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"Labour's Thinkers" seeks to examine the key ideas emphasised by the twelve individuals whom the authors judge to have made the most significant development to the political thought of the Labour Party since the 1930s. Hickson and Beech argue the Labour Party is a party of values but often not of ideas. The number of people involved in the serious discussion of ideas in the Labour Party is relatively small and intellectuals are often viewed with suspicion in what is, or was, a party set up to represent the interests of the working classes. The formulation and development of ideas are

There is renewed historical interest in the role played by intellectuals in all belligerent countries in the period leading up to and during the First World War. Whereas prior to the war scholars from all countries engaged in civilised scientific discourse, immediately after the outbreak of war they appeared to re–discover their own fatherlands and became passionately patriotic, placing their expertise at the service of their respective countries for the prosecution of the war. On closer scrutiny, however, the case of the German intellectual elite appears significantly different from their counterparts in other belligerent countries. They perceived themselves, more than, say, the British academic community, and certainly earlier than these, as virtual prophets called to justify their nation's war policies. This paper investigates the perceptions of German intellectuals, their explanation for the war and their various war–aims programs. It is suggested that the intellectuals/academics contributed in no small way to the formation of German political will.

A review of three books: (1) Stephane Courtois et al, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge: Harvard U Press, 1999); (2) Francois Furet, The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1999); (3) Robert Conquest, Reflections on a Ravaged Country (New York: Norton, 2000). Courtois et al document the human costs exacted by multiple century communist regimes, challenging conventional historiography by connecting the Soviet state's oppressive policies with the Lenin regime, the USSR's attempts to influence international political developments, & communism's influence within multiple Asian, Latin American, & African nations. Furet's attempt to explicate why some intellectuals, particularly those from Western European nations, have provided strong support for communist ideals is then discussed; specific attention is dedicated to examining Furet's claims that Western European nations viewed the Bolshevik Revolution as perpetuating the spirit of the French Revolution & that Stalin effectively presented the Soviet state as a valuable ally in combating the emergence of fascism. Conquest offers an alternative account of communism's continued popularity in Western academia, namely Western intellectuals attraction to communism's underlying utopian ideals. Moreover, Conquest's contentions that many Western intellectuals were deceived upon visiting the USSR & that Western journalists were discouraged from producing negative reports about the USSR are considered. The need for Western scholars to acknowledge their part in allowing communism to violate certain people's human rights is stressed. J. W. Parker

Contends that through their publications on Turkey's membership in NATO, the nation's political intellectuals not only addressed the state's Cold War quest for security but also contributed to the formation of Turkey's western identity. Here the focus is on the "self-constituting politics" of these experts' texts. These discourses & representations of Turkey's western identity during the Cold War fostered a pro-western foreign policy despite the USSR's withdrawal of early demands & the emergence of detente. K. Coddon

Purpose: This article explores how established MNEs have responded to the perceived threat from rising power firms by seeking to alter the intellectual property institutional environment in key emerging economies. Design/Methodology/approach: The key place of emerging economies in the efforts of established MNEs to seek patent law change is discussed. Two case studies review developments related to pharmaceutical patents in India and South Africa, highlighting the influence of MNEs in driving policy change and the contested nature of their actions. Findings: While India and South Africa both present evidence of MNEs seeking to influence pharmaceutical patent laws, distinct differences emerge. In India, most MNE pressure has been in response to the emergence of an active domestic industry and a patent law oriented towards generic entry, while the MNE priority in South Africa has been geared towards maintaining MNE dominance and a system which leads to generous granting of patents. Practical implications: Managers and decision-makers seeking to invest in emerging economies must take account of a plethora of institutions present, some of which may be better suited towards local industrial and societal interests and may prompt resistance to any established MNE-led attempt at institutional change. Originality/value: The article offers a comparative perspective on pharmaceutical patent laws in India and South Africa, which have been subject to significant contestation by policymakers, civil society organisations and both rising power and established MNEs. The comparison explores and questions the increasingly widespread "institutional void� thesis in international business.

ABSTRACTThis article reviews Decision Sciences journal articles and metadata to analyze its intellectual tradition. Text analytics is used with probabilistic topic modeling. The topical structure of the journal is reviewed by topic definition and popularity, with correlations. Fifty research topics or themes involving a wide range of quantitative methods and decision‐making practice were selected. Functional areas were also examined. The evolution of topics since 1975 is noted. There is clear indication that journal coverage has evolved. In early years, emphasis was on quantitative modeling methods and relevant methodologies. More recently new research areas to include supply chain management, marketing, service management, and health care are more noted. Some topics are highly correlated. We find that this evolution reflects the changes occurring in business and decision‐making environment. The article discusses external and internal factors important in shaping the journal's topical trajectory. Unique challenges in analyzing text data are discussed. Latent Dirichlet Allocation, an unsupervised Bayesian approach for statistical topic modeling, is applied to 1,698 research articles from Decision Sciences over the period from 1975 to 2016. This approach is found to be useful to discover journal topical trends. Potential for other applications in decision sciences is discussed.

AbstractThis article provides the first empirical evidence on the effects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and threat of imitation on Australia's export flows. Using data from all of Australia's trading partners over the period 1995–2010, an augmented gravity model is estimated in the context of an unbalanced panel. The empirical findings show that level of IPRs of importing countries and threat of imitation posed by the importing countries is both sensitive to Australian bilateral trade flows. These results therefore support the widely accepted positive nexus between the importance of IPRs and bilateral trade flows.

Call for Article Proposals for a Special Issue of the Journal Critical Military Studies. Deadline: September 29, 2023

يهدف البحث إلى التعرف على المضامين الفكرية في عروض المخرج المسرحي الأردني، وطبيعة الموضوعات التي تناولها التي شملت مضامين سياسية أو اجتماعية أو غيرها، وجاءت الحدود الزمنية للبحث بين عامي 2014 ـ 2015م إذْ تم اختيار عرضين مسرحيين اختيارا قصديا لاثنين من المخرجين هما: مسرحية أعراس آمنة لـلمخرج يحيى البشتاوي، ومسرحية هاش تاج للمخرج محمد خير الرفاعي، وقد اتبع الباحث المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، ويمكن أن يفيد البحث المشتغلين في الفن المسرحي من مؤلفين ومخرجين وممثلين ونقاد، وكذلك تقديم الفائدة للمؤسسات الأكاديمية التي تعنى بالمسرح. ; The present study deals with the intellectual implications of Jordanian theater directors. It is also concerned with the nature of topics dealt with in plays that cover political, and sociocultural implications between the years 2014 and 2015. Two plays (Aras Amenah directed by Yahia Bashtawi and Hash Tag directed by Mohammad Khair Al-Refaee) were purposefully selected. The researcher used a descriptive, analytical research method. Findings of the study will benefit those involved in theater such as playwrights, directors, actors and critics. The study will also benefit academic institutions.

PurposeCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) deliberated regarding business firms' actions for doing well to society and natural environment. Specifically, CSR has been about firms contributions towards stakeholder management. As world economy has prospered over the last couple of centuries, business firms have had also increased its footprints in social landscape. In such a scenario, the roles and responsibilities of business firms have expanded in society. Over the years, CSR as a domain of research and literature has developed into a very potent and rich field. Presently, CSR literature as a body of knowledge has become substantial. The authors in this literature review study attempts to conceptually map this complex field of CSR literature.Design/methodology/approachThe objective of this literature review study was to present a visual mapping of intellectual structure of CSR in five-dimensions and to identify the subfields of CSR research concluded by co-citation analysis. All the citation research documents which were listed in the Web of Knowledge (WoK) database between 1998 and 2019 were analysed. Multivariate analysis was undertaken for the literature review. The study conducted a sequence of statistical analyses comprising of factor analysis, multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis.FindingsThis literature review research study summarised the contours and status of CSR research by categorizing the CSR literature into five classification factors, namely CSR Drivers CSR, Contextual Grounding of CSR, Historical Legacy of CSR, Strategic CSR and CSR Implementation. Further, based upon the analysis of literature review of extant research in CSR, both the contemporary and imminent CSR-related research themes were also deliberated upon.Research limitations/implicationsThe results were helpful for academic scholars of CSR to comprehend both the gamut and focus of CSR literature over the years (between the years 1998 and 2019). The sequence of analyses involved factor, multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. CSR literature was categorized into five factors namely- CSR Drivers, Contextual Grounding of CSR, Historical Legacy of CSR, Strategic CSR and CSR Implementation.Originality/valueThis study was one of the first set of studies to review the literature on CSR research articles by using citation, co-citation and social network analysis.