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Dilemma
About: Dilemma is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16202 publications have been published within this topic receiving 250251 citations. The topic is also known as: Dilemna.
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TL;DR: In this article, political liberals' activism vis-a-vis migrant workers is two-pronged: first, to afford more rights to all migrant workers and, second, to guarantee equal treatment to all ethnic Koreans.
Abstract: Recently, Korean low-skilled foreign labor policies have changed in contradictory ways. On the one hand, Korea seems to be moving in a “liberal” direction, because the government is according more rights to foreign workers. On the other hand, Korea seems to be moving in an “illiberal” direction, because the government is according ethnic Korean workers preferential treatment over other foreign workers. I explain this contradictory situation in terms of political liberals’ activism. Korean political liberals’ activism vis-a-vis migrant workers is two-pronged: first, to afford more rights to all migrant workers and, second, to guarantee equal treatment to all ethnic Koreans. Taken separately, each move is in line with the political liberal principle of promoting nonascriptive, universalistic, and equal treatment. Taken together, these two moves are inherently contradictory – one pushes toward ethnicizing trends and the other pushes toward de-ethnicizing trends of immigration policies. This contradiction, which I call the political liberals’ dilemma, divides political liberals and weakens their overall political leverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the protection available for and used by small firms in their innovation activities by conducting a review on the relevant literature and use a qualitative multiple case study conducted in eight small companies to empirically study the issue.
Abstract: The knowledge protection/sharing dilemma related to innovation activities is becoming known to all firms, even though it is generally more notable for SMEs: the small size of the firms inherently creates a need for inter-organizational collaboration, but it also makes dealing with the related contradictories more challenging. One factor behind this is that the needed tools — such as the protection mechanisms of intellectual assets — may be more limited. In line with this notion, we examine the protection available for and used by small firms in their innovation activities. We approach the issue by conducting a review on the relevant literature, and use a qualitative multiple case study conducted in eight small companies to empirically study the issue. Departing from prior research, we consider protection of innovations by distinguishing between the intangibles needed in innovation activities and the actual innovation outputs, and combine these considerations to the knowledge protection/sharing dilemma.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how the discussion of policy deliberation became an argument over what words to have (or avoid) in the strategic plan document and identify implications for dilemma theorizing and future study of groups.
Abstract: Over a six-month time period a school board and its community discussed their district's strategic plan goals about diversity. This article analyzes that discussion within the practical theory frame articulated by Craig. Meeting talk and documents were analyzed to determine how the group's policy deliberation became an argument over what words to have (or avoid) in the strategic plan document. Proposals about document language were framed as technical editing, as inadvertent changing of a policy, and as wordsmithing. In addition to each frame being used, each was also challenged as to its being used to advance some group members' interests at the expense of others. Moving back and forth between using and resisting wording proposal frames, we suggest, is a reasonable way for groups to manage a dilemma they face in crafting policies about controversial, abstract issues. The paper concludes by identifying implications for dilemma theorizing and future study of groups.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the participants' goals in a series of interventions in an asymmetric conflict and conclude that, by not adequately attending to the power relations between the groups in conflict, third parties may unwittingly side with the goals of the high-power group.
Abstract: Some methods of unofficial intervention in protracted intercommunal conflict have not considered the possible impact of power asymmetry on the dynamics of conflict and on strategies for third-party intervention Members of conflicting parties in facilitated unofficial meetings may hold divergent views on the primary intervention goals and the appropriate level of conflict analysis within the meetings These differences may stem directly from the asymmetrical power relations between their communities As a result, third parties face the dilemma of satisfying seemingly irreconcilable goals for the intervention In this article, we analyze the dilemma by examining the participants' goals in a series of interventions in an asymmetric conflict and conclude that, by not adequately attending to the power relations between the groups in conflict, third parties may unwittingly side with the goals of the high-power group This article highlights the need to focus on power asymmetry in the design and conduct of such
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