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Power, reflexivity and difference in a Multinational Corporation (2013)
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Devadason, R., & Fenton, S. (2013). Power, reflexivity and difference in a Multinational Corporation. Ethnicities, 13(4), 475-493. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796813483732

The rationale for multinational corporations is the creation and sustenance of global networks to increase profits by enabling market expansion. Since corporate executives facilitate the transfer of knowledge, processes and practices across borders,... Read More about Power, reflexivity and difference in a Multinational Corporation.

The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4 (2013)
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PARR, H. (2013). The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4. Contemporary European History, 22(2), 253-274. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960777313000076

This article adopts a political approach to examine the reasons why Edward Heath's government wanted to upgrade Polaris and the reasons why they did so by way of a programme called Super Antelope, to improve the front-ends of the missiles against Sov... Read More about The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4.

Caird on Kant’s Idealism: Revolutionary or Traditionalist? (2013)
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Baiasu. (2013). Caird on Kant’s Idealism: Revolutionary or Traditionalist?. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 19(1), 19 - 45

The traditionalist interpretation of Kant's idealism reads his Critical philosophy as a version of traditional idealism, à la Berkeley. By contrast, a revolutionary account of Kant will assert the threefold distinction between states of mind, externa... Read More about Caird on Kant’s Idealism: Revolutionary or Traditionalist?.

Kant and the British Idealists (2013)
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Baiasu. (2013). Kant and the British Idealists. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 19(1), 1 - 18

Healthcare leadership: learning from evaluation (2013)
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(2013). Healthcare leadership: learning from evaluation. Leadership in Health Services, 148-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/17511871311319731

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to review eight major evaluations of leadership and management development programmes in parts of the UK National Health Service and also to identify learning from these as a basis for an evaluation framework w... Read More about Healthcare leadership: learning from evaluation.

Distinctiveness of long-term pain that does not interfere with life: an observational cohort study. (2012)
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Moore, A., Bernard, M., Richardson, J., Jordan, K., & Sim, J. (2012). Distinctiveness of long-term pain that does not interfere with life: an observational cohort study. European Journal of Pain, 1185 -1194. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1532-2149.2012.00118.x

BACKGROUND: Reporting of pain that does not interfere with life is common in the older population but little is known about people with such long-term non-interfering pain.

OBJECTIVES: To assess whether non-interfering pain can be a long-term stat... Read More about Distinctiveness of long-term pain that does not interfere with life: an observational cohort study..

Surveillance technologies and the crises of confidence in regulatory agencies (2012)
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Kearon, T. (2013). Surveillance technologies and the crises of confidence in regulatory agencies. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 13(4), 415-430. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895812454747

Technology plays an increasing role in policing and other aspects of the criminal justice process. This article will briefly outline the notion of a criminal justice ‘techno-fix’ as a potential attempt by criminal justice agencies to use technology a... Read More about Surveillance technologies and the crises of confidence in regulatory agencies.

Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power (2012)
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RYAN, B. J. (2013). Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power. Review of International Studies, 39(2), 435-457. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210512000137

This paper introduces reasonable force as ontological to the performance of late modern police power. It argues that policing emerged through reasonable force as an innovation of military power and as a supplement to legal power. The paper tracks the... Read More about Reasonable force: the emergence of global policing power.

Religion, Public Policy, and the Academy: Brokering Public Faith in a Context of Ambivalence? (2012)
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Dinham, A., & H. Jones, S. (2012). Religion, Public Policy, and the Academy: Brokering Public Faith in a Context of Ambivalence?. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 27(2), 185-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2012.675687

This article considers the growing range of religiously oriented policy demands on higher education institutions in the UK and the responses universities make to them. It sets this in the context of public anxiety and ambivalence about faith, taking... Read More about Religion, Public Policy, and the Academy: Brokering Public Faith in a Context of Ambivalence?.

Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics: Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics (2012)
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Shahi, A. (2012). Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics: Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics. Digest of Middle East Studies, 21(1), 108-125. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-3606.2012.00129.x

Shi‘ite Messianism has been accommodated constitutionally and has been portrayed as an indispensable aspect of political culture under the Islamic Republic. If the state is using the concept as a form of legitimacy, the concept is standardized in acc... Read More about Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics: Paradoxes of Iranian Messianic Politics.

Tactics, traditions and opportunities: British and French crop-trashing actions in comparative perspective (2012)
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(2012). Tactics, traditions and opportunities: British and French crop-trashing actions in comparative perspective. European Journal of Political Research, 540 -562. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2011.02048.x

This article compares the tactic of trashing genetically modified crops in activist campaigns in Britain and France. In Britain, most crop trashing was carried out covertly, while in France most activists undertook open, public actions. In seeking an... Read More about Tactics, traditions and opportunities: British and French crop-trashing actions in comparative perspective.

Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy (2012)
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D'Oro. (2012). Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy. Ratio, 34 -50. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2011.00514.x

Collingwood has failed to make a significant impact in the history of twentieth century philosophy either because he has been dismissed as a dusty old idealist committed to the very metaphysics the analytical school was trying to leave behind, or bec... Read More about Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy.

The development of strategic clinical leaders in the NHS in Scotland (2011)
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(2011). The development of strategic clinical leaders in the NHS in Scotland. Leadership in Health Services, 337-353. https://doi.org/10.1108/17511871111172376

Purpose
– The paper seeks to describe a national strategic and multi-professional clinical leadership programme designed and developed for the National Health Service in Scotland. It addresses the policy imperatives behind the programme, the local a... Read More about The development of strategic clinical leaders in the NHS in Scotland.

Action learning and organisation development: overlapping fields of practice (2011)
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(2011). Action learning and organisation development: overlapping fields of practice. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 93-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2011.581017

This paper explores the relationship between action learning and Organisation Development (OD). It proposes that they are overlapping fields of practice, with interesting similarities and differences. Both fields of practice are experienced as challe... Read More about Action learning and organisation development: overlapping fields of practice.

Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war (2011)
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D'Oro. (2011). Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 207 -221. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2011.583930

Since the publication of Davidson’s “Actions, Reasons and Causes” the philosophy of action has been dominated by the view that rational explanations are a species of causal explanations. Although there are dissenting voices, anti-causalism is for the... Read More about Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war.

Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village (2011)
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(2011). Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village. Ageing and society, 103 - 129. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X11000079

There is currently much debate in the United Kingdom policy and practice literature about how best to respond to the care and accommodation needs of people as they retire and grow older. Against a policy background which espouses the benefits of ‘ li... Read More about Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village.