Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Multistakeholder partnerships (MSP) are said to deliver more inclusive, effective, and sustainable policy-making by bringing together governments, businesses, and civil society in a new process of interaction on policy design and implementation. Despite their increasing popularity both at the global and at the national policy level, so far multi-stakeholder partnerships have received little systematic scholarly attention. We argue that more needs to be said about main features and modes of operation of MSPs as well as about whether and how they are distinct from other types of collaborative arrangements. By developing a framework for the study of MSPs, this paper tries to fill a gap in the existing literature, as well as to provide practitioners with a useful framework for the analysis and strategic management of projects. In particular, civil servants and international organizations staff are given the task of designing, implementing, monitoring and assessing participatory initiatives with very little guidance on the peculiarities of these arrangements.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Abstract
Microanalysis of discourse, incorporated into cultural analysis, offers a way to understand how organizational members construct their workplace environment through their everyday interactions. Part of a three-year analysis of cultural change in a high-technology public bureaucracy, this paper focuses on the cultural micropractices of a computing-services management team. Specifically, it offers a close reading of team discourse to discover the ways in which this team engages in humor, reproducing past practices and thus sustaining a recognizable subculture within the IT department of focus. As the analysis develops, a paradox unfolds. The team reproduces the computing services work culture; however, the visible contrast of the team culture within the IT department appears as resistance to organizational change. Yet the reproduction of computing cultural practices serves to reinforce the public bureaucratic hierarchy rather than offering a balancing voice within the department. The paradox of this team’s influence on the IT department is understood through the micropractices of team humor.

Publication Type: Session Paper
Abstract: Hollywood is not only the dominant global exporter of programs but also of the “industry lore” of what television should look like in terms of genre, narrative forms, and audience expectations — to the extent that other countries now adopt these conventions in order to sell programs internationally. Canadian producers, through their cultural proximity to the United States as well as their experiences working with American counterparts in the Canadian runaway locations industry, have become particularly adept at integrating the Hollywood style while maintaining a unique cultural sensibility that appeals to the U.S. industry’s current discourse on the need for both standard formulas and competitive originality in the post-network era. This paper explores this process through a case study of Canadian producer Chris Haddock’s series Da Vinci’s Inquest, a crime drama that has been sold to thirty countries and was the first Canadian series to be purchased by a major American network (CBS).

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper speculates about the current broadband policy and competition issues in the U.S. from the perspective of a Korean student who has ever experienced S. Korean IT environment. Given recent FCC’s deregulatory decisions, the FCC’s regulatory position, market competition issues, open access and its implications for the broadband deployment will be discussed. It was concluded that more active government intervention is required in case of the presence of dominant market power of local monopoly to ensure more vigorous market competition in the broadband market.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study examines extended hypotheses on social capital and civic engagement in a cultural context. It contributes to a growing corpus of research that suggests social capital has important implications for democratic development. The paper specifically addresses the impact of interpersonal trust and political institutional confidence upon confrontational political protest in more than 80 countries in eight distinct ?civilizations? or cultures. Drawing upon individual-level data from the 1999-2000 World Values dataset and controlling for a variety of economic and socio-political variables, regression analyses suggest that social capital is strongly correlated with protest in all countries. Nevertheless, there is significant variation in the effect of trust and confidence on protest between subsets of countries, particularly between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.