scholarly journals Leadership and Crisis Communication During Covid-19: The Case of Brunei Darussalam

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Li Li Pang
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
International Media ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
National Leaders ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Local Transmission

National leaders’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic globally have shown that while the definition of leadership is still debatable in academia, in times of crisis, it is easily identifiable and seen. The world has seen different responses by national leaders to curb the spread of the virus, Covid-19, which has claimed more than a million lives, affecting 189 countries worldwide since January 2020. Developed countries’ successes in dealing with the pandemic are widely reported by international media, but the successes made by developing countries are not. One such country is Brunei Darussalam, where her success, even regionally in Southeast Asia, was downplayed. This paper is a qualitative case study, highlighting Brunei Darussalam’s success in handling the pandemic. Brunei Darussalam began to ‘flatten the curve’ since March 29, 2020 and there was no local transmission since May 7, 2020. The paper will show how leadership, effective crisis communication together with advances in telecommunication technologies, existing institutional practices, and a supportive public have helped Brunei Darussalam curb the spread of the virus within the country.

scholarly journals The International School’s Culture in Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam

JURNAL IQRA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-191
Author(s):  
Muhammad Kristiawan ◽  
Suhono Suhono ◽  
Mohd Hilmy Baihaqy Yussof ◽  
Muslimah Muslimah
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
International School ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Brunei Darussalam

An understanding of a school’s culture was essential to quality management. In this study the researchers identified the international school’s culture in Singapore International School (SIS) Palembang, Indonesia and Jerudong International School (JIS) Brunei Darussalam. The approach used in this paper was qualitative, case study. The data were collected by using observation, interview, and documentation. The data were analyzed by using Miles and Huberman’s Model. The results obtained indicate that the school’s culture in SIS was building students’ character such as honesty, sincerity, creativity, compliance with rules and norms. While in JIS, the students should take responsibility for themselves and others. They take the initiative, evaluate the situation in front of them and make decisions accordingly. JIS thrives on mutual respect by working with people from different backgrounds. Keywords: School’s Culture, SIS Palembang, JIS Brunei Darussalam

The Mechanismic Worldview: Thinking Inside the Box

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN GERRING
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Causal Factor ◽  
Simple Task ◽  
The Social ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
General Explanation

A widespread turn towards mechanism-centred explanations can be viewed across the social sciences in recent decades. This article clarifies what it might mean in practical terms to adopt a mechanismic view of causation. This simple task of definition turns out to be considerably more difficult than it might at first appear. The body of the article elucidates a series of tensions and conflicts within this ambient concept, looking closely at how influential authors have employed this ubiquitous term. It is discovered that ‘mechanism’ has at least nine distinct meanings as the term is used within contemporary social science: (1) the pathway or process by which an effect is produced; (2) an unobservable causal factor; (3) an easy-to-observe causal factor; (4) a context-dependent (bounded) explanation; (5) a universal (or at least highly general) explanation; (6) an explanation that presumes highly contingent phenomena; (7) an explanation built on phenomena that exhibit lawlike regularities; (8) a distinct technique of analysis (based on qualitative, case study, or process-tracing evidence); or (9) a micro-level explanation for a causal phenomenon. Some of these meanings may be combined into coherent definitions; others are obviously contradictory. It is argued, however, that only the first meaning is consistent with all contemporary usages and with contemporary practices within the social sciences; this is therefore proposed as a minimal (core) definition of the concept. The other meanings are regarded as arguments surrounding the core concept.

‘Stuck in structure’: How young leaders experienced the institutional frames at the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, 2012

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 940-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Bodemar ◽  
Eivind Skille
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
New Institutionalism ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
International Olympic Committee ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
New Ideas

The aim of this paper is to explore how young leaders within the Innsbruck Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee experienced the degree of freedom within the institutionalized structure of the International Olympic Committee. Employing a theoretical framework of new institutionalism, a qualitative case study including observations and interviews was conducted. The concept of translation provides a framework for analysing institutional change in organizations, where new ideas are combined with existing institutional practices and translated into new practices to varying degrees. The Innsbruck Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee consisted of young people with experiences from the event industry. This resulted in greater pressure to introduce new institutional solutions to the field. Despite being constrained by coercive pressure from the International Olympic Committee, new innovative elements were translated by the young leaders in the Innsbruck Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee into the International Olympic Committee event. However, the innovations were restricted to areas that the International Olympic Committee defined as less important such as sustainability projects as opposed to important areas like marketing.

scholarly journals Practices in taste maintenance. The case of Indian diaspora markets

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Gowricharn
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
Home Culture ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
Definition Of

This article centres on taste as a crucial driver of consumer behaviour and addresses the issue of how ethnic tastes in hybridized diaspora communities are maintained. The most common answer to this question refers to glocalization, which is briefly described as the adoption (modification) of global elements in the local culture. The article argues that the glocalization of taste occurs through consumer practices, but the concept of practices has been found difficult to apply, as there is no unified definition of it. Accordingly, each time the question of ‘taste for what?’ may be asked. Taste for dresses is something quite different, for example, than the taste for food – and so are the related practices. The concept of taste is therefore specific, as are the operationalized consumer practices. Put differently, taste appears to be a fuzzy concept that must be specified in each case in order to disclose its concrete meaning. Consequently, the article specifies that taste is shaped, maintained and expressed in and through consumer practices that need to display cultural scripts and institutional regularities in the lived culture of the ethnic community. Furthermore, the ethnic lived culture is differentiated from the concepts of ‘everyday ethnicity’, ‘cultural norm images’ and ‘invention of tradition’, detailing the home culture, the community culture and the celebration of traditions, respectively, to highlight how script-driven institutional practices sustain diaspora-related taste. Acknowledging that the specific mode of glocalization varies across diaspora communities, this article elucidates the argument with a case study by Dutch Hindustanis. The article claims that despite being a case study, the maintenance of taste applies to all communities that constitute the Indian diaspora market.

scholarly journals A New ICT Framework to Adopt ICT Projects: KRG Organisations as Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
Shko M. Qader ◽  
Bryar A. Hassan ◽  
Miran Hama Rahim Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communication Framework ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level

In a world dominated by technology people expect fast swift and efficient services, and for governments this means that citizens and companies expect public services to keep pace with this development and be fast and free of routines. Therefore, most of the developed countries became to adopt the e-Government concept where it enables this improvement and utilize information and communication technology (ICT) to serve the citizens.  Basically, the purpose of this research is to provide Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) organisations and the public sector with a means to comprehend what is essential from a digital communication framework perspective to support delivery of an online public service and identify the components required to achieve this goal along with a high level definition of these components. This paper outcomes the establishment of a high-tech government communication infrastructure and applications via investigating the current and future ICT demands for KRG government organisations, conducting two surveys, and interviewing the stakeholders and clients. It also produces a set of recommendation and suggestions and approaches for designing an efficient framework that mediates information securely among KRG organisations and facilitate collaboration and integration among them.

scholarly journals Marginality as a Root Cause of Urban Poverty: A Case Study of Punjab

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (4I-II) ◽  
pp. 629-650
Author(s):  
Kanwal Zahra ◽  
Tasneem Zafar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Definition Of

Historically poverty as a concept was considered to be a key factor to design social policy. The social development normally is concerned with socio-economic empowerment of the poor of the concerned society. It is always been a key issue for developing as well as developed countries, however the nature and treatment of issue varies. The treatment of poverty is different from society to society. In advanced countries, an individual who is unable to actively participate in society or has weak social network, environment, health and education etc. is considered to be poor. Financial empowerment is also considered to be important in these countries but it takes into account with other dimensions of poverty [Lyberak and Tinios (2005)]. However, in developing countries, policy focus is still on uni-dimensional definition of poverty where a single dimension either consumption or income is a strong factor that affects the standard of living of an individual [Wagle (2005)]. Though the multidimensional poverty concept is also getting attractiveness in these countries with a perception that an individual’ status in one dimension cannot represent his status in another dimension but still there remains dearth of policy-making. Another important transformation in the literature on poverty is seen in terms of identification of nexus of marginality, social exclusion and poverty [Ruth, et al. (2007); Zoran, et al. (2006); Whelan and Bartrand (2005)]

Qualitative Case Study Research Design

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Tetnowski
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Real World ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Study Research

Qualitative case study research can be a valuable tool for answering complex, real-world questions. This method is often misunderstood or neglected due to a lack of understanding by researchers and reviewers. This tutorial defines the characteristics of qualitative case study research and its application to a broader understanding of stuttering that cannot be defined through other methodologies. This article will describe ways that data can be collected and analyzed.

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