Leading business and management journals claim to be ‘world-leading’ but are dominated by Anglo-American scholars. The extent of this domination is demonstrated graphically in this article through cartograms based on 2010/2011 authorship and editorship data in top management journals. The dramatically skewed production of management scholarship is both ethically problematic in terms of Anglo-American domination of leading journals and the exclusion of many developing regions, and anachronistic given the shift of global production away from the North Atlantic in recent years. This continuing neo-colonial domination of intellectual production underpins the inequitable organization of the global economy and specifically the disproportionate realisation of wealth in the global North at the expense of the global South. The article proposes a series of measures to begin redressing the imbalance.
Europa is a premier target for advancing both planetary science and astrobiology, as well as for opening a new window into the burgeoning field of comparative oceanography. The potentially habitable subsurface ocean of Europa may harbor life, and the globally young and comparatively thin ice shell of Europa may contain biosignatures that are readily accessible to a surface lander. Europa’s icy shell also offers the opportunity to study tectonics and geologic cycles across a range of mechanisms and compositions. Here we detail the goals and mission architecture of the Europa Lander mission concept, as developed from 2015 through 2020. The science was developed by the 2016 Europa Lander Science Definition Team (SDT), and the mission architecture was developed by the preproject engineering team, in close collaboration with the SDT. In 2017 and 2018, the mission concept passed its mission concept review and delta-mission concept review, respectively. Since that time, the preproject has been advancing the technologies, and developing the hardware and software, needed to retire risks associated with technology, science, cost, and schedule.
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the international NGO Transparency International's (TI) role in combating corruption, focusing particularly on TI's response to the global financial crisis of 2008. Design/methodology/approach -The paper is based on a review of scholarly articles, newspaper reports, and TI publications. Findings -The paper concludes that TI's uncritical approach to the functioning of international capitalism limits its ability to understand and challenge the systemic causes of corruption. Further, TI's attention to the manifestations rather than causes of corruption leads it to unfairly identify corruption as a failing of the global South rather than an inherent feature of international capitalism. Originality/value -The paper demonstrates how TI's failure to address the widespread unethical conduct which was at the root of the global financial crisis derives from the organization's partial, legalistic and superficial definition of corruption.
Corruption is a global systemic problem causing detrimental effects to both social and economic progress. Predominant research typically offers solutions that are based on the assumption that corruption is a problem originating in, and endemic to developing countries, an assumption that disregards corruption's production within a global system of economic power relationships and international regulatory institutions dominated by Western countries and multinational corporations. The anti-corruption discourses and accounting measures initiated by both international and local actors in their fight against corruption have not frequently been critically investigated in developing country contexts, especially not in the Arab region, despite the widely observed links between authoritarianism, corruption, and political upheaval. This study illustrates the struggle over the nature of corruption and the measures taken by multiple stakeholders to combat it in Tunisia, before and after the Jasmine Revolution of 2011. By using ethnographic material and critical discourse analysis, the study shows how Western global actors such as the World Bank and associated nongovernmental institutions such as Transparency International, account for and discursively (re)construct corruption in ways that defend and reconstitute postcolonial relationships of domination embedded within the neoliberal global order. The study contributes to existing literature by providing a conceptual framework that indicates the highly fungible character and the different emergent cycles of corruption. Based on its findings, the study offers novel research avenues that promote reflexive theoretical and methodological steps that aim to enrich anticorruption scholarship and practice. *Manuscript (with Author Details removed) Click here to view linked References
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