scholarly journals After the EDEN Genova 2018 Conference - Suggesting a new relevance fronteer

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Dondi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Teaching Evaluation ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Standard Testing ◽  
Education Innovation ◽  
Actual Decision

The fact is not that the “mainstream education” does not see the challenges and the change that is occurring in society, but the key strategy to face change is considered to be the updating of taught contents and the standardisation of learning outcomes, while using more or less the same teaching, evaluation and organisation processes, if necessary supported by technological devices.The questions of learning methods, central role of learners, open-endedness of learning programmes, shift in the assessment and credentialisation methods are frequent in the research agenda and in the international policy debate on education innovation, but, when it comes to actual decision making, the focus is on contents of curriculum, qualifications, standard testing, accreditation, ranking and funding.

Hope behind the critique of grand narratives of collective salvation: remarks on ‘The power of metaphors and narratives’

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
Jus Cogens ◽  
Situated Approach ◽  
Actual Decision

Abstract Kratochwil criticizes two important teleological global narratives of universal progress – Luhmannian systems theory and jus cogens – and defends the need for a non-ideal and situated approach to law and politics. Despite the cogency of Kratochwil's analysis, why should we place our hope in his pragmatic program given the complexity of actual decision-making? This paper shows that more needs to be said about the role of hope grounding Kratochwil's account. Which hopes are hopeless, and which warranted? Why should we care and ‘go on’, choosing to be prudential and political rather than focusing on one's inner development or pleasure?

Social Learner Decision Making

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carter Rees ◽  
L. Thomas Winfree
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Social Learning Theory ◽  
Statistical Models ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Matching Law ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
The Social

Social learning theory is one of the leading theories in the field of criminology. This chapter provides an overview of the role of choice and human agency within the theoretical framework of social learning and their integrative importance for understanding delinquency and crime. Emphasis is placed on research stemming from Herrnstein’s matching law, choice allocation, and statistical models of social learning as applied to social networks. The chapter provides a unifying discussion of choice-based theories of behavior, elaborates on existing statistical models used to test these choice-based and social learning theories, and suggests topics for an innovative research agenda grounded in the relevant literature. In addition, the chapter articulates a research agenda that will help researchers further promote empirical and theoretical advancements in the social learning tradition of criminology.

On the presentation of statistical analysis: reason or ritual

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1185-1191 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Experimental Situation ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Quantitative Information ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Actual Decision

This paper addresses the shortcomings in the presentation of statistical analyses appearing in this and similar journals. The role of statistical analysis is, in general terms, to provide criteria to assist in decision making under conditions of uncertainty. Commonly, this means deciding whether two treatments yield different results based on an experiment. The actual decision or interpretation must remain the responsibility of the researcher and, thus, can and should contain elements of subjectivity. There is, therefore, a need to separate the objective (statistical) analysis of data from its interpretation as well as to present all of the relevant information concerning the objective analysis. Current deficiencies in presentation include (i) failure to specify the assumptions on which an analysis is based, (ii) failure to provide sufficient quantitative information, (iii) failure to match the statistical analysis to the experimental situation, and (iv) failure to consider whether the assumptions on which an analysis has been based have been violated to an extent that would invalidate the results. Examples of these deficiencies from recent issues of this journal are cited with, where possible, suggestions on how the presentation could be improved. The present unfortunate situation is due to misinformation or lack of information, which stems in part, if not completely, from the ritualistic use of a few statistical methods and, in particular, statistical packages for computers that simply present the results of applying these methods, properly or otherwise.

scholarly journals Fear and international law-making: An exploratory inquiry

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bianchi ◽  
Anne Saab
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
International Law ◽  
Food Contamination ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Exploratory Inquiry ◽  
Law Making ◽  
Legal Processes

AbstractEmotions play an important role in cognition and have a significant and all too often neglected influence on (international) law-making processes. Fear, in particular, can be a driver of reasoning and decision-making. Fear of terrorism / immigrants / health threats / food contamination / environmental hazards – to give a few notable examples – influences the perception of risks associated with these issues and consequently impacts international policy- and law-making. International law rules and doctrines are often adopted – if not overtly justified – on the basis of fear and other emotions. This article aims to explore how fear – as both an individual and collective emotion – may affect decision-making processes, be determinative of normative outcomes, and shape security policies at the domestic and international levels. This approach deviates from traditional rationalist understandings of law and emphasizes the role of emotions in apprehending the nature and functioning of legal processes. Hopefully, this exploration will open up interesting avenues for further research on the role of emotions in international legal processes.

scholarly journals Le rôle de l'État dans l'élaboration des choix énergétiques et le rôle plus spécifique des différentes institutions publiques en France

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 737-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Turpin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Energy Part ◽  
Real Seat ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Actual Decision

This paper surveys the role of the key governmental institutions in the making of energy policy in France. It shows that in spite of fairly extensive debate of the issues in both chambers of the French National Assembly since the mid-1970s, members of parliament have so far failed to make a significant impact on decision-making in the field of energy. Part of this is due to the strength of the Cabinet's influence over the National Assembly, and to its constitutional position as policy-maker. Moreover, in spite of a vast array of departmental branches and associated agencies directly under ministerial authority, the government's power may have been more formal than real. Much of the actual decision-making is made by experts employed by the large State or privately-owned corporations. This extensive network of closely connected energy-producing corporations appears to have been, and to remain, the real seat of power, in spite of recurrent hopes for, and attempts at, democratization.

Yaqoob biscuit manufacturers – missing contingency plan

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Abdul Rehman Shaikh ◽  
Asad Ali Qazi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Supply Chain Resilience ◽  
Contingency Plan ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Working Day

Learning outcomes The learning outcomes are as follows: to describe the possible problems in cross hierarchical and cross-functional coordination; to illustrate the month/year-end closing operations related issues at logistics and warehousing end; to analyze the importance of supply chain resilience/ contingency plan; and to compare the role of the tradeoff in decision-making: ethics (policies) vs operations. Case overview/synopsis Mr Azhar Ali working as a regional distribution manager was waiting for the finalization of sales orders, it was the last working day of the financial year. He had to fulfill all the orders to achieve his personal and organizational goals. He was excited as he was supposed to be promoted and transferred to Head Office on a national role, after a successful annual closing. It was not too late when his excitement turned into anxiety when he received a never expected direct call from Director Sales. Around 7:00 p.m., he was informed of some new orders for an important institutional customer, which was out of his own region. The orders were placed in Ali’s region because of stocks’ availability. Ali had no time to plan this huge order and there were no dispatch trucks available at that time. Should Ali take risk of organizational goals and his promotion and cancel those orders? Should Ali generate sales invoices to record sales and dispatch the stocks on next day compromising the organizational core values and policies? Complexity academic level BBA. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 9: Operations and logistics.

scholarly journals Approaching Multifunctionality by a ‘Normative View’: Finnish Farmers’ Visions on Contemporary Agriculture

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fulvio Rizzo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food Production ◽  
The Other ◽  
Market Liberalization ◽  
Agricultural Change ◽  
International Level ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Policy Context

Abstract Productivity alone is not the most important defining character of contemporary agriculture. On the grounds of the dominant models of market liberalization and multifunctionality, farmers have been urged to take new roles beyond food production. By deploying a ’normative’ view of multifunctionality, based on the acknowledgment of spatial heterogeneity, and on an actor-oriented explanation of agricultural change, this paper investigates Finnish farmers’ visions on the redefined and redifining role of contemporary agriculture. From a review and anaylsis of sixteen qualitative semi-structured interviews, it emerges that such visions — through their components of identity, opponent, and project — are constructed upon three factors which are linked to each other to a various extent: 1) farming contingent conditions (as location, climate, terrain); 2) externalities (including international policy environment, and market liberalization); 3) farmers’ personal views on profitability and risk. In a policy context dominated by uncertainty, decision-making has shifted mainly from the national to the international level, and the collected data supports the dominance of productivist actions and thoughts. On one hand, farmers still tend to prioritize the continuity of production, which contribute both to resistance identity, and to the identification of a variety of opponents. Yet on the other hand, farmers are, to an embryonic stage, upgrading themselves to meet the challenges faced by contemporary agriculture.

The Role of Education in the Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Emergency Medicine: A Research Agenda

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1362-1367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther H. Chen ◽  
Hemal K. Kanzaria ◽  
Kaoru Itakura ◽  
Juanita Booker-Vaughns ◽  
Kabir Yadav ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Shared Decision

Legitimacy Problems in Deliberative Democracy

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Parkinson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Collective Decision ◽  
Collective Decision Making ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Driving Current ◽  
Electoral Representation

The classic accounts of deliberative democracy are also accounts of legitimacy: ‘that outcomes are legitimate to the extent they receive reflective assent through participation in authentic deliberation by all those subject to the decision in question’ ( Dryzek, 2001, p. 651 ). And yet, in complex societies deliberative participation by all those affected by collective decision-making is extremely implausible. There are also legitimacy problems with the demanding procedural requirements which deliberation imposes on participants. Given these problems, deliberative democracy seems unable to deliver legitimate outcomes as it defines them. Focusing on the problem of scale, this paper offers a tentative solution using representation, a concept which is itself problematic. Along the way, the paper highlights issues with the legitimate role of experts, the different legitimate uses of statistical and electoral representation, and differences between the research and democratic imperatives driving current attempts to put deliberative principles into practice, illustrated with a case from a Leicester health policy debate. While much work remains to be done on exactly how the principles arrived at might be transformed into working institutions, they do offer a means of criticising existing deliberative practice.

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