scholarly journals NGO-Research Collaborations and Conflicts

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Amanda Reinke
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Collaborative Reading ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Collaborative Ethnography ◽  
Ethical Responsibilities

Ethnographers collaborating with NGOs and non-profits while simultaneously researching their organizational structure, practices, and beliefs about service, advocacy, and activism face myriad challenges. However, collaboration – as it exists in a dialectical relationship between stakeholders working towards common goals – may also generate ethnographic insights that add to anthropological knowledge of NGOs. According to Lassiter (2005a, 2005b), researchers undertaking collaborative ethnography have four commitments: (1) ethical responsibilities to stakeholders; (2) honesty/transparency about research; (3) accessible writing; and (4) collaborative reading, writing, and interpretation. Collaborations may be interrupted at various points, but especially where bureaucratic structures and operations intervene. For example, agreements and documentation (e.g., memoranda of understanding, or MOUs) often challenge the interests and affect of collaborative work. In this article I draw on five years of collaborative NGOgraphy, Lassiter’s conceptualization of collaborative ethnography, and respond to Hymes’ (1972) call for a personal ethnography, in order to discuss the challenges and opportunities of NGO-researcher collaboration.

Challenges and Opportunities in Collaborative Vulnerability Research Workflows

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 420-424
Author(s):  
Ryan Mullins ◽  
Deirdre Kelliher ◽  
Ben Nargi ◽  
Mike Keeney ◽  
Nathan Schurr
Keyword(s):  
Human Performance ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Workflow Model ◽  
Human Vulnerability ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Reasoning System ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Research ◽  
Future Work

Recently, cyber reasoning systems demonstrated near-human performance characteristics when they autonomously identified, proved, and mitigated vulnerabilities in software during a competitive event. New research seeks to augment human vulnerability research teams with cyber reasoning system teammates in collaborative work environments. However, the literature lacks a concrete understanding of vulnerability research workflows and practices, limiting designers’, engineers’, and researchers’ ability to successfully integrate these artificially intelligent entities into teams. This paper contributes a general workflow model of the vulnerability research process, and identifies specific collaboration challenges and opportunities anchored in this model. Contributions were derived from a qualitative field study of work habits, behaviors, and practices of human vulnerability research teams. These contributions will inform future work in the vulnerability research domain by establishing an empirically-driven workflow model that can be adapted to specific organizational and functional constraints placed on individual and teams.

scholarly journals Disaster Risk Management in the Province of Córdoba (Argentina): Participation Mechanisms in the Organizational Structure and Planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Silvia E. Fontana ◽  
Sofía Conrero
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Disaster Risk Management ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
The Government

The most important mission of subnational governments in terms of disaster risk management is to plan and create structures and processes necessary for the construction of governance, stimulating communication among all the actors involved to strengthen the bonds of trust and the assumption of common responsibilities and individuals, and for a more efficient use of resources. On one hand, this raises important demands in terms of organizational redesign, counting on decision, communication and flexible relations processes that allow the articulation of people and resources within the organization and outside of it, in order to establish the different functions and results to be achieved through collaborative work, based on the objectives of disaster risk management. On the other hand, it requires a review of planning processes, with the participation of actors from all areas and levels, indispensable in the design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation of such planning. In this paper we analyze the ways in which the government of the province of Córdoba (Argentina) designs its organizational structure and raises its disaster risk management planning processes in a participatory manner, in order to guarantee joint work between government, civil society, private sector and at-risk populations.

scholarly journals Challenges and opportunities of building an entrepreneurial discovery process through university–industry interaction: A Norwegian case study

2020 ◽  
pp. 095042222097834
Author(s):  
Thomas Brekke
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Discovery Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Entrepreneurial Discovery ◽  
University College ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

This study provides new insights into the entrepreneurial role of universities in an entrepreneurial discovery process. Over the past decades, European policies have encouraged universities to identify opportunities and develop new partnerships and connections with society. This analysis focuses on the Vestfold region of Norway, which contains an institutionally rich and specialised electronic industry, supported by a university college. The development of entrepreneurial discovery as a process capability at the regional level is examined using qualitative analysis based on semi-structured interviews. Regional actors developed regional innovation capabilities based on a bottom-up entrepreneurial discovery approach, in which a local university college played an active role. Entrepreneurial discovery capabilities entail a rigorous assessment of the region’s knowledge base, experimentation and the institutionalisation of new collaborative work forms that mobilise industry–university interaction aimed at identifying and facilitating the emergence and growth of new domains. The article highlights the challenges and opportunities of a bottom-up entrepreneurial discovery approach and concludes with policy implications.

scholarly journals ODERN TRENDS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION IN ERP SYSTEMS

10.23856/3311 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-109
Author(s):  
Mikhail Iremadze ◽  
Cira Iremadze ◽  
Olena Musiienko
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Management System ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Erp Systems ◽  
Entire Spectrum ◽  
Multilevel Structure ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Companies operating in international markets in the context of global competition – is a complex multilevel structure of relationships with its particular hierarchy. The Accounting and Analytical Management System (AAMS) is designed to solve the entire spectrum of tasks (operational, tactical and strategic) as efficiently as possible. Organizational structure at the same time has to be rather flexible to response adequately and timely to newly arisen challenges and opportunities of the environment.

E-Government in the Judiciary System

2012 ◽  
pp. 158-178
Author(s):  
André Andrade ◽  
Luiz Antonio Joia ◽  
Daniel Kamlot
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
National Council ◽  
It Investment ◽  
Common Goals

This chapter presents an analysis of e-government being enabled by Information Technology (IT) investment in the Brazilian Judiciary System. The methodology adopted was the case study, with a mix of qualitative and quantitative data to deal with the complexity of the phenomenon. The latest data on e-government use in Brazil, the organizational structure and IT development of the Brazilian Judiciary System, and the legal framework for electronic lawsuits form the basis for understanding the context. A qualitative analysis of the influence of the National Council of Justice (NCJ) on IT investment and e-government initiatives indicates that the NCJ’s coordination is leading the Brazilian Judiciary System towards common goals. Furthermore, a quantitative analysis of the correlation between IT investment and the efficiency of the courts shows a potential positive influence on reducing the duration and cost of lawsuits.

Enterprise Interoperability

2019 ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Ejub Kajan
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Business ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Xml Web ◽  
Further Development

Many interoperable frameworks have been suggested, developed, and implemented in the past. Most of them are based on XML, web services, and semantic web technologies. In the meantime, globalization and the further development of internet and web have raised new challenges and opportunities. New form of networked organizations, known as virtual enterprises, seeks for knowledge sharing around common goals. The rise of the social and ubiquitous world, where everything is going to be connected, gives a lot of technical opportunities for electronic business, but at the same time makes new barriers due to increasing heterogeneity issues. This chapter gives an overview of main challenges, obstacles, approaches, recent research efforts, and forecasts in order to overcome recent interoperability problems.

scholarly journals The Antecedents and Challenges of Innovation in Sustainable Development Projects: Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Afaf Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Project Structure

This study demonstrates the antecedents and challenges of innovation in sustainable development (SD) projects. In particular, a systematic literature review is conducted to highlight the challenges of innovation, that can suppress the efficient attainment of innovation benefits, in SD projects. The findings indicate that the positive benefits of innovation, in SD projects, are applying new strategies, developing new management practices, increasing interests and commitments of project team members, obtaining a better quality, attaining competitive advantages, introducing active influencers, establishing more engagement and collaborative work among team members, and satisfying project stakeholders. On the other side, innovation challenges that could act as barriers to achieve these benefits, in SD projects, are innovation resistance, stakeholders’ requirements, pressure from clients to meet the SD project goals, diverse project environment, dynamic and unstable markets, project structure and characteristics, compliance with the common goals between innovation and sustainable development projects, and less management support and commitment for innovation. In brief, if project team members could overcome these challenges, innovation could be adopted and implemented effectively in sustainable development projects.

Enterprise Interoperability

2018 ◽  
pp. 2773-2783
Author(s):  
Ejub Kajan
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Business ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
New Form ◽  
Xml Web ◽  
Further Development

Many interoperable frameworks have been suggested, developed and implemented in the past. Most of them are based on XML, Web services and Semantic Web technologies. In the meantime, globalization, and the further development of Internet and Web have raised new challenges and opportunities. New form of networked organizations, known as virtual enterprises, seeks for knowledge sharing around common goals. The raise of social and ubiquitous world, where everything is going to be connected gives a lot of technical opportunities for electronic business, but at same time makes new barriers due to increasing heterogeneity issues. This article gives an overview of main challenges, obstacles, approaches, recent research efforts, and forecasts in order to overcome recent interoperability problems.

scholarly journals A HUMAN‐COMPUTER INTERACTION PRINCIPLES BASED FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS THE USER PERCEPTION OF WEB BASED VIRTUAL RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTS

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaushal Keraminiyage ◽  
Dilanthi Amaratunga ◽  
Richard Haigh
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Formal Method ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
User Perception ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Research Environments ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Information And Communication

Due to various challenges and opportunities such as globalisation of research agenda and advancements in information and communication technologies, research collaborations (both international and national) have become popular during the last decade more than ever before. Within this context, the concept of Virtual Research Environments(VRE) is an emerging concept looking at addressing the complex challenges associated with conducting collaborative research. Even though concept of VRE is at its infancy, it is important to assess user perception about those, both to establish its success of uptake and future development strategies. However, to date, there is no formal method established to evaluate VREs .This paper reports a strategy adopted within an international collaborative research project (EURASIA) to evaluate its custom built VRE, VEBER, using the well known Computer Human Interaction principles. Santruka Ivairiausi iššūkiai ir galimybes, tokios kaip planuojamu moksliniu tyrimu globalizacija ir informacijos bei komunikacijos technologiju pažanga, pastaraji dešimtmeti leme didesni nei bet kada tiriamojo bendradarbiavimo (ir tarptautinio, ir nacionalinio) populiaruma. Šiame kontekste virtualiosios moksliniu tyrimu aplinkos (VMTA) savoka – tai gimstanti savoka, kuria siekiama imtis sudetingu iššūkiu, susijusiu su tiriamuoju bendradarbiavimu. Nors VMTA savoka kol kas žengia pirmuosius žingsnius, svarbu ivertinti, kaip vartotojai ja suvokia, siekdami nustatyti, kaip jai seksis prigyti, ir būsimasias pletros strategijas. Tačiau formalaus metodo VMTA vertinti kol kas nera. Šiame darbe pristatoma strategija, taikyta tarptautiniame moksliniu tyrimu bendradarbiavimo projekte (EURASIA), nes norima ivertinti specialiai tam sukurta VMTA, pavadinta VEBER, naudojant gerai žinomus kompiuterio ir žmogaus saveikos principus.

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