Jason Crawford – författare

Digital teknik förändrar förutsättningarna för verksamheter och för samhället i stort. Det finns därför ett omfattande utvecklingsbehov på samhälls-, organisations- och individnivå. Den här boken tar upp hur digitalisering påverkar såväl strategi som struktur och system, samt ger ett historiskt perspektiv på hur teknikutveckling formar dagens arbete.Givet teknikens snabba utveckling innehåller denna andra upplaga av boken nio nya kapitel och delvis helt omskrivna grunder. Författarna lyfter upp nya fenomen, såsom artificiell intelligens, twin transition och digital inkludering, och visar hur dessa bör integreras för att säkerställa en ändamålsenlig digitalisering och styrning. Boken ger ett betydande kunskapsbidrag, som hjälper läsaren att hitta nya vägar i en tid när teknikens utveckling fortsätter att accelerera.

What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by considering,in particular, the cultural forms these writers want to leave behind. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, many English writers fashion themselves as engaged in breaking away from an array of old idols: magic, superstition, tradition, the sacramental, the medieval. Many of these writers persistently use metaphors of disenchantment, of awakening from a broken spell, to describe their self-consciously modern orientation toward a medieval past. And many of them associate that repudiated past with the dynamics and conventions of allegory.In the hands of the major English practitioners of allegorical narrativeWilliam Langland, John Skelton, Edmund Spenser, and John Bunyanallegory shows signs of strain and disintegration. The work of these writers seems to suggest a story of modern emergence in which medieval allegory, with its search for divine order in the material world, breaks down under the pressure of modern disenchantment. But these four early modern writers also make possible other understandings of modernity. Each of them turns to allegory as a central organizing principle for his most ambitious poetic projects. Each discovers in the ancient forms of allegory a vital, powerful instrument of disenchantment. Each of them, therefore, opens up surprising possibilities: that allegory and modernity are inescapably linked; that the story of modern emergence is much older than the early modern period; and that the things modernity has tried to repudiatethe old enchantmentsare not as alien, or as absent, as they seem.

ERM is considered a dynamic capability that is critical to companies’ success from strategic and performance perspectives and is increasingly implemented in response to growing pressure from external stakeholders to enact and add legitimacy to existing management control systems. However, implementing ERM is a challenging process where success is dependent on balancing technical and social factors. This book explores the challenges of implementing ERM from technical, cognitive, and social perspectives to enhance the organisation’s capacity to generate and integrate information and knowledge about risk and uncertainty.In existing publications, ERM implementation is mainly viewed from technical or educational perspectives and treated as formal, technical, linear processes. This book takes a different stance by recognising that implementation depends on formal and informal mechanisms that require a balanced combination of technical and social approaches. It changes the paradigm to demonstrate that the implementation of ERM is not a linear process that is similar across industries and organisations, but relies on multiple dependencies such as leadership, corporate governance, and the culture of the organisation.This book will be a valuable resource for scholars, as well as upper-level students, across disciplines related to risk management, including accounting and finance, business and management, leadership, and organisational studies.

This book examines the role of strategic risk management (SRM) in the transformation of banks and their customers towards more sustainable business practices. Banks play a particularly important role in this transformation because they have been tasked with redirecting capital flows to sustainable investments.This book has two inter-related aims: to provide the reader with an analysis of the challenges associated with implementing strategic risk management as discussed in the existing literature, as well as to conduct an empirical investigation into SRM implementation in a large European bank headquartered in the Nordic region. The book consists of seven chapters. Chapters 1-3 introduce the main concepts, research questions, and theoretical framework. Chapters 4-6 describe the integration challenges associated with SRM in an empirical context, that is, Nordbank. Finally, Chapter 7 presents key insights and avenues for future research.The book will benefit readers in a variety of ways, including providing an overview of the existing literature, the latest developments in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulation, and in-depth empirical insights into an organisation and its management who are currently implementing SRM as part of their sustainable transformation. It is intended for scholars and students in the business and management disciplines, as well as the sub-fields of accounting, finance, and strategic management.

Comedians play a complicated role in modern culture. They get up on public stages to talk about nothing in particular, with no expertise. They go out of their way to put their flaws, failures, and shabbiness on display. They break social taboos and orchestrate their own persecution. And through it all, they seem to be touched with a kind of spiritual charisma. Sometimes they seem like prophets, speaking truths that no one else would dare. Sometimes they seem like children, wide-eyed and innocent. We can’t stop listening to what they have to say.In God’s Fools, Jason Crawford tells the stories of these strange figures. He ranges over a motley crew of modern comedians, from the pioneers of early cinema to the provocateurs of contemporary stand-up. But he also follows the story of the comedian further back, into a surprising history of holy fools, wild prophets, and mischief-making saints. In his account, comic performers from Charlie Chaplin to the present mingle with older figures like Francis of Assisi, Symeon the Fool, the laughing martyrs Perpetua, Lawrence, and Akiva, and the weird hermit Thecla of Iconium. As he uncovers the through-lines that connect these ancient lives to the world of modern comedy, Crawford asks how comedians still fashion themselves as prophetic and sacred characters. He explores the things comedy shares with sacred experience: how jokes are like prophecies, and how comic resolutions are like apocalyptic visions. And he finds new ways of understanding the power of comedy in our own moment.