Abstract Leadership in art museums is a changing construct: historically, these institutions were established as hierarchical, top‐down structures that prioritized sole expertise to dictate success. Today, are searching for ways become more responsive, collaborative, and multivocal value community voices expertise. A growing variety of museum professionals ask how better reflect integrate local...

Over the last two decades we have seen a proliferation in number of self-proclaimed Islamic scholars preaching piety to Muslim women. An emerging few these gaining prominence happen be women, feminizing what is predominantly patriarchal domain dawah (missionary work) and proselytization. Traditionally speaking, missionaries never been restricted particular moral province, perhaps due fact that ...

Sociologists often describe culture as a repertoire of shared understandings. But because the meanings that social actors attribute to symbols and actions emerge from the multiple associations they make between them, delineating collectively shared understandings is not a straightforward task. Standard quantitative sociological practice, which relies on the assumptions of what Abbott (1988) cal...

This chapter provides exemplars of the influence of digital artifacts upon cultural experiences. We argue that the associations between people and artifacts, and specifically digital artifacts, is an increasingly dense, interwoven, and pivotal aspect of everyday cultural experience. Artifacts themselves resist any stability of meaning by being continuously disassembled and reassembled into newl...

One Nation, as a conceptual construct which started to develop since the 19th century has often been associated with Conservative Party’s politics regarding their effort bridge gap between “the two nations” (the underprivileged and well-off members of society) in elevation condition people UK (a requisite for social harmony). Most recent conservative Prime Ministers have eager present own versi...

Abstract Although management scholars have embraced grand challenges research, in many cases, been treated as merely a context for exploring extant theoretical perspectives. By comparison, our approach – robust action provides novel framework tackling challenges. In this invited article, we revisit 2015 model, clarifying and elaborating its key elements taking stock of subsequent developments. ...

Abstract This paper adds to the literature on societal grand challenges by shifting focus away from business firms and other formal organizations as key actors in addressing such toward inherent organizing capacity that lies use of language itself. More specifically, we capacities metaphor-based communication, seeking ascertain which qualities metaphors enable them co-orient collective action t...

Turner's suggestive analysis of African ritual symbolism (1) enhances one's appreciation of the complexity of expressive phenomena. There are, however, methodological and theoretical cautions to be raised. First, the approach he advocates attacks the problem of representations at the most difficult point of analysis. Symbols of the kind singled out by this method are repositories of many, highl...

Abstract The visualization of ranking information in global public policy is moving away from traditional “league table” formats and toward dashboards interactive data displays. This paper explores the rhetoric underpinning such formats, purpose which to encourage country participation reporting on Sustainable Development Goals. unpacks strategies that experts adopt measurement poverty wellbein...

THISARTICLE OFFERS A FORMAL READING of a classification scheme of international scope and long duration: the International Classijication ofDiseases (ID). The argument is made that this classification scheme retains many traces of its own administrative and organizational past in its current form. Further, it is argued that such traces operate normatively to favor certain kinds of narrative of ...