Mark S. LeClair and Kathy Doornbosch
Corporate involvement in the acquisition and display of fine art has expanded from a relatively unknown practice undertaken by a few businesses, to a common activity involving…
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Corporate involvement in the acquisition and display of fine art has expanded from a relatively unknown practice undertaken by a few businesses, to a common activity involving hundreds of firms. This study presents the results of a survey of 450 corporations (with 130 respondents) aimed at measuring the motivations behind the creation of corporate collections. Such collections may be held to improve employee morale and retention, to enhance the public image of the corporation, or to bolster the bottom‐line. In addition, a number of non‐monetary reasons are frequently cited. Corporations may be hesitant to reveal their true motives for holding art, since such a revelation may undo the very reasons for acquiring such a collection (enlightenment becomes simple self‐interest). Unlike previous studies of this kind, the questions are designed to determine the motivating factors behind these collections, without relying solely on the firms to reveal those motives. The results indicate that although a variety of motives, both pecuniary and non‐pecuniary, underlie these acquisitions, the former tend to dominate.
This chapter reviews ethical challenges confronting nonprofit administration in relation to organizational managerial practices and leadership behaviors. Through a theoretical…
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This chapter reviews ethical challenges confronting nonprofit administration in relation to organizational managerial practices and leadership behaviors. Through a theoretical model of nonprofit-specific toxic leadership, it reviews the dynamics of destructive leaders, susceptible followers, and conducive environments in cases of unethical and corrupt nonprofit organizational behaviors. It provides a case for prioritizing oversight responsibilities of the board of directors, board supervision, promoting ethical culture in organizational leadership, and implementing policies for addressing destructive and corrupt nonprofit leaders. It reflects on how nonprofit toxic leadership primarily erodes public trust in the nonprofit sector and concludes with practical recommendations for recentering positive behaviors congruent with the nonprofit's social and public good mission.
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Fashion documentaries are many. Although their behind-the-scene access presents some undeniable interest, the author suggests that while revealing information about the creative…
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Fashion documentaries are many. Although their behind-the-scene access presents some undeniable interest, the author suggests that while revealing information about the creative process, the economic priorities are understated.
Design/methodology/approach
The author reviews Frederic Tcheng’s Dior and I documentary, which brings the viewer inside the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house with a look at the creation of Raf Simons’ first haute couture collection as its new artistic director.
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The author analyses the documentary with the literature on tensions between creativity and economy to bring some light into the observed frictions. Digging deeper, the literature is also used to reveal several issues that are overlooked in the documentary, small glimpse of the organization.
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The paper voices what is easily silenced around creative work in the fashion industry, as well as and more globally in creative industries.
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While global economic conditions create incentives for new market entry and expansion strategies, the environmental factors affecting these strategies must be fully considered…
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While global economic conditions create incentives for new market entry and expansion strategies, the environmental factors affecting these strategies must be fully considered. For example, the international marketer will encounter unfamiliar laws and policies that can create confusion about standards and require changes in marketing philosophy and practice. This article utilizes a general marketing planning framework to examine the effects of government policy on marketing activities. Using the European Union as an example, the discussion includes an overview of policy inputs to international marketing decisions, specific legislation related to marketing strategy, and impending issues that may affect marketing decision making in the future. The article incorporates a proactive orientation toward the marketing policy environment through a review of both current laws and other topics with a legal and political component. The information presented is useful to international marketing managers and educators for understanding the effects of government policy on the international marketing planning process.
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Kate Daellenbach, Lena Zander and Peter Thirkell
– The purpose of this paper is to better understand the sensemaking strategies of managers involved in making decisions concerning arts sponsorship.
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The purpose of this paper is to better understand the sensemaking strategies of managers involved in making decisions concerning arts sponsorship.
Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative, multiple case method is employed, using multiple informants in ten arts sponsorship decisions. Within and between case analyses were conducted and examined iteratively, along with literature to generate themes to guide future research.
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This study finds art sponsorships may be seen as ambiguous, cueing sensemaking; the sensemaking strategies of senior managers involve response to pro-social cues while middle managers draw on commercial benefit cues; sensebreaking and sensegiving are part of the process; and the actors and their interpretations draw from cues in the organisational frames of reference which act as filters, giving meaning to the situations.
Research limitations/implications
This study presents a novel perspective on these decisions, focusing on the micro-level actions and interpretations of actors. It extends current understanding of sponsorship decision making, contributing to a perspective of managers responding to cues, interacting and making sense of their decisions.
Practical implications
For arts managers, this perspective provides understanding of how managers (potential sponsors) respond to multiple cues, interpret and rationalise arts sponsorships. For corporate managers, insights reveal differences in sensemaking between hierarchical levels, and the role of interaction, and organisational frames of reference.
Originality/value
This study is unique in its approach to understanding these decisions in terms of sensemaking, through the use of multiple informants and multiple case studies.
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Drawing on accounts from 22 lesbian couples with children conceived using donor insemination, this chapter explores how the respondents’ selection of parent terms, such as “momma”…
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Drawing on accounts from 22 lesbian couples with children conceived using donor insemination, this chapter explores how the respondents’ selection of parent terms, such as “momma” and “mommy,” influences day-to-day negotiation of parenthood. Term selection was affected by personal meanings respondents associated with terms as well as how they anticipated terms would be publicly received. Couples utilized personalized meanings associated with terms, such as terms used by families of origin or reflected in a parent’s cultural background, to help non-biological mothers feel comfortable and secure in their parenting identities. Some families also avoided terms that non-biological mothers associated too strongly with biological motherhood and felt uncomfortable using for themselves. Families also considered whether parent terms, and subsequently their relationships to their children, would be recognizable to strangers or cause undue scrutiny to their family. However, not all of the families selected terms that were easily decipherable by strangers and had to negotiate moments in which the personal meanings and public legibility of terms came into conflict. Overall, these accounts illustrate the importance of parent terms for lesbian-parent families, and other nontraditional families, as a family practice negotiating both deeply personal meanings surrounding parent–child relationships and how these terms, and the families, are normatively recognizable in public spaces.
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The aim of this chapter is to propose a critical analysis of socially responsible investing (SRI) through debate and reconstruction. Our goal is therefore to try to understand how…
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The aim of this chapter is to propose a critical analysis of socially responsible investing (SRI) through debate and reconstruction. Our goal is therefore to try to understand how the definition of ethics in finance has steered SRI towards a financial approach where ethics is guided by finance.
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This chapter proposes a two-point approach consisting of a meta-debate and development perspectives. Each approach is divided into three debates (ideological and philosophical, scientific and practical), which are interconnected.
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The chapter concludes that the debate on mainstream SRI is necessary but should be re-discussed, as it is preventing in its current form the concept from developing and being grounded in real ethical values, sacrificing the individual ethics that should be driving investing decisions.
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The chapter proposes to rethink the paradigm around SRI through a conceptual framework that re-inserts finance within ethics, where non-financial performance and impact investment should be at the centre of the scientific debates, leading to an SRI based on exclusion, the consideration of controversies and social impact measurement.
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Stephen A. Stumpf and Robert A. Longman
With the leading management consultancies all seeking to have “partner” relationships with leading institutions and global organizations, what will distinguish great relationships…
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With the leading management consultancies all seeking to have “partner” relationships with leading institutions and global organizations, what will distinguish great relationships from ones that end in blood‐letting? Theories and best practices abound; collectively they may provide useful guidance for a consultant’s professional development and career success.
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Naveen Donthu, Satish Kumar, Debidutta Pattnaik and Neeraj Pandey
The primary objective of this endeavour is to form a retrospective overview of the International Marketing Review (IMR) and map its way forward.
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The primary objective of this endeavour is to form a retrospective overview of the International Marketing Review (IMR) and map its way forward.
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A range of bibliometric techniques has been employed to analyse the performance of IMR and its stakeholders, map the evolution of its thematic and intellectual structures and analyse the factors driving IMR's academic influence and impact
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IMR's academic contributions, influence and impact have grown progressively. The thematic structure of the journal has evolved into six clusters. Simultaneously, its research fronts have submerged to six bibliographic clusters, noted as marketing channels, cross-cultural impact on emerging markets, export performance, country of origin (COO), online consumers and global business environment. Among these, the first four are still evolving, suggesting scope for future submissions.
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The limitation of this endeavour largely arises from its selection of bibliographic data being confined to Scopus.
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To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first objective assessment of the journal, useful to its authors, readers, reviewers and editorial board.