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Affect in Organization and Management (Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies)
by Carolyn Hunter Nina KivinenAffect in Organization and Management asks how affect theory understands everyday working lives through embodied, social and political practice. Discussing a range of dimensions and perspectives on affect, the book considers how subjects are formed through their connections with others, both human and non- or more-than-human. The six women writers on affect presented in this series (Sara Ahmed, Kathleen Stewart, Donna Haraway, Jane Bennett, Karen Barad and Rosalyn Diprose) all speak to important themes in organization studies, including power, politics and ethics. Each chapter explores how these thinkers have already influenced organization scholars, as well as how their work can extend our understanding of pressing organizational issues around gender, race, the environment, leadership and ethics. Feminism is a core feature of this collection, highlighting feminist writing with affective, connected and intersubjective possibilities. Each woman writer is introduced by experts on affect and organization studies. The chapters also suggest further reading and accessible resources. The book is suitable for students, academics and practitioners in business and management, organization studies and critical management studies who want to think differently about organizations.
Affected: Emotionally Engaging Customers in The Digital Age
by Cara Wrigley Karla StrakerHow can you create meaningful connections with customers in the digital space? The rapid emergence of new technologies has revolutionized the way companies build relationships and interact with their customers. Today, it’s more important than ever to have an emotional understanding of customers and how they feel about a product, service, or business, even when your primary interactions are via digital channels. Affected goes beyond influencing behaviors to understanding cognition and emotion as a way to better connect with customers in the digital space. In it, Wrigley and Straker offer a new approach—one that examines channel relationships and useful concepts for clarifying and refining the emotional meaning behind company strategy and their relationship to corresponding channels. Using case study examples from and over a decade of primary research in the area, they discuss the process and impact of such emotionally aware channel designs. Spanning entrepreneurial start-up techniques of wunderkind artist Cj Hendry through to the lucrative retail sector of luxury brand Burberry, this seminal book offers multi-channel design approach that can show companies how to select, design, and maintain digital engagements based on their strategy and industry needs. Shows businesses how they can better understand and engage with customers digitally Demonstrates how to gain competitive advantage by integrating design methods into corporate strategy Provides multi-channel approaches for how businesses can select, design, and maintain digital engagements Establishes a clear framework for analysing and applying the right strategy for your digital engagement Connecting and engaging with customers is pivotal to business success, but in the digital space the old methods just won’t cut it. With Affected, you’ll find the tools and techniques you need to find your customers where they are.
Affected: On Becoming Undone and Potentiation
by Rick IedemaThis book explores the implications and relevancies of personal affect and organisational complexity for navigating organisational processes, relationships, changes and aspirations. In today’s climate, worker roles, relations and responsibilities are becoming increasingly complex and variable. Using personal experiences of organisational conflict as a point of departure, this book reflects on organisational change, complexity and research.It moves from experiential towards theoretical and methodological issues, exploring the question of how to confront and intervene in organisational complexity. Among others, the main theories brought to bear on this question include complexity theory, affect theory and sphere theory (or ‘spherology’). The research approaches and methodologies discussed include anthropology/ethnography, discourse studies, visual research and (the turn to) participatory enquiry.The book’s main message is to advocate for a collaborative, affective, visualised and future-oriented research agenda that rejects the conventional objectivist break and ‘division of learning’ characterising researcher-researched relationships. It will appeal to students and academics working in the fields of alternative research methods, the social sciences, organisational studies and management theory.
Affective Architectures: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Heritage (Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect)
by Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas Angela M. PersonHow do places manipulate our emotions? How are spaces affectious in their articulation and design? This book provides theoretical frameworks for exploring affective dimensions of architectural sites based on the notion that heritage, as an embodied experience, is embedded in places and spaces. Drawing together an interdisciplinary collection of essays spanning geographically diverse architectural sites — including Ford’s Theater, the site of President Lincoln’s assassination; the Estadio Nacional of Santiago, Chile, where 12,000 detainees were held following the ouster of President Salvador Allende; and Unit 731, the site of a biological and chemical warfare research unit of the Imperial Japanese army in Harbin, China, amongst others — this edited collection assembles critical dialogue amongst scholars and practitioners engaging in affective and other more-than-representational approaches to cultural memory, heritage, and identity-making. Broken into three main sections: Affective Politics; Embedded Geographies; and Affective Methodologies, this book draws together multidisciplinary perspectives from the arts, social sciences and humanities to understand the role of architecture in generating embodied experiences at places of memory. This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on fundamental questions of memory, identity and space. It will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of geography, architecture, cultural studies, and museum and heritage studies.
Affective Capitalism: For a Critique of the Political Economy of Affect
by Hangwoo LeeDrawing on Tarde's and Deleuze’s monadology, this book investigates the affective turn of contemporary capitalism. The concept of affect provides critical insight to overcome the limitations of social constructivism and cognitive capitalism. Affective capitalism transforms the population’s everyday bodily experiences into quantitative metrics that can be observed, measured, and processed on a non-conscious register, turning them into dividuals prepared to react and be affected by specific information at a given moment. In an era where social wealth increasingly relies on the 'social factory,' algorithms and big data constitute the living labor beyond employment. This book argues that affect also holds a potential for dismantling today’s real subsumption of life by capital. The network effect, mostly actualized as a company's market capitalization, is constantly traversed by the molecular becoming of affect, leading to new assemblages, such as free software movement, decentralized platforms, peer-to-peer networking, blockchain, and universal basic income.
Affective Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Risk, Ambiguity and Black Swans (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems #691)
by Donald J. BrownThis book is an exploration of the ubiquity of ambiguity in decision-making under uncertainty. It presents various essays on behavioral economics and behavioral finance that draw on the theory of Black Swans (Taleb 2010), which argues for a distinction between unprecedented events in our past and unpredictable events in our future. The defining property of Black Swan random events is that they are unpredictable, i.e., highly unlikely random events. In this text, Mandelbrot’s (1972) operational definition of risky random unpredictable events is extended to Black Swan assets – assets for which the cumulative probability distribution or conditional probability distribution of random future asset returns is a power distribution. Ambiguous assets are assets for which the uncertainties of future returns are not risks. Consequently, there are two disjoint classes of Black Swan assets: Risky Black Swan assets and Ambiguous Black Swan assets, a new class of ambiguous assets with unpredictable random future outcomes. The text is divided into two parts, the first of which focuses on affective moods, introduces affective utility functions and discusses the ambiguity of Black Swans. The second part, which shifts the spotlight to affective equilibrium in asset markets, features chapters on affective portfolio analysis and Walrasian and Gorman Polar Form Equilibrium Inequalities. In order to gain the most from the book, readers should have completed the standard introductory graduate courses on microeconomics, behavioral finance, and convex optimization. The book is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and post docs specializing in economic theory, experimental economics, finance, mathematics, computer science or data analysis.
Affective Economies, Neoliberalism, and Governmentality
by Anne-Marie D’AoustAdvanced capitalism is characterized by a level of symbolic production that not only results in a dematerialization of labor, but also increasingly relies on highly emotional components, ranging from consumption desire to workforce management. Feelings as varied as love, anger, and desire are integral to neoliberal processes, though not in unproblematic and monolithic ways. Whereas some accounts decry capitalism’s hold on the emotional realm, as the commodified search for soul mates through online dating sites or Starbucks’ promotion of fair-trade coffee suggest, others counter that emotions represent a privileged site of resistance to market rationality. Relying on different case studies ranging from drone strikes, the 2008 economic crisis in Ireland, and marriage migration management, this volume builds on this productive tension between subjection and resistance through the lenses of the concept of governmentality. Developed by Michel Foucault, governmentality sheds light on the ways in which economic and political life are now being managed through logics of security and economic calculations. This volume explores how individuals might become emotionally attached to regimes of power that are detrimental to them, how neoliberal processes are concomitant with the valorization of certain emotional dispositions, and how affective economies might provide a site of resistance. This book was published as a special issue of Global Society.
Affective Governmentality: Neoliberal Education Advertisements in Singapore (Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education #9)
by Andrew Joseph PereiraThis book investigates the subjectivities in education arising from the triumphant mobilisation of care as portrayed in educational advertisements, and provides a novel theory of affective governmentality based on empirical research on affect, neoliberalism, and governmentality. It also takes the bold step of encouraging the re-imagination of the central and pressing question of school marketisation in Singapore, and problematises the seemingly innocuous portrayals of care in light of neoliberal governmentality seeking to perform cultural work on preferred identities and subjectivities. Using a judicious selection of media artefacts, the book scrutinises the creation of emotional technologies through an ethic of caring, harnessing vulnerabilities and triumphalism. As such it not only equips readers to understand the role of emotional technologies but also offers a critical and alternative view of hope and aspirations for transforming society.
Affective Politics of the Global Event: Trauma and the Resilient Market Subject (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)
by James BrassettMarket life is increasingly conducted in the shadow of global events like 9/11, the Sub-Prime crisis and Brexit. Within International political economy (IPE) two broad positions can be discerned: either the event is ‘just an event’, a superficial spectacle in an otherwise straightforward story of power and hierarchy; or the event is large enough to be considered a ‘crisis’. While sympathetic to such arguments, this book develops a more performative politics of the global event, arguing that the very idea of the event must be placed in question. How is the event constructed? How are market subjects performed in relation to the event? This book argues that emotional and psychological discourses of ‘trauma’ and ‘resilience’ provide an important affective register for understanding how the global event is ‘known’, how it is governed, and how the affective dimensions of market life might be lived. By identifying the contingent rise of these discourses, the author de-stabilises and re-politicises the apparent existential veracity of the global event. The critical possibilities and limits of the affective turn in market life can then be rendered according to classic questions of IPE: who wins, who loses, and how might it be changed? An important work for advanced scholars and students of international political economy, ‘everyday and cultural political economy’, crisis and resilience, as well as broader debates on globalisation.
Affective Tourism: Dark routes in conflict (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)
by Dorina Maria BudaThis book brings together, explores and expands socio-spatial affect, emotion and psychoanalytic drives in tourism for the first time. Affect is to be found in visceral intensities and resonances that circulate around and shape encounters between and amongst tourists, local tourism representatives and places. When affect manifests, it can ‘take shapes’ in the form of emotions such as fun, joy, fear, anger and the like. When it remains a visceral force of latent bodily responses, affect overlaps with drives as expounded in psychoanalysis. The aim of the title, therefore, is to explore how and in what ways affects, emotions and drives are felt and performed in tourism encounters in places of socio-political turmoil such as Jordan, Palestine/Israel, with a detour to Iraq. Affective Tourism is highly innovative as it offers a new way of theorising tourism encounters bringing together, critically examining and expanding three areas of scholarship: affective and emotional geographies, psychoanalytic geographies and dark tourism. It has relevance for tourism industries in places in the proximity of ongoing conflicts as it provides in-depth analyses of the interconnections between tourism, danger and conflict. Such understandings can lead to more socio-culturally and politically-sustainable approaches to planning, development and management of tourism. This ground breaking book will be of valuable reading for students and researchers from a number of fields such as tourism studies, geography, anthropology, sociology and Middle Eastern studies.
Affective Urbanism (SpringerBriefs in Geography)
by Daniel PaivaThe book poses key questions on the contemporary practices of experience-oriented urbanism from the perspective of the affective turn. Departing from a critique of the imposition of the experience economy on contemporary urbanism, the book seeks alternative narratives and praxis for the co-creation of experiences in the city by looking at how different urban curators play with rhythms, atmospheres, and worlds to improve their communities. In this sense, the book offers practical pathways for urbanists interested in using experience co-creation as a tool for fostering communities and fulfilling the right to the city. The book is mainly targeted to researchers, postgraduate students, and practitioners. The topic of affective urbanism is of interest to scholars in urban studies, architecture, geography, anthropology, and sociology.
Affiliate Marketing For Dummies
by Paul Mladjenovic Ted SudolGet Your Piece of the Hottest Business Online Today! Affiliate marketing is your route to earning some serious bucks. Thousands of companies both large & small like Amazon, Sears, Best Buy, Overstock, Lowe’s, Priceline & others have programs so you can profit from the thousands of products they offer. Affiliate marketing is ideal for bloggers looking to monetize their work. This is a multibillion-dollar market, and there are 10+ million people involved in the biz worldwide. There’s always room for more because the opportunity keeps growing as more and more companies offer affiliate programs. Affiliate Marketing For Dummies shows you how to get a slice of the pie! Choose the right affiliate product or service for you Find the best affiliate programs for you Find the best affiliate marketing strategies Affiliate Marketing for Dummies is your friendly step-by-step guide to getting in on this moneymaker—big time.
Affiliate Marketing: Bouw uw eigen affiliate marketing bedrijf op terwijl u de wereld rondreist
by Adidas WilsonAffiliate marketing is het promoten van producten die andere mensen maken voor bedrijven zoals reizen, financiën, krediet, etc. Marketeers publiceren links online op meerdere sites. Affiliates promoten uw producten en zodra ze een verkoop hebben gedaan, verdienen ze commissies. Affiliate marketing is succesvol omdat veel nieuwe klanten uw producten zien. De interesse van de klant bereikt een piek wanneer hij of zij een product steeds weer ziet. Er zijn twee manieren om affiliate marketing te doen. Start uw partnerprogramma of word een partner van een ander bedrijf. Voor elke verkoop die u doet vanwege partnerinspanningen, betaalt u een commissie. Als u ervoor kiest om uw partnerprogramma te hebben, betekent elke aankoop dat u een commissie betaalt. Als u ervoor kiest om een ander bedrijf op uw site te promoten, verdient u een commissie voor elke verkoop die u doet.
Affiliate Marketing: Come Guadagnare Con L'advertising Online
by Alain CarolineCome imparare a guadagnare soldi online Per tutte le persone che possiedono conoscenze base di informatica, dedicano una o due ore al giorno e vogliono guadagnare qualche soldo senza alcun investimento utilizzando solamente il proprio computer e alcuni strumenti appositi. Il mio obiettivo è quello di farvi guadagnare e rendervi più felici. Questa guida vi condurra verso i numerosi lavoratori di affiliate marketing che guadagnano migliaia di dollari al mese, direttamente da casa.
Affiliate Marketing: Come guadagnare €10.000 e oltre al mese senza fare niente! (Business And Money Ser.)
by Michael EzeanakaAmazon #1 Best Seller Stai cercando un'attività online che puoi iniziare già da oggi? Hai la sensazione di non riuscire a guadagnare online, anche se ci stai provando con tutte le tue forze? Se è così, questo libro può aiutarti e puoi leggerlo sul tuo pc, sul tuo Mac, sul tuo smartphone, table o Kindle! Questo metodo per guadagnare usando Internet è in voga da oltre due decenni e le persone ancora usano lo stesso modello di 20 anni fa. Questo libro ti insegnerà tutto ciò che devi sapere sull'affiliate marketing (o marketing di affiliazione), illustrandone la storia dall'inizio e la sua evoluzione fino a diventare l'industria multi miliardaria che è oggi. In questo libro vedremo come fare per ottenere la tua fetta della grande torta dell'affiliate marketing. Imparerai come iniziare con questo business e costruire le tue risorse di affiliate marketing da zero. Imparerai anche come sviluppare contenuti e attirare grandi quantità di traffico usando sia metodi organici (gratuiti) che a pagamento. Infine, approfondiremo diverse strategie su come fare per avere successo diventando un Internet marketer. Con l'aiuto di questo libro, sarai sulla buona strada per arrivare a un reddito mensile a sei cifre. Inizia oggi a costruire il tuo impero nell'affiliate marketing! Ecco come questo libro ti aiuterà. Sia che tu inizi da zero e non sappia nulla sull'affiliate marketing o che tu abbia già capito i concetti fondamentali, questo libro ti sarà estremamente utile. Grazie a questo libro, scritto in modo estremamente chiaro e con istruzioni passo passo, riuscirai a: Scoprire di che cosa si occupa l'affiliate marketing Scoprire come scegliere la nicchia di mercato che fa per te Scoprire i 20 migliori programmi di affiliate marketing Scoprire come costruire efficacemente una mailing list Scoprire come scegliere il miglior programma di affiliate marketing Scoprire come usare le piattaforme
Affiliate Marketing: Learn How To Make $10,000+ Each Month On Autopilot
by Michael EzeanakaThis book will teach you everything you need to know about affiliate marketing. It discusses how it all started and evolved to the multi-billion dollar industry that it is today. <p><p> In this book, we will discuss how you can get your slice of the affiliate marketing pie. You will learn how you can start with this business and build your affiliate marketing assets from scratch. You will also learn how to develop content and drive massive amounts of traffic to them through organic (free) and paid methods. <p> Lastly, we talk in depth about the different strategies on how you can become successful as an Internet marketer. With the help of this book, you will be on your way to earn a six-figure monthly income. <p> Start building your affiliate marketing empire today!
Affiliate Marketing: Step by Step Blueprint to Earn a Six Figure Income on Autopilot from Anywhere in the World, Even if You Have No Experience
by Maury Spanner<p>Offering products and services people actually want to buy and earning hefty affiliate commissions is a great way to start a real online business with little risk or investment - but only if you know how to do it right! Need to learn how to run a successful affiliate marketing campaign the right way? <p>With this guide you will be armed with the fundamental knowledge you need to succeed in the exciting world of affiliate marketing. You’ll also learn how to avoid making mistakes that could cost you a lot of money and waste your valuable time! <p>Even if you have no background in affiliate marketing or online business, have no fear! With this guide in your hands that will not be a barrier for you any longer. Learn how to successfully market products and services that people love while earning juicy affiliate commissions for yourself when you grab this guide now!</p>
Affiliate-Marketing: Lernen Sie Wie man $10,000+ Jeden Monat Auf Autopiloten Macht!
by Michael EzeanakaSind Sie auf der Suche nach einem Online-Geschäft, das Sie noch heute anfangen können? Dann ist Affiliate Marketing das Richtige für Sie. Diese Methode, über das Internet Geld zu verdienen, gibt es schon seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten, und die Menschen nutzen heute immer noch das gleiche Modell wie vor 20 Jahren. In diesem Buch werden wir besprechen, wie Sie Ihren Teil vom Kuchen abbekommen können. Sie werden lernen, wie Sie damit beginnen und Ihr Vermögen von Grund auf aufbauen können. Sie werden auch lernen, wie Sie die Inhalte entwickeln und durch organische (kostenlose) und bezahlte Methoden große Mengen an Traffic auf diese Seiten leiten können. Letztendlich sprechen wir über die Strategien, wie Sie als Internet-Vermarkter erfolgreich werden können und wie man mit Affiliate Marketing eine Menge Geld verdienen können. Machen Sie sich auf den Weg zu einem sechsstelligen Monatseinkommen. Beginnen Sie noch heute mit dem Aufbau Ihres Affiliate-Marketing-Imperiums!
Affiliate-Marketing: Simple Copy-paste System Using Absolutely Free Traffic, No Budget And No Experience Needed At All
by Brian GravesAnyone Can Do It! The Only Way to Fail is If YOU Don't Try! This is the easiest affiliate marketing system any newbie or serious online marketer could hope for! I found this particular company that pays big affiliate commissions in the dog niche. BUT what's even better, is that they do the follow-ups for you! Meaning, you don't have to mess with autoresponders, and you don't have to write any emails. Because, they do it for you. Every email they send contains your affiliate link... ...plus they send helpful daily dog training tips (...I know coz I subscribed to them)... ...and they offer different HOT products, and even monthly membership to their paid newsletter. It's really amazing because all you have to do is create a 10 sec UGLY video, with a single background photo, add background music YouTube provides for free .and insert your affiliate link in the video. That's it - I did not talk or show my face. And within that month, I got a commission from them. I continued making a few more videos (...coz they were so easy to do)... And in 2-3 months the commissions were coming in regularly. It really is as simple as that. I am going to take you through the entire process, step by step and then show you how to scale it up for even more profit. You don't want to miss out on this. Hit the buy button and get in now.
Affinity Labs, Inc.
by Liz Kind Joseph B. LassiterIn November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold Military.com to. Within its first year of operations, Affinity Labs launched eight vertical portals including PoliceLink, NursingLink, TechCommunity, and IndiaOn. While the company was well ahead of its original plan to release four portals in 2007, Michel still faced a number of challenges. He had learned a great deal from Military.com and Affinity Labs' first launches, but in the case of each new community was faced with how best to construct the vertical and attract a sufficiently large audience. While the model seemed highly scalable because each vertical used the same core technology, every sector had its unique features. In the fall of 2007, executives from Monster opened up a dialogue with Michel about selling the company or expanding their relationship. Michel wondered if the time was right to sell or if he should grow Affinity Labs further with the hope of creating a company that could command the high valuations seen recently by a number of social networking concerns.
Affinity Plus (A)
by Peter Tufano Dennis CampbellThe executive team at Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union has pushed the concept of members first deeply throughout the organization, empowering employees to put member-owners' interests ahead of either the organization's interests or their own interests. As a result of this focus, the credit union must determine what to do with its profitable indirect auto lending business, which some see as inconsistent with the strategic direction set by the management team.
Affinity Plus: Priorities and Performance Pressures
by Dennis Campbell Kyle Thomas Tatiana SandinoCase
Affirmative Action
by Rachel KranzOne of the most controversial political issues of the past three decades has been the question of affirmative action. The phrase was first used in 1965 when President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246.
Affirmative Action Policies and Judicial Review Worldwide (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice #47)
by George GerapetritisThis book discusses affirmative action or positive discrimination, defined as measures awarding privileges to certain groups that have historically suffered discrimination or have been underrepresented in specific social sectors. The book's underlying rationale is that one cannot place at the same starting point people who have been treated differently in the past because in this way one merely perpetuates a state of difference and, in turn, social gaps are exaggerated and social cohesion is endangered. Starting out with an introduction on the meaning and typology of affirmative action policies, the book goes on to emphasise the interaction of affirmative action with traditional values of liberal state, such as equality, meritocracy, democracy, justice, liberalism and socialism. It reveals the affirmative action goals from a legal and sociological point of view, examining the remedial, cultural, societal, pedagogical and economy purposes of such action. After applying an institutional narrative of the implementation of affirmative action worldwide, the book explains the jurisprudence on the issue through syntheses and antitheses of structural and material variables, such as the institutional recognition of the policies, the domains of their implementation and their beneficiaries. The book eventually makes an analytical impact assessment following the implementation of affirmative action plans and the judicial response, especially in relation to the conventional human rights doctrine, by establishing a liaison between affirmative action and social and group rights. . The book applies a multi-disciplinary and comparative methodology in order to assess the ethical standing of affirmative action policies, the public interests involved and their effectiveness towards actual equality. In the light of the above analysis, the monograph explains the arguments considering affirmative action as a theology for substantive equality and the arguments treating this policy as anathema for liberalism. A universal discussion currently at its peak.
Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship
by Thomas D BostonThis volume isolates the cause of continuing disparities not only between blacks and whites, but amongst blacks as well. Key factors discussed include the current state of the economy the influence of public policies, the persistence of urban poverty, economic opportunities, changes in family and social structure and equal opportunities. The city o