction is investigated by NMR, structural, charge density and theoretical investigations, which all indicate the pyridine does not activate PhICl2 as proposed.</div
Peer-to-Peer Interaction
Peer-to-peer interaction describes an approach to interaction and collaboration between participants in a shared project or activity that is characterized by network-based organizational structures, a shared common resource base, and an assumption that all participants have the potential to make constructive contributions. Modern forms of peer-to-peer interaction are substantially inspired by, and often themselves utilize, online peer-to-peer communication technologies; however, the principles and ethics of peer-to-peer interaction have also been translated to offline contexts