scholarly journals Dialectics of Resilience: A Multi–Level Analysis of a Telehealth Innovation

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunyoung Cho ◽  
Lars Mathiassen ◽  
Daniel Robey
Keyword(s):  
Fragile State ◽  
Future Success ◽  
The Future ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Dialectical Analysis ◽  
Level Analysis

Resilience is commonly portrayed as a positive capability that allows individuals, groups, and organizations to thrive in dynamic contexts. This paper questions this oversimplified view based on a dialectical analysis of a telehealth innovation within a network of collaborating hospitals. We analyze the major contradictions that characterize the adoption of the innovation. First, we analyze contradictions between individuals and groups within each adopting organization. Second, we analyze contradictions between the adopting organizations. This multi-level analysis leads to a deeper understanding of resilience as a dialectical process. The analysis of the case shows that, although the participating individuals, groups, and organizations demonstrated apparent resilience in adopting the telehealth innovation, the innovation remained in a fragile state, where it was unclear whether it would continue to diffuse, stabilize as-is, or slowly deteriorate. Hence, while resilience facilitated swift and successful adoption, it also created tensions that endangered further diffusion and the long-term sustainability of the telehealth innovation. We suggest that understanding the future success of the innovation would be facilitated to a large extent by a dialectical analysis of the involved contradictions.

Child Money and Food Stamps: A comparative analysis of Mongolian welfare programmes in the Ger Districts of Ulaanbaatar

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-524
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fox
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Food Stamps ◽  
Means Testing ◽  
Economic Cycles ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Welfare Model ◽  
Level Analysis

Abstract Until recently, the Mongolian welfare system was entirely category based. However, a new food stamps programme funded by loans from the Asian Development Bank, which targets aid according to proxy means testing, has been introduced as part of the bank’s aim to push Mongolia towards a fiscally sustainable welfare model. The food stamps programme is presented as efficient and responsible in contrast to Mongolia’s universal child money programme. Based on long-term participant observation research in the ger districts of Ulaanbaatar, areas inhabited by many rural-urban migrants living in poverty, this paper compares the two programmes, interweaving street-level accounts of the experiences of residents and bureaucrats alike with the respective histories and funding sources of the two programmes. Doing so provides a multi-level analysis of the emergent welfare state in Mongolia, unpicking the ‘system’ that ger district residents encounter, linking the relative influence of international financial institutions to democratic and economic cycles, and offering a critique of the supposed efficiency of targeted welfare programmes.

A Software to Convert ESRI Shapefile to Flash SWF Format and its Extended Application

2011 ◽  
Vol 480-481 ◽  
pp. 758-762
Author(s):  
Jin Qu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Shock Wave ◽  
The Internet ◽  
File Format ◽  
Economic Data ◽  
Extended Application ◽  
Gis Data ◽  
The Future ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Level Analysis

A shapefile to SWF conversion software was mainly introduced. By converting the traditional GIS files such as ESRI Shapefile to the Shock Wave Flash (SWF) file format, the GIS data was highly compressed and suitable for the Internet publication. The generation of SWF files provided a complement for the current WebGIS technology and by using the converted SWF map files, an extended example of flash-based application in multi-level analysis to the socio-economic data was constructed. The example demenstrated its easy configuration and powerful potential ablities. More powerful applications based on SWF will be continued in the future work.

scholarly journals Physical workload, long-term sickness absence, and the role of social capital. Multi-level analysis of a large occupation cohort

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-381
Author(s):  
Eszter Török ◽  
Alice Jessie Clark ◽  
Annette Kjær Ersbøll ◽  
Jakob Bue Bjorner ◽  
Andreas Holtermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Sickness Absence ◽  
Physical Workload ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Level Analysis

THE START-UP CHARACTERISTICS OF A NEW ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRM AS DETERMINANTS OF THE FUTURE SUCCESS OF THE FIRM IN THE SHORT TERM AND IN THE LONG TERM

1996 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 363-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
IIKKA KAURANEN
Keyword(s):  
New Product ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firm ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Future Success ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Firm ◽  
Product Idea

The objective of the study was to obtain more knowledge regarding the start-up characteristics of a new entrepreneurial firm as determinants of the future success of the firm both in the short term and in the long term. Accordingly, the following groups of variables were examined: the motives for the founding of the firms, the formulation of the business idea of the firms, and the initial behavioral characteristics of the firms. Market-orientedness and a new product idea distinguished the successful firms from the unsuccessful firms in the short-term but not in the long-term. The firms successful in the long term stated that their competitors operated by imitating their products. These successful firms concentrated on what they were good at. Basing the business idea of a new firm on good availability of labour did not lead to success.

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