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Ougaard, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper is about Poulantzas, historical materialism, international relations, and the current crisis. My purpose is to discuss how some Poulantzian theoretical contributions can be applied to the study of subject matters that are the focus of academic fields such as International Relations (IR), International Political Economy (IPE), International Politics, World Politics and others. I deliberately abstain from singling out any of these disciplines or fields or labels and from trying to define them precisely, because one of my arguments is that historical materialism (HM) is a research program2 that contains its own theoretical definition of the object under study. This object, with inspiration from Poulantzas’ notion of the imperialist chain and his general theory of society, I will define as the global social formation or for short, world society. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8678 Files in this item: 1
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What Would it Mean to be an Artisan of Finance?Thompson, Grahame (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper confronts the question of what a revitalized financial sector might look like if this were to be reconfigured so as to reproduce first an artisanal like persona for the financial analyst and craft like organizational structure for financial businesses, and secondly if this were to be re-territorialized so that it acted like a partisan rather than, as at present, like a disembedded footloose structure of ‘global finance’. Initially the analysis is pitched at a rather abstract and theoretical level – pulling together artisans, nomads and partisans and tracing their intellectual lineages. But the chapter ends with three very concrete illustrations of actual financial relations in practice that meet some of the criteria for being both artisanal and partisanal. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8458 Files in this item: 1
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Danske og internationale udviklingstendenserSchulze, Christiane; Greve, Carsten (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Kontraktbaseret styring har været på den politiske agenda i OECD landene siden de tidlige 1980’erne og i dag er kontrakter et helt centralt element i den moderne regering ((Ejersbo & Greve 2005: 62, Greve 2008a: 4). Internationalt var det især med Reagon-regeringen i USA og Thatcher-regeringen i Storbritannien, at der blev rettet interesse mod kontraktstyring1. Denne udvikling bør ses i lyset af New Public Management (NPM) reformerne, som blev skyllet ind over OECD landene siden 1980’erne (Fortin 2000, Kettl 2000, Bouckaert og Pollitt 2004). NPM kan overordnet forstås som ”brug af ledelsesinspiration fra den private sektor og [som] brug af markedsmekanismer”(Greve 2003). Ved siden af privatisering og deregulering iagttages kontrakter som et determinerende element i NPM (Fortin 2000:1). Kontrakter kan helt grundlæggende defineres som en aftale mellem bestiller og leverandør, der angiver vilkårene for levering af en service eller et produkt (Domberger 1998:12). Kontrakter er dog ikke bare en entydig formel aftale, der forstås på samme måde af enhver aktør. Tværtimod er kontrakter også afhængige af læsernes perspektiv såvel som omgivelsens normer, traditioner og legale rammer. Den er derved ikke uafhængig af de institutioner, som eksisterer i omverdenen og en kontrakt kan have forskellige betydninger i forskellige kulturer og lande. Desuden bliver kontrakten også selv en institution, der skaber en helt bestemt måde at omgås med hinanden, som adskiller sig fra de mere traditionelle hierarkiske styringsformer. Sidst men ikke mindst er kontraktens form også afgørende for, hvilken form for samarbejde og styring der vælges til og fra. En kontrakt er således langt fra et neutralt styringsværktøj, men påvirker tværtimod aktivt organisationernes organisering og styringsform. Det er derfor, at denne rapport skal belyse, hvorledes kontraktstyring i både eksterne og interne relationer af den offentlige sektor blev introduceret, hvilke udfordringer og ændringer det har medført for offentlige og private, samt hvordan det har påvirket forholdet mellem staten og samfundet... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8383 Files in this item: 1
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The Political Implications of Limited Liability, Legal Personality and CitizenshipThompson, Grahame (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper investigates the legal and commercial consequences of companies being considered as both an entity and a person in law – hence the notion of ‘cyborg’ in its title. It concentrates upon legal personhood and relates this particular feature to the issue of corporate citizenship. In turn corporate citizenship provides a link to considering the political role of companies, since in claiming citizenship they are implicitly at least claiming a particular set of political rights consequent upon that status, and announcing a particular politically constrained context associated with their operational characteristics. But what would be involved in granting companies full citizenship rights in the image of natural person citizenship? The paper explores this issue in connection to the differences between corporate social responsibility and an earlier idea of the socially responsible corporation that arose in the debate between Adolph Berle and Edwin Dodd in the 1930s, focussing on the notion of ‘enterprise entity analysis’ that was posed in that debate, and which has reappeared more recently. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8323 Files in this item: 1
