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Publication date: 8 November 2024

Marisa Fuchs and Madeleine Loren Kirstein

Sustainable and climate-adapted urban development requires integrative governance approaches and forms of collaboration between different disciplinary actors in urban society…

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Sustainable and climate-adapted urban development requires integrative governance approaches and forms of collaboration between different disciplinary actors in urban society. Integrative approaches are a particular challenge for those planning cultures in which they are not yet sufficiently established. This also applies to formal urban land-use planning in Germany, which forms the governance setting of this study. This study aims to examine how interdisciplinary participation in formal urban land-use planning contributes to the consideration of climate adaptation in the planning process.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper traces the process of two differently designed interdisciplinary participation formats based on the methodological framework of a gaming simulation, each in the context of a formal urban land-use planning procedure in Bottrop, Germany. The gaming simulations are designed as performance simulations in which we involved several representatives from different public authorities.

Findings

The gaming simulations show that interdisciplinary participation can lead to an increased awareness of climate adaptation requirements in particular and a mutual understanding of different logics of action in the context of comprehensive and sustainable urban planning in general. In addition, this paper provides recommendations as to how and under what conditions the benefits of the simulations can be transferred to municipal practice.

Originality/value

While integrative and interdisciplinary formats are increasingly being used in the context of informal urban planning, this does not apply to formal urban land-use planning. Participation in formal urban land-use planning procedures is classically linear and multidisciplinary in Germany. Using two simulated interdisciplinary participation formats, this paper tested to what extent the consideration of climate adaptation requirements as a cross-sectoral task can benefit from interdisciplinarity in the context of two formal urban land-use planning procedures.

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International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, vol. 17 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1756-8692

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Publication date: 11 April 2008

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Kybernetes, vol. 37 no. 3/4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 8 November 2021

Jennifer Moore Bernstein and Robert O. Vos

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SDG12 – Sustainable Consumption and Production: A Revolutionary Challenge for the 21st Century
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78973-102-6

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Publication date: 16 November 2020

Adrian Tootell, Elias Kyriazis, Jon Billsberry, Véronique Ambrosini, Sam Garrett-Jones and Gordon Wallace

This study aims to explore the factors undergirding knowledge creation in the university-industry complex inter-organizational arrangement. It builds upon social capital and…

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This study aims to explore the factors undergirding knowledge creation in the university-industry complex inter-organizational arrangement. It builds upon social capital and relationship marketing theories.

Design/methodology/approach

This study uses a qualitative research design. In total, 36 innovation champions involved in knowledge creation were interviewed to provide detailed insights into the process. A thematic analysis of the in-depth interviews was conducted.

Findings

The principal finding was that opportunistic behavior was a significant barrier to knowledge creation. In severe cases, the knowledge creation process was destroyed, resulting in lost investment. Principled behavior and investment in affect-based and cognition-based trust, through five critical trust development activities, provided the best path to successful knowledge creation.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the knowledge management literature by providing insights into the enablers and barriers to the formation of cooperation, a crucial antecedent to knowledge creation literature. It also affords practical implications for innovation managers and policymakers on how they can improve knowledge creation by using social capital and relationship marketing theory in complex inter-organizational arrangements.

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Journal of Knowledge Management, vol. 25 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1367-3270

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Publication date: 18 February 2021

Moses Segbenya, Nana Yaw Oppong and Sally Abena Baafi-Frimpong

One of the means to enhance the employability skills of tertiary graduates transiting into the job market has been the compulsory national service instituted by the Government of…

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One of the means to enhance the employability skills of tertiary graduates transiting into the job market has been the compulsory national service instituted by the Government of Ghana. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to examine the contribution of the mandatory national service to enhance the employability of tertiary graduates in Ghana.

Design/methodology/approach

The study used the longitudinal descriptive survey design to sample 375 national service personnel (2018 and 2019 batches) of 13,874 service personnel posted to the Central Region of Ghana, and 31 employers.

Findings

The study found human relation, communication and experience to enter the job market were perceived higher by tertiary graduates in Ghana. It was also found that the preferred employers amongst tertiary graduates were the government, multinational companies and public schools. Skills mismatch between the acquired skills of tertiary graduates and the skills required by employers was also found. Responsible factor identified was the posting of personnel for national service without considering their academic background and future job aspirations. Tertiary graduates transiting into the job market after the national service preferred to be employed by the government because of the lack of entrepreneurial skills.

Practical implications

Therefore, it was recommended that the national service secretariat post national service personnel to organisations that reflect personnel's career aspiration.

Originality/value

This is original research carried out by the researchers and was not sponsored by any organisation/institution.

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Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, vol. 11 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2042-3896

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Publication date: 17 June 2020

Robert Charnock and Keith Hoskin

This paper brings insights from accounting scholarship to the measurement and reporting challenges of metagovernance approaches to sustainable development. Where scholarship on…

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This paper brings insights from accounting scholarship to the measurement and reporting challenges of metagovernance approaches to sustainable development. Where scholarship on metagovernance—the combination of market, hierarchical and network governance—proposes deductive approaches to such challenges, we contend that a historically informed “abductive” approach offers valuable insight into the realpolitik of intergovernmental frameworks.

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The paper adopts a Foucauldian “archaeological–genealogical” method to investigate the inclusion of climate change as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). It analyses more than 100 documents and texts, tracking the statement forms that crystallise prevailing truth claims across the development of climate and SDG metagovernance.

Findings

We show how the truth claims now enshrined in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change constrained the conceptualisation and operationalisation of SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. The paper thereby reframes recent measurement and reporting challenges as outcomes of conceptual conflicts between the technicist emphasis of divisions within the United Nations and the truth claims enshrined in intergovernmental agreements.

Originality/value

This paper demonstrates how an archaeological–genealogical approach may start to address the measurement and reporting challenges facing climate and SDG metagovernance. It also highlights that the two degrees target on climate change has a manifest variability of interpretation and shows how this characteristic has become pivotal to operationalising climate metagovernance in a manner that respects the sovereignty of developing nations.

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Publication date: 3 May 2011

Hans Losscher

The purpose of this paper is to provide a platform to improve leadership practices through variety engineering in terms of amplifying and attenuating variety.

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The purpose of this paper is to provide a platform to improve leadership practices through variety engineering in terms of amplifying and attenuating variety.

Design/methodology/approach

Chemers's functional integration of image management, relation development and resource deployment as the building blocks of leadership is mapped onto Espejo et al.'s variety engineering individual‐task loop, consisting of cognitive, interactive and task venues.

Findings

It is found that traditional leadership can be usefully mapped onto the language of variety engineering.

Originality/value

Management is distinguished from leadership. The paper is an early attempt to translate a leadership model into the language of cybernetics.

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Kybernetes, vol. 40 no. 3/4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 12 June 2009

Saïd Guellal, Alain Meulemans and Salim Khelifa

The purpose of this paper is to present modelling and mathematical studies of neuronal NO‐synthase and discuss the case for nitric oxide (NO) versus nitroso‐arginine (NA) theory.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present modelling and mathematical studies of neuronal NO‐synthase and discuss the case for nitric oxide (NO) versus nitroso‐arginine (NA) theory.

Design/methodology/approach

Introduces recent studies, NO studied models and the experimental model before considering the diffusion‐reaction model. Enzymatic kinetics and an analysis of systems and the NA diffusion equations in mice cortex are given. Numerical results are featured.

Findings

Based on these studies, both a bio‐mathematical and physiological conclusions are given. The way to protect the brain was to inhibit the NO‐synthase of the neurons during a stroke.

Originality/value

The paper is of value, particularly as stroke is the second leading cause of mortality worldwide and the most common cause of dementia in western countries. In Europe, each year, over 1,200,000 people experience a stroke.

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Kybernetes, vol. 38 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 30 September 2014

Jose Manuel Sanchez Vazquez, Gloria Cuevas Rodriguez and Tauno Kekale

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the partner selection/evaluation processes in established distribution channels (DCs) and the role played by control systems (CS) over…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the partner selection/evaluation processes in established distribution channels (DCs) and the role played by control systems (CS) over major changes in the internal complexity and the external uncertainty of the distribution network.

Design/methodology/approach

The research is based on a longitudinal case study of a manufacturing firm and its outsourced DC.

Findings

Over time, the manufacturer's market-focused strategy provoked the adoption through CS of more objective and formal selection processes. It was very clear in this case that while the growth of internal complexity indeed required changes towards formalisation, only the rapidly increasing environmental uncertainty in the 1990s required significantly more elaborate CS to evaluate partners.

Research limitations/implications

Original longitudinal case – limitations typical for such design of study, e.g. not possible to expand the findings out of company type and historical periods.

Practical implications

The process of selecting partners, because it is ongoing, requires a formal and active involvement from CS; no CS are indefinitely stable but must be developed whenever significant internal or environmental changes occur. The changes to counter internal complexity seem less elaborate than the changes required by external uncertainty.

Originality/value

Original longitudinal case illustrates the screening and signalling mechanisms used by both parties to provide information to each other in three different internal complexity/environmental uncertainty scenarios.

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Baltic Journal of Management, vol. 9 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1746-5265

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Publication date: 1 August 2005

Z. Zaidi, S. Manseur, Y. Cherruault and A. Meulemans

In this paper, non‐linear compartment modelling is used to study drug transport of anticancerous substance across brain tissues. The aim of the work is to identify the…

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Purpose

In this paper, non‐linear compartment modelling is used to study drug transport of anticancerous substance across brain tissues. The aim of the work is to identify the pharmacokinetic parameters of the model created.

Design/methodology/approach

A combination of the Adomian decomposition method and the Alienor reducing transformation method were used to solve the identification problem as if it were a classical one‐dimensional minimization problem.

Findings

The numerical results using this methodology have shown that local therapeutic method should be preferred, when it comes to evaluate the rate (of healthy cells/cancerous cells), especially when, somehow, the drug transition into the tumour is speeded up. The combination method of Adomian and Alienor proved a successful strategy, and could take into account many of the pharmacokinetic parameters as necessary and use well‐known algorithms.

Research limitations/implications

It is believed that this modest work can be considered as preliminary steps for improving local drug administration.

Practical implications

The study has shown that pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modelling can help to understand the drug behaviour in such complex media and hence avoid the most threatening side effects by predicting the toxicity threshold of a drug and therefore minimize the therapeutic index.

Originality/value

Shows the powerful tools of Adomian and Alienor techniques that can be applied successfully in biomedical applications.

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Kybernetes, vol. 34 no. 7/8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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