scholarly journals Application of Faith and Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
Theresa Harrison ◽  
Dottie Weigel ◽  
Melinda Smith
Keyword(s):  
Capital City ◽  
Faith Formation ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Faith And Learning ◽  
Faith Based Institutions ◽  
Competing Priorities ◽  
The Impact

Higher education institutions face many competing priorities and are still expected to serve the public good. Faith-based institutions, in particular, aim to meet a faith-inspired calling and serve the communities in which they are situated while guiding students in their faith formation by integrating service and academic priorities. In this paper, the authors explore, through a case study methodology, the unique positionality of Messiah University, a faith-based university located near the capital city of Harrisburg, PA. Specifically, this study explores the impact of a community engaged course with an urban nonprofit agency.

scholarly journals Introducing an Organizational Perspective in SDG Implementation in the Public Sector in Spain: The Case of the Former Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 9959
Author(s):  
Miguel Soberón ◽  
Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro ◽  
Julia Urquijo ◽  
David Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Prioritization Process ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Organizational Perspective ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Study Methodology

The public sector has an indisputable role in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the interrelated nature of the SDGs represents a challenge for the public sector, which has in the last few decades undergone a process of specialization, decentralization and fragmentation. Hence, the establishment of coordination mechanisms within the public sector are needed to ensure implementation. This article introduces an organizational perspective in a participative SDG prioritization process carried out by a public organization: the former Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA). A case study methodology is used to identify internal collaboration needs in order to address the SDGs and to analyze the driving and restraining forces operating within the organization so that the required organizational changes can be initiated. Our findings reveal that the organizational perspective is key in supporting SDG implementation and boosting the transformative capacity that underpins the 2030 Agenda. Public organizations must combine different coordination approaches, according to the demands that each specific SDG target makes upon the organization. Furthermore, engaging internal agents in participative processes for the development of the implementation is essential to reproducing the dynamics of internal collaboration that will be needed in future stages of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda.

Dialogical and situated accountability to the public. The reporting of nuclear incidents

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Kerveillant ◽  
Philippe Lorino
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Nuclear Safety ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nuclear Site ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Exploratory Inquiry

PurposeThe paper aims to investigate how far the pragmatist concept of inquiry (Dewey, 1916, 1938) makes it possible to develop a processual and relational approach to accountability, moving the focus away from a representational conception of truth and subjectivist/individualist views on meaning-making, toward collective exploration and understanding of an issue by stakeholders with the aim of transforming social practices. The paper studies an accountability process in action, namely nuclear incident reporting, and its role in the construction of a community of inquiry investigating nuclear safety.Design/methodology/approachThis research opts for a case study methodology including 36 in-depth interviews, field observation and document analyses. The data are drawn from a three-year field study of a “Local Information Commission”, a body set up to represent the public living near a nuclear site.FindingsThe object of accountability needs to be constructed through a joint exploratory inquiry by accountors and accountees into reports of incidents as originally presented, to advance their understanding and capacity for action.Research limitations/implicationsIt will be important to test this processual and relational approach to accountability in other types of situation, involving different governance issues than nuclear safety.Practical implicationsTo turn theoretical stakeholders such as the public into real stakeholders (e.g. in the studied case, active participants in safety inquiries), specific social and managerial conditions must be fulfilled (concerning time, resources, commitment to open, taboo-free dialogue and legitimacy).Originality/valueThe paper argues that Dewey's concept of inquiry makes a valuable contribution to the processual and dialogical view of accountability.

scholarly journals Drivers toward Social Entrepreneurs Engagement in Poland: An Institutional Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Pacut
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Exploratory Data ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this study is to identify the factors that influence the involvement of individuals in social entrepreneurship in Poland from an institutional economics perspective. The research is based on exploratory data analysis using qualitative data covering 22 interviews with social entrepreneurs and 10 representatives of stakeholders from Poland as well as observations and secondary data. By employing an inductive approach and a case study methodology, it can be stated that involvement of social entrepreneurs is stimulated by a complex set of factors. Moreover, the results show the importance of the institutional environment for social enterprises in Poland, including the impact of formal and informal institutions on their development. The findings contribute to enhancing the knowledge on factors determining the establishment and development of social enterprises in Poland given the institutional economics perspective.

The Relationship between Grief Adjustment and Continuing Bonds for Parents Who Have Lost a Child

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rama Ronen ◽  
Wendy Packman ◽  
Nigel P. Field ◽  
Betty Davies ◽  
Robin Kramer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Complicated Grief ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Projective Drawings ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Deceased Child ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Child's Death ◽  
The Impact

This article presents findings from a study on the impact of a child's death on parents. We explored the prominence and adaptiveness of parents' continuing bonds expressions, psychological adjustment, and grief reactions. A qualitative case study methodology was used to describe six cases. Participants were classified into two groups based on scores on the Inventory of Complicated Grief. Commonalities in themes on the Continuing Bonds Interview and projective drawings were assessed. Those in the Non-Complicated Grief Group reported internalization of positive qualities and identification with the deceased child as a role model, whereas participants in the Complicated Grief Group did not report these experiences. In addition, the drawings of those in the Non-Complicated Grief Group were evaluated as more adaptive than those in the Complicated Grief Group.

Intrapreneurial behaviour: the role of organizational commitment

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farrukh ◽  
Wei Ying Chong ◽  
Shaheen Mansori ◽  
Sara Ravan Ramzani
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Continuance Commitment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the impact of organizational commitment (OC) on the intrapreneurial behaviour of the employees in higher educational institutes (HEIs) of Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach This paper opted the empirical study using the survey approach. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse the questionnaires completed the Deans/Head of Schools, professors and associate professors of the 20 public HEIs of Pakistan located in the capital city, Islamabad. In total, 500 structured questionnaires were sent to the Deans/Head of Schools, professors and associate professors. A total of 306 responses were received. Findings Affective commitment (AC) and normative commitment (NC) has a positive and significant impact on the intrapreneurial behaviour while continuance commitment (CC) is negatively associated with the same behaviour. Originality/value This empirical study will contribute to the theoretical knowledge on intrapreneurship and OC in the public sector HEIs, which has been neglected in entrepreneurship research.

scholarly journals The Politics of Activism and Biculturalism: the emergence of bicultural consultancies in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ethan McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Paper ◽  
State Activism ◽  
Study Methodology

<p>In what many commentators have characterised as a contradictory trajectory, a number of people involved in radical anti-state activism, which defined New Zealand from the late 1960s to the 1980s, became consultants on biculturalism for government agencies by the late 1980s. These consultants ran seminars for Pākehā public servants on the history and contemporary impact of Māori oppression under colonialism; Māori language, culture, and protocol; and the proposed future of the Crown-Māori relationship. This thesis uses genealogy and case study methodology to track the emergence of bicultural consultancies, their ideology and techniques, and their role in Māori policy reform beginning in the late 1980s. It aims to reveal the connections and disjunctions between the goals of anti-state activists active from the late 1960s to the 1980s, and the bicultural consultancies which emerged by the late 1980s.  Māori anti-racist and anti-state activists and their Pākehā allies skilfully leveraged the state by invoking the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi to call for a new partnership between Māori and the state, a partnership that by the 1980s was officially termed biculturalism. The public sector, which was identified as institutionally racist by activists, was an important focus of this activism. Activists demanded that Pākehā-dominated government departments be reformed to better reflect and serve Māori. The state’s response to these demands, beginning in earnest with the 1988 policy paper Te Urupare Rangapu and additionally sustained by the precepts of so-called ‘bicultural’ or ‘Treaty’ issues, created the demand for consultants to assist with reforming Māori policy making and delivery, and by extension, those public servants that would be responsible for the success of these reforms. While bicultural consultants were still working with anti-racist ideas and frameworks, the ascendancy of bicultural and Treaty discourses by the end of the 1980s somewhat obfuscated the ontologies of race and institutional racism in their work.</p>

scholarly journals The impact of relations with stakeholders on change management, innovation and competitiveness of the organization on the example of the current economic situation of enterprises in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 333-345
Author(s):  
Marta WIĄCEK ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Change Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
General View ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Current Economic Situation ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to systematize knowledge about organizations' relationships with their stakeholders and to highlight the connection and impact that managing these relationships and functioning in their network can have on them: an organization's capacity for innovation, change management efficiency and competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approach: Approach to the subject of the paper is theoretical in its first part and in the second one is based on the case study methodology conducted in chosen organization in Poland. On the basis of the literature, the basic variables influencing the accumulation of effects that can be achieved by an organization that effectively uses the synergy of all mentioned phenomena have been analysed. The examples of organizations in Poland applying such activities in the current economic situation were cited. Findings: Organisations which deal with difficult market situation should flexibly: use support from their stakeholders, take the risk of innovation and using both of the above try to implement and manage necessary changes efficiently and quickly. All these phenomena as well as the way of dealing with them make coping with hard situation easier. Practical implications: Article’s analysis and general view confirmes the significant economic and business impact on maintaining and increasing the competitive advantage of organizations using all mentioned phenomena to deal with difficulties of global market. Mentioned positive practical effects on enterprises prove how high the potential is created as a result of combining management of relations with stakeholders on competitiveness, innovation and the ability to manage organizational change. Originality/value: The interactions and effects of the impact on the organization of: stakeholders relations, networks and change management – that have already been scientifically described many times were emphasized because only in a few sectors of the economy their’ coexistence and its effects on the organization are clearly visible, observable and possible to describe.

Digital Innovation in the Public Sector: The Role of Embeddedness in Socio-Technical Transitions

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (07) ◽  
pp. 1950059
Author(s):  
Lakshminarayana Kompella
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Organizational Responses ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Methodology

Organizations have diverse options to improve their performance. With the advances in ICT, several organizations attempt a technology-based solution by digitizing and automation. Indeed, to begin with, it is appropriate, but there are societal challenges. The theories available in the literature explain the reasons for certain societal challenges and actions, but there is also a constant expansion of the theories. This paper adds to the expansion by considering ICT innovations such as digitalization. The social, political, cultural, and economic entities in which organizations operate influence and get influenced by organizational responses. There are connections between organizations and entities; we can refer to these as embeddedness. The purpose of this paper is in identifying a framework and the types of embeddedness. The phenomenon, organizational embeddedness, requires observing it in its setting and is performed using a case study methodology. E-Governance interacts with various entities and provides diverse analytic and heuristic views; hence the author uses E-Governance cases from India. The developed framework assists organizations in providing inputs towards improving their internal complements. In doing so, organizations can not only better respond to societal challenges but also enable other entities in the environment to coevolve.

The importance of international lump sum indemnity agreements in the context of communalisation of land in Warsaw under the Warsaw Decree

2021 ◽  
Vol I (I) ◽  
pp. 155-175
Author(s):  
Ewa Olas
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Procedure ◽  
Lump Sum ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Legal Consequences

This article aims at analysing the legal effects of international lump sum indemnity agreements entered into by Poland with states whose citizens and other entities had been deprived of their real properties by virtue of the Decree of 26 October 1945 on the Ownership and Use of Land Within the Boundaries of the Capital City of Warszawa (the so-called “Warsaw Decree”). Firstly, it presents the circumstances of agreements’ execution, their legal consequences under the public international law as well as their subjective and objective scope. Secondly, the article describes the impact of international lump sum indemnity agreements on civil law relations in Poland and the sphere of administrative law and administrative procedure. It also identifies one of the main problems regarding interpretation of international lump sum indemnity agreements in domestic proceedings concerning real properties in Warsaw.

Supply chains and COVID-19: impacts, countermeasures and post-COVID-19 era

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Atif Saleem Butt
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Supply Chain Disruptions ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Opening Up

PurposeThis paper explores the steps/countermeasures taken by firms to address supply chain disruptions in the wake of COVID-19.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs a case study methodology and employs 46 semi-structured interviews with senior managers of the three buying firms, four distribution centres and four supplying firms based in four countries (Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China and India).FindingsResults reveal that manufacturers are refining production schedules to meet the production challenges. Distributors are working with secondary suppliers to meet the inventory shortage. Finally, supplying firms are evaluating the impact of demand, focusing on short-term demand-supply strategy, preparing for channel shifts, opening up additional channels of communication with key customers, understanding immediate customer’s demand and priorities and finally becoming more agile.Research limitations/implicationsThere are some limitations to this study. First, the results of this study cannot be generalized to a wider population. Second, this study explores the interpretations of senior managers based in four Asian countries only.Practical implicationsSupply chain firms can use these findings to understand how COVID-19 is affecting firms. Firms can also use the suggestions provided in this study to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and make the best out of this pandemic.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the supply chain disruption literature by exploring the robust countermeasure taken by supply chain firms amid COVID-19 outbreak. In particular, it explores such countermeasures from the perspective of three different entities (buyer, supplier and distributor) based in four different countries in the South Asian region.

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