scholarly journals Building a Community Literacy Network to Address Literacy Inequities: An Emergent Strategy Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Austin ◽  
Ann Blakeslee ◽  
Cathy Fleischer ◽  
Christine Modey
Keyword(s):  
Community Literacy ◽  
Emergent Strategy

Emergent strategy development, abduction, and pragmatism: New lessons for corporations

2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-91
Author(s):  
Adrian Carr ◽  
Rita Durant ◽  
Alexis Downs
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Complex World ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Rational Planning ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Emergent Strategy ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
Insight Into

This paper proceeds from the widespread assumption – apparently, a truism – that the longevity of corporations is very much beholden to the success in their processes of strategic planning and the manner in which they learn from, and adapt to, those processes. The predominant strategic paradigm used in corporations, that of the rational planning school, assumes that language is transparent and time is linear. Such assumptions don't hold up in a complex world. Emergent strategy [8,50,63] has the potential to address the current challenges of organizations by shifting the language and talk about strategizing. Rather than talk about the challenges faced by top managers [14,25], emergent strategizing, for example, talks of “communicative interaction” and “focusing attention on what [is] going on now” [64, p. 158]. Mintzberg's disdain for the divination techniques of the Delphi Oracle [51, p. 238] notwithstanding, we suggest that characteristics of the Delphic Oracle [52] mirror many of those of both emergence and strategy and, therefore, may offer insight into the effective development of emergent strategies at lower and middle levels of the organization. Our method for understanding emergence is abduction, as developed by Charles Franklin Peirce and the pragmatists. A playful reinterpretation of the Delphic Oracle can provide a way to imagine the roles of organizational actors in strategic emergence.

A deliberately emergent strategy – a key to successful city branding

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne Lindstedt
Keyword(s):  
Place Branding ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Emergent Strategy ◽  
Branding Strategies ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Place Brand

Purpose – The paper aims to address a neglected issue in the literature on place brand co-creation, namely, the strategic planning of the branding process. Furthermore, the paper demonstrates the benefits of a deliberately emergent strategy. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative case study focusing on Turku, Finland, supports the development of the argument. In this study, branding of Turku is examined both during the European Capital of Culture 2011 (ECoC) project and after it. Findings – The contribution of the ECoC 2011 project – which was widely perceived as a success – to Turku’s brand was based on a deliberately emergent strategy. Afterwards, the local government has, however, chosen a different approach to branding. Research limitations/implications – Given the increasing popularity of brand thinking among practitioners all over the world, it would be meaningful for scholars to pay more attention to the application of brand co-creation in place branding strategies. Practical implications – The deliberately emergent branding strategy could be considered an approach to applying the idea of brand co-creation in practice. It enables local stakeholders to make their voices heard and results in increased credibility of a branding process. Originality/value – Place brand co-creation has not yet been examined from strategic planning’s point of view. The need for this kind of examination is apparent, because branding strategies have traditionally been based on the idea of static place identity. The Turku case helps to propose a solution in terms of the notion of deliberately emergent branding.

The Mobile Thriving Respite With and for the Street Community

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110467
Author(s):  
Robert McInerney ◽  
Kelsey Long ◽  
Rachel Stough
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Institutional Review Board ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Institutional Review Board Approval ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Emergent Strategy ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

We report on our work with the street community of Pittsburgh, specifically, a community-based action initiative we call the Mobile Thriving Respite (Institutional Review Board approval was obtained from our university). For 5 years, student advocate ethnographers from Point Park University have gathered data (e.g., long- and short-term interviews, participant-observations generating fieldnotes). The data revealed and supported the need for thriving beyond surviving homelessness. The data endorsed the creation of the mobile thriving respite. In the first part of this work, we will discuss some critical concepts regarding homelessness as a phenomenon and then argue that while surviving as enduring is necessary, there are some for whom survival is a perpetual, lethal state of being. We will discuss the theoretical foundations to the respite and offer researchers’ ethnographic accounts of the respite’s process and progress (We had to temporarily end the respite during the Covid-19 pandemic. To date, the respite has returned with “pop up” events outside at various locations). We will outline how the mobile thriving respite is a praxis as site of resistance as well as an emergent strategy, and an instantiation of communitas. We will then revisit surviving as collectively bearing witness and testifying to the lived experiences of those living outside.

Photodynamic inactivation as an emergent strategy against foodborne pathogenic bacteria in planktonic and sessile states

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 667-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Fiori Silva ◽  
Anabela Borges ◽  
Efstathios Giaouris ◽  
Jane Martha Graton Mikcha ◽  
Manuel Simões
Keyword(s):  
Pathogenic Bacteria ◽  
Photodynamic Inactivation ◽  
Emergent Strategy ◽  
Foodborne Pathogenic Bacteria

Christian entrepreneurial activities and micro women entrepreneurship development

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 657-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanny Adams Quagrainie ◽  
Abigail Opoku Mensah ◽  
Alex Yaw Adom
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Women Entrepreneurship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Emergent Strategy ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The Church

Purpose Review of literature suggests mixed findings on the relationship between the church and micro women entrepreneurship development. This signals that questions remain about the roles of churches in entrepreneurial development. Thus, this paper aims to explore what entrepreneurial activities are provided by churches to their micro women entrepreneurs and how do these activities influence their entrepreneurial start up and growth. Design/methodology/approach Phenomenological research methodologies were used to purposive collected data from 38 women entrepreneurs and four church administers in Tema. Results were analyzed using the emergent strategy. Findings The results suggest that churches provided four entrepreneurial activities which are categorized as finance, networking, promotion of self-confidence and impartation of ethical values. These factors promoted the growth of women entrepreneurial growth but not the start-up of entrepreneurial ventures. The study concluded that the church should provide more support for new entrepreneurial ventures. Therefore, embeddedness because of membership of a church is a critical part of women entrepreneurship development. Research limitations/implications Further studies will need to replicate these findings with other types of businesses, in other locations. Practical implications This study suggests that policymakers should be working in conjunction with churches in a bid to promote micro women entrepreneurship development. Originality/value Limited research has been conducted on church entrepreneurial activities in the development of micro women entrepreneurs in developing economies such as Ghana. This empirical research provides important insights into this field.

scholarly journals The Cooperative Development And Strategy

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Adriano Dias de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Competitive Strategy ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Cooperative Development ◽  
Emergent Strategy ◽  
The World ◽  
Organizational Placement

Cooperatives are organizations with great potential and possibilities to stir social change. In face of economic difficulties, cooperative is an option to take advantage of  the existing productive power and, once authorized to operate as financial institution, they can face the economical instability and work to improve people welfare. This paper is a study on possible emergent strategy in a credit cooperative in the south of Minas Gerais, aiming at proposing an introduction of a competitive strategy to the organizational development. It was observed as a theoretical referential the origin and the development of cooperativism, some ways of management which aim at strategic planning.World tendency clearly shows that, even though the cooperativism segment has become one of the most developed segments in the last years, this system is still trying to solve problems of strategic formulation and organizational placement, aiming at developing a segmented financial market, much more competitive.To propose of a strategy to the cooperative studied, gain importance when we analyze the financial market context, since this segment is one of the most regulated and organized on the world. At the end of the study, are detect the main points that can collaborate significantly to the development of this cooperative, showing as proposal suggestion of management pacing and strategic development.

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