Measurement and Modeling of Farmers' Goals: An Evaluation and Suggestions

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
George F. Patrick ◽  
Brian F. Blake
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Multiple Goals ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
Business People ◽  
Solution Algorithms ◽  
Long Run

Farmers and other business people commonly consider multiple goals or objectives in their-decisions, especially investment or other long-run decisions. Various techniques, such as discussed by Keeney and Raiffa, have been developed to incorporate multiple goals or objectives in decision making. These techniques differ in how the decision-making process is viewed, empirical data required about goals, and solution algorithms. Considerable emphasis has been given to development of alternative models and solution algorithms, but problems (Willis and Perlack), of quantifying farmers' goals for use in these models have received relatively little attention.

scholarly journals Guide for Automation of Low Volume Production

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malin Löfving ◽  
Peter Almström ◽  
Caroline Jarebrant ◽  
Boel Wadman ◽  
Magnus Widfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Production Economics ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Volume Production ◽  
Low Volume ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

There is a remaining need from both academia and practitioners, to gain further knowledge about the decision making process for automation of low volume production. This paper includes insights of drivers for automation, the development of a guide for low volume production and the outcome of using the guide. The research in this study is based on both empirical data and theoretical considerations. The empirical data was collected in five case studies and a questionnaire. This paper is part of a research project with the main objective to develop knowledge about how flexible automation may contribute to improvements in efficiency, ergonomics, quality and production economics in different industries with low volume production. One of the results in the project was a comprehensive guide, developed, refined and improved in an iterative collaborative process, where tools and parts of the guide were tested and verified by five manufacturing case companies. The paper describes briefly the development process of the guide and content. The requirements of the guide derived from literature, case companies, questionnaire as well as industrial experts. The resulting guide can be used in several ways, depending on the requirements of the application. The guide includes guiding principles, a decision model for the analysis of the company, choice of automation and facts about automation. In the end of the project, four companies had invested or decided to invest in different types of automation.

scholarly journals The Failure of the Court to Protect Consumers: A Review of Consumer Dispute Resolution in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Syamsudin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Entire System ◽  
The Public

Abstract Indonesia needs strong measures to protect its consumers, which leads to the creation of the Consumer Dispute Settlement Agency (BPSK) as an arbiter to settle disputes between consumers and businesses efficiently. The Indonesian Supreme Court (MARI) has set aside an alarming number of BPSK arbitral awards, putting the entire system in jeopardy. The aims of this study are to examine the empirical data on MARI’s decisions in setting aside arbitral awards and analyse their decision-making process. This research shows how MARI has been interpreting the statue promulgating the BPSK very narrowly. The result of MARI’s interpretation of the law has deep implications for consumer protection in Indonesia, namely that the public trust in the enforcement of Consumer Protection Law by BPSK has been severely diminishing, leaving consumers without meaningful access to justice or protection of their rights.

Missing Gender Concerns in Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement

2017 ◽  
pp. 248-266
Author(s):  
Sheetal Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ownership Of Land ◽  
Women In India

Displacement and its impact on the social, cultural, and economic lives of the affected people is a huge discourse in contemporary India, but very little empirical data is available on the issue of displacement from a gender perspective. By law and by custom, women in India have been largely excluded from owning or inheriting property. The lack of ownership makes women vulnerable, dependent, and at a greater risk of being excluded from the decision-making process during displacement because in most cases it is this “ownership” of land that governs one's entitlement to compensation. The concerns of livelihood loss are also closely related to land. Displaced women are often forced to bear a greater burden. In this chapter, how development-induced displacement impacts women differently and how gender-blind resettlement planning and policies can reinforce gender disparities that already exist in society are examined.

Missing Gender Concerns in Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement

2015 ◽  
pp. 112-129
Author(s):  
Sheetal Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ownership Of Land ◽  
Women In India

Displacement and its impact on the social, cultural, and economic lives of the affected people is a huge discourse in contemporary India, but very little empirical data is available on the issue of displacement from a gender perspective. By law and by custom, women in India have been largely excluded from owning or inheriting property. The lack of ownership makes women vulnerable, dependent, and at a greater risk of being excluded from the decision-making process during displacement because in most cases it is this “ownership” of land that governs one's entitlement to compensation. The concerns of livelihood loss are also closely related to land. Displaced women are often forced to bear a greater burden. In this chapter, how development-induced displacement impacts women differently and how gender-blind resettlement planning and policies can reinforce gender disparities that already exist in society are examined.

scholarly journals Sick and Vulnerable Migrants in French Public Hospitals. The Administrative and Budgetary Dimension of Un/Deservingness

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Jérémy Geeraert
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Healthcare It ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Healthcare Rationing

This article explores how staff in French public hospitals are indirectly involved in the governing of migration through healthcare. It unpacks the construction of differentiated values of life assigned to specific categories of vulnerable (authorised and unauthorised) migrants according to their perceived un/deservingness in context of budgetary restrictions. This context emphasises tensions between medical and administrative staff in the decision-making process regarding access to healthcare. The analysis rests upon empirical data (participant observations and semi-directed interviews) gathered in ‘healthcare access units’ located in public hospitals. Perceptions of un/deservingness lead to both healthcare rationing and healthcare denial and are built upon entangled criteria related to both migration status and budgetary concerns. These mechanisms reveal the administrative and budgetary dimensions that underlie the perceptions of health-related un/deservingness, which is linked to the costs of healthcare: the higher the costs, the less likely patients are to be designated to be deserving of healthcare.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility in Nigeria: A Critical Review of the Literature

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 86-103
Author(s):  
Sunday C. Eze ◽  
Adenike O. Bello
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Business Profitability ◽  
Corporate Social

The paper reviews existing literature on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to ascertain the level of corporate social responsibility activities that will enhance the performance/profitability of businesses in Nigeria. It revealed that the success of an organization depends on the extent to which the organization is capable of managing its relationship with key groups, such as financial and stakeholders, but also customers, employees, and even communities or societies. Stakeholders must be considered in the decision making process of the organization. CSR is a concept that includes many different activities and actions which businesses have to involve themselves in for the purpose growth sustainability and growth of businesses. Businesses that voluntarily participates in local community development, such as providing the community with donations, assisting them with projects and sharing some of its profit with the community, helps to increase the business profitability in the long-run.

scholarly journals Consultant-liaison psychiatrists and euthanasia in the Netherlands

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 497-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frits J. Huyse ◽  
Willem van Tilburg ◽  
Ine Klijn ◽  
Gertie Casteelen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Medical Doctor ◽  
Public Prosecutor ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Criminal Punishment ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Public

On 30 November 1993 a nine year political debate on euthanasia closed; the first chamber of the Dutch parliament ratified the law on undertaking, including euthanasia regulations. This political step concluded, for the time being at least, a legal, public, political and medical debate, which started in 1973, when a medical doctor was convicted for performing euthanasia on her mother. In a first effort in 1983, parliament failed to legalise euthanasia. In 1989 a new government introduced an initiative to improve the existing law in this regard. As a part of the process, empirical data on the extent of euthanasia in The Netherlands were required. Therefore, the Minister of Justice installed a committee. Its findings have been reported nationally and internationally (van der Maas et al, 1991a, 1991b); about 2,300 euthanasia cases in 1990, being 1.8% of all deaths. These empirical findings reduced the uncertainties about the extent of euthanasia, thereby providing a sound basis for the parliamentary decision-making process. Although by the current law euthanasia and assisted suicide still remain illegal, under strict guidelines for behaviour provided by the Ministry of Justice in November 1990 and distributed among physicians in January 1991, euthanasia can be exempted by the public prosecutor from criminal punishment on the basis of the ‘opportunity’ principle, this being the opportunity for the public prosecutor not to bring all reported crimes to court (Letter of the Minister of Justice to Parliament, 1990).

scholarly journals Incorporating Multiple Goals into the Decision-Making Process: A Simulation Approach to Firm Growth Analysis

1974 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy E. Hatch ◽  
Wyatte L. Harman ◽  
Vernon R. Eidman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Decision Models ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Multiple Goals ◽  
Farm Operators ◽  
Economic Analyses ◽  
Individual Farm ◽  
Income Variability ◽  
Growth Analyses

Although the importance of multiple goals in the decision-making process has been recognized for years by economists, economic analyses typically are based on the assumption of maximization or minimization of a single goal. Some firm growth analyses have considered two or more goals by maximizing one goal subject to constraints on the remaining goals. In other cases, utility functions that incorporate expected income and income variability have been estimated for individual farm operators. Although these approaches are an effort to incorporate more than one goal in the decision process, firm growth research in general has not been based on multiple-goal decision models.

scholarly journals A critical analysis of resetting decision making in any organization

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 334-342
Author(s):  
Christine Reidhead
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Organizational Vision ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Long Run

The role of management is very important in the strategic growth and development of any organization in the long run. Important decision making is a critical factor for the strategic planning of organizational vision and mission. There are times when this important factor needs to be relooked from the fresh pair of eyes and apply the learning from past experience to reset it to suit the current requirements. This paper talks about the critical analysis of resetting decision making in any organization. Secondary analysis has been done for different organizations to understand the role of factors impacting the decision making process in an organization and how team performance and targets are set. The aims and objectives of the companies have been studied and critically analyzed to see if this is in accordance with the strategic objectives of the company. The study of decision making for different companies have given an in-depth focus to this research and have highlighted the entire process of working a management team in an organization.

AAC Decision-Making and Mobile Technology: Points to Ponder

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Abbott ◽  
Debby McBride
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Ipod Touch ◽  
Feature Match

The purpose of this article is to outline a decision-making process and highlight which portions of the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) evaluation process deserve special attention when deciding which features are required for a communication system in order to provide optimal benefit for the user. The clinician then will be able to use a feature-match approach as part of the decision-making process to determine whether mobile technology or a dedicated device is the best choice for communication. The term mobile technology will be used to describe off-the-shelf, commercially available, tablet-style devices like an iPhone®, iPod Touch®, iPad®, and Android® or Windows® tablet.

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