scholarly journals The community involvement of courts: an action research study in the context of the Polish justice system

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemysław Banasik ◽  
Sylwia Morawska ◽  
Agata Austen
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Action Research Study

Purpose As a rule, common courts are hermetic organizations, separated from their stakeholders by procedures based on legal provisions. For these reasons, they are often perceived as unreliable and non-transparent, and as such, they do not inspire trust among stakeholders. The authors posit that the court’s community involvement may lead to the increased accountability and legitimacy of courts, which should in turn result in jurisprudence benefits. This paper discusses the concept of community involvement of courts, demonstrates how this idea may be implemented and explains its benefits for courts. Design/methodology/approach The results of an action research study undertaken between June 2013 and March 2018 at the Regional Court in Gdansk (Poland) are discussed. Findings The results highlight factors underlying the implementation of the idea of community involvement, as well as the areas in which courts take these actions, and explain how it influences their accountability and legitimacy. This research describes the interests of different stakeholders and proposes a range of actions that may be taken by courts while cooperating with stakeholders to achieve the aims of community involvement. It also proposes a set of steps that enable courts to implement the idea of community involvement. Originality/value This paper develops the idea of the community involvement of courts, which may be used as an operating rule for public institutions to increase their legitimacy and accountability and explain its introduction in the context of courts. It offers a universal framework for the community involvement of courts that can be used in the context of any court in both the continental and Anglo-Saxon systems.

Leading through the first wave of COVID: a Canadian action research study

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hartney ◽  
Ellen Melis ◽  
Deanne Taylor ◽  
Graham Dickson ◽  
Bill Tholl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Health System ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Action Research Study ◽  
Future Practice

Purpose This first phase of a three-phase action research project aims to define leadership practices that should be used during and after the pandemic to re-imagine and rebuild the health and social care system. Specifically, the objectives were to determine what effective leadership practices Canadian health leaders have used through the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, to explore how these differ from pre-crisis practices; and to identify what leadership practices might be leveraged to create the desired health and care systems of the future. Design/methodology/approach The authors used an action research methodology. In the first phase, reported here, the authors conducted one-on-one, virtual interviews with 18 health leaders from across Canada and across leadership roles. Data were analyzed using grounded theory methodology. Findings Five key practices emerged from the data, within the core dimension of disrupting entrenched structures and leadership practices. These were, namely, responding to more complex emotions in self and others. Future practice identified to create more psychologically supportive workplaces. Agile and adaptive leadership. Future practice should allow leaders to move systemic change forward more quickly. Integrating diverse perspectives, within and across organizations, leveling hierarchies through bringing together a variety of perspectives in the decision-making process and engaging people more broadly in the co-creation of strategies. Applying existing leadership capabilities and experience. Future practice should develop and expand mentorship to support early career leadership. Communication was increased to build credibility and trust in response to changing and often contradictory emerging evidence and messaging. Future practice should increase communication. Research limitations/implications The project was limited to health leaders in Canada and did not represent all provinces/territories. Participants were recruited through the leadership networks, while diverse, were not demographically representative. All interviews were conducted in English; in the second phase of the study, the authors will recruit a larger and more diverse sample and conduct interviews in both English and French. As the interviews took place during the early stages of the pandemic, it may be that health leaders’ views of what may be required to re-define future health systems may change as the crisis shifts over time. Practical implications The sponsoring organization of this research – the Canadian Health Leadership Network and each of its individual member partners – will mobilize knowledge from this research, and subsequent phases, to inform processes for leadership development and, succession planning across, the Canadian health system, particularly those attributes unique to a context of crisis management but also necessary in post-crisis recovery. Social implications This research has shown that there is an immediate need to develop innovative and influential leadership action – commensurate with its findings – to supporting the evolution of the Canadian health system, the emotional well-being of the health-care workforce, the mental health of the population and challenges inherent in structural inequities across health and health care that discriminate against certain populations. Originality/value An interdisciplinary group of health researchers and decision-makers from across Canada who came together rapidly to examine leadership practices during COVID-19’s first wave using action research study design.

Integrating the C3 Framework in the social studies: an action research study

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan McGlinn Man ◽  
Jeffrey A. Greiner
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Classroom Teacher ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Action Research Study

PurposeThe C3 Framework is a recent example in a long history within the field of social studies education of efforts to engage teachers and students in inquiry-oriented teaching and learning. While there is some research regarding the efficacy of the inquiry design model (IDM) of the C3 Framework, few studies have sought to engage social studies teachers as coresearchers as they integrate the framework. This study addressed a persistent divide between the theory and practice of integrating inquiry in the social studies.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, a classroom teacher and a university-based researcher conducted a hybrid action research study to understand the instructional shifts that occur as the C3 Framework is fully implemented into instruction.FindingsBased on the findings, the authors present a theory of action to highlight key opportunities to shift instruction, while also acknowledging the factors that might mitigate those shifts. In particular, the authors focus on teacher decision-making and contextual factors that allow for and hinder the full integration of inquiry.Originality/valueThis study is unique in developing a hybrid action research/qualitative case study that provides insider knowledge related to improving social studies teaching and learning.

Strategizing for the bottom of the pyramid: an action research into a Mexican agribusiness

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 1475-1489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Hernandez-Cazares ◽  
Late Lawson-Lartego ◽  
Lars Mathiassen ◽  
Sergio Quinonez-Romandia
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Bottom Of The Pyramid ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Actionable Knowledge ◽  
New Business ◽  
Options Theory

Purpose While recent research has established that businesses can benefit from engaging with people at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP), the authors know little about the practices that managers can use to effectively strategize this ethically sound and financially attractive proposition and turn it into new business. Design/methodology/approach To address this gap, the authors reported on an action research study in which the authors collaborated with a major Mexican agribusiness, ANSA, to expand its market through value co-creation with the country’s poorest farmers. To shape the strategizing, the authors combined dynamic capability theory and options theory, and the authors used the asset hexagon framework to understand the BOP population’s needs. Findings The authors offer a detailed account of how ANSA’s management team collaborated downstream with distributors and farmers and upstream with suppliers to grow a new micro-franchise business that increases the well-being of the poorest farmers and creates additional business opportunities. The research describes how firms can strategize and implement new business ventures for co-creating value with the BOP population. The results are a process model and related propositions for strategizing value co-creation with BOP. Originality/value The authors offer new empirical insights, a grounded process model and model-related propositions on strategizing BOP options. As such, the study contributes to the BOP literature by joining critical ethics with actionable knowledge of how such efforts may unfold and by demonstrating how theory may be enacted and developed in the process.

scholarly journals Residential care and criminalisation: the impact of system abuse

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Residential Care ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Poor Outcomes ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present and explore the findings of part of the author’s research study, an aim of which is to illuminate factors at policy, practice and procedural levels that contribute to the criminalisation of children in residential care in England. Design/methodology/approach This study utilises semi-structured interviews with children, young people, and professional adults in the care system. Findings Through analysis of the semi-structured interviews, the paper highlights how “system abuse” can contribute to poor outcomes, including involvement with the youth justice system. Originality/value The paper concludes by arguing that in order to successfully decrease criminalisation, it is necessary to employ an approach which, while acknowledging individual culpability, both recognises and focuses on the contribution of wider systemic failings.

Resources, capabilities and public value creation in a healthcare IT project: an action research study

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Svejvig ◽  
Bjarne Rerup Schlichter
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Healthcare It ◽  
Action Research Study

PurposeThis paper reports on an action research study based optimization project related to healthcare IT implemented on the Faroe Islands. The aims were to study what constitutes value in the public healthcare setting by applying and activating existing resources in the organization, hence answering the overall research question: How can a resource-based view (RBV) improve benefits management (BM) practices?Design/methodology/approachBy applying a RBV to findings from an action research study of an optimization project of an integrated health information system (HIS), a framework of capabilities needed in a public HIS setting to create value was developed.FindingsThe theoretical contribution is a framework explaining how BM practices and, hence, value can be interrelated in a public healthcare IT system.Research limitations/implicationsThe study shows the need for academic IT professionals to structure and facilitate value generation, especially in the form of creating an innovative and learning environment in the form of an action research based project.Practical implicationsThis study suggests which actors should be motivated and developed in order to ensure value in healthcare IT projects. Having value creation in mind, the model could have potentially broad applicability in a variety of healthcare IT settings.Social implicationsThe findings leads to better usage of public healthcare resources.Originality/valueThe present research studies real problems in a real setting, thus providing distinct ideas on how to improve public value creation by direct engagement of researchers.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document