Transformations of Global Cooperation Processes as a Strategy of Sustainable Social Development in the Context of Research and Education

Globalization involves the merging of societies and economies (and all their institutions – including educational and scientific) of all countries into a single socio-economic system with the prospect of more effective political coordination among them. There is a need for a new type of social contract between society and citizens, which must necessarily be included in modern institutional systems. This contract manifests itself differently on the basis of different national cultures, so the socio-economic development should be based on intercultural dialogue between different countries, social systems and civic institutions. The internationalization and integration of higher education in the global and international aspect raises many new questions for theory and practice: what patterns, forms, methods of management are universal, and which of them are specific. It is assumed that it is necessary to identify and conceptualize the essential interdependence of systemic and functional characteristics of the institutional dimension of global transformations of world development.

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Main Trends of Global Development: Its Reality and Prospects

Journal of Chinese Philosophy ◽

10.1163/15406253-12340006 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 80-88

Author(s):

Alexander N. Chumakov

Keyword(s):

Social Systems ◽

Global Strategy ◽

Modern World ◽

The West ◽

West China ◽

Global Trends ◽

Islamic World ◽

Current State ◽

Global World ◽

World Development

Abstract The article analyzes the main parameters of the modern world development, its architectonics and the most important development trends. Modern communications and principles of interaction of various social systems are also considered. As a result, the most significant cultural-cum-civilizational systems are distinguished – the West, China, the Islamic world and Russia, which represent four global trends or four vectors of power that fundamentally affect the current state and prospects of world development. It is emphasized that the West and China have a global strategy, provided by objective circumstances. The Islamic world and Russia occupy an important geopolitical position and also have a special status in the global world.

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How being appreciative creates change – theory in practice from health and social care in Scotland

Action Research ◽

10.1177/1476750316684002 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 223-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Cathy Sharp ◽

Belinda Dewar ◽

Karen Barrie ◽

Julienne Meyer

Keyword(s):

Action Research ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Positive Attitude ◽

Social Care ◽

Social Systems ◽

Change Theory ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Home Life ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Design And Testing

This paper develops understanding of appreciative action research that generates curiosity and motivation as a better platform for collaborative change. Blending theory and practice it draws on the example of the My Home Life leadership programme in Scotland that explores the concepts and approaches of ‘Caring Conversations’ and ‘playful provocation’ in care homes for older people. The paper shows how they expand notions of appreciation and help people to deepen inquiry, explore values, acknowledge and express emotion without dispute or judgement, articulate tacit knowledge and give voice to things previously thought to be ‘unsayable’. We explore how these generative approaches act as a powerful positive ‘disruption’ that brings existing relationships to life, supports a positive attitude to risk-taking and helps to devise new approaches to the local design and testing of approaches to problems. Ultimately these approaches play an important part in developing understanding of how to do appreciative action research to enhance relationships and more strengths or assets-based and collaborative ways of working and so, to develop new possibilities for changing social systems and a more future-making orientation to action research.

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A quality system’s impact on the service experience

International Journal of Operations & Production Management ◽

10.1108/ijopm-12-2015-0737 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 37 (12) ◽

pp. 1817-1839 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jeffery Smith ◽

Sidney Anderson ◽

Gavin Fox

Keyword(s):

Service Quality ◽

Social Systems ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Service Experience ◽

Content Type ◽

Proposed Model ◽

The Social ◽

Two Samples ◽

The Impact ◽

Integrated Service

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the interplay between technical and social systems within an organization that potentially affect the service experience, as perceived by end customers. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the potential impact of an integrated service quality system on the service experience. A conceptual model is presented, accompanied by a detailed development of the hypotheses. Two samples (Study 1: n=474, Study 2: n=225) of consumers are used to empirically test the proposed model. Findings The analysis reveals the impact a technical system has on employees’ inherent abilities (i.e. the social system), which, in turn, affect the overall assessment by customers. Additionally, the situation in which an employee works (i.e. operating environmental conditions) results in differences in the model. Research limitations/implications This paper’s main implication is this paper employs established theory to develop a model that is empirically tested to show that implementing and maintaining a quality-oriented service system can positively influence the overall customer experience. The limitations are based primarily on the methodology in which individual employees assessed all aspects of both the social and technical systems. Practical implications Managers should be diligent in their design and implementation of the quality components as these affect the work setting in which employees operate. Originality/value Prior research has neither explored an integrated service quality system’s impact on the service experience nor employed an established theoretical framework. This work accomplishes both with the results providing contributions to both theory and practice.

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Information Structures, Optimal Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

Journal of Accounting Auditing & Finance ◽

10.1177/0148558x9000500106 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 61-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Kose John ◽

Joshua Ronen

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Policy Research ◽

Theory Of The Firm ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Information Structures ◽

New York University ◽

University Of Florida ◽

Accounting Research ◽

Association Meeting ◽

Research And Education

We are grateful for comments made by participants at the Symposium on the “Measurement of Profit and Productivity: Theory and Practice,” on December 16, 1988, in the University of Florida, cosponsored by the Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, the Public Policy Research Center, Graduate School of Business, University of Florida, and The Kruger Center of Finance, Jerusalem School of Business Administration, Hebrew University; at workshops at the Leonard M. Stern School of Business, New York University; at the Accounting Research and Education Center of McMaster University; at the European Accounting Association meeting in Stuttgart, Germany; at workshops at Wharton School University of Pennsylvania; University of California at Berkeley; Northwestern University; French Finance Association Meeting.

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Big Data Dilemmas

Human Rights and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6433-3.ch002 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 10-34

Author(s):

Debashis “Deb” Aikat

Keyword(s):

Data Mining ◽

Economic Development ◽

Big Data ◽

Common Good ◽

Code Of Conduct ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Ethical Values ◽

Big Data Mining ◽

Socio Economic Development ◽

Ethical Role

This chapter delineates the theory and practice of ethical big data mining for socio-economic development in four parts. The first part enunciates the ethical role of big data mining for socio-economic development by theorizing big data as a 20th Century phenomenon and its surging significance in the 21st Century digital era. The second part elucidates ethical values relating to big data mining with particular emphasis on the interplay of theory and practice. The third part connects classical theories of ethics to propose a code of conduct that relates to core ethical values such as privacy, confidentiality, objectivity, transparency, conflict of interest, and common good. The fourth and final part identifies privacy as a major challenge of ethical big data mining and postulates needed research directions. This chapter also features a list of additional reading and big data terms with concise definitions explicating their relevance to big data mining for socio-economic development.

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Montage Reloaded: From Russian Avant-Garde to the Audiovisual Essay

Beyond the Essay Film ◽

10.5117/9789463728706_ch08 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Julia Vassilieva

Keyword(s):

Theory And Practice ◽

Avant Garde ◽

New Type ◽

Movie Camera

In this chapter, I explore the relevance of early Russian montage theory and practice to new issues raised by the shift from the essay film to the audiovisual essay. I investigate how, specifically, Sergei Eisenstein’s vision of the new type of cinema of ideas formulated in his project for filming Marx’s Das Kapital, Dziga Vertov’s foregrounding of subjectivity and reflexivity in The Man with a Movie Camera, and Esphir Shub’s practice of ‘compilation film’ contributed to the emergence of the essay film and continue to stimulate the theory and practice of the audiovisual essayism.

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Organ donation

10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0277 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas Mone

Keyword(s):

Organ Donation ◽

Social Systems ◽

Organizational Structures ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Waiting Lists ◽

Healthcare Management ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

High Performing ◽

Job Roles ◽

Donation Process

Kidney transplantation has been and continues to be dependent on the apparently unscientific and decidedly personal act of organ donation. In the best-performing regions of the world, 75–95% of those who are medically suitable actually become donors upon their deaths, but because of increasing rates of organ failure, even in these high-performing areas, waiting lists continue to grow. Deceased organ donation performance is highly variable even among medically developed countries, and it is especially challenged in countries with cultural, legal, ethical or religious, economic, clinical, or organizational practices that limit donation. Recognizing these challenges, the transplantation community has collaborated to identify and promulgate international best practices and to foster innovation in the management of deceased donation. The goal of this effort is to clarify the organizational structures, social change interventions, and medical practices necessary to maximize both living and deceased donation. Although donation practice differs significantly across countries, successful organ donation programmes share certain traits and practices that can be modified to fit varied medical delivery reimbursement and social systems and structures. The world’s best-performing donation programmes have focused on increasing the public’s and healthcare professionals’ trust in the donation process, ensuring equitable access to transplantation, and they have built donation organizations that borrow from the theory and practice of business and healthcare management systems. The critical processes, essential functions, job roles, and foundational principles of successful donation programmes require the use of the tools that have been shown to improve donation and increase transplantation, thereby reducing (or, ideally, ending) deaths on the waiting lists. The wider adoption of these tools by countries with fledgling or struggling organ donation would increase organ availability and its exploitation of the poor who in many countries become organ ‘vendors’ rather than donors.

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Examining the sustainability and development challenge in agricultural-forest frontiers of the Amazon Basin through the eyes of locals

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ◽

10.5194/nhess-20-797-2020 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 797-813 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Irene Blanco-Gutiérrez ◽

Rhys Manners ◽

Consuelo Varela-Ortega ◽

Ana M. Tarquis ◽

Lucieta G. Martorano ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Economic Development ◽

Amazon Basin ◽

Cognitive Mapping ◽

Environmental Conservation ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Scenarios ◽

Development Policies ◽

Socio Economic Development ◽

New Type

Abstract. The Amazon basin is the world's largest rainforest and the most biologically diverse place on Earth. Despite the critical importance of this region, Amazon forests continue inexorably to be degraded and deforested for various reasons, mainly a consequence of agricultural expansion. The development of novel policy strategies that provide balanced solutions, associating economic growth with environmental protection, is still challenging, largely because the perspective of those most affected – local stakeholders – is often ignored. Participatory fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) was implemented to examine stakeholder perceptions towards the sustainable development of two agricultural-forest frontier areas in the Bolivian and Brazilian Amazon. A series of development scenarios were explored and applied to stakeholder-derived FCM, with climate change also analysed. Stakeholders in both regions perceived landscapes of socio-economic impoverishment and environmental degradation driven by governmental and institutional deficiencies. Under such abject conditions, governance and well-integrated social and technological strategies offered socio-economic development, environmental conservation, and resilience to climatic changes. The results suggest there are benefits of a new type of thinking for development strategies in the Amazon basin and that continued application of traditional development policies reduces the resilience of the Amazon to climate change, whilst limiting socio-economic development and environmental conservation.

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Research into Practice: Cultural and intercultural awareness

Language Teaching ◽

10.1017/s0261444814000287 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 130-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Will Baker

Keyword(s):

Language Learning ◽

Classroom Practice ◽

Cultural Awareness ◽

Global Scale ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Cultural Dimension ◽

National Cultures ◽

Intercultural Awareness ◽

Pedagogic Theory

This article examines the role of cultural awareness (CA) and intercultural awareness (ICA) in classroom theory and practice. CA and ICA can be roughly characterised as an awareness of the role of culture in communication with CA focused on national cultures and ICA on more dynamic and flexible relationships between languages and cultures. There will be a consideration of findings from CA and ICA research that have not been well applied, those that have been well applied and those that have been over-applied to classrooms. In particular, it will be argued that CA and ICA are more prevalent in pedagogic theory, and to a lesser extent policy, than they are in practice. While the cultural dimension to language learning is now fairly mainstream, where elements of CA and ICA are applied or translated into the classroom they typically take the form of comparisons between national cultures, often in essentialist forms. There is still little evidence of classroom practice that relates to the fluid ways cultures and languages are related in intercultural communication, especially for English as a lingua franca or other languages used on a global scale.

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Global Leadership

Management ◽

10.1093/obo/9780199846740-0179 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Mark E. Mendenhall

Keyword(s):

Leadership Skills ◽

Global Leadership ◽

Leadership Theory ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

National Cultures ◽

Global Context ◽

Stakeholder Relationships ◽

Multiple Cultures ◽

Diverse Groups ◽

Specific Country

Global leadership is the study of leadership in the global context. Reiche, et al. 2017 (cited under Theories and Models of Global Leadership) states that the global context forces leaders to influence a wider range of internal and external constituents compared to leaders who operate in a domestic context. Further, these constituents reside in multiple national cultures and jurisdictions, which increases the task and relationship complexity of leaders who work in the global context. In Adler, et al. 2000, global leadership is characterized as being neither domestic (focused only on leadership theory and practice in a specific country) nor multidomestic (comparing leadership theory and practice between specific countries) in nature. Rather, global leadership focuses on the competencies, processes, behaviors, and roles leaders must effectively engage in when simultaneously leading diverse groups of people and managing stakeholder relationships globally across multiple cultures. The demands, challenges, ambiguity, and unpredictability associated with global versus domestic and multidomestic leadership are argued by scholars in the field to constitute global leadership as being a different type or category of leadership that requires not only higher levels of commonly accepted leadership skills, but also skills that are unique to the demand of leadership in the global context. In Reiche, et al. 2017 global leadership is said to constitute the ways that leaders in a global context influence their constituents who reside in different nations within a milieu that is high in both task and relationship complexity.

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