scholarly journals From Cultural to Economic Capital: Community Employment Creation in Otara

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne De Bruin
Keyword(s):  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Employment Creation ◽  
Disadvantaged Community ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Definition Of

This paper stresses the need for community responses to the ethnic unemployment problem in New Zealand. It aims to show the potential for direct employment creation on the basis of a community entrepreneurship model as well as a widened definition of human capital, using case study of the labour market disadvantaged community of Otara, in South Auckland. Projects harnessing cultural and ethnic riches to create Otara as an attractive visitor destination undertaken by Enterprise Otara (EO) are examined. A participatory research methodology, chiefly formative evaluation is used. ·This paper seeks to break down a prevalent view that grassroots responses to unemployment are necessarily small-scale ventures and to get away from the 'small is beautiful' mind-set when Local Employment Initiatives (ILEs) are involved. Additionally, the collaborative role of 'outsiders ' in the 'bottom-up' approach to employment creation is shown to be important in 'getting things moving ' at the community level. Constraints faced by community organisations are highlighted. The importance of ILEs and the partnership concept in the mitigation of high unemployment in disadvantaged communities, is affirmed.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter extends the book’s insights about nature, technology, and nation to the larger history of the modern period. While the modern nation loses its grip as a locus of identity and analysis, attempts to understand the operation, disruption, and collapse of continental and global infrastructures continue to mix the natural and the machinic in ways that define them both. Those vulnerabilities emphasize large-scale catastrophe; historiographically, they mask the crucial role of small-scale failures in the experience and culture of late modernity, including its definition of nature. Historical actors turned the uneven geographical distribution of small-scale failures into a marker of distinctive local natures and an element of regional and national identity. Attending to those failures helps not only situate cold-war technologies in the larger modern history of natural and machinic orders; it helps provincialize the superpowers by casting problematic “other” natures as central and primary.

Ignorance or Intent?

2017 ◽  
pp. 182-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Baker-Gardner ◽  
Cherry-Ann Smart
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Cheating Behavior ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Faculty And Administrators ◽  
Method Approach

Plagiarism among students at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) remains of great concern to faculty and administrators globally, as well as in the English-speaking Caribbean. Although this Cheating Behavior (CB) has been examined in multiple disciplines, few studies have examined it from the viewpoint of Library and Information Science (LIS) students. This is an important lacuna given CB's link to workplace practices and the imminent role of LIS students as information disseminators and protectors of creators' intellectual property rights. Using an explanatory sequential mixed method approach, this small scale case study sought to acquire a better understanding of LIS students' understanding, awareness and knowledge of plagiarism. The views of first and third year undergraduates and postgraduates were analyzed and assessed. The results demonstrated the need for early pedagogical interventions on plagiarism, greater collaboration between faculty and the library, and LIS students' engagement into the Community of Practice (CoP) and profession of librarianship.

scholarly journals Studying the Role of System Aggregation in Energy Targeting: A Case Study of a Swedish Oil Refinery

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elin Svensson ◽  
Matteo Morandin ◽  
Simon Harvey ◽  
Stavros Papadokonstantakis
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchange ◽  
Heat Recovery ◽  
Process Integration ◽  
Heat Integration ◽  
Direct Process ◽  
Utility System ◽  
Process Heat ◽  
Definition Of

The definition of appropriate energy targets for large industrial processes is a difficult task since operability, safety and plant layout aspects represent important limitations to direct process integration. The role of heat exchange limitations in the definition of appropriate energy targets for large process sites was studied in this work. A computational framework was used which allows to estimate the optimal distribution of process stream heat loads in different subsystems and to select and size a site wide utility system. A complex Swedish refinery site is used as a case study. Various system aggregations, representing different patterns of heat exchange limitations between process units and utility configurations were explored to identify trade-offs and bottlenecks for energy saving opportunities. The results show that in spite of the aforementioned limitations direct heat integration still plays a significant role for the refinery energy efficiency. For example, the targeted hot utility demand is reduced by 50–65% by allowing process-to-process heat exchange within process units even when a steam utility system is available for indirect heat recovery. Furthermore, it was found that direct process heat integration is motivated primarily at process unit level, since the heat savings that can be achieved by allowing direct heat recovery between adjacent process units (25–42%) are in the same range as those that can be obtained by combining unit process-to-process integration with site-wide indirect heat recovery via the steam system (27–42%).

The role of character in talent identification and development in New Zealand rugby union

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-418
Author(s):  
Ryan Rosevear ◽  
Tania Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Rugby Union ◽  
Talent Identification ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
A Value ◽  
Universal Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Development Manager

The purpose of the study was to gain understanding of how character is understood in the New Zealand Rugby (NZR) ecology and how the Player Development Manager (PDM) in one Provincial Union (PU) negotiates, constructs and operationalizes interpretations of character within talent identification and development practices. The study design was informed by Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems model of development and the methodology was case study. The participant in the study was the PDM who worked for one provincial rugby union and NZR. Data was gained using; interviews, document analysis and observations. An iterative strategy was employed when adopting the deductive and inductive analysis. The study found that across the NZR ecology there was no universal definition of character, or set of criteria used to assess players’ character. Within the NZR macrosystem there were formal policies that explicitly identified character as a value to be assessed. Yet, implicit understandings and assessment of character also existed. The PDM working in a microsystem constructed his understanding and assessment of character based on his experiences working with, and for, NZR (macrosystem) and the PU (exosystem) respectively, as well as drawing on his personal value set. The findings of this study are significant not only for rugby, in New Zealand and elsewhere, but they are relevant and topical for any selector, recruitment agent or coach who implicitly and explicitly (de)selects participants based on character.

scholarly journals Role of Microfinance in Employment Generation: A Case Study of Microfinance Program of Paschimanchal Grameen Bikash Bank

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hari Prasad Pathak ◽  
Mukunda Gyawali
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Employment Generation

This research study focuses on role of microfinance program in creation of enterprise and employment generation. In the Nepalese context various microfinance programs have been running with the aims of socio-economic empowerment, mobilization of internal resources, creation of awareness and generation of self-employment targeting the rural poor. Microfinance has been one of the few effective tools for poverty reduction over the past years. It has been revealed that the loans have been mostly invested on small scale business, livestock and other agro-based enterprises. The study shows that micro finance program has been helpful to create enterprises and generate employment.The Journal of Nepalese Business StudiesVol. Vii, No. 1, 2010-2011Page : 31-38Uploaded date: July 7, 2012

scholarly journals The dynamics of food fraud: The interactions between criminal opportunity and market (dys)functionality in legitimate business

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 605-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Lord ◽  
Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo ◽  
Jon Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Food Fraud ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Legitimate Business ◽  
Common Definition ◽  
Business Structures ◽  
Criminal Opportunity ◽  
Definition Of

This article conceptualizes ‘food fraud’ by shifting analytical focus away from popular/policy conceptions foregrounding the centrality of organized crime towards understanding the factors that shape the organization of food frauds. We argue that food fraud, rather than being an ‘exogenous’ phenomenon perpetrated by externally organized (transnational) ‘criminal enterprise’, is better understood as an ‘endogenous’ phenomenon within the food system where legitimate occupational actors and organizations are in some way necessarily involved. Criminal opportunities arise under conducive conditions as part of legitimate actors’ routine behaviours. Our contention is that the common definition of food fraud is too prescriptive and fails to allow space to understand the role of different actors and their motivations. We analyse a case study in soft drinks, presenting the necessary role of legitimate, occupational actors within/between legitimate organizational settings and markets, and demonstrate how criminal behaviours can be concealed and disguised within ‘ready-made’ market and business structures.

scholarly journals The Contribution of Islamic Micro Finance Towards Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study of Bank of Khyber Khud Kifalat Scheme

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 327-338
Author(s):  
Muhammad Saleem Qazi ◽  
Dr. Muhammad Adil ◽  
Dr. Saima Batool ◽  
Yasir Khan
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Monthly Income ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Future

The aim of this research is to investigate role of Microfinance in Poverty alleviation. Primary data was used in this research and was collected through personally administered questionnaires from 150 respondents. Results showed that most of the respondents were in favor of the Khud Kafalat scheme because it helped them in increasing their living standards and standard of education of their children due to establishing small scale businesses or expanding existing businesses. Moreover, Khud Kafalat Scheme has a very important role in Poverty alleviation and increased their gross monthly income. Furthermore, their satisfaction can also be depicted from the fact that although they observed no change in their employees’ condition but on individual level, most of them, were still in favor of applying again for the loan, if needed, in the future.

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