A comparative case study of fish stocking between Sweden and Finland: Explaining differences in decision making at the street level

Marine Policy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 287-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Sevä
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Fish Stocking ◽  
Street Level

Does Core Task Matter for Decision-Making? A Comparative Case Study on Whether Differences in Job Characteristics Affect Discretionary Street-Level Decision-Making

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 1125-1147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didde Cramer Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Systematic Variation ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats

This article sets out to test the hypothesis that differences in fundamental job characteristics (service vs. regulation) affect discretionary street-level decision-making. The hypothesis was tested by examining whether systematic variation could be found in the moral assessments on which street-level bureaucrats performing different types of core tasks base their decisions. The issue was addressed in a comparative case study comprising three institutions, which differ systematically as far as variables of tasks are concerned. Findings showed that differences in core tasks do affect discretionary decision-making, as divergent moral assessments determine and justify decision-making across different core tasks.

A Comparative Case Study of Three Korean Firms

2009 ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
Junghoon Lee ◽  
Jungwoo Lee ◽  
Ja Young Lee
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Business Values

Research has recently begun to place greater emphasis on the strategic application of IT in seeking to integrate firms’ IT infrastructures and business processes, thus boosting companies’ business values. In this context, efforts have been made to formulate workable structures for companies’ IT governance (ITG); however, little practical research has considered the effect of different forms of ITG in a range of domestic and multinational companies. This study undertakes a comparative case study analysis of the ITG setups of three large service sector firms in Korea. This research work sought to identify the activities, types, and determinants of firms’ ITG decision making processes, and to suggest the basis on which forms of ITG may represent rational selections for given service companies. The study was based on in-depth interviews with representatives of three firms, analysis of in-house materials, and the application of multiple perspectives dealing with ITG domains. Case study analysis yielded a detailed picture of the characteristics of ITG related decision making within the firms, suggesting the validity of the proposed ITG framework. The proposed and partially validated ITG framework should be useful for further research and practice of ITG.

Parole as resentencing: Exploring the punitive accounts of parole decision-making through the comparative case study of Israel

2021 ◽  
pp. 147737082110396
Author(s):  
Netanel Dagan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
Future Risk ◽  
Parole Boards ◽  
Formal Recognition

Parole boards have traditionally assessed prisoners’ future risk and rehabilitation prospects in deciding on early release from prison. However, parole boards may do more. In some systems, they may deny parole applications for punitive reasons, thus acting as a resentencing authority. This study conducted a qualitative analysis of the punitive discourses of parole decision-making, with Israel as a comparative case study. Through interviews with 20 chairpersons of Israeli Parole Boards, we found three themes of punitive parole decision-making: (a) preserving public confidence in the criminal justice system; (b) preserving penal proportionality; and (c) re-censuring an especially depraved moral character. The findings suggested that parole boards’ punitive discretion is multidimensional and complex. Such punitive discretion may be openly implemented, it may be cloaked as risk assessment, or decided without formal recognition. The findings further indicated that resentencing through discretionary parole may not only conflict with rehabilitation and risk aims, but may also raise challenges for retributive and deterrent penal policy. Implications for comparative parole policy are discussed.

Somatic individuality in context, a comparative case study

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-351
Author(s):  
Kelly Pender
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Genetic Determinism ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Genetic Medicine ◽  
Complicated Nature

Scholars have challenged the totalizing nature of the “geneticization thesis,” arguing that its brushstrokes are too broad to capture the complicated nature of the new genetics. One such challenge has come from Nikolas Rose’s argument that genetic medicine is governed by a new biopolitics in which patients understand themselves as “somatic individuals” who treat their bodies as an “ethical substance” to be worked on in order to secure a healthier future. I argue that Rose’s argument, while compelling, paints the new genetics in equally broad brushstrokes and that in order for a concept like somatic individuality to become useful, we must study its manifestation across different communities of at-risk individuals. I undertake such a study by analyzing discourse use in two online biosocial communities, showing how the decision-making situations specific to each affect representations of somatic individuality, often creating opportunities for the rhetorical repurposing of older discourses of genetic determinism.

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