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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of FAS 123R on Employee Retention Impact de la norme FAS 123R sur le maintien en poste des employés

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on evidence that firms grant employee stock options (ESOs) in order to retain employees, we assess the impact of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) 123R, and the reduction in ESO use that followed its adoption, on employee retention at the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) level.
Muhammad Azim, Francesco Bova, Nan Li
wiley   +1 more source

Organisational dehumanisation: Authoritativeness as remedy

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract According to orthodoxy, the human relations movement was a watershed in rehumanising scientifically managed workplaces. In the wake of such purported reform, pundits (theorists and practitioners alike) have typically taken for granted that 21st century approaches to workplace superintendence, birthed in the wake of the Hawthorne Studies and ...
Jean‐Etienne Joullié, Anthony M. Gould, Jeffrey Muldoon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

HR Practitioners' Role in Leadership Development and Their Use of Tailoring Strategies

International Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human resource development increasingly emphasizes strategic training and development activities to support the growth of leaders and their leadership skills. This underscores the growing importance of human resource (HR) practitioners, who are often responsible for overseeing leadership development (LD).
Manuela Schmidt, Sofia Kjellström, Gunilla Avby   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Key Factors Driving Personnel Downsizing in Multinational Military Organizations

, 2015
Although downsizing has long been a topic of research in traditional organizations, there are very few studies of this phenomenon in military contexts. As a result, we have little understanding of the key factors that drive personnel downsizing in military settings.
openaire   +2 more sources

Acquirer Strategic Orientations, Integration Decisions, and Performance

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Integration decisions are not isolated, as they are embedded in an organizational context. Using a multi‐country sample (Nordics, German speaking Europe, and China) of small‐ and medium‐sized acquirers, we explore the influence of firm strategic orientations on how managers conceptualize acquisitions, make integration decisions, and impact ...
Florian Bauer, David R. King, Jeffrey G. Covin, Svante Schriber, Nir Brueller, Qingxiong Weng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laboratories Performance after Outsourcing in the Hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

Medical Laboratory Journal, 2013
Background and Objective: Nowadays, downsizing the government to have an effective and flexible organization is considered to be government’s top priority in the world and outsourcing is one of the ways to achieve this goal.
MD Omrani, H Mostafavi, S Khazar, S Ghalami, F Farajzadeh   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Adaptive Objectives of State‐Owned Enterprises amid Economic and Political Shifts: Evidence from Brazilian Firms, 1973–1993

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We theorize how state ownership reweights organizational objectives when political and market conditions shift. Using a mixed‐method, history‐to‐theory design, we examine 160 state‐owned and 132 private Brazilian firms from 1973 to 1993. We argue that two mechanisms – appointment politicization and constituency‐protection salience – alter ...
Paul Ferreira, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The psychiatric fix

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

Training and Retaining Public Servants for the Future

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
Demographic changes with an ageing popula­tion and declining birth rates, alongside economic challenges, have implications for the public service labour market.
Karen Johnston, Andrew Massey
doaj   +1 more source