Life and labor, or characteristics of men of industry, culture and genius

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The sugar-beet industry. Culture of the sugar-beet and manufacture of beet sugar.

Published by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture.

Challenges of Post-acquisition Integration

Työ käsittelee suomalaisen kemianalan yrityksen Yhdysvalloissa tekemää yritysostoa. Tarkastelun kohteena on yritysoston jälkeinen integraatio erityisesti kulttuurin näkökulmasta. Ongelma on jaettu kahteen suurempaan osakokonaisuuteen: kulttuurierojen analysointiin sekä mahdollisten muiden ongelma-alueiden kartoittamiseen. Kulttuuri on jaettu työssä neljään tasoon. Koska kyseessä on kansainvälinen liiketoiminta, laajimmasta tasosta, kansallisesta kulttuurista on erotettu omaksi käsitteekseen liiketoimintatavat tietyssä maassa. Lisäksi tarkastellaan teollisuudenalan kulttuuria ja yrityskulttuuria. Näitä kulttuurin eri dimensioita on lähestytty empiirisessä osassa lähinnä haastattelujen avulla. Kultuurierojen lisäksi muita huomioitavia seikkoja Yhdysvalloissa tehtävien yritysostojen integraatiossa ovat mm. riittävä ja selkeä kommunikonti, etukäteissuunnitelmat ja –tutkimukset, päätöksenteon ja organisaatiorakenteen erilaisuus sekä asianajajien merkittävä asema amerikkalaisessa yhteiskunnassa. Tulokset analysoitiin kyselystä, joka lähetettiin niille suomalaisille yrityksille, jotka vuoden 1990 jälkeen olivat tehneet yritysostoja Yhdysvalloissa.

QUATRO RODAS 1960-63: COMO UMA REVISTA FEZ DO JORNALISMO ESPECIALIZADO FERRAMENTA PARA CRIAR A CULTURA DO AUTOMÓVEL NO COTIDIANO BRASILEIRO

Esta dissertação investiga a contribuição da revista Quatro Rodas como veículo de comunicação e agente de mudança cultural da sociedade e da imprensa brasileiras, a partir da instalação de indústrias nacionais e da adoção do carro como meio de transporte e símbolo de modernização econômica, urbana e social. Nesse sentido, contextualiza o período histórico nacional que vai da década de 1920 até o terceiro ano da publicação (1960 a 1963) e, por meio de estudo de caso, analisa o conteúdo de 58 reportagens das primeiras 36 edições reunidas em seis unidades de registro: urbanismo, medicina do trânsito, comportamento ao volante, segurança ao volante, mercado de compra e venda e mulheres e carros. O trabalho destaca a relevância da revista ao reunir de modo analítico e didático questões que envolviam os cidadãos, como motoristas ou pedestres, a indústria automobilística e as autoridades, na atribuição de, respectivamente, educar, avaliar e cobrar. Desse modo, a partir de agosto de 1960, Quatro Rodas contribui para abrir um novo campo na imprensa brasileira, antecipando questões ainda hoje presentes (e não resolvidas) nas ruas e estradas do país e desenhando o perfil do brasileiro e sua nascente paixão pelo automóvel.

The Political Economy of Financially Successful Independent Hip-Hop Artists

From 2000 to 2010, America’s music industry’s annual revenue went from $4 billion to $2 billion. Much of this is attributed to the internet’s ability to provide consumers with easy access to free music, and hip hop has been especially impacted by this trend. Utilizing document analysis and personal interviews, this study found that the success of independent artists has influenced the business strategies of major record companies. In response to a dramatic decrease in record sales, major labels have made more of an effort to sign their artists to 360 deals, which allow the labels to profit from every aspect of an artist’s brand or identity. While some independent artists are the main beneficiary of the profits generated from their music and personal brand, they also reify the commodity-form capitalist system by attempting to turn their music and brand into a fetishized commodity and by turning their audience into a fetishized commodity.

Transatlantic negotiations on "hell"?: W. E. B. Du Bois's visit to fascist Germany and Theodor W. Adorno's exile in the land of the culture industry

In 1936, the African-American intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois visited Nazi Germany for a period of five months. Two years later, the eleven-year-long American exile of the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno began. From the latter’s perspective, the United States was the “home” of the Culture Industry. One intuitively assumes that these sojourns abroad must have amounted to “hell on earth” for both the civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois and the subtle intellectual Adorno. But was this really the case? Or did they perhaps arrive at totally different conclusions? This thesis deals with these questions and attempts to make sense of the experiences of both men. By way of a systematic and comparative analysis of published texts, hitherto unpublished documents and secondary literature, this dissertation first contextualizes Du Bois’s and Adorno’s transatlantic negotiations and then depicts them. The panoply of topics with which both men concerned themselves was diverse. In Du Bois’s case it encompassed Europe, science and technology, Wagner operas, the Olympics, industrial education, race relations, National Socialism and the German Africanist Diedrich Westermann. The opinion pieces which Du Bois wrote for the newspaper “Pittsburgh Courier” during his stay in Germany serve as a major source for this thesis. In his writings on America, Adorno concentrated on what he regarded as the universally victorious Enlightenment and the predominance of mass culture. This investigation also sheds light on the correspondences between the philosopher and Max Horkheimer, Thomas Mann, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Oskar and Maria Wiesengrund. In these autobiographical texts, Adorno’s thoughts revolve around such diverse topics as the American landscape, his fears as German, Jew and Left-Hegelian as well as the loneliness of the refugee. This dissertation has to refute the intuitive assumption that Du Bois’s and Adorno’s experiences abroad were horrible events for them. Both men judged the foreign countries in which they were staying in an extremely differentiated and subtle manner. Du Bois, for example, was not racially discriminated against in Germany. He was also delighted by the country’s rich cultural offerings. Adorno, for his part, praised the U.S.’s humanity of everyday life and democratic spirit. In short: Although both men partly did have to deal with utterly negative experiences, the metaphor of “hell on earth” is simply untenable as an overall conclusion.

The Impacts of National Culture on Safety Culture in the Global Oil and Gas Industry

Safety culture is one of the most-studied subjects in the safety literature today, although no agreement exists on exactly what it means. Most safety culture research has been conducted in high-hazard industries such as nuclear power, aviation, and offshore oil and gas production. Only limited research has investigated links between safety culture and the prevailing national culture. This paper proposes that efforts to build safety culture and improve safety performance in the global oil and gas industry will be enhanced if the safety culture maturity and the prevailing national culture are assessed and a location-specific plan is developed based on these factors. A model plan to improve safety performance for one multinational oil and gas company is presented.

The raisin industry. A practical treatise on the raisin grapes, their history, culture and curing.

Mode of access: Internet.