http://hdl.handle.net/10468/212 2013-05-19T04:05:38Z 2013-05-19T04:05:38Z Koslowski, Nora Christina http://hdl.handle.net/10468/620 2013-03-08T03:01:19Z 2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

Negotiating the boundaries between home and work practices: The case of home-workers Koslowski, Nora Christina When people work from home, the domains of home and work are co-located, often under one roof. Home-workers have to cope with the meeting of two practices that have traditionally been physically separated. In light of this, we need to understand: how do people who work from home negotiate the boundaries between their home and work practices? What kinds of boundaries do people construct? How do boundaries affect the relationship between home and work as domains? What kinds of boundaries are available to home-workers? Are home-workers in charge of their boundaries or do they co-create them with others? How does this position home-workers in their domains? In order to address these questions, I analysed a variety of data, including newspaper columns, online forum discussions, interviews, and personal diary entries, using a discourse analytic approach that lends itself to issues of positioning. Current literature clashes over whether home-workers are in control of their boundaries, and over the relationship between home and work that arises out of boundary negotiations, i.e. whether home and work are dichotomous or layered. I seek to contribute to boundary theory by adopting a practice theory stance (Wenger, 1998) to guide my analysis. By viewing home and work as practices, I show that boundary negotiations depend on how home-workers are positioned, e.g. if they are positioned as peripheral in a domain, they lack influence over boundaries. I demonstrate that home and work constitute a number of different practices, rather than a rigid dichotomy, and that the way home and work are related are not the same for all home-workers. The application of practice concepts further shows how relationships between practices are created. The contribution of this work is a reconceptualisation of current boundary theory away from individual and cognitive notions (Nippert-Eng, 1996) into the realm of positioning.

2012-04-01T00:00:00Z Richardson, Brendan http://hdl.handle.net/10468/337 2011-06-30T02:00:04Z 2011-04-13T00:00:00Z

Football fan loyalty and the fan conversion experience Richardson, Brendan The phenomenon of football fan loyalty has been of conceptual interest to scholars for a considerable period of time. However, the question of how fan loyalty emerges in the first place still eludes us. Also of interest is the complex manner in which this loyalty manifests itself. Fan loyalty to a team does not always extend itself to loyalty towards a team's owners, or express itself through unproblematised consumption of market offerings. This paper proposes that football fan loyalty emerges from what is termed the fan conversion experience (Belk et al 1989). The devotion shown by fans stems from their initial experiences of attendance at a football match. The transcendent nature of the occasion often results in feelings of transcendence and hierophany, whereby the transcendent experience is associated with one particular identity. It is also accompanied by a desire to repeat the experience. Hence the initial conversion leads the individual into a fan subculture with its own system of subcultural capital designed primarily to assert and protect these feelings of hierophany and transcendence. The collective relationship with the market is in turn determined by the degree to which market offerings are perceived to facilitate and protect the sacredness of football fan experience and identity. Thus the conversion model offers an interpretation that explains both fan loyalty and fans' sometimes troubled relationship with football marketers. For fans, football is sacred and they, not the club owners, are the guardians of the sacred flame.Reference: Belk, R., Wallendorf, M., and Sherry, J. (1989); The Sacred and the Profane in Consumer Behavior: Theodicy on the Odyssey, Journal of Consumer Research,Vol.16 No.1, pp.1-39.  Paper delivered at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, as part of NBS Seminar Series

2011-04-13T00:00:00Z Kavanagh, Donncha Kuhling, Carmen Keohane, Kieran http://hdl.handle.net/10468/209 2013-03-08T03:00:23Z 2008-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dance-work: Images of organization in Irish dance Kavanagh, Donncha; Kuhling, Carmen; Keohane, Kieran The Irish economic boom, commonly known as the Celtic Tiger, provides an interesting and unique opportunity to explore the relationship between the profound shifts in the organization of working life and in the production and consumption of culture. In this paper, we confine our inquiry into the relationship with one aspect of popular culture, namely dance, focusing on the phenomenon of Riverdance which emerged contemporaneously with the Celtic Tiger. We argue that both are deeply immersed in larger organizing discourses, historical narratives about national identity and civilizing attempts to control the body. We identify three distinct 'moments' in the development of Irish dance, which we label as pre-national, 'Traditional' Ireland; national, 'Modern', Parochial Ireland and global, 'Post-modern' Ireland. This provides a narrative through which we explore the transformation of working relations in Ireland during the 19th and 20th centuries.

2008-09-01T00:00:00Z Buckley, Joan Ó Tuama, Séamus http://hdl.handle.net/10468/20 2013-03-08T03:00:08Z 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

International pricing and distribution of therapeutic pharmaceuticals – An ethical minefield Buckley, Joan; Ó Tuama, Séamus This paper seeks to identify and consider ethical issues relating to the international pricing of pharmaceuticals, drawing especially on liberal rights theories. It suggests why and how some of these issues might be resolved. It examines and critiques arguments presented by major pharmaceutical manufacturers. It addresses a range of ancillary issues like current pricing policies, R&D, intellectual property rights, rights to profits, the public good and regulation. It proposes a potential model for moving forward on the pricing of pharmaceuticals, with a view to increasing access to essential drugs.

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