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Effective pursuit of personal goals: The fostering effect of dispositional optimism on goal commitment and goal progress
2015
Abstract Personal goals play a leading role in directing behavior and influencing well-being. Thus, it is important to assess goal dimensions promoting effective goal pursuit. The current research aimed at identifying the best predictors of goal pursuit, operationalized as perceived goal progress, among goal-related variables and individual differences in dispositional optimism. Two studies examined the influence of optimism on goal progress, commitment, expectancy, value, and conflict. Moreover, the mediation effect of expectancy in the relationships among optimism, commitment and progress was assessed. Participants in the first cross-sectional study were 283 young people (19–32 years old)…
Electronic government and corruption: Systematic literature review, framework, and agenda for future research
2021
Abstract The notion of corruption has emerged as a prominent topic against the backdrop of e-government. However, there are diverse but disorganized viewpoints about the relationship between e-government and corruption, thus creating difficulties in obtaining a structured overview of the existing literature and identifying the avenues to take this research area forward. Despite this, prior studies have made limited attempts to gather these fragmented observations to guide future research holistically. To address this concern, we conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) of 63 articles discussing e-government and corruption and provide a comprehensive synthesis of the current knowledge in…
European Politics of Food Origin. A Semiotic Analysis of Geographical Indications
2021
This chapter investigates the relationship between food products and origin places within the European Union food policies. In the 1990s, the EU established a Geographical Indication (GI) system, constituted of a set of food quality brands and a legal framework for food, wine and spirits. This system, defined as a sui generis model by insiders, entails a strong EU government participation in the typical food symbolic and material modelling. The sui generis model establishes a government monopoly on the place-based labels registration and institutes an atypical kind of intellectual property based on geographic marks. By proposing a semiotic approach toward the analysis of European Geographic…
Imagined communities against the tide? The questioned political projection of nationalism
2017
This article deals with the validity of Anderson’s definition of imagined communities and the future of imagination typical of nationalism. It is based on bibliographic review and research on the case of Cerdanya. Three questions of Anderson’s definition are revised: the limitation of the nation, its supposedly inherent sovereignty and the sense of community among unknown people. In this last point, the text focuses also on the consequences that imagined community is embodied for known people every day. It concludes that the production of local identities and dynamics in global, local and regional level represents a challenge for the political projection of imagined communities. Nevertheles…
Cultural References and Linguistic Exponents of Gender in the Norwegian Translation of Michał Witkowski’s Lubiewo
2019
The novel Lubiewo by the Polish writer Michal Witkowski has been called by its reviewers “a homosexual Decamerone.” The atmosphere of the book ranges from bright situational comic through bizarre tragicomic to serious reflection, and the narration structure resembles Boccaccio’s. The heroes (or heroines) of the novel belong to a complicated and internally split world of Polish homosexuals. Their sociolects and registers are, at first glance, barely translatable into Germanic languages: partly because of the Polish grammatical gender system, partly because of their extremely deep anchoring in the Polish culture. In this chapter, the Norwegian translation of Lubiewo is compared to the novel’s…
Huomioita aikamme traagisuudesta
2018
Kaikkien kanonisoitujen filosofioiden taustalla vaikuttaa ajattelijoiden ainutlaatuinen näkemys niin maailmasta ja ihmisestä kuin näiden välisestä suhteesta. Argumenttien lisäksi, ja monesti niiden sijaan, meitä puhuttelevat juuri näkemykset, jotka vetoavat omiin kokemuksiimme ja näkemyksiimme ihmisinä. Tästä syystä erilaisten kriisien värittäminä aikakausina esiin nousevat usein kirjoittajat, joiden näkemystä voidaan kutsua traagiseksi. nonPeerReviewed
A brief structured view of green chemistry issues
2004
Das modulare Gedächtnistraining für ältere Erwachsene: Konzeption und Erprobung
1998
Es wird eine umfassende, modular aufgebaute Konzeption fur ein alltagsrelevantes Training kognitiver Fahigkeiten vorgestellt, die die Ausgangsleistung und Bedurfnisse der Trainierten berucksichtigt, okonomisch in der Durchfuhrung ist sowie eine Evaluierung der Wirksamkeit einzelner Trainingselemente erlaubt. Die vorgestellte Umsetzung und Erprobung des Konzepts weist auf die Bedeutung der Alltagsnahe von Trainingsinhalten hin und belegt Unterschiede in der Wirksamkeit der Trainingselemente in Abhangigkeit von der Ausgangsleistung der Teilnehmer und der trainierten Domane. Die Ergebnisse untermauern die Moglichkeit, durch die Definition von Subpopulationen normaler alterer Erwachsener und ei…
The long-term transformation of the concept of CSR: towards a more comprehensive emphasis on sustainability
2021
AbstractThis article adds to the discussion of the long-term transformation of CSR, presenting a perspective on the interplay between CSR debate and public discourse on business responsibility. 50 years after Milton Friedman’s provoking claim that the only responsibility for business is to seek profit, a broader debate has emerged aligning CSR with an increasingly comprehensive concept of sustainability. We trace this evolution of the concept during the last three decades focusing on the intersection of economic, social, and environmental responsibility. Based on discourse analysis of news articles and opinion pieces in the largest public newspaper in Norway from 1990 until 2018, the study …
Jürgen Habermas and the risk of liberal eugenics for the ethical self-understanding of species
2016
El artículo analiza el problema de la naturaleza humana que presenta Jürgen Habermas en su obra El futuro de la naturaleza humana, ¿Hacia una eugenesia liberal? Los vertiginosos avances biotecnológicos reclaman una rigurosa reflexión bioética que el filósofo alemán afronta superponiendo a su ética del discurso una ética de la especie. Habermas esboza un modelo de naturaleza humana construido sobre preceptos como la dignidad humana y de la vida humana, la simetría de las relaciones intersubjetivas y, a resultas de estas, la autocomprensión ética de la especie. Respecto a la eugenesia liberal, el autor se posiciona criticando la eugenesia positiva y amparando la negativa, para lo que basa su …