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Selected AbstractsGoverning by Managing Identity Boundaries: The Case of Family BusinessesENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE, Issue 3 2008Chamu Sundaramurthy In this paper we illustrate how boundary theory can be a useful perspective to understand the dynamics of family businesses. We integrate insights from the family business literature with the work,family and identity boundary literatures to describe degrees of integration between the family and business identities in family firms and outline contingencies that influence this integration. We also develop the notion of "differential permeability" as a state of being both integrated and segmented on various aspects of identity and articulate costs and benefits to this state, as well as to high integration and high segmentation. Finally, we invoke the research on "boundary work" as a means of managing family business boundaries and conclude by outlining additional avenues of research that stem from using such a boundary theory lens. [source] Feuding Families: When Conflict Does a Family Firm GoodENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE, Issue 3 2004Franz W. Kellermanns Using the conflict theory lens and insights from the family business literature, we develop a theoretical model concerning the effects of task, process, and relationship conflict in family firms. Family firms are characterized by different control structures and generational involvement. Accordingly, we discuss the expected effect control concentration has on task, process, and relationship conflict, and propose that generational involvement affects the importance of task and process conflict to a family firm's performance. Furthermore, our model suggests that relationship conflict moderates the outcomes of task and process conflict. The degree of relationship conflict in family firms is in turn influenced by altruism, which characterizes interactions among family members. [source] Falling forward: Lessons learned from critical reflection on an evaluation process with a prisoner reentry programNEW DIRECTIONS FOR EVALUATION, Issue 127 2010Barbara Hooper A formative evaluation of life-skills learning modules with men and women in a residential prisoner reentry program where careful attention was given to voice, power, and engagement, is described and analyzed. The author reflects on the evaluation process through the critical theory lens of "being self-critical can illuminate how practices maintain oppressive conditions." Questions about whose voices remained dominant and whose power was suppressed are discussed. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association. [source] Critical race perspectives on theory in student affairsNEW DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENT SERVICES, Issue 120 2007Lori D. Patton In this chapter, the use of theory and its role in understanding racial realities are addressed through a critical race theory lens. The chapter offers recommendations for creating and applying theoretical race perspectives in higher education and student affairs. [source] Reflection and moral maturity in a nurse's caring practice: a critical perspectiveNURSING PHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2010Jane Sumner PhD Abstract The likelihood of nurse reflection is examined from the theoretical perspectives of Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action and Moral Action and Sumner's Moral Construct of Caring in Nursing as Communicative Action, through a critical social theory lens. The argument is made that until the nurse reaches the developmental level of post-conventional moral maturity and/or Benner's Stage 5: expert, he or she is not capable of being inwardly directed reflective on self. The three developmental levels of moral maturity and Benner's stages are presented with discussion on whether or not there can be self-reflection because of an innate vulnerability that leads to self-protective behaviours. It is only when the confidence from mastery of practice has been achieved can the nurse be comfortable with reflection that enables him or her to become enlightened, emancipated, and empowered. The influences and constraints of the knowledge power between nurse and patient are acknowledged. The power hierarchy of the institution is recognized as constraining. [source] COMMENTS ON FACTOR PRICES AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN LESS INDUSTRIALISED ECONOMIES, 1870,1939: REFOCUSING ON THE FRONTIERAUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2007Knick HarleyArticle first published online: 7 OCT 200 economic institutions; factor prices; frontier; globalisation A great deal of the current research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century globalisation has been focused through a neoclassical trade theory lens. Applying the Stopler-Samuelson paradigm from Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory, the result is an approach that sees price convergence as pivotal in defining, identifying, and measuring globalisation. This focus, however, obscures the implications of frontier incorporation and other insights achieved by viewing nineteenth-century globalisation as a mechanism whereby peripheral economies were incorporated into the core of organised economic activity. A frontier-centred perspective also reintroduces the role of economic institutions as a crucial element of economic growth and development. [source] | ||||||||||