“The SALC is mine!”: Supporting the Development of Learner Agency and Reconfiguration of Language Learning Environments Beyond the Classroom

This study explores the process of how a learner recognises the value of a Self-Access Learning Center (SALC) and takes charge of her own learning through self-reflection of her language learning environments beyond the classroom as well as her ideal future self-image as a motivational factor. A university student who majors in English drew a mind map as a tool to reflect on her learning activities beyond the classroom before and after engaging in various reflective activities. Employing a qualitative narrative case study approach, multiple data sources, which included two mind maps, written descriptions of them, and a follow-up semi-structured interview, were analysed from an ecological perspective. The findings show that the learner’s self-reflection on her learning environments beyond the classroom, as well as her stronger image of ideal future-self, guided her to step forward to take action to engage with the SALC to create a meaningful space to achieve her goals. The learner’s self-reflection on her engagement with the environments, strategic advice from her friends, and a clearer image of her ideal future self are seen as key factors for the development of her learner agency. The benefits of teachers including self-reflection during class time on learning beyond the classroom as an aid to develop learner agency are also outlined.

Diverse integrated ecosystem approach overcomes pandemic-related fisheries monitoring challenges

The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented cancellations of fisheries and ecosystem-assessment surveys, resulting in a recession of observations needed for management and conservation globally. This unavoidable reduction of survey data poses challenges for informing biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, developing future stock assessments of harvested species, and providing strategic advice for ecosystem-based management. We present a diversified framework involving integration of monitoring data with empirical models and simulations to inform ecosystem status within the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. We augment trawl observations collected from a limited fisheries survey with survey effort reduction simulations, use of seabird diets as indicators of fish abundance, and krill species distribution modeling trained on past observations. This diversified approach allows for evaluation of ecosystem status during data-poor situations, especially during the COVID-19 era. The challenges to ecosystem monitoring imposed by the pandemic may be overcome by preparing for unexpected effort reduction, linking disparate ecosystem indicators, and applying new species modeling techniques.

EXPRESS: On the Emotional Dynamics of Guided Strategizing: An Affective View on Strategy-Making directed by Strategy Consultants

While work on affect in strategy-making has been increasingly developing, relatively little research has been conducted on the emotional dynamics of strategy processes directed by strategy consultants. Drawing on a variety of qualitative data gathered during a one-year consulting case, this article looks into the way emotions unfold when managers solicit external strategic advice. Specifically, this article reveals the mechanisms underpinning managers’ emotions in guided strategy-making from pre- to post-strategizing, highlighting processes as they develop over time. In doing so, three fundamental emotional drivers are laid bare: interaction – or how practitioners engage with each other; temporality – or how practitioners engage with time; and impression – or how practitioners engage with mental representations of strategy-making and strategy consultancy. By revealing how emotions evolve when managers find themselves strategically directed, this article offers insight into how a guided strategy-making trajectory can be affectively managed – to make sense of emotions when they unfold, and to address them appropriately as they do.

Implementing Experiential Marketing in the Digital Age for a More Sustainable Customer Relationship

We reviewed 58 empirical articles from the last two decades on experiential marketing in the e-commerce context. This literature review seeks to shed light into the fields of experiential and digital marketing, addressing the gaps in experiential aspects that appear during an online shopping session found in the literature. Thus, the paper identifies the elements that create the optimal consumers’ experience together with advantages, challenges, and strategic advice associated with the overall digital experience, an aspect that develops a more sustainable relationship between customers and e-businesses. The findings reveal that the most reported advantage of the overall digital experience is that it provides enhanced satisfaction, an aspect that is crucial for both consumers and online businesses, while some noted that frequent challenges are providing high levels of interactivity and trust. We found several other advantages and challenges of online consumer experience that led to the outlining of the strategic advice for online businesses, all being discussed in detail. The paper addresses a theoretical framework of digital marketing that is relevant for both academics and practitioners, suggestions for future research directions, and key research implications being offered.

Security and Defence Sector Reforming in the Context of State Cooperation with NATO

The state of cooperation between Ukraine and NATO and the participation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Alliance projects and initiatives are analyzed. It is noted that participation in the Concept of Operational Capabilities allows to participate in exercises and operations under the auspices of NATO, to be involved in operational duty as part of multinational military formations of high readiness; Participation in NATO Air Information Exchange Program contributes to the coordination of the fight against air terrorism. It is determined that the main tasks in the process of reforming the Armed Forces of Ukraine according to NATO standards are their standardization to the NATO Armed Forces and increasing the efficiency of the country’s defence sphere. The implementation of NATO standards involves the development of relevant legislation and regulations, their enactment in the prescribed manner and its application in day-to-day operations. In the process of reforming the security and defence sector, a number of measures have already been taken to reorganize the military administration, but the reform process is ongoing. The «STANAG» standard needs to be tested, which requires a comprehensive review of the entire infrastructure and functioning of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is noted that cooperation with NATO in the context of security and defence sector reform is to promote the transformation and development of Ukraine’s security and defence sector. NATO member states continue to provide strategic advice to the Ukrainian side on institutional development reform. Within the framework of cooperation, a special training mechanism was launched with the involvement of foreign instructors in the form of a combat training center for units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard on the basis of the Yavoriv test site. The «Comprehensive Assistance Package for Ukraine» was introduced to increase Ukraine’s capacity in the process of reforming the security and defence sector, which contains 13 areas.

Why do small businesses seek support for managing people? Implications for theory and policy from an analysis of UK small business survey data

This article explores the characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that seek external human resource (HR) support and the circumstances in which they do so, drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm and recent growth theories. Original analysis of UK Longitudinal Small Business Survey data indicates that few SMEs seek HR support and that they are more likely to seek information than strategic advice. Resource deficiencies were not found to be a driver for seeking HR support, rather this was associated with business changes or challenges. Theoretically, we develop a model that identifies dynamic capabilities for HR support, integrated within an RBV framework. This is novel in integrating the concepts of ‘human process advantage’ and ‘human capital advantage’ from the strategic HR literature with dynamic capabilities theory. We draw out the implications of the findings and the model for future research and policy development.

Platform Competition with Multihoming on Both Sides: Subsidize or Not?

A major result in the study of two-sided platforms is the strategic interdependence between the two sides of the same platform, leading to the implication that a platform can maximize its total profits by subsidizing one of its sides. We show that this result largely depends on assuming that at least one side of the market single-homes. As technology makes joining multiple platforms easier, we increasingly observe that participants on both sides of two-sided platforms multihome. The case of multihoming on both sides is mostly ignored in the literature on competition between two-sided platforms. We help to fill this gap by developing a model for platform competition in a differentiated setting (a Hotelling line), which is similar to other models in the literature but focuses on the case where at least some agents on each side multihome. We show that when both sides in a platform market multihome, the strategic interdependence between the two sides of the same platform will diminish or even disappear. Our analysis suggests that the common strategic advice to subsidize one side in order to maximize total profits may be limited or even incorrect when both sides multihome, which is an important caveat given the increasing prevalence of multihoming in platform markets. This paper was accepted by Joshua Gans, business strategy.

MODEL STRATEGY FOR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT USING BALANCE SCORECARD ON COMPANY ON COMPANY ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS

The turbulent and complex business environment demands that an organization keeps updating its business travel map; take a strategic step that focuses the capabilities and commitment of all personnel to realize the organization's ideal future. Innovative companies use a balanced scorecard as a strategic management system that manages corporate strategy on a continuous basis. The Strategy Model using balanced scorecard on the company's electrical distributor is a strategic and operational business plan that is developed through the following steps: 1) description of vision and mission becomes the goal; 2) description of objectives into strategic advice; 3) Strategic description becomes a strategic initiative to achieve strategic objectives; 4) description of strategic initiatives into a program; and 5) a description into the budget program. The goal to be achieved in this research is to know the performance on the company's electrical distributor in improving profitability. The Balanced Scorecard analysis in the firm found that the financial perspective score 5, the Customer Perspective 3.08, the Internal Business Process Perspective of 3.04, and the Learning and Growth Perspective 2.7. Based on the results of the company score then determine the strategy to increase sales volume by increasing customer satisfaction through quality products with competitive prices, and increase the number of stock items. Optimizing the profit earned, so as to increase the company's ability to return capital to shareholders, by limiting the cost to the owner's personal needs.

Symbolic Management of Process

In this chapter we examine the symbolic management of social processes in firm leadership and governance. We explain how firm leaders engage in verbal impression management about their strategic advice network, and how such communication is decoupled from their actual advice-seeking behavior. We go on to describe how firms gain legitimacy by adopting participative strategic decision-making programs that ostensibly use cutting-edge information technology to solicit input, despite decoupling the programs from actual strategic decision making. We then consider how and when firms manage impressions about the diversity and inclusiveness of firm leadership, and how such rhetoric may also be decoupled from actual decision-making processes. We conclude that the symbolic management of social and organizational processes in firm leadership is among the most efficient and effective means of increasing the legitimacy of firm governance and strategy.

REVIEW OF THE MONOGRAPH «PERSONALITY OF A PENITENTIARY CRIMINAL: A CRIMINALISTICS ASPECT» BY AKCHURIN A.V.

The article reviews the content of the monograph, focuses on the personality of the penitentiary offender, gives his characteristics in order to see further, to draw informed conclusions, to make proposals that are really of interest for a specific area of activity, to offer practically significant recommendations, and to give strategic advice