By: Clint Baldwin on October 20, 2014
So… This. This is good. This is worth your time. This just might change some of the way you engage with the world. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States by Albert O. Hirschman is acknowledged by a number of those people who generally go around acknowledging things as being…
By: Clint Baldwin on October 20, 2014
Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement by Donald E. Miller and Tetsunao Yamamori is certainly an interesting text with a lot of first-person research underscoring its perspectives. The text is particularly interesting in that a president of a major Christian related development organization – Food for the Hungry – who happens to…
By: Mitch Arbelaez on October 17, 2014
Within each individual there lies the ability to speak up against atrocities, against injustice, against discomfort, frankly, against anything that one so desires to speak against. This is the case in the western world where speech, as of this writing, is still currently free and protected. Though we must recognize that even in our modern/postmodern…
By: Julie Dodge on October 17, 2014
Once upon a time, a young pastor and his wife planted a church. The church grew and grew. People were drawn to this pastor, and his skill in speaking and teaching. The young church recruited professional quality musicians to lead worship and still more people came. As the church grew, the church added ministries for…
By: Richard Volzke on October 17, 2014
In his book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Response to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, Albert O. Hirschman states that individuals have three ways of expressing their dissatisfaction with an organization or situation. They can leave, voice their objections, or become disloyal to the situation.[1] The concepts he presents are simple, and well known within…
By: John Woodward on October 17, 2014
Albert O. Hirschman provides a brilliant new way to look at economics in Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Response to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States based on three available responses toward a product or a company. These include walking away from that product (exit), staying with that product and having a platform to express discontent…
By: Carol McLaughlin on October 17, 2014
I confess (How’s that for the start of a blog post?) that I was not certain which path to follow after reading Albert O. Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations and States. Reading about Exit I naturally thought in terms of those exiting the Church. From a consumer standpoint I…
By: Liz Linssen on October 16, 2014
My previous church that I served at in Seoul, South Korea, had 60,000 members. Yet this wasn’t the biggest church in the city. Across the river, just a few kilometres away is located the world-famous Yoido Full Gospel Church, with the largest church membership in the world numbering around 800,000. Worlds apart from my current…
By: Ashley Goad on October 16, 2014
This certainly was a pithy read. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States by Albert O. Hirschman begins by stating that all organizations decline over time. Further, there are two methods of precipitating this decline: exit and voice. Exit is simply leaving or withdrawing from the relationship. For example, a customer…
By: Bill Dobrenen on October 16, 2014
It is amazing how much an organization can change over time, sometimes for the better, but often for the worse. And almost always, at least in my experience, the change is linked to leadership. If the change is for the worse, what do the old-timers of the organization do? They usually either voice their concerns,…
By: Telile Fikru Badecha on October 16, 2014
In his book, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses To Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, Albert O. Hirschman argues the inevitability of failure at times in any institution. Hirschman contends, “No matter how well a society’s basic institutions are devised failures of some actors to live up to the behavior which is expected of them…
By: Deve Persad on October 16, 2014
“As a rule, then, loyalty holds exit at bay and activates voice.” (p.78) In his book, Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, the author, Albert O. Hirschman, contends that engendering loyalty prevents erratic movement away from organizations while at the same time promotes the capacity to increase input which,…
By: Stefania Tarasut on October 11, 2014
My last encounter with the Pentecostal church was about ten years ago when a family friend was convinced that I wasn’t saved because of the choices I was making (I chose to be a pastor and was thinking about doing my MDiv). He offered to lay hands on me and pray that I would receive…
By: Ashley Goad on October 10, 2014
(Once again…coming to you LIVE from under my favorite mango trees in Haiti…!! Please exuse errors, as it was typed on my iPhone!) Global Pentecostalism. I have to be honest. The title in itself scared me. Images of the movie “Jesus Camp” are embedded into my brain. Pentecostalism evokes shouts in tongues and fires with snakes crawling…
By: rhbaker275 on October 10, 2014
It is generally understood and well documented that the center of Christianity has shifted from the centers of Western Christianly to the South and the East. Philip Jenkins notes, “We are currently living through one of the transforming moments in the history of religion worldwide.”[1]In Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement, Donald…
By: Carol McLaughlin on October 10, 2014
Surely Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement is a book that confronts Western stereotypes and expectations concerning Pentecostals. I recall hearing the excitement in a young college student as she described what she had heard was happening in far off Africa. People delivered from demons, being healed of their diseases and even…
By: John Woodward on October 10, 2014
“Hi! My name is John! I am a recovering Pentecostal-critic!” Or, should I say, “I am recovering Fundamentalist”? itisexam You see, my first awareness of anything charismatic came during college years, when a number of friends involved in my Inter-Varsity campus group jumped ship to join a Pentecostal Church student group. This was both shocking…
By: Julie Dodge on October 10, 2014
My friend Miriam will tell you about a dream she had. She was standing at a busy crossroads. Lying in the middle of the intersection, crying, was a baby. She felt compelled to run into the street to save the baby. Once she picked up the baby, she found herself surrounded by children and many…
By: Mitch Arbelaez on October 10, 2014
It is unfortunate that at the mention of “Pentecostalism” so many people in the family of God have apprehensions, have the religious rolling of the eyes, have the embarrassment that these people are actually part of our family. These Pentecostals are like the family members that everyone knows about but hopes they don’t show up…
By: Richard Volzke on October 10, 2014
Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement When I was in Cape Town, South Africa last week, I heard a church leader mention the growth of the Pentecostal church. This surprised me, although my perception of his comment was based on my limited American view of what a Pentecostal church is. Authors…
