Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Faith-Based Organisations as Welfare Providers in Brazil: The Conflict over Gender in Cases of Domestic Violence

What does the growth of faith-based organisations (FBOs) in social welfare mean for women’s rights and gender equality, especially within advocacy services for women experiencing domestic violence? Through empirical research within a Catholic-based organisation providing welfare services to abused women in São Paulo, Brazil, this article argues that FBOs can negatively impact the provision of women’s rights when conservative and patriarchal views towards gender and women’s roles in society are maintained. A heavily matrifocal perspective, where women’s identity and subjectivity are mediated through their normative roles as wives, mothers and carers of the family, appears to offer little possibility of change for abused women, who are encouraged to forgive violent husbands and question their own behaviour. Mediation between couples is promoted, undermining women’s rights upheld through Brazil’s domestic violence law (Lei Maria da Penha no 11.340). Furthermore, the focus of family preservation, supported by a patriarchal state, means that violence against women (VAW) appears to be subordinated to a focus on family violence and violence against children. In this case, faith-based involvement in social welfare rejects the feminist analysis of VAW as a gender-based problem, viewing it as a personal issue rather than a collective or political issue, making women responsible for the violence in their lives.
Pengaruh Pengungkapan Enterprise Risk Management Terhadap Nilai Perusahaan Dengan Ukuran Perusahaan, Leverage, dan Profitabilitas Sebagai Variabel Kontrol

Nilai perusahaan merupakan kondisi tertentu yang dicapai perusahaan sebagaigambaran kepercayaan masyarakat dan stakeholder. Meningkatkan nilai perusahaan penting untuk dilakukan agar kemakmuran pemegang saham dapat dimaksimalkan. Upaya meningkatkan nilai perusahaan dapat dicapai dengan pengungkapan Enterprise Risk Management guna memberikan keyakinan bagi investor dalam menempatkan modalnya. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh pengungkapan ERM terhadap nilai perusahaan dengan mengontrol ukuran perusahaan, leverage, dan profitabilitas. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada perusahaan sektor property, real estate, dan konstruksi yang terdaftar di BEI tahun 2014 - 2016. Jumlah sampel yang diambil sebanyak 123 perusahaan dengan metode purposive sampling. Teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah regresi linear berganda. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwapengungkapan ERMberpengaruh negatif terhadap nilai perusahaan dengan mengontrol variabel ukuran perusahaan, leverage, dan profitabilitas.Pengaruh negatif ini menunjukan pengungkapan ERMyang dilakukan perusahaan sektor property, real estate, dan konstruksi ditangkap sebagai bad news oleh investor disamping bahwa pengungkapan ini masih bersifat sukarela. Kata kunci : nilai perusahaan, enterprise risk management, ukuran perusahaan, leverage, profitabilitas
Faktor – Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Nilai Perusahaan Melalui Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Tujuan jangka pendek perusahaan untuk memaksimalkan laba dan tujuan jangka panjang untuk meningkatkan nilai perusahaan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh ukuran perusahaan, dewan komisaris, perencanaan bonus, dan kinerja keuangan pada nilai perusahaan melalui pengungkapan Corporate Social Responsibility. Populasi penelitian sebanyak 172 perusahaan dengan kategori high profile yang tercatat di bursa efek indonesia tahun 2015. Teknik pengambian sampel dengan metode purposive sampling berdasarkan kriteria yang telah ditentukan, maka diperoleh jumlah sampel sebanyak 113 perusahaan. Teknik analisis data pada penelitian menggunakan analisis jalur. Hasil statistik menunjukkan bahwa ukuran perusahaan tidak berpengaruh terhadap pengungkapan Corporate Social Responsibility maupun nilai perusahaan, perencanaan bonus tidak berpengaruh terhadap pengungkapan Corporate Social Responsibility namun berpengaruh terhadap nilai perusahaan, sedangkan dewan komisaris dan kinerja keuangan berpengaruh terhadap pengungkapan Corporate Social Responsibility maupun nilai perusahaan, sementara pengungkapan Corporate Social Responsibility berpengaruh terhadap nilai perusahaan tetapi belum mampu menjadi variabel intervening. Kata kunci: Ukuran perusahaan; dewan komisaris; perencanaan bonus; kinerja keuangan; CSR; nilai perusahaan
Globalization and internationalization as frameworks for higher education research

ABSTRACT In contemporary writing on higher education, globalization and internationalization are increasingly popular terms, and they are also increasingly being used as frameworks for higher education research. This article discusses the meaning and application of these terms, documents their usage in higher education research, and critically reviews this research and its usefulness for higher education policy. It concludes that, while many interpret the growing globalization and internationalization of higher education as another effect of neo-liberal agendas, the role of higher education institutions as instigators of further globalization and internationalization should not be ignored, while the compromises they make in doing so need to be acknowledged. It also suggests that higher education researchers themselves need to move out of their national comfort zones and think and research more globally.
The more it changes, the more it stays the same? Swiss liberalization and regulatory policies in comparative perspective

The wave of liberalization that has swept over most industrialized nations in the course of the last 30 years has led to important changes in state intervention in the economy. It is believed to have provoked a shift from an interventionist state to a regulatory state that limits its activity to the supervision and regulation of markets rather than directly intervening within markets. While the state is still responsible for rule making through authoritative and binding decisions (steering), the functions of service provision and production (rowing) are increasingly assigned to private actors (Jordana and LeviFaur 2004). Following an apparent paradox, reforms designed to promote market mechanisms over state intervention in areas such as telecommunications, energy and transport have not led to the disappearance of state activity, but have instead promoted a strengthening of public regulation through various instruments, notably independent regulatory agencies (IRAs). The expression ‘freer markets, more rules’ (Vogel 1996) incisively sums up this phenomenon. Over the last few decades, all industrialized countries seem to have converged towards this model. Switzerland is an interesting case for the study of institutional change and the rise of the socalled regulatory state this model. On the one hand, public interventionism has been limited in comparison with most Western European countries, and private solutions have always been preferred over public intervention. This greater degree of correspondence with the new liberal order is expected to imply a high degree of continuity in regulatory arrangements. On the other hand, however, the state in Switzerland has also notoriously shown a low degree of autonomy visà-vis private interests. In view of the fact that regulatory functions require a great degree of independence between regulators and regulatees, this, conversely, is likely to imply great disruption in existing regulatory arrangements. Moreover, Switzerland is not a member of the EU, the main promoter of liberalization and the diffusion of regulatory instruments in Europe, which should imply less severe adaptation pressures. In this chapter, we provide an overview of liberalization and reregulation reforms in Switzerland with particular attention to pathdependent dynamics in order to explore these ambiguous expectations. First, we will outline the traditional Swiss regulatory model of the postwar period, summarize changes over
Changes in the Occupational Structure of the United States: 1860 to 2015

This Commentary describes how the mix of occupations in which people have been employed in the United States has evolved over time. After 100 years of dramatic change, the mix of occupations has been more stable since 1970. This trend adds occupational structure to the growing list of ways our nation’s economy has become less dynamic in recent decades.
(Un)Mind the gap: How organizational actors cope with an identity–strategy misalignment

In this article, we explore how organizational actors cope with a perceived misalignment between their organization’s identity and strategy. Based on an inductive, interpretive case study at a public broadcasting organization, we identify three cognitive tactics through which organizational members cope with an identity–strategy misalignment: contextualization, abstraction, and fatalism. Furthermore, we show that the enactment of these cognitive coping tactics coincides with specific strategy-related tasks that prioritize different aspects of an organization’s identity and, therefore, invokes different conceptions of the identity–strategy misalignment. Based on these findings, we develop a framework that conceptualizes how organizational members cope with an identity–strategy misalignment. We end the article by discussing the implications of our study for further research on the linkages between organizational identity and strategy.
Mergers in higher education institutions: a proposal of a novel conceptual model

PurposeThe macroeconomic changes as well as the challenges facing universities nowadays result in the transfer and adaptation of various concepts and organizational methods from enterprises to universities. One of such solutions is mergers. Even though there are a very large number of practical examples of university mergers in the world, at the same time there is a shortage of frameworks that would help manage mergers. The purpose of this paper is to present key areas of focus in HEIs’ consolidation processes and the creation of the conceptual model of the universities’ mergers.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper synthesis, the inductive approach for model development and case study description were used. The analysis and findings were based on the systematic literature review taken out from management and public policy areas. The new public management and public value governance approaches as well as strategic and process theories of mergers were applied. The descriptive approach to management was used as well.FindingsFormulation of a Conceptual Model of Universities’ Mergers and ten principles of effective management of universities’ mergers that cover the entire process, from planning, through implementation, to integration.Research limitations/implicationsThere is a need to verify the proposed inductive model of universities’ mergers through further qualitative and mixed-methods research studies.Practical implicationsThe paper offers a significant opportunity for practical application of the presented content, because it indicates how the know-how from one (business) sector can be valuable for the future of another sector (the over-fragmented sector of higher education). Originality/valueThis study presents the key areas of focus in HEIs’ consolidation processes and proposes a novel Conceptual Model of Universities’ Mergers. It concludes with the principles of effective management of universities’ mergers.
Color Block Task

With the increasing use of in-vehicle information system (IVIS), driver distraction, especially visual distraction, has increased dramatically. Evaluating the impact of IVIS on traffic safety is important. Previous studies have used various standard secondary-task methods in place of real IVIS interactions to obtain quantitative and scalable results. However, traditional visual secondary tasks, such as the Surrogate Reference Task (SuRT) and the Arrow Task, are insufficient to simulate incrementally increased workload with fine details or contrast difference. This study designed a new form of visual secondary task (Color Block Task, CoBT) that could provide appropriate difficulty, incremental complexity, and contrast option for visual distraction assessment. The validity of this method was tested in a driving simulator by analyzing the reaction time and accuracy of the CoBTs, the reaction time and accuracy of a Tactile Detection Response Task (TDRT), and drivers’ vehicle control performance. Results showed that CoBT is a valid tool to mock drivers’ in-vehicle visual demand. CoBT and TDRT performance can effectively distinguish the difficulty levels of CoBT and explain drivers’ attention allocation pattern to some extent.
Millennium Development Goals (MDG): India’s Progress and Way Forward to Sustainable Development Goals

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), approved by UN Summit in 2000, represent the first global development effort to provide a better future for the millions of poor citizens, with clear goals and a time frame. Four of the MDG goals pertain to health and nutrition; they are: eradication of extreme poverty and hunger; reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis; India’s progress towards targets which pertain to health and nutrition goals are discussed in this article. The progress towards MDG is being monitored by the UN statistical system. India is a signatory to the Millennium Declaration and the progress towards MDGs has been monitored through the national statistical system.
Tales on the dark side of the transport infrastructure provision: a systematic literature review of the determinants of cost overruns

ABSTRACT Cost overruns are an endemic feature of the provision of transport infrastructure worldwide. In recent decades, a considerable amount of studies has been devoted to assessing the magnitude and determinants of cost overruns in the transportation sector. However, the empirical findings are scattered between different strands of literature, ranging from the fields of construction engineering and management to that of applied economics. To shed light on the determinants of cost overruns in the execution of transport infrastructure projects, we conduct a systematic review of the empirical literature on the topic. Of the 945 articles retrieved, 26 articles published between 2000 and 2016 meet our inclusion criteria. For them, we describe the different empirical approaches, we provide a classification of the determinants employed in the analyses and summarise their impact on cost overruns. Finally, we suggest some directions for further research in the field.
GENDER DIVERSITY IN BOARDROOM AND DIFFERENT COMMITTEES: A STUDY WITH REFERENCE TO BSE SENSEX 30 COMPANIES

A gender diversified Board leads to multidimensional vision in an organizational structure. As psychological construct of woman brings a whole new and different perception about the situation and influences decision making of management. For this purpose, unbiased treatment towards the woman in the Board is the need of the hour. The gender composition of the board can affect the quality of financial and monitoring performance of the organization. Researchers like Ruth Mateos de Cabo, Claude Francoeur, Kevin Campbell aimed at investigating the impact of women directors on the performance of the company. Women held the 17.9% of the board seats of Fortune 1000 companies in 2015. This percentage is getting elevated day by day. The women directors in Scandinavian countries like Norway, Sweden, Denmark occupied high proportion of Board seat. On the other hand, European countries like France and Germany also have significant presence of women directors. In India, with effect from 1st April 2015, it is compulsory to appoint at least one-woman director in the category of company under section 149(1) of the Companies Act, 2013. In this context, the objective of the study is to investigate the presence of women directors and its impact of the companies under S&P BSE Sensex 30 companies before and after enforcement of legislature. After a careful observation, it is concluded that degree of diversity with reference of different personal affiliation is less intense in board of S&P BSE SENSEX companies. Though some of the companies like CIPLA, INFOSYS go beyond the legal compulsion and compose their board with higher degree of diversified gender representation.
The Core, Periphery, and Beyond: Stock Market Comovements Among EU and Non‐EU Countries

Recent economic events across the PIIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) may have resulted in correlated stock market returns across those countries and caused contagion to more developed European markets such as Germany or the UK, particularly during the Great Recession. Using several complementary techniques, including linear and nonlinear correlations, copulas, quantile dependence, and lower-tail dependence on data from 1999 to 2015, we find equity market comovements among the PIIGS stock markets to be weaker than between each of the PIIGS and the more advanced European economies of France, Germany, and the UK. We also find that stock markets of the advanced countries co-move more closely with each other than with any of the peripheral economies. Surprisingly, the nature of this comovement structure did not change during the global financial crisis, suggesting that this relative comovement structure is very stable even in the face of dramatic economic change. Further, we find that the level of comovements remained virtually the same as the Eurozone was transitioning from the financial crisis to the post-crisis recovery. Comovements with non-EU countries are not as strong, even with Switzerland, which suggests that the UK's impending withdrawal from the UK will result in weaker comovements of the British stock market with other European markets. Our results are largely immune to joint (marginal) distributional assumptions and do not require joint normality.
Effects of computer technology and traditional methods of instruction upon the critical thinking skills of teachers and students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of computer technology in developing critical thinking skills of teachers and middle school students. The influences of years of teaching experience and educational degrees held by the teacher upon teacher gains and student gains were also investigated. In addition, this study examined the relationship between achievement test scores and critical thinking scores. The sample consisted of 20 classroom teachers and 449 fifth and sixth grade students at a middle school in rural Piedmont North Carolina. Ten teachers and 239 students were in classrooms with computers, while the control group of 10 teachers and 210 students did not have computers. A t test for gain scores (posttest scores minus pretest scores) of the computer group with the control group indicated a significantly greater gain (p<.0001) for computer students than non-computer students. Teacher gains were not significant.
Cold Winds and Warm Attachments: Interrogating the Personal Attachment to Neoliberal Work and Economy

The question of personal attachment to work in neoliberalism is subject to debate. Some scholars postulate that personal attachment to work based on durability, collectivity and predictability is weakening because of changes in its organisation; work ceases to provide the basis of subjectivity and identity. Conversely, others claim work, and neoliberal economic logic generally, pervades ever deeper into our lives, shapes our subjectivity, and incites personal and individualised attachments. This article describes four ways social scientists have understood personal attachments: entrepreneurship discourse; biocracy; approaches emphasising desire, lack and affect; and approaches highlighting the normative justifications and ethics of the self. It interrogates their theoretical underpinnings, empirical focus and points of confluence and difference.
The Impact of Board Structure on Firm Performance: Evidence from the Nonfinancial Companies Listed on Ghana Stock Exchange

The authors are thankful to the National Science Foundation of China (71371087) for the financial support. Abstract The fundamental aim of this study is to examine the relationship that exit between board structure and firm performance of non-financial Ghanaian listed companies. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, unique data were collected from a sample of 28 non-financial companies covering five financial year periods 2012-2017 was used and thereafter analysis done within panel data framework/multiple linear regression framework. The variables such as CEO duality, CEO tenure, board size, board composition and its independence were considered as predictors of the firm performance that was measured employing accounting based performance measures such as the return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE) and EPS. I found board size to have a positively significant relationship with firm performance. Keywords: Corporate governance, Board composition, Block holder, CEO-duality, Firm performance DOI : 10.7176/RJFA/10-6-12 Publication date :March 31 st 2019
Individual Factors Associated with Women’s Use of Mental Health Services during Incarceration: Targeting Programmatic Resources

ABSTRACT This study analyzed data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities to identify factors associated with the use of mental health services among incarcerated women (N = 2571). One quarter of the sample (25.3%) reported accessing mental health counseling during their incarceration, while 30.8% reported using psychotropic medications. Survivors of childhood sexual victimization were more likely to use psychotropic medication (OR = 1.45, p = .016) compared to women who had not experienced this form of violence. Women convicted of violent offenses were more likely to use both psychotropic medication (OR = 2.13, p < .001) and counseling services (OR = 1.57, p = .002). Correctional practitioners should considertargeting resources to address women’s experiences as both victims and perpetrators of violence.
Does seeing gesture lighten or increase the
 load?

We examined the cognitive resources involved in processing speech with gesture compared to the same speech without gesture across four studies using a dual-task paradigm. Participants viewed videos of a woman describing spatial arrays either with gesture or without. They then attempted to choose the target array from among four choices. Participants’ cognitive load was measured as they completed this comprehension task by measuring how well they could remember the location and identity of digits in a secondary task. We found that addressees experience additional visuospatial load when processing gestures compared to speech alone, and that the load primarily comes when addressees attempt to use their memory of the descriptions with gesture to choose the target array. However, this cost only occurs when gestures about horizontal spatial relations (i.e., left and right) are produced from the speaker’s egocentric perspective.