scholarly journals Organizational Flexibility of Academic Libraries in a Vuca Reality: The Example of the Functioning of Libraries During the Covid-19 Epidemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 70-93
Author(s):  
Bożena Jaskowska
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Organizational Flexibility ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Unpredictable Environment ◽  
Research Analysis

Thesis / purpose of the article – The aim of the article is to present management solutions used in academic libraries in a changing and unpredictable environment, on the example of the functioning of units during the lockdown period caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, which lasted from March 12 to the beginning of June 2020. Research method – Research was conducted among the directors of Polish academic libraries using an online survey as a research tool. Results and conclusions – The research analysis shows that academic libraries showed considerable organizational flexibility during the lockdown period, especially in terms of changing duties, forming plans “just in time”, extending the scope of services and organizing large-scale remote and rotational work. Some libraries have also changed decision-making processes. This is the first such study of the functioning of academic libraries during the lockdown period.

scholarly journals A Neuroeconomic Framework for Creative Cognition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hause Lin ◽  
Oshin Vartanian
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Locus Coeruleus ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Network Dynamics ◽  
Brain Network ◽  
Creative Cognition ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Neuroeconomics is the study of the neurobiological bases of subjective preferences and choices. We present a novel framework that synthesizes findings from the literatures on neuroeconomics and creativity to provide a neurobiological description of creative cognition. It proposes that value-based decision-making processes and activity in the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) neuromodulatory system underlie creative cognition, as well as the large-scale brain network dynamics shown to be associated with creativity. This framework allows us to re-conceptualize creative cognition as driven by value-based decision making, in the process providing several falsifiable hypotheses that can further our understanding of creativity, decision making, and brain network dynamics.

scholarly journals Library Councils and Governance in Canadian University Libraries: A Critical Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 60-79
Author(s):  
Eva Revitt ◽  
Sean Luyk
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Administrative Positions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Collegial Governance

Despite the nearly 40-year history of library councils in Canadian academic libraries, scholarly literature regarding library governance and decision-making processes within the context of Canadian university libraries is almost non-existent. Nevertheless, there is evidence of a general disenfranchisement of librarians from significant decisions affecting library operations, resources, services, and the appointment and evaluation of senior administrative positions. Furthermore, it is evident that library councils in Canadian academic libraries, where they do exist, function primarily as information-sharing forums rather than as the collegial decision-making bodies they were originally intended to be. Through a close examination of the CAUT Bulletin, this paper traces the development of library councils in Canadian academic libraries. Within the framework of institutional theory and drawing from librarianship, management, and educational administration literature, the paper proceeds to critically discuss systematic barriers to collegial governance in academic libraries. Historical and anecdotal evidence suggests that administrative resistance is a continued and key obstacle to the democratization of decision-making processes in Canadian academic libraries.

scholarly journals Who Will Stay, Who Will Leave: Decision-Making of Residents Living in Potential Hurricane Impact Areas During a Hypothetical Hurricane Event in the Rio Grande Valley

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Kyne ◽  
Arlett Sophia Lomeli ◽  
William Donner ◽  
Erika Zuloaga
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Hurricane Evacuation ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

Abstract The Rio Grande Valley (RGV) has been impacted by various hurricanes throughout history. While Hurricane evacuation has been studied extensively in other contexts, there is limited systematic research on the warning and response to a large-scale severe weather event in South Texas. This study attempts to understand the evacuation decision-making behavior of Southern residents in the event of a Hurricane making landfall over the Rio Grande Valley. The study uses an online survey questionnaire with 1060 participants: 275 students attending the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley and the remaining 785 are members of the community. Throughout the course of the study, information was gathered about selected elements: demographic characteristics, living conditions, the following and awareness of authority recommendations, decision maker roles, reasons for not wanting to leave a disaster-prone area facing an emergency, perception of a safe place, and expected help from both, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) during evacuation that could impact residents’ evacuation decision. Findings reveal there are a number of individuals who will remain in their place of residence, even in the deadliest of hurricane Category 5. The study provides complex factors influencing the nature of evacuation decision-making of individuals who are Hispanics living in a unique geographical location of RGV.

scholarly journals Resource allocation and health technology assessment in Australia: Views from the local level

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (02) ◽  
pp. 134-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisselle Gallego ◽  
Kees van Gool ◽  
Dianne Kelleher
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Objectives:Several studies have shown that a key determinant of successful health technology assessment (HTA) uptake is a clear, fair, and consistent decision-making process for the approval and introduction of health technologies. The aim of this study was to gauge healthcare providers' and managers' perceptions of local level decision making and determine whether these processes offer a conducive environment for HTA. An Area Health Service (AHS) aimed to use the results of this study to help design a new process of technology assessment and decision making.Methods:An online survey was sent to all health service managers and healthcare providers working in one AHS in Sydney, Australia. Questions related to perceptions of current health technology decisions in participants' own institution/facility and opinions on key criteria for successful decision-making processes.Results:Less than a third of participants agreed with the statements that local decision-making processes were appropriate, easy to understand, evidence-based, fair, or consistently applied. Decisions were reportedly largely influenced by total cost considerations as well as by the central state health departments and the Area executive.Conclusions:Although there are renewed initiatives in HTA in Australia, there is a risk that such investments will not be productive unless policy makers also examine the decision-making contexts within which HTA can successfully be implemented. The results of this survey show that this is especially true at the local level and that any HTA initiative should be accompanied by efforts to improve decision-making processes.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility Activities of Enterprises from the Warmia and Mazury Region

Equilibrium ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Marian Oliński
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Small Degree ◽  
Management Technique ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Or Management ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Corporate Social

In the future managers will have to take into account in their everyday decision-making processes the values promoted by corporate social responsibility. Apart from the consideration of the problems related to the market, profitability, sources of financing, etc. much attention will have to be paid to economic, social and ecological results of business activities, so to the ideas that form the foundations of the concept of corporate social responsibility. However, if businesses are to apply any new concept, method or management technique, it is necessary to familiarize themselves with it first. Therefore, the objective of the present research is the identification of the degree of the awareness of CSR concepts, their scope and the frequency of socially-responsible behaviours displayed among economic entities representing the warmińsko-mazurski region. The research objective was presented in the form of a question: Are companies operating in the warmińsko-mazurski region aware of the existence of the concepts of corporate social responsibility and do they understand them? In the light of the above objective the following research hypothesis was formulated: Entrepreneurs and employees of companies operating in the warmińsko-mazurskie province are familiarised with CSR concepts but to a small degree only and activities undertaken by them in this scope are usually of a temporary character and do not contribute to building the image of socially-responsible businesses. The studies were diagnostic and the research method applied was a diagnostic survey based on the developed questionnaire.

scholarly journals Electrifying Times: restructuring and decision-making in an automobile concern in the 21st century – The case of BMW Group

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-135
Author(s):  
Martin Haider
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
Line Production ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Framework Conditions ◽  
Electro Mobility

The aim of this paper is to capture the changed location decision-making processes and location factors of the automotive industry, resulting from the current challenges brought by electro mobility. From the Taylorist assembly-line production system in the “Fordism” era to the just-in-time focused manufacturing of the Japanese carmakers during “post-Fordism” and at the turn of the millennium with global production and new technologies in the digital age, location analysis has changed massively over time. The same is to be expected for the fourth revolution in the industry. For this reason, the decision-making process of a major German car manufacturer is analysed in a field study conducted over a two-year period. Based on this, a decision process that takes the new framework conditions into account is modelled. The relevant location factors are then examined in a survey of the relevant departments in the BMW Group. Due to the changed production requirements in the course of the electrification, the uncertainty in the technological change and the unstable political trading conditions, the factors: network suitability, risk exposure, optimal sunk cost usage and sustainability play central roles. Before the latest economic crisis, the industry was focused on exploiting opportunities and expanding the production network. This tendency now seems to be transformed by a volatile technological future and by cost pressure. This means that ‘sustainability’ is increasingly important in automobile industry decision-making, but in specific ways.

Implementation of Accrual Base Accounting to Improve Accountability: A Case of Gambia

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Saikou Conteh ◽  
Hamidah Hamidah
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Policies And Measures ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Technology Capability ◽  
The Government ◽  
Financial Administration

Public sector changes in Gambia started within the 1980s with the essential objective of moving forward the adequacy, effectiveness, and straightforwardness of governmental operational and financial administration. This paper was executed by adopting qualitative research method to obtain it findings. This paper points to look at the opportunities and accountability by the Gambian public sector in executing accrual-based accounting. A survey of past writing in this range appeared that accrual-based accounting improves decision-making processes, advances way better financial administration, and enhances public accountability. Be that as it may, the move handle between these two accounting strategies isn't without challenges. Human resources competency, software and technology capability, accounting policies, and measures appropriateness are recognized as major challenges within the usage effort. These challenges should be taken into thought carefully by the government in order to guarantee effective movement towards accrual-based accounting.

scholarly journals HTS Promiscuity Analyses for Accelerating Decision Making

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 765-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Böcker ◽  
Pierre R. Bonneau ◽  
Paul J. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Target Family ◽  
The One

Frequent hitters are compounds that are detected as a “hit” in multiple high-throughput screening (HTS) assays. Such behavior is specific (e.g., target family related) or unspecific (e.g., reactive compounds) or can result from a combination of such behaviors. Detecting such hits while predicting the underlying reason behind their promiscuous behavior is desirable because it provides valuable information not only about the compounds themselves but also about the assay methodology and target classes at hand. This information can also greatly reduce cost and time during HTS hit profiling. The present study exemplifies how to mine large HTS data repositories, such as the one at Boehringer Ingelheim, to identify frequent hitters, gain further insights into the causes of promiscuous behavior, and generate models for predicting promiscuous compounds. Applications of this approach are demonstrated using two recent large-scale HTS assays. The authors believe this analysis and its concrete applications are valuable tools for streamlining and accelerating decision-making processes during the course of hit discovery.

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