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- Patel, Jayna J., et al.
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Early outcomes associated with use of the Zenith TX2 Dissection Endovascular Graft for the treatment of Stanford type B aortic dissection
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Vascular Surgery. - : Elsevier. - 0741-5214 .- 1097-6809. ; 74:2, s. 547-555
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: To evaluate short term outcomes related to the use of the Zenith TX2 Dissection Endovascular Graft (ZDEG) and the Zenith Dissection Bare stent (ZDES) for the treatment of Stanford type B aortic dissections. Methods: This retrospective multicenter case cohort study collated data from 10 European institutions for patients with both complicated and uncomplicated type B aortic dissection treated with ZDEG and ZDES between 2011 and 2018. The primary end point was mortality at 30 and 90 days. Secondary end points included complications related to TEVAR, such as, type Ia endoleak, stroke, paraparesis, paraplegia, and retrograde type A dissection (RTAD). Statistical analysis was carried out using the t test, or one-way analysis of variance and the chi(2) or Fisher exact tests. Results: We treated 120 patients (87 male; mean age, 62.7 +/- 12.2years) either in the acute 76 (63.3%), subacute 16 (13.3%), or chronic 28 (23.3%) phase. Seven patients (5.8%) died within 30 days after the index procedure and two (1.7%) between 30 and 90 days. There was one instance of postoperative RTAD in a patient treated for rupture. Stroke and paraplegia occurred in three (2.5%) and five (4.2%), patients, respectively. Eight patients (6.7%) had a type Ia endoleak in the perioperative period. There were no instances of paraplegia, no permanent dialysis, and no requirement for adjunctive superior mesenteric or celiac artery stenting in the 33 patients (27.5%) who were treated by concurrent placement of ZDES distal to the ZDEG. The length and distal oversizing of ZDEG components used was less in this group. Conclusions: The present series demonstrates a low (<1%) RTAD rate and favorable morbidity and mortality. The lower rate of paraplegia, dialysis, and visceral artery stenting in the cohort that had adjunctive use of ZDES is compelling and merits further assessment.
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- Enrico, Fontana, et al.
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Saving the World? How CSR Practitioners Live Their Calling by Constructing Different Types of Purpose in Three Occupational Stages
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Business Ethics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0167-4544 .- 1573-0697. ; 185, s. 741-766
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Much attention in the meaningful work literature has been devoted to calling as an orientation toward work characterized by a strong sense of purpose and a prosocial motivation beyond self-gain. Nonetheless, debate remains as to whether individuals change or maintain their calling, and especially whether they live their calling differently in different occupational stages. In this article, we respond to this conundrum through an analysis of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) occupation – substantiated by interviews with 57 CSR practitioners from Swedish international companies who are living their calling. We demonstrate that social/commercial tensions affect these CSR practitioners, fueled by a divide between their social aspirations and the commercial goals, and prompt them to respond in a way that impacts how they construct the purpose of their work. Subsequently, we induce three stages of the CSR occupation – early-, mid- and late-stage – and conceptualize three types of purpose in each stage – activistic, win-win and corporate purpose. By uncovering how and why CSR practitioners respond to social/commercial tensions and construct different types of purpose in each stage of the CSR occupation, we show that individuals can live the same calling in multiple ways. Hence, our article advances the meaningful work literature as well as studies of micro-CSR.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Contesting corporate responsibility in the Bangladesh garment industry : The local factory owner perspective
- 2024
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-282X .- 0018-7267.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the developing economy of Bangladesh, local factory owners in the garment industry have felt great pressure to improve factory safety, but the costs for those improvements are not shared by the global apparel firms that wield immense influence over them. Consequently, we examine whether multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs), as vehicles of corporate social responsibility (CSR), offer platforms for democratic oversight or merely serve as new arenas to exercise corporate power. Given their role in connecting global and local contexts and their history of safety incidents, local factory owners possess a unique perspective on the impact and contested nature of CSR in global supply chains. This article presents a qualitative study of MSIs in the Bangladesh garment industry, particularly after the Rana Plaza collapse. Through interviews with local factory owners and executive managers, we explore the reasons behind their opposition to CSR as exercised by global apparel firms, and the contestation of those practices by their local business association. Our findings lead us to conclude that garment industry MSIs are unlikely to be effective without labor procurement practices that harmonize global and local interests to mitigate the competitive pressures on local factory owners.
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- Fontana, Enrico
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Corporate Social Responsibility as Stakeholder Engagement: Firm-NGO Collaboration in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 1535-3958. ; 25:4, s. 327-338
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates the process of stakeholder collaboration between firms and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Sweden. Collaboration is increasing in importance for corporate social responsibility (CSR); however, the literature does not adequately address how firms and NGOs begin and advance their relationships. This paper focuses on one fashion retailer and four NGOs in Sweden, implementing a resource-based view to better understand CSR. These NGOs support the firm's CSR toward asylum applicants and low-income individuals. This study makes three contributions to the CSR literature. First, it finds that the firm and NGOs select each other based on their resources, but for different reasons. Second, it demonstrates that NGOs adjust to corporate demands, but whether this hampers mission integrity depends on the balance between current and future potential for resource acquisition. Finally, it shows the influence of the Swedish context on CSR, arguing that public opinion can be shifted through policy making.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Corporate social responsibility decisions in apparel supply chains: The role of negative emotions in Bangladesh and Pakistan
- 2021
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Ingår i: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 1535-3966 .- 1535-3958. ; 28:6, s. 1700-1714
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article integrates the global value chain literature with the micro organization literature on negative emotions to explore the drivers of fear and anger among supplier factory senior managers in apparel supply chains after Rana Plaza—a major industrial disaster—and their influence on decisions on CSR practices. Based on a comparative study around Dhaka and Lahore—two key apparel manufacturing hubs—this study elucidates that supplier factory senior managers experienced similar market tensions but different social tensions after the Rana Plaza incident. Crucially, similar market tensions helped create market fear and anger, but different social tensions led to social fear and anger in Bangladesh but not in Pakistan, therefore influencing the way supplier factory senior managers take decisions regarding CSR practices. By conceptualizing communal alignment and competitive CSR, this research finally advances the global value chain literature and contributes to the current conversations on negative emotions in organizations.
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- Fontana, Enrico
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Corporate social responsibility sensemaking : The change agency of executives in Bangladesh and CRS workers in Japan
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis is organised as follows. The next section presents a brief section on the ontological and epistemological nature of this thesis. This is followed by a literature review. This theoretical section is made up of one main section on sensemaking and another principal part specifically focusing on the sensemaking of CSR practices in organisations (CSR sensemaking). While doing so, it also highlights the literature on the CSR sensemaing of executives and CSR workers as middle managers. It subsequently explores the Bangladeshi and Japanese contexts, the central areas of the studies developed. Then the thesis sets out its methodology and the way data was collected and analysed in Bangladesh and Japan. The last section presents a summary of the articles and their findings, before spelling out its chief general contribution, implications for practice and limitations.
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- Fontana, Enrico
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Creating Inclusion for Transwomen at Work Through Corporate Social Responsibility: The Contributions of Bandhu in Bangladesh
- 2021. - 1
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Ingår i: Exploring Gender at Work :Multiple Perspectives. - London : Palgrave Macmillan Cham. - 9783030643195 - 9783030643188 ; , s. 385-406
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite their acknowledgement in 2013 as a separate gender and as they have been increasingly referred to as third gender, transwomen in Bangladesh continue to lack employment opportunities and remain among the most vulnerable segments of the population. This chapter puts the spotlight on the crucial contribution of Bandhu to creating transwomen inclusion. Founded in 1996 in Dhaka, Bandhu is a human rights and non-governmental organization whose mission lies in the provision of services for sexual and reproductive health and rights while also ensuring the well-being of the gender diverse population of Bangladesh. This chapter specifically unpacks Bandhu’s contribution by analyzing its leading and implementing function in a corporate social responsibility (CSR) project for transwomen inclusion through the lived experiences of Shima and Dilruba. They are the first two transwomen involved in the CSR project and its primary beneficiaries. By particularly stressing the challenges of Shima and Dilruba after finding employment and Bandhu’s approach to navigate these challenges, this chapter represents an important learning tool for industry practitioners, government professionals, activists, and educators who are interested in human rights and in understanding how to better create inclusion for transwomen at work in South Asia.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Cross-sector collaboration and nonprofit boundary work for female workers in developing countries: evidence from Bangladesh
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sustainability Accounting, Management And Policy Journal. - : Emerald Publishing. - 2040-803X .- 2040-8021. ; 12:6, s. 1178-1207
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to shed new light on the way the cross-sector collaboration (CSC) process can foster gender-focused sustainability initiatives to improve female workers' conditions in developing countries. The study does so by introducing and examining the influence of nonprofit boundary work during the CSC process.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on thirty-four interviews and qualitative fieldwork. It draws on a case analysis of a regional CSC between multiple organizations operating locally in the apparel industry of Bangladesh, a developing country.FindingsScaffolding work in the CSC formation stage - performed by development agency implementers who construe boundaries - and sensitization work in the CSC implementation stage - performed by a non-governmental organization (NGO) implementers who blur and expand boundaries - emerge as two conceptual categories of nonprofit boundary work. This allows NGO implementers to identify and enable the agency of sustainability envoys or socially privileged individuals who capitalize on their social credentials to support female workers in the factory and in the community.Originality/valueThe study offers novel insights into the CSC process. It contributes to the CSC literature and the literature on boundary work, with a focus on gender-focused sustainability initiatives for female workers in developing countries.
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