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Civilizational futures within the integral futures framework: the plural quadrants

Morgan, Dennis R. - In: Foresight 12 (2010) 6, pp. 69-90

seeks to focus on the lower (plural) quadrants. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adapts Ken Wilber's integral theory … the current world crisis, and what is needed to heal the crack, so a new vision of a preferred future can emerge. …

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From “less landfilling” to “wasting less” : Societal narratives, socio‐materiality, and organizations

Corvellec, Hervé; Hultman, Johan - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 25 (2012) 2, pp. 297-314

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that organizational change depends on societal narratives – narratives about the character, history, or envisioned future of societies. Design/methodology/approach – A case study of a Swedish municipal waste management company serves as an...

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The Future of Society

Cherrier, Hélène - In: Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 10 (2007) 1, pp. 109-110

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Ashoka Fellows Change the World

Wells, Diana - In: Development Outreach 12 (2010) 1, pp. 36-37

While reducing the cost of solar energy and increasing the income of rural farmers are big problems, these specific problems will be solved and there will be new problems.

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Accounting/art and the emancipatory project: some reflections

Gallhofer, Sonja; Haslam, Jim - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 9 (1996) 5, pp. 23-44

If we are concerned to develop an emancipatory accounting, and if we are sensitive towards the tendencies to ethnocentrism, chronocentrism and dogmatism, we can potentially gain insights from the social and critical theoretical analysis of any phenomena, whatever be their location in time and...

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Finding voice within the gender order

Barrett, Frank J. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 8 (1995) 6, pp. 8-15

Reviews theories that see gender as a social invention that has produced historically variable sets of norms and expectations that delineate differences and boundaries. Following a relational, constructionist approach, these differences constitute a gender order that delineates a power...

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Leadership: a critical construction

Berry, Anthony J.; Cartwright, Susan - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 21 (2000) 7, pp. 342-349

agenda of this journal. This article sets out to argue for a richer framing of these studies to include society and … institutionalisation of leaders, argues that it would be necessary to extend the study field to include social theory as well as critical … social theory as this latter illuminates the way things are taken to be. The knowledge of leader formation has been shown to …

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A conceptual model of the fashion process – part 1 : The fashion transformation process model

Cholachatpinyo, A.; Fletcher, B.; Padgett, I.; Crocker, M. - In: Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An … 6 (2002) 1, pp. 11-23

symbolic interactionist (SI) theory of fashion omits, and makes a number of new predictions about the translation of social …

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A conceptual model of the fashion process – part 2 : An empirical investigation of the micro‐subjective level

Cholachatpinyo, A.; Padgett, I.; Crocker, M.; Fletcher, B. - In: Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An … 6 (2002) 1, pp. 24-34

This paper presents two separate empirical investigations of a new conceptual model of fashion – the “fashion transformation process model” presented in part 1 (this issue). One important strand of that model is the role played by individual wearers in the transformation of fashion. This...

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O’Brien, civilisation and aggression

Armour, Leslie - In: International Journal of Social Economics 28 (2001) 5/6/7, pp. 430-438

’s theorizing most strongly captures the imagination. Professor O’Brien begins with a persuasive account of this theory, brings out …

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