Tactics of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Ways of Operating in the Contested Terrain of Green Architecture

2021 ◽  
pp. 105649262110671
Author(s):  
Christian Garmann Johnsen
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Market Imperfections ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Sustainable Entrepreneurship ◽  
Ecological Degradation ◽  
Green Architecture ◽  
Environmental Value ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Contested Terrain

This study explores the various tactics sustainable entrepreneurs use to meet the challenges associated with creating social and environmental solutions. Although often theorized as market imperfections, in this study, opportunities are considered as situations that allow things to be done differently within social settings. This approach opens up for research into the everyday practice of sustainable entrepreneurship and how sustainable entrepreneurs strive to find new solutions to counteract ecological degradation. To develop this view, I analyze the different entrepreneurial tactics actors employ to advance green architecture in the Danish construction industry. Rather than place an analytic emphasis on the end result of sustainable entrepreneurship, I suggest that the processes of developing solutions aimed at generating simultaneous economic, social and environmental value might warrant greater attention.

scholarly journals Personalisation, customisation and bricolage: how people with dementia and their families make assistive technology work for them

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 2502-2519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Gibson ◽  
Claire Dickinson ◽  
Katie Brittain ◽  
Louise Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Dementia Care ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Manage Care ◽  
Age In Place ◽  
Care Services ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Everyday

AbstractAssistive technologies (ATs) are being ‘mainstreamed’ within dementia care, where they are promoted as enabling people with dementia to age in place alongside delivering greater efficiencies in care. AT provision focuses upon standardised solutions, with little known about how ATs are used by people with dementia and their carers within everyday practice. This paper explores how people with dementia and carers use technologies in order to manage care. Findings are reported from qualitative semi-structured interviews with 13 people with dementia and 26 family carers. Readily available household technologies were used in conjunction with and instead of AT to address diverse needs, replicating AT functions when doing so. Successful technology use was characterised by ‘bricolage’ or the non-conventional use of tools or methods to address local needs. Carers drove AT use by engaging creatively with both assistive and everyday technologies, however, carers were not routinely supported in their creative engagements with technology by statutory health or social care services, making bricolage a potentially frustrating and wasteful process. Bricolage provides a useful framework to understand how technologies are used in the everyday practice of dementia care, and how technology use can be supported within care. Rather than implementing standardised AT solutions, AT services and AT design in future should focus on how technologies can support more personalised, adaptive forms of care.

Object relations, attachment theory, self-psychology, and interpersonal psychoanalysis

2012 ◽  
pp. 306-312
Author(s):  
Jeremy Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Self Psychology ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis

Despite many splits and schisms, dating back to Adler and Jung's early break with Freud, there has been an enduring attempt within psychoanalysis to hold to a central psychodynamic vision and to find common ground between differing theoretical and clinical approaches. The aim of this chapter is to describe the work of some of the major figures who have extended and developed Freud's ideas, pointing to areas of both conflict and convergence, and, wherever possible, to relate their concepts to the everyday practice of psychiatry.

scholarly journals An ethnography of midwifery work patterns during organisational redesign

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue M Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Work Patterns ◽  
General Hospitals ◽  
Hospital Restructuring ◽  
The Everyday

Despite a substantial increase in midwifery research since the early 1990s, there remains alack of available research into the everyday practice of midwives. In general, hospitals arestriving to reduce costs and increase efficiencies, so many hospital-based midwives are beingexposed to hospital restructuring processes. The primary purpose of my research was to learnabout the work patterns of hospital midwives during organisational redesign. A largeBrisbane hospital, as part of its hospital-wide organisational redesign plan, merged twopostnatal wards to create a new, larger unit. With this amalgamation, the ward midwiveswere exposed to several service delivery changes. Midwifery work patterns during thisorganisational change revealed a milieu characterised by a culture of busyness. The impactof change introduced ritual and personal elements that influenced midwifery work patterns.

The Everyday Practice of Information

2011 ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Andrew Wenn
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Conference Paper ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses the nature of information, the way it appears in everyday life. However, the way information is presented and discussed in this chapter is also a little unconventional in that it uses rather a large amount of interview and other document transcripts (in Times italic font). The interview texts are largely unedited because I want to retain some of the flavour of the conversations that took place. Moreover, the limits of a conventional conference chapter are pushed even further because the text is also littered with comments from several other voices (represented in a sans serif font). Doing so allows a degree of reflexivity, albeit in the limited format of a conference paper, where we can explore things contained within the text that directly relate to the topic (Woolgar & Ashmore, 1991).

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