scholarly journals Applying Storytelling Approach to Analyze Kojima Jeans District Based on Slow Fashion Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13651
Author(s):  
Aki Nagano
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Business Leadership ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Slow Fashion

This study conducted a case study of Kojima district in Japan, which underwent a rise and fall through the past booms, disruptive innovation, international politics, and changes in government policy. Today, the district has successfully regenerated, and the regeneration is linked to fashion localism. This study aimed to explore how the Kojima district sustained community-based fashion business and analyzed the factors that contributed to its regeneration from the slow fashion viewpoint. This study employed a case study analysis, using the storytelling approach, and established an analytical framework based on keywords derived from slow fashion, namely localism, quality, and value. The results indicate that the strategies of business leadership, improvement in quality, a willingness to address new challenges, success in authenticating strategies, clustering fashion business, path dependency, and maintaining workers and the fashion business community contributed to promoting a series of industrial structural adjustments in Kojima and sustaining the community-based fashion business.

How Can Success of IT Implementations Be Measured?

2014 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Elad Harison
Keyword(s):  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Decision Supporting ◽  
Business Entities

The number of applied Business Intelligence (BI) systems is rapidly increasing worldwide, serving a broad range of sectors and business applications. BI systems serve a broad range of sectors and business applications by performing functions that consist of managing clients, resources, and employees through the collection and analysis of data that assist in describing these business entities and the various attributes of these objectives. Even though BI solutions have been implemented worldwide and the experience gained in implementation projects has largely enriched the academic research in this field, IT literature still lacks a uniform methodology for assessing the effects that BI systems have on business processes and organizations. Additionally, should any part of the BI implementation project fail to satisfy user needs or achieve the benefits expected from them, it is important to identify the failure's extent and sources in order to avoid financial and operational losses in similar projects. This chapter presents an analytical framework to help measure the success of implementations of various types of Business Intelligence systems, including Online Analytical Processing, Knowledge Management, and Decision Supporting tools. The framework and methodology presented here serve as a basis for evaluating the possible effects of technical, organizational, and personal factors on the success, partial success, or failure of BI system implementations. The framework is demonstrated via a case study analysis of a BI system implementation in an energy firm.

Comprehensive Trace Processing: A Qualitative Innovation in Social Science Case Study Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Evan Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Independent Variables

This paper proposes a new social science oriented methodological approach to examining the behavior of different policymaker’s actions in the process of shaping and implementing public policies. Under this new model, the policymakers’ behavior constitutes the dependent variable under observation in the study while various external mechanisms are treated as independent variables acting to manipulate policy outcomes. Each of the objects studied in their respective models, as well as each of the external mechanisms, are inextricably intertwined in the political systems which enact, adjudicate, and ultimately implement policy. As complex organizations, these dependent variables are infinitely complicated and their behavioral patterns subject to multiple independent variable impacts. This proposed case study model will focus on individual cases that allow for an in depth examination of events and draw inferential causal connections using a number of innovative techniques. The mechanisms of policy change, or the independent variables, will additionally be explored using a case study analysis and intervening causal factors will be carefully examined by using within case analysis to plot interrelationships among event observations. The validity of a hypothesis would be rigorously tested by both within-case analyses, and will be supplemented by a comparative cross-case analysis when appropriate, and further bolstered by a novel interview process to reject or reinforce inferential assumptions drawn from the model. This unique combination of qualitative testing methodologies when applied in linear sequence creates a rigorous analytical framework with enhanced internal and external model validity that can be utilized across social science disciplines.   Keywords - Social Sciences, Qualitative Innovation, comprehensive trace processing, policy change, Vietnam

Chelmsford during the industrial revolution, c.1790–1840

Urban History ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEIL RAVEN
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
History Of

Were England's old shire towns marginalized from the process of economic change during the period of the classical Industrial Revolution? A number of contributors to The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, Vol. II make this claim, others emphasize the continued relevance of these towns in the emerging industrial age. With few investigations undertaken into the county towns of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, detailed case study analysis is needed. Using trade directories to profile Chelmsford's business community, this article presents evidence of a dynamic and prosperous urban economy.

scholarly journals Demystifying Disruptive Innovation Phenomenon: Economic and Societal Impacts

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 9-24
Author(s):  
Roula TABBAH ◽  
Alex MARITZ
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Disruptive Innovation Theory ◽  
Societal Impacts

This research aims to demystify disruptive innovation phenomena and its economic and societal impacts. The study is investigative in nature and highlights the gap between the current endorsed disruptive innovation theory and the actual impacts of the phenomena as evident in markets, industries, and societies. The study adopts a positivism philosophical approach and deductive reasoning that builds on secondary data from literature across multiple disciplines that have a strong correlation with the research topic and case study analysis of five market-leading organizations that have significantly impacted their respective industries. The paper presents a comprehensive definition and a conceptual framework that provides an appropriate illustration of the term disruptive innovation based on the conceptual findings. The findings reveal that despite challenging mainstream incumbents, disruptive innovation yields positive impacts on economies, consumers and societies. The research concludes by advocating further research to empirically test the conceptual framework and validate it through primary data and assess its generalizability.

scholarly journals Self-Storytelling Phenomenon in Social Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-166
Author(s):  
Ika Angela
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Moving Images

In this era of technology, the emergence of social media affects people behavior. They can make their self- storytelling using some features in social media to show their existence, achievement, and happiness in life. These people include filmmaker. If in the past every filmmaker was only seen behind the scenes, now they can show their activities through photos and videos (moving images) in public. Therefore this paper aims to find out whether or not this self-storytelling phenomenon is also experienced by filmmakers in Indonesia. The method that will be used in this paper are literature study and a case study analysis of Indonesian filmmaker, Anggy Umbara, and Fajar Bustomi. Both of them are the filmmaker who managed to make their films become the top two films with the highest number of viewers in Indonesia. Social media that used to conduct this research is Instagram. The results shows that their Instagram post fulfill four important component of storytelling (perspective, narrative, interactivity and medium), thus they also experienced the phenomenon of self-storytelling in social media.

scholarly journals Torn between patriotic, civic and disciplinary aspirations. Evolving faces of Belgian and Flemish history education, from 1830 to the future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse
Keyword(s):  
History Education ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
School Subject ◽  
The Past ◽  
School History ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
Current Reform

Torn between patriotic, civic and disciplinary aspirations. Evolving faces of Belgian and Flemish history education, from 1830 to the futureHistory education worldwide faces competing, rival visions and even contrasting expectations. Those expectations can be clustered in three main groups, each pursuing a different main goal for and a different approach towards studying the past: ‘nation-building and social cohesion’, ‘democratic participation and civic behavior’, and ‘disciplinary understanding’. This contribution examines how secondary school history education in Belgium (since its establishment in 1830) has been given shape, and how its main goals have evolved. Belgium (and later on Flanders) serves as an interesting case study, as the country testifies to a difficult, contested past, has evolved into a nation-state in decline, and is increasingly characterized by intercontinental immigration. Using the three clusters of rival expectations as an analytical framework, it is analyzed what the consecutive main goals for the school subject of history have been, which changes occurred throughout the past two centuries and why, and what have been the effects of these different types of history education on young people. The analysis allows to discern three main stages in the history of history education in Belgium/Flanders. For all three, the main goals are explained, and their effects examined. This contribution concludes with critically discussing the different aims, and, while reporting on the current reform of the school subject of history in Flanders, setting a fourth aim to the fore. Rozziew pomiędzy aspiracjami patriotycznymi, obywatelskimi i zrozumieniem dyscypliny. Ewolucja oblicza nauczania historii w szkołach Belgii i Flandrii od 1830 roku i jego przyszłośćNa całym świecie nauczanie historii napotyka konkurujące i rywalizujące ze sobą wyobrażenia, a nawet rodzi sprzeczne oczekiwania. Oczekiwania owe można ująć w trzy kompleksy zasadniczych zagadnień, przy czym każdy z nich ma inny główny cel studiowania przeszłości i inaczej do niego podchodzi; są to: „budowanie narodu i spójność społeczna”, „demokratyczna partycypacja i postawy obywatelskie” oraz „rozumienie dyscypliny”. Artykuł omawia, w jaki sposób kształtowało się nauczanie historii w szkołach średnich w Belgii (od jej powstania w 1830 roku) i jak ewoluowały jego główne cele. Belgia (a później Flandria) służy jako interesujący przypadek badawczy, gdyż kraj ten doświadczył trudnej, kontestowanej przeszłości, stał się państwem jednonarodowym w upadku i coraz bardziej właściwa mu jest międzykontynentalna imigracja. Wykorzystując wspomniane wyżej trzy kompleksy złożonych oczekiwań jako analityczne ramy badawcze, autor analizuje najistotniejsze zadania, które stoją przed przedmiotem szkolnym historia, następnie omawia zmiany, które zaszły w tym zakresie w minionych dwóch stuleciach i wyjaśnia ich przyczyny, a wreszcie docieka, jaki wpływ odmienne rodzaje nauczania historii wywarły na młodych ludzi. Analiza pozwala wyróżnić trzy zasadnicze etapy w dziejach nauczania historii w Belgii / Flandrii. Autor objaśnia, jakie główne cele stały przed wszystkimi trzema grupami i jakie przyniosły efekty. Artykuł zamyka krytyczna ocena omawianych celów oraz przedstawienie aktualnie mającej miejsce reformy przedmiotu szkolnego historia we Flandrii, a na końcu wskazanie czwartego celu: edukacji na przyszłość. [Trans. by Jacek Serwański]

Bureaucratic Politics and the Shaping of Policies: Can We Measure Pulling and Hauling Games?

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Michaud
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Test ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Bureaucratic Politics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
Excellent Tool

This article re-evaluates Graham Allison's approach to bureaucratic politics in the second edition of his Essence of Decision, authored with Philip Zelikow. Although the renewed analytical framework still appears to be an excellent tool for describing policy decision-making processes, the numerous criticisms it received in the past with respect to its difficult operationalization is a problem left unsolved. To respond to this major difficulty, the author of this article combines Vincent Lemieux's structuration of power with Allison's approach. In order to validate the ensuing model, an empirical test is then conducted using the case study of the 1987 Canadian White Paper on Defence. This original proposition opens up avenues of research in the fields of foreign as well as public policy making.

Accommodation and Reformation in The Family/Children of God

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Shepherd ◽  
Gordon Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Moral Identity ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Internal Standards ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
Religious Accommodation ◽  
Family Leadership

This article presents a case study analysis of recent institutional changes occurring in The Family, a well-known international movement originally called The Children of God. The Family is now flourishing well into its third generation in spite of intense external opposition that portrays it as an insidious cult. During the past ten years since the death of its founder, David Berg, The Family has dramatically changed many of its organizational modes of operation. These new developments have rational democratizing, and worldly accommodation implications that enhance organizational viability and prospects for success, while simultaneously threatening the group's internal standards and moral identity. Family leadership has imposed several retrenchment campaigns on Family homes worldwide to offset what are seen as the corrupting consequences of too much worldly accommodation. Tensions generated by these changes and reactions to them are analyzed in this article within sociological models of religious accommodation. The data for this article were obtained from extensive interviews with Family co-leaders Maria and Peter, and from close readings of key Family documents.

scholarly journals Community-based grassroot communication strategies, process and product: The drawings that saved our hospital

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 02009
Author(s):  
Michel Mounayar
Keyword(s):  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Communication Techniques ◽  
Graphic Communication ◽  
Community Based Design ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Definition Of

A case-study analysis of an urban design communication strategy employed by our university-based design team entrusted with re-envisioning the uncertain future of a local small-town community hospital in Indiana. The design process is carefully constructed from structured public input, and community participation, whereby students, faculty, physicians, nurses, as well as ordinary citizens combine their efforts to strategically develop their ‘plan for planning’. Finding a strategy to define the scope of their future needs and the definition of important priorities to organize the project scope prior to engaging professional consultants. In this scenario, the design team is only the guide and translator, working closely with stakeholders to help them visualize and clarify the aspirations of their town. This paper will present our community-based design methods and most importantly our graphic communication techniques, specifically formulated to envision and facilitate consensus for a new unified public health system in a small Midwestern American city.

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