Communicating corporate social responsibilities (CSR) in the digital media: Interactivity is key (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter reviews existing conceptualisations of interactivity in marketing, information system and media studies, proposing it is a multidimensional construct. It provides a thematic review of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication i... Read More about Communicating corporate social responsibilities (CSR) in the digital media: Interactivity is key.

The Limits of Instrumentalism: Informal Work and Gendered Cycles of Food Insecurity in Mozambique (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The instrumentalist literature suggests that women can help achieve household food security if they have access to productive resources but do not become overburdened as a result... Read More about The Limits of Instrumentalism: Informal Work and Gendered Cycles of Food Insecurity in Mozambique.

Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Productivity is the preferred measure of firm-level efficiency and perceived to reflect resource use rates. Semi-structured interviews with restaurant managers in a tourism-dominated low productivity rural area reveal th... Read More about Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region.

The insurance case of corporate social performance (CSP): Is ambivalence the key? (2017)
Thesis

Ambivalence is the key in insurance case of corporate social performance (CSP)

Financialisation and the financial and economic crisis - the case of South Africa (2017)
Journal Article

The Nature and Form of Financialisation in South Africa is conditioned by industrial and financial developments before 1994. This is an edited abridgement from a paper produced by the Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FE... Read More about Financialisation and the financial and economic crisis - the case of South Africa.

Revisando Foucault: Homo politicus e homo oeconomicus. Translation of Wendy Brown's Undoing the Demos (2017)
Journal Article

Translation of the third chapter of Undoing the Demos, a book where Wendy Brown seeks to understand how the emergence of homo oeconomicus has vanquished other figurations and interpellations of the human.
Brown first critically engages with Foucault... Read More about Revisando Foucault: Homo politicus e homo oeconomicus. Translation of Wendy Brown's Undoing the Demos.

Micro-cultural preferences and macro-percolation of new ideas: A NetLogo simulation (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This paper provides an extension of the Schelling agent-based model (ABM) of segregation which is augmented here with a mechanism for the percolation of new ideas. The main objective of the paper is t... Read More about Micro-cultural preferences and macro-percolation of new ideas: A NetLogo simulation.

Ethical transformation and government of the self in Keynes’s economic system (2017)
Journal Article

The article discusses the connections between ethics and government of the self in John Maynard Keynes’s economic thoughts about achieving and experiencing the «good life». Based on Michel Foucault’s philosophical developments about ethics and the on... Read More about Ethical transformation and government of the self in Keynes’s economic system.

Immigrants’ socio-economic achievements and cultural diversity: Economic effects of individual and local cultural capital (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: An interest in social transmission as a source of welfare and income inequality in a society has re-emerged recently with new vigour in leading economic research (see Piketty, 2014). This paper presents... Read More about Immigrants’ socio-economic achievements and cultural diversity: Economic effects of individual and local cultural capital.