An Organized, Comprehensive, and Security-Enabled Strategic Response to the Haiti Earthquake

2010 ◽  
Vol 111 (6) ◽  
pp. 1438-1444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen McCunn ◽  
Michael A. Ashburn ◽  
Thomas F. Floyd ◽  
C. William Schwab ◽  
Paul Harrington ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Haiti Earthquake ◽  
Strategic Response

scholarly journals The strategic response of banks to macroprudential policies: Evidence from mortgage stress tests in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Clark ◽  
Shaoteng Li
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Credit Markets ◽  
Mortgage Market ◽  
Financial Intermediaries ◽  
Stress Tests ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Strategic Response ◽  
Macroprudential Policies ◽  
The Interest Rate

Abstract Following the crisis, macroprudential regulations targeting mortgage-market vulnerabilities were widely adopted, their success often relying on the response of financial intermediaries. We provide evidence from Canada suggesting banks may have behaved strategically to limit the effectiveness of recently implemented mortgage stress tests. Before implementation, borrowers had to prove they could make mortgage payments based on the interest rate specified in the contract. The new tests require borrowers to show they can afford payments based on a typically higher qualifying rate, derived from the mode of 5-year rates posted by the six largest banks. The government’s objective was to cool credit markets, but, since many mortgages are government-insured, the big banks’ interests were not aligned. We find evidence of rate manipulation using a difference-in-differences approach comparing changes in spreads for 5-year mortgages with 3-year spreads, unaffected by the policy. The qualifying rates were lowered encouraging continued borrowing, muting the tests’ impact.

scholarly journals The 2010 Haiti earthquake revisited: An acoustic intensity map from remote atmospheric infrasound observations

2021 ◽  
Vol 560 ◽  
pp. 116795
Author(s):  
Shahar Shani-Kadmiel ◽  
Gil Averbuch ◽  
Pieter Smets ◽  
Jelle Assink ◽  
Läslo Evers
Keyword(s):  
Haiti Earthquake ◽  
Acoustic Intensity ◽  
Intensity Map

Knowledge sharing, complex environments and small-worlds

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-195
Author(s):  
Mike Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
System Thinking ◽  
Small Worlds ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Complex Environment ◽  
Strategic Response ◽  
Social Species ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Organisation ◽  
Do So

This paper is about knowledge sharing vision appropriate for a complex environment. In these environments, traditional views of knowledge sharing as informing a hierarchical, centralised leadership may be misleading. A complex environment is defined as one that emerges unpredictable changes that require organisations to reconnect, to reorganise. Organisations need to be able to rapidly reconnect relationships so as to reflect new priorities, and to do so without causing change “bottlenecks”. The empirical biologists have observed that some social species have evolved structures that enable them to do this automatically what ever the environmental change. These organisational forms have survived for millions of years without central planning; rather they use local knowledge is reconnect as required overall providing an appropriate strategic response. These organisational forms seem to result from the small-worlds phenomenon and it is self organising. Specifically, this paper will argue that this small-worlds, self organisation, phenomena is a useful vision for designing a knowledge sharing vision appropriate for a complex environment. The supportive evidence is provided in the form of identifying the empirical attributes of self organisation and small worlds to provide an explanation of how and why it works. The system thinking, biology (insect) and the social-network literature are used.

A Survey of PDM Implementation Projects in Selected Swedish Industries

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Sellgren ◽  
Cecilia Hakelius
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Product Data Management ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Strategic Response ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Powerful Approach ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

Abstract Technology and engineering might be characterized as becoming more knowledge-intensive. A huge amount of data is used and produced in most product development projects. Increasing competition requires shorter reaction time to customer demands and a higher level of innovation. Concurrent Engineering (CE) is a strategic response to competition. It has proved to be a powerful approach to integrating engineering activities in product development. However, integration and parallel activities, that is the essence of CE, add complexity to the process. Consequently, information management is recognized as a major component in many CE models. Product Data Management (PDM) systems are a class of computer based systems that address the need to manage product related information that is mainly formal and computer interpretable. PDM systems are sometimes referred to as CE enablers. Results from a resent survey of PDM implementation projects in six Swedish industrial companies, with products ranging from telecommunications systems to trucks and medical equipment, indicate the importance of also utilizing the Concurrent Engineering (CE) approach in the process of implementing an enterprise-wide PDM solution.

Entrepreneurial identity and strategic response in the informal economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 15107
Author(s):  
SHELTER SELORM TEYI ◽  
Marcus Møller Larsen ◽  
Rebecca Namatovu
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Strategic Response

Bounding and Binding: Trajectories of Community-Organization Emergence Following a Major Disruption

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trenton Alma Williams ◽  
Dean A. Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Haiti Earthquake ◽  
Major Disruption ◽  
Emergent Community ◽  
Compare And Contrast

An important and underexamined topic in the growing literature on community-embedded organizing concerns situations in which dramatic shifts in the environment require the time-sensitive re-establishment of both communities and organizations to address urgent needs. We conduct a qualitative study of emergent community-organization trajectories in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and explore differences in the processes and interactions between emerging organizations and communities. Despite all organizations in our data facing the same external shock, they differed in how they interpreted the nature of crisis-induced voids, established boundaries to build and organize communities, and created connections to bind themselves to their communities. We compare and contrast these differences to reveal three trajectories of community-organization emergence, explain why these trajectories initially formed in the ways they did, and identify unique mechanisms that led to these trajectories’ divergence. Our findings contribute to the literature on community-embedded organizing by demonstrating how organizations re-establish communities while simultaneously emerging within those communities.

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