scholarly journals The evolution of the football jersey – an institutional perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
David Butler ◽  
Robert Butler
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Formal Rules

Abstract This paper explores the interaction of informal constraints on human behaviour by examining the evolution of English football jerseys. The jersey provides an excellent setting to demonstrate how informal constraints emerge from formal rules and shape human behaviour. Customs, approved norms and habits are all observed in this setting. The commercialisation of football in recent decades has resulted in these informal constraints, in many cases dating back over a century, co-existing with branding, goodwill and identity effects. Combined, these motivate clubs to maintain the status quo. As a result, club colours have remained remarkably resilient within a frequently changing landscape.

scholarly journals Acquisition of Environmental Awareness: The Interplay with Institutional Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Janna Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Cognitive Responses ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Informal Rules ◽  
Formal Rules

Acquisition of environmental awareness is undoubtedly a necessary step towards environmental progress. However, due to the complex and interdisciplinary character of the argument, only a little literature has emerged regarding this issue. The paper contributes to fill in this lacuna and investigates the main factors responsible for the acquisition of environmental awareness from the institutional perspective. The acquisition of environmental awareness is seen as an interactive process involving institutional transformation and cognitive responses. The analysis shows that enforcement of formal rules and purposeful construction of informal rules contribute to create a favourable framework for such an acquisition. In enhancing environmental concern, a policy maker should allocate additional resources to formal rules enforcement, while informal rules should be accounted for by considering cultural backgrounds and human capital. Formation of environmental awareness through the spread of environmental education is argued to be a functional tool. The analysis leaves much space for further multidisciplinary research on environmental awareness and could serve as a starting point for the development of an empirical analysis of its determinants.

scholarly journals THE FINANCIAL COMPENSATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRAZILIAN MUNICIPALITIES FLOODED BY HYDROELECTRIC DAMS

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
SÉRGIO MANTOVANI PAIVA PULICE ◽  
EVANDRO MATEUS MORETTO
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Hydroelectric Dams ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Financial Compensation ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The North ◽  
Regional Dynamics ◽  
Formal Rules

Abstract Enhancing the Development of localities affected by hydroelectric dams have been discussed in technical and academic literature recently. One of the legal instruments seen as a promoter of local development is the Financial Compensation (CF in Portuguese). In this context, a question that arises is if CF is associated to the development of Brazilian municipalities flooded by hydroelectric dams. Based on a correlation analysis between the values obtained by the financial compensation and the performance of 155 human development variables, it was verified that, during 2000-2010, for 600 flooded municipalities, there were negatives associations between values of CF and values of development variables. When segregating the data per region, only the North and Northeast regions showed positive associations, which seems to be related to a different institutional environment, in relation to the application of municipal resources. The CF is an important instrument that needs to be improved regarding its formal rules and enforcements, from an institutional perspective. Nevertheless, it can be inferred that informal rules as also regional dynamics can determine the development of territories due to absence of effective formal rules.

scholarly journals When a Ban Is Not a Ban: Institutional Work and the Russian Doping Scandal

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Mathew Dowling ◽  
Spencer Harris ◽  
Marvin Washington
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Institutional Infrastructure ◽  
The Status ◽  
Key Events ◽  
International Sport

There are fewer cases of such blatant acts to defy and subsequent heroic efforts to rearrange institutional norms than the Russian doping scandal. In adopting a neo-institutional perspective, the authors theorize the scandal as a case of attempted but failed institutional disruption. More specifically, the authors draw upon the institutional change literature and the institutional work perspective to explain the key events surrounding actors’ response to the scandal. The analysis utilized Gioia’s methodological approach to examine secondary empirical data. Findings reveal how stakeholders circumvented traditional governance structures in an attempt to disrupt institutional arrangements, but despite this, much of the preexisting institutional infrastructure has remained intact. The authors explain this outcome, in part, as a consequence of the counter-institutional work of key governing agencies and other actors to maintain the status quo within international sport.

Terra incognita Hausarztpraxis – Tabakentwöhnung in der deutschen Primärversorgung

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Schneider ◽  
Katharina Diehl ◽  
Christina Bock ◽  
Raphael M. Herr ◽  
Manfred Mayer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Expert Review ◽  
Terra Incognita

Zielsetzung: Die Hausarztpraxis gilt als ideales Setting für die Tabakentwöhnung. Die bundesweite „ÄSP-kardio-Studie“ liefert aktuelle Daten zum Status quo der Tabakentwöhnung nach der „5 A-Strategie“ in deutschen Hausarztpraxen. Methodik: Zwischen 10/2011 und 03/2012 wurden über 4.000 Hausärzte repräsentativ befragt. Der Fragebogen wurde vorab einem Expert Review unterzogen, durch kognitive Interviews validiert und in einer Pilotstudie getestet. Ergebnisse: Routinemäßig erfassten 89 % der Hausärzte etwaigen Tabakkonsum („Assess“), 82 % rieten Rauchern zu einem Rauchstopp („Advise“) und 12 % vereinbarten schriftliche Ziele einer Entwöhnung („Agree“). Hilfestellungen („Assist“) in Form einer Kurzintervention fanden mit 72 % deutlich häufiger statt als in Form von Informationsmaterial (33 %) oder einer Entwöhnungstherapie (27 %). Etwa die Hälfte (54 %) vereinbarte Folgetermine zur Überprüfung des Rauchstopps („Arrange“). Das Angebot war von arzt-, praxis- sowie patientenspezifischen Faktoren abhängig und in den nordöstlichen Bundesländern unterdurchschnittlich. Acht von 10 Hausärzten (77 %) bewerteten ihre Maßnahmen als nicht erfolgreich. Schlussfolgerungen: Deutlich wird die suboptimale und ungleich verteilte Versorgung von Rauchern mit angemessenen Entwöhnungsmaßnahmen in deutschen Hausarztpraxen.

ADHS im Kindesalter: ätiologische und therapeutische Ansätze mit dem Schwerpunkt der Bildgebung

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Steinmann ◽  
Michael Siniatchkin ◽  
Franz Petermann ◽  
Wolf-Dieter Gerber
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo

Die Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung (ADHS) zählt zu den häufigsten psychischen Störungen im Kindesalter. Ziel ist es, den Status Quo der Ätiologie hinsichtlich genetischer, neurobiologischer und neuropsychologischer Faktoren zu beschreiben. Es werden die derzeit anerkannten Therapiemethoden in der Behandlung der ADHS sowie ihre Wirksamkeit vorgestellt. Moderne Bildgebungsmethoden (z. B. MRT; fMRT) bieten die Möglichkeit, nichtinvasiv spezifische Aussagen über anatomische und funktionelle Änderungen zutreffen. Untersuchungen mit Hilfe dieser bildgebenden Verfahren stehen deswegen im Fokus der hier zitierten Ätiologie- und Therapieforschung. Abschließend folgt ein kurzer Ausblick auf mögliche Zukunftsfragen.

Expanded Consciousness or Status Quo

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
Gary M. Burlingame ◽  
Shawn Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo
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