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Provides in dialogue form an exploration of the theme of alliances between minority groups. Considers the proposals that the racial paradigm, however destructive, must be recognized and tackled and that the cultural paradigm must also be recognized and tackled before long-lasting alliances can be developed.

This article examines the implications of women's access to income‐earning opportunities for their position in intra‐household relationships. For those who believe that such relationships are egalitarian, this issue may not appear relevant; for others, however, there is a divergence of views between those who offer an optimistic analysis of the effects of earning power for women's status, and those who provide a more pessimistic prognosis. In exploring this issue, the article makes use of first‐hand accounts of women workers in the recently emergent export‐oriented garment factories in Bangladesh, both in order to evaluate the 'fit' with theoretical insights of intra‐household relations from the social science literature, and to assess what the 'everyday lived realities' described by the women workers tell us about the workings of power within family‐based households in urban Bangladesh.

AbstractMuch of the growth in trade among the industrialised countries, and more recently among countries in the Asia‐Pacific region, has taken the form of intra‐industry trade (HT). Australia has historically had one of the lowest shares of IIT among OECD countries. This article examines how Australia's IIT has changed in the 1980s in response to the process of trade liberalisation and completion of the Closer Economic Relations (CER) pact with New Zealand. HT indexes are estimated for Australia's multilateral and trans‐Tasman trade for 1981 and 1991 for 132 industries using data at the 3 and 4‐digit level of the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC). The results point to a sharp increase in the share of IIT for both multilateral and trans‐Tasman trade. Industries that have undergone the largest reductions in protection levels have increased their shares of IIT quite considerably. Increased intra‐industry specialisation suggests that the short‐run adjustment costs associated with trade liberalisation are likely to be lower. If IIT continues to grow in response to the ongoing process of internationalisation of the Australian economy, then Australia's prospects for expanding its share of world trade are good.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how intra-industry strategic alliances (SAs) seek to assess supplier risk related to sustainability, what motivation drives single members to form or join such an SA, and how such a joint endeavor affects supplier risk management.Design/methodology/approachAn embedded single case study with multiple units of analysis was conducted. The main data were collected through semi-structured interviews with key respondents from seven leading chemical companies, three of which were founding members of the SA, while four were new members.FindingsThis paper shows that forming/joining an SA concerning sustainability-related supplier risk assessment, results in the reduction of task uncertainty and equivocality as well as the increase of information processing capacities. Based on the implemented sharing routines, a higher overall efficiency can be achieved. Moreover, the members benefit from an enhanced identification of varying stakeholder expectations, a facilitated capability building and a more comprehensive supplier risk assessment. In particular, the joint endeavors result in assessment processes of higher robustness, which provide outcomes of higher quality.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to investigate companies' efforts toward improving their supplier risk management in the area of sustainability by establishing/joining an intra-industry SA. By providing insights into the motivation to form or join such a collaborative platform and illustrating the effects that arise from the SA's work from an organizational information processing perspective, it provides a contribution to both academics and managerial practice.

The aim of this study was to analyze how adolescents perceiving their parents in acceptance or tight control dimensions construed their intra-family dyadic relations in terms of reciprocity through Repertory Grid Technique. Results showed that majority of adolescents evaluated their relationships with their parents positively. However, they evaluated their parents' relationships with them negatively. The relationship perceived most negative in the family was the element 'your mother's current relationship with you', while the least likened reciprocal relationship was found to be the reciprocal relationship with the mother. It was concluded that adolescents who perceived their parents as accepting found more similarities in their mother's relationship with themselves and with their siblings. These adolescents also viewed their relationship with both parents as similar. As for the adolescents who perceived their parents as exercising strict control, they rated their relationship with their fathers as more reciprocal. The findings in this study were discussed within the framework of Personal Construct Theory.

The fragile Indo-Pacific security environment calls for recalibrating the Philippine-US alliance. Instead of attempting to revive the anachronistic hub-and-spokes system that tottered during the Duterte administration, Washington and Manila should move towards a polycentric type of relations that considers substate actors in conducting foreign affairs. This would be necessary to address traditional and non-traditional security concerns endangering the region's stability.

Le temps des poules…le temps des canards ?Une analyse rétrospective : loin de n'être qu'une donnée biologique, ou une catégorie démographique, la notion d'aîné renvoie en Afrique à des structures sociales de type inégalitaire et connote des privilèges, des dotations, des responsabilités et des obligations différenciés.Dans les sociétés lignagères africaines, les aînés constituaient une minorité démographique mais occupaient une position hégémonique sur un triple plan : économique, socio-culturel et politique. La monétarisation des économies, les changements démographiques, l'urbanisation et d'autres facteurs liés à la colonisation ont introduit des germes de changement dans l'ordre qui régnait dans ces sociétés et remettent en question, en bien des endroits et sous plusieurs rapports, cette hégémonie.Nul ne connait la couleur de la prochaine aurore.Une analyse prospective essaiera de répondre à la question de savoir ce qu'il peut advenir du vivre ensemble, des relations intra et intergénérationnelles, et donc de la place des aînés en Afrique dans les années à venir. Pour l'heure, deux scenarios contrastés sont à la fois plausibles et possibles pour l'Afrique.L'un, qu'on pourrait dire tendanciel parce que basé sur les tendances récentes, consisterait en une dépréciation/relégation/marginalisation des aînés qui viendrait consacrer le basculement de l'Afrique vers un resserrement de l'éventail des solidarités. Un autre scénario consisterait pour les sociétés africaines à essayer de tisser une nouvelle corde à partir de l'ancienne.Il s'agirait d'opérer un tri dans les systèmes de valeurs et référents axiologiques hérités des aînés en vue de n'en retenir que les éléments porteurs de progrès, de démocratie, de respect des droits humains. Le rôle des politiques publiques sera brièvement examiné dans ce cadre. ; The time of the hens…the time of the ducksA retrospective analysis: far from being only a biological fact, or a demographic category, the notion of "elderly" refers in Africa to unequal social structures and connotes privileges, endowments, responsibilities and differentiated obligations.In African lineage societies, the elders constituted a demographic minority but occupied a hegemonic position at a triple level : economic, socio-cultural and political. The monetarization of economies, demographic changes, urbanization and other factors related to colonization have introduced seeds of change in the order that prevailed in these societies and are challenging this hegemony in many places and in many ways.No one knows the color of the next dawn.A prospective analysis will try to answer the question of what can happen to living together, intra- and intergenerational relations, and therefore the place of the elderly in Africa in the years to come. For now, two contrasting scenarios are both plausible and possible for Africa.One, which could be said to be trend-oriented because it is based on recent trends, would consist of a depreciation/relegation/marginalization of the elderly, which would enshrine Africa's shift towards a narrowing of the range of solidarities.Another scenario would be for African societies to try to weave a new rope from the old one.It would be a question of sorting through the axiological value systems and referents inherited from the elderly in order to retain only the elements that bring progress, democracy and respect for human rights. The role of public policy will be briefly examined in this context.

Evidence from six Mexican states is analyzed about changes in
government organisation and performance arising from decentralisation and the
recasting of federalism structures. Spurred by rising pluralism, greater electoral
transparency, alternancia, and willingness of the Centre to 'let go',
a more genuine structure of shared powers is emerging between the executive (governors), the
legislature and the judiciary. The government bureaucracy is undergoing
modernisation, and governors are seeking to share power with legislatures as a
means of sharing the responsibilities of statecraft. Local congresses are exercising
greater 'checks' and 'balances' vis-à-vis the executive branch. Finally, the
judiciary is beginning to be reorganised, particularly at the national (Supreme
Court) level, where it is starting to develop jurisprudence relating to inter- and
intra-governmental relations.