Over a number of years the Port of London Authority has carried out a great deal of training, especially in its supervisory and management areas. This has largely taken the form…
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Over a number of years the Port of London Authority has carried out a great deal of training, especially in its supervisory and management areas. This has largely taken the form of courses which, although using discussion and project methods, have relied quite heavily on lectures. The courses have been largely ‘knowledge’ courses, aiming to impart an appreciation of a wide range of management techniques to people grouped by their level of management.
Edmund C. Penning‐Rowsell, Edward P. Evans, Jim W. Hall and Alistair G.L. Borthwick
The Foresight Future Flooding (FFF) project researched flood risk in the UK to the year 2100 for central government, using scenarios and a national risk assessment model backed by…
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Purpose
The Foresight Future Flooding (FFF) project researched flood risk in the UK to the year 2100 for central government, using scenarios and a national risk assessment model backed by qualitative analysis from panels of some 45 senior scientists. The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of the project, both nationally and internationally.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper assesses the impact of the FFF project, both nationally and internationally, using web searches, document analysis, and a questionnaire survey of key actors in the flood risk management policy field.
Findings
It was found that the penetration of the project into professionals' consciousness was high in relation to other comparable projects and publications, and its impact on policy – both immediately and continuing – was profound. The FFF initiative did not create policy change, however, but facilitated its legitimation, adding impetus to what was already there, as one element of a part‐catalytic and part‐incremental process of policy evolution.
Research limitations/implications
Special circumstances, internal and external to the project, mean that this cannot be a simple model for matching research to policymakers' needs in the future.
Practical implications
Important lessons may be learnt from this project about both the methods of forward‐looking foresight‐type research, and the way that its results are disseminated to its target audiences.
Originality/value
This is an innovative attempt to assess the impact of a new type of foresight project.
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Kai S. Cortina, Hans Anand Pant and Joanne Smith-Darden
Over the last decade, latent growth modeling (LGM) utilizing hierarchical linear models or structural equation models has become a widely applied approach in the analysis of…
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Over the last decade, latent growth modeling (LGM) utilizing hierarchical linear models or structural equation models has become a widely applied approach in the analysis of change. By analyzing two or more variables simultaneously, the current method provides a straightforward generalization of this idea. From a theory of change perspective, this chapter demonstrates ways to prescreen the covariance matrix in repeated measurement, which allows for the identification of major trends in the data prior to running the multivariate LGM. A three-step approach is suggested and explained using an empirical study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
The first gas turbine patent was granted in England to John Barber in 1791, and since then there have been numerous gas turbine inventions. These have been adequately described…
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The first gas turbine patent was granted in England to John Barber in 1791, and since then there have been numerous gas turbine inventions. These have been adequately described elsewhere, 1, 2 and I shall concern myself only with the developments which have led directly to recent British achievements.
Multivariate latent growth modeling (multivariate LGM) provides a flexible data analytic framework for representing and assessing cross-domain (i.e., between-constructs…
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Multivariate latent growth modeling (multivariate LGM) provides a flexible data analytic framework for representing and assessing cross-domain (i.e., between-constructs) relationships in intraindividual changes over time, which also allows incorporation of multiple levels of analysis. Using the chapter by Cortina, Pant, and Smith-Darden (this volume) as a point of departure, this chapter discusses important preliminary data analysis and interpretation issues prior to performing multivariate LGM analyses.
Kai S. Cortina, Hans Anand Pant and Joanne Smith-Darden
In response to the Three-Step-Approach (TSA) that Cortina, Pant, and Smith-Darden (this volume) have suggested, Chan (this volume) expressed his reservations regarding the…
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In response to the Three-Step-Approach (TSA) that Cortina, Pant, and Smith-Darden (this volume) have suggested, Chan (this volume) expressed his reservations regarding the usefulness of a procedure that explicitly ignores measurement considerations and does not include mean scores. In this reply, we argue that the purpose of TSA is heuristic in nature and does not involve statistical testing of assumptions. In this spirit, the software, illustrated by Grimm and McArdle (this volume), rounds out our more conceptual considerations.
Lyndon Jones and Joe King
The case for the training of shop stewards has been recognised by a variety of bodies and organisations. For example, it has been supported by the Trades Union Congress, the…
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The case for the training of shop stewards has been recognised by a variety of bodies and organisations. For example, it has been supported by the Trades Union Congress, the Confederation of British Industry, the Commission on Industrial Relations, and the Gold Committee, which was set up by the Department of Education and Science.
No scholar or researcher is able to provide robust evidence that counters the scant reflection on metatheory – mostly ontology and epistemology – underlying management studies in…
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No scholar or researcher is able to provide robust evidence that counters the scant reflection on metatheory – mostly ontology and epistemology – underlying management studies in general, and industrial marketing and purchasing research in particular. This paper is a contribution to the indispensable discussion of metatheoretical alternatives in research, and most importantly, the strengths and shortcomings thereof, and respective implications on research questions, objectives, and findings.
The relationship between ontology, realism, and normativity is complex and contentious. While naturalist and realist stances have tended to ground questions of normativity in…
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The relationship between ontology, realism, and normativity is complex and contentious. While naturalist and realist stances have tended to ground questions of normativity in ontology and accounts of human nature, critical theories have been critical of the relationship between ontological and normative projects. Queer theory in particular has been critical of ontological endeavors. Exploring the problem of normativity and ontology, this paper will make the case that the critical realist ontology of open systems and complex, contingent, conjunctural causation deeply resonates with queer theory, generating a queer ontology that both allows for and undermines ontological and normative projects.