Struggles for Hegemony Have Not Ceased

Have "formal investigations" into fishing vessel losses ceased?

Systematic studies of 618 fishing vessel losses between January 1961 and December 1982 have shown a significantly increased incidence of total losses from 1972 onwards. Comparison of mean pre- and post-1972 rates indicated an increase of 120% from 2.54 to 5.58 losses per 1000 vessels at risk. Parallel examination of the mortality of fishermen from all occupational accidents showed no improvemen...

SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT Moving Management: Theorizing Struggles against the Hegemony of Management

How do groups resist the apparently all encompassing discourse of management? Rejecting current theories of resistance as ‘re-appropriation’ or ‘micro-politics’, we argue that resistance may be thought about as hegemonic struggle which are undertaken by social movements. We identify four major resistance movements that engage with management: unions, organizational misbehaviour, civic movements...

Storage of electronic files of federal agencies that have ceased operation: a partnership for permanent access

For more than a century, federal depository libraries and the Government Printing Office (GPO) have acted as partners to provide permanent access to government information in tangible media. These partnerships have evolved in the last few years. Built on a century of tradition, new partnerships offer permanent access to electronic files of federal agencies published in nontangible media. This a...

From ‘theories of Hegemony’ to ‘hegemony Analysis’ in International Relations

Struggles for Meaning and Struggles for Control: The Diffusion of Bandwagon Technology in Two Institutional Environments

Using comparative case studies, this paper shows how institutional contexts influence the process of diffusion of a complex technology by determining the pattern of material resources and authority available to actors in their struggles to control the technology, and by constituting the discursive resources that may be mobilized in their struggles to shape its meaning in preferred ways. The pap...