scholarly journals The Role of Local Community Associations as Intermediaries: A Multiple Case Study in A Rural Area

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratiwi Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Associations ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Multiple Case

<p>Intermediary actors in rural areas are expected to stimulate not only economic growth but also social inclusion. The studies of innovation intermediaries in rural areas are under-researched. This study investigates the role, capabilities, and the outcome of the engagement of local community associations as intermediaries in different sectors such as agriculture, food processing, and tourism product. This study describes the way innovation promotes rural development. This research employs a multiple case study method and analyzes data triangulation. The interviews have indicated that intermediaries in different sectors need to play different roles due to their sector drivers, stakeholders, and challenges. This study also describes the outcome of the engagement of the intermediaries in increasing well-being, trust among stakeholders, and local people capability to innovate. Further, the study draws policy recommendations for the governments to enhance the skills and impact of the intermediaries, including collaborations, proposal competition, annual awards, organizational learning, training, and benchmarking.</p>

scholarly journals The Role of Accelerator Designs in Mitigating Bounded Rationality in New Ventures

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 810-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Cohen ◽  
Christopher B. Bingham ◽  
Benjamin L. Hallen
Keyword(s):  
Bounded Rationality ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
New Venture ◽  
External Information ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Established Firms

Using a nested multiple-case study of participating ventures, directors, and mentors of eight of the original U.S. accelerators, we explore how accelerators’ program designs influence new ventures’ ability to access, interpret, and process the external information needed to survive and grow. Through our inductive process, we illuminate the bounded-rationality challenges that may plague all ventures and entrepreneurs—not just those in accelerators—and identify the particular organizational designs that accelerators use to help address these challenges, which left unabated can result in suboptimal performance or even venture failure. Our analysis revealed three key design choices made by accelerators—(1) whether to space out or concentrate consultations with mentors and customers, (2) whether to foster privacy or transparency between peer ventures participating in the same program, and (3) whether to tailor or standardize the program for each venture—and suggests a particular set of choices is associated with improved venture development. Collectively, our findings provide evidence that bounded rationality challenges new ventures differently than it does established firms. We find that entrepreneurs appear to systematically satisfice prematurely across many decisions and thus broadly benefit from increasing the amount of external information searched, often by reigniting search for problems that they already view as solved. Our study also contributes to research on organizational sponsors by revealing practices that help or hinder new venture development and to emerging research on the lean start-up methodology by suggesting that startups benefit from engaging in deep consultative learning prior to experimentation.

A Multiple Case Study on the Nature and Management of Shadow Information Technology

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Zimmermann ◽  
Christopher Rentrop ◽  
Carsten Felden
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Transaction Cost Economics ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
End User ◽  
It Department ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
It Departments ◽  
Shadow It

ABSTRACT In several organizations, business workgroups autonomously implement information technology (IT) outside the purview of the IT department. Shadow IT, evolving as a type of workaround from nontransparent and unapproved end-user computing (EUC), is a term used to refer to this phenomenon, which challenges norms relative to IT controllability. This report describes shadow IT based on case studies of three companies and investigates its management. In 62 percent of cases, companies decided to reengineer detected instances or reallocate related subtasks to their IT department. Considerations of risks and transaction cost economics with regard to specificity, uncertainty, and scope explain these actions and the resulting coordination of IT responsibilities between the business workgroups and IT departments. This turns shadow IT into controlled business-managed IT activities and enhances EUC management. The results contribute to the governance of IT task responsibilities and provide a way to formalize the role of workarounds in business workgroups.

ACHIEVING MANUFACTURING FLEXIBILITY: THE ROLE OF PEOPLE, TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

2010 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 161-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAIRULLIZA MOHAMAD JUDI ◽  
ROGER BEACH
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Manufacturing Flexibility ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Electric Sector ◽  
Multiple Case

This study examines the contribution of a pair of opposite factors: technology versus people, and innovation vs. continuous improvement to obtain manufacturing flexibility. These factors are opposing as they play different roles in TQM and BPR. An exploratory multiple case study was conducted that involves three Malaysian manufacturing companies from electronic and electric sector. The results show that flexibility could not be achieved through technology solely, but by combining technology with people, the required outcome is attainable. By applying innovation and continuous improvement simultaneously, it will yield better flexibility than if only one of them was used. The contribution of these factors in the selected manufacturing setting could guide practitioners to obtain flexibility and verify the research model that could be tested further in a survey.

The role of shame in developmental trajectories towards severe targeted school violence: An in-depth multiple case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 101386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friederike Sommer ◽  
Vincenz Leuschner ◽  
Nora Fiedler ◽  
Eric Madfis ◽  
Herbert Scheithauer
Keyword(s):  
School Violence ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Multiple Case

The role of sensorimotor impairments in dyslexia: a multiple case study of dyslexic children

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah White ◽  
Elizabeth Milne ◽  
Stuart Rosen ◽  
Peter Hansen ◽  
John Swettenham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Multiple Case

scholarly journals THERAPEUTIC TOY IN PRIMARY CARE: CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE SYSTEMATIZATION OF NURSING CARE

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letícia Roberta Pedrinho ◽  
Bianca Machado Cruz Shibukawa ◽  
Gabrieli Patrício Rissi ◽  
Roberta Tognollo Borotta Uema ◽  
Maria de Fátima Garcia Lopes Merino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Care ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
The North ◽  
Coping Process ◽  
Nursing Diagnosis ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Nursing Diagnoses

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the role of the therapeutic toy as a tool for the nursing diagnosis in the setting of care for the child with diabetes. Method: a qualitative multiple-case study conducted with children diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes mellitus and living in the inland of Paraná. The data were collected in 2018 through interviews, field diary and sessions using the therapeutic toy. Nursing diagnoses were elaborated according to the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association Taxonomy I and a targeted content analysis was performed, resulting in four categories. Results: using the dramatic therapeutic toy allows the child to show their perception of the disease and of the care provided. The sessions with the dramatic therapeutic toy made it possible to identify five nursing diagnoses, which were later worked on by means of an instructional therapeutic toy. Conclusion: systematization of assistance mediated by the use of the toy allows nurses to establish bonds with the child with diabetes and their family, revealing their perceptions of the disease and treatment, thereby stimulating a more active participation of the binomial in the management of this coping process.

scholarly journals Disclosure of Social-Economic Value in the Social Enterprise. Stimuli from an Italian Multiple Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Antonietta Cosentino
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Case

The growing interest in the financial, social and environmental sustainability of all organizations as a whole, as well as the growing sentiment for their responsibility towards the community, lead organizations to face the challenge of evaluating and communicating their non-financial performance through the social accounting. The issue assumes a peculiar meaning within social enterprises (SEs) aimed at pursuing the general interest. In these organizations, the disclosure of the value created for both internal and social stakeholder raises to rank of survival condition because the development, reputation and credibility of the SEs are closely linked to the institution&#39;s ability to reach and communicate externally the social value created. This work aims to highlight the peculiar resources of the SEs and demonstrate that, in most cases, they allow SEs to achieve financial sustainability. Social and economic value will be assessed and the share of income that cannot be distributed, regardless of the relevant regulatory provisions, will be emphasized. To achieve these goals, a multiple case study is used to measure the value added distributed to internal and external stakeholders by adapting Mook model to SEs. The results show that volunteering and donations contribute not only to the social value generated by SEs but to their economic sustainability as well, being considered as the engine of development of the economic system as a whole. This paper contributes to the literature by focusing on the contribution of liberalities and volunteering to consolidate the financial structure of the SE and to development of the economic system as a whole.

scholarly journals Discourse and Reflection Competencies Developed by Student Teachers through Repeated Children’s Book Read Alouds: A Multiple Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clodie Tal
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Multiple Case

This paper describes the development of discourse and reflection competencies by three early-age student teachers through repeated children’s book reading (RCBR) in small, heterogeneous groups. The students were enrolled in a four-track, early-education preparation program at Levinsky College of Education in Israel. Research based on a multiple-case-study methodology, focused on an analysis of the students’ interpretation of and reflections on the transcripts of the discourse throughout the three years of their fieldwork. Findings indicate that, over the three years, all three students relaxed their control of the discourse, allowing for more continuous literary discourse among the children. Differences in the developmental trajectories of the three students were manifested in the extent to which literary understanding and distinctive interpretations by the children were emphasized. Over the three years, all three students also developed a genuine concern for the children’s well-being and participation in the group. Analysis of the students’ protocols yielded a tentative formulation of milestones in the development of discourse and reflection competencies through teaching preparation studies.

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