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- ItemOpen AccessExploring emergence in corporate sustainability(2019) Maitland, Roger; Baets, WalterAs the impacts of climate change intensify, businesses are increasingly committing to ambitious sustainable development goals, yet an enduring disconnect remains between corporate sustainability activities and declining global environment and society. This study adopts a complexity view that reductionism associated with Newtonian thinking has played a key role in creating many of the sustainability issues now faced by humanity. This dissertation departs from the premise that sustainability needs to be integrated into an organisation and uses a complexity view to argue that corporate sustainability is a co-evolutionary process of emergence. Whilst many studies have examined how sustainability can be integrated into a business, less is known about corporate sustainability as an emergent process. To address the knowledge gap, this research answered three questions: (1) How does sustainability emerge in financial institutions? (2) What is the role of coherence in the emergence of sustainability? and (3) What conditions enable the emergence of sustainability? A mixed method sequential design was used. In the initial quantitative strand of the research, a holistic business assessment survey based on integral theory was implemented in two financial services organisations in Southern Africa. The results were analysed using self-organising maps and explored in narrative interviews in the subsequent qualitative strand of the research. The study makes three contributions to our understanding of emergence in corporate sustainability. First, by proposing four modes by which corporate sustainability is enacted; these elucidate how integral domains are enacted in corporate sustainability. Second, by clarifying the process of emergence by articulating how zones of coherence emerge between embodied and embedded dimensions. Third, by explaining how the shift to corporate sustainability occurs by means of four conditions. These contributions serve to advance our understanding of corporate sustainability as a fundamental shift in the functioning of an organisation towards coevolutionary self-organisation. It is recommended that corporate sustainability is holistically cultivated to support emergence and self-organisation, rather than being integrated through a linear process of change.
- ItemOpen AccessStudy of ordered hadron chains with the ATLAS detector(2017) Aaboud, M; Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abdinov, O; Abeloos, B; Abidi, S H; AbouZeid, O S; Abraham, N L; Abramowicz, H; Abreu, H; Abreu, R; Abulaiti, Y; Acharya, B S; Adachi, S; Adamczyk, L; Adelman, J; Adersberger, M; Adye, T; Affolder, A A; Afik, Y; Agatonovic-Jovin, T; Agheorghiesei, C; Aguilar-Saavedra, J A; Ahlen, S P; Ahmadov, F; Aielli, G; Akatsuka, S; Akerstedt, H; Åkesson, T P A; Akilli, E; Akimov, A V; Alberghi, G L96
- ItemOpen AccessWriting Your World Week 2 Video 10 - Relationship Between Introduction and conclusion(2019-06-01) Nomdo, Gideon; Hunma, AditiThis video focuses on the relationship between the introduction and conclusion. It defines the purposes of the different sections of the essay. The video also outlines possible reasons there might be start differences between the introduction and conclusion. The video then outlines what a conclusion is expected to achieve and the problems that may arise from not achieving these. This is video 10/10 in week 2 of the Writing your World course.
- ItemOpen AccessWriting Your World Week 3 Video 10 - Giving feedback on Ada’s paragraph(2019-06-01) Nomdo, GideonThis video focuses on Ada's paragraph construction. The video starts by recapping the sentence structure for the paragraphs. It then defines Ada's writing style and goes on to explain her use of personal narratives to support her ideas. The video then analyses Ada's sentence by sentence. It points out the strength and weakness in her sentences. The video then shows her sentences and paragraphs could be re-arranged. There is a focus on the flow and coherence within the paragraphs. The video then discusses how Ada can improve her writing. This is video 10/12 in week 3 of the Writing your World course.
- ItemOpen AccessWriting Your World Week 3 Video 8 - Coherence and cohesion(2019-06-01) Nomdo, Gideon; Hunma, AditiThis video focuses on the importance of ensuring that there is coherence and cohesion in the written work. The video explains the role of coherence within an essay. It also explains how coherence can be achieved at a sentence level and a paragraph level. The video then discusses the role of cohesion in an essay. Examples of cohesion are then provided. It also discusses how coherence and cohesion are essential for an argument to hold. The video then provides examples of coherence and cohesion being used in paragraphs. This is video 8/12 in week 3 of the Writing your World course.
- ItemOpen AccessWriting Your World Week 4 Video 7 - Giving feedback on Ada's draft(2019-06-01) Nomdo, Gideon; Hunma, AditiThis video focuses on analysing Ada's essay. It the effective use of elaboration through examples in the introduction. It also touches on Ada's use of sources and how she might rectify the lack of continuity. The video also touches on Ada's use of reference and how she is able to achieve coherence by using linking words. The video then provides ways in which Ada can improve her essays and what she has done well. This is video 7/7 in week 4 of the Writing your World course.