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Semiotica, 2015
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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Jul 1, 2009
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Journal of affective disorders, Jan 28, 2015
Hopelessness is frequently observed in people who harm themselves and is an established risk fact... more Hopelessness is frequently observed in people who harm themselves and is an established risk factor for nonfatal self-harm repetition and suicide. Little is known about how the presence of hopelessness in addition to other risk factors affects subsequent risk. Prospective cohort of 19,479 individuals presenting with self-harm to one of three English Emergency Departments between 1st January 2000 and 31st December 2010. Repeat self-harm and suicide deaths within twelve months of the first assessed episode were identified. Cox Proportional Hazards models were used to estimate Hazard Ratios (HRs) for risk factors with and without hopelessness. A clinical impression of hopelessness was associated with increased risk of further self-harm (HR 1.35, 95% CI 1.16-1.58) and suicide (HR 2.56, CI 1.10-5.96) in the year following an index episode. For individuals who were living alone or homeless, unemployed, reported problems with housing, had received psychiatric treatment in the past, were cu...
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Climate change and global health, 2014
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Recent application of quantum theoretic ideas to classical game theory allows a player's know... more Recent application of quantum theoretic ideas to classical game theory allows a player's knowledge of other players' moves (the quantum) to determine the outcomes of problems involving states and private interests. Application of this work to representation of private interests in the polity (D. Matten, & A. Crane, 2005, "Corporate citizenship: toward an extended theoretical conceptualization", Academy of Management Review, 30(1), pp. 166-179) suggests that scholarship in corporate citizenship/corporate social accountability/corporate social responsibilities needs to remain open to further conceptual debate. It is na¿ve, at best, to expect private business interests, unguided by public policy objectives, to produce desirable policy outcomes. Investiture of social security in private interests represents more an institutional project that serves the interests of disparate, legitimacy-craving institutional actors.
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Consider the representation of value in the organizations we rely on for our long retirements. So... more Consider the representation of value in the organizations we rely on for our long retirements. Social security has been symbolized by private mechanisms such as the employment-related pension scheme, yet, reporting requirement would impute its fitness for financial trading. A scheme's financier sees a mounting unsecured debt where its members see practical value. Between the two, a steward who may not profit from its office delegates it to back-office agents whose fiduciary management is engendered by box-office sized bonuses. Standard theorisation has foundered. The architecture of the pension scheme would challenge the most ardent advocate of agency theory; its market rationality enfeebles stewardship theory; resource dependency and stakeholder analysis shrug off the complexity of substitutable interests. A dialectical reconstruction of network theory allows comprehension at the systemic level, instantiating the symbolic values with the real.
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ABSTRACT The paper identifies epistemological, theoretical and methodological problems in a poten... more ABSTRACT The paper identifies epistemological, theoretical and methodological problems in a potentially influential subset of the interdisciplinary corporate responsibility literature, being that which,appears,in the management,literature. The received,conceptualisation of stakeholder analysis is criticised by identifying,six sets of factors conventionally considered as promoting social responsibilities in the firm: inter -organizational factors, economic competitors, institutional investors, end -consumers, government regulators and non- governmental organizations. Each is addressed on conceptual grounds, its empirical salience interms,of the,latest relevant research and prospects to be,a significant factor in promoting outcomes,consistent with social welfare. Despite obvious,antagonistic relations between organization-centred,economic,objectives,and,extra-organizational-directed,social considerations, the huge body of research we address drifts in a disengaged Sargasso Sea. Addres...
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Accounting standard setters have been rather ambiguous regarding the connections of the public in... more Accounting standard setters have been rather ambiguous regarding the connections of the public interest ideal with reporting requirements placed on employer-sponsored pension plans. Recognition of the public interest involves a real and apparent contribution to the idea of the public. This rests on a capacity to contribute to the type of political economy to which accounting would claim its strongest commitment. In this regard, it is not surprising that pensions reporting has been justified using assumptions about the usefulness of reporting a marketised value. The social capital represented in a pension plan and its hoped-for release on the public purse does not sit well with representation according to its fitness for trading. By using available data on pension fund membership and benefit levels in three continents, the paper shows that the financial reporting model for private pension plans has shaped rather than reflect realities. Outcomes of reporting requirement include sponso...
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This essay identifies epistemological, theoretical and methodological problems in a potentially i... more This essay identifies epistemological, theoretical and methodological problems in a potentially influential subset of the interdisciplinary corporate responsibility literature, that which appears in the management literature. The received conceptualization of stakeholder analysis is criticised by identifying six sets of factors conventionally considered as promoting social responsibilities in the firm: inter-organizational factors, economic competitors, institutional investors, end-consumers, government regulators and non-governmental organizations. Each is addressed on conceptual grounds, its empirical salience in terms of the latest relevant research and prospects to be a significant factor in promoting outcomes consistent with social welfare. Despite obvious antagonistic relations between organization-centred economic objectives and extra-organizational-directed social considerations, the huge body of research we address drifts in a disengaged Sargasso Sea. The essay argues for a...
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Under consideration is whether organisations can validate moral norms that cannot be appropriated... more Under consideration is whether organisations can validate moral norms that cannot be appropriated by capital. Meta-ethics and moral philosophy can help progress discussions from debates over the existence of collective morality onto exercise of corporate responsibilities. We contribute to recent modelling work in universalist thinking (L. Boltanski and L. Thivenot, 2006, On Justification: Economies of Worth, C. Porter (trans), Princeton University Press NJ) by identifying salient and, is argued, necessary conditions for the exercise of collective moral decisions. Adequate preparation for justified decision-making calls for a requisite level of moral bravery. Spatial reflexivity informed from the concept of reflective equilibrium and a collective self-reliance informed from the moral practices of parrhesia provide for integrity of action.
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Investment products that deploy ethical values and social considerations in portfolio constructio... more Investment products that deploy ethical values and social considerations in portfolio construction have persisted since the 1980s. Pitting Habermasian discourse ethics against Foucauldian power relations and radical institutionalism, the paper argues that socially directed mutual funds ascribe capital markets with validities of high moral magnitude, work up extant tendencies toward financial hegemony and stymie criticism of the political-economic order. Institutional pressures do not permit the exercise of an ethic stronger than an aesthetic care of the self. The balance struck between economic and social priorities is investigated by interviewing investment managers, reviewing archival material and surveying the attitudes of unit holders in retail social mutual funds.
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Experimental Psychology, 2015
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Acta Psychologica, 2015
We identify a blind spot in the early Theory of Mind processing of conditional sentences that des... more We identify a blind spot in the early Theory of Mind processing of conditional sentences that describe a protagonist's potential action, and its predictable consequences. We propose that such sentences create expectations through two independent channels. A decision theoretic channel creates an expectation that the action will be taken (viz., not taken) if it has desirable (viz., undesirable) consequences, but a structural channel acts in parallel to create an expectation that the action will be taken, irrespective of desirability. Accordingly, reading should be disrupted when a protagonist avoids an action with desirable consequences, but reading should not be disrupted when a protagonist takes an action with undesirable consequences. This prediction was supported by the eye movements of participants reading systematically varied vignettes. Reading was always disrupted when the protagonist avoided an action with desirable consequences, but disruptions were either delayed (Experiment 1) or recovered from faster (Experiment 2) when the protagonist took an action with undesirable consequences.
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