Corporate Experience Research Articles

‘When you touch plastic, you touch yourself’: material and self in the work of Senga Nengudi

This article traces and analyses Senga Nengudi’s use of plastic as a medium in her sculpture and performance of the late 1960s and 1970s. Plastic reappears constantly throughout Nengudi’s oeuvre, a choice most often passed over as merely an economic or logistical one, plastic being both cheap and ubiquitous. In this article, I push against this too-easy explanation, arguing that while it might have started as a material of convenience and low cost, plastic became the medium by which Nengudi could articulate evolving attitudes towards the body. In her earliest work, plastic appears as a playful material, facilitating physical interaction with her viewers, or ‘activators’, as she often described them. But after years working with plastics, Nengudi also embraced the metaphorical implications of the material, recognizing that the qualities that facilitated viewer engagement could also communicate her own corporeal and psychic experience.

Ergos: redefining storage infrastructure and market access for small farmers in India

Learning outcomes After completion of the case study, students will be able to analyse the path of the entrepreneurship from idea generation to market development to scaling up business, examine the impact of start-ups like Ergos on India’s agriculture value chain, discuss the challenges faced by tech entrepreneurs in growing a business, identify problems solved by Grain Bank Model and evaluate digitisation of farming’s custodial services such as warehousing, market linkages and loans. Case overview/synopsis The case study discusses how founders of Ergos, India-based leading digital AgriTech start-up, Kishor Kumar Jha and Praveen Kumar, started one of the unique models in the AgriTech landscape in India. After noticing the grim condition of small and marginal farmers in Bihar, India. Kishor and Praveen decided to put their banking and corporate experience to use in the farming sector. Ergos aimed to empower farmers by providing them with a choice on when, how much quantity, and at what price they should sell their farm produce, thus maximising their income. As a result, Ergos launched the grain bank model, which provided farmers with doorstep access of end-to-end post-harvest supply chain solutions by leveraging a robust technology platform to ensure seamless service delivery. Ergos faced many challenges in its journey related to financing, marketing and distribution. Amidst these developments, it remained to be seen how Kishor and Praveen would be able to realise their goal to serve over two million farmers across India by 2025 and create a sustainable income for them through its GrainBank Platform. Complexity academic level This case study was written for use in teaching graduate and postgraduate management courses in entrepreneurship and business strategy. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 3: Entrepreneurship

The uncanniness of interactive photography: Exploring spatial perception in virtual tours and structure from motion

Photography has always been associated with the physical activity of the human body: capturing, editing and viewing photos are all activities that involve the user’s spatial interaction with the technology used. With conventional photography, one aspect of spatial relation with technology is the viewer’s ability to recognize the camera’s location in the photographic scene through visual indications, such as the relative location of objects in the frame to the camera’s point of view, combined with a basic familiarity with the functionality of conventional cameras, relating to the notions of ‘in-front’ and ‘behind’ the camera. Some instances of interactive photography, such as 360-degree imagery and three-dimensional photogrammetry, challenge the spatial connection between the photographer (represented by the camera location) and the viewer due to unique usability and innovative interactions, such as the viewer’s ability to ‘move’ freely in all directions of the three-dimensional, photographic space. The technological affordances of interactive photography create a distinct corporeal experience that challenges the traditional associations between the photographer, the viewer and the photographic imagery, evoking with the viewers the notion of technological uncanniness and, consequently, questioning some of the traditional preconceptions regarding the prime characteristics of the photographic medium.

A Neurocognitive Approach Reveals Paul’s Embodied Emotional Strategies

Joy is a central theme in Philippians. Joy is also a central emotional habit Paul deploys and encourages as a strategy for building community. In this paper, the examination of Philippians through recent developments in the neurocognitive study of emotions first illuminates how Paul cultivates emotional habits, like joy. Second, a neurocognitive approach to understanding emotions can explain how repeatedly choosing joy functions to alleviate suffering by restoring balance in the nervous system. Finally, shared emotional habits with the Philippian community, like shared somatic practices, build sustaining connections among the members. Intentional deployment of emotional practices, as Paul demonstrates and encourages in the Philippians, is a strategy for building the body of Christ. Such a neurocognitive understanding of emotional habits and bodily practices among community members in the Christ body points to a corporate experience of shared healing and neurocognitive resilience. Might we consider this somatic embodiment of shared emotions, what Paul calls “the same mind that is in Christ Jesus”, also a participation in Christ’s soteria (healing/salvation)?

Flowing Body: The Collision of Power Relations, Mind and Body Agency

This article constructs a novel theoretical framework for understanding the body in feminist theory by critically engaging with existing non-binary and non-essentialist views. It advances upon foundational critiques, particularly those by Haraway, Connell, and Butler, integrating the dynamics of body agency, power relations, and mind to propose a more fluid and intersectional approach to body politics. The new framework posits the body as an active participant in its continuous formation, interacting with and reshaping societal norms and expectations. Empirically, the paper analyzed four artworks displayed in art galleries and museums in Lund and Malmö in Sweden as case studies, focusing on how these works represent and shape notions of the female body across various themes including beauty, reproduction, migration, and sexuality. These artworks serve as a medium to explore how corporeal experiences are constructed through the interplay of power relations, mind, and body agency. Through critical analyses of theory and textual analyses of artworks, this paper points out that the body is a language of fluidity, simultaneously influenced and shaped by power relations, the mind, and its agency. Feminism should treat the body more carefully, avoiding biological essentialism or absolute social constructs.

(NOT) LOOKING BACK: THE MYTHIC FIGURES OF ORPHEUS, AENEAS, AND PERSEPHONE IN KATERYNA KALYTKO’S POETRY

The paper deals with the integral myth in the last two collections of poetry by Kateryna Kalytko — “The Silent Women’s Order” (2021) and “People with Verbs” (2022). The all-embracing plot of the descent into the realm of the dead is revealed through the stories of three figures taken from the antique mythology — Orpheus, Persephone, and Aeneas. In Kalytko’s poetry, these figures can hardly be interpreted as actualization of the antique mythology through some occasional intertextual relations. They are positioned in the core of the intentionally constructed myth. Therefore, Orpheus’ descent into the underworld is correlated with the verification of language’s capacity to adequately reproduce the dramatic experience embedded in the collective memory. Furthermore, the re-reading of the myth is prompted by gender inversion, since Orpheus in Kalytko’s poetry is a woman. Orpheus-woman accumulates memories in her body, and ancestral stories become the fixation of the past in her actual corporeal experience, rather than merely an extension of her memories. The implicit ambiguity of language is a path for Orpheus, not Aeneas; in contrast to Orpheus, Aeneas does not look back. A verb, ‘diieslovo’, as a key concept of Kalytko’s latest poetry collection disintegrates into separate parts — an action and a word: Orpheus and Aeneas take different paths. Yet even this difference works for the integrity of a community — through Aeneas, whose path is directed to the future, and Orpheus, who gives a voice to the past. The dotted line of Euridice-Persephone plot confirms the importance of the topos of returning for Kalytko’s poetry since the reason for Persephone’s returning to Hades is her intention and not the underworld magic. (Not) looking back in this sense is a figure of symmetry, a looped mythic narrative of the descent to the realm of the dead — Persephone, who returns; Aeneas, who does not look back; and Orpheus, who looks back all the time.

Dynamic adaptive decision support for strategic decision-making in healthcare organizations

PurposeThe main objective of this study was to design a dynamic adaptive decision support model for healthcare organizations facing deep uncertainties by considering promising dynamic adaptive approaches. The main argument for this is that healthcare organizations have to make strategic decisions under deep uncertainty, but lack an approach to deal with this.Design/methodology/approachA Dynamic Adaptive Decision Support model (DADS) is designed using the Design Science Research methodology. The evaluation of an initial model leads, through two case studies on ongoing and strategic decision-making, to the final design of this needed model for healthcare organizations.FindingsThe research reveals the relevance of the designed dynamic and adaptive tool to support strategic decision-making for healthcare organizations. The final design of DADS innovates Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) approaches in an organizational context for ongoing and strategic decision-making.Originality/valueThe designed model applies the Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways approach in an organizational context and more specifically in health care organizations. It further integrates Corporate Real Estate Management knowledge and experience to develop a most needed tool for decision-makers in healthcare. This is the first DADS designed for an organization facing deep uncertainties in a rapidly changing healthcare environment and dealing with ongoing and strategic decision-making.

Reframing Vulnerability through an Embodied Theological Lens: Towards Ethical Engagement in a Globalized Context

This study examines the evolving concept of human vulnerability within the context of globalization and contemporary societal complexities. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive understanding of vulnerability’s proposed definition and its ethical relevance, particularly through an embodied ethical–theological lens. The research argues that this anthropological category when approached from an interdisciplinary perspective, reveals nuanced ethical dimensions essential for addressing contemporary challenges. Through the synthesis of insights from various disciplines, the study delineates the intricate interplay between corporeal experiences, affective states, and ethical considerations in understanding vulnerability. Interdisciplinary research methods were employed, drawing from theology, psychology, sociology, and philosophy. Grounding the inquiry in human experience and dialogues within different disciplinary narratives, the study explores vulnerability’s multifaceted nature and its implications for ethical engagement. The conclusions underscore the imperative role of theology in fostering ethical responses to contemporary dilemmas. By reframing vulnerability within an interdisciplinary and embodied framework, the research enriches ethical reflection and praxis, promoting human flourishing in a globalized world.

Analysis of the Impact of Cybersecurity on The Stability of Financial Institutions

The issue of the impact of cybersecurity is a top priority for the functioning of a financial institution. Therefore, its provision becomes a priority in organizing the further activities of the institution itself. The article aims to analyze the current trends in ensuring the cybersecurity of financial institutions and its role in their functioning. The paper describes the theoretical foundations of the cyber protection concept. The authors also outline the specifics of cybersecurity and the leading technological solutions for achieving these goals. Special attention is paid to modern, innovative solutions to maintain the stability of financial institutions and the possibility of further development. An important area of research is the disclosure of the practical experience of information corporations in providing technical solutions to ensure the security of financial transactions and support the global financial system. The study presents the experience of Ukrainian financial institutions that use variable digital defense strategies and maintain their functionality based on an effective cybersecurity system in the context of a global military conflict. The results of the study include a detailed profile of effective practical solutions to ensure the stability of financial institutions based on the implementation of blockchain technologies. The authors pay attention to the issue of modern software, hardware, and management solutions to improve the quality of cybersecurity in the context of growing cyberattacks and digital threats to the stability of financial institutions. The research findings may be helpful for further analytical studies on the effectiveness of cybersecurity and the stability of financial institutions.

Sustainable development goals disclosure and analyst forecast quality

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the relationship between corporate sustainable development goals (SDGs) disclosure and analyst forecast quality.Design/methodology/approachThe study focuses on a sample of 95 Italian-listed companies preparing the mandatory non-financial declaration (NFD) according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards over a five-year period (2017–2021), corresponding to an unbalanced sample of 438 observations. Analyst forecast quality was proxied by earnings forecast accuracy (FA) and earnings forecast dispersion (FD), built on data retrieved from the Refinitiv database. A manual content analysis was performed on NFDs to derive an SDG disclosure score (SDGD) for each sampled company.FindingsThis study provides empirical evidence suggesting that voluntary SDG disclosure matters to the capital market in that it helps enhance the information environment of companies, evidenced by improved analyst forecast quality. In particular, this study highlighted that SDG disclosure positively influences analyst FA while negatively affecting analyst FD.Research limitations/implicationsThis study focuses on the Italian context, which has idiosyncratic characteristics regarding the structure of the financial market, the composition of corporate ownership and experience in non-financial reporting practices.Practical implicationsThis study indicates to corporate managers that following GRI standards may represent the right way to better integrate SDG disclosure in corporate non-financial reports and increase the relevance of such information for investors and other capital market participants.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study that empirically examines the association between SDG disclosure and analyst forecast quality.

The poetics of the symptom

In contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice, the patient’s and the analyst’s body are growing in importance. Over time psychoanalysis has become enriched by neurosciences, sociology, neonatal studies, philosophy, literature, and art. It is especially focused on what has not been represented and integrated within the mind, and on how to recover, represent, transform, and integrate these types of experiences, with the corporeal experience now acquiring more prominence. I will assemble those so-called “poetic” aspects in the formation and manifestation of the symptom, which come from embodied and non-symbolized experiences. I will start from the observation that poetry offers an embodied meaning, learned through the body before being understood in the mind. Similarly, the suffering world of our patients can resonate within the therapist like a poem or a piece of music. Through careful attention to the resonances in the body and in reverie, therapists can deduce the personifications inhabiting that internal world. It is as if the poetic experience is situated “on the border” between the sensorial dimension and the verbal dimension. After a brief review of the psychoanalytic literature on corporeal experience in psychoanalysis, a clinical vignette will clarify these statements.

Material culture in the Old Testament: Conflict and propaganda with Missionary Christianity

Cultural materiality as evident in the Old Testament (OT) was borne out of personal and corporate experiences of ancient Israelites with YHWH (Ex 16:32–34; 25–36; Nm 16–17, Jos 3–4). At the dawn of Christian Missions, certain indigenous religious objects became ‘idolatrous’, but across the Atlantic Ocean, they were works of art kept in museums and art galleries. This negatively impacted biblical reception by the locals. This work investigates select OT icons and wades into their ontological and existential significance in relation to the conflict and propaganda of Missionary Christianity towards indigenous icons. The narrative criticism and the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) including Focus Group Discussion (FGD) were engaged in the study while the Symbolic Interactionism was the theoretical framework. The objects preserved by ancient Israel were to serve as relics for future generations who were to have an existential knowledge of YHWH’s dealings with their forebears. Western missionaries claimed to have transmitted biblical messages to Africa, yet their approach led to conflicts in biblical reception by the indigenous people who struggled between being detached from their existential realities, and accepting the gospel with its Eurocentric biases. The Western missionaries’ inability to transmit the biblical understanding of cultural materiality in their dealings with Africans invites suspicion in the missionaries’ efforts with a pretentious display of ignorance of the ontological significance of indigenous materiality.Contribution: This article offers insight into the conflict and propaganda inherent in the Western missionaries’ approach in transmitting biblical messages of cultural materiality, and challenges of biblical reception among indigenous people in Nigeria.

Corporeal Conflict: Unmaking and Making the Self in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman

The classical canons of literature create and consider the construction of women as objects of beauty and desire, who are motivated by no concern for themselves, inherently weak and impoverished. This study seeks an alternative narrative structure to such cultural constructions by exploring how Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman (1969) portrays and represents the female body in connection with female agency and power by writing against classical representations. Accordingly, this study employs recent theorists who blend feminist perspectives with theories based on the body including Elizabeth Grosz, Susan Bordo and Kim Chernin along with feminist literary critics including Simone de Beauvoir and Linda Hutcheon. By incorporating feminist theory and body politics together with literary criticism, this study presents a discourse of resistance and the potentiality of a new meeting point for shared experience and a common knowledge. In this regard, Atwood’s The Edible Woman suggests that there is agency and power to be attained through the knowledge of our bodies. As a counter-narrative, The Edible Woman promotes a resistance to dominant cultural and social constructions that proceed to objectify and undervalue the female body. Atwood’s novel attempts to bring a credibility and a value to knowledge to which we gain through our corporeal experience. What emerges from this perception is that corporeal knowledge appears to be essential to be able to acquire an understanding of our existence as well as to be read as a means to resistance.

Industrial Research Project Report Recruitment and Selection

The project report delves into the Recruitment and Selection Process at Sysmind Tech Pvt. Ltd., offering a detailed analysis rooted in real-world corporate experience. It highlights the HR department's structure, functions, and decision- making procedures related to recruitment and selection. Recognizing human resources as a vital corporate asset, the report underscores the importance of recruiting individuals with the requisite skills, qualifications, and experience to achieve company objectives. Successful recruitment hinges on meticulous job and labor market analysis. Recruitment is integral to effective management, with failures in this process posing risks to a company's profitability and staffing levels. Recruitment is not merely a selection process but involves strategic decision- making and thorough planning to onboard the most suitable talent. Intensified competition among businesses has sharpened the focus on innovation, prompting recruiters to seek candidates aligned with the organization's culture, ethics, and climate. Furthermore, the report elucidates the significance of recruitment within the broader management context, highlighting the potential ramifications of recruitment failures, such as adverse effects on profitability and inadequate staffing or skill levels. It stresses that recruitment is not merely a selection process but entails strategic decision-making and meticulous planning to ensure the acquisition of the most suitable talent. Moreover, the report sheds light on the evolving landscape of recruitment, characterized by heightened competition among businesses. Recruiters are increasingly focusing on innovation and aligning candidates with the organization's culture, ethics, and climate. This necessitates a nuanced approach to recruitment characterized by astute management decision-making and a keen understanding of organizational dynamics.

Analysis of the Impact of Cybersecurity on the Stability of Financial Institutions

"The issue of the impact of cybersecurity is a top priority for the functioning of a financial institution. Therefore, its provision becomes a priority in organizing the further activities of the institution itself. The article aims to analyze the current trends in ensuring the cybersecurity of financial institutions and its role in their functioning. The paper describes the theoretical foundations of the cyber protection concept. The authors also outline the specifics of cybersecurity and the leading technological solutions for achieving these goals. Special attention is paid to modern, innovative solutions to maintain the stability of financial institutions and the possibility of further development. An important area of research is the disclosure of the practical experience of information corporations in providing technical solutions to ensure the security of financial transactions and support the global financial system. The study presents the experience of Ukrainian financial institutions that use variable digital defense strategies and maintain their functionality based on an effective cybersecurity system in the context of a global military conflict. The results of the study include a detailed profile of effective practical solutions to ensure the stability of financial institutions based on the implementation of blockchain technologies. The authors pay attention to the issue of modern software, hardware, and management solutions to improve the quality of cybersecurity in the context of growing cyberattacks and digital threats to the stability of financial institutions. The research findings may be helpful for further analytical studies on the effectiveness of cybersecurity and the stability of financial institutions."

Impact of Weibo sentiment and R&D innovation as signalling mechanisms on venture corporate financing

ABSTRACT Weibo sentiment and R&D innovation are important signals that influence the financing processes of venture corporations. We collect relevant data between 1 January 2011, and 31 December 2020, to analyse the effect of the signalling mechanism of Weibo sentiment and R&D innovation on venture corporate financing. The conclusions are as follows. The positive effects of Weibo sentiment on venture valuation and investment success are weaker than the effects of R&D innovation, and the positive effects of Weibo sentiment and R&D innovation on venture valuations are stronger for young than older venture firms. The positive effects of Weibo sentiment and R&D innovation on venture valuations are stronger for less experienced ventures than for more experienced ventures. These conclusions show that the two signals of Weibo sentiment and R&D innovation have different strengths in terms of venture valuation and investment success, with the effect of the Weibo sentiment signal being relatively less strong. Moreover, venture corporate age and venture corporate experience play important negative moderating roles in the relationship between the two signals and venture valuation.

Eğitim Yönetiminde Etkili Metodik Değerlendirme Süreçlerinin İncelenmesi

Methodically making a negative assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of a policy or program immediately, rather than over a broader period of time, may lead to the termination of the program. When evaluating an institution in educational management, the content of the evaluation, it and the values involved in the event will affect the final evaluation as a whole. In this context, one of the decisions that should be taken before making any policy evaluation is to determine who should make the evaluation. The specific circumstances surrounding the necessity for any evaluation will have a significant impact on the alternative that will be selected. Within this framework, the suitability of time, financing situation, subject matter expertise, understanding of evaluation findings and management support, etc. the concepts of internal evaluation and external evaluation stand out in terms of the functioning of processes. Internal assessments have other advantages, such as low cost. In addition, internal evaluators are more predisposed to the organization itself, the evaluated program and related policies, corporate stakeholders and the target audience. The biggest disadvantage of internal evaluation is its real and perceived biases. There is real prejudice. Because it is human nature for corporate members to perceive program errors through the lens of their common corporate experience. External evaluations also have a number of advantages in terms of minimizing biases, at least internal biases. The most important advantage of external evaluation is that evaluators are perceived as impartial because they have no interest in the evaluation results. The plus advantage of using external evaluators is that they are not part of the corporate culture, program and evaluated policy, and their professionalism, previous experience, training, values and perceptions offer them a completely different perspective on problem identification and potential improvements. An important disadvantage of using external evaluators is that it is more expensive than internal evaluation and more time is needed. External evaluations take more time. Because evaluators need to internalize the programs or institutions as well as the policies, programs and institutions they evaluate. Key Words: Educational Management, Educational Effectiveness, Methodical Evaluation

Walking‐with/worlding‐with in a global pandemic: A story of mothering in motion

AbstractThis paper addresses how walking‐with an infant makes mothering worlds legible. Employing the active verb ‘worlding’, it illustrates how walking‐with contributes to the emergent, embodied and relational nature of mothering as a story in motion and how we make sense of becoming a mother. The walking in this study takes place in and through (sub)urban landscapes, and how we negotiate our maternal bodies through these spaces, at a very particular moment in time (COVID‐19 lockdowns), is imbricated in our worldings. Walking‐with is used to not only explain the interembodiment of mother and child but also the wider milieu of ‘withs’ to demonstrate the corporeal and relational experience of walking. Walking‐with a baby, particularly with a postpartum body, is hard work, messy and unpredictable, yet that is not to say the analysis leads to a negative perspective. When walking‐with a baby is understood as ‘worlding‐with’ we can develop a more affirmative understanding of mothering. By using creative analytical practice a walking‐with story was developed drawing on data collected from walking mothers and autoethnography of my own walking‐with experiences. The story makes it possible to develop a legibility that captures the contradictory experiences of mothering in motion. Creative analytical practice highlights that storying, walking and mothering is never a complete.

The inside track: Entrepreneurs' corporate experience and startups' access to incumbent partners' resources

AbstractResearch SummaryStartups are increasingly turning to incumbent firms for venture capital, anticipating access to the investor's knowledge and complementary assets. However, startups' eventual access to these resources varies widely. This article highlights one important driver of such variance, whether startups' managers were previously employed by an incumbent in the same industry. Using data from the life sciences, I find that such corporate experience can precipitate technical knowledge flows to startups by enabling the generation of relational capital with incumbent firm managers. It also helps startups navigate incumbents' decision‐processes to formalize access to downstream complementary assets via alliances. The former effect is stronger when corporate experience is technology‐focused, the latter when it is commercialization‐focused. Corporate experience at the investing incumbent firm amplifies informal knowledge‐flows but not formal alliances.Managerial SummaryStartups typically expect corporate venture capital investors to facilitate access to resources these investors' parent companies control. However, such resource‐access often does not materialize, with startups struggling to navigate the large, complex organizations within which these resources are located. I identify an important driver of variance in such resource‐access. Prior experience working in an established company in the same industry enhances startup leaders' ability to informally tap into corporate investors' technical knowledge, and to formalize alliances to access corporate investors' go‐to‐market assets. Technology‐focused experience is especially helpful with the former, and commercialization‐focused experience with the latter. Such access is more likely to enable exit for the startup if the established firm has direct experience in the specific product markets the startup is focusing on.

Research on the Disclosure of Personal Privacy by Social Media Users in the Era of Big Data and Mobile Internet, and Countermeasures

In the epoch of big data and the ubiquity of mobile internet, the sanctity of personal privacy on social media platforms is increasingly imperiled. As communicative exchanges on these platforms become nearly instantaneous and pervasively ubiquitous, the demarcation between corporeal experiences and digital interactions becomes increasingly nebulous, thereby augmenting the intricacy of privacy conundrums. The digital transmutation and incessant circulation of personal datum, magnified by avant-garde big data technologies, intensify the vulnerabilities surrounding user confidentiality. Concurrently, societal conceptualizations of privacy undergo a paradigmatic shift, compelling a recalibration between the imperatives of privacy preservation and the exigencies of personal information exploitation. This investigation offers a perspicacious dissection of the historical trajectory of privacy, elucidates the manifold challenges engendered by the disclosure propensities of social media aficionados, and delineates prospective regulatory paradigms. The overarching aspiration is to promulgate efficacious stratagems for safeguarding personal privacy on social media amidst the contemporary digital renaissance.