eSports Stakeholders

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-43
Keyword(s):  
Professional Sports ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Stakeholder Groups

Chapter 1 introduced eSports and many of the key stakeholder groups involved in the industry. This chapter builds on the introduction, expands the stakeholder groups, explores more deeply the major stakeholders in eSports, and delves into the relationships and interactions between and amongst these groups. In particular, Chapter 2 focuses on the most important stakeholder groups. The purpose of the chapter is threefold: (1) to learn more about the stakeholders and identify those most important to the field and its growth, (2) to assess the power dynamics amongst those stakeholders, and (3) to compare these stakeholders, relative to traditional professional sports.

scholarly journals Platform, Participation, and Power: How Dominant and Minority Stakeholders Shape Agricultural Innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen M. Eidt ◽  
Laxmi P. Pant ◽  
Gordon M. Hickey
Keyword(s):  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Agricultural Innovation ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Access And Quality ◽  
Agricultural Innovation Systems

Within agricultural innovation systems (AIS), various stakeholder groups inevitably interpret ‘innovation’ from their own vantage point of privilege and power. In rural developing areas where small-scale and subsistence farming systems support livelihoods, dominant policy actors often focus heavily on participatory modernization and commercialization initiatives to enhance productivity, access, and quality. However, existing social hierarchies may undermine the potential of such initiatives to promote inclusive and sustainable farmer-driven innovation. Focusing on the chronically food insecure smallholder agricultural systems operating in Yatta Sub-county, Eastern Kenya, this paper explores how power dynamics between stakeholders can influence, and can be influenced by, participatory agricultural innovation initiatives. Findings suggest that there are often significant disparities in access to, and control over, platform resources between smallholder farmers and other stakeholder groups, resulting in large asymmetries. We discuss how these power dynamics may increase the risk of agricultural intervention, further marginalizing already disempowered groups and reinforcing power hierarchies to the detriment of smallholders. This study highlights the need for a deeper understanding of the institutional contexts that facilitate and maintain relationships of power within agricultural innovation systems, as well as the complexities associated with promoting transformational agricultural innovation.

What do we know about housework?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Shannon N. Davis ◽  
Theodore N. Greenstein
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Division Of Housework ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry ◽  
Insight Into

Chapter 1 serves as the introduction to the book. While housework is a frequent object of scholarly inquiry, in part because of its ubiquitous appearance across household types, we argue that it can be used to understand more than simply who does what around the house. Housework provides insight into the power dynamics in intimate relationships. After explaining resource-based and social psychological/symbolic perspectives for understanding the division of housework, the chapter concludes with a detailed summary of the remainder of the book.

scholarly journals Collapsing Stakeholder Groups: Insights Into Professional Sports Organizations And Competitive Positioning

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana V. Tesone ◽  
Alan Platt ◽  
George Alexakis
Keyword(s):  
Force Field ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
Sports Organizations ◽  
Stakeholder Groups

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.6in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The article investigates the force field stakeholder structure of National Football League (NFL) sport organizations relative to those that provide the domain that governs the management of other medium to large commercial entities. Textual and visual images of the affiliations among the various NFL organizations&rsquo; stakeholder groups in the manuscript provide a framework of the stakeholder force field domain. The model presents comparative and contrasting data relevant to typical business organizations of similar size, expenses, and revenue capacity. Finally, the article identifies managerial practices in NFL organizations and provides explanations for these processes applicable to the force field domain under which they are governed. The authors conclude that managerial practices in NFL organizations are contrary to those adhered to in regular commercial enterprises; however, these managerial practices are appropriate for the particular stakeholder force field domain that governs these particular sport organizations, which fosters &ldquo;collaborative parity.&rdquo; Future research that delves into areas of major league football&rsquo;s and other leagues&rsquo; evolving economic constructs as they pertain to stakeholder issues such as controlling labor costs, the relocation of a particular team, and the necessity of increasing the volume of existing and emerging revenue streams is recommended. </span></span></p>

The Multifaceted Nature of Fear

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-110
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The Face

By exploring the intersections between fear and contemporary conceptions of chivalry, masculinity, deception, and power, this chapter demonstrates that the ways in which fear was represented in twelfth- and thirteenth-century crusade narratives were far more complex and multifaceted than has hitherto been appreciated. This, in turn, necessitates that we reject the scholarly approach of treating chroniclers’ accounts of crusader trepidation as representative evidence of participants’ actual feelings. Gender- and shame-centred appraisals of fear add further weight to the argument set forth in Chapter 1: that fear was an emotion which Latin combatants ought to relinquish. However, in alternative contexts, such as in the face of treachery, it was simultaneously considered an understandable—perhaps even praiseworthy—sentiment for crusaders to openly display; and fear terminology was integral to the texts’ power dynamics.

Dictating Narrative Power

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Harford Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Character System ◽  
Narrative Techniques

Chapter 1 uses Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao to explore the tensions between the two definitions of “to dictate”: to order or command authoritatively and absolutely, and to speak aloud words that are to be written down or transcribed. The chapter demonstrates how narrative techniques and formal structures can dictate, or tell, a story against dictatorship without reproducing dictatorial power dynamics. The novel marginalizes and humorously parodies the dictator in the novel’s character-system and centralizes socially marginalized characters so as to challenge authoritarian power. Subsequently, the chapter demonstrates how the novel mobilizes storytelling modes—specifically hearsay, footnotes, and silences—to formally represent and critique the dissemination and repression of information under dictatorship. The chapter ultimately argues that the novel, rife with ambiguity and evasive uncertainty, dictates without dictating; that is, it tells a story without fixing that story monologically.

scholarly journals Innovations from the Margins: Creating Inclusive and Equitable Academic-Community Research Collaborations

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. McNamara ◽  
Sara J. Cumming ◽  
Jessica Pulis
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Sécurité Alimentaire ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

How does one build a Request for Proposals (RFP) process that allows for bottom-up participation while simultaneously being pragmatic and adept enough to manoeuvre the complexities of a multi-stakeholder environment defined by differing interests, objectives, mandates, and power dynamics? This article showcases the findings from participatory work with stakeholder groups working in the area of food security in Southern Ontario’s Halton Region. It demonstrates a process designed with the specific intent of increasing the engagement of beneficiaries and service providers in the RFP process. Finally, the article seeks to shed additional light on theory and practice of “participatory approaches” in the context of philanthropy. It is important to be realistic in not reifying participation itself in this context. In both theory and practice, this means adopting lenses and models that openly consider the complex realities, political obstacles, and trade-offs that occur when negotiating participation in this environment.RÉSUMÉCet article aborde la question suivante: comment créer un processus de demande de propositions (DP) permettant une participation ascendante tout en étant suffisamment pragmatique et suffisamment habile pour gérer les complexités d’un environnement multipartite défini par des intérêts, objectifs, mandats et dynamiques de pouvoir différents? La question est répondue en présentant les résultats d’un projet de travail participatif intégrant des intervenants travaillant dans le domaine de la sécurité alimentaire dans la région de Halton, dans le sud de l’Ontario. L’article illustre un processus conçu qui a le but spécifique d’accroître la participation des bénéficiaires et des fournisseurs de services au processus de demande de propositions. Enfin, l’article cherche à apporter une réflexion additionnelle sur la théorie et la pratique des « approches participatives » dans le contexte de la philanthropie. Il met de l’avant l’importance d’être réaliste dans ses attentes pour ne pas réifier les bienfaits de la participation dans ce contexte. En théorie et en pratique, cela signifie d’adopter des objectifs et des modèles qui tiennent compte ouvertement des réalités complexes, des obstacles politiques et des compromis qui se produisent lors de la négociation de la participation un tel environnement.

Quick Reference: Chapter 1: The Musculoskeletal System: The Hand and Upper Extremity

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Keyword(s):  
Dorsal Column ◽  
Persistent Pain ◽  
Illness Behavior ◽  
Abnormal Illness Behavior ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
Spinal Cord Dorsal ◽  
Objective Basis ◽  
Dorsal Column Stimulation ◽  
Underlying Pathology

Abstract Spinal cord (dorsal column) stimulation (SCS) and intraspinal opioids (ISO) are treatments for patients in whom abnormal illness behavior is absent but who have an objective basis for severe, persistent pain that has not been adequately relieved by other interventions. Usually, physicians prescribe these treatments in cancer pain or noncancer-related neuropathic pain settings. A survey of academic centers showed that 87% of responding centers use SCS and 84% use ISO. These treatments are performed frequently in nonacademic settings, so evaluators likely will encounter patients who were treated with SCS and ISO. Does SCS or ISO change the impairment associated with the underlying conditions for which these treatments are performed? Although the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides) does not specifically address this question, the answer follows directly from the principles on which the AMA Guides impairment rating methodology is based. Specifically, “the impairment percents shown in the chapters that consider the various organ systems make allowance for the pain that may accompany the impairing condition.” Thus, impairment is neither increased due to persistent pain nor is it decreased in the absence of pain. In summary, in the absence of complications, the evaluator should rate the underlying pathology or injury without making an adjustment in the impairment for SCS or ISO.

Fifth Edition: the New Standard

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Brigham ◽  
James B. Talmage ◽  
Leon H. Ensalada
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal System ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Medical Evaluation ◽  
Single Set

Abstract The AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), Fifth Edition, is available and includes numerous changes that will affect both evaluators who and systems that use the AMA Guides. The Fifth Edition is nearly twice the size of its predecessor (613 pages vs 339 pages) and contains three additional chapters (the musculoskeletal system now is split into three chapters and the cardiovascular system into two). Table 1 shows how chapters in the Fifth Edition were reorganized from the Fourth Edition. In addition, each of the chapters is presented in a consistent format, as shown in Table 2. This article and subsequent issues of The Guides Newsletter will examine these changes, and the present discussion focuses on major revisions, particularly those in the first two chapters. (See Table 3 for a summary of the revisions to the musculoskeletal and pain chapters.) Chapter 1, Philosophy, Purpose, and Appropriate Use of the AMA Guides, emphasizes objective assessment necessitating a medical evaluation. Most impairment percentages in the Fifth Edition are unchanged from the Fourth because the majority of ratings currently are accepted, there is limited scientific data to support changes, and ratings should not be changed arbitrarily. Chapter 2, Practical Application of the AMA Guides, describes how to use the AMA Guides for consistent and reliable acquisition, analysis, communication, and utilization of medical information through a single set of standards.

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