scholarly journals Le Maroc à l’heure de la clusterisation. Un projet d’innovation pour une ville en déclin industriel

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed BOUSTANE
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Approach ◽  
Industrial Policies ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Free Zone ◽  
Industrial Decline ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Modes Of Governance

The new imperatives of globalization have imposed new challenges for international competitiveness, innovation, and territorial attractiveness. They tend to permeate the content of the industrial policies adopted by countries. This same trend seems to have affected Morocco starting from the 2000s with the adoption of its new industrial policy, Plan Emergence. Such a policy has made the promotion and the realization of clusters one if its main spearheads. As part of this contribution, the cluster approach is questioned in both its process of elaboration and its modes of governance. This is based on the case study of Atlantic Free Zone project in Kenitra, a city in industrial decline. The process certainly provides information on the role of central authorities in identifying the location and the conceptualization of the project; it also attests the importance of the instrumentation of cognitive frameworks and symbolic aspects of public action, in order to ensure the mobilization of local actors.

The Subnational Region

2017 ◽  
pp. 96-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Lawrie
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scale ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Hard Power ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Sydney Australia ◽  
The Ideal

Most states worldwide possess two or three levels of government, from national to provincial and localities. Subnational governing arrangements are emerging in response to widespread decentralization, globalization, and urbanization, with this level increasingly considered the ideal spatial scale for effectively harnessing governing capacity. Yet regional governing arrangements often lack the traditional statutory and administrative governing tools of the state. Instead, they tend to rely on voluntary co-ordination and co-operation. Emboldened with more traditional governing tools, provincial and local states can work against these networks to protect their own power. This case study of Sydney, Australia, examines the dimensions of hard and soft power in a regional governing network and the role of provincial and local actors in determining the prospects for regional governance. In the absence of state-like mechanisms of hard power, the soft power on which regional governing networks rely will likely remain inferior for the governing task.

scholarly journals NOVAS TECNOLOGIAS E CONFIANÇA NAS ORGANIZAÇÕES: UM ESTUDO DE CASO NO CONTEXTO HOSPITALAR

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina S. Queiroz ◽  
Daniel Augusto Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Health Care Organization ◽  
Care Organization ◽  
Private Health Care ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Complexity ◽  
New Challenges

<p align="justify">The rate by which the implementation of new technologies has grown in all sectors of the economy increased organizational complexity and uncertainty. As a result, companies and their members now face a number of new challenges. This paper analyzes one case study that contemplates the implementation of new technologies in a radiotherapy unit of a large private health care organization. Its main objective is to analyze the growth in social complexity, which derives from the use of technologies and to verify its implications for organization. Furthermore, it intends to investigate the role of trust as a variable of adjustment of the organization to the external environmental needs. </p><p align="justify">Key words: Organization Studies. Innovation. New Technologies. Trust.</p>

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF ONLINE ENGLISH COMMUNITY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-279
Author(s):  
Siti Hadianti ◽  
Bobi Arisandi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Challenging Situation

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused many new challenges for educational institutions. Most schools and universities have been transforming the learning mode into an online platform and it leaves teachers and students in a challenging situation. The existence of English community which helped to provide exposure and practice toward English learning is postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic. Online English community as an alternative to replace English community has not been observed well before. Its flexibility in learning is assumed that it can enhance a better engagement in the English learning activity. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of the online English community during COVID-19 pandemic. Fifteen university students that are involved in one online English community participated in the research. The researchers chose the sample by using purposive sampling. The data was collected through questionnaire and interview and the method that is used is qualitative research with a case study design. The researchers found that there are at least 3 roles of online English community during COVID-19 pandemic. 

scholarly journals A NEW CONTEXT AND AESTHETICS OF SERBIAN TRADITIONAL CUISINE IN THE AGE OF PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Stojanović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Food Science ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Right

The new millennium brings new twists, as we are witnessing old becoming new again and cultures and cuisines repeating themselves. Culture has always followed or imposed contemporary challenges. Consequently, food culture also participates in global occurrences, such as the recurrence of economic collapses, health cataclysms, natural disasters, the consequences of climate change, etc. The 2020 global pandemic has indicated that the planet is not going in the right direction. The aim is to observe deeper meanings and paradoxes, predict the consequences and describe the role of new approaches and technologies in the traditional gastronomy of the region on the basis of empirical evidence and a case study for the location of Serbia. The dynamics of experience, authenticity, re-representations in the form of new aesthetics are being examined. New culinologies, as a combination of culinary art and food science, will define the future of food in the age of pandemic and as well as new challenges in general, in order to neutralize them or use their power for the sake of humanity.

scholarly journals Debt to Society: The Role of Fines & Fees Reform in Dismantling the Carceral State

2021 ◽  
pp. 857
Author(s):  
Wesley Dozier ◽  
Daniel Kiel
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Financial Health ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Criminal Legal System ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Fines and fees that result from contact with the criminal legal system serve as a suffocating debt for those against whom they are assessed. Many states have countless laws that require taxes, fines, and fees to be assessed against individuals involved in the criminal legal system at various stages of the criminal legal process, and they have the effect of permanently trapping individuals within the system. In Tennessee, for example, these debts, which can accumulate to over $10,000 in a single criminal case, stand in the way of individuals getting their criminal records expunged, keeping valid driver’s licenses, and restoring their voting rights, among other things. However, as in many other states, Tennessee’s legislature is decidedly hostile to the poor (particularly when poor people’s issues compete with the perceived financial health of government entities), and the urgency of the problem cannot wait for unwilling lawmakers to realize the change that thousands of people need. Using Tennessee as a case study and drawing on the author’s experiences working within the State’s system, this Article considers ways to effectively advocate for the elimination of court debt as a punishment for poverty. First, it provides an abbreviated history of court debt and explains how that history still impacts individuals today. This Article also draws upon the author’s experiences representing individuals in court, appearing before judges, and collaborating with other stakeholders to show the difficulty of achieving a state-wide movement for reform in Tennessee’s current political climate, a problem not unique to this state. Finally, the Article concludes by discussing how local actors can work within current legal frameworks to protect people from extortionist fine and fee policies and limit the harmful growth of the criminal legal system.

scholarly journals Living in the Age of Axis Internationalism: Imagining Europe in Serbia Before and During the Second World War

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Antić
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Second World

This article explores how ‘European civilization’ was imagined on the margins of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, and how Balkan intellectuals saw their own societies’ place in it in the context of interwar crises and World War II occupation. It traces the interwar development and wartime transformation of the intellectual debates regarding the modernization of Serbia/Yugoslavia, the role of the Balkans in the broader European culture, and the most appropriate path to becoming a member of the ‘European family of nations’. In the first half of the article, I focus on the interwar Serbian intelligentsia, and their discussions of various forms of international cultural, political and civilizational links and settings. These discussions centrally addressed the issue of Yugoslavia’s (and Serbia’s) ‘Europeanness’ and cultural identity in the context of the East–West symbolic and the state’s complex cultural-historical legacies. Such debates demonstrated how frustrating the goal of Westernization and Europeanization turned out to be for Serbian intellectuals. After exploring the conundrums and seemingly insoluble contradictions of interwar modernization/Europeanization discussions, the article then goes on to analyse the dramatic changes in such intellectual outlooks after 1941, asking how Europe and European cultural/political integration were imagined in occupied Serbia, and whether the realities of the occupation could accommodate these earlier debates. Serbia can provide an excellent case study for exploring how the brutal Nazi occupation policies affected collaborationist governments, and how the latter tried to make sense of their troubled inclusion in the racial ideology of the New European Order under the German leadership. Was Germany’s propaganda regarding European camaraderie taken seriously by any of the local actors? What did the Third Reich’s dubious internationalism mean in the east and south-east of Europe, and did it have anything to offer to the intelligentsia as well as the population at large?

scholarly journals Suburbanization and Local Governance - Positive and Negative Forms: Olomouc Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (27) ◽  
pp. 95-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Kladivo ◽  
Pavel Roubínek ◽  
Zdeněk Opravil ◽  
Martina Nesvadbová
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
New Construction ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates

Abstract Over the previous 15-20 years (in Czech conditions), suburban processes have substantially influenced the appearance and transformation of municipalities on the fringe of larger cities. And it is not only the morphology of the municipality structure (new housing estates and their urban as well as architectural solutions) that has undergone the transformation, but also the functions municipalities have started to fulfil (the development of civic amenities and services). After such a long period of time, we are capable of identifying negative as well as positive impacts of suburban processes on municipalities, and evaluating the role of local actors (with regard to local governance) in the shaping of sub-urbias and their appearance (the area urban solution, infrastructure, architecture in terms of housing appearance, etc.). We are also capable of assessing new construction sites based on their location or appearance (housing naturally complementing or suitably extending the municipality built-up area, or, on the contrary, a satellite housing estate built “on a greenfield site”), social climate between old residents and newcomers, etc. The goal of the paper is to present the most significant aspects that have had influence on new housing construction in suburban zone municipalities, and to describe differences in the application of the concept of local governance (at the lowest - microregional, or possibly municipal tier) in positively impacted municipalities as compared with those affected rather negatively. Concentrating on the city of Olomouc and its suburban zone in greater detail, the study shall also outline expected future development.

scholarly journals Explaining Change in Legislatures: Dilemmas of Managerial Reform in the UK House of Commons

2020 ◽  
pp. 003232172095512
Author(s):  
Alexandra Meakin ◽  
Marc Geddes
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Empirical Contribution

How do institutions adapt and reform themselves in response to new challenges? This article considers the role of ideas and posits that the concept of ‘dilemma’ – clashes of beliefs played out through power relations and practices – offers a complementary tool to understand institutional change. It draws on the 2014 appointment of a new Clerk to the UK House of Commons – in which conflicting beliefs about the House of Commons administration opened a dilemma for key parliamentary actors – as a token case study to highlight the value of the concepts of beliefs, practices and dilemmas. It further broadens out these findings to consider the value of a wider interpretive approach for understanding how institutions may adapt and change. In doing so, it makes (1) a theoretical contribution by exploring the role of ideas in causing institutional change and (2) an empirical contribution through its analysis of parliamentary administration, an understudied area.

scholarly journals Reviewing Batik with Natural Coloring based on the Clean Production Theory with an Ecofeminist Perspective (Case Study: Putri Kawung Batik Community in Klaten)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Purwanti Asih Levi ◽  
Arianti Ina Restiani Hunga ◽  
Hotmauli Sidabalok
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Production Theory ◽  
Cluster Approach ◽  
Clean Production ◽  
Waste Production ◽  
Rapid Production ◽  
Printing Techniques

Mass and rapid production of batik using synthetic color and printing techniques engenders environmental problems such as waste production, air pollution, water pollution, unhealthy and hazardous work environment, and a threat to the sustainability of hand-drawn batik. Clean production is one solution to this problem. This paper discusses the practice of batik with natural coloring based on the theory of clean production with an ecofeminist perspective. The method employed in this research is a case study with a one-unit production (cluster) approach of Putri Kawung batik community. The findings show that the practice of clean batik production in Putri Kawung batik community still focuses on the input and process of using natural coloring, material selection, and reuse of wax materials. This shows that the role of women through community gradually practices clean production, even though it has not yet extended to its output processing.

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