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This paper describes the current setting for lexicography in Australia by reviewing the place of English since the first British settlement began, in 1788. The emergence of Australian English as the national language is traced, and its relations with the Australian Aboriginal languages touched on. The greatest change in the language setting came with Australia's immigration policy in its post-World War II form. This resulted in the government's eventual recognition of Australia as multilingual and multicultural, and urgently in need of a formal policy on languages, one which treated the many community languages of Australia as an economic, social, educational asset. The paper then summarises the past and present record of lexicography, in Australian English, in Aboriginal and community languages, and in languages of its neighbours in the Pacific area. Titles of some of the most important dictionaries are listed in the bibliography. It ends by describing the outlook of the newly formed Australasian Association for Lexicography. ; Leksikografie in Australië Hierdie bydrae beskryf die huidige leksikografiese situasie in Australië deurdat daar 'n oorsig gegee word van die situasie van Engels sedert die eerste Britse vestiging in 1788. Die opkoms van Australiese Engels as nasionale taal word nagespoor, en die Australiese inboorlingtale word aangeroer. Die grootste verandering in die taalsituasie het plaasgevind as gevolg van Australië se immigrasiebeleid na die Tweede Wêreldoorlog. Dit het daartoe gelei dat die regering Australië uiteindelik as 'n multitalige en multikulturele land begin sien het. Die regering het ook die dringende behoefte aan 'n formele taalbeleid, wat die onderskeie gemeenskapstale van Australië as ekonomiese, sosiale en opvoedkundige bate sou hanteer, begin besef. Daarna word die vorige en huidige leksikografiese situasie in Australiese Engels, in inboorling- en gemeenskapstale, sowel as in tale van die Stille Oseaan-gebied in hierdie bydrae geskets. Titels van sommige van die belangrikste woordeboeke word in die bibliografie gelys. Hierdie stuk eindig met 'n beskrywing van die uitgangspunte van die nuut gestigte Australasian Association for Lexicography.

How have organisations sought to manage tensions between the needs for flexible labour in neoliberal market economies and the benefits of a committed and motivated workforce? Through an in-depth, qualitative study of a Chinese company, we identify and theorise a novel variation of paternalism that was developed by the organisation to manage the tensions under neoliberal capitalism. We label this management regime 'centrifugal paternalism' since it organises employment relations along the lines of 'adult-like' employers and 'child-like' employees but involves the diminution of employee dependency over time with an ultimate impulse away from the employing organisation. We find that the emergence of centrifugal paternalism is closely related both to the socio-demographic identity of the company's employees as China's second-generation migrant workers and to the economic context of the organisation. Through a 'tough love' approach, this regime allows the firm to secure flexible labour while responding to migrant workers' needs for personal skills development and a fruitful rural-to-urban transition. Our research responds to recent calls for reconnecting organisation studies with society and situating workplace practices within their contexts. It also underlines the enduring importance of paternalism for understanding the dynamic and evolving nature of capitalist employment relations and management regimes.

While psychologists and economists have concerned themselves with employee happiness and well-being, critical organizational theorists have rarely examined employees' positive responses at work. To explain why call-centre employees in our study responded positively to their organization we adopt a relational sociological approach to examine employee happiness and well-being. This approach emphasizes two main features: firstly, it is sensitive to the interaction of management practices and employee agency in how 'happiness' is constructed and interpreted in organizations, including an assessment of power relations; secondly, this approach acknowledges the importance of the wider external context in explanations of why organizations pursue happiness. This article applies these sociological insights to the organizational identifications literature to assess the mechanisms of employee identifications. In this case, there are three mechanisms of identification, a) the organizational value system; b) social relations at work including interactions between employees, the owners and their clients and c) the nature of work. Significantly, these three features converged to produce overlapping and mutually reinforcing identifications.

This paper builds on Granovetter's distinction between strong and weak ties [ Granovetter, M. S. 1973 . The strength of weak ties. Amer. J. Sociol. 78(6) 1360–1380] in order to respond to recent calls for a more dynamic and processual understanding of networks. The concepts of potential and latent tie are deductively identified, and their implications for understanding how and why networks emerge, evolve, and change are explored. A longitudinal empirical study conducted with companies operating in the European motorsport industry reveals that firms take strategic actions to search for potential ties and reactivate latent ties in order to solve problems of network redundancy and overload. Examples are given, and their characteristics are examined to provide theoretical elaboration of the relationship between the types of tie and network evolution. These conceptual and empirical insights move understanding of the managerial challenge of building effective networks beyond static structural contingency models of optimal network forms to highlight the processes and capabilities of dynamic relationship building and network development. In so doing, this paper highlights the interrelationship between search and redundancy and the scope for strategic action alongside path dependence and structural influences on network processes.