Beyond the hegemonic narrative – a study of managers

Purpose – The aim is to analyse managerial behaviour using narrative analysis to identify stories that are often ignored, silenced or missed by the hegemonic managerialist narrative. Design/methodology/approach – An ethnographic narrative based on an 18 month period of participant observation where the author was a manager in a business unit acquired by another company for $1 billion. Findings – Strategy can be diverted or altered by managers lower down the organization in a counter strategy process. This is consistent with Dalton where managers lower down the organization adapt and change strategy to make it work in practice. Research limitations/implications – Participant observation and ethnomethodological narrative analysis have the potential to go beyond the hegemonic managerialist literature and identify a much more complex picture. However, such research is always open to criticism as being from the author's “own perspective” and appearing to claim “omnipresence.” Other stories have been given voice but it is never possible to say that all stories have been recovered from the silencing processes of the organization. Practical implications – A clearer understanding of how management operates counter strategies within an organization in practice. This enables organizations to reconsider how they engage managers beyond the hegemonic narrative. Originality/value – This paper aims to provide an insight into management behaviour beyond the usual treatment of managers as an amorphous mass as is common in most of the hegemonic managerialist narrative. When managers are told the narratives in this paper they can recount their own similar stories yet these are rarely told

Early twentieth-century Vogue, George Wolfe Plank and the "Freaks of Mayfair"

Vogue was one of the most influential fashion magazines of the twentieth century. In the 1920s its British edition, launched in 1916, became a focus for various forms of queer visual and cultural expression. The origins of the related ‘amusing style’, which delighted in camp display, can be traced to the romantic and artistic collaboration between the American artist George Wolfe Plank and the British writer E. F. Benson during World War One. The illustrations that Plank produced for Benson’s book of satirical sketches of life in London’s high society, The Freaks of Mayfair (1916), shed light on the camp images that Plank designed for the covers of both the American and British editions of the magazine. Therefore, Plank can be understood to have played a key role in the development of queer visual culture during the early twentieth century

A imputação do facto comparticipado nos crimes de responsabilidade penal política

A Lei n.º 34/87, de 16 de julho veio consagrar a criminalização da responsabilidade dos titulares de cargos políticos e de altos cargos públicos no exercício das suas funções. Ao restringir o círculo de potenciais autores através da exigência da qualidade específica da titularidade de cargo político ou de alto cargo público introduziu uma responsabilidade penal qualificada, cujo estudo é particularmente relevante no âmbito dogmático da comparticipação. Perpassando pela intersecção dos fundamentos da responsabilidade política e a responsabilidade penal, o foco desta dissertação é a determinação do facto criminoso nos crimes de responsabilidade e dos critérios de imputação desse facto numa situação de comparticipação atenta a classificação dos tipos de ilícito como crimes específicos e crimes de violação de dever. Admitindo a possibilidade de intervenção no acontecimento criminoso de agente não qualificado (extraneus), o artigo 28.º do Código Penal, ao permitir a comunicabilidade das circunstâncias fundamentadoras da ilicitude, afigura-se de particular relevância no sistema comparticipativo português.Law no. 34/87 of 16th July established the criminalization of political office holders and senior public officials responsibility in the performance of their duties. By restricting the circle of potential authors through the requirement of the specific quality of political office or high public office, a qualified criminal responsibility was introduced. Its study is particularly relevant in the dogmatic scope of participation in crime. Through the intersection of the grounds of political and criminal responsibility, this dissertation aims to determine the relevant criminal fact in «crimes of responsibility» and the participation criteria especially considering their classification as specific crimes and crimes of violation of duty. In this scenario, Penal Code Article 28 is of great relevance in the Portuguese participation system, given that it allows, although not automatically, the communicability of special circumstances that underline the unlawfulness to the unqualified agent intervening in the criminal event in participation with a political office holder or senior public official

Hugo Berlanga responds to Dean H. Vickers regarding the definition of “disabled person” in regards to eligibility standards for tax exemption

Hugo Berlanga, Texas State House of Representatives, writes to Dean H. Vickers responding to their previous conversation and correspondence regarding the eligibility standards for the tax exemption provided disabled persons. The Attorney General issued an Opinion that the intended definition was for the Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program. He relays that the Legal Division in the Comptroller's Office should come out with a report within one to two weeks

Sensory-specific satiety in obese and normal-weight women

Contains fulltext : 64555.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)Background: Sensory-specific satiety has been found to play an important role in food choice and meal termination, and it might be a factor contributing to obesity. Objective: We hypothesized that obese and normal-weight people have different sensitivities to sensory-specific satiety for high-fat foods. Design: Sensory-specific satiety was measured in 21 obese [ body mass index (BMI; in kg/m2): 33.1] and 23 normal-weight (BMI: 22.8) women who were matched for restrained eating behavior, physical activity, age, and smoking behavior. Food intake, appetite ratings, and liking scores before and after an ad libitum lunch were measured. Products differed in fat content and taste (ie, low-fat sweet, low-fat savory, high-fat sweet, and high-fat savory), and the subjects tested all 4 products. In the first study, sandwiches were tested; in the second study, snacks were tested. Results: Sensory-specific satiety for all products was observed in both subject groups. No significant differences were observed between the obese and normal-weight subjects in either sensory-specific satiety or food intake for any of the products or product categories tested. Taste (sweet or savory) had a significantly (P < 0.05) stronger effect on sensory-specific satiety than did fat content. Appetite ratings strongly decreased after lunch, and appetite for a meal or snack after lunch was significantly higher in obese than in normal-weight subjects, whereas scores before lunch did not differ significantly. Conclusions: Obese and normal-weight people do not differ in their sensitivity to sensory-specific satiety, and factors other than fat content have the greatest effect on sensory-specific satiety

Artificial intelligence in radiation oncology: A specialty-wide disruptive transformation?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a technology with the power to transform established industries, and with applications from automated manufacturing to advertising and facial recognition to fully auton-omous transportation. Advances in each of these domains have led some to call AI the “fourth” industrial revolution [1]. In healthcare, AI is emerging as both a productive and disruptive force across many disci-plines. This is perhaps most evident in Diagnostic Radiology and Pathology, specialties largely built around the processing and complex interpretation of medical images, where the role of AI is increasingly seen as both a boon and a threat. In Radiation Oncology as well, AI seems poised to reshape the specialty in significant ways, though the impact of AI has been relatively limited at present, and may rightly seem more distant to many, given the predominantly interpersonal and complex interventional nature of the specialty. In this overview, we will explore the current state and anticipated future impact of AI on Radiation Oncology, in detail, focusing on key topics from multiple stakeholder perspectives, as well as the role our specialty may play in helping to shape the future of AI within the larger spectrum of medicine

Will attracting the "creative class" boost economic growth in old industrial regions? A case study of Scotland

Attracting in-migration of the creative class has been argued by Florida (2002) to be a route to higher economic growth in the era of the knowledge economy. This paper critically evaluates this proposition in relation to old industrial regions using the example of Scotland. The paper presents an assessment of, in the first instance, to what extent there is a shortage of skilled, talented and entrepreneurial individuals and, in the second instance, whether a talent attraction strategy alone can hope to attract such people to Scotland. It is proposed that for most migrants the availability of appropriate economic opportunities is a prerequisite for mobility. However, despite uncertain evidence that place attractiveness is a catalyst to mobility among the so-called creative class, this is not a reason for dismissing talent attraction programmes. Instead it is argued that talent attraction programmes have the potential to contribute to old industrial economies, but their success will be greatest when talent attraction is carefully targeted and based on economic realities rather than the marketing of ethereal conceptions of place attractiveness