Corporate Aspects Research Articles

PEMBERDAYAAN UMKM UNTUK MENINGKATKAN EKONOMI PASCA PANDEMI COVID-19 DI TUBAN

The COVID-19 pandemic has had negative implications for the domestic economy such as decline in public consumption and purchasing power, decline in company performance, threats to the banking and financial sector, and the existence of MSMEs. On the corporate aspect, this pandemic has disrupted the performance of companies, especially those engaged in the trading sector. By looking at the current situation and not sure when the pandemic will end, local governments can help MSME actors by providing assistance according to the needs of each MSME actor. As is the case in Tuban Regency where MSME actors are required to be more sensitive and able to innovate quickly. This empowerment of MSME actors needs to be done, for the following three reasons. First, because the UMKM actors in Tuban Regency are suspected to still have not mastered the product marketing mechanism that is in accordance with market demands in the postmodern era as it is today. Second, because of the development of changes in consumer behavior that MSME actors need to understand so that they can produce products that are truly in accordance with the needs and desires of the market. Third, because the competitive climate for products produced by MSME actors tends to be more stringent, thus requiring breakthrough steps from MSME actors themselves to be able to take advantage of technology. Micro-enterprises and village governments need a survival strategy to maintain production and marketing stability. Therefore, an analysis related to community empowerment through MSMEs is needed to maintain economic stability after the Covid-19 pandemic in Tuban Regency.

Analysis of Environmental Governance Expense Prediction Reform With the Background of Artificial Intelligence

In this paper, Artificial Intelligence assisted rule-based confidence metric (AI-CRBM) framework has been introduced for analyzing environmental governance expense prediction reform. A metric method is to assess a level of collective environmental governance representing general, government, and corporate aspects. The equilibrium approach is used to calculate improvements in the source of environmental management based on cost, and it is tailored to test the public sector-corporation for environmental shared governance. The overall concept of cost prediction or estimation of environmental governance is achieved by the rule-based confidence method. The framework compares the expected cost to the environment of governance to determine the efficiency of the cost prediction process.

Foreign Natives: Psychoactivity, Policing, and the Elusive Corporeality of the Post-Soviet Rave

This article focuses on the rave subculture of St. Petersburg in the 1990s and demonstrates how new forms of psychoactive control and resistance emerged in the wake of the Soviet collapse. By staying sensitive to the material and corporeal aspects of these phenomena, it contributes to the socio-material studies of drug control and emphasizes that the physical body itself should be an important venue for drug research. In doing so, we build on existing literature that discusses bodies as information resources to detect drug use and identifies resistance strategies to increasingly technological drug control measures. We advance this discussion by suggesting that the psychoactive setting of rave in post-Soviet St. Petersburg gave rise to a highly particular yet notably elusive and difficult-to-define type of corporeality. On the one hand, this corporeality could be positively interpreted as a marker of resistance and belonging on the “inside.” At the same time, it could also be employed strategically by law enforcement officers to detect and prosecute drug-consuming individuals. Moreover, we propose to view this psychoactive “rave body” as deeply embedded in its spatio-temporal context—thus accounting for the influence of time and space on the materiality of drug control and resistance. In examining these dynamics, we draw on a wide range of sources, including memoirs, press materials, early Internet archives, publicly printed interviews, photographs, and video materials.

Segmentation, Phrasing, and Meter in Hip-Hop Music

Abstract This article proposes a theory of flow (the rapped vocals of hip-hop music) segmentation, phrasing, and meter that considers the way linguistic, syntactic, articulative, and corporeal aspects of rapping engage with vocal rhythm and its grouping structures. While flow is organized into phrases, hip-hop beats (the sampled or instrumental accompaniment) typically express a periodic, looped, highly repetitive metric structure against which these flow phrases operate. The patterns of metric alignment and non-alignment generated between flow and beat layers imbue hip-hop music with nuanced variety, especially at sub-sectional formal levels.

A Comparative Study of the Theory of Innate Inclinations in the Thoughts of Rumi and Morteza Motahhari

A Comparative Study of the Theory of Innate Inclinations in the Thoughts of Rumi and Morteza Motahhari

Тілесність у проекті Олександра Довженка «Земля»: аспекти перформативності

With the emergence and development of the cinema as art, a definition of corporeality was attributed with a new sense. Cinema as an art type is programmed towards interactions with corporeality. Performance researchers, Fisher-Liсhte in particular, consider it significant to implement something or transform something towards a corporal practice. Such an example may be exchange of energy during a theatrical performance, in the course of an active interaction between actors. In the paper the performative aspects of corporeality are studied in details, Ivan’s Death and Natalka’s Wailing episodes in particular. It is concluded that in Dovzhenko’s view, the body is beautiful despite age (a close-up of the old man whose face is shining like the face of a saint), sex or a social role. Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s findings as the director and Danylo Demuztsky’s work as the photography director reflect the performative features of corporeality and influence its understanding by the public. In La Terra, common things get sacral meaning, spirituality is perceived through the body aspect.

Buddhist Pilgrimage and the Ritual Ecology of Sacred Sites in the Indo-Gangetic Region

In contemporary India and Nepal, Buddhist pilgrimage spaces constitute a ritual ecology. Not only is pilgrimage a form of ritual practice that is central to placemaking and the construction of a Buddhist sacred geography, but the actions of religious adherents at sacred centers also involve a rich and diverse set of ritual observances and performances. Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper examines how the material and corporeal aspects of Buddhist ritual contribute to the distinctive religious sense of place that reinforce the memory of the Buddha’s life and the historical ties to the Indian subcontinent. It is found that at most Buddhist sites, pilgrim groups mostly travel with their own monks, nuns, and guides from their respective countries who facilitate devotion and reside in the monasteries and guest houses affiliated with their national community. Despite the differences across national, cultural–linguistic, and sectarian lines, the ritual practices associated with pilgrimage speak to certain patterns of religious motivation and behavior that contribute to a sense of shared identity that plays an important role in how Buddhists imagine themselves as part of a translocal religion in a globalizing age.

Citizen preferences on private-public co-regulation in environmental governance: Evidence from Switzerland

Environmental policy is touching on ever more aspects of corporate and individual behavior, and there is much debate over what combinations of top-down (government-imposed) and bottom-up (voluntary private sector) measures to use. In democratic societies, citizens’ preferences over such combinations are crucial because they shape the political mandates based on which policymakers act. We argue that policy designs that involve private-public co-regulation receive more citizen support if they are based on inclusive decision-making, use strong transparency and monitoring mechanisms, and include a trigger for government intervention in case of ineffectiveness. Survey experiments in Switzerland (N = 1941) provide strong support for these arguments. Our research demonstrates that differences in co-regulation design have major implications for public support. Another key finding is that there seems to be a contradiction between inclusiveness and democratic accountability for policy outcomes. The findings are surprisingly consistent across two very different green economy issues we focus on empirically (decarbonization of finance, pesticides). This suggests that our study design offers a useful template for research that explores public opinion on green economy policy designs for other issues and in other countries.

A systematic approach to modeling sustainable production and economic activities of transport organizations

Business decisions, transport organizations are guide by the principles of maximizing economic efficiency, reducing costs, and corporate social responsibility. Nevertheless, in the production and economic activities of transport enterprises, there are non-productive costs associated with their environmental activities: payment for excess and permissible pollution, costs of eliminating the consequences, accumulated damage, etc. To minimize this type of costs, it is propose to build a model of the activity of transport organizations from the standpoint of a systematic approach, which includes production processes, elements of production processes, management functions, and components of transport impact and aspects of corporate and social liability. The developed model can find its application in planning organizational and technical measures during their formation. The article presents information on unproductive excess costs of the transport industry of the Russian Federation in the period 2013-2016 y.o. The components of transport impact in transport organizations are considered. A model of production and economic activity of transport organizations from the standpoint of a systematic approach is proposed.

Sie werden nur entsorgt!: gender options of aging in Sibille Berg``` s play "Ladies are waiting"

This work continues the initiative launched in the study "Anti-Utopia Konstanz Dennig" Extasy Rave ": Representations of old age." In the light of literary gerontology, the article analyzes the manifestations of stereotyping of characters of pre-retirement age, aging processes, manifestations of ageism and misogyny with political coloration and problematic and semantic aspects of corporality and tolerance in Sibylle Berg's play "Ladies Are Waiting" (2012). The sarcastic dialogues present in the play demonstrate the stereotypical thought patterns inherent in modern society regarding the social roles of older women. They portray aging as a physical and moral decline and a burden on society. Discriminatory practices against women over the age of 50 are not only verbal but also physical (forced relocation to the dungeons), which echoes K. Dennig's drama. Age discourse is manifested through the coverage of aspects of corporeality with a misogynistic and sexist coloration. In the images of the female geronto group, Sibille Berg exposes the stigma of late maturity in negative stereotypes associated with female attractiveness, aging, gender. Attention is also paid to the current trends of German-language theater, which plays an important role in covering social issues such as ageism, stereotyping, misogyny. The analysis of theatrical productions and challenges, realized by the author herself, allows to attribute her work to the post-dramatic theater, which, according to Lehmann, is aimed at maintaining the internal unity of society. Conclusions are made about the possibilities of the author's restructuring of discriminatory stereotypes of aging and prejudice against women. In the final act of the work, Sibylle Berg reveals the unexpectedly negative consequences that ageism and self-stereotyping can lead to in the aging process, which threaten to maintain the moral and ethical qualities of modern German society, which focuses on tolerance in its political and cultural directions.

СУЧАСНИЙ ЛІДЕР У СТРУКТУРІ ПУБЛІЧНОГО УПРАВЛІННЯ

The article analyzes the complex of leadership formation as a factor in the effectiveness of public administration, in particular in personal and corporate aspects, with the involvement of organizational, educational, psychological, regulatory and legal components. The views of scientists on the phenomenon of leadership in the field of management in general and public administration in particular are considered. The peculiarities of leadership as a social and psychological phenomenon are clarified with the analysis of personal charisma as a means of influencing a team of subordinates, relations in the dichotomy « leader – subordinate » , in particular, a comparison of the concepts of « management » and « leadership » is provided. The types of a modern leader in Ukraine are given with the definition of his negative traits, interpreted as a legacy from the totalitarian and authoritarian past, and positive, which should form a democratic leader, the basis of which is a partnership attitude towards subordinates. It is noted that the concept of « subordinate » is a component in the dichotomy with the concept of « leader » , and the concept of « leader » corresponds to « follower » , that is, a partner and like-minded person. The ways of reforming public administration in the field of management and leadership are indicated and analyzed, in particular benchmarking as taking into account the best practices; de-bureaucratization as a means of creating an atmosphere of openness in the management system; delegation of authority and subsidiarity as a means of implementing partnerships in a team; monitoring as an analytical tool for monitoring the performance of a public administration institution; selection of appropriate personnel as an increase in attention to public service personnel, as well as their training. The conclusion is made about the predetermination of the effectiveness of public management of the leader's leadership qualities, its positive influence on subordinates due to personal charisma and a partnership management strategy based both on his innate qualities and on those acquired during training and advanced training. Key words: public administration, leadership, charisma, dichotomy «leader – subordinate», reforming public service

СПЕЦИФІКА ІНТЕР’ЄРУ СЕРЕДОВИЩА СУЧАСНИХ КОВОРКІНГ-ЦЕНТРІВ

The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of the interior design of coworking centres in the context of creating a unique working atmosphere through the phenomenon of environmental space; to analyse psychosocial, corporate and physical aspects of interior design. Research methodology. The article applies the methods of generalisation and systematisation of scientific and theoretical information on the design issues of coworking centres; a method of structural and functional analysis of the environment; a method for analysing the environment as a category of interior design for coworking space; a systemic method that contributed to the analysis of various design elements in interrelation that are integral parts, etc. Scientific novelty. The article examines the features of the interior design of coworking centres through the phenomenon of environmental space; the environmental space of the coworking centre is considered in the context of the influence on the formation, development and realisation of personality abilities; analysed psychosocial, corporate and physical aspects of coworking space interior design. Conclusions. The study revealed that the interior design of coworking centres affects the worldview, mood and performance of the individual and is developed to create a specific atmosphere following the basic needs of visitors and the form of their activities, being realised through the scheme of functional improvement, aesthetic enrichment and improvement of the psychology of the internal space. In the process of shaping the real environment of a coworking centre, the designer synthesises visual, psychological and activity contexts, declaring the complexity of the existence of a person and their environment. An environmental approach to designing the interior design of a coworking space offsets the needs, habits and preferences of users (tenants) of the centre, improving the correspondence of professional personality and the environment, moral satisfaction and emotional attachment to the place.

Lithic Corporeality: Elemental Philosophy in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories

AbstractWhile a focus on landscape and nature is typical of the Romantic period, the detailed attention that Hawthorne devotes to the corporal or material aspects of specific elements without engaging the perspective of his characters is rather unusual. Hawthorne's treatment of stones can be seen as corresponding to a certain degree with alchemical teachings of mystical natural philosophers. As such, it departs from the more common Romantic treatments of nature that imagine the human entanglement with their environment as a poetic mental capacity. Rather than a mental correspondence between characters and Nature, Hawthorne's tales repeatedly indicate a material transcorporeal relation, a point demonstrated by the careful situating of rocks in Hawthorne's short stories “Roger Malvin's Burial” (1831), “The Great Carbuncle” (1835), and “The Great Stone Face” (1850).

Hiding in Plain Sight: Directed Surveillance as a Bodily Practice

In this article, we empirically explore directed surveillance as bodily practice—material bodies observing other material bodies. Such low-tech police surveillance practice (Haggerty 2012) relies on a police officer’s body as a tool and medium for information gathering. The theoretical framework used in this article is inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and the body (Merleau-Ponty [1945] 2005). The empirical starting point for our analysis is in-depth interviews with police officers conducting directed surveillance of mobile organised crime groups, supplemented by some observations. Findings illustrate how police officers conducting directed surveillance have internalised advanced perceptual and bodily skills that enable them to keep an optimal distance from the subject of their surveillance, suppress bodily responses, stay in character to protect their cover story, and appear relaxed when they are, in fact, vigilant. With this article we aim to contribute to increased knowledge and more precise discussions concerning the tacit and corporeal aspects of directed surveillance.

METHODOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF FINANCIAL SECTOR REPRESENTATION IN MACROECONOMIC STATISTICS SYSTEMS

The article investigates the importance of macroeconomic statistics systems as a methodological and information base for the studying of financial sector. The System of National Accounts (SNA) is a coordinating framework for all systems of macroeconomic statistics. Monetary and Financial Statistics can be seen as an extention of the SNA regarding financial sector activities. The System of National Accounts and Monetary and Financial Statistics are consistent and harmonized. That is why the same conceptual and methodological approaches to the analysis of financial sector development can be used. The information base of national accounting allows to investigate the role of financial corporations as providers of financial services, namely their participation in the process of social reproduction. The analysis can be deepened by identifying nine subsectors within the financial sector (Central Bank, deposit-taking corporations except the Central Bank, money market funds (MMF), non-MMF investment funds, other financial intermediaries except insurance corporations and pension funds, financial auxiliaries, captive financial institutions and money lenders, insurance corporations, pension funds). The rationale for subsectoring is nature of financial activiies of institutional units belonging to the financial corporations' sector. In addition, subsectors can be combined into different segments depending on the objectives of the study: System of National Accounts divides financial corporations into three categories: financial intermediaries, financial auxiliaries and other financial corporations. Monetary and Financial Statistics applies a different approach for the financial corporations' subsectoring. All subsectors are grouped into two segments: money-issuing (Central Bank and other depository corporations – deposit-taking corporations except the Central Bank and money market funds) and money-holding (the rest of subsectors). The combination of methodological and informational potential of the System of National Accounts and Monetary and Financial Statistics provides a comprehensive analysis of the functioning of the financial sector by highlighting various aspects of the financial corporations' activities.

Structure of State-owned Corporation’s Value Chain: Strategic Analysis

Relevance. The article discusses the structural and substantive aspects of state-owned corporations from the perspective of internal and external environment. The role of state-owned corporations in the Russian economy is growing more and more, individual industries are almost completely functioning on the basis of state-owned corporations, which makes a strategic analysis of such economic actors an urgent problem. The article provides a strategic analysis of the activities of state-owned corporations based on the value chain management methodology. Analysis of the external and internal environment of a state corporation allows us to conclude that despite the fact that economic actors that are legally dependent on a state-owned corporation operate on the basis of market principles, the state corporation itself, as a non-profit organization, performs the functions of the state to institutionalize relations between individual economic actors. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the institutionalizing role of state-owned corporations in relation to individual sectors of the economy. The objectives of the research are to identify trends in the development of state-owned corporations in modern Russia as agents of the state in embedding and coordinating links between economic actors in the strategic sectors of the Russian economy, as well as developing a model for the value chain of a state-owned corporation. The results of the research. Using the methodology of institutional and strategic analyses, the specific functions of state-owned corporations in coordinating inter-firm, intra-industry and inter-industry relations of economic actors in the strategic sectors of the Russian economy under the control of state-owned corporations have been identified. Despite criticism of the mechanism of manual administration of the economy, the article shows the need to establish links between economic actors by administrative methods and the establishment of legal control.

The lived body - a historical phenomenon

Drawing on an authentic sickness history the present paper provides arguments for epistemological and ontological shifts in current clinical practice. The kind of sickness accounted for, impairing the health of a person to the extent of full incapacitation, is medically unexplained. Likewise, its pathogenic sources are unidentified, which results in a lack of options for treatment or even amelioration. Given the considerable healthcare investment in this particular “case”, the insufficiency of both diagnostic and therapeutic approaches calls for a different conceptual framework. When applying a socially and phenomenologically informed frame of reference, the lived experience of violation emerges as a salient background for understanding how disrespect and powerlessness have been inscribed with lifelong impact and how they became reactivated by biographic particularities reminiscent of previous objectification. A biomedically unexplained incapacitation is rendered logical when read with a view recognizing the social and corporeal aspects of human experience.

The liquidation of Austrian private foundations

Abstract This article deals with the dissolution and liquidation processes and their corporate and tax law effects on Austrian private foundations. Corporate and tax law aspects are briefly presented and discussed, and the consequences are outlined. The article serves to provide an overview and is intended as guidance for the course of a liquidation process in Austria. The authors also reflect on their personal experiences in practice and contribute these experiences to the article.

Perfecting Bodies: Who Are the Disabled in Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca?

This paper will examine the impact of genetic technologies on the corporeal and economical aspects of human lives while emphasizing the ambiguity of disability under these subversive circumstances. In 2013, the world was introduced to CRISPR genetic editing technology, followed by the controversial announcement in 2018 from Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who claims to have genetically engineered twins that were born HIV-immune. The possible social outcome of genetic treatment leading to the alteration of human embryos to create physically and intellectually superior offspring, as well as its impact on the social treatment of disabled bodies, is clearly illustrated in Andrew Niccol’s directive debut Gattaca. Here, I will discuss Niccol’s utilization of disabled characters in interrogating the employment of disabled characters as a narrative vehicle to reflect upon social paradigms. I examine both the subversion and expansion of the social construct of disability in Gattaca’s narrative, emphasizing the film’s portrayal of economic differences as a disabling factor in a world of augmentative technology.

Ethics of Touch – axiological model of therapeutic relation in physiotherapy

Ethics of Touch – axiological model of therapeutic relation in physiotherapy Abstract Ethics of the physiotherapist profession constitutes a relatively new area of bioethical considerations. National and international codes of physiotherapists’ professional ethics formulate ethical standards of the profession by referring to patients’ rights and basic bioethical principles and values common to all medical professions. The growing number of bioethical publications considering philosophical and ethical aspects of human corporeality in medicine hardly ever raise moral, emotional and psychological problems connected with physiotherapists’ use of touch as a tool for diagnosis and therapy application. There is also noticed a lack of discussion on ethical values which are of particular importance in the context of physiotherapeutic intervention. The aims of the paper: 1) Presentation of morally significant features of the physiotherapist-patient relation, which distinguish it from other therapeutic relations in medicine; 2) Analysis of the importance of body, intimacy and touch in the context of physiotherapist’s work, particularly of the moral meaning of touch and the risk of patient’s psychological and emotional boundaries violation; 3) Presentation of the initial axiological model of a therapeutic relation in physiotherapy, which will be verified through qualitative and quantitative research conducted by an interdisciplinary research team consisting of a psychologist, sociologist, educator, bioethicist and physiotherapists .