Flexibility, Politics & Strategy: In Defence of the Model of the Flexible Firm

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Procter ◽  
Michael Rowlinson ◽  
Louise McArdle, ◽  
John Hassard ◽  
Paul Forrester
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Alternative Conception ◽  
Firm Model ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Flexible Specialisation

This paper offers a defence of Atkinson's model of the flexible firm. It takes issue with two arguments against it: that the model needs to be understood at a political level, as part of a wider `post-industrial' vision; and that the observed increase in flexibility offers the model no support because of its `non-strategic' nature. On the first of these it is argued that flexibility operates on a different level from flexible specialisation and other varieties of `post-industrialism' and that to consider them together confuses rather than illuminates the debate. On the second, it is argued that the criticism relies on an unnecessarily restrictive view of strategy. Rather than being regarded as `plans', strategies should be regarded as `patterns' in decision-making. On the basis of this alternative conception the paper suggests ways in which the flexible firm model might be recast.

A Framework for Stakeholder-Based Knowledge Valuation in Organizations

2001 ◽  
pp. 298-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fons Wijnhoven
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Stakeholder Group ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Nominal Group ◽  
Production Factor ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Valuation Methods ◽  
Human Resource Accounting ◽  
Resource Accounting ◽  
Post Industrial

Knowledge, an essential production factor in the post-industrial society, is not as rigorously measured as organizational tangibles. Several authors in the tradition of intellectual capital measurement and human resource accounting have tried to solve this by the development of one or more metrics. This chapter assumes that valuation is intrinsically subjective and that knowledge to a large extent is subjective. Consequently, it should be approached by subjective valuation methods. The chapter reviews existing knowledge valuation methods for their validity for a specific stakeholder group, and considers Nominal Group Techniques as a way to converge the resulting opinions. This convergence is important for shared decision-making. Following this approach, knowledge valuation is not accounting but much more the creation and facilitation of productive cooperative systems in the economy.

Improvement of Technological Modernization Using Behavioral Economics

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1470
Author(s):  
Ademi KUSSAINOVA ◽  
Madina RAKHIMBERDINOVA ◽  
Oxana DENISSOVA ◽  
Gauhar TASPENOVA ◽  
Medet KONYRBEKOV
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Technological Modernization ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Post Industrial

The purpose of this publication is to explain the applying of behavioral economics tools in the process of the technological upgrading of the Republic of Kazakhstan to be implemented. We need to: define the concept of behavioral economics; to reveal and describe in what way tools of behavioral economics may be applied, their nature and impact in the process of technological upgrading on the types of management; to understand and explain three principles of decision-making, the algorithm to make choice by people, profitable and unprofitable choices. Two main types of a feedback are provided and explained: reinforcing and balancing feedback. In this article, it is required to find out what solutions are necessary for a post-industrial economy, what is constituted by methodological tools, which are required to implement the accelerated technological upgrading, and the subjects of organizational support of technological change.

scholarly journals CREATING A NEW CULTURAL TOURISM PRODUCT RELATED TO LOCAL POST-INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE AS A MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION AIDING PROBLEM

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 93-118
Author(s):  
Marek Czekajski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Group Decision Making ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Multiple Criteria ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Decision Aiding ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Post Industrial

Creating local cultural tourism products (CTPs) requires the involvement of many entities, e.g., local government units, culture and tourism institutions, non-government organisations, etc., as well as organisational, technical, financial, and human resources. When deciding on a future product venture, it is important to establish visions, goals, or the product’s desired functions common to all these actors. Then, the alternative instances of such CTP need to be designed and examined from the viewpoint of these goals, which may be mutually exclusive due to the various preferences of the actors. Furthermore, despite their importance, these criteria may conflict with, e.g., the tourism policy of local authorities. The issues mentioned above make the decisions regarding creating CTPs very complex and have behavioural, group multiple criteria character. This paper aims to identify the structural elements of creating the best possible CTP promoting local post-industrial heritage in the Czeladź Commune. The specific assumptions, conditions, and criteria are defined to formulate the problem for further consideration using multiple criteria group decision-making (GDM) approaches. Keywords: multiple criteria decision making, group decision-making, multiple criteria problems in cultural tourism, decisions on new cultural tourism products.

scholarly journals Multifunctional platform OPI-TPP for post-mining areas management - supportive tool for environmental impact assessment in the Silesia Voivodeship

2020 ◽  
Vol 305 ◽  
pp. 00048
Author(s):  
Jan Bondaruk ◽  
Adam Hamerla ◽  
Karolina Jąderko-Skubis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Mining Areas ◽  
Functional Relations ◽  
Post Industrial

Ongoing transformation of coal industry taking place in Silesian Voivodeship lead to increasing number of characteristic objects and post-industrial areas. Most of them are degraded and vacant even if they own resources of measurable natural or socio-economic value. Therefore effective scheme of their revitalisation is a high priority target for regional authorities and society. Multidimensional approach to the analysis of post-mining areas requires ensuring proper scope and quality of data, integrating various areas of knowledge and information. An example of complex approach is an information platform based on analytical and expert modules the OPI-TPP system, which is a tool to support decision-making processes on the future use of post-industrial areas. OPI-TPP based on Geographical Information System is an integrated tool dedicated for environmental impact assessment and provides measures that are necessary for regional and local stakeholders and reinforces decision making process. This paper describes the methodology of post-mining area assessment in environmental impact aspect and exemplary applications with the use of the platform. The main functional relations of the system were presented, allowing to use the available range of data and analysis modules for the purpose of supporting environmental impact assessment for post-mining areas management in the Silesia Voivodeship.

scholarly journals What mode of environmental regulation do post-industrial societies prefer and why?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Kolcava ◽  
Lukas Rudolph ◽  
Thomas Bernauer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies

Environmental policy is touching on ever more aspects of corporate and individual behavior, and there is much debate over what combinations of top-down (government-imposed) and bottom-up (voluntary private sector) measures to use. In post-industrial, democratic societies, citizens’ preferences over such combinations are crucial, because they shape the political feasibility space in which policymakers can act. We argue that policy-designs relying on voluntary measures receive more public support if they are based on inclusive decision-making, use strong transparency and monitoring mechanisms, and include a trigger for government intervention in case of ineffectiveness. Survey experiments focusing on two green economy issues in Switzerland (N=1941) provide strong support for these arguments. The findings are surprisingly consistent across the two contexts. This suggests that our study design offers a useful template for research that explores politically feasible green economy policy designs for other issues and in other countries.

scholarly journals Assessing Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse Practices: Multi-Scale Challenges and Solutions in Rijeka

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3603
Author(s):  
Nadia Pintossi ◽  
Deniz Ikiz Kaya ◽  
Ana Pereira Roders
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

Cultural heritage is recognized as a driver and enabler for sustainable development, and its role within the circular economy and circular cities is gaining attention. Its adaptive reuse plays a significant role in this while prolonging the heritage lifespan, preserving the values associated with heritage assets, and creating shared values. The adoption and implementation of the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage practices present challenges at multiple levels. This research aims to identify these challenges and propose solutions to overcome them, considering the post-industrial port city of Rijeka, Croatia, as a case study. The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage practices was assessed through a stakeholder engagement workshop performing a multi-scale analysis using the Historic Urban Landscape approach as an assessment framework. Forty-nine themes were identified by content analysis of the challenges and solutions identified by stakeholders involved in adaptive reuse practices and decision-making in the city. The five most mentioned themes refer to aspects relating to participation, capacity, regulatory systems, economics-finance, and knowledge. These findings provide evidence of challenges for policy- and decision-makers to be addressed in policy-making. Solutions are also suggested to facilitate the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage in the city of Rijeka and similar contexts, such as introducing policies to support participatory decision-making whose absence is a barrier.

scholarly journals Union Strategies of Addressing Conflicts at the National University of Lesotho

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Mamoeletsi Limakatso Mojalefa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Industrial Action ◽  
New Development ◽  
National University ◽  
Post Industrial

This paper discusses the strategies that are used by the unions to address industrial conflict at the National university of Lesotho (NUL). Content analysis was undertaken to understand the interviewee’s responses and the NUL policy documents. The strategies are analyzed within the policy context, pre-industrial action, industrial action and post-industrial action. The study also shows that unions at the higher education institutions consult with other unions in the sector and, where other strategies have failed, they resort to either industrial action or legal process to resolve conflicts at the workplace. The findings further show that unions employ widespread communication between their members to share new development in the negotiation process. The findings reveal that strategies which unions normally adopt at NUL are: constant consultations and joint decision making, strikes/industrial action, work to rule, negotiations, collective bargaining, taking legal process and communication of possible ideas and solutions.

scholarly journals Operating relations in the post-industrial and transitive economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Olena OVIECHKINA
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
Economic Coercion ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Excessive Consumption ◽  
National Models ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Objective Study

The paper is devoted to an in-depth study of the capitalist private property of adherents of various currents and schools. It is emphasized that the internal contradictions of private property, which are concentrated in the relations of exploitation, are actively studied by the authors of neoliberalism, neo-institutionalism, and analytical Marxism. The paper shows that most of the works of Western scholars deny the phenomenon of economic exploitation in the post-industrial model of capitalism. The conclusions of domestic scholars about the absence of economic and non-economic coercion to work of hired workers in debilitated, transitive economies are criticized. Based on the theoretical analysis of works devoted to the objective study of new aspects of the relationship between employers and employees, the existence of such non-economic forms of exploitation is proven: psychological, political, axiological, social. The paper considers the main tools of non-economic exploitation, which include euphemisation and speculation in the interests, motives, feelings, consciousness, preferences and even passions of people. The consequences of euphemisation and speculation as tools of non-economic coercion to work, excessive consumption, the introduction of consumerist psychology are revealed. The economic purpose of the most popular socio-political technologies for manipulating the conscious and subconscious behavior of society, groups, individuals in the interests of the ruling classes is clarified. It is shown that these instruments of influence are actively used in various national models of capitalism. The mechanism of total manipulation of behavior, consciousness, psychology of people who are involved in the processes of production, marketing and consumption is considered. It is shown that total manipulation includes a set of non-economic forms of influence on people's decision-making, beneficial to the state, direct employers, financial and commercial structures not only nationally but also globally.

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