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Tensions in liberalism: The troubled path to liberal world order

Sørensen, Georg - 2007

The lack of a general consensus on the major characteristics of world order has led to a considerable amount of … analyses make valid points but they are misleading as versions of world order, because they fail to capture what is the most … decisive characteristic of the present order. The core issue of world order has to do with tensions in liberalism. Progress …

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Verfahren der Willensbildung und Selbstverwaltung im Internet: Das Beispiel ICANN und die At-Large-Membership

Hofmann, Jeanette - 2002

(ICANN) held in the year 2000 the first global elections on the Internet. Five At Large directors coming from five world …

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Internet... the final frontier: an ethnographic account: exploring the cultural space of the Net from the inside

Helmers, Sabine; Hoffmann, Ute; Hofmann, Jeanette - 2000

The research project The Internet as a space for interaction, which completed its mission in Autumn 1998, studied the constitutive features of network culture and network organisation. Special emphasis was given to the dynamic interplay of technical and social conventions regarding both the...

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Organizational learning: Where do we stand? Where do we want to go?

Berthoin Antal, Ariane; Dierkes, Meinolf - 2000

The field of organizational learning has developed dynamically but is not ready for closure. This article reviews the cultural contexts in which research on organizational learning has been conducted since the 1960s, and the intellectual traditions that underpin the field. It traces changes in...

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Getting out of the vicious traffic circle: attemps at restructuring the cultural ambience of the automobile throughout the 20th century

Hård, Mikael; Knie, Andreas - 2000

For years, alternative vehicle and propulsion concepts have had a very difficult time catching on, even though technicians and engineers have repeatedly pointed out that the design quality of electric propulsion systems or other novel vehicle concepts is available and feasible. Often enough,...

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Corporate social reporting revisited

Berthoin Antal, Ariane; Dierkes, Meinolf; MacMillan, Keith - 2002

The intensity and scope of attention to the (negative) impacts of business activities on the social and natural environment have waxed and waned over the past forty years. A revival of interest on a wide scale is visible and audible again today. Numerous organizations, including the United...

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Social reporting in the 1970s and 1990s

Zapf, Wolfgang - 1999

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Kyoto II and 'Houston Protocol': On the future of international climate policy

Simonis, Udo E. - 2007

The “Kyoto Protocol”, as the first and only implementation mechanism under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will expire by the year 2012. There are, however, many good reasons not to abandon this multilateral approach to climate change, but to soon go for a new round...

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Globalisation and the environment: On triangle concepts and three pillars' strategies

Simonis, Udo E. - 2003

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Global environmental governance: The United Nations convention to combat desertification

Rechkemmer, Andreas - 2004

This discussion paper is about the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - one of the multilateral agreements that came out of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. UNCCD is based on a conceptualization of international...

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