Corporate Representation Research Articles

The Asia-Pacific rims transport and telecommunications systems: spatial structure and corporate control since the mid-1980s

There is a need to move from discussing the Asia-Pacific Rim's leading port cities as shipping centres measured by container throughput. This shift in focus involves examining how different transport and telecommunications systems are interacting with each other at an international scale under the power and control of major world operators. Using a three-level network framework an attempt is made to illustrate and explain the formation of multilayered trade/communications corridors and hubs/headquarters in the Asia-Pacific Rim since the mid-1980s and to identify the factors affecting them. From this examination of spatial structure and corporate control three levels of cities in the Asia-Pacific Rim are recognised: first level cities with strong corporate representation in container shipping, air cargo, air passenger and telecommunications; second level cities with marked corporate representation in one but not all four modes; and third level cities with no marked corporate representation in any mode but with strong throughput. The third level includes the Asia-Pacific Rim's ‘true’ port cities. Perhaps the ambiguous category ‘port city’ should be reserved for them.

Photocopy Lore and the Naturalization of the Corporate Body

Parodic and satiric photocopy lore gives employees the opportunity to personalize the allegedly depersonalized environment in which they work. Such lore provides this opportunity through symbolic extensions and representations of the material, most intriguingly through those of the human body. In the process, the corporational is brought down to the level of the in the service of employee iconoclasm and assuagement. IF THE INTENT OF corporate business is to make and assure profits, its effect is often to inhibit worker individuality and so cause a sense of loss. This, I suggest, is the implication of the parodic and satiric photocopy lore that circulates within environments. In its display and content, this lore suggests employees' discontent with the depersonalized environment in which they work. This discontent is illustrated in lore that celebrates the very ground of human personalization: the body and other aspects of materiality. It emphasizes an exaggerated and iconoclastic naturalism, a foregrounding of the base and the regenerative. The empirical aspects and corporeal representations of this lore are potently symbolic given their use in the environment, which conventionally privileges surface, containment, and efficient propriety. The analysis I pursue here is folkloristically unconventional in that it is presented primarily as speculation.' But, as I indicate, it accords in significant respects with the insights of other researchers who are concerned with the genre and with folkloric reactions to management-employee relations. To date, most of the work on photocopy lore has been oriented toward collection and classification. My intent here is to offer what I believe are fruitful lines of inquiry

Public sector think tanks in interagency policy‐making: designing enhanced governance capacity

Abstract: Since World War Two, the role of non profit think tanks in the United States has grown and diversified. Today, the United States' government and Congress is advised on many matters of policy‐making and implementation by such think tanks. The Westminster system of parliament, as practised in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, has rarely provided a fertile ground for the creation and sustained existence of such privately operated institutions. Despite limited links with similar United States' organizations, the seeds have never really flourished outside the United States of America.Australian Commonwealth governments have been most antagonistic in this regard. On the other hand, management consulting companies, many of which have headquarters in the United States, lobbyists, and corporate representation flourish in the quasi‐corporatist political environment carefully constructed by the Australian Labor party (ALP) government since 1983. Policy‐related research divisions and statutory authorities have likewise grown in size and importance within the departmental agencies of government itself. Energy, agriculture, immigration, and social service research “arms” have been encouraged within the ministerial arena of policy analysis and advice. Especially important has been micro and macro‐economic research, urban and infrastructural planning, the Industry Commission, and the Bureau of Industry Economics, respectively.This paper will analyse the growth of these specialized forms of government think tanks, study the range of their ministerial advice, and speculate about their changing role in an increasingly “managerialist” type of Westminster‐style parliamentary setting.Sommaire: Aux États‐Unis, depuis la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, le rôle des groupes de réflexion à but non lucratif, ou think tanks, a pris de l'ampleur et s'est diversifié. Aujourd'hui, ces groupes prodiguent des conseils au gouvernement et au Congrès des États‐Unis sur de nombreuses questions de définition et de mise en oeuvre de politiques. Le système parlementaire de Westminster, tel que pratiqué au Royaume‐Uni, au Canada, en Nouvelle‐Zélande et en Australie, a rarement favorisé la création et l'existence de telles institutions exploitées par le secteur privé. Malgré certains liens limités avec des organisations américaines similaires, elles ne se sont jamais vraiement épanouies à l'extérieur des États‐Unis.

The Possibility of an Evolutionary Semantics

The possibility of an evolutionary semantics rests on at least three interrelated shifts in typical philosophical practice and belief: a de-privileging of human language; a recognition of iconic spatio-kinetic corporeal representation as a fundamental form of meaning in the animate world; a recognition of modes ofsymbolization in everyday life that are pre-reflective. Typical philosophical belief and practice are exemplified by Jonathan Bennett in his book, Rationality,1 wherein human language is taken as the standard by which the intelligence ofbees is measured; by Daniel Dennett in his intentional systems theory approach to nonhuman animal behavior which, through its exclusive focus on cognitive competence in the form of beliefs, desires, and so on, overlooks corporeal intentionality and in so doing overlooks the built-in semanticity of being a body;2 by Donald Davidson in his claim that short of language, creatures cannot have beliefs, desires, and other similar kinds ofpsychological capacities.3 This paper will present compelling, if necessarily abbreviated, evidence for revising typical philosophical views and adopting an evolutionary semantics perspective. I

Cartographies: Poststructuralism and the Mapping of Bodies and Spaces

Part 1 The mapping: Richard Rorty and the poet's utopia, robyn Ferrell desiring production itself - notes on the invention of photography, Geoffrey Batchen dot, circle, difference - translating central desert paintings, Jennifer Biddle. Part 2 Of bodies 1: Nietzsche and the body of the philosopher, Paul Patton life itself, Cathryn Vasseleu a Genethics that makes sense, Rosalyn Diprose. Part 3 Of bodies 2: corporeal representation in/and the body politic, Moira Gatens Corpus delicti - the body at the scene of writing, Vicki Kirby. Part 4 And spaces: the advent of America at EPCOT Center, Stephen Rugare business, pleasure, narrative - the folktale in our times, Helen Grace.

The roots of thinking

Acknowledgments Part I: Overview 1. The Thesis, the Method, and Related Matters Part II: Paleoanthropological Case Studies 2. The Hermeneutics of Tool-Making: Corporeal and Topological Concepts 3. On the Origin of Counting: A Re-Thinking of Upright Posture 4. Hominid Bipedality and Primate Sexuality: A Further Re-Thinking of Upright Posture 5. Corporeal Representation 6. On the Origin of Language 7. Hominid Bipedality and Sexual Selection Theory 8. On the Conceptual Origin of Death 9. On the Origin and Significance of Paleolithic Cave Art Part III: Theoretical and Methodological Issues 10. The Thesis and Its Opposition: Cultural Relativism 11. The Thesis and Its Opposition: Institutionalized Metaphysical Dualism 12. The Case for a Philosophical Anthropology 13. Methodology: The Hermeneutical Strand 14. Methodology: The Genetic Phenomenology Strand 15. The Case for Tactile-Kinesthetic Invariants Name Index

Structural adjustment and the political question

The call for a national debate on the country's political future has so far generated a lukewarm response. However, several tendencies have appeared which have serious implications for the struggle for democracy. Coming in the wake of the debate about Nigeria's relations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), one would have thought that the ‘political debate’ would have been informed by the specific problems the economy is experiencing and the concrete adjustment policies the state has persistently implemented since 1982. Even some of the radicals who ought to have drawn the correct lessons from the diversionary tactics of the state in the IMF debate have tended to proceed as if we are starting from a tabula raisa,without any concrete economic policies which inform the state's quest for a new political order. This partly explains the reason for the strange convergence which seems to be developing between some radicals and the bourgeoisie in the articulation of a new political formula. The thrust of this paper is to discuss the link between the state's adjustment programme and the question of political power. We argue that the adjustment programme of contemporary monetarism, which reached its highest expression in the 1986 budget, throws up specific types of political regimes ranging from zero/one and controlled two party systems to military rule, civil/ military diarchy and corporate representation. Against the background of the specific character of capitalist accumulation, with its monopolistic, antidemocratic and corrupt practices, the monetarist strategy of crisis‐management pushes the state towards more authoritarian policies. Many contributors to the political debate have not grasped this point. The appropriate response to authoritarian rule should, therefore, focus on the struggle for democracy and the strengthening of the working class movement for socialist power instead of the strategy of co‐determination which seeks to resolve the conflicting interests in the society under a unitary power structure that will accommodate the representatives of popular organisations.

Corporate Pluralism in Danish Law‐Making*

This article investigates the pattern of corporate political representation in Danish law‐making. The most important finding is a large intra‐system variation in scope, level, and structure of outside involvement. There is no evidence of an emerging ‘total’ system of corporate political representation. The dominant pattern is still one of a diversified use of several channels of access by a large variety of groups, organizations, and institutions. While the importance of organized interests is well documented, it is questionable to what extent this indicates a pattern of societal corporatism in the political system. Interest organizations play an important role in pluralist societies as well, and Philippe Schmitter's main point about representational monopoly does not gain support. Generally, the analysis tends to support a model of pluralist corporate representation.

To the Brink and Back: Representation and the State in India

Research Article| April 01 1978 To the Brink and Back: Representation and the State in India Lloyd I. Rudolph, Lloyd I. Rudolph Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1978) 18 (4): 379–400. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643401 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lloyd I. Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph; To the Brink and Back: Representation and the State in India. Asian Survey 1 April 1978; 18 (4): 379–400. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2643401 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1978 The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.