Reviews: General Theory: Social, Political, Economic, and Regional, with Particular Reference to Decision Making Analysis, Colour and Rehousing: A Study of Redevelopment in Leeds, Entropy in Urban and Regional Modelling, Industrial Location Decisions: A Study in Management Behaviour, Progress in Geography: International Reviews of Current Research

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-485
Author(s):  
A. G. Wilson ◽  
V. Karn ◽  
P. Cowan ◽  
Doreen B. Massey ◽  
A. G. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Industrial Location ◽  
Location Decisions ◽  
Regional Modelling ◽  
Management Behaviour ◽  
Political Economic

Gender, Organization, and Change in Sudan

2018 ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
Shahira O. Abdel-Hameid ◽  
Elisabeth Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Employment Sector ◽  
Unpublished Studies ◽  
Behavioural Patterns ◽  
Formal Employment ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Purposive Sample

The position of women and role of gender in Sudan has been researched from anthropological, sociological and economic traditions. This study will review the position of Sudanese women within the formal employment sector, setting this within the specific political, economic and social context of the country. In addition, it will examine women in political and voluntary settings, as these are also important decision making arenas. There has been little published material previously on this topic. The study draws on secondary data from unpublished studies and master's dissertations, and also grey material available in Sudan. In addition, semi-structured interviewing of a purposive sample of selected informants was used. The data were analysed thematically. The findings were that many behavioural patterns seen elsewhere were evident in Sudan, such as stereotyping and discrimination. However, educated Sudanese women sought equality within a man's world, unlike the equal but different gender roles found by Metcalfe (2007) in parts of the Middle East.

scholarly journals A Strategic Location Decision-Making Approach for Multi-Tier Supply Chain Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8340
Author(s):  
Petchprakai Sirilertsuwan ◽  
Sébastien Thomassey ◽  
Xianyi Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Location Decisions ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Clean Manufacturing ◽  
Potential Risks

Few studies on supply location decisions focus on enhancing triple bottom line (TBL) sustainability in supply chains; they rarely employ objective quantifiable measurements which help ensure consistent and transparent decisions or reveal relationships between business and environmental trade-off criteria. Therefore, we propose a decision-making approach for objectively selecting multi-tier supply locations based on cost and carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) from manufacturing, logistics, and sustainability-assurance activities, including certificate implementation, sample-checking, living wage and social security payments, and factory visits. Existing studies and practices, logic models, activity-based costing, and feedback from an application and experts help develop the approach. The approach helps users in location decisions and long-term supply chain planning by revealing relationships among factors, TBL sustainability, and potential risks. This approach also helps users evaluate whether supplier prices are too low to create environmental and social compliance. Its application demonstrates potential and flexibility in revealing both lowest- and optimized-cost and CO2e supply chains, under various contexts and constraints, for different markets. Very low cost/CO2e supply chains have proximity between supply chain stages and clean manufacturing energy. Considering sustainability-assurance activities differentiates our approach from existing studies, as the activities significantly impact supply chain cost and CO2e in low manufacturing unit scenarios.

scholarly journals Application of Environmental Conflict Resolution to Public Interest Issues in Water Disputes

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jeffrey QC ◽  
Donna Craig
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environmental Conflict Resolution ◽  
Political Economic

This article examines the role of environmental conflict resolution (ECR) in the public interest issues of water disputes. The article endeavours to  illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of a range of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and negotiation approaches in the context of decision-making. Although many embrace ECR as the cheaper and more effective alternative to more formalistic and entrenched judicial processes before courts of law and quasi-judicial tribunals, the authors argue that there is an urgent need for a more critical, contextual and issue-oriented approach. In particular, the article highlights the significant difficulties associated with representing the full range of stakeholders who should be involved in an ADR process, and the lack of transparency and procedural safeguards associated with ADR in complex public interest disputes. The strength of ADR in smaller project-specific disputes involving a very limited number of stakeholders is well understood. The authors argue that ADR may have a significant role in scoping the issues and associated research as well as facilitating agreement on procedural aspects of large, complex public interest water disputes. However, ADR has severe limitations as a decision-making process. For example, water conflicts necessarily involve the concept of sustainability that in turn touches on a complex maze of social, political, economic and ecological values. The probability of reaching a mediated settlement in such a context is severely curtailed. A preferable approach may be one that is entirely transparent, capable of being both monitored and enforced, and is binding on all stakeholders whether or not they are parties to the mediation.

Retail Location Decision Using an Integrated DEMATEL-ANP Method

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satyendra Sharma ◽  
Srikanta Routroy ◽  
Rohan Desai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Location Decisions ◽  
Location Decision ◽  
Analytical Network Process ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Retail Location ◽  
Retail Chains ◽  
First Time

This study focuses on developing a model for making retail location decisions which addresses the limitations of existing methods. The integrated DEMATEL-ANP method used here successfully accounts for interdependencies between the selected criteria. After reviewing the existing methods for decision making, the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation (DEMATEL) and the Analytical Network Process (ANP) methods were chosen. DEMATEL evaluates the degrees of influence the criteria have on each other. ANP is used to assign weights to criteria and the sub-criteria, and eventually derive the weights for the alternative locations. The integrated model helps prioritize among the available alternatives based on scientific methods, much more reliable than intuition and experience based methods still practiced today. Adopting this method can help retail chains make more informed decisions. This is the first time an integrated DEMATEL-ANP method has been applied in the context of retail location decision.

scholarly journals Planning in Democratizing River Basins: The Case for a Co-Productive Model of Decision Making

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tira Foran ◽  
David Penton ◽  
Tarek Ketelsen ◽  
Emily Barbour ◽  
Nicola Grigg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Process And Outcome ◽  
River Basin Planning ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Political Economic

We reflect on methodologies to support integrated river basin planning for the Ayeyarwady Basin in Myanmar, and the Kamala Basin in Nepal, to which we contributed from 2017 to 2019. The principles of Integrated Water Resources Management have been promoted across states and regions with markedly different biophysical and political economic conditions. IWRM-based river basin planning is complex, resource intensive, and aspirational. It deserves scrutiny to improve process and outcome legitimacy. We focus on the value of co-production and deliberation in IWRM. Among our findings: (i) multi-stakeholder participation can be complicated by competition between actors for resources and legitimacy; (ii) despite such challenges, multi-stakeholder deliberative approaches can empower actors and can be an effective means for co-producing knowledge; (iii) tensions between (rational choice and co-productive) models of decision complicate participatory deliberative planning. Our experience suggests that a commitment to co-productive decision-making fosters socially legitimate IWRM outcomes.

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