15 research outputs found
Insatiability and Crisis: Using Interdisciplinarity to Understand (and Denaturalize) Contemporary Humans
This chapter illustrates how collaboration between different social sciences can encourage students to think critically about prevailing assumptions regarding human nature. Both the chapter and the pedagogical experience on which it is based investigate the distinctive type of human created by capitalist society. In so doing, it takes a heterodox approach to analyzing the concept of an insatiable human nature through a case study that invites students to critically assess this perspective. This discussion then leads to an investigation and critique of traditional neoclassical Economic assumptions about human behavior, which forms the basis for a case study on the causes of the global economic and financial crisis of 2008. The goal is to facilitate studentsā development of a more grounded perspective on real world events
Exploring perceptions of advertising ethics: an informant-derived approach
Whilst considerable research exists on determining consumer responses to pre-determined statements within numerous ad ethics contexts, our understanding of consumer thoughts regarding ad ethics in general remains lacking. The purpose of our study therefore is to provide a first illustration of an emic and informant-based derivation of perceived ad ethics. The authors use multi-dimensional scaling as an approach enabling the emic, or locally derived deconstruction of perceived ad ethics. Given recent calls to develop our understanding of ad ethics in different cultural contexts, and in particular within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, we use Lebanonāthe most ethically charged advertising environment within MENAāas an illustrative context for our study. Results confirm the multi-faceted and pluralistic nature of ad ethics as comprising a number of dimensional themes already salient in the existing literature but in addition, we also find evidence for a bipolar relationship between individual themes. The specific pattern of inductively derived relationships is culturally bound. Implications of the findings are discussed, followed by limitations of the study and recommendations for further research
A very peculiar British crisis?: Institutions, ideas and policy responses to the credit crunch
Power, corruption and lies: Mis-selling and the production of culture in financial services
The financialisation of the social project: Embedded liberalism, neoliberalism and home ownership
Peptidergic neurons of the crab, Cardisoma carnifex, in defined culture maintain characteristic morphologies under a variety of conditions
Evolution of entrepreneurship and organizational configurations at Zildjian, 1623ā2010
Entrepreneurship, Evolution, Core elements, Organizational configuration, Zildjian,