scholarly journals Assessing the Value Extension Adds to Decision- Making Among Natural Resources Leaders

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (spring 2021) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Rimsaite ◽  
Melissa Kreye
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Flexible Tool ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Extension Professionals ◽  
The Impact

Extension professionals face challenges in quantifying the impact of their efforts in advancing the decision-making process inherent in setting natural resources policy. We developed a flexible tool that measures the impact of improving decision makers’ planning efforts. The tool consists of two sets of survey questions that can be modified to fit an Extension program’s goals. We illustrated how to use the tool by surveying leaders working with private forest owners to advance natural resources management. However, the tool can be of use to Extension professionals across various program areas.

scholarly journals Nature value: the evolution of this concept

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Sabrina Soares da Silva ◽  
Ricardo Pereira Reis ◽  
Patrícia Aparecida Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Environment Management ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
The Impact

More attention has been paid to environmental matters in recent years, mainly due to the current scenario of accentuated environmental degradation. The economic valuation of nature goods can contribute to the decision-making process in environment management, generating a more comprehensive informational base. This paper aims to present, in a historic perspective, the different concepts attributed to nature goods and were related to the current predominant perspectives of nature analyses. For this purpose, this paper presents the different concepts attributed to value since the pre-classical period, when nature were viewed as inert and passive providers of goods and services, this view legitimized nature's exploration without concern over the preservation and conservation of nature. The capacity of nature to absorb the impact of human action appears to be reaching its limit, considering the irreversibility, the irreproducibility and the possibility of collapse. The appropriate method for valuing natural resources is not known, but more important than the method is to respect and incorporate the particular characteristics of the nature goods into this process. These characteristics must be valuated in order to arrive at a more consistence approach to nature value and promote sustainability.

scholarly journals The impact of information technology in decision making process of companies in Kosovo

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Emin Qerim Neziraj ◽  
Aferdita Berisha Shaqiri
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Decision Maker ◽  
Business Process ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Future Business

Before the decision makers set much higher requirements in the decision-making than ever before due to the environment of decision-makers subject to change under the influence of progress and development of new technologies, networking individual or organization inside and the outside environment, and modern means of communication enabling continuous inflow, flow and sharing of data and information. In these modern conditions the process of collecting, analyzing, selecting data and information to make informed decisions in the context of possible restrictions and the available options, and ultimately making decisions as the basis for future business or behavior, is not simplified. The use of new technologies in the decision-making process provided numerous opportunities to facilitate decisions selection. However, the decision maker should still be able to differentiate which knowledge should be used to serve in decision making, and which models, methods, tools, systems, and procedures to be used in certain situations, with the purpose of successful decision selection. In this paper, we will examine the decision making process during the business process of the companies in Kosovo.

scholarly journals Behavioural Accounting Explained through Different Factors

2022 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
BASMA BEN NEFISSA BEN NEFISSA ◽  
Faouzi Jilani Jilani
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Behavioral Accounting ◽  
Positive Theory ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Accounting Reports ◽  
The Impact

<p><em> </em><em>The positive theory of accounting initiated by Watts and Zinmerman in 1978 postulates that the purpose of accounting is to describe, explain and predict accounting facts. The major contribution of this theory is to analyze the effect of accounting output on the main recipients of financial statements. However, in spite of its notable contributions, the positive theory of accounting falls short of studying the context in which the decision-making process by agents takes place s. It has been proved that this context conditions the decision-making process. Numerous studies have therefore been interested in the characteristics of the environment, which include both, organizational factors and individual factors that would condition decisions. It is from this perspective that behavioural accounting, a branch of accounting defined by Hofsted and Kinard (1970) as the analysis of the attitudes of accountants andparticularly non-accountants under the prism of the impact of accounting andparticularly accounting reports, has been developed. Thus, in many fields, both accounting and non-accounting, researchers have felt the need to take a closer look at the behavioural dimension, mainly theemotional and cognitive dimensions of decision-makers, particularly executives, because these dimensions have a significant influence on the decision-making process.</em></p><p><em>In the first part of our article, we will therefore show how the development of behavioral research has taken place in many fields. The aim is to prove that man is not a machine and that man’s specificities, both cognitive and emotional, must be rigorously analyzed to avoid unexpected results .Subsequently, we present a more or less diverse range of work on behavioral accounting . Finally, we prove through a careful and rigorous review of the accounting literature that behavioral accounting offers the opportunity for researchers, particularly practitioners, to be apprehended and thus evaluated through different faculties.</em></p>

scholarly journals Cost Reduction and Sustainable Business Practices; A conceptual approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (118) ◽  
pp. 78-87
Author(s):  
Dikko Bello
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Significant Implication ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Impact

An excellent reputation earned by initiating and practicing sustainable business practices has additional benefits, of which are reducing environmental incidents and an improvement in operational efficiency as this has the potential to help firms improve on productivity and bring down operating costs. Taken further, with ever-increasing socially and environmentally-conscious investors and the public alike, this act of natural resources management could have a significant implication on market value and income of the practicing firms. The above proposition has been supported by sustainable business practices literature that is continuously conversing and deliberating upon the impact of efficient resource deployment and sustainable business practices.  This paper aims to add value and contribute by offering inferences on cost reduction possibilities through improved natural resources management. Therefore it is an entirely conceptual level approach that provided potentially efficient tools for business sustainability and profitability

scholarly journals The impact of resources on decision making

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain M. Boyle ◽  
Alex H.B. Duffy ◽  
R. Ian Whitfield ◽  
Shaofeng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Significant Activity ◽  
Multiple Impacts ◽  
Experience Levels ◽  
Approach Method ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Impact Models ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractDecision making is a significant activity within industry and although much attention has been paid to the manner in which goals impact on how decision making is executed, there has been less focus on the impact decision making resources can have. This article describes an experiment that sought to provide greater insight into the impact that resources can have on how decision making is executed. Investigated variables included the experience levels of decision makers and the quality and availability of information resources. The experiment provided insights into the variety of impacts that resources can have upon decision making, manifested through the evolution of the approaches, methods, and processes used within it. The findings illustrated that there could be an impact on the decision-making process but not on the method or approach, the method and process but not the approach, or the approach, method, and process. In addition, resources were observed to have multiple impacts, which can emerge in different timescales. Given these findings, research is suggested into the development of resource-impact models that would describe the relationships existing between the decision-making activity and resources, together with the development of techniques for reasoning using these models. This would enhance the development of systems that could offer improved levels of decision support through managing the impact of resources on decision making.

scholarly journals The Impact of Management Information Systems on the Administrative Decision-Making Process – An applied study on administrative and technical personnel at King Abdul-Aziz University –: أثر نظم المعلومات الإدارية على عملية اتخاذ القرارات الإدارية – دراسة تطبيقية على الموظفين الإداريين والفنيين بجامعة الملك عبد العزيز –

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (21) ◽  
pp. 169-152
Author(s):  
Bandar Mubarak Al-Youbi, Kamel Tahar Khoualdi Bandar Mubarak Al-Youbi, Kamel Tahar Khoualdi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Management Information Systems ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Applied Study ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

  This study aimed at identifying the impact of management information systems on the administrative decision-making process at King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah from the administrative and technical staff standpoint who working at the university. In addition, to achieve this goal the descriptive and analytical approach was used. The problem of the study represents the challenges imposed by the external environment. The questionnaire initial data were distributed and (397) responses were obtained from the sample members. The study revealed several results that the most important to use programs related to management information systems which has a positive and effective impact on decision-making at King Abdul-Aziz University. Based on the results of the study, presenting a number of recommendations, involving the necessity to build databases for management information systems that can be referred to at any time to support administrative decision-makers and employee use them in solving numerous work problems.      

scholarly journals Testing the impact of personal intelligence on decision-making process for employees of Sudan Academy of Sciences: اختبار أثر الذكاء الشخصي على صناعة القرار:دراسة تطبيقية على أكاديمية السودان للعلوم

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhand Abbas Mokhtar , Adam Ahmed Mousa Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Personal Intelligence ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Systematic Thinking

The study aimed at testing the impact of personal intelligence on decision-making process for employees of Sudan Academy of Sciences. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from the study population. The SPSS was used for analyzing and testing the hypotheses. Some of the findings of the study are: there is a positive and abstract relationship between personal intelligence and decision-making process and between systematic thinking and decision-making process. The study recommends encouraging employees intelligence in business organizations and suggests conducting further studies for administrative decision makers in business organizations.

scholarly journals The Potential Role of the Artificial Intelligence in Combating Climate Change and Natural Resources Management: Political, Legal and Ethical Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-131
Author(s):  
Olena Lozo ◽  
Oleksii Onishchenko
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Impact

The aim of the article is to study the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in solving current issues of climate change, environmental protection and natural resources management. The advantages and threats of using AI for the development of political and legal parameters for ensuring the safe and effective implementation of technological system, as well as ensuring sustainable control over its functioning and development trends, are analyzed. The relevance of the topic is substantiated by the fact that the legislative basis in this area is at the early stage of formation, while the scale of the impact of AI on all the aspects of social life may be impossible to accurately foresee. A special attention is paid to the analysis of the legal regulation of these issues in the context of European Union and Ukraine. The present work is one of the few that addresses three issues: climate change, the growing influence of artificial intelligence, and the possibility of legal regulation of the use of AI to solve urgent environmental problems without threatening the fundamental human rights and freedoms.

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