scholarly journals Technology of personnel training for the transport industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 01006
Author(s):  
Victoriya Alexandrovna Vinichenko
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Personnel Training ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Skills

The paper is devoted to the study of modern educational technologies used to train specialists in the transportation industry. The prerequisites for updating and supplementing existing educational technologies are considered. Critical skills for various modes of transport are identified. The challenges of the global socio-economic architecture that dictate updated requirements to the educational environment are defined. A review of the world practice in training personnel for the transportation industry was carried out, and a comparative analysis of the technologies used in a number of countries was conducted. As a result, we have obtained a set of best practices used for training specialists in the field of transport. The comparative analysis shows that some practices are equally and successfully applied both in Russia and abroad. There are also specified some trends in the influence of processes occurring in transport on the further transformation of the industry’s human resources. The direction for future research has been determined.

A Comparative Analysis of E-Government in Latin America

2011 ◽  
pp. 158-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Curtin ◽  
Christopher Walker
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Composite Scores

This chapter introduces the United Nations global e-government readiness reports, for which we serve as primary researchers, with particular focus on Latin America. The UN reports provide useful composite scores and rankings on 191 countries worldwide with respect to e-government, e-readiness, and e-participation, as well as highlighting best practices that have been identified throughout the world. In particular, the UN reports provide meaningful insights into the development of e-government in Latin America—facilitating comparative analysis between regions, as well as country comparisons within Latin America.Basing itself on the UN report, the chapter provides a comparative analysis of e-government in Latin America—both intra- and interregional comparisons—with the main objective of elevating e-government literature to a more quantitatively rigorous and sophisticated level. This chapter aims at introducing the UN report, outlining its main findings, and reporting how Latin America compares with the world in e-government readiness and development. It first outlines the background of the UN report, followed by the research methodology. Then it discusses the findings relevant to Latin America, with a brief conclusion on topics for future research and discussion.

Quality management in the global brewing industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charisis G. Vrellas ◽  
George Tsiotras
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Brewing Industry ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
Quality Tools ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to stimulate interest in the use of quality management methods and tools and to provide a basis and direction for further improvement in the global brewing industry. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology that is followed in the paper is based on the study of quality management tools and best practices in global brewing companies. Findings – From all evidence found by this research, the conclusion is that quality management can dramatically improve certain operations and reduce cost or increase profit as well. All of the global brewing companies examined in this paper have their quality policies and each one of them uses what fits best to its business profile. Research limitations/implications – This study refers to some of the largest brewing companies in the world. Future research could be addressed toward the analysis of other smaller brewing companies, which are characterized by the concepts of quality management. Practical implications – The analysis of quality management in the global brewing industry may cause the interest of other brewing companies and other stakeholders affected by this industry. Quality tools can be very useful for dealing with problems and improving procedures in a brewery. Furthermore, the extension of this work with detailed references to these tools could produce a quality guide for brewing companies. Originality/value – The value of this paper lies in the identification and presentation of tools and quality policies which have been successfully developed by global brewing companies and may as well be implemented by others.

scholarly journals Factors influencing performance within startup assistance organizations

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 264-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioana Ceaușu ◽  
Katrin Marquardt ◽  
Sven-Joachim Irmer ◽  
Elisa Gotesman
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The World ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Relevant Factors

Abstract Startup assistance organizations, and especially business accelerators have gained a lot of traction in the last years, captioning not only the attention of the public, but most importantly that of investors and other stakeholders. It has become a challenge for many all around the world to develop such programs, but many have failed or did not have their expected results, meaning medium to long-term sustainable and profitable alumni start-ups. As high amounts of resources, both human and financial, are being invested in the design and development of such programs, it is important to understand what sets apart the successful business acceleration programs from the ones that fail. The current paper is reviewing the up-to-date theoretical literature and studies on the matter at hand, in order to identify the most relevant factors influencing startup assistance organizations’ performance. The objective behind identifying these factors is to get a better understanding of best practices of such successful programs and set the basis for future research regarding the development of a set of metrics for more accurately measuring their performance.

The Resource-Based View of the Firm, Human Resources, and Human Capital: Progress and Prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 014920632097879
Author(s):  
Barry Gerhart ◽  
Jie Feng
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Firm Heterogeneity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Relevant Evidence

We describe the interplay between the resource-based view (RBV) and strategic human resources (HR)/human capital (HC) literatures in select areas of particular interest. In each area, we aim to highlight key issues, review relevant evidence where available, and identify future research needs. We begin by reviewing research on HR-related firm heterogeneity. We then discuss best practices in HR, including evidence of the large apparent value they create. We also consider different views on the value and ease of imitation of best practices, including implementation challenges. Next, we briefly address the key roles of microfoundations and complementarity in helping understand the potential for value creation and value capture through the use of best practices. We then ask whether the use of best practices in the pursuit of competitive parity might warrant greater attention as this may be where the largest potential gains can be made. Finally, we consider a number of developments in the strategic HC literature, especially those related to firm-specific human capital (FSHC). We raise questions with views on issues such as the consequences of FSHC for workers; the definition and measurement of FSHC; whether worker immobility, a key to value capture, is good from a social return (or even a firm) return perspective; and the relative emphasis on value capture and value creation.

scholarly journals Plasticity of Contemporary Racism: Postcolonial Model Anomalies and Emergence of Castles-Kosack 1973 Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Antonio Cansinos
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Future Research ◽  
World War ◽  
Labor Theory ◽  
The World

Although contemporary racism has been interpreted from a large number of perspectives, since the end of World War II, its nature was associated with Colonialism, a type of analysis based on the approach of race relations and complemented by the approach of the world-system. The present study develops a comparative analysis between the postcolonial model and the model generated by Stephen Castles and Godula Kosack in 1973 (occasionally Migrant labor theory or Political economy of migration theory). The conclusions of our research suggest that the second model supports an adequate investigative capacity in its analysis, by focusing its explanations on the mobility of the massive flows of the non-spontaneous labor force (large masses of reserve workers) that arise from the capitalist needs. In this way, this paper offers guidelines that can help future research on explanatory models of contemporary racism.

Administrators’ Assessments of Online Courses and Student Retention in Higher Education

2014 ◽  
pp. 138-150
Author(s):  
Ruth Gannon Cook ◽  
Roy Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Course Completion ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Factors

Criteria may vary across public, private, and for profit universities for online courses around the world, but despite differences, there seem to be some successful lessons that could be shared across universities with respect to certain factors that increased student online course completion rates among certain universities’ courses. This study looked at an associate dean’s search for strategic factors that could contribute to increased online course completion rates at his university and more effectively address problems on a timely basis to improve those course completion rates. The associate dean’s collaboration with a researcher led to their conducting representative model research that revealed best practices and assessments from a number of universities and provided insights into which factors could be applied to online courses at his university. Future research could look at whether there was a substantial increase in student retention in the online courses implementing these factors to see if there may be best practices that could be generalized to other universities around the world.

Commentary: Governance of and Through Central Banks: A Comparative Analysis at the Close of a Dismal Decade

World Affairs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 184 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-118
Author(s):  
Henrique Estides Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
The World ◽  
Shed Light

This commentary seeks to summarize, assess, and make integrated sense of three scholarly works that, together, help to shed light on the discussion regarding central banks’ scope, mandate, power, and independence. The issue is clearly relevant in comparative politics as one building block to evaluate both state capacities to manage the domestic economic environment routinely and the global crises faced recently. Within a period of 13 years, central banks across the world were at the center of the response to two different but highly devastating crises. The level of power enjoyed nowadays by central banks is, to a large extent, an outcome of the evolution following the 2008 crisis, which better equipped these institutions to provide some necessary economic policy interventions in 2020. The articles here reviewed are fine contributions to empirical observation and future research in this area.

scholarly journals A Comparative analysis of global competences within the framework of internationalized curricula

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-53
Author(s):  
Pablo Beneitone ◽  
Maria Yarosh
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Generic Competences ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Fine Tune

An agreement seems to exist that graduates must be equipped with competences required to act successfully and appropriately in a global context. Many authors have proposed lists of competences that could form part of such a graduate profile which must be taken into account when designing internationalized curricula. However, merely listing of a competence does not guarantee that students develop it to the level expected by society. The present article reports on a meta-study based on eight Tuning studies. This meta-study compared the findings across the eight Tuning studies in terms of the different stakeholder groups’ ratings of importance and achievement of 11 global competences – generic competences valued by over 71,000 graduates, employers, students and academics in more than 100 countries and across four continents (Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia). The contribution of the meta-study presented consists in offering a possibility to identify commonalities and differences among the perceptions of the four key stakeholder groups, not only across all the individual studies but also at the level of the four continents – something never accomplished until the present date. In addition, it will help identify the competences that might require particular attention of curriculum designers and teaching teams for students to develop these competences to the level perceived as optimal in different regions of the world. Future research questions are identified with the aim to enrich and validate or fine-tune these initial findings and compensate for the limitations related to the general timeline of the 8 individual Tuning studies that the meta-study built on. Received: 31 March 2021Accepted: 06 May 2021

Framing #Ferguson: A comparative analysis of media tweets in the U.S., U.K., Spain, and France

2019 ◽  
Vol 81 (6-8) ◽  
pp. 623-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Summer Harlow
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Computer Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

Following the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, protests around the world—online and offline—grabbed headlines. Considering that previous research suggests that the news media tend to follow a protest paradigm of coverage that delegitimizes protesters, this study examined #Ferguson coverage on social media to re-assess the relevance of the paradigm. Using computer analysis, this study analyzed thousands of tweets posted by news organizations and individual journalists in the U.S., U.K., Spain, and France, as well as the general public’s tweets, to compare how race, police brutality, and the protests were discussed across countries. Findings fill the gap in the literature as to whether delegitimizing, paradigmatic coverage extends to Twitter, pointing to differences not just between countries, but also between media outlets and individual journalists, and between the public and the journalism industry. Implications for future research are discussed.

Russian Policy of Agriculture Support and the Necessity of Its Modification after WTO Accession

2012 ◽  
pp. 132-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Uzun
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
World Trade ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Wto Accession ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Agriculture Support

The article deals with the features of the Russian policy of agriculture support in comparison with the EU and the US policies. Comparative analysis is held considering the scales and levels of collective agriculture support, sources of supporting means, levels and mechanisms of support of agricultural production manufacturers, its consumers, agrarian infrastructure establishments, manufacturers and consumers of each of the principal types of agriculture production. The author makes an attempt to estimate the consequences of Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization based on a hypothesis that this will result in unification of the manufacturers and consumers’ protection levels in Russia with the countries that have long been WTO members.

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