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Journal articles on the topic "Actor engagement"
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Nenonen, Suvi, and Kaj Storbacka. "Actors, Actor Engagement and Value Creation." Journal of Creating Value 4, no. 2 (November 2018): 196–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2394964318809172.
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Li, Loic Pengtao, Biljana Juric, and Roderick J. Brodie. "Actor engagement valence." Journal of Service Management 29, no. 3 (May 4, 2018): 491–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/josm-08-2016-0235.
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Purpose Valence is one of the key dimensions underlying actor engagement, yet there is limited research to provide a comprehensive understanding of the concept. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise engagement valence in actor networks and develop an agenda for future research. Design/methodology/approach The exploration of the psychological foundations of the concept of valence and a systematic literature review from a multiple database search contribute to four sets of propositions defining the domain of the concept of actor engagement valence. Findings The propositions posit that valence resides in the engaging actor’s past, current and future psychological dispositions, which can shift between positive, negative and ambivalence. Actor engagement valence is triggered by the engagement objects and value propositions of other actors in the network. The antecedents of actor engagement valence comprise individual factors such as cognitive evaluations and hedonic feelings, as well as network-related factors such as social norms and shared beliefs, and the network structure. The net balance of actor engagement valence determines the actor’s engagement behaviours, and this relationship is moderated by individual and network factors. Originality/value This is the first study to conceptualise actor engagement valence, which contributes to the refinement of the actor engagement concept. This research defines the conceptual domain, deepens the understanding and provides an agenda for future research into the valence of engagement among actors in networks. The study recognises the institutional influences on actor engagement valence, and contributes to an understanding of the nature of actors’ psychological dispositions and how their valence determines the actors’ behavioural engagement manifestations.
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Li, Loic Pengtao, Biljana Juric, and Roderick J. Brodie. "Dynamic multi-actor engagement in networks: the case of United Breaks Guitars." Journal of Service Theory and Practice 27, no. 4 (July 10, 2017): 738–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jstp-04-2016-0066.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamic process of multi-actor engagement by examining how it evolves and spreads in actor networks. The authors challenge the dyadic perspective adopted by previous research. Design/methodology/approach An abductive theorizing approach uses a longitudinal case study to develop a theoretical framework of the iterative process of multi-actor engagement. The authors draw on the contemporary literature on engagement, service-dominant logic and value propositions. Findings The research shows that engagement conditions, via actors’ appraisals, lead to engagement properties and result in engagement outcomes as the new conditions for the next iteration. Changes within this multi-actor engagement process lead the network to evolve over time. Research limitations/implications The authors highlight the importance of adopting a dynamic multi-actor perspective of engagement and provide foundations for further research. The use of longitudinal methods that focus on the groups of actors in the evolving network is a key consideration. Practical implications There is the need to understand and measure the dynamic process of engagement among different groups of actors within networks in the service context. Originality/value This is the first empirical study to explore the dynamics of engagement among multiple actors in the network. This leads to the expansion of Storbacka et al.’s (2016) conceptual work by identifying the iterative nature of the multi-actor engagement process, and new components in the process (i.e. actors’ connections, value propositions and engagement outcomes), as well as clarifying existing ones (e.g. engagement properties and actors’ appraisals).
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Ayi Wong, Diana, Jodie Conduit, and Carolin Plewa. "Initiating actor engagement with novel products." Marketing Theory 20, no. 3 (November 11, 2019): 299–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470593119887474.
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While organizations continue to face extensive pressure to introduce novel products to the market, the question of how customers initiate engagement with novel products remains unanswered. This article draws on the ecosystem perspective of engagement, utilizing the lens of actor engagement, to develop a conceptual framework for actor engagement with novel products. It elaborates our understanding of the indirect interaction that actors have with a focal object through other actors. It demonstrates that through vicarious learning, actors establish cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social interactions with the novel product. Further, it explicates a process in which legitimacy judgments, at the micro- and macrolevels, play a central role in facilitating and evaluating engagement with products. This framework offers an important contribution to theory by elucidating the facilitating role of learning and introducing the concept of legitimacy to the engagement literature. A set of propositions is presented, and a future research agenda proposed for each of these propositions.
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Stadtelmann, Michael, Herbert Woratschek, and Christina Diederich. "Actor engagement in online health communities." International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing 13, no. 4 (November 4, 2019): 500–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijphm-06-2018-0033.
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Purpose This study aims to deal with actor engagement practices and identifies different roles in actor engagement (AE), using the service-dominant logic (S-D logic) literature and the pivotal concept of value co-creation within the frame of engagement platforms. Design/methodology/approach The context of this research is an online health community, provided by a pharmaceutical firm, which moderates the interaction between its members. The authors use a grounded theory approach with the methodology of netnography. These research are based on the approaches of ethnography and is a suitable qualitative method for analyzing human behavior in certain situations. Findings The results indicate that customers and/or actors operate as resource integrators in the perspective of S-D logic. Independent social and economic actors adopt both the roles of service providers and service beneficiaries in a reciprocal manner. Value co-creation in online communities based on practices, which actually define the respective role. Three main engagement practices are identified: information-, advising- and empathy-practices. Research limitations/implications The findings point to the importance of the dynamic and interactive concept of actor engagement and present a clearer understanding of customer, who act both in provider- and beneficiary-roles. However, it becomes evident that a customer orientation should address the actor playing a beneficiary-role, who uses (or selects) the value proposition, and not actors who play the role of financial resources provider. Originality/value In recent years, the construct of AE, and, in particular, customer engagement have been established both in theory and in practice. However, there are few empirical research publications so far, that try to explain engagement practices in online communities, especially in the healthcare sector.
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Wajid, Anees, Muhammad Mustafa Raziq, Omer Farooq Malik, Shahab Alam Malik, and Nabila Khurshid. "Value co-creation through actor embeddedness and actor engagement." Marketing Intelligence & Planning 37, no. 3 (May 7, 2019): 271–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mip-07-2018-0241.
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Purpose It is argued that the service-dominant (S-D) view of the value co-creation concept is mainly of a macro nature and is difficult to examine empirically. In this regard, marketing research using the micro-foundation theory proposes some conceptual models, through which relationships (involving value co-creation) at a micro/meso level may be studied. The purpose of this paper is to add to such exchanges regarding value co-creation and conceptualize the link of embeddedness of an actor (in a service-ecosystem) to their engagement in the value co-creation process. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on the S-D logic and the value co-creation concept and make propositions with regard to two micro-foundational concepts: actor engagement and actor embeddedness. Findings The authors show that actor embeddedness can be considered as an antecedent of actor engagement, which leads to value co-creation at a macro level and perceived value in context at the micro level. Originality/value The authors fill some gaps in literature with regard to S-D logic and value co-creation by combining two micro-foundational concepts: actor engagement and actor embeddedness and propose how through these, some macro-level outcomes such as value co-creation and resource integration may be determined.
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Alexander, Matthew J., Elina Jaakkola, and Linda D. Hollebeek. "Zooming out: actor engagement beyond the dyadic." Journal of Service Management 29, no. 3 (May 4, 2018): 333–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/josm-08-2016-0237.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to broaden extant understanding of actor engagement behavior beyond its currently dominant dyadic (micro-level) focus, by examining it from multiple levels of aggregation within a service ecosystem framework. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper draws on service-dominant logic and structuration theory as theoretical lenses to inform engagement research. Findings By means of a stepwise exercise of “zooming out,” the paper introduces a multi-perspective (micro-, meso-, macro- and meta-level) view of actor engagement that develops understanding of multiple engagement contexts, and suggests that balancing multiple roles may result in actor disengagement behavior. The role of reference groups and role conflict associated with balancing multiple roles is critical to understanding why engaged actor proclivities may wax and wane between contexts. Research limitations/implications The paper offers a set of five propositions that can be utilized by engagement scholars undertaking further research in this area. Practical implications Firms need to understand the values and norms embedded in diverse engagement contexts which can affect actor groups’ needs and motivations. Firms should develop appropriate organizational mechanisms to facilitate (rather than impede or obstruct) the desired behaviors of engaged actors. Originality/value The broader context within which engaged actors operate, and its effects on engagement, has been largely overlooked to date. By broadening the analytical perspective on engagement beyond the dyadic this paper reveals previously unaddressed aspects of this phenomenon, such as the role of disengagement behavior, and the effects of multiple engagement contexts on actors’ future behaviors.
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Hollebeek, Linda D., Tor W. Andreassen, Dale L. G. Smith, Daniel Grönquist, Amela Karahasanovic, and Álvaro Márquez. "Epilogue – service innovation actor engagement: an integrative model." Journal of Services Marketing 32, no. 1 (February 12, 2018): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsm-11-2017-0390.
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Purpose While (customer) engagement has been proposed as a volitional concept, our structuration theory/S-D logic-informed analyses of actors’ (e.g. employees’) engagement in service innovation reveal engagement as a boundedly volitional theoretical entity, which arises from actors’ structural and agency-based characteristics and constraints. In line with this observation, the purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model of actor (i.e. customer, firm, employee) engagement with service innovation. Design/methodology/approach Based on the observed gap, the authors propose an integrative S-D logic/structuration theoretical model that outlines three particular service innovation actors’ (i.e. customers’, the firm’s and employees’) engagement, which comprises institution-driven (i.e. fixed) and agency-driven (i.e. variable) engagement facets. In addition, the authors integrate the key expected characteristics of positively (vs negatively) valenced service innovation engagement for each of these actor groups in the analyses. Findings The authors develop a 12-cell matrix (conceptual model) that outlines particular service innovation actors’ institution-driven and agency-driven engagement facets and outline their expected impact on actors’ ensuing positively and negatively valenced engagement. Research limitations/implications The authors discuss key theoretical implications arising from the analyses. Originality/value Outlining service innovation actors’ structure- and agency-driven engagement facets, the authors’ model can be used to explain or predict customers’, the firm’s or employees’ service innovation engagement-based activities.
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Nesheim, Ingrid, Frode Sundnes, Caroline Enge, Morten Graversgaard, Cors van den Brink, Luke Farrow, Matjaž Glavan, et al. "Multi-Actor Platforms in the Water–Agriculture Nexus: Synergies and Long-Term Meaningful Engagement." Water 13, no. 22 (November 12, 2021): 3204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13223204.
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Solutions to current complex environmental challenges demand the consultation and involvement of various groups in society. In light of the WFD’s requirements of public participation, this paper presents an analysis of the establishment and development of nine different multi-actor platforms (MAPs) across Europe set up as arenas for long-term engagements to solve water quality challenges in relation to agriculture. The MAPs represent different histories and legacies of engagement; some are recent initiatives and some are affiliated with previous government-initiated projects, while other MAPs are long-term engagement platforms. A case study approach drawing on insights from the nine engagement processes is used to discuss conditions for enabling long-term multi-actor engagement. The perceived pressure for change and preferred prioritization in complying with mitigating water quality problems vary within and among the MAPs. The results show that governmental and local actors’ concern for water quality improvements and focusing on pressure for change are important for establishing meaningful multi-actor engagement when concerns translate into a clear mandate of the MAP. Furthermore, the degree to which the MAPs have been able to establish relationships and networks with other institutions such as water companies, agricultural and environmental authorities, farmers, and civil society organizations influences possibilities for long-term meaningful engagement.
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Sarkum, Sumitro, Abd Rasyid Syamsuri, and Supriadi Supriadi. "The Role of Multi-Actor Engagement." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 6, no. 4 (December 3, 2020): 176. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/joitmc6040176.
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This study aims to meet the theoretical needs in answering the problem of the role of the marketing function on the dynamic capability that involves the role of multi actors through engagement. In particular, the study discusses the capabilities of SMEs’ business strategy in the offline to online market. The population of this research are owners, managers, and owners and managers of SMEs in Indonesia. The results of this study indicate that the integration of the supply chain into engagement can address the problem of the role of the marketing function that connects marketing and operations. Supply chain engagement is also able to moderate employee engagement to dynamic marketing engagement but not significantly moderate customer engagement. Meanwhile, the basis of integration as a dynamic capability in market knowledge has a significant effect on the multi-actor engagement consisting of customer engagement, employee engagement, and supply chain engagement. Summary statement of contribution: Our research builds on the three elements of multi-actor engagement that are significant against dynamic marketing engagement. The main finding of this research is that the concept of novelty can answer the proposition with the result that dynamic marketing engagement can improve business performance.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Actor engagement"
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El, Kolaly Hoda. "Actor engagement in online communities : a practice-based approach." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55084/.
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Despite extensive interest by academics and practitioners to understand and harness actor engagement (AE), empirical work offering insights into how and why actors change their engagement over time are limited and extant empirical research mostly focuses on the individual level of AE and fails to address its social aspects and the effects of A2A interactions. Therefore, this research is a response to both a managerial and a theoretical need for a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the AE process in an online community, while accounting for the social aspects of AE and the effects of A2A interactions. Drawing on practice theory, this thesis sets out to explore the dynamics of engagement through the engagement practices of members in an online community, identify the full spectrum of engagement states, and changes in such states over time. The objectives of this study are twofold. First, to advance the conceptualisation of AE by adopting a practice-based approach. Second, to demystify the dynamics of the AE process and the effects of A2A interactions on such a process. The context of the study is the for-profit community ExpatWoman.com (www.expatwoman.com), which is independently owned and funded mainly by advertising. The researcher's philosophical stance is that of a social constructivist, hence social constructivism is the paradigm underpinning this thesis. To achieve the above two aims, the methodology of netnography is deemed suitable to study the selected online community, where non-participant observation of the Dubai forum is used and complemented by participant observation of offline meetups organised by the community. Summarising the main implications for theory and practice, this thesis contributes from a theoretical perspective by enriching and advancing our understanding of AE in the context of online communities in four ways. First, it advances the AE conceptualisation by adopting a practice-based approach, hence supplementing its S-D logic-based foundational perspective with practice theory and demonstrates that the latter can provide a useful lens for empirically exploring AE. Second, it enhances the AE dimensionality by providing empirical support for the need to include a fourth (social) dimension. Third, by using longitudinal data, this study is one of the first to empirically explore the dynamics of the AE process in an online community and to provide empirical evidence of the engagement conceptualisation proposed by Chandler & Lusch (2015) as comprising of two fundamental attributes: connections and dispositions. Fourth, unlike most of engagement studies to date, this research considers not only positive relationships but also negative experiences, and further explores the under-researched concept of disengagement by differentiating between naturally occurring and induced disengagement. As for the practical contributions, the managerial implications emerging from the findings are primarily relevant for the growth and survival of online communities as well as for starting one. It also presents a better understanding of AE that can better guide the development of organisational strategies and tactics to maximise the benefits of this highly promising concept. Therefore, this thesis aims at suggesting some tactics to better manage the engagement platforms in specific, and the engagement process in general in the context of online communities. It also responds to calls to explore AE outside the more established B2C setting (e.g. Hollebeek et al. 2016a) and contribute to the wider online community literature by focusing on a community of interest, which represents a substantial proportion of online communities and which has been under-explored in comparison to the more researched brand communities (Hartmann et al. 2015; Weijo et al. 2014), hence can allow marketers to better capitalise on the significant opportunities that such communities can present.
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Shawky, Habashi Sara. "Developing a dynamic multi-actor engagement framework for social marketing programmes." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/400572.
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Social marketing adopts marketing tools to achieve voluntary behaviour change, and has been effective in promoting a variety of public health and social wellbeing causes including, but not limited to, alcohol harm reduction (Kubacki, Rundle-Thiele, Pang, & Buyucek, 2015a), improving rates of physical activity (Gordon et al., 2006; Xia et al., 2016) and promotion of healthy eating (Carins & Rundle-Thiele, 2014). As social media have become an integral driver of modern communication in recent years (Lovejoy et al., 2012), social marketers have started incorporating the use of social media in their communications (Evans et al., 2019; Kubacki et al., 2015b; Li, Lia, & Lin, 2017; Neiger et al., 2013). Although the prominent advantages of social media include their ability to engage communities through two-way conversations (Jaakkola & Alexander, 2014; Larivière et al., 2017), along with allowing them to create their own content (Ashley & Tuten, 2015; Kietzmann, Hermkens, McCarthy, & Silvestre, 2011), research suggests that social marketers have little knowledge about the use of social media for creating customer engagement in social marketing programmes (James et al., 2013; Justice-Gardiner et al., 2012; Neiger et al., 2012; 2013; Overbey, Jaykus, & Chapman, 2017). Further, social marketers have struggled to engage their audiences on social media, despite their potential to scale up programme reach and build ongoing community support to help resolve social issues (Rodriguez, Ostrow, & Kemp, 2017). Recognising the importance of creating customer engagement to bring about behaviour change, and also the noticeable dearth of research assessing the effectiveness of social media in creating such engagement, this PhD seeks to provide new insights into how to engage customers in social marketing programmes through the use of social media.
This research was carried out as a series of inter-related studies. Study 1 is a systematic literature review to identify, analyse and evaluate social marketing programmes that have included the use of social media to engage their programme participants. Specifically, this study aims to better understand the use of social media in creating participant engagement across various social and health-related social marketing programmes. Study 2 involved qualitative in-depth interviews with social marketing practitioners who use social media to create engagement in their social marketing programmes as well as users who are engaged in these programmes via social media. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it aims to gain an understanding of social marketing practitioners’ perceptions of customer engagement and the objectives and practices that guide their social media activities. Second, this study aims to develop insights into social media users’ perceptions of factors influencing their engagement in social marketing programmes. As a result, this study concludes with the proposition of a dynamic multi-actor social media engagement framework which is then applied in practice in Study 3. Study 3 consists of a netnography focusing on the communication of a social marketing initiative via social media. This study aims to explore the interactions between social marketing practitioners and users of their social media platform using the dynamic multi-actor engagement framework. Exploring their interactions provides insight into how these two groups engage with one another, and helps to identify the characteristics of their engagement on social media.
The review of the existing social marketing programmes in Study 1 showed that social marketers were not harnessing social media’s potential in developing customer engagement and building relationships with their customers; rather, in most of the thirty-one social marketing studies examined, social media were mainly used to disseminate the programmes through one-way communication, with only a handful of programmes using social media to interact with users or to build enduring relationships with them. Moreover, conducting thirty-two interviews with social marketing practitioners and social media users allowed insights to be gained from both key stakeholder groups. Consequently, a new practical framework for multi-actor engagement in social marketing programmes was proposed along with measurement tools necessary for assessing its components. The multi-actor engagement framework recognises the dynamic and iterative engagement between multiple actors on social media, in contrast to simple dyadic interactions between the focal customer and organisation, which lead to the development of enduring and long-term relationships. The framework identified four distinct levels of engagement ― connection, interaction, loyalty and advocacy — all equally important constituents of engagement, and thus, equally important to developing sustainable social marketing impact. In addition, the application of this multi-actor engagement framework to understand, analyse and assess engagement behaviours in a real-life and ongoing social marketing programme on social media provided further insights into the applicability of the framework and identified additional measurements to further refine the overall applicability of the framework.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Dept of Marketing
Griffith Business School
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Barari, Mojtaba. "Actor Engagement and Platform Performance in the Sharing Economy: A Big Data Approach." Thesis, Griffith University, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/415332.
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In recent years, it has become apparent that the sharing economy has become a major business model that has received considerable attention from scholars in various disciplines, especially marketing. Although previous marketing research has focused mainly on the customer side of the sharing economy, current research is pushing into the platform and business model levels. This upgrading helps researchers study the relationship between customer and service provider and the relationship with the platform in the sharing economy. As the sharing economy is an open business model, customers and service providers enter and exit this platform with a lower level of limitation. Thus, a platform’s long-term success depends on the actor’s (service provider and customer) engagement with the platform. Besides that, the literature on engagement has described the “actor engagement” concept to enable research on study engagement in a triadic context, as found in the sharing economy or B2B business models. While customer engagement is a well-established research area, the notion of actor engagement is new in marketing, especially in the sharing economy, and a lack of empirical research in this area exists. Thus, this research sought to examine the role of actor engagement in the sharing economy and how it can influence platform performance. From a theoretical perspective, these findings provide a better understanding of actor engagement formation process and indicate how customer and service provider engagement with other actors leads to platform sales. From practical implication, it guides service providers and especially platforms to manage actor engagement to enhance their performance effectively.
In this regard, four studies were conducted to meet the thesis goal of studying the role of actor engagement on platform performance. The current research used a meta-analysis to review and synthesize findings from customer engagement (first meta-analysis study) and sharing economy literature (second meta-analysis study) to develop a conceptual model of actor engagement formation (first empirical study) and its role on platform performance (second empirical study). The first meta-analysis study presents a comprehensive and generalizable picture of the customer engagement concept. As actor engagement originated from the customer engagement concept, it helps us identify research gaps and develop empirical research frameworks. This study provides a meta-analysis that integrated data of 196 effect sizes of 184 publications with a sample of 146,380. The findings reveal engagement through two pathways: (1) organic as relationship-oriented (perceived quality, perceived value, and relationship quality) and (2) promoted as firm-initiated (functional and experiential initiatives). Moderator analysis indicates that the influence of the two pathways on engagement depends on engagement context (online versus offline), industry and product types (service versus manufacturing and hedonic versus utilitarian, respectively), and cultural context. Findings support an attitudinal engagement–loyalty and behavioral engagement–firm performance linkage. Study results provide new insight into various engagement approaches and their relationships. The authors offer recommendations to help marketers manage their customer engagement process more effectively.
In the second meta-analysis, a generalizable picture of the relationship formation process between customer, service provider, and platform is provided. This study integrated 214 effect sizes from 192 studies with 88,154 sample sizes. The findings indicate motivators and inhibitors for individuals to join (not join) a platform as a customer or service provider by influencing their attitudinal and behavioral responses to the platform through a two-level relationship quality pathway. Moderator analysis reveals the impact of customer motivators and inhibitors on customer responses to service providers and platforms depending on country-level moderators, such as the Human Development Index (HDI) and cultural context. These results provide insight into relationship formation among actors in the sharing economy. The study also recommends that platform managers manage their users’ relationships more effectively. The first empirical study examined actor engagement formation and its roles in service provider performance. Research data include text and image from Airbnb in seven countries. Text and image mining and machine learning were used to measure research variables after which partial least squares path modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed to test the research model. Results indicate that for the multidimensional actor engagement concept, actor affective engagement showed a greater impact on actor behavioral engagement than cognitive engagement. Also, service providers’ behavioral engagement influences customer engagement behavior and subsequently, service provider performance. Moderator analysis indicates the complex role of service provider age, gender, and cultural value in actor engagement formation in the sharing economy and highlights differences with findings in the business to customer context.
Finally, the second empirical research studied the actor engagement formation among customers and service providers on sharing economy platform performance in seven countries. Research data include structured and unstructured data of 159,662 service providers and 2,087,233 customers from Airbnb in seven countries. Text mining and machine learning techniques were used to measure research variables, and multilevel regression was employed to test the research model. Results indicate that efforts to maximize value for money and accuracy of service provider descriptions among service provider engagement behaviours were the main predictor of customer engagement and platform performance. For customer engagement, customer lifetime value and customer referral value (CLV and CRV, respectively) were shown to be among the behaviors that have the highest impact on platform performance. In addition, Airbnb as a genuinely global platform enables the investigation of a range of country-level factors (such as economic, competitiveness, cultural, technological, social, and political factors) on actor engagement, thus providing more comprehensive understanding of this concept from a global perspective. The theoretical and empirical implications of these findings are discussed.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Dept of Marketing
Griffith Business School
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Nordin, Johannes. "The EU as a Global Actor in the Korean Conflict : Rising Stature Under External Restraints." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Statsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-173334.
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Following the 2017-2018 North Korea nuclear crisis and a decade of disinterest, scholarly attention to the EU’s involvement in the Korean conflict has steadily increased. This thesis compares EU actorness in the Korean conflict, spanning the periods 2011-2012 and 2018-2019, using parts of Rhinard’s and Sjöstedt’s (2019) new actorness framework. Following recent developments in Actorness studies and heeding calls for a greater focus on external factors, it situates the analysis within the Korean conflict's broader context. It concludes that while the EU has deepened its overall engagement in the Northeast Asia region – shifting focus from North to South Korea – the EU has shown little interest in getting involved, despite other actors perceiving further EU involvement favorably. Brussels has continuously been unable to define what role it wants to play. Internal disunity concerning how the EU should balance its troubled relationship with the US with commitments to Seoul has led to the embrace of a traditional passive status quo approach, hindering proactive engagement. The EU’s stance on North Korea remains hardened, making all further cooperation and engagement entirely conditional on progress in the denuclearization talks with the US. The analytical variables borrowed from Rhinard and Sjöstedt’s actorness framework address key concerns in previous actorness studies, allowing for a detailed analysis even when no comprehensive EU-DPRK relations are found.
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Al-Daily, Wafa Mohsen Saleh. "An Exploration of State and Non-State Actor Engagement in Informal Settlement Governance in the Mahwa Aser Neighborhood and Sana'a City, Yemen." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50559.
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Informal settlements are a relatively new phenomenon in Yemen, first documented in the 1980s (El-Shorbagi, 2008; 2007). They have since grown at a very rapid rate. Sana\'a City, the nation\'s capital, alone has an estimated 35 informal settlements that together contain 20.5 percent of that urban center\'s population (El-Shorbagi, 2008; 2007). To date, the Yemeni government has paid limited attention to informal settlements. The government has not developed any specific planning policies to address their needs, partly due to meager resources and professional capacities, and partly as a consequence of conflicting (and higher priority) needs (World Bank, 2010a). The unchecked growth of informal settlements has alarmed local and national authorities as well as international organizations and recently caused officials in these entities to begin to consider seriously how to address this new community reality.This dissertation explores the engagement of state and non-state actors in informal settlement governance in Sana\'a. The analysis offered here employs Mahwa Aser, the largest and most controversial informal settlement in Sana\'a, as an exemplar for a broader set of concerns for all of Sana\'a\'s informal communities. The dissertation provides a nuanced portrait of Yemeni government capacities, policies, and practices related to Sana\'a\'s informal settlements generally and to Mahwa Aser particularly via the perspectives and activities of multiple stakeholders, including, importantly, the community\'s residents. It explores the active governance roles of non-governmental and international organizations seeking to provide services in these communities as well. It also explores ways to build informal community residents\' capacities to work with government and with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), and international governmental organizations (IGOs) to address their many basic needs.
The analysis draws on personal interviews with key stakeholders, including long-time residents of Mahwa Aser, responsible government officials, and relevant leaders of NGOs, INGOs, and IGOs in Yemen, U.S.A., and Egypt. The author also examined government and international organization reports and documents to gain insight into the governance challenges linked to continued growth of informal communities in Yemen. The study identifies a number of factors that have led to worsening living conditions in Mahwa Aser and other informal settlements in Sana\'a. Taken together they suggest the Yemeni government and its partners may need to work far more self-consciously with informal community residents to establish shared goals and clear expectations. Those entities engaged collectively in governing these communities in Sana\'a and in Yemen more generally will need to develop reliable policies and coherent programs within a transparent governance framework if the very difficult living conditions in such communities are to be improved. In particular, governance actors will need to devise ways and means to develop government capacities and resources even as they work to address community infrastructure and service needs in a sometimes daunting socio-cultural and economic context.
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Eisert, Brady C. "Pinpointing Pornography's Effects: Paring Off the Influences of Masturbation, Sexual Desire Discrepancy, and Sexual Engagement in Heterosexual Dyads." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9151.
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Pornography has increasingly become a hot topic of discussion in the United States, likely due to its increasing rate of consumption. Recent scholarship has indicated the need to account for factors such as masturbation and sexual desire discrepancy when conducting pornography research. The current study isolated the influence pornography use had on those in heterosexual romantic relationships (N=713 couples) by parsing out the effects of sexual desire discrepancy and masturbation. This was done by using a series of nested actor-partner interdependence models (APIM) to see how the relationships between pornography use and sexual satisfaction changed in each model. Masturbation and sexual desire discrepancy were also investigated as potential moderators for the APIMs to explore the effects the levels of these variables had on that relationship. Results from these analyses demonstrated that the best-fitting model included measures of masturbation, sexual desire discrepancy, and sexual engagement (i.e., controls for the values making up sexual desire discrepancy), and that adding each of these variables to the model significantly changed pornography use's actor and partner effects. Masturbation and sexual desire discrepancy were not found to moderate these relationships. A discussion of the research implications of these findings, the limitations of this study, future directions for research, and clinical implications of this study are also presented.
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Corbett, Scott. "Influence of a drama based education program on the development of empathy in year 10, Western Australian students." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2019. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2223.
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The purpose of this study was to understand which elements of the drama processes are most conducive to increasing empathy in adolescents. Empathy can have a significant impact on situational and dispositional pro-social behaviour in adolescents. It is positively related to moral development, healthy relationships and problem-solving skills; and negatively related to bullying behaviour, aggression, and victimisation. The practice of Creative Drama, in particular the work of Dorothy Heathcote and Bruce Burton, has informed drama programs that foster empathy in participants. This process, combined with the Actor Training system of Constantin Stanislavski, and the Forum Theatre model developed by Augusto Boal, was tested for its efficacy in increasing empathy in adolescents.
This study took the form of a ten-week drama-based program intervention (The Empathy Program) conducted at one secondary school in the Perth metropolitan area with a group of Year 10 students. A constructivist, mixed methods approach was utilised to frame the study. Data was collected through structured self-response surveys for students in both experimental and control groups, as well as semi-structured written reflections completed by students in the experimental group after each week of the intervention. Findings of this research showed a significant increase in participant empathy, which highlights the potential for drama to improve student empathy. Results also detailed six key elements that were effective in the development of empathy amongst participants, including explicit instruction and the importance of imagination and role-play. This research reflects the important role that drama can have in the social and emotional development of young people and recommends strategies for inclusion in current drama pedagogical practices.
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Krastanova, Radosveta. "Les nouveaux mouvements sociaux : le cas du mouvement écologique en Bulgarie." Thesis, Dijon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015DIJOD001/document.
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Le présent travail étudie le mouvement écologique en Bulgarie (1987-2014) comme un représentant typique et spécifique des nouveaux mouvements sociaux. Il s'agit de questionner en particulier les rapports qui lient l'écologie, la politique et l'engagement. L'évolution du mouvement est observée dans sa continuité historique, au niveau macro (dans sa relation avec les enjeux politiques majeurs de notre temps), au niveau méso (dans son contexte structurel et culturel) et au niveau micro (celui de l’individu engagé). L'approche générale est interdisciplinaire, elle réunit histoire politique, anthropologie, sociologie, philosophie et psychologie. L'analyse fait combiner méthodes qualitatives et comparatives et quantitatives. Le mouvement écologique en Bulgarie est un acteur sociopolitique d'un nouveau type qui a ancrage profond et une dimension éthique et politique. En tant que mouvement contestataire et trans-partisan véhiculant une “politique citoyenne” authentique opposée à “la politique politicienne” du statu quo, il fait promouvoir une culture civique participative; la personnalité humaine y joue un rôle fondamental. Il apparaît également comme un des facteur de la démocratisation de fait de la vie politique du pays après la chute du régime totalitaire. Le mouvement se construit en espace de dépassement de la politique héritée du siècle passé annonçant la nécessité d'une nouvelle «politique planétaire», fondée sur de nouvelles synthèses de valeurs et de pratiques. Par ailleurs, il reflète une attitude particulière envers la nature liée aux spécificités de la culture nationaleThis study examines the Green Movement in Bulgaria (1987-2014) as a typical and specific example of the New Social Movements. It focuses on the interconnection between environmentalism, politics and participation. We present the movement along with its evolution and analyse it on three levels: macro (through its relation to the most important contemporary issues, phenomena and processes); meso (in the national context during the past three generations); and micro (through the prism of individuals and their experience). Our general approach is interdisciplinary, combining qualitative, comparative and quantitative methods. Bulgaria’s green movement is a citizen and political movement of a new type. In the context of the New Social Movements, it is an actor of challenging the status quo; a moral corrective of the power, which implements a genuine ‘citizen environmental politics.’ Secondly, it introduces and fosters New Culture and New Politics based on a novel set of values, practices and behavioural models: one where the individual is essential. Thirdly, it is one of the pillars of Bulgarian civil society, a key factor in democratizing the socio-political life. Last but not least, it is a vehicle of an Eco-humanism originating in the specific environment that gave birth to the citizens’ movements in Eastern Europe under the totalitarian regimes and during the Democratic Transition. It also embodies a specific national attitude towards nature, traditionally stemming from peculiarities of Bulgarian culture
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Afolabi, Babatunde Tolu. "The politics of engagement : diaspora and religious actors' involvement in the Liberian peace process." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6323.
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This dissertation examines the involvement of Liberia's religious and diaspora groups in the peace process that ended the 14-year Liberian Civil War (1989-2003). Its aims include determining the extent of, the rationale for, as well as the effects of the involvement of Liberia's religious and diaspora groups in the peacemaking efforts that were undertaken in the course of the Liberian conflict. While findings show that a multiplicity of factors were responsible for the eventual resolution of the protracted conflict, they also reveal that the action of both religious and diaspora actors influenced the trajectory of the conflict and the outcome of the peace process. The religious actors, being the initiators of the Liberian peace process, played such roles as mediators, dialogue facilitators, watchdogs and trustees of the entire process. Although their efforts were mainly influenced by the desire to fulfil the divine mandate to 'tend to the flock', achievable only in a peaceful and stable environment, religious actors' peacemaking roles also presented an opportunity to regain some of the societal influence that organized religion, especially Christianity, enjoyed during the 158 years of minority 'Americo-Liberian' rule. For diaspora actors, whose roles ranged from being founders and sponsors of warring factions, to providing succour to Liberians back home through remittances, and subsequently engaging the peace process, attaining political power through the barrel of the gun or through peaceful means served the same purpose. In achieving the dissertation's aims, a historical analysis of Liberia's socio-political environment is undertaken. Also examined are the roles played by various international, regional and national actors, either as peacemakers or as sponsors of various warring factions engaged in hostilities, as well as relevant theories or paradigms such as Conflict Transformation, Social Capital and Liberal Peace. This empirical study employed the means of qualitative research methods, obtaining primary data through interviews conducted in Liberia, Ghana, the USA and Nigeria.
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Nawar, Abdo. "La pratique théâtrale professionnelle de Roger Assaf, médiation d'une histoire singulière." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0471.
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Notre thèse est une approche à double objectif : D’abord, comme le titre l’indique, étudier la pratique théâtrale professionnelle de Roger Assaf, médiation d'une Histoire singulière, et à travers son parcours faire la lumière sur l’histoire du théâtre au Liban, qui est aussi l’histoire du Liban et de la région. Ensuite, contribuer d’une certaine façon à sauver « la mémoire collective », et faire de cette thèse une étape dans la constitution d’une archive sur le théâtre au Liban, en puisant les informations et les détails auprès de Roger Assaf, le comédien, le dramaturge, le metteur en scène et l’écrivain, et de fixer dans cette « mémoire collective » des moments exceptionnels recueillis auprès des gens, essence même de l’esprit de l’Association SHAMS qui a constitué le couronnement du parcours artistique et culturel de Roger AssafThis thesis is a dual-purpose approach: First, as the title suggests, study the professional theatrical practice of Roger Assaf, mediated a singular History, and through his journey shed light on the history of theater in Lebanon, which is also the history of Lebanon and the region. Then, contribute in a certain way to save “the collective memory”, and make this thesis a step in the constitution of an archive on the theater in Lebanon, drawing information and details from Roger Assaf, the actor, the dramaturge, the director and the writer, and to fix in this “collective memory” exceptional moments collected from people, the very essence of the spirit of the SHAMS Association which was the culmination of the artistic and cultural journey of Roger Assaf
Books on the topic "Actor engagement"
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Glaser, Max P. Humanitarian engagement with non-state armed actors: The parameters of negotiated access. London: Overseas Development Institute, 2005.
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Timsina, Netra Prasad. Political economy of forestry sector of Nepal: Analysis of actors' engagement and policy processes. Lalitpur: ForestAction, Nepal, 2014.
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Eu External Engagement As a Global Actor: The Fuzzy Boundaries Between Internal and External Policies. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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Smith, Matt, and Helen Yanacopulos. International Development Actors and Public Engagement. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Grand Opera House (London, Ont.), ed. Grand Opera House, London, Ont.: Wednesday, Oct. 19th, 1892, programme : extraordinary engagement of the eminent English actor Mr. E.S. Willard in Henry Arthur Jones' play of modern English life, entitled "The middleman" .. [London, Ont.?: s.n., 1986.
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Danielson, Michael S. A Theory of Migration and Municipal Politics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190679972.003.0006.
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This chapter develops a series of theoretical models of migrant hometown political engagement and municipal politics in Mexico. The models seek to represent the relationship between the dominant political group in the community and emerging migrant actors. The chapter begins by outlining a set of basic assumptions about the characteristics and goals of the key actors in a stylized municipality, before and after the emergence of migrants as an important group. After establishing this context, the model is simplified to focus on the strategic interactions between migrants and prevailing authorities, first with a dynamic algorithm and then as a game theory model. Both migrants and prevailing authorities can choose conforming or fighting strategies; and depending on what each chooses, four outcomes are possible. Game-theory methods are then used to predict actor choices under different conditions and several limits to these models are discussed.
Book chapters on the topic "Actor engagement"
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Vilches, Silvia, and Laura Tate. "Grants as significant objects in community engagement networks." In Actor Networks of Planning, 62–78. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. |: Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315714882-4.
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Marschalek, Ilse, Lisa M. Seebacher, Elisabeth Unterfrauner, Katharina Handler, and Margit Hofer. "Social Labs in Public Engagement Processes for RRI." In Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice, 147–69. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14710-4_8.
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AbstractResearch and research programmes have explicitly demanded to seek solutions to today’s societal challenges and have emphasised the importance of addressing societal needs and ethical questions in research and development (e.g. Owen and Pansera 2019). Since new sciences and emerging technologies are mostly embedded in fields of conflicting interests and are of high complexity, there is a need for multi-actor decision processes, including actors of the wider public (e.g. Chilvers and Kearnes 2016).
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Weiss, Peter. "Microfoundations for Building Systems of Engagement: Enable Actor Engagement Using Service Dominant Architecture." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 116–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51057-2_17.
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Conti, Bartolomeo. "Between Deradicalisation and Disengagement: The Re-engagement of the Radical Actor?" In Terrorism, Radicalisation & Countering Violent Extremism, 43–56. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1999-0_4.
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Colin, Lila Oriard. "Multi-actor, Multilevel Assessment of Social Capacity for Community Engagement in Flood Risk Preparedness." In Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events, 41–54. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119383567.ch4.
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Deekeling, Anna, and Dahlia Simangan. "Bridging Gaps: From a Descriptive to a Practical Mid-Space Actor Typology?" In Operationalisation of Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia, 59–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67758-9_4.
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AbstractThe concept of hybridity sheds light on the complexity of conflict settings. It helps to analyse the participation of all parties and actors involved and entangled in a social network of normative and political power, while avoiding theoretical binaries that over-simplify the process of post-conflict peacebuilding. What lacks, however, is a practical application of hybridity in peacebuilding that actively engages with bottom/local or grassroots, top/national and international actors through mediation in the mid-space to create sustainable peace. Given this practical shortcoming of hybridity, this chapter examines mid-space actors as gatekeepers and their capacities to enable dialogue among opposing parties. The aim is to offer insights for the international community, as outside intervenors, in promoting the bridge-building potentialities of gatekeepers. Specifically, externally led efforts to engage with the specific skill sets of mid-space local actors are explored. It is argued in this chapter that such engagement provides a favourable environment for sustaining peace by overcoming power struggles in and around the mid-space.
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Li, Loic Pengtao, Biljana Juric, and Roderick J. Brodie. "Untangling the Complexity of the Valence of Actor Engagement: Conceptual Foundations, Propositions and Research Directions: An Abstract." In Marketing Transformation: Marketing Practice in an Ever Changing World, 309. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68750-6_92.
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Chan, Sander, Gabriela Iacobuta, and Ramona Hägele. "Maximising Goal Coherence in Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Development? Polycentricity and Coordination in Governance." In The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda, 25–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57938-8_2.
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AbstractThis chapter argues that most efforts to mobilise non-state and subnational actor engagement so far has insufficiently contributed to goal coherence—the balanced implementation of internationally agreed goals. Despite the increased level of attention being given to the polycentric nature of sustainable development and climate governance—especially the role of non-state and subnational actors—the predominant focus of both policy-makers and researchers has been on filling functional gaps, for example closing the global mitigation gap, or financing gaps. As a result, voluntariness and self-organisation in polycentric governance could increase the level of incoherence. Insights on emerging polycentric structures should be combined with tools that map (goal) coherence. The combination of these fields of knowledge could inform supportive policies, for instance in development cooperation to ensure greater coherence in implementing sustainable development priorities.
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Weiß, Peter, Anselm Kronibus, Fabian Riedel, and Roman Rittweger. "Digital Service Innovation and Actor Engagement: A Multilevel Design Perspective - Impacts from a Case Study of an Insurtech." In Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering, 273–79. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80840-2_32.
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Benz, Carina, Lara Riefle, and Christopher Schwarz. "Co-creating Value in B2B Platform Ecosystems – Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Emergence and Nature of Actor Engagement." In Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, 236–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86790-4_17.
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Warg, Markus. "Fostering Actor Engagement with Human Centered Service Design (HCSD): Lessons Learned from the Cross Domain Examples of Service Dominant Architecture." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002578.
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The research question of this work is "how to foster actor engagement with the help of Human Centered Service Design (HCSD)". Based on the foundations of Service-Dominant Logic (Vargo and Lusch 2018), Service Science (Spohrer, Kieliszewski et al. 2019) and Design Science (Papanek and Fuller 1972, Peffers, Tuunanen et al. 2008), in a first step the building blocks of HCSD are elaborated. In a second step the relevance of the building blocks is analyzed in the context of actor engagement. The key findings are used to develop a set of explicitly applicable solution pattern for promoting actor engagement (Peffers, Tuunanen et al. 2008). Finally, the relevance of the developed solution pattern is demonstrated using cross domain examples of Service Dominant Architecture (SDA).
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Franco, Lucía, Almudena Justo, Carmen Cotelo, Inés Arias, Lucía Garrido, Lucía Lloret, and Nuria Rodríguez-Aubó. "MULTI-ACTOR ENGAGEMENT: AN OPEN INNOVATION PROCESS OF KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND CO-CREATION." In 12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. IATED, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2019.0969.
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Bayramoğlu, Öykü Zeynep, Engin Erzin, Tevfik Metin Sezgin, and Yücel Yemez. "Engagement Rewarded Actor-Critic with Conservative Q-Learning for Speech-Driven Laughter Backchannel Generation." In ICMI '21: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3462244.3479944.
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Šilhánková, Vladimíra, and Martin Maštálka. "Třetí role univerzit: Jakou roli hrají české regionální univerzity na poli regionální angažovanosti?" In XXV. mezinárodní kolokvium o regionálních vědách. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p280-0068-2022-2.
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Institutional approaches to regional development are based on the idea that it is public institutions that create the institutional framework for the quality development of the region. Individual directions then try to identify the key actors who will become the main moderator / facilitator of the development of the region. The Triple Helix theory, as such a key development actor, defines a local university. He attributes to it the so-called "third role", where, in addition to research and teaching, it is the university that takes over the facilitation of further development of the region. In the Czech Republic, the third role of universities is supported at the state level, and individual regional universities are motivated to accept this role. But the approaches are quite different. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the approaches of selected regional universities in the Czech Republic to their "third role" in regional development over the past five years. The strategic objectives of universities in the area of their regional engagement and implemented activities in five areas (1) science for the public, (2) promotion of scientific literacy, (3) community outreach, (4) civic engagement, and (5) social entrepreneurship were analyzed for the period 2016-2020. The analysis showed that the regional involvement of universities in the Czech Republic is very limited and focuses mainly on the areas of support for scientific literacy and civic engagement.
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Neal Reilly, William, and Leonard Eusebi. "Approaches to Extending Game-Theoretic Analyses to Complex, Real-World Scenarios." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001853.
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In domains ranging from military engagements to business to politics to games, competitors take actions to gain an advantage over others. Game theory has been used extensively since the 1950s to analyze such domains and to gain insights into the best moves for all competitors. While it is a powerful tool for analysis, game theory often falls short when applied to real-world encounters. Game-theoretic approaches over-simplify by assuming each side is composed of rational actors that attempt to maximize a single-valued utility function. Even with that simplification, real-world scenarios are often difficult to formalize as a solvable “game,” and even when the problem can be defined as a game, it is computationally expensive to calculate the best actions for each actor.We will present research that extends game theory to include multiple forms of utility for each actor. This enables us to recast traditional, albeit simple game-theory games like the Prisoners’ Dilemma and the Ultimatum Game, which produce results at odds with real-world expectations when confined to traditional measures of utility (i.e., minimizing jail time and maximizing money). By adding utility measures like commitment and fairness, we can generate a Pareto-optimal set of solutions that are better at recreating and explaining real-world behavior than traditional single-utility game theory. In our formulation, the actors are still acting rationally, they are just factoring in a more complex set of tradeoffs that our multi-utility game theory can naturally model.We will also present research into a game representation scheme that lets the scenario modeler express real-world action-to-action constraints like “enables” and “blocks.” These constraints support basic reasoning about ordering of actions without having to build full search tress or reason about time generally. Accounting for these constraints also significantly reduces the space of possible solutions, making it tractable to find exact solutions for certain classes of complex scenarios.Finally, we will present a software toolkit that simplifies the process of defining a game and analyzing the plausible outcomes. The model building tool helps analysts capture the goals and motivations of each actor, the actions available, and how those actions affect goals or other actions. Using these models, the analysis suite calculates the Pareto-optimal choices for each actor in that scenario and helps analysts navigate the plausible outcomes. With these tools, decision makers can assess the value of their strategic options, even in cases where adversaries may choose actions traditional game theory would label incorrect.We have used the software toolkit to create and analyze several models, from simple games like rock-paper-scissors to a real-world political gray-zone conflict with 3 nation states, 23 possible actions, 18 different motivations, and 10^21 possible solutions. The results were computed in seconds and align with behavior of the real-world actors. Policy analysts without a background in computational modeling have also used the toolkit to create “backcasting” models of historical situations. These models successfully explained the behavior of the actors involved. These evaluations show that the toolkit is both useful and usable for analyzing real-world multi-actor interactions.
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Islam, Nazrul, and Yuya Kajikawa. "Actors' engagement in sustainable hydrogen energy innovation: A comparative analysis." In 2015 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/picmet.2015.7273204.
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Jumbe, Sandra, Wai Yee James, Robert Walton, Chris Griffiths, Vichithranie Madurasinghe, Ratna Sohanpal, Elizabeth Steed, Steph Taylor, and Sandra Eldridge. "Assessing NHS stop smoking service engagement in community pharmacies using actors." In ERS International Congress 2017 abstracts. European Respiratory Society, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/1393003.congress-2017.pa3890.
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Menendez Alvarez-Hevia, David, Janet Lord, and Steven Naylor. "Being there? A Collaborative Inquiry into Attendance." In Fourth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head18.2018.7899.
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There is a growing concern among universities over the levels of student absenteeism at teaching activities. Attendance is an increasingly important issue in the UK, but also internationally, for its impact on the student experience, academic performance and engagement. This article explores the topic of poor attendance in one of the larger universities in the UK, through a collaborative action research methodology that includes Education Studies lecturers and students as research partners. Initial findings suggest that attendance is conceptualised in different ways by different actors. We found that a key theme in understanding attendance and engagement was that students’ identities are multi-layered and complex, and that their identities as students are often interwoven. We also found that technology and the virtual world play a fundamental role in understanding practices and conceptualising attendance and engagement. Concerning this, the way that a Virtual Learning Environments is approached in our study illustrates how physical attendance is challenged (but also supported) as a privileged form of getting access to the knowledge presented in taught sessions.
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Latiolais, Ashlie, and Phanat Xanamane. "Cultural & Climatic Actors: Shifting Roles of Architects and Practice." In AIA/ACSA Intersections Conference. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.inter.20.1.
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As the skills required for creating architecture continue to broaden and deepen, integrating professional experience into architectural education will be increasingly necessary. This integration will create graduates that are more adaptable and versatile than through academic experience alone. Professional Practice discourse is an obvious venue for discussing and exploring the broader skills required for success and advancement in architectural practice, however, this paper entry discusses a shift of conventional practice to a practice that addresses community work – from production processes – through a semester-long studio experience. The studio was dedicated to the students’ professional development of social and environmental responsibility using a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. The impacts of intersecting architectural practice and interdisciplinary collaborators with architectural education through community engagement dissolves the notion that these actors are mutually exclusive. Rather, what yielded is an inclusive approach to creating environments that are more socially conscious; benefitting both the students and community patrons.
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Al Hajri, Saif Salem. "Enhancing Youth Employees Experience and Engagement Using a Designed Culture." In ADIPEC. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/210843-ms.
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Abstract The proposed paper has the main objective of exploring the impact of a designed organizational culture on the engagement of employees within their firms or institutions. The experience will focus on three aspects: engagement, experience, and designed culture which are all aimed at connecting with the employees better in order to motivate and keep them engaged as they perform their duties and responsibilities. The proposed paper plans to follow a qualitative research study, following an action research where the researcher will apply the conceptual framework and examine its impact and effectiveness on the overall employee engagement. Qualitative research was chosen to explore the experiences of the study participants or the leaders, managers, and employees of oil and gas firms on how a designed culture could positively or negatively impact the experience and engagement of the employees as stakeholders. An action research approach under qualitative research was chosen as Burns (2015) defined it a one that focuses on collaboration, discourse, and action among participants within a system. The results of the qualitative action research led to the development of a conceptual framework focused on three specific areas: designed culture, experience, and engagement. These three areas are considered as the key organisational aspects that must be given attention to in order to create a positive impact on the experiences and engagement of the oil and gas firms or institutions’ employees or stakeholders. Under a designed organisational culture, the management gives significance to three factors and actors including: organisational functions (25%), senior leadership (25%), and line managers (50%). With the designed organisational culture, the organisational functions give value to open communication and feedback between the management, leaders, and employees. This type of organisational culture works to interact and engage with the employees by constantly communicating with and listening to their needs. As for senior leadership, they are tasked to make crucial policy decisions, set their firms’ strategies and goals, and shape the overall culture of their institution. The line managers have the biggest role in this framework, where they are tasked to perform "Thrive Sessions" or a designated time to connect with their team members. Based on the designed culture, employee experience and engagement may then be influenced accordingly.
Reports on the topic "Actor engagement"
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Gu, Jing, Danielle Green, and Jiadan Yu. Building Back Better: Sustainable Development Diplomacy in the Pandemic Era. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2021.065.
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This report critically examines the nature of the distinction between traditional inter-state diplomacy and sustainable development diplomacy. It then sets out the institutional changes which are necessary for the achievement of sustainable development diplomacy. Multi-stakeholder partnerships have been identified as a key means of implementation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given the increasing centrality of the United States (US)–China relationship in global development cooperation, understanding the modalities of their engagement may provide useful insights into how partnerships may be cultivated and deepened to realise the SDGs. The Covid-19 pandemic and climate change have demonstrated the interconnection of the world, as well as the interconnection of challenges of the world. Sustainable development diplomacy is needed now more than ever to prioritise development strategies of different states and work on common shared challenges. Sustainable development diplomacy can only work when different actors recognise the value of the common goals and are willing to make an effort to accomplish them. Global sustainable development diplomacy requires a stronger policy agenda and greater cohesion. This report explores the idea of sustainable development diplomacy and, through two sectoral case studies, explores the nature, function, and rationale for interactive engagement. The form and structure of multi-actor relationships are a response to complex, trans-border political, social, economic, and environmental challenges which require a more nuanced and varied management approach than narrowly defined state-led development. However, the power dynamics, the modalities, and experiences of engagement that underpin these dynamic relationships, remain understudied, especially with regard to their impact on sustainable development.
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Meijer, Karen, and Katongo Seyuba. The Role of Development Actors in Responding to Environment and Security Links. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55163/kniz5636.
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Despite growing interest among development actors to integrate links between the environment, climate, peace and security into their policies and activities, practical approaches to addressing environment-related security risks are lagging behind awareness at policy level. This policy brief provides insights into how donors can incentivize implementing organizations to further develop and apply these practical approaches. It recommends support that: (a) facilitates engagement between implementing organizations and local communities, and prioritizes local knowledge and solutions; (b) supports new partnerships between implementing organizations from both the environment or climate side and the security or peacebuilding side; (c) enables the sharing of good practices and lessons learned on how to address environment-related security risks at various levels; (d) promotes the inclusion and prioritization of environment– security links in country-level policies; and (e) is more flexible in implementation, as well as engages in long-term commitments and funding.
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Lezaun, Javier, Sara Nawaz, and Jose M. Valenzuela. Summary report on deliberative workshop with stakeholders on mesocosm research in Bergen, Norway. OceanNets, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3289/oceannets_d7.2.
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This report summarises the stakeholder engagement work conducted with actors in the Bergen region during OceanNETs research activities on ocean alkalinity enhancement. We describe our approach to stakeholder engagement and summarize some key insights derived from this process.
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ALDEN, CHRIS. New Actors, New Models, New Outcomes? African countries’ engagement with China and other development partners in achieving the SDGs and Agenda 2063. Oxfam, July 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2017.0254.
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van den Boogaard, Vanessa, Wilson Prichard, Rachel Beach, and Fariya Mohiuddin. Strengthening Tax-Accountability Links: Fiscal Transparency and Taxpayer Engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone. Institute of Development Studies, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2020.002.
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There is increasingly strong evidence that taxation can contribute to expanded government responsiveness and accountability. However, such positive connections are not guaranteed. Rather, they are shaped by the political and economic context and specific policies adopted by governments and civil society actors. Without an environment that enables tax bargaining, there is a risk that taxation will amount to little more than forceful extraction. We consider how such enabling environments may be fostered through two mixed methods case studies of tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Sierra Leone and Ghana. We highlight two key sets of findings. First, tax transparency is only meaningful if it is accessible and easily understood by taxpayers and relates to their everyday experiences and priorities. In particular, we find that taxpayers do not just want basic information about tax obligations or aggregate revenue collected, but information about how much revenue should have been collected and how revenues were spent. At the same time, taxpayers do not want information to be shared with them through a one-way form of communication, but rather want to have spaces for dialogue and interaction with tax and government officials, including through public meetings and radio call-in programmes. Second, strategies to encourage taxpayer engagement are more likely to be effective where forums for engagement are perceived by taxpayers to be safe, secure, and sincere means through which to engage with government officials. This has been most successful where governments have visibly demonstrated responsiveness to citizen concerns, even on a small scale, while partnering with civil society to foster trust, dialogue and expanded knowledge. These findings have significant implications for how governments design taxpayer education and engagement programmes and how civil society actors and development partners can support more equitable and accountable tax systems. Our findings provide concrete lessons for how governments can ensure that information shared with taxpayers is meaningful and accessible. Moreover, we show that civil society actors can play important roles as translators of tax information, enablers of public forums and dialogues around tax issues, and trainers of taxpayers, supporting greater tax literacy and sustained citizen engagement.
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Lenhardt, Amanda. The Role of Local Actors in the Delivery of Services to Vulnerable Groups in Protracted Crises. Institute of Development Studies, June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.127.
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As the needs of people affected by conflict, natural disasters and other crises grow year-on-year and become increasingly complex, the need for adapted service delivery has become ever more pressing. There is widespread recognition that top-down, externally driven support to service delivery is ineffective in reaching vulnerable populations in need of humanitarian support. Increasing strategic engagement by and with local actors is now an accepted norm for effective international humanitarian action (Metcalfe-Hough et al., 2021). International commitments have been made to improve the provision of services in protracted crises. A body of literature indicates that engaging local actors in service delivery is one of the main ways to achieve improved service delivery. Despite the general acceptance of this principle, progress in achieving more localised responses to protracted crises has been slow. Evidence on how services can most effectively reach those in need is limited.This report reviews available guidance and evidence on the role of local actors in delivering services to those in need of humanitarian support in protracted crises. The report begins with a brief overview of the evolving discourse on the need for better strategies to incorporate local actors in the delivery of services. The following sections review the available evidence on the different ways local actors have been involved in the delivery of basic services in protracted crises. Section 3 examines local actors’ role in identifying the needs of affected communities. Section 4 examines the role of local actors in the effective coordination of service delivery. Section 5 discusses their role in transparency and accountability, and section 6 considers how local actors’ engagement can contribute to the mitigation of further conflict. Much of the literature in this area takes the form of guidance documents produced by international organisations working in humanitarian action. Some of this guidance refers to case study evidence. Still, most appear to refer to stakeholders’ experiences and conceptual approaches to how service delivery happens in protracted crises. There are a range of instruments that have been deployed to improve service delivery in protracted crises – some of which are referred to in this report – which could be formally evaluated to contribute to the evidence base on how such programmes effectively address the needs of vulnerable groups in need for humanitarian support.
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Davies, Will. Improving the engagement of UK armed forces overseas. Royal Institute of International Affairs, January 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55317/9781784135010.
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The UK government’s Integrated Review of security, defence, development and foreign policy, published in March 2021 alongside a supporting defence command paper, set a new course for UK national security and highlighted opportunities for an innovative approach to international engagement activity. The Integrated Review focused principally on the state threats posed by China’s increasing power and by competitors – including Russia – armed with nuclear, conventional and hybrid capabilities. It also stressed the continuing risks to global security and resilience due to conflict and instability in weakened and failed states. These threats have the potential to increase poverty and inequality, violent extremism, climate degradation and the forced displacement of people, while presenting authoritarian competitors with opportunities to enhance their geopolitical influence. There are moral, security and economic motives to foster durable peace in conflict-prone and weakened regions through a peacebuilding approach that promotes good governance, addresses the root causes of conflict and prevents violence, while denying opportunities to state competitors. The recent withdrawal from Afghanistan serves to emphasize the complexities and potential pitfalls associated with intervention operations in complex, unstable regions. Success in the future will require the full, sustained and coordinated integration of national, allied and regional levers of power underpinned by a sophisticated understanding of the operating environment. The UK armed forces, with their considerable resources and global network, will contribute to this effort through ‘persistent engagement’. This is a new approach to overseas operations below the threshold of conflict, designed as a pre-emptive complement to warfighting. To achieve this, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) must develop a capability that can operate effectively in weak, unstable and complex regions prone to violent conflict and crises, not least in the regions on the eastern and southern flanks of the Euro-Atlantic area. The first step must be the development of a cohort of military personnel with enhanced, tailored levels of knowledge, skills and experience. Engagement roles must be filled by operators with specialist knowledge, skills and experience forged beyond the mainstream discipline of combat and warfighting. Only then will individuals develop a genuinely sophisticated understanding of complex, politically driven and sensitive operating environments and be able to infuse the design and delivery of international activities with practical wisdom and insight. Engagement personnel need to be equipped with: An inherent understanding of the human and political dimensions of conflict, the underlying drivers such as inequality and scarcity, and the exacerbating factors such as climate change and migration; - A grounding in social sciences and conflict modelling in order to understand complex human terrain; - Regional expertise enabled by language skills, cultural intelligence and human networks; - Familiarity with a diverse range of partners, allies and local actors and their approaches; - Expertise in building partner capacity and applying defence capabilities to deliver stability and peace; - A grasp of emerging artificial intelligence technology as a tool to understand human terrain; - Reach and insight developed through ‘knowledge networks’ of external experts in academia, think-tanks and NGOs. Successful change will be dependent on strong and overt advocacy by the MOD’s senior leadership and a revised set of personnel policies and procedures for this cohort’s selection, education, training, career management, incentivization, sustainability and support.
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Smalley, Rebecca, Emmanuel Sulle, Ngala Chome, Ana Duarte, and Euclides Gonçalves. Agricultural Investment Corridors in Africa: Does Smallholder and Women's Participation Count? Institute of Development Studies (IDS), August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2021.021.
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Agricultural development corridors and clusters are highly complex projects that have been driven in Africa by agribusiness and mining corporations, host governments, international donors and development finance institutions. There is interest in whether these projects can support inclusive agribusiness. Evidence shows that involvement of small-scale economic actors in such initiatives is often impeded by a failure to grant them participation or a voice. We therefore investigated if and how recent corridors and clusters in Africa have been able to achieve the meaningful engagement of small-scale economic actors, with a focus on smallholders, including pastoralists, and the women among them.
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Cliffe, Emma. Local Humanitarian Leadership Index: A snapshot of progress towards local humanitarian leadership outcomes in the humanitarian coordination architecture in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Oxfam, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2022.9141.
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This index outlines what needs to change in order to achieve local humanitarian leadership in the Syria crisis response. It summarizes research undertaken on the engagement of local and national actors in the international humanitarian coordination architecture in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, and is accompanied by three country case studies. The index is designed to support local and national non-government organizations to advocate for reforms so they can increase their engagement within the humanitarian coordination system, and use these spaces to advocate for their desired changes in the response. Donors, UN agencies and INGOs bear the main responsibility for enabling those reforms. The recommendations in each section provide practical solutions to address the barriers and challenges identified in the research.
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Denaro, Desirée. How Do Disruptive Innovators Prepare Today's Students to Be Tomorrow's Workforce?: Scholas' Approach to Engage Youth. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002899.
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The lack of motivation and sense of community within schools have proven to be the two most relevant factors behind the decision to drop out. Despite the notable progress made in school access in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, dropping out of school has still been a problem. This paper explores Scholas Occurrentes pedagogical approach to address these dropouts. Scholas focuses on the voice of students. It seeks to act positively on their motivation by listening to them, creating spaces for discussion, and strengthening soft skills and civic engagement. Scholas aims to enhance the sense of community within schools by gathering students from different social and economic backgrounds and involving teachers, families, and societal actors. This will break down the walls between schools and the whole community. This paper presents Scholas work with three examples from Paraguay, Haiti, and Argentina. It analyzes the positive impacts that Scholas' intervention had on the participants. Then, it focuses on future challenges regarding the scalability and involvement of the institutions in the formulation of new public policies. The approach highlights the participatory nature of education and the importance of all actors engagement.