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OMMUNIQUÉ Discredited ideas and Utopian ideals
, 2001
"... governments are the product of flawed nineteenth-century thinking and a bureaucratic urge for centralized control, says a C.D. Howe Institute Commentary published today. What’s more, says the study, smaller and more flexible jurisdictions can often deliver services to residents at lower cost, throwi ..."
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, throwing in doubt the financial assumptions typically used to defend amalgamations. The new study, “Local Government Amalgamations: Discredited Nineteenth-Century Ideals Alive in the Twenty-First, ” argues that some provincial governments have been guided by an intellectual fashion of the nineteenth
URBAN MOVEMENTS AND PARADOXICAL UTOPIANISMS
"... Abstract: The Squatters' Movement in Spain has been developing along more than twenty years. Beyond the figures of involved buildings and activists, evictions, demonstrations and so on, a rich experience in terms of political struggle at the municipal level was accumulated. How can be explaine ..."
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be explained this "success"? Part is due to structural conditions according to laws, repression, bonds between social movements, etc. Another part depends on the capacities of the movement for recreating, in practice, a counterculture that stems from the libertarian and utopian ideals from the 1960s
Family firms as utopian organizations
- Family Business Review
, 1990
"... Utopian communities and family firms share a fusion of family and work life. This article examines their similarities with regard to orga-nizational ideals, mechanisms of commitment, and the exercise of authority. Utopias are voluntary, value-based c o m m u n a l societies rooted in reli-gious, soc ..."
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Utopian communities and family firms share a fusion of family and work life. This article examines their similarities with regard to orga-nizational ideals, mechanisms of commitment, and the exercise of authority. Utopias are voluntary, value-based c o m m u n a l societies rooted in reli
Beyond consumerism and utopianism: How service learning contributes to liberal arts ideals
- Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
, 2002
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The learning organization: Foucauldian gloom or Utopian sunshine
- Human Relations
, 2002
"... A B S T R AC T Based on Coopey’s critical review of the terms ‘Utopian sunshine’ and ‘Foucauldian gloom ’ with regard to the learning organization (Coopey, 1998), this article explores the learning organization from two opposing perspectives. While researchers agree that the learn-ing organization c ..."
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A B S T R AC T Based on Coopey’s critical review of the terms ‘Utopian sunshine’ and ‘Foucauldian gloom ’ with regard to the learning organization (Coopey, 1998), this article explores the learning organization from two opposing perspectives. While researchers agree that the learn-ing organization
Evolutionary Explanation and the Ideal of Altruism: the Incommensurability of Journal for
- 2011 the Christian Love Command, European Journal of Science and Theology
"... The integration of an evolutionary origin of human behavior with the capacity to symbolically idealize concepts such as altruism may help our understanding of the human yearning for transcendence and its biological roots. Biological adaptation has somehow created a brain that yearns for transcendent ..."
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for transcendent idealizations of behavior beyond our capability such as utopian ideals of altruism. We explore whether or not evolutionary explanations of altruism show that self-sacrificial behavior is a biological adaptation, a transcendent ideal, or some combination of the two. Using adoption of non
Edward Bellamy and Kang Youwei’s Utopian Society: Comparative Analyses
"... The importance of the problem is determined by typological and functional similarity in reconsideration of the main social values having occurred at a turn of the XIX-XX centuries and nowadays. The article focuses on the comparative analyses of the models of the ideal society introduced by Kang Youw ..."
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The importance of the problem is determined by typological and functional similarity in reconsideration of the main social values having occurred at a turn of the XIX-XX centuries and nowadays. The article focuses on the comparative analyses of the models of the ideal society introduced by Kang
Management, Utopian Thinking and Accountancy: the French Case of the Entrepreneur Godin
"... This research is carried out in a broad framework which aims to link three main aspects of management: ideals (understood as the ideal organization), discourses and accounting tools. This article aims to show: i) how a way of thinking in a particular context influences accountancy; ii) how both are ..."
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of management. First, I will expose the theoretical framework of my research and I will explain how such a case study can be useful to understand the relationship that can be elaborated between ideals and management techniques. Second, I will give an overview of the influence socialist and utopian thinkers had
in American Spiritual Ideals
"... The authors begin by showing the close links between the discourse of workplace empowerment and spirituality. They then identify these spiritual influences historically in Puritan and evangelical Christianity, utopianism, and New Age thinking. From Puri-tanism and evangelical Christianity, they loca ..."
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, they locate the ideas that all work is God’s work, that charismatic evangelism (with Jesus as role model) is the prototype for leadership in busi-ness, and that Christian ideals can serve as a basis for organizing the factory system. From utopianism, the authors locate the influence of ideals
Cosmogony and the Origin of Inequality: A Utopian Perspective from Taoist Sources
"... The present article examines how classical, early medieval and medieval Taoist sources theorise inequality as an outcome of cosmogonic processes, and how these same sources project eliminating inequality through a reversal of those processes. The first part of the article considers utopias from the ..."
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Incapable Master). In addition to elaborating on previous themes, the Wunengzi contributes two new ideas to Taoist utopian discourse: first, the distinction between intelligence, which develops naturally, and human knowledge, which is an artificial contrivance; and second, the conviction that an ideal
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