scholarly journals Knowledge in Technology Networks: A Case Study Based Institutional Approach

10.5772/7888 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Steiner ◽  
Christian Hartmann ◽  
Michael Ploder
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Approach

scholarly journals Escalation of Governance: Effects of Voluntary Standardization on Organizations, Markets and Standards in Swiss Fair Trade

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Arnold ◽  
Raimund Hasse
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Voluntary Standards ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Standard Documents ◽  
Fair Trade Organizations

Voluntary standards are a ubiquitous phenomenon in modern society that has recently started to attract sociologists’ profound interest. This paper concentrates on formal standardization over the long term and seeks to understand its effects on the coordination of an organizational field. Using an institutional approach we see standards as a form of governance that can be analytically distinguished from other modes of coordination, such as markets and hierarchical organizations. To empirically ground our understanding of formal standards’ consequences on field-level governance, we conducted a case study of the historical development of the Swiss fair trade field since the 1970s. Evidence used in this case study is drawn from 28 expert interviews, documentation and fair trade standard documents. While a formal set of voluntary standards was absent in its early development, in 1992 fair trade organizations started to use written standards as a means of achieving their objectives. Paradoxically, the introduction of a rational standardization system has led to escalating governance structures in the field. In the long run the launch of formal standards has caused more organizations, more markets, and even more standards. The use of standards as a means of creating differentiation instead of generating uniformity is thereby seen as the main reason for increased coordination demands. As a consequence, this article highlights standards’ potential to boost additional governance efforts and directs attention to the mutual enforcement of distinct modes of coordination.

scholarly journals Knowledge Commons

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J Madison ◽  
Brett M. Frischmann ◽  
Katherine J Strandburg
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Knowledge Commons ◽  
Commons Institutions ◽  
Resource Knowledge

This chapter provides an introduction to and overview of the knowledge commons research framework. Knowledge commons refers to an institutional approach (commons) to governing the production, use, management, and/or preservation of a particular type of resource (knowledge). The research framework supplies a template for interrogating the details of knowledge commons institutions on a case study basis, generating qualitative data that may be used to support comparative analysis.

Layers of difference: a cancer center’s approach to minimizing cancer health disparity

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 289-295
Author(s):  
Desiree Chachula ◽  
Cathy Grant ◽  
Prado Antolino ◽  
Jenna Davis ◽  
Desiree Hanson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Health Disparity ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Cancer Health Disparities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Cancer Health Disparity ◽  
Over Time

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study of a multifaceted institutional approach to minimizing cancer health disparities, presenting a novel organizational framework entitled, “A.C.C.E.S.S.” to guide those efforts. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents a case study of an organization that operates under the theory that cancer health disparities are a result of the cumulative incongruence of differences that exist between people in various contexts and interactions over time. Consequently, the A.C.C.E.S.S. framework is used to demonstrate the range of opportunities within an organization to intervene and mitigate gaps that result in inequality. Findings Addressing A.C.C.E.S.S. in various interactions and contexts over a sustained period of time results in a continuous improvement cycle that attenuates cancer health disparity. Originality/value The antecedents and impacts of cancer health disparities are well documented. However, there is a dearth of directionality for institutions and organizations in achieving equality in cancer treatment and care. This paper provides a framework to consider in organizing such endeavors.

scholarly journals Institutional logics and organizational change: the role of place and time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Ponte ◽  
Caterina Pesci
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Contextual Elements ◽  
Micro Level

AbstractThis paper investigates the case of a hybrid organization located in Northern Italy with the aim of providing an understanding of the role of the context, defined in terms of ‘place’ and ‘time’, in shaping organizational changes. A dynamic institutional approach focused on both ‘place’ and ‘time’ as key explanatory factors can provide a valuable framework to understand both the changing institutional demands on the firm and the rationalities behind the changes that occur at organizational, strategic and governance level. Consequently, this paper aims to contribute to the institutional logics literature by describing how these two contextual elements can be used to interpret institutional logic pressures on the organization under investigation as well as govern changes at micro level. The results indicate that the changes were produced by dynamics that are exogenous and endogenous to the organization in the case study and strongly influenced by the context in which it operates. The paper also highlights how changes in terms of service provision, accountability and organizational setting are the results of the ‘place’ and ‘time’ in which these events occur.

scholarly journals Selected Abstracts from the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-308
Author(s):  
Per Bylund ◽  
Michael Caston ◽  
Nicole Flink ◽  
Lee Grumbles ◽  
Clint Purtell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Austrian Economics ◽  
Financial Asset ◽  
Economic Rationality ◽  
Business Economics ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Car Wash ◽  
Systemic Corruption ◽  
Economics Research

Abstracts include: "Entrepreneurship, Uncertainty, and Judgment: A Model for Understanding the Uncertainty Borne by Entrepreneurs," by Per Bylund "The Perceived Phantom Opportunity: Bridging the Gap between Perception and Actualization," by Michael Caston, Nicole Flink, Lee Grumbles, and Clint Purtell "Should Libertarians Reject the Title Transfer Theory of Contracts?" by Lukasz Dominiak and Tate Fegley "From Intuitions to Anarchism?" by David Gordon "Higher Education Evolution," by Mitchell B. Langbert "The Legacy of Henry Louis Mencken and Rose Wilder Lane: Democracy and Representative Government," by Roberta Adelaide Modugno "The Economic Rationality of Brazilian Systemic Corruption: Why 'Operation Car Wash' Makes a Case Study for Austrian Public Choice Economics," by Roberta Muramatsu and Paulo Rogerio Scarano "Austrian Economics and German Business Economics on Capital Accounting," by Michael Olbrich and David J. Rapp "Bitcoin or 2000 Others? Who Will Succeed? An Institutional Approach to Cryptocurrency with a Focus on Austrian Economics," by Duygu Phillips "Turning the Word Upside Down: How Cantillon Changed the Meaning of Entrepreneurship," by Mark Thornton "Financial Asset Valuations: The Total Demand Approach," by Vytautas Zukauskas and Jorg Guido Hulsmann

scholarly journals A case study investigation into a children’s rights approach to health services

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rhian Chamberlain
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Health Board ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Monitoring Tools ◽  
Services Implementation

The purpose of this thesis is to contribute knowledge regarding what should be involved in a children’s rights approach (CRA) to health services in the Welsh context and to develop tools to monitor the implementation of such an approach using Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board (ABMU) as a case study. There is no agreed model for a human rights approach, a children’s rights approach, human rights approach to health or indeed a CRA to health services. This thesis begins with an examination of the conceptual literature and the international human rights treaty system to determine what should be included in a CRA to health services. It considers what are the barriers and also the mechanisms that support a CRA to health services’ implementation in practice and reviews devolved health policy and the agenda for children’s rights in Wales. From this analysis it develops a conceptual framework and monitoring tools to test a health authority’s institutional approach to implementing a CRA in the Welsh context. Using ABMU Health Board as the case study it demonstrates how tools were developed to gain a baseline understanding of how far a CRA had been embedded in ABMU health services and what strategies were required to make a CRA fully operational. The monitoring tools are determined to be effective, non-resource intensive methods that can be used to test a health board’s progress on implementing a CRA. The thesis presents opportunities for critical reflections regarding how to better embed and implement a CRA to health services and recommendations regarding future research.

How will China realize SDG 14 by 2030?— A case study of an institutional approach to achieve proper control of coastal water pollution

2019 ◽  
Vol 230 ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhu Mao ◽  
Xiongzhi Xue ◽  
Haiyan Tian ◽  
Adi Uchenna Michael
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Coastal Water ◽  
Institutional Approach

The German Right from Weimar to Hitler: Fragmentation and Coalescence

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-113
Author(s):  
Geoff Eley
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
The Third ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Nazi Ideology ◽  
The Third Reich

As archival scholarship on National Socialism moved under way during the later 1960s, study of the Right's broader intellectual history relied on a small number of then canonical works—by Klemens von Klemperer (1957), Otto E. Schüddekopf (1960), Fritz Stern (1961), Hans-Joachim Schwierskott (1962), and Kurt Sontheimer (1962), shadowed by Armin Mohler's Die konservative Revolution in Deutschland 1918–1932. Grundriβ ihrer Weltanschauungen (1950)—soon to be joined by George Mosse (1964), Herman Lebovics (1969), and Walter Struve (1973). At this stage, with the exception of Fritz K. Ringer's The Decline of the German Mandarins (1967) and Reinhard Bollmus's study of Alfred Rosenberg's office and its opponents (1970), there was virtually nothing taking a broader social or institutional approach to the contexts of Nazi ideology and the sociology of knowledge under the Third Reich. Gerhard Kratzsch's Kunstwart und Dürerbund. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Gebildeten im Zeitalter des Imperialismus (1969) stood very much alone as a nuanced, archivally researched case study alive to the complex ambivalences of cultural nationalism in the Wilhelmine years.

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