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One Rule to Rule Them All? Organisational Sensemaking of Corporate Responsibility

2015

Corporate responsibility (CR) has often been criticised as a decoupled organisational phenomenon: a publicly espoused rule that is not followed in daily organisational practices. We argue that a crucial reason for this criticism arises from the dominant in-house assumption of CR literature, which mitigates tensions and contradictions in organisational life by claiming that integrated rules result in coupled practices. We aim to provide new insights by problematising this in-house assumption and by examining how members of two organisations discursively make sense of CR, as a daily rule-bound practice, via three strategies: integration, differentiation and fragmentation. We elaborate the con…

Development and validation of a scale to assess social entrepreneurship competency in Higher Education

2019

This paper proposes an instrument to assess social entrepreneurship competency in higher education (SECS). 19 Features of social entrepreneurship competency were identified. The pilot test (n = 497) confirmed the validity and reliability of the SECS. Exploratory factor analysis proposed a set of categories consistent with the initial approach. Confirmatory factor analysis showed acceptable relationships among the scale categories and items, while the fit indices suggested that the data fit adequately to the default model. Pearson’s test verified significant, positive correlations among the revised categories in all cases. Therefore, the scale carries the potential to contribute to social en…

Cilvēka dzīvības radīšanas un pārtraukšanas bioētiskie aspekti

2005

Ernesta Foldāta vēstule draugiem Latvijā 1999. gada aprīlī

1999

Ernesto Foldat's letter to friends in Latvia, in which he writes about his state of health, Venezuela's poor economic situation, dissatisfaction with the new president, a bachelor's thesis dedicated to Foldat written by Olga Dubrovska at Daugavpils Pedagogical University, about recognitions from the Central University of Venezuela, supervision of doctoral dissertations. Typed on one page, with a signature in the lower right corner. Stored in the Museum of the University of Latvia Botanical and Mycological collections.

Ernesta Foldāta vēstule draugiem LU Bioloģijas fakultātē 1995. gada 2. decembrī

1995

Ernesta Foldāta vēstule draugiem Latvijas Universitātes Bioloģijas fakultātē, kurā viņš raksta par grūto ekonomisko stāvokli Venecuēlā aizgājušajā gadā, dēla Ernesta vadītajiem veikaliem, apsolītajām iespējām nākošajā gadā vadīt ārzemju tūristu grupas, dēla Arvīda darba gaitām, savas grāmatas izdošanu un literatūras iegūšanu Harvardas Universitātē, jauno mācītāju Sandru Rozenbergu no Latvijas, savu un sievas Lullas (Lilijas) veselības stāvokli, mazdēla Daņa traumu un operāciju. Vēstules beigās laba vēlējumi Jaunajā gadā. Kopija vēstulei, kas drukāta mašīnrakstā uz vienas lapas, ar parakstu apakšējā malā. Glabājas Latvijas Universitātes Muzeja Botānikas un mikoloģijas kolekciju krājumā.

SEAI: Social Emotional Artificial Intelligence Based on Damasio’s Theory of Mind

2018

A socially intelligent robot must be capable to extract meaningful information in real-time from the social environment and react accordingly with coherent human-like behaviour. Moreover, it should be able to internalise this information, to reason on it at a higher abstract level, build its own opinions independently and then automatically bias the decision-making according to its unique experience. In the last decades, neuroscience research highlighted the link between the evolution of such complex behaviour and the evolution of a certain level of consciousness, which cannot leave out of a body that feels emotions as discriminants and prompters. In order to develop cognitive systems for s…

Does Obsolescence Matter? The Real Questions of Genetic Enhancement

2019

In his article, Robert Sparrow (2019) builds his arguments on a precondition of rapid technical progress in gene-editing technologies on one hand and on the implication that that gene-editing techn...

Las fisuras de la nación : tensiones y lecturas político-religiosas sobre la conquista de América en el siglo XVIII

2020

La conquista de América generó una notable cantidad de discursos épicos, de carácter político y literario, que contribuyeron al reforzamiento de los tópicos imperiales, religiosos y patrióticos. Preocupada por la mala imagen del país en el extranjero, las élites políticas e intelectuales al servicio de Carlos III y Carlos IV promocionaron la defensa de los conquistadores, pese a la difusión de una corriente crítica con el heroísmo militar, tangible en la opinión pública europea. En el marco del reformismo borbónico, se reconstruyen los grupos e individuos que, desde lugares y posturas muy diferentes, posibilitaron el éxito de este discurso preponderante, que subrayaba la estrecha colaboraci…

Les anges musiciens aux XIVe-XVe siècles, figuration et idéalisation du cosmos divin

2002

Andrea von Hülsen-Esch et Jean-Claude Schmitt,; International audience

Does institutional quality affect the level of entrepreneurial success differently across the entrepreneurship distribution?

2020

The phenomenon of entrepreneurship has driven much of the attention of academics, practitioners and policy makers. A correct and deep understanding of all the different conditions affecting entrepreneurship rates will advance in the establishment of useful measures that increase entrepreneurial success. The vast majority of the literature on the effect of institutional quality on entrepreneurship has been investigated based on average effects. However, how the impact of institutional quality on the level of entrepreneurship varies with the conditional distribution of entrepreneurship is still poorly understood. The present study attempts to fill the research gaps in this field. In order to …