Towards an ethics perspective on the rational structure tradition of organisational communication by Colin Chasi, Gideon de Wet

“…The article outlines some key characteristics of this tradition. Some important theorists to have contributed to this tradition include the great sociologist, Max Weber; the great champion of scientific management, Fredrerick Taylor; and Luther Gulick, the champion of the division and coordination of work. …”
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Éducation, libéralisme et globalisation. Dialogue avec l’œuvre de Francis Fukuyama by Camille Roelens

“…We then discuss this theme and its foundations with one of the most important theorists of the mutations and challenges of liberalism in globalization, namely Francis Fukuyama, and attempt to highlight the educational and formative stakes of his main theses.…”
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Cinemas and Spectators of International Development by Molly Geidel

“…It explores how development institutions, theorists, and filmmakers made connections between the experience of spectatorship and the odd mixture of passivity and striving that constituted the ideal “developing” subject. …”
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Maskulinitetsperspektiv på kriminologiens kjerneområder: Kontroll, ofre og kriminalitet by Nina Irene Jon

“…While the relation between crime and masculinity was actually addressed by some of the subcultural theorists in the 1950s (see e.g., Cohen 1955, Bloch and Niederhoffer 1958, Kvaraceus and Miller 1959, Cloward & Ohlin 1960), criminology as such has by and large remained a gender-blind discipline. …”
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Marketing public relations {MPR) by Charmaine Scriven Charmaine Scriven

“…It argues that MPR can achieve much more in the organisation than scholars and theorists currently address, especially with regard to the establishment of long-term customer relationships and trust. …”
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Elinor Ostrom et les faisceaux de droits : l’ouverture d’un nouvel espace pour penser la propriété commune by Fabienne Orsi

“…First developed by John Commons and American critical jurists of the early 20th century, this conception of property was then picked up by liberal theorists. By returning to the line advocated by Commons in her bundle of rights approach, Ostrom has overthrown the positions of the “property rights school” to propose a completely new conceptualisation of common property.…”
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Blasphemers or Profaners? Shaping Deviance in the French and British Traditions by David Nash

“…Thus it is not surprising that it has regularly been a battleground for cultural theorists and those interested in the investigation of the creation of the modernist individual. …”
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CFD for turbulence: from fundamentals to geophysics and astrophysics by Cambon, Claude, Alvarez Laguna, Alejandro, Zhou, Ye

“…Looking beyond the horizon, we address the future challenges for CFD and turbulence theorists with the prospect of exascale supercomputing.…”
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Du tableau à la scène : la couleur dans le jardin paysager en France by Ilona Woronow

“…Theorists of the XVIIIth-century French landscape garden readily appeal to painting as a model for their art. …”
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Traduction domestique : un marché glocal pour la poésie en espagnol by Azucena G. Blanco, Erika Martínez

“…In recent years, the discourse of comparative literature has been transformed by the discussion about relations between literature, market and globalization. Theorists like D. Damrosch (World Literature), G. Spivak (Planetariety), Pascale Casanova (The World Language) or L. …”
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Le continuum Gibson : le Cyberespace et les récits du Mervyn Kihn de Gibson by Thomas A. Bredehoft

“…Ultimately, rather than presenting cyberspace as a liberatory, utopian space, as some postmodern theorists would have it, Gibson’s treatment of hallucinatory and futuristic iconographies suggests that cyberspace functions as the embodiment of past "Dreams" of the future, dreams which, Gibson hints, are at least partially responsible for the "near dystopia" of the present.…”
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Des femmes font sécession. Récits de vies et itinéraires amoureux de féministes et lesbiennes des années 1970 by Françoise Flamant

“…Also reexamining the theoretical context of their political engagement and their ideological bricolage, Flamant insits on the importance of leading theorists, from Simone de Beauvoir to Monique Wittig, but also Herbert Marcuse who was translated by Wittig herself.…”
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POST-DEMOCRACY. REMARKS ON APPLICATION POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITS OF THE CONCEPT IN THE CZECH CONTEXT by Jan ČAMBORA, Jan HOLZER

“…The text first focuses on the concept of post-democracy and its various definitions in the works of political theorists, while paying crucial attention to Colin Crouch’s and Jacques Rancier´s approaches. …”
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Idea občana – válečníka a „moderní“ maskulinní identita: modelová studie z dějin Spojených států by Jiří Hutečka

“…Although it is not very surprising considering the “state of the art” in both fields here, it must be surprising in any other way, because there is a hardly any more “gendered” human endeavor than warfare – a fact generally acknowledged by theorists and thinkers from Bourdieu to Virginia Woolfe. …”
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Anxiety and Related Factors in Chronic Pain by Gordon JG Asmundson

“…It has only been of late, however, that theorists and researchers have begun to focus their attention on delineating the precise nature of the relationship and its specific implications for the assessment and management of pain.…”
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Forest Semiosis by Jacob Vangeest

“…In turn, Stiegler is brought closer to the theories of entangled care presented in the work of theorists such as María Puig De La Bellacasa and Natasha Myers, allowing for a more dynamic design process. …”
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On Topics Today by Nicholas McKay

“…It charts its development through two ‘generations’ of ‘topic theorists’. The first is constructed around three influential texts: Leonard Ratner’s seminal book that established the discipline in its own right, Classic music: expression, form and style (1980); Wye Allanbrook’s Rhythmic gesture in Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni (1983); and Kofi Agawu’s Playing with signs: a semiotic interpretation of classical music (1991). …”
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Identité, sexualité, spiritualité.  Entretien avec Jean Allouch by Jean Allouch, Massimo Prearo

“…In this interview he also discusses the essential role played by Michel Foucault in developing a theoretical for the reconfiguration of psychoanalysis and sexuality that contests the moral stipulations laid down by a considerable number of practitioners and theorists of "psy" analysis.…”
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L’âge du nouveau taylorisme by Laurent Baronian

“…But a disagreement remains among the labour theorists on the nature and significance of the breaking with Taylorism. …”
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Fanny Lignon, dir., Genre et jeux vidéo (2015) by Jean-Louis Trudel

“…Since the topic was relatively unexplored in France, most of the French-speaking contributors were either gender theorists or video game specialists, tasked with approaching the more unfamiliar topic. …”
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