Geopolitics and Garbage Cans: Understanding the Essence of Decision Making in an Interdisciplinary and Psycho-Cultural Perspective

2012 ◽  
pp. 431-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mie Augier ◽  
Jerry Guo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Perspective

scholarly journals INNOVATION IN MANAGING EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

2020 ◽  
Vol v8 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Lykopoulou Zacharoula
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
University Culture ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Innovation Indicators ◽  
The Relationship

Instead of a common cultural perspective, university culture is experienced at three distinct levels: the enterprise, the profession and the cognate area. Each of them exerts a powerful influence on the ideology or systems of beliefs that characterize academics and academic institutions. Thus, many different dimensions should be assessed in order to indicate which of them can affect universities performance and decision-making regarding innovation. This paper concerns higher education in Greece, as applied today and in the forthcoming years and its aim is ternary; firstly, the study on the implementation of international innovation indicators in education, secondly the use of innovative teaching practices and finally the relationship between different organizations and its impact on innovative educational practices. The primary research contacted with the use of a questionnaire on a sample of 471 teachers all over Greece. The findings among others show that the higher the level of innovation regarding educational services, the higher also is the level of innovation on educational processes.

Readiness for Natural Hazards

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Paton
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Protective Action ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Geological Processes

Humankind has always lived with natural hazards and their consequences. While the frequency and intensity of geological processes may have remained relatively stable, population growth and infrastructure development in areas susceptible to experiencing natural hazards has increased societal risk and the losses experienced from hazard activity. Furthermore, increases in weather-related (e.g., hurricanes, wildfires) hazards emanating from climate change will increase risk in some countries and result in others having to deal with natural hazard risk for the first time. Faced with growing and enduring risk, disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies will play increasingly important roles in facilitating societal sustainability. This article discusses how readiness or preparedness makes an important contribution to comprehensive DRR. Readiness is defined here in terms of those factors that facilitate people’s individual and collective capability to anticipate, cope with, adapt to, and recover from hazard consequences. This article first discusses the need to conceptualize readiness as comprising several functional categories (structural, survival/direct action, psychological, community/capacity building, livelihood and community-agency readiness). Next, the article discusses how the nature and extent of people’s readiness is a function of the interaction between the information available and the personal, family, community and societal factors used to interpret information and support readiness decision-making. The health belief model (HBM), protection motivation theory (PMT), person-relative-to-event (PrE) theory, theory of planned behavior (TPB), critical awareness (CA), protective action decision model (PADM), and community engagement theory (CET) are used to introduce variables that inform people’s readiness decision-making. A need to consider readiness as a developmental process is discussed and identifies how the variables introduced in the above theories play different roles at different stages in the development of comprehensive readiness. Because many societies must learn to coexist with several sources of hazard, an “all-hazards” approach is required to facilitate the capacity of societies and their members to be resilient in the face of the various hazard consequences they may have to contend with. This article discusses research into readiness for the consequences that arise from earthquake, volcanic, flood, hurricane, and tornado hazards. Furthermore, because hazards transcend national and cultural divides, a comprehensive conceptualization of readiness must accommodate a cross-cultural perspective. Issues in the cross-cultural testing of theory is discussed, as is the need for further work into the relationship between readiness and culture-specific beliefs and processes.

scholarly journals Orientación al mercado y su efecto en la satisfacción en las relaciones comerciales entre fabricantes y distribuidores de productos farmacéuticos en Jalisco, México

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
González E. R.
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Economic Satisfaction ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
Cultural Base ◽  
The One ◽  
Orientación Al Mercado

Abstract. The market orientation is a process through as information is generated on the markets of the company; such information by all the organization is scattered and who sustains the decision making; and finally, the organizational answer of the company based on own actions of a direction towards the client and the surroundings. The market orientation has been studied from two main perspectives, the cultural perspective and the perspective of behaviors. The cultural market orientation sustains in the values and beliefs on the decision making in the market leading to actions on strategies to the market that are originated from within. The other perspective, the one of behaviors, are based on a set of actions those that not necessarily have a cultural base, although some raise that all oriented behavior to the marketis consequence of a system of beliefs that sustains them. However, several scales have been developed to measure the market orientation from a perspective or another one. It has been verified that both scales from the market orientation are convergent as far as the measurement ofsuch phenomenon. A measurement becomes of the perception from market orientation through the perspective of behaviors and of the economic and psychological satisfaction experienced by both parts in the relation (in a sample of 54 wholesale distributors and 14 manufacturers), being that the perception from direction to the market influences more of important way in the economicsatisfaction, no in the psychological satisfaction. In the work a valuation becomes of these results.Key Words: Economic satisfaction, market orientation, psychological satisfaction, relationshipmarketingResumen. La orientación del mercado es un proceso a través del cual se genera información de los mercados de la empresa. Tal información se dispersa por toda la organización; y finalmente, se diseña la respuesta organizativa de la empresa a través de las acciones dirigidas hacia el cliente y el entorno. La orientación del mercado se ha estudiado a partir de dos perspectivas, la cultural y la de comportamientos. La orientación cultural del mercado se sostiene en los valores y creencias que permiten la toma de decisiones de estrategias al mercado originadas desde dentro de la empresa. La otra perspectiva, la de comportamientos, se basa en un sistema de acciones los que no necesariamente tienen una base cultural, aunque todo comportamiento orientado al mercado es consecuencia de un sistema de creencias que los sostiene. Sin embargo, variasescalas se han desarrollado para medir la orientación del mercado de una perspectiva u otra. Se ha verificado que ambas escalas de la orientación del mercado son convergentes para medir el fenómeno. En este trabajo se utiliza una de la orientación del mercado bajo la perspectiva de comportamientos y se relaciona con la satisfacción económica y psicológica experimentada porambas partes en la relación (en una muestra de 54 distribuidores al por mayor y de 14 fabricantes). Con ello se obtiene que la orientación al mercado influencia de manera más importante la satisfacción económica, y no en la satisfacción psicológica. En el trabajo se evidencian estos resultados. Palabras Claves: Mercadotécnia de relaciones, orientación al mercado, satisfacción económica, satisfacción psicológica

Discussion of Shared and Unshared Information in Decision Making Groups: A Cultural Perspective

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanan Feng ◽  
Nicola Bown ◽  
Christopher W. Allinson ◽  
John Maule
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Perspective

scholarly journals Organization Theory and Public Administration

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Public Decision ◽  
Public Decision Making

Organizational theories can be classified into three types—structural, cultural, and mythical. The structural perspective is based in “bounded rationality” and focuses on how formal structures influence the thoughts and actions of public actors. According to this perspective, leaders are central in decision-making processes and are scoring high on rational calculation and control, achieving public goals using the formal structure as a tool. The leaders could either hierarchical dominate decisions or there could be negotiations among them. The cultural perspective focuses on the role of informal norms and values in public organizations; how they develop and their impact. Gradual institutional development by adapting to internal and external pressure is creating unique or distinct cultural identities. Concepts like path dependency and cultural compatibility are central. The mythical perspective focuses on the social construction of reality and how symbols have importance in public organizations. Political and administrative leaders often talk in one way and act in another, meaning that it’s a loose coupling between talk and action. Symbols may be important in supporting instrumental actions. The dynamics between the theories in explaining public decision-making theory is discussed. It’s argued that these theories in combination with democratic theories are needed to develop a specific set of theories for studying public organizations, because the public sector is distinct from the private sector. The theories can be used to analyze decision-making in public organizations, whether related to agenda-setting, policy-making, negotiations, regulation, implementation, public reforms, and so forth. It’s discussed a research agenda where the potential of the theories for researching public decision-making is discussed and examples given.

scholarly journals Co-working, co-learning and culture – co-creation of future tech lab in Namibia

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Lahti ◽  
Suvi Päivikki Nenonen ◽  
Erkki Sutinen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Physical Solution ◽  
Main Campus ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The University

Purpose Future places for learning and working are digitally and physically integrated hybrid environments. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the co-creation process of the remote presence-based digital and physical co-working and co-learning place. The context is cross-cultural when Finnish space approach is applied and further developed in Namibia. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case study is conducted of the Future Tech Lab (FT Lab) in the University of Namibia’s main campus. The case study of the FT Lab is about 200m2 space with three different zones in the University of Namibia’s main campus. The physical solution encourages collaboration and technical solutions interlink the place overseas by using the remote presence. The data are gathered by using document analysis, observations, participatory workshops and interviews including structured questionnaire. Findings The action design research approach is a functional framework to co-create hybrid environments in two ways. It helps to design digital and physical solutions as integrated entity. Additionally, it provides a tool to analyse decision-making processes as well as design initiatives, also from the cultural perspective. Both Finnish and Namibian cultures are normative and feminine, which helped the realisation of the project based on mutual trust. However, the differences in power distance were affecting the process fluency and decision-making processes. Research limitations/implications The findings indicate that the co-design of the hybrid-learning environment sets requirements for the physical solution such as surface materials for premises and retrofitting of technology, which need to be considered by co-creation from the shared vision to realisation of the space. The co-creation involves many stakeholders, and cultural differences have a different impact on various stages of the co-creation process. Originality/value The cultural context in the case study provides an interesting comparison between the Finnish and Namibian approach. The remote presence and its requirements provide new knowledge and guidelines for co-creation of hybrid environments.

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