scholarly journals Contemporary trends in the management of multiple economic entities

Management ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-198
Author(s):  
Dariusz Sobotkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Management System ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Flexible Structure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Decentralized Management ◽  
Research Questions

Summary The aim of this elaboration is to recognize trends in management of multiple economic entities. The attention was focused on centralized and decentralized management system. This study has a theoretical and empirical character. It is based on the literature studies and the results of researches obtained by the representatives of the scientific community over the past ten years in centralization/decentralization of management in complex economic units. In addition, there are included the latest findings concerning the discussed issue in the mining industry, made by the author of the study. The elaboration demonstrates that the flexibility of the organizational structures of multiple economic entities is diversified and depends on the type of multiple organization. The more flexible structure, the greater tendency to decentralize management. There is also an attempt to define current trends in management of multiple organizations. The study also tries to answer the following research questions: in what direction heads the management of the complex economic units, so-called multiple economic entities? whether there is a tendency for centralization or decentralization of management? whether internal subsidiaries are carrying out ever larger scope of organic functions and decision-making powers or whether it is limited for them? The elaboration ends with a resume and a bibliography.

scholarly journals Book Review: The Role of the Electronic Resources Librarian

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Jennifer Murray
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Electronic Materials ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Electronic Resource ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Trends

The eight chapters covered in this text give a detailed history about how the role of electronic resource (e-resource) librarians (ERLs) has evolved over the past several decades as libraries have shifted to an online environment. It covers the challenges faced from 1992 when the ERL title was first used, to 2019 where academic libraries are still a hybrid of print and electronic materials. The book is organized into eight chapters with three appendixes. The introduction gives a brief overview on the development of ERLs and a clear synopsis of chapters, which are a nice progression of how the ERL position has developed since the 1990s; how it has been represented in organizational structures across academic libraries; how it has handled a variety of obstacles (technology, expanding skill sets, budget constraints, etc.); and how it maps to current trends in managing e-resources.

scholarly journals Assessing the Implementation of Decentralized Management System: Babre Tabor Municipality Administration in Focus

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Belaynew Mesfin Demelash
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Management System ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Stratified Sampling ◽  
Frequency Count ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Governmental Institution ◽  
Decentralized Management ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Shared Commitment

This study addressed the efforts exerted on the implementation of decentralization management system employed a few years ago in a governmental institution. More specifically, this study attempted to assess the perceptions employees hold about the decentralization package, their decision-making practices and correlations among participants’ perception, decision-making practices and provision of resources. To this end, of one hundred and fifty employees, fifty of Debre Tabore Municipality administrative, in Amhara regional state, were selected in a mix of systematic and stratified sampling technique. Likert scale and frequency count itemized questionnaire administered and forty-eight sheets of questionnaire were returned filled in.  The major findings showed that participants had a reasonable level of awareness on the positive roles of decentralization, considerable level of decision-making practices and some degree of perceived provisions of resources or support. Besides, there seemed to have positive relationships among the participants’ perceptions about municipality decentralization, input provision and practice of decision making. small but positive correlations among perceptions. A mere degree of variations of responses to the perceptions and practices of decentralization were also seen due to background differences in gender, position and work experiences. In light of the results, the decentralization could be implemented with a more focus of employees’ concern on resource provisions and shared commitment.

scholarly journals Where has all the recruitment research gone, long time passing?

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
pp. 2293-2299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Rice ◽  
Howard I. Browman
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Marine Research ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Fisheries Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Management Institutions

Abstract For most of the past 100 years, research into recruitment processes—as pioneered by Johan Hjort—has been a consistent focus of research in fisheries science. This was reflected not only in the literature but in the organizational structures and research strategies of national and international fisheries research and management institutions. Over the past decade or so, we perceived that recruitment research is fading, if not into obscurity then at least into a more marginal place in fisheries and marine research. In this paper, we assess if our perception is real by quantifying trends in scientific publications and in the work activities within ICES during specific periods extending back to the 1920s. Our analysis documents a decline in research on recruitment processes. We put forward three possible hypotheses to explain this decline: 1. All the key research questions about recruitment have been answered; 2. The volume of research on recruitment processes has declined because the answers are no longer relevant; 3. Recruitment research has been co-opted by more trendy, possibly ephemeral, and research topics. There is little evidence to support the first two of these hypotheses and we consider the third to be the most plausible. Finally, we conclude that this new terminology/repackaging of recruitment research does not bring with it new and fresh thinking and, therefore, comes at a cost that should be carefully considered.

Physiological Modeling and Simulation—Validation, Credibility, and Application

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-206
Author(s):  
W. Andrew Pruett ◽  
John S. Clemmer ◽  
Robert L. Hester
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Real World ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Physiological Modeling ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Physiological Models ◽  
The Past ◽  
Simulation Validation ◽  
Physiological Research

In this review, we discuss the science of model validation as it applies to physiological modeling. There is widespread disagreement and ambiguity about what constitutes model validity. In areas in which models affect real-world decision-making, including within the clinic, in regulatory science, or in the design and engineering of novel therapeutics, this question is of critical importance. Without an answer, it impairs the usefulness of models and casts a shadow over model credibility in all domains. To address this question, we examine the use of nonmathematical models in physiological research, in medical practice, and in engineering to see how models in other domains are used and accepted. We reflect on historic physiological models and how they have been presented to the scientific community. Finally, we look at various validation frameworks that have been proposed as potential solutions during the past decade.

scholarly journals Guest Editorial: The Space—Times of Decision Making

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (12) ◽  
pp. 2801-2818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek P McCormack ◽  
Tim Schwanen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Questions

By way of an extended introduction to a theme issue on the space–times of decision making, this paper pursues two objectives. We first review some of the ways in which geographers—and especially economic geographers—have examined decision making over the past decades, showing that previous engagements with the decision are informed primarily by thinking from economics, psychology, and certain strands of sociology. Drawing on a wider range of intellectual resources, we then outline eight propositions that might guide future research by geographers and others into the space–times of decision making. These propositions help us to move beyond the idea that the decision is a singular moment abstracted from the context within which it takes place and undertaken by a discrete actor or set of actors. Instead the decision is understood as a differentiated, affectively registered, transformative, and ongoing actualisation of potential against a horizon of undecidability in which past, present, and future fold together in complex ways. A number of research questions follow from the outlined propositions: these pertain to the sites and techniques of decision making, its relationships to the governing of life, and our own decision-making practices as academics.

Stewardship in the "Age of Algorithms"

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Complex ◽  
The Future ◽  
Total Failure ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Technical Systems

This paper explores pragmatic approaches that might be employed to document the behavior of large, complex socio-technical systems (often today shorthanded as “algorithms”) that centrally involve some mixture of personalization, opaque rules, and machine learning components. Thinking rooted in traditional archival methodology — focusing on the preservation of physical and digital objects, and perhaps the accompanying preservation of their environments to permit subsequent interpretation or performance of the objects — has been a total failure for many reasons, and we must address this problem. The approaches presented here are clearly imperfect, unproven, labor-intensive, and sensitive to the often hidden factors that the target systems use for decision-making (including personalization of results, where relevant); but they are a place to begin, and their limitations are at least outlined. Numerous research questions must be explored before we can fully understand the strengths and limitations of what is proposed here. But it represents a way forward. This is essentially the first paper I am aware of which tries to effectively make progress on the stewardship challenges facing our society in the so-called “Age of Algorithms;” the paper concludes with some discussion of the failure to address these challenges to date, and the implications for the roles of archivists as opposed to other players in the broader enterprise of stewardship — that is, the capture of a record of the present and the transmission of this record, and the records bequeathed by the past, into the future. It may well be that we see the emergence of a new group of creators of documentation, perhaps predominantly social scientists and humanists, taking the front lines in dealing with the “Age of Algorithms,” with their materials then destined for our memory organizations to be cared for into the future.

scholarly journals Civil defense and crisis management in Poland in the systemic approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 197 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-525
Author(s):  
Romuald Kalinowski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Civil Defense ◽  
The State ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Defense System ◽  
State Defense

The two subsystems in the state defense system that make up the civil defense system and the crisis management system have specific tasks to fulfill. The two organizational structures, guided by their systemic approach, remain independent of each other, even though they share the same decision-making bodies, executive or executive bodies, subsidiary bodies, and executive entities. Inappropriate perception of them – even by decision-makers – leads to organizational irregularities, a lack of understanding of the responsibilities of the bodies and actors of these systems. It is also a source of misregulation in this area. A systemic perspective may require an appropriate approach and the development of new solutions to improve the process of activity in this area.

Truth Matters: Cognitive Integrity as an Intervention for Self-Deception

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Isabel Gorlin ◽  
Michael W. Otto
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Empirical Validation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adaptive Problem

To live well in the present, we take direction from the past. Yet, individuals may engage in a variety of behaviors that distort their past and current circumstances, reducing the likelihood of adaptive problem solving and decision making. In this article, we attend to self-deception as one such class of behaviors. Drawing upon research showing both the maladaptive consequences and self-perpetuating nature of self-deception, we propose that self-deception is an understudied risk and maintaining factor for psychopathology, and we introduce a “cognitive-integrity”-based approach that may hold promise for increasing the reach and effectiveness of our existing therapeutic interventions. Pending empirical validation of this theoretically-informed approach, we posit that patients may become more informed and autonomous agents in their own therapeutic growth by becoming more honest with themselves.

ON THE ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF THE FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES OF AN ENTERPRISE IN THE TOKTOGUL REGION OF KYRGYZSTAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 77-79
Author(s):  
M. U. USUPOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Economic Entity ◽  
Production Management System ◽  
Provision Of Services

The article discusses the issues of improving the management of the financial condition of the economic entity, which change due to variable conditions of formation in organizational structures at the levels of levels, the production management system, the provision of services and the distribution of the company's profit. Such a management system can significantly affect the performance of the firm and accelerate the transition to international standards.

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