Beyond Services and Prescriptions: Reimagining Healthy Lifestyle Centers as Cooperative Enterprises

While the health-enhancing benefits of exercise and good nutrition have been well documented, the ability of health professionals to encourage healthier lifestyle behaviors among those they serve continues to prove challenging. Creating the conditions where healthier living can both occur and be sustained requires thinking beyond the traditional provision of services and prescriptions that occur in healthcare settings. Healthy Lifestyle Centers are emerging as a way of deploying lifestyle medicine practices. Turning these centers into cooperative businesses has the potential to make them more effective. Cooperative business principles are well established, and they enable individuals to become makers and producers of their own healthy lifestyles, providing a greater opportunity for sustained lifestyles changes. The purpose of this article is to further examine the role of engagement practices and coproduction as they relate to cooperative business models and to propose a framework for a Cooperative Healthy Lifestyle Center.

Mindfulness Business Principles

There is an unprecedented pressure that both individuals and businesses endure, especially when considering changes and challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 crisis. Mindfulness seems to become an integrated part of people's lives, in the attempt to be more concentrated on their daily tasks, more focused on living in the present moment, more determined to eliminate anxiety and stress. In like manner, mindfulness in business seems to become a key solution to stronger entrepreneurship and highly successful workplace relationships. Thus, the new economy, the knowledge-based economy, centers its attention on the powerful links and opportunities that may be encountered between well-being, mental health, and mindfulness, seeking a way to create valuable mindfulness business principles, capable of producing outstanding results, empowering people, facilitating cooperation, allowing good governance, inducing corporate social responsibility, fostering community connections, enabling competitiveness, and supporting sustainability, development, and environmental balance.

Analisis Strategi Pemasaran Rumah Makan Dalam Menghadapi Persaingan Usaha

In starting a business, a marketing strategy is one of the most important things. There is a lot of competition in doing business, so the marketing strategy must be carried out as well as possible so that the results are in accordance with the plan and can win the market. For this reason, it is necessary to conduct research on marketing strategies in terms of Islamic economics. With this background, business people must pay attention to marketing strategies in order to compete with other business people in accordance with sharia economic principles. The problem in this study is how the marketing strategy of Mbah Darsih's Angkringan restaurant in facing business competition and whether the marketing strategy of Mbah Darsih's Angkringan restaurant is in accordance with Islamic economic principles. The aim is to find out the marketing strategy used by Mbah Darsih's Angkringan restaurant and the suitability of the marketing strategy used with Islamic business principles. The data in this study were obtained from the results of interviews, observations, and documentation. The results obtained in this study Angkringan Mbah Darsih restaurant using a strategy commonly called the marketing mix where Angkringan Mbah Darsih is very concerned about product quality, promotional activities, price, and place. Angkringan Mbah Darsih in implementing its marketing strategy in accordance with Islamic business principles, namely siddiq, amanah, tabligh, fathonah. The shortcomings of Mbah Darsih's Angkringan restaurant in carrying out its strategy are the lack of consistency in carrying out promotional activities and the lack of available parking space.

Alternative Approaches to Development: Social Entrepreneurship in the Philippines

<p>Post-development writers contend that development has failed because it created a worldview in which certain places are deemed ‘underdeveloped’ and in need of external assistance based on Western ideals of modernity. They argue that development should be abandoned and ‘alternatives to development’ must now be brought to the fore. However, this proposition is considered to be challenging at best since discussions on ‘alternatives to development’ have been vague and concrete practical examples are rarely given. Nevertheless, the arguments found within post-development thought are significant to current and future development practice and several researchers have attempted to apply post-development ideas into practice. This thesis looks into Social Entrepreneurship, an emerging development approach that seems to build on some of the ideas from post-development thought. It examines how social entrepreneurship has evolved and is defined within the context of the Philippines. The thesis attempts to understand how social entrepreneurship differs from mainstream development approaches and contributes to alternative pathways, through a case study of an NGO engaged in social entrepreneurship — A Single Drop for Safe Water, Philippines. Qualitative methods of observation, secondary data collection, and semi-structured interviews were utilized. The study reveals that social entrepreneurship practices have elements that reflect postdevelopment ideas such as highlighting community strengths, being mindful of local culture and practices, and strengthening the autonomy of community groups. However, social entrepreneurship also features activities that are based on market and business principles including having a profit motive and transferring business skills and knowledge to communities. Thus, social entrepreneurship is neither alternative nor mainstream but has the potential to be both. Development practitioners should be careful in utilizing social entrepreneurship practices, as not to expand neo-liberal ideals.</p>

Alternative Approaches to Development: Social Entrepreneurship in the Philippines

<p>Post-development writers contend that development has failed because it created a worldview in which certain places are deemed ‘underdeveloped’ and in need of external assistance based on Western ideals of modernity. They argue that development should be abandoned and ‘alternatives to development’ must now be brought to the fore. However, this proposition is considered to be challenging at best since discussions on ‘alternatives to development’ have been vague and concrete practical examples are rarely given. Nevertheless, the arguments found within post-development thought are significant to current and future development practice and several researchers have attempted to apply post-development ideas into practice. This thesis looks into Social Entrepreneurship, an emerging development approach that seems to build on some of the ideas from post-development thought. It examines how social entrepreneurship has evolved and is defined within the context of the Philippines. The thesis attempts to understand how social entrepreneurship differs from mainstream development approaches and contributes to alternative pathways, through a case study of an NGO engaged in social entrepreneurship — A Single Drop for Safe Water, Philippines. Qualitative methods of observation, secondary data collection, and semi-structured interviews were utilized. The study reveals that social entrepreneurship practices have elements that reflect postdevelopment ideas such as highlighting community strengths, being mindful of local culture and practices, and strengthening the autonomy of community groups. However, social entrepreneurship also features activities that are based on market and business principles including having a profit motive and transferring business skills and knowledge to communities. Thus, social entrepreneurship is neither alternative nor mainstream but has the potential to be both. Development practitioners should be careful in utilizing social entrepreneurship practices, as not to expand neo-liberal ideals.</p>

Enjoying extinction: philanthrocapitalism, jouissance, and 'excessive environmentourism' in the South African rhino poaching crisis

From 2007 to 2015, rhino poaching grew rapidly in and around Kruger National Park, South Africa. And though poaching numbers have declined since then, the 'poaching crisis' and its consequences continue to influence rhetoric and practice in the area, including continuing public outcries that the rhino is close to extinction. This discourse of extinction is also prevalent among the luxurious tourist lodges on private nature reserves of the Greater Kruger Area that attract wealthy tourists. In response, some lodges started initiatives in which tourists can join the fight against rhino poaching. These tourist activities share important similarities with 'philanthrocapitalism',in which wealthy philanthropists address social and environmental challenges drawing on the same business principles that made them successful. Based on research on the tourism industry, I explore the political ecology of such high-end, 'environmentourist' activities. I argue that philanthropic environmental tourist activities are based on a reductionist articulation of the rhino poaching crisis. They de-politicize it from its socio-economic and historical context and are 'excessive', in that they produce and legitimize exorbitant forms of privatized, luxurious tourism and consumerism as a solution for social and environmental crises. Moreover,such 'excessive environmentourism' allows wealthy tourists to enjoy 'doing good'in a very specific way, best captured by the term 'jouissance.' Jouissance is a particular type of ambivalent enjoyment that includes fascination with dark and horrific elements (i.e. poached rhinos and the idea that these animals are at the brink of extinction). I conclude that jouissance functions as a core motivation for wealthy tourists to engage in touristic experiences precisely because it enables them to believe they can overcome the dark sides of their own excesses ironically by 'doing good', grounded in excessive consumption.

Europese Commissie als motor van verandering.

By analyzing the case of the closure of the Amsterdam shipyards in the 1980s, this article shows how the European Commission actively promoted a neoliberal turn in policies towards state support for economic sectors in Western-Europe. Besides the EC, the article also makes clear that quite early on leading civil servants within the Dutch ministries of Economic Affairs and of Finance embraced neoliberal ideas as an answer to tackle the economic crisis of the 1970s. A third, often neglected actor in explanations on the rise of neoliberalism were management consultants – in this case from management consultancy firm McKinsey – who wrote alarming reports about the shipbuilding industry and promoted ideas that emphasized the importance of business principles and individual managers as key for improvement, thereby offering an alternative to macroeconomic Keynesian models of growth.

Sosialisasi Akad-akad Ekonomi Syariah pada BUMDes di Desa Kaotan Blimbingsari Banyuwangi

BUMDes is an instrument that drives the macro economy at the village level based on local potential and wisdom. Management of BUMDes in a professional manner can be a solution in order to advance and prosper all elements of village society.BUMDes Mitra Sejahtera is the BUMDes of Kaotan Blimbingsari village which has business activities in the form of buying and selling food and renting agricultural equipment. The management of Mitra Sejahtera BUMDes has been carried out on a traditional conventional basis. The majority of the people in Kaotan Blimbingsarivillage are Muslims with the value of mutual cooperation that thrives in the community.BUMDES business activities must be based on benefits and do not contain elements of persecution (tyranny) for the community.Departing from the spirit of doing changes for the better, the condition of the Kaotan village community and the principles of BUMDes business activities, the authors conclude that the implementation of the Sharia economic system is a solution for BUMDes Mitra Sejahtera. Therefore, the socialization of Islamic economic contracts is an important necessity for the managers of BUMDes Mitra Sejahtera. The socialization material includes Sharia business principles and forms of Sharia contracts.The implementation of this activity is packaged in a workshop. Activities carried out using the method of lectures, discussions and practices at the Kaotan Village-Owned Enterprise. This activity is carried out not once but through several stages in accordance with the material that has been compiled by the presenter

Nature Ideas Exchange: Education of Sustainable Business Principles Based on Parallels with Forest Ecosystem

Arne Næss considered nature the best source of knowledge and regarded the economists as morally responsible for the ecological crisis. Therefore, this research focused on students of economic fields at the university level. The experimental group (n = 236) led by a teacher-as-researcher completed a Business Economic course by forest workshops for one semester because the sustainability principles can be very well explained and observed on examples of forest fauna and flora and then applied in managerial practice. Many similarities were found between forest and business principles (optimal growth rate, teamwork, cooperation models, parasitism). This paper aimed to identify if students’ proficiency in applying sustainable mindset from a forest ecosystem to practice increased. The achievement test compared outcomes of the experimental and control group (n = 190) of students. Based on statistical testing, it can be stated that the experimental intervention led to better results compared to the control group. For issues in which no suitable parallel with the forest ecosystem was found and were therefore explained according to the textbook, group (E) did not perform better than group (C). The methodology is based on qualitative and quantitative research, a mixed-methods approach.

Investing in Social Determinants

Chapter 14 illustrates the value of addressing the causes of poor health at their roots by presenting the perspectives of an industrial and operations engineer, an economist, and an attorney. Combining business principles of return on investment (ROI) with outcome data from social interventions, they argue that addressing social determinants yields savings that may accrue to health, social, and other systems. George Miller suggests that approaching social interventions as “nonclinical prevention” sharpens understanding of investments and outcomes. Early childhood interventions can improve outcomes and save money, according to Lynn A. Karoly. Her extensive studies of interventions point to key short- and long-term health, social, and economic impacts. Cindy Mann presents the case for Medicaid as a player in addressing social needs. She describes evolving developments in North Carolina as a case example.