Beatriz Cid, Eduardo Antonio Letelier Araya, Pablo Saravia, Julien Vanhulst, Nelson Carroza and Daniel Sandoval
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the social economy discourses in four regions of Chile, characterized by their internal economic heterogeneity.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the social economy discourses in four regions of Chile, characterized by their internal economic heterogeneity.
Design/methodology/approach
Using an intentional sample, semi-structured interviews were applied to 45 key informants from the public sector, universities, consultant enterprises, cooperatives and civil society organizations. Through a content analysis, thematic axes were identified that allowed to characterize and to recognize the narratives that key informants held about their initiatives, experiences or ventures.
Findings
The results allow us to understand the diversity of discourses and practices about alternative economies, being able to organize them from two axes: the tension between molar and molecular subjectivities; and the tension between reform and transformation (which refers to a transformative type of institutional and socio-material change). These axes propose an interpretative framework that integrates a diversity of distinctions and/or polarities and problematizes the homogeneity of formal economic discourse.
Research limitations/implications
The discourses analyzed by this paper offers representativeness by saturation. It do not allow to ponder for sure the relative presence of each of these discourses in the field of economic diversity. The analysis of what type of actors sustain each type of discourse remains pending.
Social implications
The high discourse heterogeneity makes it possible to foresee major difficulties in terms of political articulation and the visibility of various alternative economic experiences, initiatives or ventures as part of a social transformation movement.
Originality/value
Previous studies developed in Latin America about social and solidarity economy have been focused in objective dimensions as the volume of incomes, expenditures or jobs. This is the first study aimed at characterizing the subjective field of discourse held by different actors who recognize themselves as part of an alternative economy movement.
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Juan Antonio Carrasco, Cristián Bustos and Beatriz Cid-Aguayo
Purpose — In the context of the study of the role of social networks in travel behavior, this chapter adds to that body of knowledge by presenting a new data collection effort…
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Purpose — In the context of the study of the role of social networks in travel behavior, this chapter adds to that body of knowledge by presenting a new data collection effort, which collects a wide array of information about the social, urban, and temporal context where social activity-travel behavior occurs.
Methodology/approach — The study was developed in Concepción, Chile, involving 240 respondents from four different urban contexts and their personal networks. The analysis concentrates on the challenges and opportunities of different techniques to build personal networks as a way of studying the social dimension of travel behavior. Although most of the current methods to study personal networks rely on emotional closeness, this approach may not be sufficient, since these “elicited” people may not include daily contacts that could be relevant to study social activities. Tackling this issue, the data instrument also collects those daily “revealed” people, on a two-day time use diary and a social activities listing. With this information, the chapter presents a comparative analysis between these “elicited” and “revealed” personal networks.
Findings — Overall, the results illustrate the dependence of the name generator technique on what is observed in terms of social activity-travel behavior, specifically on aspects such as personal network size, average distance, and frequencies of interaction. In addition, the comparison between the different methods to construct the personal networks, illustrates how name generators provide the opportunity to further understand transport related questions, such as the role of income and access to amenities on spatial and temporal patterns of social interactions, and their effect on social capital.
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Ana Clara Mourão Moura, Ashiley Adelaide Rosa, Beatriz Maria Fernandes Araújo and Felipe Andrade Ferreira
This study aims to present a methodological experience using geodesign as a process and instrument that facilitates citizen awareness and the use of alternative urban parameters…
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Purpose
This study aims to present a methodological experience using geodesign as a process and instrument that facilitates citizen awareness and the use of alternative urban parameters in a discipline of an undergraduate course in architecture and urbanism, about urban planning at a local scale.
Design/methodology/approach
Aiming to develop solutions more suited to the reality of the area and attentive to contemporary practices of collaborative urban planning – for and with people – the methodological approach was divided into two complementary steps. The first step was elaborated through a general plan of ideas, with the aid of the Geodesign Hub platform, and for the more detailed second step, we used the Brazilian virtual GISColab geodesign platform. Both steps were conducted in workshop format.
Findings
In this experience, by incorporating geoinformation technology resources, geodesign proved to be a potential tool for creating opinions and decision-making regarding co-creative planning and experimenting with alternative urban parameters.
Originality/value
In the context of a current scenario of city growth oriented from the perspective of motor vehicles, the urban sprawl and in turn, the progressive loss of the human dimension in the urban space, students were introduced and encouraged to reflect on the different functions of the street and on the possibility of measuring urban quality from alternative parameters: completeness indicators.
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Adriana Beatriz Madeira and Viviana Giampaoli
This study aims to understand how the institutional and populational characteristics of a Brazilian city, that is, size, gross domestic product (GDP), life expectancy, education…
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Purpose
This study aims to understand how the institutional and populational characteristics of a Brazilian city, that is, size, gross domestic product (GDP), life expectancy, education, violence and amount of workers benefiting from PAT (Workers’ Food Program) bias the agglomeration of fast-food companies.
Design/methodology/approach
The research involved 7,653 units distributed among 270 brands of fast-food chains (9 foreign and 261 Brazilian) operating in 542 Brazilian cities in 2015 and institutional and populational characteristics information about them. It calculated the Herfindahl index and implemented mixed inflated beta models.
Findings
The study found out that the agglomeration of establishments is mainly associated with the city’s income per capita, education, GDP and with some differences regarding the origin of the company, Brazilian or foreign.
Research limitations/implications
The limitations of the study are the availability of Brazilian cities' data and information about the fast-food companies, such as governance-related information and general infrastructure. The study was cross-sectional, which does not analyze the business installation speed.
Practical implications
This work provides data collection and analyzes which factors may contribute to the knowledge of the Brazilian fast-food market. It stands out that foreign companies do not seem to contemplate city violence. The proposed models can serve as an investors’ foundation to start, expand business and predict the number of establishments in a city.
Originality/value
The study highlights the relation between the cities’ institutional and populational characteristics and the aggregation of fast-food chains in Brazilian cities, using index commonly applied in industrial agglomeration.
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Beatriz Forés, José María Fernández-Yáñez, César Camisón-Zornoza, Andreas Kallmuenzer and Marco Valeri
This study investigates the influence of family involvement in firm ownership on the deployment of dynamic capabilities, differentiating between the more structural aspects of…
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Purpose
This study investigates the influence of family involvement in firm ownership on the deployment of dynamic capabilities, differentiating between the more structural aspects of family ownership (i.e. ownership dispersion) and the more emotional aspects (i.e. wealth concentration).
Design/methodology/approach
We test our hypotheses on a large base of Spanish family-owned tourism firms. The idiosyncratic characteristics of this economic sector, mainly composed of family-owned firms, make it an excellent context for the purposes of this research.
Findings
Building on this contextual approach, our study finds that both sides of family ownership have ambivalent effects on the development of dynamic capabilities considering the size of family business.
Originality/value
Competitive pressures force companies to capitalize on dynamic capabilities, as they empower firms to increase their distinctiveness through new products, processes and business management models. However, research remains particularly ambiguous regarding the commitment to innovation and learning capabilities for family businesses, where different aspects of family ownership might alter innovation processes.
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Shivam Gupta, Sachin Modgil, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Issam Laguir and Rebecca Stekelorum
Over the last two decades, most organizations have considered technologies to drive digital transformation, and the recent pandemic has brought significant changes in the…
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Purpose
Over the last two decades, most organizations have considered technologies to drive digital transformation, and the recent pandemic has brought significant changes in the healthcare sector. Therefore, this study explores the technological nexus in supporting digital transformation as a process to govern the healthcare sector more effectively.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse the impact of ArogyaSetu (a health and wellness app) on India’s digital transformation process. The study involves 212 responses to understand how the app enables digital transformation and its impact on governance, healthcare systems and stakeholders. Additionally, 31 semi-structured interviews were conducted to validate the quantitative study’s findings.
Findings
Referring quantitative part of research design, ArogyaSetu has had a positive impact on the digital transformation of India’s healthcare industry, which has in turn affected stakeholders and improved governance. Moreover, qualitative findings suggest that a governance system like ArogyaSetu can aid in the development of dynamic capabilities within the healthcare system and governance.
Originality/value
This study adds to our understanding of the digital transformation of healthcare by examining it through the lens of dynamic capability. In this framework, “sense” refers to the stakeholders, “seize” the healthcare system and “transform” governance. The study also provides practical implications for managers, academics and government administrators responsible for digital healthcare transformation.
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Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros and Marco Bisogno
This study investigates the transparency of budgets by examining its relationship with financial sustainability, which is a central area of research in the public-sector context.
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Purpose
This study investigates the transparency of budgets by examining its relationship with financial sustainability, which is a central area of research in the public-sector context.
Design/methodology/approach
Referring to the public value framework, a large sample of 110 countries has been investigated, implementing econometric models where the dependent variable is the Open Budget Index (OBI), published by the International Budget Partnership (IBP), and the test variables are different indicators of financial sustainability.
Findings
The results that emerge from the analysis suggest that budget transparency could be positively associated with the financial sustainability of governments, beyond the traditional aims of enhancing citizens' trust and participation.
Originality/value
This research offers important insights for policy areas, suggesting that improving budget transparency could be beneficial for public administrations because of the positive association with financial sustainability.