Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Matteo Roggero |
Author | Jan Fjornes |
Author | Klaus Eisenack |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2282488 |
Pages | 1-15 |
Publication | Climate Policy |
ISSN | 1469-3062 |
Date | 2023 |
Extra | Publisher: Taylor & Francis _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2282488 |
DOI | 10.1080/14693062.2023.2282488 |
Accessed | 2023-11-22 16:57:44 |
Library Catalog | Taylor and Francis+NEJM |
Abstract | Cities have become increasingly vocal in addressing climate change, crafting climate mitigation strategies, and committing to ambitious emission reductions. Previous studies found no evidence that ambitious targets, analyzed as a single factor, translate into actual emission reductions in cities. Yet, is this still the case if ambitious targets are analyzed in combination with other institutional and socioeconomic factors? We carry out a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of all cities reporting their emissions to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) where data are available for at least four years between 2000 and 2020. The analysis tests whether ambitious emission reduction targets, in conjunction with size, affluence, and favourable domestic enabling conditions are systematically associated with substantial emission reductions. Results show different configurations leading to emission reductions. In some configurations, ambitious targets are redundant or counterproductive. In other configurations, ambitious targets are necessary to achieve emission reductions. These results call for greater attention to cities’ heterogeneity when studying urban climate governance. Three configurations seem systematically associated with downward emission trends: being large and affluent; being small and without ambitious emission reduction targets; and being large, with ambitious emission reduction targets but without favourable domestic enabling conditions.Ambitious emission targets and favourable conditions at the national level seem redundant for emission reductions in cities that are both large and affluent. These cities seem to achieve emission reductions regardless of the presence of ambitious targets.Small cities need to cooperate with other actors to reduce emissions and therefore need to be pragmatic and strategic in setting their targets.Large cities may need to set ambitious targets to exploit the benefits of their size for emission reduction. This seems to be necessary when they are lacking favourable conditions at the national level. |
Short Title | Ambitious climate targets and emission reductions in cities |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Wenyan Song |
Author | Yi Hubert Han |
Author | Robert Sroufe |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-10-2021-0647 |
Volume | 42 |
Issue | 11 |
Pages | 1711-1731 |
Publication | International Journal of Operations & Production Management |
ISSN | 0144-3577 |
Date | 2022-01-01 |
Extra | Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited |
DOI | 10.1108/IJOPM-10-2021-0647 |
Accessed | 2023-11-16 20:02:37 |
Library Catalog | Emerald Insight |
Abstract | Purpose Previous research tends to study various sustainable management practices (SMPs) in isolation, leading to inconsistent conclusions about the effect of SMP on firm profit. This research aims to advance the understanding of the linkage between SMP configurations and financial performance by revealing the dynamics of substitutions and complementarities among these SMPs. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted an exploratory study based on the theoretical lens of the practice-based view (PBV). An integrated text-mining approach is used in gathering data from 302 corporate reports of cross-sectional firms, followed by a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis method to examine the configurations of SMPs in achieving high and low financial performance. Findings The findings show that green innovation practices (GIP) and cleaner production practices work together as complements for small firms in configurations associated with high profits. However, large companies in high-competition industries often adopt a minimalist configuration focusing on product quality and safety management (PQSM). PQSM and GIP are complements in configuration for small firms in high-competition industries, while they work together as substitutes for small firms in low-competition industries. Practical implications This research provides managers with a new way of thinking to support decision-making in sustainable operations management. The complementary and substitutive view of management practice can guide operations managers to design and implement effective practice configurations to achieve synergistic effects. Originality/value This is among the first studies to reveal the complex relationship between various configurations of SMPs and firm performance. In addition, this research offers new insights into previously inconsistent findings from a PBV and configuration perspective. |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Lingrui Liu |
Author | Alyna T. Chien |
Author | Sara J. Singer |
URL | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10379116/ |
Volume | 11 |
Issue | 14 |
Pages | 2018 |
Publication | Healthcare |
ISSN | 2227-9032 |
Date | 2023-7-13 |
Extra | PMID: 37510459 PMCID: PMC10379116 |
Journal Abbr | Healthcare (Basel) |
DOI | 10.3390/healthcare11142018 |
Accessed | 2023-08-15 21:48:56 |
Library Catalog | PubMed Central |
Abstract | Team-based primary care has been shown to be an important initiative for transforming primary care to achieve whole-person care, enhance health equity, and reduce provider burnout. Organizational approaches have been explored to better implement team-based care but a thorough understanding of the role of system functions is lacking. We aimed to identify the combinations of system functionalities in primary care practices that most enable effective teamwork. We used a novel method, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), to identify cross-case patterns in 19 primary care practices in the Harvard Academic Innovations Collaborative (AIC), an initiative for transforming primary care practices by establishing teams and implementing team-based care. QCA findings identified that primary care practices with strong team dynamics exhibited strengths in three operational care process functionalities, including management of abnormal test results, cancer screening and medication management for high-priority patients, care transitions, and in health information technology (HIT) functionality. HIT functionality alone was not sufficient to achieve the desired outcomes. System functionalities in a primary care practice that support physicians and their teams in identifying patients with urgent and complex acute illnesses requiring immediate response and care and overcoming barriers to collaboration within and across institutional settings, may be essential for sustaining strong team-based primary care. |
Short Title | Enabling System Functionalities of Primary Care Practices for Team Dynamics in Transformation to Team-Based Care |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Peter Mendel |
Author | Harold D. Green |
Author | Kartika Palar |
Author | David E. Kanouse |
Author | Ricky N. Bluthenthal |
Author | Michael A. Mata |
Author | Clyde W. Oden |
Author | Kathryn P. Derose |
URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953619307130 |
Volume | 246 |
Pages | 112718 |
Publication | Social Science & Medicine |
ISSN | 0277-9536 |
Date | 2020-02-01 |
Journal Abbr | Social Science & Medicine |
DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112718 |
Accessed | 2023-08-02 18:56:12 |
Library Catalog | ScienceDirect |
Language | en |
Abstract | Religious congregations can potentially reach disproportionately affected populations with HIV programming, however, factors that influence congregational involvement in HIV are not well-studied. Utilizing comparative case methods and in-depth qualitative data from a diverse sample of 14 urban congregations, we examine a range of attitudinal, organizational, resource, and demographic factors to systematically identify different case scenarios—i.e., combinations of characteristics—associated with the level and types of HIV activities in which the congregational cases tended to be involved. For example, White or mixed race congregations with active gay constituencies and an African-American congregation with a strong lay HIV champion were among the high HIV involvement case scenarios, compared to African-American congregations with a health emphasis but no lay HIV champion among the medium HIV involvement scenarios, and fundamentalist African-American and Latino congregations among the low HIV involvement scenarios. Two key factors that appeared influential across case scenarios included the existence of lay champions for HIV activities and the general theological orientation of the congregation. |
Short Title | Congregational involvement in HIV |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Lauri Kokkinen |
URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953622005470 |
Volume | 309 |
Pages | 115241 |
Publication | Social Science & Medicine |
ISSN | 0277-9536 |
Date | 2022-09-01 |
Journal Abbr | Social Science & Medicine |
DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115241 |
Accessed | 2023-08-01 20:10:29 |
Library Catalog | ScienceDirect |
Language | en |
Abstract | Using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), we present an alternative method for studying the social determinants of health (SDHs) that focuses on their configurational paths leading to population health outcomes. In our worked example, we examine the macrosocial determinants of infant mortality based on data covering 149 countries. First, we applied regression techniques to assess the net effects of key macrosocial determinants. Second, we used fsQCA to analyze the same data and identify the configurational paths. We calibrated the macrosocial determinants in terms of both advantages and disadvantages and revealed the configurations of (dis)advantages consistently linked to high infant mortality rates and low infant mortality rates. The regression analysis showed that the net effects of national economic performance, democracy level, inequality, and women's autonomy were all statistically significant. Together, they explained 83% of the variance in infant mortality rates between countries. Following the fuzzy-set analysis, the two main configurational paths to achieve low infant mortality rates were high women's autonomy together with high economic performance and high women's autonomy together with low inequality and full democracy. The main paths that left countries burdened with high infant mortality rates were low economic performance together with either low women's autonomy or high inequality. We conclude that different SDH configurations may lead to the same health outcomes. Therefore, it may not always be sufficient to say which variables matter the most universally, and by using fsQCA, it is possible to move from treating SDHs as competing independent variables to using them in configurations to explain health outcomes. |
Short Title | Studying social determinants of health using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Judith Glaesser |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01483-w |
Volume | 57 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 3485-3497 |
Publication | Quality & Quantity |
ISSN | 1573-7845 |
Date | 2023-08-01 |
Journal Abbr | Qual Quant |
DOI | 10.1007/s11135-022-01483-w |
Accessed | 2023-06-23 17:01:30 |
Library Catalog | Springer Link |
Language | en |
Abstract | Limited diversity is a term employed in the context of Ragin’s Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), but it describes a phenomenon which is widespread in social contexts: cases are usually not distributed evenly across all the possible combinations of factors linked to some outcome. Instead, they are often clustered together. To deal with limited diversity, the three solution types parsimonious, intermediate, and complex (or conservative) solution have been proposed. There is an ongoing debate as to the merits of each solution type. This paper contributes to the debate by focussing on what the implications of choosing each solution type are. In making this choice, researchers have to make certain assumptions, and the paper discusses what these are and how they vary depending on which solution type is being implemented, drawing on invented examples and examples from published work to bring out the consequences of these assumptions. It concludes that it is not obvious that any one solution type is superior, certainly not to the degree that the others always have to be ruled out. They rely on different kinds of assumptions and models of causation. Thus, depending on the research situation, it may be helpful to analyse different scenarios, including one(s) where we assume that our initial assumptions are wrong. Ideally, researchers are able to take steps to reduce or eliminate limited diversity since none of the existing solution types are without problems. However, since this is not always possible, it is best to be aware of the consequences of choices. |
Short Title | Limited diversity and QCA solution types |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Farveh Farivar |
Author | Julia Richardson |
URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1748-8583.12257 |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 133-148 |
Publication | Human Resource Management Journal |
ISSN | 1748-8583 |
Date | 2020 |
Extra | _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12257 |
DOI | 10.1111/1748-8583.12257 |
Accessed | 2023-06-15 17:47:48 |
Library Catalog | Wiley Online Library |
Language | en |
Abstract | Contemporary work–life balance research tends to treat demographic variables as moderators, grouping variables, or control variables influencing work and nonwork satisfaction. Yet earlier theories were premised on the assumption that they are, in fact, predictors of work and nonwork satisfaction even though those assumptions have not yet been tested empirically. Drawing on an Australian study comprising 798 white-collar employees and using a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis technique, we investigate demographic variables as potential configurational predictors affecting work–nonwork satisfaction, defined as a combination of work satisfaction and nonwork satisfaction. The analysis revealed different scenarios and specific patterns between configurational solution terms leading to work–nonwork satisfaction. Employment status and age of children (specifically age differences between children) were the most important demographic variables influencing employees' work–nonwork satisfaction. |
Item Type | Web Page |
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URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/0144929X.2020.1723702?needAccess=true&role=button |
Extra | ISSN: 0144-929X |
Accessed | 2023-06-15 17:47:09 |
Language | en |
Short Title | Workplace digitalisation and work-nonwork satisfaction |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Farveh Farivar |
Author | Roslyn Cameron |
Author | Jaya A.R. Dantas |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-06-2020-0412 |
Volume | 51 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 1473-1490 |
Publication | Personnel Review |
ISSN | 0048-3486 |
Date | 2021-01-01 |
Extra | Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited |
DOI | 10.1108/PR-06-2020-0412 |
Accessed | 2023-06-15 17:45:17 |
Library Catalog | Emerald Insight |
Abstract | Purpose Drawing on embeddedness theory, we examine how skilled immigrants' perceived brain-waste affects their social embeddedness. Social embeddedness facilitates the acquisition of host country-specific human capital, which, in return, can accelerate the transfer of immigrants' human capital in the workplace.Design/methodology/approach In total, 397 skilled immigrants in Australia participated in this study. We applied a set-theoretic approach to decode the complexity and interplay among the key concepts used in this study.Findings We found the impacts of psychological workplace wellbeing and workplace discrimination on social embeddedness differ between skilled immigrants who experience perceived brain-waste and skilled immigrants whose skills were recognized by employers. The results suggest that job satisfaction is the most critical factor contributing to social embeddedness among skilled immigrants who did not report brain-waste. Furthermore, we found that married skilled male immigrants who reported brain-waste still could embed socially if they did not directly experience workplace discrimination.Originality/value The majority of previous studies have compared skilled immigrants with their local-born colleagues, but we compared two groups of skilled migrants in the current study. We adopted fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to test how unique configurations of several variables can ease their social embeddedness into the host society. |
Short Title | Should I stay or should I go? |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Farveh Farivar |
Author | Osveh Esmaeelinezhad |
Author | Julia Richardson |
URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ntwe.12235 |
Rights | © 2022 The Authors. New Technology, Work and Employment published by Brian Towers (BRITOW) and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
Volume | 37 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 363-380 |
Publication | New Technology, Work and Employment |
ISSN | 1468-005X |
Date | 2022 |
Extra | _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ntwe.12235 |
DOI | 10.1111/ntwe.12235 |
Accessed | 2023-06-15 17:44:42 |
Library Catalog | Wiley Online Library |
Language | en |
Abstract | Internet usage for non-work activities during work hours is an increasingly common concern among management scholars and practitioners as well as for employees, particularly in relation to its impact on work-life conflict and individual well-being. Drawing on memory for goals theory, this study investigates the distinction between digital intrusions and digital interruptions during work and their concomitant impact on work-life conflict. Using a set-theoretic approach to analyse data gathered from information technology (IT) professionals in Germany and Australia, we explain how a 2 * 2 matrix comprising non-work online messaging, or personal digital communication, during work and intrusion contributes to work-life conflict. A key finding is that employees reported work-life conflict only if they perceived private messaging as a source of intrusion rather than as a distraction. From a practical perspective, this finding suggests that employers may provide employees with micro-breaks to attend to perceived intrusions and thus reduce sources of work-life conflict. Contributions and suggestions for future studies are discussed. |
Item Type | Book |
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Author | Tobias Ide |
URL | https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5593/Catastrophes-Confrontations-and-ConstraintsHow |
Date | 2023/6/06 |
Extra | DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14970.001.0001 |
Accessed | 2023-06-07 17:21:23 |
Library Catalog | direct.mit.edu |
Language | en |
Abstract | A ground-breaking study on how natural disasters can escalate or defuse wars, insurgencies, and other strife.Armed conflict and natural disasters have plagued t |
Short Title | Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Tobias Ide |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00459 |
Volume | 47 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 50-78 |
Publication | International Security |
ISSN | 0162-2889 |
Date | 2023-01-04 |
Journal Abbr | International Security |
DOI | 10.1162/isec_a_00459 |
Accessed | 2023-06-07 17:21:03 |
Library Catalog | Silverchair |
Abstract | Disasters play a key role in debates about climate change, environmental stress, and security. A qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) investigates how major climate-related disasters shape the dynamics of ongoing armed conflicts. Quantitative and qualitative data are presented for twenty-one cases across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. After climate-related disasters, 29 percent of these armed conflicts escalated, 33 percent de-escalated, and 38 percent did not change. Furthermore, only countries highly vulnerable to disasters experienced changes in conflict dynamics. Armed conflicts tend to escalate when the disaster induces shifts in relative power, whereby one conflict party (usually the rebels) subsequently scales up its military efforts. But if at least one conflict party is weakened by a disaster and the other lacks the capability to exploit this change, armed conflict intensity declines. Findings provide empirical support for a proposed power differential mechanism connecting climate-related disasters to armed conflict dynamics via short-term shifts in power relations between the conflict parties. Climate change can also act as a threat reducer by temporarily causing lower conflict intensity. |
Short Title | Rise or Recede? |
Item Type | Attachment |
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URL | https://beyond4-0.eu/storage/publications/D8.1Frontrunner%20companies%20and%20the%20digital%20transformation:%20strategies%20to%20deliver%20inclusive%20economic%20growth/BEYOND4.0_D8.1%2020220914%20FINAL.pdf |
Accessed | 2023-03-26 18:27:14 |
Link Mode | 1 |
MIME Type | application/pdf |
Item Type | Web Page |
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Author | María Aline Manzo, José Carlos Rodríguez |
URL | https://ijtech.eng.ui.ac.id/article/view/4861 |
Accessed | 2023-03-26 18:23:33 |
Language | en |
Abstract | The aerospace industry is considered strategic for economic and national security reasons because it generates short- and long-term benefits for countries, such as new investments, technology transfers, and spillover. Therefore, this research aim |
Website Title | IJTech - International Journal of Technology |
Short Title | Ensuring the High Performance of Design and Engineering Firms in Mexico’s Aerospace Industry |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | José Carlos Rodríguez |
Author | Mario Gómez |
Author | María Aline Manzo |
URL | http://www.scielo.br/j/rae/a/8Xdyff5HCRkGsQvh5qfCWKm/?lang=en |
Volume | 61 |
Pages | e20190626 |
Publication | Revista de Administração de Empresas |
ISSN | 0034-7590, 2178-938X |
Date | 2021-05-03 |
Extra | Publisher: Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de S.Paulo |
Journal Abbr | Rev. adm. empres. |
DOI | 10.1590/S0034-759020210204 |
Accessed | 2023-03-26 18:22:17 |
Library Catalog | SciELO |
Language | en |
Abstract | ABSTRACT This paper analyzes how wineries in the wine industry cluster of Baja California in Mexico achieve a high-performance level and engage in technology management. The study uses the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis approach to inquire into the necessary and sufficient conditions for firms in this industry cluster to attain a high-performance level. Our research hypothesis suggests that the presence of some resources (conditions) in the wine industry cluster of Baja California is a necessary and sufficient condition (set-theoretic relations) to achieve a high-performance level (outcome). Accordingly, this study examines the causal complexity observed in set-theoretic relations and high-performance levels in the wine industry cluster of Baja California. An important finding in this research is that winery firms in Baja California do not need to develop interdependent innovations to achieve a high-performance level. However, research and development efforts, good supplier relations, and production capacity are necessary conditions to achieve a high performance level in this cluster. |
Short Title | HIGH-PERFORMANCE LEVEL AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AMONG WINERY FIRMS IN THE WINE INDUSTRY CLUSTER OF BAJA CALIFORNIA |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Roberto Cervelló-Royo |
Author | Carlos Devece |
Author | Cristina Blanco-González Tejero |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2023.2175007 |
Volume | 36 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 2175007 |
Publication | Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja |
ISSN | 1331-677X |
Date | 2023-12-18 |
Extra | Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2023.2175007 |
DOI | 10.1080/1331677X.2023.2175007 |
Accessed | 2023-03-25 13:32:18 |
Library Catalog | Taylor and Francis+NEJM |
Abstract | Lack of economic growth and a high unemployment rate imply poverty and inequality. Economic freedom is considered a relevant explanatory factor for growth, employment and the distribution of income. The present research work addresses how policy makers should take into account economic freedom aspects to effectively enhance a country’s economic growth and lower its unemployment rate. This study analyses the effect of four components of economic freedom (business freedom, labour freedom, government integrity, tax burden) on the mean GDP growth of the last 5 years, and also on unemployment. A cross-national analysis, based on data from the 23 Eurozone3 (Eurozone and part of its enlargement) Member Countries, examines the causal configurations of GDP and unemployment by a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. The results suggest that the combination of high levels of business freedom, labour freedom and government integrity triggers high levels of economic growth and lowers the unemployment rate. |
Short Title | Economic freedom influences economic growth and unemployment |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Gabriel Kanuti Ndimbo |
Author | Lerong Yu |
Author | Andam Andin Ndi Buma |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1177/02666669231165272 |
Pages | 02666669231165272 |
Publication | Information Development |
ISSN | 0266-6669 |
Date | 2023-03-22 |
Extra | Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd |
DOI | 10.1177/02666669231165272 |
Accessed | 2023-03-25 13:32:02 |
Library Catalog | SAGE Journals |
Language | en |
Abstract | Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are among the profound tools to help the poor and marginalized rural smallholder farmers make a difference in their lives. This paper seeks to understand how the recent development of ICTs helps increase agricultural productivity and improve smallholder farmers? livelihoods in Tanzania. We employed a fuzzy sets Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) technique to select the most relevant 24 literature from 2163 literature and analyze the drivers (conditions) that influence ICT use among the smallholder farmers, which in turn leads to increased agricultural productivity and improved farmers? livelihoods (outcomes). In addition, the authors conducted in-depth interviews with some local smallholder farmers in Tanzania's same regions, as shown in the reviewed literature, to understand how ICTs worked in the field. Findings revealed that ICTs had been increasingly used for and directly linked with agricultural transformation, increased agricultural productivity and improved rural livelihoods in Tanzania in the past two decades. Smallholder farmers rely on ICT tools, particularly mobile phones and radios, to access agricultural-related information, which helps them increase agricultural productivity. The limited number of public extension service agents forces most smallholder farmers to opt for ICTs as an alternative source of agricultural information. In this case, the agricultural extension department from the ministry of agriculture should work closely with telecom, broadcasting companies and other stakeholders to strengthen and initiate more appropriate ICT infrastructure and services targeting the smallholder farmers. |
Short Title | ICTs, smallholder agriculture and farmers’ livelihood improvement in developing countries |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Yu Lei |
Author | Guirong Zhang |
Author | Shan Lu |
Author | Jiahuan Qian |
URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753523000826 |
Volume | 163 |
Pages | 106140 |
Publication | Safety Science |
ISSN | 0925-7535 |
Date | 2023-07-01 |
Journal Abbr | Safety Science |
DOI | 10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106140 |
Accessed | 2023-03-21 17:16:11 |
Library Catalog | ScienceDirect |
Language | en |
Abstract | Promoting the development of cross-regional emergency cooperation is critical to emergency management. This paper’s primary goal is to determine the influencing factors and generation mechanism of cross-regional emergency cooperation during accidents and disasters rescue. The qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) method is used to study 26 especially major and major accidents and disasters rescue, aiming to answer the following three questions. First, which factors have the most significant impact on emergency cooperation? Second, how is emergency cooperation generated based on influencing factors? Third, what combination of influencing factors is more likely to produce cross-regional emergency cooperation? Based on the literature review, the influencing factors of cross-regional emergency cooperation include the subjects, objects, environment, methods, regulations, and guarantees of emergency management. There are three path models for cross-regional emergency cooperation in especially major and major accidents and disasters rescue, including the Autonomous regulation path, the System driven path, and the Demand generation path. The possibility of Autonomous regulation cross-regional emergency cooperation is greater than that of the other two paths. Cross-regional emergency cooperation strategies are proposed to build a comprehensive system of cross-regional emergency cooperation environment, regulations, and guarantees. |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Huanming Wang |
Author | Bin Chen |
Author | Joop Koppenjan |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 27–51 |
Publication | Journal of Chinese Governance |
Date | 2022 |
Extra | Publisher: Taylor & Francis |
Library Catalog | Google Scholar |
Short Title | A refined experimentalist governance approach to incremental policy change |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Bo Yan |
Author | Yao Liu |
Author | Bin Chen |
Author | Xiaomin Zhang |
Author | Long Wu |
URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/padm.12873 |
Volume | n/a |
Issue | n/a |
Publication | Public Administration |
ISSN | 1467-9299 |
Extra | _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/padm.12873 |
DOI | 10.1111/padm.12873 |
Accessed | 2023-03-20 19:33:43 |
Library Catalog | Wiley Online Library |
Language | en |
Abstract | COVID-19 represents a turbulent problem: a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous crisis, in which bounded-rational policymakers may not be able to do everything right, but must do critical things right in order to reduce the death toll. This study conceptualizes these critical things as necessary conditions (NCs) that must be absent to prevent high early mortality from occurring. We articulate a policy-institution-demography framework that includes seven factors as NC candidates for high early COVID-19 mortality. Using necessary condition analysis (NCA), this study pinpoints high levels of a delayed first response, political decentralization, elderly populations, and urbanization as four NCs that have inflicted high early COVID-19 mortality across 110 countries. The results highlight the critical role of agility as a key dimension of robust governance solutions—a swift early public-health response as a malleable policy action—in curbing early COVID-19 deaths, particularly for politically decentralized and highly urbanized countries with aging populations. |
Short Title | What matters the most in curbing early COVID-19 mortality? |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Wei Xiong |
Author | Ninghua Zhong |
Author | Feng Wang |
Author | Muyang Zhang |
Author | Bin Chen |
URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/padm.12760 |
Volume | 100 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 1125-1144 |
Publication | Public Administration |
ISSN | 1467-9299 |
Date | 2022 |
Extra | _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/padm.12760 |
DOI | 10.1111/padm.12760 |
Accessed | 2023-03-20 19:33:20 |
Library Catalog | Wiley Online Library |
Language | en |
Abstract | The New Public Management (NPM) has achieved many successes in public service delivery, but practitioners frequently observed failures in developing and transitional economies. For instance, China's public–private partnerships (PPP) since 2014 have failed to transfer risks to the private sector, to involve private skills and expertise, and to reduce local government's debt. This article claims that PPP failures in China are associated with the contractual type of nonconcessions and the contractual choice is influenced by both political opportunism and transaction costs. Utilizing data of PPP projects in China during 2014–2016, we find that more opportunistic bureaucrats seek to increase projects of nonconcessions, but transaction costs caused by product complexities hinder governments' reliance on nonconcessions. This research extends the core analysis of PPPs in the literature from transaction costs to political opportunism, which widely exists in developing and transitional economies. Thus, our findings partially explain the failure of their NPM practices. 新公共管理运动在公共服务供给领域取得了瞩目的成就,但在发展中国家与转型经济体中也经历过挫折。例如,自2014年以来,中国推行的政府与社会资本合作(PPP)模式就未能实现将风险转移到私营部门、引入私营部门的技术和经验及减轻地方政府的债务负担的初衷。正鉴于此,在2017年时,中国财政部对PPP项目进行了大范围的整改。针对这一现象,本文理论分析认为,其主要原因在于地方政府采用了大量非特许经营合同,而该类合同具有低风险、弱运营及政府付费的特征。政府之所以选择此类合同,则基于政治机会主义与交易成本两个方面的考量。进一步,本文基于中国2014–2016年PPP项目的数据,通过实证研究发现:地方主政官员晋升压力越大,其短期拉动GDP增长的动机越强,从而通过非特许经营合同上马的基建项目就越多;但是,项目自身的复杂性会导致非特许经营合同在长期产生高昂的交易成本,从而抑制地方政府上马此类项目。本研究将PPP的研究视角从交易成本拓展到政治机会主义,从而更为全面地阐述了新公共管理运动在转型国家更易遭遇挫折的原因。 |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Qian Hu |
Author | Kun Huang |
Author | Bin Chen |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2019.1696908 |
Volume | 44 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 110-126 |
Publication | Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance |
ISSN | 2330-3131 |
Date | 2020-03-14 |
Extra | Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2019.1696908 |
DOI | 10.1080/23303131.2019.1696908 |
Accessed | 2023-03-20 19:32:58 |
Library Catalog | Taylor and Francis+NEJM |
Abstract | While existing literature on human services interorganizational network has focused on collaboration, networked service providers do compete for the same public and private funding sources. Interorganizational competition for scarce resources could be detrimental to collaboration. Yet organizational leaders’ external professional friendship ties with peers – an understudied type of informal relationship – may mitigate the effects of resource competition. Using data collected from a homeless service delivery network, we investigate such relational dynamics. Quantitative network analysis shows that professional friendship ties facilitate collaboration and moderate the negative impact of competition on collaboration. Both funders and managers need to invest in developing professional friendship networks. |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Bo Yan |
Author | Bin Chen |
Author | Long Wu |
Author | Xiaomin Zhang |
Author | Heng Zhu |
URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13876988.2021.1878458 |
Volume | 23 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 219-233 |
Publication | Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice |
ISSN | 1387-6988, 1572-5448 |
Date | 2021-03-04 |
Journal Abbr | Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice |
DOI | 10.1080/13876988.2021.1878458 |
Accessed | 2023-03-20 19:32:11 |
Library Catalog | DOI.org (Crossref) |
Language | en |
Short Title | Culture, Institution, and COVID-19 First-Response Policy |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Wei Xiong |
Author | Bin Chen |
Author | Huanming Wang |
Author | Dajian Zhu |
URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197397519308768 |
Volume | 95 |
Pages | 102095 |
Publication | Habitat International |
ISSN | 0197-3975 |
Date | 2020-01-01 |
Journal Abbr | Habitat International |
DOI | 10.1016/j.habitatint.2019.102095 |
Accessed | 2023-03-20 19:31:44 |
Library Catalog | ScienceDirect |
Language | en |
Abstract | This paper proposes public–private partnerships (PPPs) as a governance response to achieve sustainable urbanization. We first articulate an analytical framework on sustainable PPPs from three perspectives—resources, institutional roles, and institutional rules-in-use—and then apply it to examining China's PPP experience and identifying the ways to steer China's PPP development toward sustainability. Our analyses show that an off-balance-sheet treatment is critical for PPPs to function as a sustainable financing approach; the choice of PPP governance structure- is a tradeoff between safeguarding public values and improving efficiency; and PPP policy design should shift from a finance-oriented or an efficiency-oriented to a sustainability-oriented approach. An examination of China's PPP developmental trajectory yields some significant policy implications for achieving sustainable urbanization through PPPs: achieving off-balance-treatment, differentiating private-finance initiatives and concessions, supporting underdeveloped areas, actively involving private enterprises, using joint ventures extensively, facilitating public participation, and adopting value-for-people tests. As China has become the world's biggest laboratory for PPP development, the upgrade of China's PPP policies can have significantly impacts on sustainable urbanization. |
Short Title | Public–private partnerships as a governance response to sustainable urbanization |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Bo Yan |
Author | Xiaomin Zhang |
Author | Long Wu |
Author | Heng Zhu |
Author | Bin Chen |
Volume | 50 |
Issue | 6-7 |
Pages | 762–769 |
Publication | The American review of public administration |
Date | 2020 |
Extra | Publisher: SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA |
Library Catalog | Google Scholar |
Short Title | Why do countries respond differently to COVID-19? |