Playing politics with knowledge: the works of multiple actors within IGAD PLUS

This paper evaluates the influence of multiple actors in both formal and informal governance systems on corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. Drawing on institutional theory, a quantitative survey was developed and conducted of a sample of 140 firms in the electronics, food, textiles, toys and personal care sectors in Brazil. We examine how institutional pressures and firm-level agency influence the emergence of different patterns of CSR. We distinguish two clusters of companies: active companies identify business outcomes and actors that effectively exert an influence on their CSR practices, while passive companies consider institutional pressures to be of minor importance. Our contribution relates first, to institutional theory concerning the role of different actors in influencing the implementation of social and environmental practices; second, to the importance of collective coordination or its absence in shaping the specific characteristics of CSR; and third, to the agency of firms in responding to institutional pressures as being dependent on their perceptions of business outcomes. The theoretical insights drawn from this study should be applicable to similar countries, that is, to emerging but politically and economically unstable markets with marked social and economic inequalities.

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‘Democracy builders’: Conflictivity and democratic learning in the educational and cultural spheres during the late-Francoist and Transition periods

International Journal of Iberian Studies ◽

10.1386/ijis_00037_1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 65-86

Author(s):

Gloria Román Ruiz

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Francisco Franco ◽

Democratic Learning ◽

Multiple Actors

The early 1960s in Spain saw the beginnings of a cycle of protest against the dictatorship of Francisco Franco that would end by rendering its continuity unviable after the dictator’s death in 1975. The process of building democracy was undertaken bidirectionally, both from ‘above’ and from ‘below’, and it involved multiple actors. This article pays special attention to those ‘democratizing agents’ in civil society who acted in the cultural and educational spheres, as teachers, students, protest singers or members of the cultural centres and neighbourhood associations that emerged at that time, especially in rural Andalusia. It argues that through day-to-day micro-conflicts and micro-mobilizations, those actors acquired and transmitted civic–democratic guidelines and values.

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Conceptual Readings into the Cold War: Towards Transnational Approaches from the Perspective of Latin American Studies in Eastern and Western Europe

Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro) ◽

10.1590/s2178-14942017000100011 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 30 (60) ◽

pp. 203-218 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Albert Manke ◽

Kateřina Březinová ◽

Laurin Blecha

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Latin American ◽

Western Europe ◽

Global South ◽

Latin American Studies ◽

Global North ◽

Scale Integration ◽

The Cold War ◽

Eastern And Western Europe ◽

Multiple Actors

Abstract This bibliographical and conceptual essay summarizes recent research in Cold War Studies in Europe and the Americas, especially on smaller states in historiographical studies. Against the background of an increasing connectedness and globalization of research about the Cold War, the authors highlight the importance of the full-scale integration of countries and regions of the 'Global South' into Cold War Studies. Critical readings of the newly available resources reveal the existence of important decentralizing perspectives resulting from Cold War entanglements of the 'Global South' with the 'Global North.' As a result, the idea that these state actors from the former 'periphery' of the Cold War should be considered as passive recipients of superpower politics seems rather troubled. The evidence shows (at least partially) autonomous and active multiple actors.

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Understanding the Direction, Magnitude, and Joint Effects of Reputation When Multiple Actors’ Reputations Collide

Academy of Management Journal ◽

10.5465/amj.2014.0521 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 188-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Steven Boivie ◽

Scott D. Graffin ◽

Richard J. Gentry

Keyword(s):

Joint Effects ◽

Multiple Actors

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Professional Service Firms and Identity

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199682393.013.18 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mats Alvesson ◽

Dan Karreman ◽

Kate Sullivan

Keyword(s):

Identity Construction ◽

Management Control ◽

Professional Service ◽

Future Research ◽

Service Firms ◽

Professional Service Firms ◽

Professional Workers ◽

Elite Identity ◽

The Relationship ◽

Multiple Actors

This chapter examines the relationship between individual and organizational identity in PSFs and the significant but tenuous nature of elite identity in this context. The authors identify four main identity-related issues for management control in PSFs: autonomy/conformity tensions, the client conundrum, ambiguity saturation, and intangibility. They explore three main modes of identity-focused control in PSFs: positive image, homogenization of the workforce, and anxiety-regulation. The chapter examines contemporary challenges to elite identities and the increasing critique of concepts of professionalism in this context and highlights key areas for future research on identity in PSFs and among professionals. These include: the need to acknowledge the homogeneity of professional service firms and professional workers; how professionals regulate their identity to respond to identity challenges; the roles that multiple actors play in a professional’s identity construction; and the depth of identity construction with regard to both organizational and professional identity.

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The cycle of the new left in the recent history of Argentina

Latin-american Historical Almanac ◽

10.32608/2305-8773-2021-31-1-252-279 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 252-279

Author(s):

Maria Cristina Tortti ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

New Left ◽

Social Protest ◽

Political Regime ◽

The Political ◽

Recent Past ◽

The Social ◽

Wide Range ◽

History Of ◽

Multiple Actors

This paper aims at outlining the main processes that, in Argentina’s recent past, may enable us to understand the emergence, development and eventual defeat of the social protest movement and the political radicalization of the period 1960-70s.Here, as in previous papers, we resort to the concept of new left toname the movement that, though heterogeneous and lacking a unified direction, became a major unit in deeds, for multiple actors coming the most diverse angles coincided in opposing the vicious political regime and the social order it supported. Consequently, we shall try to reinstate the presence of such wide range of actors: their projects, objectives and speeches. Some critical circumstances shall be detailed and processes through which protests gradually amalgamated will be shown. Such extended politicization provided the frame for quite radical moves ranging from contracultural initiatives and the classism in the workers’ movement to the actual action of guerrilla groups. Through the dynamics of the events themselves we shall locate the peak moments as well as those which paved the way for their closure and eventual defeat in 1976.

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Social Partnership

Advances in Public Policy and Administration - Social Partnership and Governance Under Crises ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8961-7.ch003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 51-76

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Power Sharing ◽

Financial Instability ◽

Political Regimes ◽

Social Partnership ◽

State Time ◽

Social Dialogue ◽

Social Partnerships ◽

Political Governance ◽

Multiple Actors

Social partnership is a dynamic construction tailored to the context of globalization, the state, time, society, and culture. Snapshots of the experiences of regions and countries globally with modalities of social partnership arrangements are discussed. Further, global reflections on the contexts from which social partnerships were forged—economic chaos and recovery, weak political governance capacities, fractured political regimes, financial instability and governance responses, such as the institutionalization of social dialogue and social partnerships as prerequisites for European accession—are highlighted. Social partnership becomes the outcome of adjustments made by governments, sometimes reluctantly, in power-sharing arrangements, incorporating multiple actors and stakeholders in the way societies are reorganized, to respond and treat with destabilizing forces in the struggle for self-preservation. The chapter concludes around the value and benefits of social partnership as well as some recommendations for effective social dialogue arrangements.

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The Smart City and Its Citizens

Smart Cities and Smart Spaces ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7030-1.ch063 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1407-1427

Author(s):

Carlo Francesco Capra

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Modern Technology ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Complex Settings ◽

Multiple Actors

Smart cities are associated almost exclusively with modern technology and infrastructure. However, smart cities have the possibility to enhance the involvement and contribution of citizens to urban development. This work explores the role of governance as one of the factors influencing the participation of citizens in smart cities projects. Governance characteristics play a major role in explaining different typologies of citizen participation. Through a focus on Amsterdam Smart City program as a specific case study, this research examines the characteristics of governance that are present in the overall program and within a selected sample of projects, and how they relate to different typologies of citizen participation. The analysis and comprehension of governance characteristics plays a crucial role both for a better understanding and management of citizen participation, especially in complex settings where multiple actors are interacting.

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Entrepreneurial learning as an effectual process

The Learning Organization ◽

10.1108/tlo-04-2018-0064 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (6) ◽

pp. 631-647 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dag Håkon Haneberg

Keyword(s):

Real Life ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Organisational Learning ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

New Venture ◽

Entrepreneurial Learning ◽

Content Type ◽

Process Characteristics ◽

One Year ◽

Multiple Actors

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address how entrepreneurial learning may be understood as an effectual process in the early phase of venture creation. Design/methodology/approach Previous research is used to develop a conceptual frame of reference, which is further developed through a longitudinal qualitative case study of five new venture teams. Conceptualising these teams’ learning as sequences of events over a one-year period provides rich insight from real-life processes. Findings A conceptual model of how entrepreneurial learning may be understood as an effectual process is presented. The interactions and interdependencies between nine process characteristics along three main dimensions in the process, activity, multiple actors and context-dependent, demonstrate how the process tie together as a whole. Research limitations/implications The present paper argues for further cross-fertilisation of entrepreneurial learning and effectuation research and showcases how studies of entrepreneurial learning may contribute to organisational learning in entrepreneurial ventures. The conceptualisation of characteristics and dimensions aims to support future process studies by suggesting a framework for analysing process events in longitudinal studies. Originality/value Previous research has already established how activities are central to entrepreneurial learning and emphasised that what constitutes the two dimensions of multiple actors and context-dependence is important. The present paper contributes to entrepreneurial learning with an enhanced understanding of why and how the three dimensions are important as well as interdependent and mutually interactive. The present paper also contributes to organisational learning by extending the understanding of learning in emerging entrepreneurial organisations.

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Institutional change and routine dynamics in service ecosystems

Journal of Services Marketing ◽

10.1108/jsm-06-2019-0243 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 575-586

Author(s):

Tiina Tuominen ◽

Bo Edvardsson ◽

Javier Reynoso

Keyword(s):

Institutional Change ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Change Processes ◽

Content Type ◽

Institutional Rules ◽

Service Ecosystems ◽

Multiple Actors

Purpose This study aims to understand and explain how institutional change occurs at the level of value co-creation practices in service ecosystems. Despite the centrality of collective practices to the service ecosystems perspective, theoretically grounded explanations of how practices change and become institutionalized remain underdeveloped. Applying the theory of routine dynamics, this paper addresses two questions as follows: what does the institutional change mean at the level of value co-creation practices and what processes underlie these changes? Design/methodology/approach The study develops a conceptual framework that characterizes value co-creation practices as routines involving three aspects, namely, ostensive, performative and artifactual. As a key element in institutional change, the interplay between these informs an account of institutional change processes in service ecosystems. Findings The proposed conceptual framework specifies the conditions for institutional change in terms of value co-creation routines. First, any such change is seen to be grounded in alignment between changing institutional rules and the ostensive, performative and artifactual aspects of routines. Second, this alignment is seen to emerge through a dialectics of planned and practice-based activities during institutional change. An empirical research agenda is proposed for the analysis of institutional change processes in different service ecosystems. Originality/value This conceptual framework extends existing accounts of how service ecosystems change through the contributions of multiple actors at the level of value co-creation practices.

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