An integral metamap creates a common language to dynamically track values‐based urban change at multiple levels of scale: individual, organization, neighbourhood, city, bio‐region…
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Purpose
An integral metamap creates a common language to dynamically track values‐based urban change at multiple levels of scale: individual, organization, neighbourhood, city, bio‐region and nation.
Design/methodology/approach
In a pilot project, using an ethnographic codebook, analysis of data collected from urban residents via telephone interviews, discloses diverse lenses, indicators and values at different levels of complexity. A four quadrant metamap of the data reveals the relationship between four sets of values: (subjective, intersubjective, objective and interobjective) at eight levels of complexity.
Findings
A review of taxonomies of indicators shows how multiple existing data bases can be translated into a common integral map. The pilot project demonstrates how the four quadrant‐based analysis and feedback methodology creates vital signs monitors for what we value, want to change (stop or improve), and how we can develop processes to influence change.
Research limitations/implications
The scope of application is global, and embedded in a paradigm shift to an integral worldview, implying users share that worldview. However, the methodology can be applied anywhere, on all scales.
Practical implications
Conclusions show how metamapping research data, planning and management, contributes to improving choices, monitoring and influencing change and the quality of urban life.
Originality/value
This paper proposes a new integral common language to frame and track urban change.
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Examines how executives can recover from a “crash” atwork – i.e. a situation requiring executives to find newemployment. Considers the importance of knowing oneself. Goes on…
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Examines how executives can recover from a “crash” at work – i.e. a situation requiring executives to find new employment. Considers the importance of knowing oneself. Goes on to discuss the characteristics of different forms of employment.
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Cookie White Stephan, Marilyn M. Helms and Paula J. Haynes
As US business organizations continue to use more expatriates in international locations, the reasons for high failure rates of these assignments need to be examined. Selection…
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As US business organizations continue to use more expatriates in international locations, the reasons for high failure rates of these assignments need to be examined. Selection and training may be the key inadequacies. Intercultural anxiety plays an important role in productive expatriate assignments. By determining personnel with lower intercultural anxiety levels, successful assignment completions should increase. Examines attributional complexity, stereotyping, ethnocentrism and acquaintance with host‐country nationals to determine the relationship of these variables to reduced intercultural anxiety. A group considering assignments to Japan, consisting of business and education executives and their families, were surveyed before and after an intensive study visit. Findings indicate that stereotyping and ethnocentrism have a negative association with decreased intercultural anxiety. Attributional complexity and acquaintances have a positive effect on reduced anxiety levels. Suggestions for organizations making expatriate selection decisions include screening potential candidates for these traits. Also provides areas for further research.
Helen Freidus, Susan Feldman, Charissa M. Sgouros and Marilyn Wiles-Kettenmann
This chapter documents monthly meetings of Bank Street College Reading and Literacy alumnae between October 2002 and December 2004. It describe the ways in which case study and…
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This chapter documents monthly meetings of Bank Street College Reading and Literacy alumnae between October 2002 and December 2004. It describe the ways in which case study and self-study methodologies enabled participants to support their own professional development and that of colleagues. Findings suggest that the process enabled participants to revisit, reconsider, and reframe understandings and perspectives both in the minute and later as they shared experiences with a broader audience. Outcomes include a more extensive professional knowledge base, increased ability to meet the needs of children and parents, and a stronger sense of self as professional identity.
Ziad Keilany and Marilyn Helms
During the early 1970s, Allied‐Signal of New Jersey developed high tech materials referred to as amorphous metals. These metals have exceptional electrical and magnetic properties…
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During the early 1970s, Allied‐Signal of New Jersey developed high tech materials referred to as amorphous metals. These metals have exceptional electrical and magnetic properties and are used in recording heads in video and audio recorders. Additionally, they are used extensively by the electric‐power industry. Japanese power companies have always been interested in amorphous metals. In fact, if these companies had used amorphous metals, they would have saved one billion dollars per year in electricity cost alone (The Economist, 1990). However, these businesses were cajoled by Japanese officials into waiting for the American patents to expire so they could use a homemade version. As the end of the patents approached in 1993, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) announced a catch up program involving thirty‐four Japanese companies to develop the know‐how for making amorphous metals themselves. The Japanese ministry used its influence to persuade Japanese power companies not to order amorphous transformers until Japanese manufacturers were ready to supply them. Thus, the market for American high‐tech products estimated at $100 million per year has been practically eliminated (The Economist, 1990).
Kwame J.A. Agyemang, Nana Ama Ayenor, Marilyn Hammond and Joel Nii Borte Bortey
The purpose of this essay is to provide a better understanding of Africa's sport industry and demonstrate how the industry can be transformed.
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Purpose
The purpose of this essay is to provide a better understanding of Africa's sport industry and demonstrate how the industry can be transformed.
Design/methodology/approach
To do so, the authors rely on their varied experiences within Africa's sport ecosystem. This includes reflections based on consuming sport in Africa, studying the sport business landscape, and first-hand experiences working inside African sport organizations.
Findings
The authors find that systemic challenges restrict the growth of Africa's sport industry; however, they maintain there are also reasons to be optimistic about the prospects of the industry.
Research limitations/implications
While not an exhaustive list, the authors' commentary defines various research opportunities for scholars interested in both better understanding and improving Africa's sport industry.
Practical implications
The stated challenges and proposed strategies have the potential to inform decision-makers within Africa's sport ecosystem.
Social implications
Crucial to the continued growth and development of the continent, the authors propose that investments in sport can drive broader economic and social development beyond sport.
Originality/value
The authors address the dearth of academic literature on Africa's sport industry, while also inviting more researchers to undertake research agendas that enhance Africa.
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The adoption of DRG coding may be seen as a central feature of the mechanisms of the health reforms in New Zealand. This paper presents a story of the use of DRG coding by…
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The adoption of DRG coding may be seen as a central feature of the mechanisms of the health reforms in New Zealand. This paper presents a story of the use of DRG coding by describing the experience of one major health provider. The conventional literature portrays casemix accounting and medical coding systems as rational techniques for the collection and provision of information for management and contracting decisions/negotiations. Presents a different perspective on the implications and effects of the adoption of DRG technology, in particular the part played by DRG coding technology as a part of a casemix system is explicated from an actor network theory perspective. Medical coding and the DRG methodology will be argued to represent “black boxes”. Such technological “knowledge objects” provide strong points in the networks which are so important to the processes of change in contemporary organisations.