The Organization of Responsibility

1949 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-532
Author(s):  
William W. Kaufmann

Wishes have been the fathers to many thoughts, but wishes alone have never sired an effective international organization. It is only when the desirable and the possible have been brought into some sort of relation with each other that plans for international organization have ever had any chance of succeeding. This statement is of course a truism; anything which succeeds must have been possible. Can one, however, make any statements about the limits of what is possible without waiting for the historical record to complete itself? In the field of international organization failure to undertake this task has resulted in many cruel disappointments, and unfounded optimism has given way to uninformed cynicism. It is therefore of some interest to consider some of the ways in which the stubborn facts of international life condition the range of choice within which men of good will may hope to act successfully.

Author(s):  
Endy Gunanto ◽  
Yenni Kurnia Gusti

In this article we present a conceptual of the effect of cross culture on consumer behavior incorporating the impact of globalization. This conceptual idea shows that culture inûuences various domains of consumer behavior directly as well as through international organization to implement marketing strategy. The conceptual identify several factors such as norm and value in the community, several variables and also depicts the impact of other environmental factors and marketing strategy elements on consumer behavior. We also identify categories of consumer culture orientation resulting from globalization. Highlights of each of the several other articles included in this special issue in Asia region. We conclude with the contributions of the articles in terms of the consumer cultural orientations and identify directions for future research.


Moreana ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (Number 173) (1) ◽  
pp. 167-174
Author(s):  
Peter Milward

In conjunction with the current “revisionism” of English history from a Catholic viewpoint, it is time to undertake a corresponding revision of the plays and personality of William Shakespeare. For this purpose it is not enough to rest content with the meagre historical record, but we have to go ahead in the light of recusant history with a reinterpretation of the plays, considering the extent to which they lend themselves to the Catholic viewpoint. This is not merely a matter of nostalgia for the mediaeval past, but it looks above all to the present sufferings of the “disinherited” English Catholics — in the light of the continued presence of Christ who is suffering, as Pascal famously noted, in his faithful even till the end of the world.


Somatechnics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-215
Author(s):  
Robert McRuer

Theorists of neoliberalism have placed dispossession and displacement at the centre of their analyses of the workings of contemporary global capitalism. Disability, however, has not figured centrally into these analyses. This essay attends to what might be comprehended as the crip echoes generated by dispossession, displacement, and a global austerity politics. Centring on British-Mexican relations during a moment of austerity in the UK and gentrification in Mexico City, the essay identifies both the voices of disability that are recognized by and made useful for neoliberalism as well as those shut down or displaced by this dominant economic and cultural system. The spatial politics of austerity in the UK have generated a range of punishing, anti-disabled policies such as the so-called ‘Bedroom Tax.’ The essay critiques such policies (and spatial politics) by particularly focusing on two events from 2013: a British embassy good will event exporting British access to Mexico City and an installation of photographs by Livia Radwanski. Radwanski's photos of the redevelopment of a Mexico City neighbourhood (and the displacement of poor people living in the neighbourhood) are examined in order to attend to the ways in which disability might productively haunt an age of austerity, dispossession, and displacement.


1949 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Dorothy Borg
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Author(s):  
Marek Rutka

W artykule przedstawiono stan obecny i najważniejsze kierunki rozwoju branży motoryzacyjnej w Polsce, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem tych obszarów które można zakwalifikować do miana innowacyjnych. Chodzi zarówno o rozwiązania konstrukcyjne, technologiczne jak i koncepcyjne firm produkujących kompletne pojazdy, podzespoły oraz komponenty. Wyróżniono najważniejsze czynniki wpływające na rozwój tej branży w Polsce w ostatnich latach na tle krajów regionu i pozostałych krajów Unii Europejskiej. W artykule wykorzystano dane pochodzące z raportów rocznych publikowanych m.in. przez: Polski Związek Przemysłu Motoryzacyjnego, European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ECEA) oraz International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers. Szczególną uwagę poświecono tym producentom w Polsce, którzy dysponują i rozwijają własne biura konstrukcyjne, a nawet tworzą rozbudowane działy badawczo-rozwojowe we współpracy z uczelniami wyższymi. W artykule zarysowano również najważniejsze problemy i zagrożenia dla rozwoju działalności badawczo-rozwojowej w najbliższej przyszłości.


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