Fostering operational management “Best Practices” in subsidiary plants in the Western Balkans: The role of MNC home-country environment and resource allocation

Jelena Cerar; Mihaela Dimitrova; Phillip C. Nell

doi:10.1016/j.intman.2021.100918

THE ROLE OF PRODUCT ETHNICITY IN HOME COUNTRY BIAS

10.15444/gmc2014.01.04.03 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Mathias Fischer ◽

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Katharina P. Zeugner-Roth ◽

Keyword(s):

Home Country

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The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns

10.31234/osf.io/w9ygc ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Igor Grossmann ◽

Nic M. Weststrate ◽

Monika Ardelt ◽

Justin Peter Brienza ◽

Mengxi Dong ◽

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Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Problem Solving ◽

Best Practices ◽

Cognitive Sciences ◽

Methodological Challenges ◽

The Common ◽

Empirical Approaches ◽

And Training ◽

Contextual Differences

Interest in wisdom in the cognitive sciences, psychology, and education has been paralleled by conceptual confusions about its nature and assessment. To clarify these issues and promote consensus in the field, wisdom researchers met in Toronto in July of 2019, resolving disputes through discussion. Guided by a survey of scientists who study wisdom-related constructs, we established a common wisdom model, observing that empirical approaches to wisdom converge on the morally-grounded application of metacognition to reasoning and problem-solving. After outlining the function of relevant metacognitive and moral processes, we critically evaluate existing empirical approaches to measurement and offer recommendations for best practices. In the subsequent sections, we use the common wisdom model to selectively review evidence about the role of individual differences for development and manifestation of wisdom, approaches to wisdom development and training, as well as cultural, subcultural, and social-contextual differences. We conclude by discussing wisdom’s conceptual overlap with a host of other constructs and outline unresolved conceptual and methodological challenges.

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Beyond Bias

The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067397.013.47 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 736-753

Author(s):

Chelsea Barabas

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Criminal Law ◽

Criminal Justice Reform ◽

Trade Offs ◽

System P ◽

Accuracy Measures ◽

Criminal Legal System ◽

And Function ◽

Role And Function

This chapter discusses contemporary debates regarding the use of artificial intelligence as a vehicle for criminal justice reform. It closely examines two general approaches to what has been widely branded as “algorithmic fairness” in criminal law: the development of formal fairness criteria and accuracy measures that illustrate the trade-offs of different algorithmic interventions; and the development of “best practices” and managerialist standards for maintaining a baseline of accuracy, transparency, and validity in these systems. Attempts to render AI-branded tools more accurate by addressing narrow notions of bias miss the deeper methodological and epistemological issues regarding the fairness of these tools. The key question is whether predictive tools reflect and reinforce punitive practices that drive disparate outcomes, and how data regimes interact with the penal ideology to naturalize these practices. The chapter then calls for a radically different understanding of the role and function of the carceral state, as a starting place for re-imagining the role of “AI” as a transformative force in the criminal legal system.

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19 The role of trust in global resource allocation decisions for vaccine preventable diseases

10.1136/bmjopen-2021-qhrn.57 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

P Christen ◽

L Conteh

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Vaccine Preventable Diseases ◽

Allocation Decisions ◽

Resource Allocation Decisions

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Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, and strain upon the start: enfranchising the medical profession for clinically proximate advocacy of improved healthcare

Australasian Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/10398562211025039 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 103985622110250

Author(s):

Jeffrey C L Looi ◽

Stephen Allison ◽

Stephen R Kisely ◽

Tarun Bastiampillai

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Health Systems ◽

Medical Profession ◽

Continuing Professional Development ◽

Health Advocacy ◽

Public And Private ◽

Medical Practitioners ◽

The Public ◽

Team Activity

Objective: To discuss and reflect upon the role of medical practitioners, including psychiatrists, as health advocates on behalf of patients, carers and staff. Conclusions: Health advocacy is a key professional competency of medical practitioners, and is part of the RANZCP framework for training and continuing professional development. Since advocacy is often a team activity, there is much that is gained experientially from volunteering and working with other more experienced health advocates within structurally and financially independent (of health systems and governments) representative groups (RANZCP, AMA, unions). Doctors may begin with clinically proximate advocacy for improved healthcare in health systems, across the public and private sectors. Health advocacy requires skill and courage, but can ultimately influence systemic outcomes, sway policy decisions, and improve resource allocation.

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Systemic Innovation Areas for Heritage-Led Rural Regeneration: A Multilevel Repository of Best Practices

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13095069 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 5069

Author(s):

Aitziber Egusquiza ◽

Mikel Zubiaga ◽

Alessandra Gandini ◽

Claudia de Luca ◽

Simona Tondelli

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Role Models ◽

Social Inclusion ◽

Work Support ◽

Community Capitals ◽

Community Capitals Framework ◽

Systemic Innovation

This paper presents the result of the analysis of the data gathered from 20 Role Models (RM) case studies regarding their successful heritage-led rural regeneration models. For the study and comparison of the narratives of these Role Models two tools were used: the Community Capitals Framework, which studied the transference of capitals in each process and the identification of six Systemic Innovation Areas that allow this capital transference. A multilevel repository of best practices has been developed allowing the identification of common features, mechanisms for mobilisation of capitals and required resources that will facilitate the replication in other rural areas. The results of this work support the acknowledgement of the contribution of culture, together with cultural and natural heritage, to economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability in rural areas reinforcing the role of culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development.

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Welfare optimization and multinational monopolies

The Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series B Applied Mathematics ◽

10.1017/s0334270000000448 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 16-25

Author(s):

A. M. Russell ◽

C. A. Martini ◽

J. A. Rickard

Keyword(s):

Parameter Space ◽

Home Country ◽

Domestic Market ◽

Consumption Tax ◽

Optimal Value ◽

National Welfare ◽

Consumption Taxes

AbstractThis paper examines the role of import tariffs and consumption taxes when a product is supplied to a domestic market by a foreign monopoly via a subsidiary. It is assumed that there is no competition in the domestic market from internal suppliers. The home country is able to levy a profits tax on the subsidiary. The objective of our analysis is to determine the mix of tariff and consumption tax which simultaneously maximizes national welfare. We show that national welfare does not have an internal maximum, but attains its maximum on a boundary of the consumption tax–tariff parameter space. Furthermore, the optimal value of national welfare increases as the tariff decreases and the consumption tax increases. The results obtained generalize the results of an earlier paper in which national welfare was maximized with respect to either a tariff or consumption tax, but not both.

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