Rehearsing post-Covid-19 citizenship: Social representations and social practices in UK mutual aid groups

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Jane O'Dwyer ◽  
Beascoechea-Seguí ◽  
Luiz Silva Souza
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World ◽  
Practical Implications

People across the world have responded to the pandemic by mobilising and organising to support their communities, setting up mutual aid groups to provide practical, financial, and social support. Mutual aid means short-term ‘crisis response’ for some, while for other groups, it is a chance to radically restructure society, and what it means to be a member of that society. We applied a social representations lens to examine the ways in which citizenship was understood and performed by members of UK Covid-19 mutual aid groups. Interviews were conducted with 29 members of these groups. A reflexive thematic analysis developed three conceptualisations of citizenship: (1) human rights-based citizenship, untied to concerns around ‘deservingness’ or legal status; (2) neoliberal citizenship, to which participants oriented pragmatically in order to claim their group’s legitimacy at the same time as they rejected its individualism; and (3) resistant citizenship, which captured the tension between working within/with existing political structures, or working outside/against them. Findings are discussed in relation to previous theoretical and empirical work and practical implications for policy makers and local government are set out.

Airbnb, Platform Capitalism and the Globalised Home

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
Nicole Gurran ◽  
◽  
Pranita Shrestha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

Airbnb, the most ubiquitous of the many online short-term rental platforms offering residential homes to tourists, has infiltrated local neighbourhoods and housing markets throughout the world. It has also divided policy-makers and communities over whether tourism in residential homes is a benign example of the so-called ‘sharing’ economy or a malignant practice which destroys neighbourhoods. These differing positions reflect alternative and changing notions of ‘home’ within wider processes of financialisation and platform capitalism. This paper examines these themes with reference to stakeholder statements solicited in response to government inquiries on how to regulate short-term rental housing in Australia.

Scansis as a unique crisis type: theoretical and practical implications

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Timothy Coombs ◽  
Elina R. Tachkova
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Corrective Action ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Crisis Type ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThe purpose of this paper, a set of two studies, is to elaborate on the concept of scansis and its effects upon crisis communication theory and practice. A scansis represents the intersection of a scandal and crisis, essentially when a crisis becomes a scandal. A new term was created due to the varied ways in which the term scandal is used and misused. The effects of scansis on crisis communication are examined through two studies. A scansis is unique because it creates moral outrage and is a function of a perception of injustice coupled with greed.Design/methodology/approachExperimental design is used in both studies to test for the effects of specific crisis response strategies used during a scansis. The crisis response strategies were manipulated to determine whether or not corrective action with moral recognition is more effective at helping organizations during a crisis than those crisis response strategies that do not contain a moral component.FindingsThe two studies found no short-term effect for crisis responses during scansis. This included no difference between corrective action with moral recognition and the other three response conditions for the short-term factors of organizational reputation, negative word-of-mouth intentions, purchase intentions and anger. However, Study 2 found that corrective action with moral recognition was perceived as the most empathetic response and created the lowest levels of moral outrage. The authors postulate that corrective action with moral recognition has a long-term effect after a scansis by creating a positive response that moves organizations away from being stigmatized.Research limitations/implicationsThe results raise questions about the current configuration of the intentional crisis cluster articulated in situational crisis communication theory (SCCT). When just consider assessments crisis responsibility, a scansis would be part of the preventable crisis cluster. However, the evaluation of justice and greed suggest a scansis may be a unique crisis type that does not fit within the intentional crisis cluster and the prescribed short-term effects of crisis response strategies recommend by SCCT. The scansis establishes a boundary condition for the limits of crisis response strategies on short-term effects such as reputation and purchase intention. These findings require us to rethink elements of current crisis communication theory.Practical implicationsThe lack of short-term benefits should not be an argument for abandoning accommodative crisis response strategies. Practitioners need to realize the limits of crisis response strategies for creating short-term benefits and think about the potential long-term benefits offered by crisis response strategies.Originality/valueScansis is a new concept for crisis communication and provides a link between the crisis communication and organizational stigma literatures. The two studies are the first attempts to empirically examine scansis and opens new avenues of thinking and research for crisis communication and organizational stigma researchers.

Creative tourism – providing the answers to a more inclusive society

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 747-751
Author(s):  
Caroline Couret
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Inclusive Society ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose This paper aims to provide an overview of the short-term impact of COVID19 on the new tourism paradigm worldwide, as well imagining how it could influence society’s inclusion. The purpose is thus to share some insight into this unprecedented situation. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a practical and empirical approach, based on readings and conversations with international stakeholders, and contrasted with the Creative Tourism Network’s background. Findings This paper explores the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the tourism industry, human values and intangibles and new opportunities for societal inclusion, together with examples of good practices. Practical implications The viewpoint is based on observation, analysis and conversations with stakeholders around the world. It also draws on examples and practical cases from the destinations’ members of the Creative Tourism Network. Originality/value This paper draws on observation and reflections about the evolution of societal inclusion through new forms of creative and niche tourism, accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis.

Geography and Development

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen J. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Industrial Systems ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
The World

Theories of regional development and growth have hitherto focused for the most part on situations in the more developed countries of the world. There is no reason in principle, however, why these theories should not also apply—with suitable adjustments— to cases in less developed countries. Certainly, economic theorists of late have increasingly sought to deny that we need radically different approaches for dealing with less as opposed to more advanced economies (cf. Bloom and Sachs 1998; Sachs and Warner 1997). In recent years, indeed, a growing body of empirical work has demonstrated that very similar kinds of regional development and growth processes to those found in North America, Western Europe, and Japan are observable in much of the rest of the world. These processes are manifest in localized industrial systems that range from the purely incipient to largescale productive regions with global reach. In the present chapter, I attempt to systematize some of the main theoretical issues that are encountered in any attempt to understand the logic and dynamics of regional production complexes in less developed countries. In addition, I offer a brief review of some of the empirical work that has been undertaken on this question in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, together with some comments on the dilemmas that policy-makers in these areas must face up to in any attempt to promote development. I proceed at the outset by drawing both explicitly and implicitly on three major strands of thought. The first of these is what Krugman (1996) has called High Development Theory, with its central focus on virtuous circles of cumulative causation and balanced growth. The second is the so-called new growth theory, which emphasizes the pervasiveness of dynamic increasing returns effects in the modern economy (Lucas 1988; Romer 1986). The third is contemporary economic geography, where a long tradition of research has underscored the important role of regional clusters of production and work as motors of economic expansion and social progress (cf. Scott and Storper 2003).

An Empirical Examination of Financial Pattern of Infrastructure Sectors in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-227
Author(s):  
Manjunatha T. ◽  
Vikas K M.
Keyword(s):  
Financial Data ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The World ◽  
Infrastructure Finance ◽  
Financing Pattern ◽  
The Individual

Governments around the world have realized that development of infrastructure require huge capital and governments’ revenues are not adequate to develop the required infrastructure. Finance is an essential part of infrastructure development. Whether it is government, public or private sectors which undertake to develop infrastructure, they require different forms of finance. Understanding the financing patterns of companies is an empirical issue. This paper aims at ascertaining the financing patterns of infrastructure companies. We use the financial data of 306 Indian companies in different sectors in India and present the analysis of financing pattern for four sectors. Financing pattern of sample companies has been studied by using 20 different ratios. Result shows that the financing patterns in the construction, steel, cement and power sectors companies in India have used more debt, that too short term debt, to finance their assets as well the operations. Companies in most of these sectors have not been able to generate adequate revenues to service the debts. The result also shows that there is a significant difference in the financing pattern of different infrastructure sectors. The results of the study may be used by investors, policy makers, researchers. Further study may be undertaken to analyse the individual companies in each sector to know the financing pattern.

Venkat Ramaswamy – how value co-creation with stakeholders is transformative for producers, consumers and society

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Leavy
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Corporate Managers ◽  
Capability Building ◽  
The World ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This second part of Strategy & Leadership's interview with Prof. Venkat Ramaswamy, one of the early proponents of co-creating value with stakeholders, asks him about the progress of the “co-creation transformation” of markets on its tenth anniversary and its wider implications for firm strategists and public policy makers. The interview concludes with a remembrance of the late C.K. Prahalad, a co-developer of the theory, and reviews his many contributions to the advancement of strategic management. Design/methodology/approach – This interview considers how the co-creation view starts with interactions as the locus of value and platforms of engagements with individuals as the locus of value creation. Findings – The co-creation paradigm is a dynamic perspective that sees the interaction of customers, employees and other stakeholders as forums for learning and ever-expanding capability building. Practical implications – Strategy as “stretch and leverage” in the world of co-creation becomes about joint aspirations>joint resources. Originality/value – Corporate managers need to understand that leading companies that have successfully adopted the co-creation model follow a simple principle – they focus their entire organization on the engagements with individuals.

Why it pays to be ethical

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 27-29
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Major Consequence ◽  
The World ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Responsible Manner

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – Consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about the world they inhabit. One major consequence is that the onus on business organizations to operate in a socially responsible manner has never been greater. Yet, many operators still regard ethical behavior and business accomplishments as mutually exclusive. Profit rules the roost, and focus is firmly on making short-term gains. Unscrupulous practices come packaged with a heavy price though. Any exposure of questionable actions invariably means a lengthy uphill battle to restore tarnished reputations. Is such a risk really worthwhile? Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Unveiling the Theoretical Mistakes in the World Bank Formation and its Implication on Survival of Africa Monetary Union

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Olatunji Abdul Shobande ◽  
Kingsley Chinonso Mark
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
World Bank Group ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Bank Group ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Developed Nations

Abstract The quest for urgent solution to resolve the world liquidity problem has continued to generate enthusiastic debates among political economists, policy makers and the academia. The argument has focused on whether the World Bank Group was established to enhance the stability of international financial system or meant to enrich the developed nations. This study argues that the existing political interest of the World Bank Group in Africa may serve as lesson learned to other ambitious African Monetary Union.

M. A. Ayuh. Made in Jamaica: The Development of Manufacturing Sector. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1981. xxii+128 pp.

1986 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-95
Author(s):  
Najam-us- Saqib
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Industrial Base ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The World ◽  
Caribbean Country ◽  
Bauxite Ore ◽  
Made In

Jamaica, known in the world for her rich deposits of bauxite ore, is a small Caribbean country with an area of 10991 square kilometers and a population of just over two million individuals. This beautifu11and, which was described by Columbus as "The fairest isle that eyes have beheld" has developed a remarkably diversified manufacturing sector starting from a modest industrial base. Jamaica's manufacturing industry enjoyed a respectable growth rate of about 6 percent per annum during the good old days of the euphoric '50s and '60s. However, those bright sunny days ''when to live was bliss" were followed by the chilling winter of much subdued progress. The rise and fall of growth have aroused considerable interest among economists and policy• makers. The book under review probes the causes of this behaviour by analysing key characteristics of Jamaican manufacturing sector and tracing its path of evolution.

Dirk J. Wolfson. Public Finance and development Strategy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1979. Pp. xiv+264.

1982 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-257
Author(s):  
Zafar Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Council

The world in its politico-economic aspects is run by policy-makers who have an academic background in law or public administration or other related social disciplines including economics. Only rarely would a majority of the policy-makers be trained in economics. In the making of economic policy, the basic choices before the policy-makers are political and they transcend the narrow concerns of economists regarding optimal use of resources. These considerations in no way downgrade the relevance of economic analysis in economic policy-making and for the training of policy-maker in economics. Policy-makers need economic council to understand fully the implications of alternative policy options. In this book, Wolfson attempts to educate policy-makers in the areas of public finance and development strategy. The analysis avoids technicalities and is kept to a simple level to make it understandable to civil servants, law-makers and members of the executive branch whom Wolfson refers to as policy-makers. Simplicity of analysis is not the only distinguishing mark of this book. Most other books on public finance are usually addressed to traditional public finance issues relating to both the revenue and expenditure sides of the budget and neglect an overall mix of issues dealing with the interaction of fiscal policy with economic development. Wolfson in this book explicitly deals with these issues.

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