scholarly journals TOURISM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH COMMUNITIES’ SUPPORT: RURAL COMMUNITIES’ PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4 supplement) ◽  
pp. 1473-1482
Author(s):  
Md. Abdul ALIM ◽  
◽  
Teck Weng JEE ◽  
Mung Ling VOON ◽  
Kwang Sing NGUI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Positive Impacts

Rural tourist destinations are a growing segment of global tourism. The rural communities in these destinations play a major role in delivering tourist services, attractions, and accommodation. Any tourism development, therefore, requires host community support if it is to attain long term success. The proposed study aims to investigate tourism development through communities’ support in the context of rural communities’ perspectives. The Social Exchange Theory was employed to develop the conceptual framework for this study. A total of 266 residents from sampled households at rural communities in a developing country were surveyed. The study employed the Partial Least-Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) analysis. The findings of this study revealed that the community’s participation in the decision-making of tourism matters has a significant influence on residents’ support for tourism development. Tourism stakeholders as well as rural host communities will benefit from these findings which will outline how community’s participation in tourism decision-making influence them to be supportive for tourism development. This study analyses the direct effect of host communities’ perceived positive and negative impacts of tourism, participation in tourism decision making towards support for tourism development, and perceived positive impacts towards community participation. A quantitative survey method was carried out to collect data for testing the significance of the proposed relationships in the conceptual framework of the study. The study recruited rural host communities at the Dhangmari village located in the district of Khulna in Bangladesh. Host communities’ perceived positive and negative impacts of tourism can influence them to support for tourism development in rural communities. Notably, community participation in tourism decision-making process has a greater role to enhance host communities’ support towards tourism development in rural communities as it assists to alleviate their confusion and conflict on such a development, particularly, in developing countries. This study further explored an indirect effect of community participation in tourism decision making between host communities’ positive impacts of tourism and support for tourism development. Thus, local authorities should provide more opportunities for host communities to be involved both in tourism operations and decision-making process.

scholarly journals Decision-making process for introduction of maternal vaccines in Kenya, 2017–2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Otieno ◽  
Fauzia A. Malik ◽  
Stacy W. Nganga ◽  
Winnie N. Wairimu ◽  
Dominic O. Ouma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Maternal Immunization ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
High Level

Abstract Background Maternal immunization is a key strategy for reducing morbidity and mortality associated with infectious diseases in mothers and their newborns. Recent developments in the science and safety of maternal vaccinations have made possible development of new maternal vaccines ready for introduction in low- and middle-income countries. Decisions at the policy level remain the entry point for maternal immunization programs. We describe the policy and decision-making process in Kenya for the introduction of new vaccines, with particular emphasis on maternal vaccines, and identify opportunities to improve vaccine policy formulation and implementation process. Methods We conducted 29 formal interviews with government officials and policy makers, including high-level officials at the Kenya National Immunization Technical Advisory Group, and Ministry of Health officials at national and county levels. All interviews were recorded and transcribed. We analyzed the qualitative data using NVivo 11.0 software. Results All key informants understood the vaccine policy formulation and implementation processes, although national officials appeared more informed compared to county officials. County officials reported feeling left out of policy development. The recent health system decentralization had both positive and negative impacts on the policy process; however, the negative impacts outweighed the positive impacts. Other factors outside vaccine policy environment such as rumours, sociocultural practices, and anti-vaccine campaigns influenced the policy development and implementation process. Conclusions Public policy development process is complex and multifaceted by its nature. As Kenya prepares for introduction of other maternal vaccines, it is important that the identified policy gaps and challenges are addressed.

A conceptual framework for wisdom-based decision-making process in audit profession

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang To Loan Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Ethical Orientation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
External Auditors ◽  
Wise Decision ◽  
Knowledge Assimilation

PurposeWisdom is considered as crucial in decision-making in both management and auditing practice. This research aims to investigate the concept of wisdom in auditing, thereby empirically exploring the determinants of wisdom in audit decision-making and explaining inter-relations among these determinants.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs grounded theory methodology that is based on in-depth interviews with twenty-seven practicing auditors who are audit partners, managers, seniors and assistants of auditing firms. Guided by the grounded theory, data collection and data analyses were conducted simultaneously to look into the new insights of the research phenomenon. The coding process was constantly compared until the research's theoretical saturation is reached after four rounds. At the end of the research process, the study conducted a survey to confirm the proposed framework as well as examine the inter-relationships between the defined determinants.FindingsResults suggest developing a conceptual framework to interpret wisdom-based decision-making process in auditing. A wise process of audit decision-making is defined as an integrated exercise of multiple determinants including knowledge assimilation, judgmental ability and ethical orientation. The research also explains and examines the potential interrelationships among these determinants in the audit decision-making process.Practical implicationsWisdom is a valuable tacit ability for all external auditors. The development of wise decision-making abilities of auditors should be considered an integral part of multiple virtues including knowledge and judgmental and ethical aspects.Originality/valueThe contributions of this study are original and significant because it proposes a new approach to explain for the audit decision-making process and enhances better understandings of the concept of wisdom in auditing practices and its roles in audit decision-making.

An Integrated Model of Pop Culture Fans’ Travel Decision-Making Processes

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 687-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
SoJung Lee ◽  
HakJun Song ◽  
Choong-Ki Lee ◽  
James F. Petrick
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Aida Model ◽  
Travel Decision ◽  
Goal Directed Behavior

This study integrated the Model of Goal-directed Behavior (MGB) and the Attention, Interest, Desire, and Actions (AIDA) model into a conceptual framework to examine how pop culture influences decisions to visit a pop culture–featured destination. Findings revealed that visit intentions were significantly influenced by variables in the two models (MGB and AIDA), highlighting that attention to pop culture and positive anticipated emotions played important roles in unifying them. Results suggest that the integrated framework offers a comprehensive and coherent perspective on the complicated decision-making process of pop culture fans, which enhances the explanatory power for predicting future intentions. Thus, this paper offers an innovative approach to integrating models from the disciplines of psychology and advertising.

Top Down or Bottom Up? A Study of Grassroots NGOs’ Approach

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biswambhar Panda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Advocacy Activity ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
Government Authority

NGOs deploy multiple approaches to achieve their objectives. These may broadly be classified as bottom up and top down. While a bottom-up approach emphasises local decision making, community participation and grassroots mobilisation/movements, the top-down approach focuses on lobbying and bargaining with the decision-making authorities such as government agencies, building up of pressures through various campaign mechanisms, advocacy activities, etc. This article draws insights from the literature and begins with a discussion on approaches undertaken by grassroots NGOs to meet their objectives. At the outset, the article ponders over a set of questions such as whether grassroots NGOs essentially follow a bottom-up approach. If so, why? Do they also intend to establish rapport with the state officials and thereby have say in the decision-making process? If so, how do they pursue it? This article, however, operationalises the bottom-up approach in terms of an array of indicators such as awareness building efforts of NGOs, people's participation in different phases of projects, and people's involvement in creating people's institutions. Similarly, it defines top-down approach on the basis of indicators such as NGOs’ participation in advocacy activity, obtaining support from government authority and obtaining favourable court verdicts. Despite the rhetoric, this article conclusively finds that no grassroots NGO practices either a bottom-up or top-down approach exclusively.

scholarly journals Indigenous Collaborative Governance: An Understanding of Decision-Making Process at Desa Adat in Bali, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Md Putri Wiyantari Sutaryantha ◽  
Bevaola Kusumasari
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Depth Interviews

The decision-making process that took place at desa adat (indigenous village) involved many actors and stakeholders from various elements of the community, to achieve a common goal. This research highlights the linkages of indigenous collaborative governance among actors involved in the decision-making process at Balinese Desa Adat, Indonesia. This research has, thus, discovered how indigenous collaborative governance was linked to the decision-making process and linked to the implementation of local governance, especially in the implementation of Adat in Bali Province. This study emphasizes the extensive use of public administration literature about collaborative governance and the decision-making process. Additionally, in-depth interviews and live experience in desa adat were conducted, as it is aimed to explore and understand more about the case. The result provided aligned with the conceptual framework because all of the actual implementation of the decision-making process at Desa Adat Peliatan met the criteria or indicators of collaborative governance. It showed that there was an involvement of indigenous collaborative governance in the process of decision-making at the desa adat level. The practical implication, in this case, is that collaboration matters in the decision-making process involving various elements of society with diverse interests.

scholarly journals IDENTIFIKASI FAKTOR -FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI PENGAMBILAN KEPUTUSAN DALAM PENGADOPSIAN PAKET TEKNOLOGI BUDIDAYA UDANG DI TANAH LAUT KALIMANTAN SELATAN

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Achmad Azizi ◽  
Hikmah Hikmah
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Shrimp Culture ◽  
Internal Characteristic ◽  
Capital Access ◽  
Culture Technology

Riset ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi pengambilan keputusan dalam pengadopsian paket teknologi budidaya udang telah dilakukan pada tahun 2006 di kabupaten Tanah Laut, lokasi riset adalah Kabupaten Tanah Laut Propinsi Kalimantan Selatan. Riset Ini menggunakan metoda survey. Data yang dikumpulkan dalam riset ini adalah data primer dan data sekunder. Data primer diperoleh melalui wawancara menggunakan kuesioner terstruktur kepada responden, Jumlah responden dalam riset ini adalah 30 orang. Disamping itu dalam riset ini untuk mengali informasi melibatkan pembudidaya udang, tokoh masyarakat, kelembagaan terkait dan Dinas Perikanan setempat serta observasi lapangan. Hasil Riset menunjukkan bahwa faktor faktor yang mempangaruhi pengambilan keputusan secara diskriptif adalah 66,66 % keputusan diambil secara individu. Akan tetapi apabila dilihat dari karakteristik internal hasil analisis statistk, koefisien korelasi (rs) faktor faktor yang mempengaruhi pengambilan keputusan dalam pengadopsian paket teknologi budidaya udang adalah umur ( 0,820**), pendidikan formal (0,529), tingkat pendapatan (0,821**), kekosmopolitan (0,785**), pengalaman berusaha (0,660**), pola nafkah (0,744**)dan tingkat kepercayaan (0,486*). Kemudian apabila dilihat dari faktor eksternal, faktor yang mempengaruhi adalah keuntungan (0,789**), mudah untuk diusahakan (0,493*), referensi group (0,724**), akses modal (0,747**) dan ketersediaan informasi. (0,818**). Hal ini memperlihatkan bahwa faktor tersebur mempunyai hubungan yang erat pengambilan keputusan. Tittle: Indentification of Factor Enfluencing to Decision Making Process in the Adoption of Shrimp Culture Technological Package in the Tanah Laut, Kalimantan SelatanThis research aimed to study factors enfluencing decision making process in adopting technological package of shrimp culture in 2006. The research was done in Tanah Laut, the district in South Kalimantan. The research used survey method, Primary and secondary data were used in this study. Primary data were collected by interview using structured questionaire to 30 respondents, consisting of shrimp farmer, informal social leader and related institution. Result of the study showed that factors that influence decision making were taken individually (66,66%). Moreover, it can be seen from internal characteristic of coefficient corelation statistic by which, factors that influence decision making in shrimp culture technology package adopting were age (0,820**), formal education (0,529), income level (0,821**), cosmopolitan (0,785**), capital access (0,747**) and information availibility (0,818**). It showed that those factors have a tight relationship with decision making usiness.

scholarly journals Management Capacity of Educational Office in The Provision of Basic Education Services (Studi in Banyumas Regency)

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 01043
Author(s):  
M Faozanudin ◽  
LS Sulistiani
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Index Value ◽  
Heads Of State

This paper aims to analyse the local government management capacity in the implementation of education services in Banyumas Regency. The research is based on the perception of the principal against the management process undertaken by the education service District Banyumas, which is carried out by the survey method, with the respondents of the heads of State Primary Schools in the Banyumas Regency. The results of the study indicate that in general the implementation of basic education management at the education office is already underway, and still needs a lot of improvement. Perspective index value The principal of the Office of Education is only 66.96. Some of the problems that need to be improved include: first, there is still a lack of coordination in the process of preparing programs and activities in the education office, which concerns education services in education units. Second, the management decision-making process tends to be slow in the education office, although in some cases, the decision-making process has involved subordinates and stakeholders. Third, there is still a less of transparency in the budgeting process carried out by the education office, especially for the budget allocated for education units, and the fourth, the procedures for the procurement and maintenance of educational facilities and infrastructure are also still less transparent.

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