Observing Inequalities

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey ◽  
Dustin Avent-Holt
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Surgical Training ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter advocates the development of comparative organizational research designs as the empirical basis for studying both the generic and contingent processes that generate inequality. After explaining where past quantitative and qualitative researchers have gone wrong, it goes on to examine and promote contemporary comparative organizational research designs. Two in-depth case studies highlight the intersection between a relational inequality theoretical approach and comparative organizational research designs. The first examines organizational variation quantitatively, highlighting the roles of categorical intersectionality, organizational practices, and US and Australian national political economic institutions in expanding and contracting workplace class inequalities. The second focuses on three qualitative case studies of claims-making over surgical training regimes, highlighting the role of institutionalized power, gendered struggles, and cultural framing in contestation over status and divisions of labor. Finally, the chapter examines the potential of comparative meta-analyses across existing single-organization case studies for generating generic theories about relational inequalities.

5. Discourse analysis, post-structuralism, and foreign policy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lene Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Research Designs

This chapter examines the use of discourse analysis in the study of foreign policy. In the study of international relations, discourse analysis is associated with post-structuralism, a theoretical approach that shares realism’s concern with states and power, but differs from realism’s assumption that states are driven by self-interest. It also takes a wider view of power than realists normally do. Post-structuralism draws upon, but also challenges, realism’s three core assumptions: groupism, egoism, and power-centrism. The chapter first considers the theoretical principles that inform post-structuralist discourse analysis before discussing the research designs and methodological techniques employed by discourse analysts. It also offers examples and four learning boxes featuring mini-case studies and locates poststructuralist discourse analysis within the field of foreign policy analysis. Finally, it assesses the strengths and weaknesses of post-structuralist discourse analysis.

scholarly journals The structural, relational and cognitive dimensions of social capital on innovation and technology in interorganizational and intraorganizational settings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro R. C. Bonfim ◽  
Andréa Paula Segatto ◽  
Adriana Roseli Wunsch Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Interorganizational Networks ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Structural Dimension ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Cognitive Dimensions ◽  
Innovation Outcomes

In this article, we intend to understand how structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital influence innovation outcomes on interorganizational and intraorganizational networks. For achieving this aim, we adopt meta-synthesis research design with nine selected qualitative case studies. We identified through our analysis the patterns of causal relationships among the variables presented on the case studies. The antecedents of social capital dimensions, the influence of the dimensions on reducing barrier or impediments for innovation and on the enhancement of enablers or facilitators of innovation outcomes, and the direct effects of social capital dimensions on innovation compose the resulting framework. We found a balanced relation among the dimensions on interorganizational settings, with a prevalence of the relational dimension. Regarding interorganizational networks, we perceived a reduced role of structural dimension and the absence of the influence of social capital dimension of reducing barriers or impediments for innovation.

scholarly journals Co-operatives and climate protection: housing co-operatives in Germany

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Schröder ◽  
Heike Walk
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter focuses on the role of the co-operative model in promoting environmental protection, focusing on the experience of German housing co-operatives. It offers case studies of three housing co-operatives: Spar-und Bauverein Hannover eG (Hanover); Weiberwirtschaft eG (Berlin) and Möckernkiez eG (Berlin). The chapter argues that co-operatives offer great potential for climate protection activities at the local level, because their democratic structures facilitate participation and solidarity, and should be viewed as potential partners in pursuing environmental change by political, economic, and civil society groups.

scholarly journals Paper in Motion: Communication, Knowledge and Power: Case Studies for an Interdisciplinary Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 81-112
Author(s):  
José María Pérez Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Complex Networks ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Material Medium ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Political Economic

This essay intends to use a series of case studies to exemplify the role of paper as (1) material medium for communication and consequently for the establishment of human communities and institutions, including the normative patterns employed in their administration and the emotional ties that generated and pervaded them, and (2) as a trope that denotes the nature and the function of the information, emotions and values it is used to record and convey. After a survey of the current state of the art, the case studies will illustrate how the different uses and functions of paper determined strategies and methods employed in the administration of the movement of people, ideas, and goods, and in the creation of complex networks (political, economic, religious, and intellectual) across the Mediterranean and beyond. There will be a particular focus upon the circulation of texts and documents involved in the articulation of discursive varieties for the expression of both subjective and collective emotional identities and for the establishment of the norms that regulated their public and social dimensions.

Even a Small Conductor Can Lead a Large Orchestra: How Startups Orchestrate Ecosystems

2021 ◽  
pp. 000812562110054
Author(s):  
Bernhard Lingens ◽  
Maximilian Böger ◽  
Oliver Gassmann
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Shed Light

Contrary to existing literature, startups can be successful orchestrators of ecosystems. Based on nine qualitative case studies, this article introduces four archetypes that shed light on how a startup can fulfill the tasks of an orchestrator and overcome challenges. The findings identify dimensions of standardization/customization and sources of value creation as defining the role of ecosystem orchestrators and demonstrate the consequences for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), corporates, investors, and accelerators involved in such ecosystems.

scholarly journals Unique Projects of a Universal ‘Public Park Making’ Trend Viewed on the Example of Four Global Cities

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Shafray
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Global Features ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Evaluation Indexes ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Public Facilities

From a social perspective, successful cities compete with other cities and with each other for residents, resources, and economic power. The important characteristic of that is the number of outdoor social activities (events, festivals, forums, etc.) held in cities that are included in several cities’ evaluation indexes. Attempting to analyze the urban environment features that foster a productive ground for social activities, this paper correlates the number of social activities with the recent ‘public park-making’ urban regeneration trend. It considers four unique project case studies in New York, Tokyo, Seoul, and Moscow in the 2016–2018 years, with outstanding and ambitious designs selected to represent the trend. This paper analyzes the global ‘public park making’ trend for city’s urban regeneration with different scales of project interventions viewed through qualitative case studies. This paper puts forward a question of global features of a public park and continues the discussion on keeping a balance between local architecture and the global public park making trend, as well as public facilities and profit, and a role of nature as a universal remedy and tool in reshaping the image of cities.

SISTEM AUTOMATIC SWITCH REDUNDANT UPS UNTUK BEBAN ESSENSIAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Markus Dwiyanto Tobi ◽  
Alimuddin Mappa
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Working Condition ◽  
Control Circuit ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Main Equipment ◽  
Telecommunication Equipment ◽  
Input Condition ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Switch Circuit

The role of the power supply device is to produce, process and distribute energy sources. Telecommunication equipment can only operate if it has continuous supply. Therefore, to maintain the continuity of the supply, a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) device system is needed so that the supply to the Essential Load device will remain available so that continuity will be maintained. This research designs and proposes how a series of automatic redundant switch systems on UPS to ensure the availability of power supply for the main equipment of telecommunications systems. The Auto switch circuit is designed to have 3 (three) working stages which will trigger the relay driver as control circuit, namely the normal working condition of the contactor input K1 is present, the input condition is zero (lost), and the input condition is present. This system can automatically supply power to telecommunications equipment.

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