scholarly journals Passive, Indifferent, Engaged? The Faces of Local Civic Activity in Finland

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 163-181
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Civic Involvement ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Local Engagement ◽  
Data Statistics

Among European states Nordic countries, including Finland, are often set as examples of countries with high social capital, in which citizens willingly engage into decision-making process. The aim of the article is to verify this assumption and to present diverse attitudes of citizens towards local engagement. The article is based on quantitative data (statistics on civic involvement) as well as qualitative research (interviews with councillors from selected Finnish municipalities). The conclusion points at transformation of Finnish democracy and the fact that paradoxically developed institutions of representative democracy may have a negative influence on the wiliness to apply further, non-electoral mechanisms of civic involvement.

The homeopathic choice for children: a qualitative research on the decision making process of the families

Homeopathy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elio Rossi ◽  
Marco Picchi ◽  
Mariella Di Stefano ◽  
Anna Maria Marongiu ◽  
Patrizia Scarsini
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Decision Making Process

scholarly journals Penguatan Gender dalam Pengambilan Keputusan Birokrasi di Kabupaten Bone Bolango

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Robby Hunawa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Reinforcement Model ◽  
The Impact

The long-term goal of this research is the birth of the process of drawing women's involvement in the bureaucratic decision-making process, and the gender reinforcement model in bureaucratic decision making in Bone Bolango District. The target of the research will be done by stages: 1) identify the problem of constraints faced; and 2) to formulate a model of gender reinforcement in bureaucratic decision making. The research method used is qualitative research with data collection techniques through: interview, documentation, and FGD. Further data collected will be analyzed data triangulation. The result of the research is the birth of a model of gender reinforcement in decision making bureaucracy. The impact of the study will provide answers on women's partisifasi in decision making. During this time the existence of women is very much ruled out. The presence of female figures in the public dimension brings new trends in the context of government. Women want to be treated proportionally. This tendency has implications for the inclusion of women to compete with men to become leaders.

Consumer Engagement through Conditional Promotions

2022 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Loss Aversion ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Retail Store ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
The Relationship

This paper investigates consumers' response to conditional promotions (CP) offered in an offline retail store. Using qualitative research inquiry, we decipher the consumer decision-making process by finding the linkages between 'pre-cart' and the 'post-cart' add-on purchases. Thematic analysis of qualitative data (focus groups and personal interviews) resulted in four themes, i.e. 'Criticality of Product Utility,' 'Mode of Payments,' 'Loss Aversion by Consumers,' and 'Inability to Think Out-of-Box by the Consumers.' We add value to the existing marketing literature by finding the relationship between products purchased in 'pre-cart', i.e., without the knowledge of CP and 'post-cart', defined as add-on products added to the cart to avail the CP offer while purchasing in an offline retail store. Further, we find that consumers' willingness to avail CP varies with different relative distances from the target purchase cart value (high vs. low) and mode of payments (cash vs. digital). We discuss the theoretical and managerial implications of the research.

scholarly journals Impact of the adopted strategy on the result of multi-criteria analysis of technology solution based on AHP (BOCR)

2018 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
pp. 01002
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Dziadosz ◽  
Dominika Banach ◽  
Wiesław Meszek ◽  
Mariusz Rejment
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Decision Maker ◽  
Building Material ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Ahp Method ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Technology Solution

The complexity of problems and the necessity to find a comprehensive approach to their solution favours the search for various methods that support the decision making process in the construction industry. At present, the multi-criteria methods lead the way. They enable the assessment of the problem in many aspects and with taking into account qualitative and quantitative data. Moreover, these methods do not limit the decision-maker in terms of the number of considered variants as well as the scope and the type of adopted assessment criteria. The aim of the article is to present the procedure of assessment of proposed building material solutions with taking into account the division of criteria due to their character – benefits (B) and costs (C). It was shown the dependence adopted by the decision maker strategy on the final ranking of solutions using the BOCR approach in the AHP method.

Patient Participation in Decision Making at the End of Life as Seen by a Close Relative

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 296-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Sahlberg-Blom ◽  
Britt-Marie Ternestedt ◽  
Jan-Erik Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Patient Participation ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Interviews

The aim of the present study was to describe variations in patient participation in decisions about care planning during the final phase of life for a group of gravely ill patients, and how the different actors’ manner of acting promotes or impedes patient participation. Thirty-seven qualitative research interviews were conducted with relatives of the patients. The patients’ participation in the decisions could be categorized into four variations: self-determination, co-determination, delegation and nonparticipation. The manner in which patients, relatives and caregivers acted differed in the respective variations; this seemed either to promote or to impede the patients’ opportunities of participating in the decision making. The possibility for participation seems to be context dependent and affected by many factors such as the dying patient’s personality, the social network, the availability of different forms of care, cultural values, and the extent to which nurses and other caregivers of the different forms of care can and want to support the wishes of the patients and relatives in the decision-making process.

scholarly journals The Underreported Significance of Transcription Decisions: Perspectives Gained from Two Different Vantage Points

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilian Cibils
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Transcription Process ◽  
Significant Process ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

In this paper, I propose redefining transcription as a significant process within qualitative research, and as more deserving of attention and of transparency in reporting. Although interviewing has become one of the most frequently used methods of qualitative data collection, when summarizing the methodology adopted in their studies, researchers are still not likely to describe either the transcription process itself or the decision-making process that led up to it. One of the problems with transcription is that it is frequently addressed separately from the broader philosophical, ideological or epistemological contexts of a study, and dealt with as a minor independent logistics issue, and its resolution reduced to its mechanics or its physical completion. In this article, I highlight the significance of decisions made about transcription as illustrated by an account of two contrasting experiences. I explore the choices made related to who undertakes the process and how it is completed as based on theoretical underpinnings. These decisions, as illustrated in the examples, reflect views on what is to be known and what is considered to be the data, and will, ultimately, determine the limitations or the possibilities for analysis and interpretation.

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