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Publication date: 10 July 2018

Ericka Costa, Caterina Pesci, Michele Andreaus and Emanuele Taufer

Drawing on the phenomenological concepts of “empathy” and “communal emotions” developed by Edith Stein (1917, 1922), the purpose of this paper is to discuss the co-existence both…

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Purpose

Drawing on the phenomenological concepts of “empathy” and “communal emotions” developed by Edith Stein (1917, 1922), the purpose of this paper is to discuss the co-existence both of the legitimacy and accountability perspectives in voluntarily delivered social and environmental reporting (SER), based on different “levels of empathy” towards different stakeholders.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper adopts an interpretive research design, drawn from Stein’s concept of empathy by using a mixed-method approach. A manual content analysis was performed on 393 cooperative banks’ (CB) social and environmental reports from 2005 to 2013 in Italy, and 14 semi-structured interviews.

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The results show that CBs voluntarily disclose information in different ways to different stakeholders. According to Stein, the phenomenological concept of empathy, and its understanding within institutions, allows us to interpret these multiple perspectives within a single social and environmental report. Therefore, when the process of acquiring knowledge in the CB–stakeholder relationship is complete and mentalised (level 3, re-enactive empathy), the SER holds high informative power, consistent with the accountability perspective; on the contrary, when this process is peripheral and perceptional (level 1, basic empathy), the SER tends to provide more self-assessment information, attempting to portray the bank in a positive light, which is consistent with the legitimacy perspective.

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The concept of empathy introduced in this paper can assist in interpreting the interactions between an organisation and different stakeholders within the same social and environmental report. Moreover, the approach adopted in this paper considers different stakeholders simultaneously, thus responding to previous concerns regarding the lack of focus on multiple stakeholders.

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Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 32 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0951-3574

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Publication date: 14 January 2025

Florian Koopmeiners, Margit Stein and Felista Tangi

Within the chapter, we report on the scientifically controlled implementation of a new non-violent and highly inclusive secondary school in Tanzania in the region of Mwanza. To…

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Within the chapter, we report on the scientifically controlled implementation of a new non-violent and highly inclusive secondary school in Tanzania in the region of Mwanza. To give a detailed picture of the school the founder of the school, one teacher, one social worker and 18 students aged 13–16 years of age of five different classes were interviewed. The school was set up as a best practice example to fight the high amount of corporal punishment and school violence in Tanzania. The school focusses on vulnerable students like children and youths of rural areas, from broken families and poor households as well as female students, orphaned children, youths and students with handicaps. A special focus is placed on the schooling of children with albinism who have often been exposed to discrimination, exclusion, mutilation or murder. The concept of the school is based on a study by Tangi (2019) as well as Stein et al. (2019a, 2019b) on harsh discipline and violence by teachers and bullying by students in secondary schools in the region of Mwanza in Tanzania. The newly established school is also based on the concept of child rights-focussed schools, on the concept of coaching and mentoring as well as on the ideas and ideals of inclusion. In 2021, Felista Tangi, founder of the school, was granted the Shalom Award of the Working Group Shalom of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, for her work against corporal punishment and for a more peaceful society.

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Conflict Prevention and Peace Management
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83549-979-5

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Publication date: 14 January 2025

Margit Stein and Koffi Emmanuel Noglo

Many young people grow up in a climate of violence and oppression. As a result, they themselves often do not know how to develop in a peaceful society and are unaware of their…

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Many young people grow up in a climate of violence and oppression. As a result, they themselves often do not know how to develop in a peaceful society and are unaware of their opportunities and rights. This is where the Academie Bilimon comes in, offering young people between 14 and 27 years of age workshops and materials like handbooks and comics to live in peace and in solidarity with others. Peers are used as workshop leaders in the sense of peer teaching. These workshop concepts for global citizenship education (GCE) of the Academie Bilimon were made available in form of a handbook in seven different languages among them also African languages like Swahili, Haussa, Ewe and Kabiyè (Noglo & Stein, 2023; https://www.bilimonacademie.org/materiel-didactiques/bd).

This chapter introduces the concept of the Academie Bilimon and also the peer teaching book project, in which students from Togo and Germany, based on the workshops and Freire’s (2013) didactic-methodological approaches, developed a handbook for youth education in practical areas of life, such as identity development, responsible sexuality, vocational promotion, social engagement, interculturality, democracy building, peace education or education for sustainable development (ESD). The materials and teaching methods or skills gathered in the handbook were translated from the German language into French, English, Kiswahili, Haussa, Ewe and Kabiyè. The handbook for peer teaching is available online and free of charge and is used in schools, universities and workshops for youth leaders, teachers and headmasters all over Africa (Noglo & Stein, 2023; https://www.bilimonacademie.org/materiel-didactiques/bd).

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Conflict Prevention and Peace Management
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83549-979-5

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Publication date: 1 February 2003

DIMITRIS PSYCHOYIOS, GEORGE SKIADOPOULOS and PANAYOTIS ALEXAKIS

The volatility of a financial asset is an important input for financial decision‐making in the context of asset allocation, option pricing, and risk management. The authors…

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The volatility of a financial asset is an important input for financial decision‐making in the context of asset allocation, option pricing, and risk management. The authors compare and contrast four approaches to stochastic volatility to determine which is most appropriate to each of these various needs.

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The Journal of Risk Finance, vol. 4 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1526-5943

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Publication date: 26 April 2024

Savo Heleta

Using a decolonial framework for thinking about knowledge, education and internationalisation, this chapter critically unpacks the historical and contemporary complexities in…

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Using a decolonial framework for thinking about knowledge, education and internationalisation, this chapter critically unpacks the historical and contemporary complexities in South African higher education, including the colonial roots of higher education and internationalisation, the Eurocentric hegemony and white domination during colonialism and apartheid, and the lack of epistemic decolonisation in post-apartheid South Africa. The chapter shows how the way internationalisation has been practiced by universities since the end of apartheid has contributed to the maintenance of Eurocentric hegemony and coloniality of knowledge. The chapter highlights the need to rethink, reconceptualise and redefine internationalisation, and unpacks a new definition of internationalisation which takes into consideration historical complexities, contemporary realities and challenges, and the need for epistemic transformation and decolonisation in South African higher education. This is in line with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s decolonial ‘quest for relevance’ of education and knowledge to the people, places and regions in which universities operate, while looking outwards at the world and critically engaging with the plurality of worldviews, ideas, knowledges and ways of knowing. Such a quest could allow students to critically interrogate and understand their being and place in the world, as well as their relationships and linkages to others around the globe.

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Critical Reflections on the Internationalisation of Higher Education in the Global South
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80455-779-2

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Publication date: 1 March 1998

E. Stein and M. Kreienmeyer

The boundary element method (BEM) and the finite element method (FEM) may be computationally expensive if complex problems are to be solved; thus there is the need of implementing…

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The boundary element method (BEM) and the finite element method (FEM) may be computationally expensive if complex problems are to be solved; thus there is the need of implementing them on fast computer architectures, especially parallel computers. Because these methods are complementary to each other, the coupling of FEM and BEM is widely used. In this paper, the coupling of displacement‐based FEM and collocation BEM and its implementation on a distributed memory system (Parsytec MultiCluster2) is described. The parallelization is performed by data partitioning which leads to a very high efficiency. As model problems, we assume linear elasticity for the boundary element method and elastoplasticity for the finite element method. The efficiency of our implementation is shown by various test examples. By numerical examples we show that a multiplicative Schwarz method for coupling BEM with FEM is very well suited for parallel implementation.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 15 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Publication date: 2 January 2009

Uroš Bohinc, Adnan Ibrahimbegovic and Boštjan Brank

The purpose of this paper is to address error‐controlled adaptive finite element (FE) method for thin and thick plates. A procedure is presented for determining the most suitable…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to address error‐controlled adaptive finite element (FE) method for thin and thick plates. A procedure is presented for determining the most suitable plate model (among available hierarchical plate models) for each particular FE of the selected mesh, that is provided as the final output of the mesh adaptivity procedure.

Design/methodology/approach

The model adaptivity procedure can be seen as an appropriate extension to model adaptivity for linear elastic plates of so‐called equilibrated boundary traction approach error estimates, previously proposed for 2D/3D linear elasticity. Model error indicator is based on a posteriori element‐wise computation of improved (continuous) equilibrated boundary stress resultants, and on a set of hierarchical plate models. The paper illustrates the details of proposed model adaptivity procedure for choosing between two most frequently used plate models: the one of Kirchhoff and the other of Reissner‐Mindlin. The implementation details are provided for a particular case of the discrete Kirchhoff quadrilateral four‐node plate FE and the corresponding Reissner‐Mindlin quadrilateral with the same number of nodes. The key feature for those elements that they both provide the same quality of the discretization space (and thus the same discretization error) is the one which justifies uncoupling of the proposed model adaptivity from the mesh adaptivity.

Findings

Several numerical examples are presented in order to illustrate a very satisfying performance of the proposed methodology in guiding the final choice of the optimal model and mesh in analysis of complex plate structures.

Originality/value

The paper confirms that one can make an automatic selection of the most appropriate plate model for thin and thick plates on the basis of proposed model adaptivity procedure.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 26 no. 1/2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Publication date: 2 June 2015

Kristin L. Scott and Michelle K. Duffy

We explore the antecedents of workplace ostracism and delineate possible organizational interventions to deter ostracism. Under the lens of evolutionary psychology we argue that…

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We explore the antecedents of workplace ostracism and delineate possible organizational interventions to deter ostracism. Under the lens of evolutionary psychology we argue that individuals deemed capable of contributing to social and organizational goals become valued group members while those who threaten group stability and viability risk being shunned or ostracized. Specifically, we review empirical evidence and present the results of a pilot study suggesting that those who are perceived to violate injunctive and descriptive norms, as well as threaten one’s self-concept are at increased risk for ostracism. In terms of intervention, we propose mindfulness techniques and organizational support as a route to deter employees’ inclinations to ostracize coworkers. Thus, a primary goal of this chapter is to explicate a framework for identifying the predictors and deterrents of workplace ostracism in order to generate additional research on this important topic.

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Publication date: 12 January 2021

Juan Javier Negri

This chapter explores the question of the relationship between bureaucracy and politics in Latin America. The objective is exploring the role that politics plays in guaranteeing a…

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This chapter explores the question of the relationship between bureaucracy and politics in Latin America. The objective is exploring the role that politics plays in guaranteeing a professional and autonomous bureaucracy structure.

The chapter first examines an institutional explanation for bureaucratic performance. I will scrutinize the institutional arrangements that might preclude the existence of a professional bureaucracy. The chapter then “brings the state back in,” under the assumption that the explanation for performance of bureaucracy might have been related to long-lasting conditions of “Stateness.” The bureaucracy is analyzed in a more historical perspective and relates the former with specific societal and partisan coalitions at the time of state consolidation. These historical decisions seem to have determined a pattern of clientelistic utilization of the State apparatus in some countries but not in others. The partial evidence presented in this section suggests the importance of “state strength” to understand bureaucratic performance.

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The Emerald Handbook of Public Administration in Latin America
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83982-677-1

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Publication date: 6 August 2024

Jeffrey A. Hayes

Mental health is not simply the absence of psychological problems any more than physical health is the absence of disease. This chapter explores various aspects of optimal mental…

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Mental health is not simply the absence of psychological problems any more than physical health is the absence of disease. This chapter explores various aspects of optimal mental health and wellbeing among college students. It examines the question of what is required for college students to both feel their best and function at or near their highest levels. It also discusses the characteristics of peak mental health, including its transient nature. Predictive factors such as exercise, diet, sleep and social connection will be explored. Regarding the features of optimal wellbeing, the following variables are described: integrity, values, mindfulness, self-compassion, flow and resilience. These variables are considered in an integrated fashion as components, as well as byproducts, of wellness. Hettler’s multidimensional model of wellness is presented at the outset of the chapter, followed by Keyes’ theory of flourishing.

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College Student Mental Health and Wellness: Coping on Campus
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83549-197-3

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