To remind readers of the decline in America's reputation and the importance of “citizen diplomacy” in addressing the problem.
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Purpose
To remind readers of the decline in America's reputation and the importance of “citizen diplomacy” in addressing the problem.
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Business for Diplomatic Action (BDA) asked people in more than 100 countries to give advice for Americans who travel outside the US. Their responses formed the foundation for a World Citizens Guide produced and distributed by BDA to US youth who travel and study abroad. Based on the success of this students' guide, a business travelers' guide will be released in the first quarter of 2006.
Findings
Research confirms that Americans are broadly seen as arrogant, self‐absorbed, ignorant of other cultures and insensitive. These perceptions are at least partially formed by interaction with the Americans who make 60 million trips abroad every year. By following the advice of people in host countries, US citizens who travel can begin to improve America's reputation.
Practical implications
The article includes 16 specific suggestions that, followed, will make American business travelers better ambassadors for their country.
Originality/value
Understanding how Americans are perceived is the first step toward modifying arrogant and insensitive behavior. American business travelers who learn to be more sensitive to the foreign cultures they encounter will not only enhance their chances for business success but will improve the perception of their country at the same time.
To analyze the challenges for business posed by rising anti‐Americanism and anti‐globalism, the need to restore trust in business, and the demands of transparency. These…
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Purpose
To analyze the challenges for business posed by rising anti‐Americanism and anti‐globalism, the need to restore trust in business, and the demands of transparency. These considerable, but surmountable challenges are met by keeping pace with rapid change, through communicating and building reputation, and through modeling the concepts of “truth” and “trust” as the common currency of a robust world civilization.
Design/methodology/approach
Focus on recent research into global attitudes toward business by Pew Global Attitudes Project, Edelman Annual Trust Barometer, NOP World, Global Market Insite; and on the PR Coalition White Paper, Restoring Trust in Business.
Findings
Emerging best practices for combating anti‐Americanism and for restoring trust through ethical behavior, transparency, and board‐level commitment.
Practical implications
Corporate development of public affairs and issues management strategies designed to mitigate the negative impact of rising anti‐Americanism and declining trust in business.
Originality/value
Understanding a shift in global attitudes toward business results in informed decision making, strategic planning, and effective issues management and thought leadership.
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The purpose of this paper is to show how the rise in popularity of the recently elected President will have a beneficial effect or otherwise on the prosperity of the United States…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to show how the rise in popularity of the recently elected President will have a beneficial effect or otherwise on the prosperity of the United States of America.
Design/methodology/approach
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
Findings
Shows how Obama's personal qualities have helped to get to the White house.
Originality/value
The most welcomed US president arrives at the same moment as one of the most economically uncertain times for decades. His handling of these affairs will be followed keenly by his allies and critics alike.
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Jocelyne Kenny, Ian Asquith, Reinhard Guss, Elizabeth Field, Lewis Slade, Alexandra Bone, Keith Oliver, Mark Jones, Chris Ryan, Melvyn Brooks and Chris Norris
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how service user involvement for people living with a diagnosis of dementia can contribute to innovate ways of training and educating a…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how service user involvement for people living with a diagnosis of dementia can contribute to innovate ways of training and educating a skilled healthcare workforce.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses a case study approach, including interviews observations and reflections from facilitators and members of a service user group for people living with dementia in a recovery-based older adult service in East Kent, UK. In total, 11 people were involved in this study: five people are living with a diagnosis of dementia, two are clinical psychologists, two are trainee clinical psychologists and two are placement year psychology undergraduates.
Findings
The paper shows how service user involvement groups can enable people with dementia to train a wide range of healthcare professionals in different areas, from the perspective of people living with dementia and healthcare professionals. It also reflects on the challenges that can arise through working with patients in a more collegiate way.
Originality/value
This paper demonstrates that people with dementia can be involved in the training of healthcare professionals in innovative ways. It therefore suggests new ways of working with people with dementia to develop staff skills.
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Economics laboratories have become the primary locations of experimental economics research by the 1990s. They were a result of a decade long development from ad hoc opportune…
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Economics laboratories have become the primary locations of experimental economics research by the 1990s. They were a result of a decade long development from ad hoc opportune places to dedicated, purpose designed spaces. The distinctive feature of the economics laboratory and its key instrument became networked computers running custom-built software. However, the history of the economics laboratory is not just a history of evolving technology. I argue in this article that it is mainly a history of learning how to build an experimental economics community. Only a functioning community was able to change a physical place to a laboratory space. The distinction between place and space originates in the work of Michael de Certeau and I use it to analyze the evolution of economics laboratories. To this end, I analyze the case of Austin Hoggatt’s Management Science Laboratory at Berkeley in the 1960s as it illustrates the indispensability of creating a community centered on the laboratory. In contrast, the laboratories in Arizona and at Caltech since the 1980s, and in Amsterdam since the 1990s have become successful spaces, because, unlike Hoggatt, they focused equally on community building as on infrastructure and technology. This gave rise to social infrastructure and division of labor in the laboratory space.
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Maurício C. Coutinho and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
Though contemporaries, Adam Smith and Sir James Steuart are commonly portrayed as if they belonged to different eras. Whereas Smith went down in history as both founder of the…
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Though contemporaries, Adam Smith and Sir James Steuart are commonly portrayed as if they belonged to different eras. Whereas Smith went down in history as both founder of the science of political economy and patron saint of economic liberalism, Steuart became known as the last, outdated advocate for mercantilist policies in Britain. Smith himself was responsible for popularizing the notion of the “system of commerce” as an approach to political economy that dominated the early modern period. As a historiographical concept, the mercantile system became a misguided international trade theory grounded upon the Midas fallacy and the favorable balance of trade doctrine. Smith’s treatment of international trade in the Wealth of Nations, however, was criticized for its inconsistencies and lack of analytical clarity even by some among his own followers. Given Smith’s doubtful credentials as an international trade theorist, the chapter investigates the reasons that led him and Steuart to be placed on opposite sides of the mercantilist divide. The authors analyze the works of both authors in depth, showing that their disagreements had chiefly to do with different views on money and monetary policy. Additionally, the authors explore how early nineteenth-century writers such as Jean-Baptiste Say and J. R. McCulloch helped forge the intellectual profiles of both Steuart and Smith.
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By deconstructing centres and peripheries in Australian history curricula, the purpose of this paper is to establish in what ways these documents blended local, state‐specific…
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Purpose
By deconstructing centres and peripheries in Australian history curricula, the purpose of this paper is to establish in what ways these documents blended local, state‐specific concepts of major civilisations with trans‐local, and even global cultural assumptions about centre and periphery in world history.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper identifies a specific idea of centres in the 2009 Shape of the Australian Curriculum published by the National Curriculum Board. It demanded that “[s]tudents should have an appreciation of the major civilisations of Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Australia”. The idea of five groups of “major civilisations” is used to frame an analysis of history curricula from Western Australia and New South Wales. Syllabi from these States are used as examples because they demonstrate oppositional positions, geographically and in their approach to history teaching. Only senior secondary syllabi exhibit a continuous development of the subject history in most Australian states and territories. Hence, the paper deconstructs history syllabi for Years 11 and 12 and discusses in what ways a discourse between centre and periphery can be identified.
Findings
The author proposes a concept of a global centre in history curricula, which is found in multifaceted expressions at the peripheries.
Originality/value
Fully acknowledging that syllabi emerge from a web of local influences, which include state‐specific social, political, economic, and administrative factors, the paper adds a global perspective to the understanding of Australian history curricula which draws on the idea of cultural power.