scholarly journals Governance challenges of mobility platforms: the case of Merwede, Utrecht

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martijn van den Hurk ◽  
Peter Pelzer ◽  
Rianne Riemens
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Instructive Case ◽  
Empirical Illustration

Abstract Background Merwede is an envisioned neighbourhood in Utrecht (the Netherlands) that provides an instructive case to learn about the governance challenges of digital mobility platforms. Unique about Merwede is how the development of a mobility platform is envisioned to be integrated into the development of a new neighbourhood. Methodology This article discusses the case of Merwede and provides insights into its proposed mobility platform and how it is made. It illuminates governance challenges relevant to the design and operation of an unconventional mobility concept by disentangling outstanding practical issues concerning three key governance dimensions—organizational structures, decision-making processes, and instruments. Results The research provides an empirical illustration of governance questions that come up when mobility becomes a service and is integrated into the urban fabric from the very beginning of a development process. Already in the plan development stage, Merwede illustrates that difficult decisions are to be made and competing interests come to the fore.

Service decision-making processes at three New York state cooperative public library systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (6/7) ◽  
pp. 418-432
Author(s):  
Xiaoai Ren
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Content Type ◽  
York State ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
And Cluster Analysis

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the organizational structure and service provisions of cooperative public library systems in New York State. The study also seeks to ask questions of how cooperative public library systems decide what services to provide. Design/methodology/approach – Descriptive statistics, factor analysis and cluster analysis were applied on New York State public library systems’ 2008 annual reports to generate quantitative profiles of public library systems and their service transactions. Three cooperative public library systems displaying different service features were purposefully selected for further study of their service decision-making processes. The face-to-face and phone interviews were adopted in the study. Findings – Research findings from this study provide information on specific service variations across cooperative public library systems. The findings also provide differences of service decision-making processes in addition to the factors that might cause these differences. Originality/value – This study adds knowledge of public library systems’ management and organizational structures, therefore fills a knowledge gap on public library systems. It can also serve as the baseline for future studies using newer annual report data and therefore to study the changing roles and services of cooperative public library systems in New York State.

scholarly journals Hierarchical Decision-Making Problems – Modeling and Solutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-324
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Krupa ◽  
Teresa Ostrowska
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
The State ◽  
Hierarchical Decision Making ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Hierarchical Decision ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Key Issues

Abstract Article illustrates the state of the work conducted at the Faculty of Management Warsaw University of Technology on the issue of modeling hierarchical decision-making problems in the context of administrative and infrastructural conditions of the various forms of public safety. The aim is to develop a universal methodology of conduct for the management needs of the public administration, whose powers are focused on maintaining the continuity of the critical infrastructure of the State. The key issues covered by the article are: modeling of hierarchical issues and decision-making processes in the multi-layered organizational structures; harmonization of scales significance of decisionmaking areas with significance weights of elementary decisions in these decision areas; and a priori contradictions of elementary decisions from different decision areas and value assessments of taken problem decisions.

scholarly journals Participation in decision-making processes of community development agents: a study from Peru

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalina Quiroz-Niño ◽  
Francisco J Blanco-Encomienda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Action Taking ◽  
Development Agents ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

Abstract This article argues that although Civil Social Organizations aspire towards a culture of participatory process-driven governance and management, the reality seems far from this aspiration. A culture of participatory processes is understood in this study as working and decisional engagement practices which are part of internal decision-making and action-taking processes from Community Development Agents (CDAs). This brings an ethical dilemma, as these organizations claim to operate upon principles of participation, solidarity, democracy, social justice, human dignity and decent work. Through this study, 506 Peruvian CDAs offered their own analyses about the factors that foster and/or inhibit their participation in specific organizational managerial and professional developmental areas, such as: systemic planning, organization, sustainable management and empowerment. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies was used to gain a comprehensive understanding of the field of study. Dialogical focus groups were applied, by which CDAs themselves identified and deconstructed the inhibiting and facilitating factors. The study echoes CDAs’ aspiration to engage meaningfully with decision-making and action-taking processes as well as creating the participatory mechanisms and processes themselves. In order to do this, CDAs demand an ethical and democratic competence-based training, to empower them to democratize their organizational structures and to counterbalance their daily power relations and dynamics.

Naming Crime Suspects in the News

2017 ◽  
pp. 207-225
Author(s):  
Robin Blom
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Search ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Crime News ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Whereas some news outlets fully identify crime suspects with name, age, address, and other personal details, other news outlets refuse to fully identify any crime suspect—or even people who have been convicted for a crime. News media from a variety of countries have accused and fully identified people of being responsible for crimes, although those persons turned out to be innocent. Yet, when someone types the names of those people in online search engines, for many, stories containing the accusations will turn up at the top of the search results. This chapter examines the positive and negative aspects from those practices by examining journalistic routines in a variety of countries, such as the United States, Nigeria, and The Netherlands. This analysis demonstrates that important ethical imperatives—often represented in ethics codes of professional journalism organizations—can be contradictory in these decision-making processes. Journalists need to weigh whether they would like to “seek truth and report it” or “minimize harm” when describing crime suspects.

scholarly journals Information and choice of residential care provider for older people: a comparative study in England, the Netherlands and Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 1121-1147 ◽  
Author(s):  
LISA TRIGG ◽  
STEPHANIE KUMPUNEN ◽  
JACQUETTA HOLDER ◽  
HANS MAARSE ◽  
MERITXELL SOLÉ JUVÉS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Older People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Quality Information ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Decision Making Processes

ABSTRACTThis study compared how older people use quality information to choose residential care providers in England, the Netherlands and Spain (Catalonia). The availability of information varies between each country, from detailed inspection and survey information in the Netherlands, through to a lack of publicly available information in Catalonia. We used semi-structured interviews and group workshops with older people, families and professionals to compare experiences of the decision-making process and quality information, and also to explore what quality information might be used in the future. We found that most aspects of the decision-making experience and preferences for future indicators were similar across the three countries. The use of quality information was minimal across all three, even in England and the Netherlands where information was widely available. Differences arose mainly from factors with the supply of care. Older people were most interested in the subjective experiences of other residents and relatives, rather than ‘hard’ objective indicators of aspects such as clinical care. We find that the amount of publicly available quality information does not in itself influence the decisions or the decision-making processes of older people and their carers. To improve the quality of decisions, more effort needs to be taken to increase awareness and to communicate quality in more accessible ways, including significant support from professionals and better design of quality information.

scholarly journals BIOME-NETWORKS: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIOPOLITICAL ACTION IN ECO-REGIONS

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
SONIA AGUIAR ◽  
IARGO DE SOUZA SANTOS ◽  
NAYARA ARÊDES ◽  
SÓSTINA SILVA
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Strategic Actions ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Abstract Since ECO-92, environmental organizations and social movements have been networking with the support of information and communication technologies, in order to strengthen their capacity to influence decision-making processes relating to the causes they fight for. Some of these networks have been organized around the six Brazilian official biomes and have been incorporating the resources available on the Internet to achieve greater public visibility, capillarity and communicative effectiveness on their strategic actions. However, not all of them have been able to remain updated, active and visible in the increasingly dynamic digital environment, despite its informational and political legacy. This paper presents a synthesis of a comparative research among the here called "biome-networks", based on data collection on its organizational structures and its informational and communicative resources used to achieve its strategic aims related to the eco-regions in which they operate.

scholarly journals Nothing about us, without us: A case study of a consumer-run organization by and for people on the autism spectrum in the Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 464-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin E. van den Bosch ◽  
Anna Krzeminska ◽  
Eun Young Song ◽  
Lineke B. E. van Hal ◽  
Mitzi M. Waltz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Adults With Autism ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Practical Implications

AbstractIn this exploratory case study based on qualitative research, we explore the perspectives and experiences of autistic self-advocates in the Netherlands regarding autism, (self-)advocacy, and consumer-run organizations. The focus of our study is a consumer-run organization by and for adult Persons on the Autism Spectrum in the Netherlands: PAS-Nederland or PAS for short. Our analysis reveals four themes relevant to the acceptance and integration of adults with autism into society and work: (1) invisibility of autistic adults; (2) diversity of the autism spectrum; (3) autistic leadership; and (4) collaboration between people with and without autism. We discuss the practical implications of our findings for the inclusion of people with autism in work and society. Our study underscores the importance of putting autistic people at the center of decision-making processes and solutions aimed at improving their outcomes in society, in general, and in the workplace specifically.

Community-based Treatment for Young Adult Offenders

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.B. Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Group Treatment ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Treatment Model ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Staffing Patterns ◽  
Total Program

A two-year project aimed at developing conceptual, operating, and architectural designs for advanced correctional practice was undertaken by the Institute for the Study of Crime and Delin quency from 1966 to 1968. This paper sets forth the distinguish ing features of the resulting proposal for a community-based correctional program for young adult offenders. From three to five 48-bed residential centers will be located in high-delinquency areas to combine the program services now performed by correc tional institutions and parole divisions. Highlights of the pro gram development process are discussed in terms of organization al design, decision-making processes, staff roles, staffing patterns, and feedback and evaluation of program processes. A group treatment model is briefly described as only one of several treatment approaches that can be accommodated by the total program design.

scholarly journals Apparatus Professionalism and Public Service Ethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Nurul Insani
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Incentive Systems ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Ethical Norms

To make changes in the organization and increase the professionalism of the apparatus it is important to redefine what the organization wants to achieve, build a payroll system that promotes the value of fairness and build organizational structures that allow for rapid decision-making processes. many factors can affect the professionalism of the apparatus, including the organizational culture that arises and crystallizes in bureaucratic traffic, organizational goals, organizational structure, work procedures in bureaucracy, incentive systems. Public service providers must study ethical norms that are universal because they can be used as guidelines for their behavior in providing services to the community.

Naming Crime Suspects in the News

2020 ◽  
pp. 354-372
Author(s):  
Robin Blom
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Search ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Crime News ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Whereas some news outlets fully identify crime suspects with name, age, address, and other personal details, other news outlets refuse to fully identify any crime suspect—or even people who have been convicted for a crime. News media from a variety of countries have accused and fully identified people of being responsible for crimes, although those persons turned out to be innocent. Yet, when someone types the names of those people in online search engines, for many, stories containing the accusations will turn up at the top of the search results. This chapter examines the positive and negative aspects from those practices by examining journalistic routines in a variety of countries, such as the United States, Nigeria, and The Netherlands. This analysis demonstrates that important ethical imperatives—often represented in ethics codes of professional journalism organizations—can be contradictory in these decision-making processes. Journalists need to weigh whether they would like to “seek truth and report it” or “minimize harm” when describing crime suspects.

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