Institutional arrangements in the emerging biodiesel industry: Case studies from Minas Gerais—Brazil

Energy Policy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 381-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kassia Watanabe ◽  
Jos Bijman ◽  
Maja Slingerland
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Biodiesel Industry

The use of Strategic Aliances by Agricultural Cooperatives

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Santos Guimarães ◽  
Carlos Roberto Domingues ◽  
Janaina Maria Bueno ◽  
Luis Carlos Padrão
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Agricultural Cooperatives ◽  
Important Decision

This study consists in comparing case studies of four agricultural cooperatives regarding their choices about the use of strategic alliances. The objective of this study is to identify the differences in the practices of cooperatives for making alliances with suppliers, customers and competitors, specifically the differences about cooperatives’ interests and characteristics. In order to reach this objective, it was made an exploratory qualitative research with four agricultural cooperatives, which are ranked in the top twenty cooperatives of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The results show that strategic alliances are almost unknown, and when they are used, there is little theoretical basis to support them. There is evidence that the choice of strategic alliances is an important decision of cooperatives no matter what type of alliances are taken place. In addition, the use of strategic alliances tend to influence positively not only the results of the cooperatives but also the results of the supply chain to which the cooperatives belong.

Open-Access and Information Commons

2017 ◽  
pp. 255-279
Author(s):  
Yochai Benkler
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Combined Effect ◽  
Economic Literature ◽  
Control Rights ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information Commons ◽  
The Commons

Open access commons are a family of institutional arrangements that are far more pervasive in modern complex economies than usually recognized in the economic literature. The defining characteristic of open access commons is their utilization of symmetric use privileges for an open, undefined set of users in the public, rather than asymmetric exclusive control rights located in the hands of an individual legal entity or defined group (club) use, and their primary reliance on queuing and some form of governance-based allocation, rather than price-cleared models, for congestion clearance and management. The chapter includes an overview of the commons literature, thumbnail case studies of the emergence of open access commons in the digitally networked environment, and a typology of open access commons and their proprietary parallels. The emergence of open access commons reflects the combined effect of innovation economics under highly uncertain conditions and the diversity of human motivations.

Four Experiments in Reducing Informality

Living Wage ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Shelley Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Garment Workers ◽  
Comprehensive Reform ◽  
The Way

Chapter 8 compares the four innovations described in the case study chapters (Chapters 4–7) and draws out lessons about the way that institutional change occurs. None of the models entail comprehensive reform of the way work is regulated in a nation. Nor do they fundamentally challenge the international institutional arrangements, which have altered and undermined the power of national institutions to regulate work, and which were seen to be at play in each of the case studies. They have instead sought solutions which were politically feasible and improved the conditions of a specific group of workers—homeworkers, head-load workers, and garment workers. They arose out of particular political moments and institutional trajectories. The initiatives have in common that they (a) expand or sidestep the employment relationship so as to encompass broader forms of work (with the exception of the Cambodian initiative); and (b) increase the strength of regulation in order to push against countervailing pressures which lower working conditions. However, each initiative has achieved this in different ways and to different extents. This chapter compares these different methods and explores why some levers are stronger than others.

Riding in cars with boys: Elinor Ostrom's adventures with the police

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER BOETTKE ◽  
LIYA PALAGASHVILI ◽  
JAYME LEMKE
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
The State ◽  
Multiple Methods ◽  
Police Services ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Methods Of Analysis ◽  
Consumer Surveys

Abstract:More than 40 years ago, Elinor Ostrom began her adventures with the police. In order to combat the conventional view that ‘bigger means better’, Ostrom pioneered a fieldwork-based framework for measuring police services that utilized consumer surveys and thereby created a community-centered model of analysis for public services. In this paper, we contend that although Ostrom's career demonstrated the importance of employing multiple methods, her most enduring contributions and legacy came from on-the-ground research. Her case studies and fieldwork proved to be necessary for examining complex systems beyond the state–market dichotomy, and these methods of analysis should be defended as critical for inquiry into the variety of institutional arrangements.

scholarly journals Permanent education in the vaccination room: what is the reality?

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 668-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jéssica Rauane Teixeira Martins ◽  
Bruna Gabrielly Pereira Alexandre ◽  
Valéria Conceição de Oliveira ◽  
Selma Maria da Fonseca Viegas
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Extended Region ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Interpretive Sociology

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand, from the perspective of the professional, the Permanent Education (PE) in the vaccination room in its real context. Method: Multiple holistic-qualitative case studies, based on Maffesoli’s Interpretive Sociology with 56 participants from four microregions of the Western Extended Region of Minas Gerais State. Results: They present PE as infrequent and insufficient. They denote that the practical-theoretical experience with vaccine contributes to the work; the search for knowledge, starting from the professional itself; and the professional training fails to perform in the vaccination room. Final considerations: The notions of PE are linked to the daily needs of individuals and services, with indication of being interactive, periodic, in specific and non-global issues for better assimilation. Obstacles to the non-implementation of PEH are realized by the workload associated with insufficient human resources, the distance of the nurses from the vaccination room and the lack of support from the higher levels.

scholarly journals Applying geoethics to the context of mining ferruginous geosystems: case studies from the tailing dam breaks in Fundão and Córrego do Feijão, Minas Gerais - Brazil

Episodes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 981-990
Author(s):  
Úrsula de Azevedo Ruchkys ◽  
Paulo de Tarso Amorim Castro ◽  
Sónia Maria Carvalho Ribeiro ◽  
Luciano José Alvarenga
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Dam Breaks ◽  
Tailing Dam

Corporate Sustainability: Challenge to Managerial Orthodoxies

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexter Dunphy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Sustainability Management

ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the issue of corporate sustainability. It examines why achieving sustainability is becoming an increasingly vital issue for society and organisations, defines sustainability and then outlines a set of phases through which organisations can move to achieve increasing levels of sustainability. Case studies are presented of organisations at various phases indicating the benefits, for the organisation and its stakeholders, which can be made at each phase. Finally the paper argues that there is a marked contrast between the two competing philosophies of neo-conservatism (economic rationalism) and the emerging philosophy of sustainability. Management schools have been strongly influenced by economic rationalism, which underpins the traditional orthodoxies presented in such schools. Sustainability represents an urgent challenge for management schools to rethink these traditional orthodoxies and give sustainability a central place in the curriculum.

Short-Form Application of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test to Latino Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 220-235
Author(s):  
David L. Ratusnik ◽  
Carol Melnick Ratusnik ◽  
Karen Sattinger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
Data Application ◽  
York Metropolitan Area ◽  
Multiple Regression Technique

Short-form versions of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar (Toronto, 1973) and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test (Lee, 1971) were devised for use with bilingual Latino children while preserving the original normative data. Application of a multiple regression technique to data collected on 60 lower social status Latino children (four years and six months to seven years and one month) from Spanish Harlem and Yonkers, New York, yielded a small but powerful set of predictor items from the Spanish and English tests. Clinicians may make rapid and accurate predictions of STSG or NSST total screening scores from administration of substantially shortened versions of the instruments. Case studies of Latino children from Chicago and Miami serve to cross-validate the procedure outside the New York metropolitan area.

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