https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/1165 2026-04-26T04:18:20Z 2026-04-26T04:18:20Z Tang, Thomas Li-Ping Li, Zhen Özbek, Mehmet Ferhat Lim, Vivien K. G. Teo, Thompson S. H. Ansari, Mahfooz A. Sutarso, Toto Garber, Ilya Chiu, Randy Ki-Kwan Charles-Pauvers, Brigitte Urbain, Caroline Luna-Arocas, Roberto Chen, Jingqiu Tang, Ningyu Tang, Theresa Li-Na Arias-Galicia, Fernando De La Torre, Consuelo Garcia Vlerick, Peter Akande, Adebowale Al-Zubaidi, Abdulqawi Salim Kazem, Ali Mahdi Borg, Mark G. Cheng, Bor-Shiuan Du, Linzhi Ibrahim, Abdul Hamid Safwat Kim, Kilsun Malovics, Eva Mpoyi, Richard T. Ugochukwu Nnedum, Obiajulu Anthony Sardžoska, Elisaveta Gjorgj Allen, Michael W. Correia, Rosário Jen, Chin-Kang Moreira, Alice S. Osagie, Johnston E. Osman-Gani, AAhad M. Pholsward, Ruja Polic, Marko Skobic, Petar Stembridge, Allen F. Canova, Luigina Manganelli, Anna Maria Pitariu, Adrian H. Costa Pereira, Francisco José https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/145882 2026-04-24T07:47:15Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Behavioral economics and monetary wisdom : a cross‐level analysis of monetary aspiration, pay (dis) satisfaction, risk perception, and corruption in 32 nations Authors: Tang, Thomas Li-Ping; Li, Zhen; Özbek, Mehmet Ferhat; Lim, Vivien K. G.; Teo, Thompson S. H.; Ansari, Mahfooz A.; Sutarso, Toto; Garber, Ilya; Chiu, Randy Ki-Kwan; Charles-Pauvers, Brigitte; Urbain, Caroline; Luna-Arocas, Roberto; Chen, Jingqiu; Tang, Ningyu; Tang, Theresa Li-Na; Arias-Galicia, Fernando; De La Torre, Consuelo Garcia; Vlerick, Peter; Akande, Adebowale; Al-Zubaidi, Abdulqawi Salim; Kazem, Ali Mahdi; Borg, Mark G.; Cheng, Bor-Shiuan; Du, Linzhi; Ibrahim, Abdul Hamid Safwat; Kim, Kilsun; Malovics, Eva; Mpoyi, Richard T.; Ugochukwu Nnedum, Obiajulu Anthony; Sardžoska, Elisaveta Gjorgj; Allen, Michael W.; Correia, Rosário; Jen, Chin-Kang; Moreira, Alice S.; Osagie, Johnston E.; Osman-Gani, AAhad M.; Pholsward, Ruja; Polic, Marko; Skobic, Petar; Stembridge, Allen F.; Canova, Luigina; Manganelli, Anna Maria; Pitariu, Adrian H.; Costa Pereira, Francisco José Abstract: Corruption involves greed, money, and risky decision-making. We explore the love of money, pay satisfaction, probability of risk, and dishonesty across cultures. Avaricious monetary aspiration breeds unethicality. Prospect theory frames decisions in the gains-losses domain and high-low probability. Pay dissatisfaction (in the losses domain) incites dishonesty in the name of justice at the individual level. The Corruption Perceptions Index, CPI, signals a high-low probability of getting caught for dishonesty at the country level. We theorize that decision-makers adopt avaricious love-of- money aspiration as a lens and frame dishonesty in the gains-losses domain (pay satisfaction-dissatisfaction, Level 1) and high-low probability (CPI, Level 2) to maximize expected utility and ultimate serenity. We challenge the myth: Pay satisfaction mitigates dishonesty across nations consistently. Based on 6500 managers in 32 countries, our cross-level three-dimensional visualization offers the following discoveries. Under high aspiration conditions, pay dissatisfaction excites the highest-( third-highest) avaricious justice-seeking dishonesty in high (medium) CPI nations, supporting the certainty effect. However, pay satisfaction provokes the second-highest avaricious opportunity-seizing dishonesty in low CPI entities, sustaining the possibility effect—maximizing expected utility. Under low aspiration conditions, high pay satisfaction consistently leads to low dishonesty, demonstrating risk aversion—achieving ultimate serenity. We expand prospect theory from a micro and individual-level theory to a cross-level theory of monetary wisdom across 32 nations. We enhance the S-shaped Curve to three 3-D corruption surfaces across three levels of the global economic pyramid, providing novel insights into behavioral economics, business ethics, the environment, and responsibility.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Mayo, Peter https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/144066 2026-02-24T13:29:30Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Gramsci, der Kolonialismus und die Befreiungspolitik Authors: Mayo, Peter Abstract: Dieser Beitrag basiert auf der Annahme, dass Kolonialismus und Neokolonialismus vielfältige Formen und Problemstellungen annehmen können und dass sie die "heterogene Menge" subalterner "Subjektpositionen" adressieren (Slemon 1995, S. 45). Ausgehend von einer früheren Arbeit (Mayo 2015) wird sich der Autor in dem Beitrag auf zwei Aspekte beschränken: (a) Die gramscianischen Konzepte von Hegemonie und dem, was ich als "deplazierte Allianzen" bezeichne (Mayo 2016). Beides wird der Autor mit Paulo Freires Konzepten eines "Bewusstsein der Unterdrückten" und der "kulturellen Invasion" in Beziehung setzen. (b) Die sehr komplexe Problematik der Sprache in einer postunabhängigen, postkolonialen Situation. Diese Aspekte spielen vor allem in jenen Kontexten eine herausragende Rolle, in denen der direkte Kolonialismus (Said 1994, S. 8) gekennzeichnet ist durch die Anwesenheit einer Besatzungsmacht, und folgend der Neokolonialismus und, um Gramscis Perspektive zu übernehmen, der interne Kolonialismus (Gramsci 1997) ihre Präsenz oft grob und äußerst gewalttätig spürbar machen. (DIPF/Orig.)

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Grech, Michael https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142880 2026-01-20T14:39:26Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Il-kuntest tal-kunflitt Għarbi-Iżraeljan Authors: Grech, Michael Abstract: Biex inkunu ċari din mhix kitba li se timmoralizza fuq suġġett li, madankollu, pożizzjoni morali dwaru wieħed ma jistax ma jiħux. Fis-sens, biex nibqgħu fuq ġrajjiet li seħħew fi żminijiet reċenti, wieħed ma jistax ma jikkundannax l-attakk barbaru tas-sebgħa ta’ Ottubru 2023, il-martirju li għaddew/għaddejjin minnu l-ostaġġi, il-massakru ta’ ċivili f’Gaża mill-armata Iżraeljana, u l-qtil bil-ġuħ ta’ nies innoċenti minħabba l-azzjonijiet tal-Gvern Iżraeljan. L-istess huma kundannabbli l-attakki minn Iżrael fuq pajjiżi f’dik in-naħa tad-dinja, li ġabu riskju li l-kunflitt ikompli jikber fi gwerra reġjonali. Fil-każ tal-Qatar ukoll, ġie attakkat pajjiż li seta’ jkun medjatur. Biex ma nsemmux inġustizzji li ilhom snin, bħal ngħidu aħna l-fatt li l-Palestinjani ma kellhomx ċans ikollhom stat. Kif għedt, imma, l-għan ta’ din il-kitba mhix li tagħti ġudizzju morali ta’ min għandu raġun jew tort.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Mayo, Peter https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142872 2026-01-20T13:25:57Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Italy’s 150 hours in the context of workers’ education. Le 150 ore d'Italia nel contesto della formazione dei lavoratori Authors: Mayo, Peter Abstract: L'esperimento di oltre 150 ore di apprendimento ed educazione degli adulti (ALE) della classe operaia italiana, che coinvolge uomini, donne e oggi persone di diversa provenienza, è visto in relazione ad alcuni punti di riferimento internazionali nell'area. I punti di riferimento sono quelli che mi sembrano invitanti parallelismi con il progetto delle 150 ore, evidenziando convergenze e contrasti soprattutto, in quest'ultimo caso, per quanto riguarda il clima socio-politico e industriale complessivo. Il documento si concentra, oltre che sulle 150 ore, sulla formazione sindacale, sui ‘colleges’ dei lavoratori nel Regno Unito, sul congedo formativo retribuito (PEL) in Canada, sul contributo dell'ALE agli altri lavoratori italiani attraverso la concettualizzazione gramsciana dei Consigli di fabbrica come agenzie educative, sulla democrazia industriale e sulla questione di chi pu fungere da educatore nell'educazione degli adulti. L’ultimo punto, applicabile alle 150 ore, è posto con particolare attenzione alla capacità delle comunità e dei gruppi professionali, nel corso degli anni, di farsi carico del proprio apprendimento, compresa l’educazione organizzata.; The 150+ hours experiment in Italian working-class adult learning and education ( ALE), involving men, women and today people of different ethnic background, is viewed in relation to certain international landmarks in the area. The landmarks are those that strike me as inviting parallels with the 150 hours project, highlighting convergences and contrasts especially, in the latter case, as far as overall socio-political and industrial climate is concerned. The paper focuses on, apart from the 150 hours, trade union education, the workers’ colleges in the UK, paid educational leave (PEL) in Canada, Italy's other workers’ ALE contribution through Gramsci's conceptualisation of the Factory Councils as educative agencies, Industrial Democracy and the question of who can serve as educator in Adult education. The last point, applicable to the 150 hours, is made with special emphasis on communities’ and occupational groups’ ability, over the years, to take charge of their own learning, including organised education.

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