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Journal articles on the topic "Failed adoptions"
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Platt, Stacey, and Anita Weinberg. "The Question of Best Interest of the Child in Failed Adoptions." Adoption Quarterly 4, no. 4 (2001): 57–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j145v04n04_05.
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Hensel, Przemysław G. "Organizational Responses to Proto-Institutions: How the Semi-edited and Unedited Accounts Clash." Journal of Management Inquiry 27, no. 2 (2017): 224–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1056492616688086.
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While adoption of institutionalized structures has received immense attention from organizational scholars, the processes associated with adoption of proto-institutions are infrequently studied. Drawing on an ethnographic longitudinal study of Producer Choice adoption by a public broadcasting organization, I contribute to the extant literature by offering three findings. First, I show how the semi-edited account of an initial implementation of proto-institution clashes with multiple unedited accounts of subsequent adoptions and results in increased ambiguity regarding the structure. Second, I shed light on how actors involved in the focal adoption struggled to follow incompatible accounts and gauge the proto-institution’s value. Last, I show how actors produce their own adoption by borrowing the justification for reform from the semi-edited account but founding its design on a previous adoption that was perceived as failed.
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Ehret, Marian. "3DTV Mass Adoption in the United States and the National Football League." Jurnal Pengajian Media Malaysia 22, no. 2 (2020): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/jpmm.vol22no2.1.
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Purpose was to examine how mass adoption of 3DTV in the United States as the next major step in TV evolution could take place, after the technology recently failed in the 2010s. Answers to the research questions focused on understanding what conditions for mass adoptions would need to exist and how the National Football League TV transmissions could support the adoption process until when. An integrated literature review defined inhibiting factors to adoption related to technology, health, content, marketing strategy and price. Solution paths were proposed. Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory and the Bass model were applied in a comparatist perspective, comparing 3DTV to historical adoption pat-terns of both HDTV and color TV. The comparatist approach proved to be very useful, as forecast models ignoring historical adoption patterns usually failed. Findings revealed that most American households could possess 3DTV sets by 2032, if Avatar sequels would kick off another cycle of 3D cinema, followed by 3DTV re-introduction. NFL TV transmissions were found to be perhaps the single most important factor to motivate Americans buying 3DTV sets and supporting mass adoption. The study encountered limitations, related to the Bass model. Also, findings from the American market would need to be adapted carefully to situations in other countries, before generalizing them.
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Blocher, Edward, Chee W. Chow, and Adrian Wong-Boren. "On The Non-Adoption Of Present Value Depreciation In Managerial Performance Evaluation." Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) 6, no. 2 (2011): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jabr.v6i2.6299.
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Present value depreciation has long been advocated as a way to improve the dominant return on investment (ROI) managerial performance measure. Yet, to date, reported adoptions of this approach have been rare. Since providing appropriate managerial incentives is increasingly important in this era of intensifying global competition, it is useful to explore why firms are foregoing this theoretically superior approach. This paper points out that the non-adoption of present value depreciation may be an economically rational choice. It notes that advocates of present value depreciation have failed to consider some potentially significant implementation costs. In addition, a small scale computer simulation reveals that under conditions of uncertainty and correlated cash flows, ROI calculated under conventional depreciation procedures can often closely approximate the theoretically correct value. Hence, besides providing a specific analysis of present value depreciation, this study also underlines afresh the importance of cost/benefit considerations in developing or adopting new approaches to business problems.
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Ladiqi, Suyatno, and Akmal Hamzah. "Antartica's Sovereignty: Adoption of Artic Council Concept as a Better Replacement for Antartica Treaty System (ATS)." Jurnal Global & Strategis 13, no. 1 (2019): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jgs.13.1.2019.15-24.
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The conflict surrounding the sovereignty over the region of Antarctica is a long-standing issue that has plagued the claimant states for decades. The exhaustion of mineral and raw material fuels the hostility and struggle for dominance over the unclaimed region which beliefs to be the largest remaining reserve of oil and gas as well as other valuable natural resources. With growing number of claimant states and the inexistence of proper international framework, the issue over Antarctica is a time-ticking bomb waiting to burst and causes a major friction over the South Pole. Due to the success achieved by Arctic Council in managing the Arctic region inspire this paper to propose and evaluate the idea of establishing an “Antarctica Council” as a crucial recourse to solve what Antarctica Treaty System (ATS) has failed to achieve. This paper is an examination of analysis and critiques in legal documents and international reports that seek a critical approach over the ineffectiveness of the existing legal framework and possible improvement in Arctic council concept adoptions.
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Grauer, Ryan. "Moderating Diffusion: Military Bureaucratic Politics and the Implementation of German Doctrine in South America, 1885–1914." World Politics 67, no. 2 (2015): 268–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0043887115000027.
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How do military ideas, and military doctrines in particular, spread through the international system? This article extends extant work on military diffusion by exploring why some states, after deciding to adopt another's innovative warfighting system, fail to implement it. The author argues that for states to successfully implement a military doctrine developed abroad, much information about the unobservable aspects of the warfighting system is needed. States vary in their capacity to acquire the necessary knowledge because they face differing levels of resistance to military diffusion within their armed forces. Powerful groups within the military that are opposed to such adoptions are likely to use their influence to press for policies and bureaucratic maneuvers that constrain information flows between innovating states and their own state and consequently inhibit implementation and diffusion of military doctrines. Therefore successful implementation of foreign military doctrines can be expected when states face minimal resistance within their militaries, and moderated or failed implementation can be expected when opposition is more significant. A provisional test of the argument is conducted through an assessment of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile's attempts to implement the German military doctrine at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Zelizer, Barbie. "The Failed Adoption of Journalism Study." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 3, no. 1 (1998): 118–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1081180x98003001010.
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Chu, Jaeyon, Kyongsun Heo, and Jinhan Pae. "Does a Firm’s Corporate Governance Enhance the Beneficial Effect of IFRS Adoption?" Sustainability 11, no. 3 (2019): 885. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11030885.
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Prior literature suggests that the effect of adopting the International Financial ReportingStandards (IFRS) could vary by country-specific or firm-specific factors. In particular, we focus onthe effect of the strength of corporate governance of a firm, a firm-specific characteristic, prior tothe adoption of IFRS. Specifically, we use the Korea Corporate Governance Stock Price Index, ametric for the corporate governance structure in Korea, to examine whether the corporategovernance structure influences the effect of IFRS adoption on the analyst’s earnings forecasts inKorea. We find that the beneficial effect of IFRS adoption on analyst forecast errors is observed forfirms with moderate corporate governance prior to IFRS adoption, but not for firms with superioror inferior corporate governance. We interpret our findings such that firms with strong or weakcorporate governance do not benefit from IFRS adoption, because firms with strong corporategovernance already had transparent information system prior to IFRS adoption and firms withweak corporate governance failed to implement IFRS properly.
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Peel, Ellen. "Adoption, Tragedy, and the Failed Search for Origins in Frankenstein." Adoption & Culture 7, no. 2 (2019): 244–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ado.2019.0017.
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Barry, Fanta, Marie Sawadogo, Maïmouna Bologo (Traoré), Igor W. K. Ouédraogo, and Thomas Dogot. "Key Barriers to the Adoption of Biomass Gasification in Burkina Faso." Sustainability 13, no. 13 (2021): 7324. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13137324.
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The industrial sector in Burkina Faso faces two significant energy challenges access to efficient energy sources that are also renewable. Pyrolysis and gasification are emerging as conversion pathways that exploit available agricultural and industrial biomass. Pyrolysis has been adopted successfully, whereas gasification failed without getting beyond the experimental stage. This article assesses potential barriers to the adoption of gasification based on interviews with the stakeholders of the energy sector (users, NGOs, policy makers). We use pyrolysis as a benchmark to point out the barriers to adoption. The hierarchical analysis process (AHP) method was applied to identify the most significant barriers to the adoption of gasification. Twenty-seven barriers were identified and prioritized in two dimensions and five categories “technical”, “economic and financial”, “socio-cultural and organizational”, “political, governmental and institutional”, and “ecological and geographical” barriers. The category of socio-cultural and organizational barriers emerged as the most critical in the adoption of gasification. This category deserves special consideration to go past the pilot installation stage and adopting this technology.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Failed adoptions"
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Garcia, Tugas Lourdes. "La cara oculta de la adopción. Las adopciones internacionales truncadas en Catalunya." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669941.
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La adopción internacional en España se ha desvelado como un fenómeno de extraordinaria magnitud en un corto espacio de tiempo ya que en apenas seis años se convirtió en el segundo país del mundo receptor de menores procedentes de la adopción internacional.
Consiguientemente, administraciones y agentes del ámbito de la adopción internacional volcaron sus esfuerzos en dar respuesta a la creciente demanda de adopción, sin prever la extraordinaria dimensión que acabaría adquiriendo ni valorar adecuadamente sus eventuales riesgos (entre ellos el del fracaso).
Esta investigación se centra precisamente en lo que se ha venido a denominar adopciones truncadas, esto es: en los casos de menores adoptados internacionalmente que fueron desamparados, debiendo ser atendidos en los servicios públicos de protección a la infancia.
Así pues, el foco de la investigación recae en los casos de ruptura en los que la administración –de forma provisional o definitiva– asume la tutela de los/las menores. El objetivo principal se orienta a la identificación de las circunstancias y de los factores de riesgo que han podido determinar el truncamiento de estos procesos adoptivos, identificando componentes estructurantes y examinando las interrelaciones que se establecen entre ellos.<br>International adoption in Spain is a phenomenon of extraordinary magnitude. In just six years, a relatively short space of time, Spain has become the second Country in the World to receive minors through International adoption.
Consequently, administrators and agents in the field of international adoption have focused their efforts in responding to the growing demand, without foresight of the magnitude or the potential risks (including failure)
This research focuses on what is now referred to as truncated adoptions i.e. where internationally adopted children are abandoned, they should be cared for by the public child protection services.
Therefore, the focus of the investigation lies in cases that have broken down or failed, which the administrator - provisionally or indefinitely- assumes the guardianship of the children. The main objective is to identify the circumstances and the risk factors in order to determine the truncation of these adoptive processes, identifying structuring components, and examining the interrelationships established between them.
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Villeneuve, Cecile. "Le "faire famille" au Liban : récit d'une enquête ethnographique par apparentement." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0179.
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Ce travail se propose d’analyser des « faits de parenté » dans le contexte pluriconfessionnel libanais. Il s’agit de se demander, de quelle manière, sur ce territoire restreint où la question du statut personnel est du ressort de chaque communauté religieuse, la question de la filiation s’articule-t-elle avec le religieux, le social ou le communautaire ? Est-ce que la pluralité des modes d’établissement de la filiation fait coexister plusieurs modèles familiaux ou à l’inverse, les familles libanaises partagent-elles un éthos commun sur la manière de « faire famille » ? Le premier axe concerne la question des enfants abandonnés. En nous donnant accès à ses archives, l’une des plus anciennes congrégations religieuses de Beyrouth nous a autorisées à recueillir et à analyser des données sur un siècle d’activité (1852-1953). Il s’agit alors de saisir comment la question de la désaffiliation, celles du placement des enfants et de l’adoption ont été traitées dans ce contexte historique et géographique particulier : celui d’un territoire qui est passé de la domination ottomane à celle de l’indépendance en passant sous mandat français où les frontières ont été redessinées. Ces informations nous renseignent sur une aire géographique et culturelle où il y a peu de connaissances sur le sujet. Le second axe se poursuit par une observation sur la quête des origines et ses effets : retrouvailles, « renouages » ou création de liens avec la famille d’origine. Les éléments biographiques ouvrent la discussion sur la question de la place de l’auteur à la fois auteur-chercheur, objet de sa recherche. Le récit de ce parcours vise à s’inscrire au croisement de l’ethnographie réflexive et de l’anthropologie de la parenté. Nous l’avons qualifié d’enquête « par apparentement », pour désigner une posture qui s’inscrit au-delà du double mouvement de « familiarisation » et de « distanciation »<br>This PhD research analyses "facts of kinship" in the Lebanese multi-confessional context. It questions the issue of filiation and its relation to the religious, the social or the community, in a restricted territory where the personal status is the responsibility of each religious community. It raises the question of whether the coexistence of diverse family models lies in the plural forms of filiation’s establishment or, conversely, on a common ethos shared by Lebanese families on “making family”. This thesis first focuses on the issue of abandoned children. By giving us access to its archives, one of the oldest religious congregation in Beirut allowed us to collect and analyse data on a century of activity (1852-1953). This analysis provides information on the management of disaffiliation, children’s placement and adoption in the particular historical and geographical context of Lebanon: from its Ottoman domination to its independent status, through a French mandate that redrawn its borders. It, therefore, informs on a geographical and cultural area where the knowledge on the subject is limited. The second part of this thesis is an observation on the “search of the origins” and its implications: reunion, “reconnection” or creation of relationship with the family of origin. The biographical elements open the discussion on the place of the author as both author-researcher and object of his research. Overall, the narrative of this journey is at the crossroads of reflexive ethnography and the anthropology of kinship. We have qualified it as an inquiry "by relatedness", to designate a posture that goes beyond the double movement of "familiarization" and "distancing"
Books on the topic "Failed adoptions"
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Juntumaa, Miira. Putting consumers' IT adoption in context: Failed link between attitudes and behavior. Aalto University, School of Economics, 2011.
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Rosengren, Eric S. Failed bank resolution and the collateral crunch : the advantages of adopting transferable puts. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1992.
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Green, Kim. Finding Home: Walking Surrendered Through Terminal Cancer and Failed Adoption. Morgan James Publishing, 2020.
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Soderlund, Jean R. Quaker Women in Lenape Country. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814221.003.0013.
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This chapter examines the central role of Quaker women during the years 1675–1710 in developing the first colony founded by members of the Society of Friends in North America. As individuals, women Friends helped to fashion a multicultural society consistent with Quaker beliefs in religious liberty and pacifism by maintaining amicable relations with the Lenape Indians and non-Quaker European settlers. At the same time, however, Friends failed to acknowledge the inconsistency of exploiting enslaved African Americans with Quaker ideals. As leaders of the Salem, Burlington, Chesterfield, and Newton (later Haddonfield) monthly meetings, Quaker women also helped to shape West New Jersey society by strengthening rules of discipline to prevent their children and other Friends from marrying non-Quakers and adopting ‘outward vanities’.
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Jonathan, Bonnitcha, Skovgaard Poulsen Lauge N, and Waibel Michael. 8 Politics of Investment Treaties in Developing Countries. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198719540.003.0008.
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This chapter addresses the puzzle of why developing countries have so enthusiastically embraced investment treaties. For while investment treaties are formally reciprocal, foreign investment between developed and developing countries has traditionally flowed primarily from the former to the latter. It evaluates three potential explanations for why developing countries adopted the treaties—(i) investment promotion; (ii) promoting or tying in domestic reforms; and (iii) diplomatic and symbolic reasons. We then examine an important cross-cutting issue: the role of expertise. Regardless of the objectives that developing countries sought to achieve by adopting investment treaties, many failed to appreciate the risks and implications of the treaties. The chapter concludes by examining recent developments—including the newfound role of some developing countries as seeking rights for ‘their’ investors abroad.
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Caplan, Richard. Humanitarian Intervention. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190851163.003.0008.
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States – Western ones, at least – have given increased weight to human rights and humanitarian norms as matters of international concern, with the authorization of legally binding enforcement measures to tackle humanitarian crises under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. These concerns were also developed outside the UN Security Council framework, following Tony Blair’s Chicago speech and the contemporaneous NATO action over Kosovo. This gave rise to international commissions and resulted, among other things, in the emergence of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) doctrine. The adoption of this doctrine coincided with a period in which there appeared to be a general decline in mass atrocities. Yet R2P had little real effect – it cannot be shown to have caused the fall in mass atrocities, only to have echoed it. Thus, the promise of R2P and an age of humanitarianism failed to emerge, even if the way was paved for future development.
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Reiser, Dana Brakman, and Steven A. Dean. Prioritizing Mission with a Mission-Protected Hybrid. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190249786.003.0003.
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This chapter describes how state legislatures could create a legal form of organization to brand trustworthy social enterprises. It identifies the two key components of such an organizational form, and explains how to implement them. It asserts that to brand adopting entities as trustworthy social enterprises, statutes must mandate that they prioritize social good. This will distinguish adopting entities from traditional for-profits and nonprofits, and enable reliable enforcement by identifying their primary objective. The chapter also argues that an effective legal form must contain multiple layers of enforcement. Along with adaptations of familiar disclosure requirements and litigation rights, it proposes a provocative new enforcement tool. If a social enterprise sheds the new form prematurely, or fails to meet its requirements, a percentage of its assets would be directed to a charity. Accepting the diversion of organizational assets to a mission-driven counterpart powerfully signals entrepreneurs’ and investors’ commitment.
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Ayyar, R. V. Vaidyanatha. The Blitzkrieg That Turned into a Stalemate (Kapil Sibal’s Tenure). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474943.003.0016.
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This chapter describes the extraordinary efforts made by Kapil Sibal to reform almost every aspect of education, and his refreshing courage in advocating polices shunned by the political class such as promotion of private participation, and encouraging reputed foreign institutions to establish campuses in India. It describes the successes he achieved like enactment of the RTE Act, and the heroic failure to enact as many as six acts which would have totally restructured the policy and regulatory framework of higher education. By focusing on the process and politics of policymaking it brings out that the failure was mainly due to strategic and tactical mistakes, and adopting a no-holds barred adversarial approach that is eminently appropriate in a courtroom is utterly inappropriate in policymaking. All in all, Sibal’s achievements and failure offer valuable lessons for policy entrepreneurship. It also describes the failed efforts of the Health Ministry to establish the National Commission for Human Resources for Health as a super-regulator in Medical Education in place of multiple regulatory authorities like the Medical Council, Dental Council and so on.
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Moeckli, Daniel, Helen Keller, and Corina Heri, eds. The Human Rights Covenants at 50. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825890.001.0001.
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Half a century ago, on 16 December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). While the adoption of the twin Covenants was celebrated all over the world, their fiftieth anniversary has received very little attention from the international community. This book marks this anniversary by taking stock of the first half-century of the existence of what are probably the world’s two most important human rights treaties. It does so by reflecting on what the Covenants have achieved (or failed to achieve) in the years that have passed, determining and comparing their current influence in the various regions of the world, and assessing their potential roles in the future. The book contains papers presented during a symposium held in Zurich in 2016, which brought together experts and stakeholders from a range of disciplines and world regions. Some fundamental issues addressed by the contributors are as old as the two Covenants themselves. They concern, for example, the division of human rights into first- and second-generation rights, and the question of whether there should be one central monitoring body—possibly a world court—or more than just one. Other important questions dealt with are how the Covenants should be interpreted and who is bound by them. However, the contributors go beyond such questions, which have been explored before; they develop new answers to old questions and point to new challenges.
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Wangui, Edna. Adaptation to Current and Future Climate in Pastoral Communities Across Africa. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.604.
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Pastoralists around the world are exposed to climate change and increasing climate variability. Various downscaled regional climate models in Africa support community reports of rising temperatures as well as changes in the seasonality of rainfall and drought. In addition to climate, pastoralists have faced a second exposure to unsupportive policy environments. Dating back to the colonial period, a lack of knowledge about pastoralism and a systemic marginalization of pastoral communities influenced the size and nature of government investments in pastoral lands. National governments prioritized farming communities and failed to pay adequate attention to drylands and pastoral communities. The limited government interventions that occurred were often inconsistent with contemporary realities of pastoralism and pastoral communities. These included attempts at sedentarization and modernization, and in other ways changing the priorities and practices of pastoral communities.The survival of pastoral communities in Africa in the context of this double exposure has been a focus for scholars, development practitioners, as well as national governments in recent years. Scholars initially drew attention to pastoralists’ drought-coping strategies, and later examined the multiple ways in which pastoralists manage risk and exploit unpredictability. It has been learned that pastoralists are rational land managers whose experience with variable climate has equipped them with the skills needed for adaptation. Pastoralists follow several identifiable adaptation paths, including diversification and modification of their herds and herding strategies; adoption of livelihood activities that did not previously play a permanent role; and a conscious decision to train the next generation for nonpastoral livelihoods. Ongoing government interventions around climate change still prioritize cropping over herding. Sometimes, such nationally supported adaptation plans can undermine community-based adaptation practices, autonomously evolving within pastoral communities. Successful adaptation hinges on recognition of the value of autonomous adaptation and careful integration of such adaptation with national plans.
Book chapters on the topic "Failed adoptions"
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Ward, Harriet, Lynne Moggach, Susan Tregeagle, and Helen Trivedi. "The Children." In Outcomes of Open Adoption from Care. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76429-6_3.
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AbstractThe children’s early experiences provide a context for assessing subsequent outcomes. Data collected from case files and records presented to the courts show that before separation from birth parents, almost all 210 adoptees had experienced serious and often multiple forms of maltreatment; this was the primary reason for removal. Before entering their adoptive homes, 69% of the adoptees had had four or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), 32% had experienced failed reunifications and 48% had had three or more foster placements. Adverse childhood experiences before entry to care, harmful experiences in care and repeated exposure to grief and loss are likely to have contributed to the high prevalence of emotional and behavioural difficulties, displayed by 49% of the adoptees. According to our classification, 57% were at high risk of experiencing adverse outcomes in adulthood.
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Mathur, Purushottam Narayan. "Implications of Adopting Modern Technology." In Why Developing Countries Fail to Develop. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21343-6_14.
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O’Gorman, Francis. "Endless Breath? The Pipe Organ and Immortality." In The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_15.
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AbstractThe fantasy of never running out of breath has long been alluring. But in the nineteenth century, the idea acquired a distinctive form of material reality. The pipe organ, existing at least from the ancient Greeks, has often been described as figuratively having lungs. But with the adoption of water/gas then electric-powered organ blowers in the nineteenth century, the organ, theoretically, could provide that which nothing else could: breath that could go on for ever. This essay explores two forms of poetic and narrative reflection on the new powers of the organ’s lungs. First, it considers writing that responded to the apparent instrument of endless breath by reinforcing the organ’s association with the eternal. Second, the essay examines writers who thought precisely the opposite and who acknowledged that, if new organ blowing technology implied unexpendable breathing, the reality—amid failed turbines, broken wind supplies, and insufficient power—reminded the listener of the grave.
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Carroll, Noel, Finn Olav Bjørnson, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Knut-Helge Rolland, and Kieran Conboy. "Operationalizing Agile Methods: Examining Coherence in Large-Scale Agile Transformations." In Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58858-8_8.
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Abstract Following the highly pervasive and effective use of agile methods for software development, attention has now turned to the much more difficult challenge of applying these methods in large scale, organization-wide development. However, identifying to what extent certain factors influence success and failure of sustaining large-scale agile transformations remains unclear and there is a lack of theoretical frameworks to guide such investigations. By adopting Normalization Process Theory and specifically ‘coherence’, we compare two large-scale agile transformation case studies and the different perspectives individuals and teams had when faced with the problem of operationalizing the agile method as part of their large-scale agile transformation. The key contributions of this work are: (i) this is a first attempt to present the results of a comparison between a successful and failed large-scale agile transformations; and (ii) we describe the challenges in understanding the rationale, differences, value, and roles associated with the methods to support the large-scale agile transformation. We also present future research for practitioners and academics on large-scale agile transformation.
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Ford, Jacqueline Y. "When the System Fails." In Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0228-9.ch007.
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Guided by the lens of psychodynamic theory, Ford (2015) investigated the challenges faced by adoptive families of traumatized children. Fifteen families were randomly selected to participate in this study from a group of 30 parents who adopted traumatized children in Arizona. Thematic categories were drawn and summarized. Textual descriptions evolved from the thematic groups acknowledging their experiences and how these lived experiences guided their decision to adopt a traumatized child. Verification techniques, data mining, journaling, clustering, brainstorming, and peer reviews were used to ensure the quality of data. Emergent themes emphasized the need for adoption-focused training specific to traumatized children. Ford's (2015) study revealed that these adoptive families desired to be equipped with specialized therapeutic training before and after their adoptions.
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Davey, Bill, and Arthur Tatnall. "School Management Software in Australia and the Issue of Technological Adoption." In Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6126-4.ch010.
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Approaches to innovation adoption often fail to explain why similar technologies in a single environment can have very different adoption outcomes. In this chapter, the single environment of education management systems in one country (Australia) are used to show how outcomes of similar technologies can be very different. An Actor-Network approach is used to explain how some technologies succeeded and others failed. Understandings reached in this case illuminate the power of the approach that includes listening to the technological actors in addition to the human. The chapter identifies actors and interactions and shows the connection between those interactions and the final outcomes of the innovations.
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Bala, Hillol, Anne P. Massey, and Christine J. Hsieh. "A Multimethod Study of Enterprise Social Media Implementation and Use." In Technology Adoption and Social Issues. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5201-7.ch039.
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Enterprise social media (ESM) are web-based platforms dedicated to corporate-based communication and collaboration. Although the practitioner literature and industry reports have suggested the potential value of ESM for organizations, there has been limited research that focuses on employees' reactions to ESM implementation and their post-implementation use behaviors. The authors conducted a mixed methods study of a large-scale ESM implementation in a Fortune 500 manufacturing company and found that widely used IT adoption models and determinants failed to explain employees' ESM use. To help explain this paradoxical finding, the authors leveraged their qualitative data and found several major challenges, both internal and external, that the company faced during ESM implementation. Their findings have a number of generalizable lessons for practice as well as implications for research.
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Rabe, Barry G. "Why Carbon Pricing Has Often Failed." In Can We Price Carbon? The MIT Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262037952.003.0003.
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This chapter examines nearly two decades of experience (1997-2015) in federal and sub-federal governments in the United States and Canada but also European and Asian nations in attempting to adopt carbon pricing. It explores various stages of the policy life-cycle and concludes that there are many points that challenge the adoption and durability of these policies. Even in cases where a policy is approved, its launch process, survival through a subsequent election and change of leadership, and management over the longer term can pose great challenges, frequently resulting in an erosion of support and reversal of policy. Enduring those stages of the life cycle is no guarantee that a surviving policy actually succeeds in reducing emissions in a cost-effective manner.
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Pinchevski, Amit. "Introduction:The Mediation of Failed Mediation." In Transmitted Wounds. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190625580.003.0003.
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In 1995 Binjamin Wilkomirski published a book that was to become a source of fierce controversy. Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood recounts Wilkomirski’s experiences of surviving alone two concentration camps as a small Jewish child from Poland. Having lived most of his life as Bruno Dössekker, the adopted son of a Swiss couple, Wilkomirski claimed to have discovered his true identity through a long psychoanalytic process, which led to writing his story. The book quickly received popular and critical acclaim and won a number of literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award. What happened next is fairly well known: a 1998 newspaper article cast doubt as to the authenticity of Wilkomirski’s account, revealing instead the story of a Bruno Grosjean, the illegitimate son of an unmarried woman who had given him away for adoption in Switzerland. The book’s publisher then commissioned a historian to look into the allegations, which were consequently found to be correct. The book previously described as “achingly beautiful” and “morally important” was now declared as fake and its author a fraud. The Wilkomirski case has since figured in debates on Holocaust memory as a cautionary tale about the facility with which one can pass as a survivor— and convince a worldwide audience. The book was discontinued as memoir only later to be released in tandem with the historical study finding it false. While Wilkomirski’s memories may have been fabricated, the way they were depicted in the book is a fairly accurate description of traumatic memory. Even if the content of these memories is made- up their structure very much conforms to a psychology textbook entry on post- trauma. Evidently Wilkomirski was aware of this fact, as in the afterword to the book, he urges others in a similar situation to “cry out their own traumatic childhood memories.”
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Sharan, Vedmani. "Governing E-Government (E-Governance)." In Stakeholder Adoption of E-Government Services. IGI Global, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-601-5.ch009.
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Public administrators face considerable challenges in their quest of reforming government. E-government initiatives are tiny steps taken in the above-mentioned direction. Various e-government initiatives have been categorically documented in the IS and NPM literature. However, a majority of these projects are either still underway or have failed due to the lack of a proper governance framework. The existing body of research on governance of e-government largely focuses on technological aspects. It has not put much emphasis on institutional structures such as control and monitoring, accountability, and responsibility that are antecedents to good governance. Moreover, a majority of existing models are conceptual in nature. They do not offer any mechanism whatsoever to operationalize the concept of governance for e-government. In this chapter, the authors propose a framework of operationalizing governance of e-government at the municipal level. The proposed framework is based on the RASCI model prevalent in the practitioner literature of the IS paradigm. Finally, the framework is linked with key performance indicators in order to validate it against set objectives of good governance.
Conference papers on the topic "Failed adoptions"
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Neuhoff, John G. "Is Sonification Doomed to Fail?" In ICAD 2019: The 25th International Conference on Auditory Display. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21785/icad2019.069.
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Despite persistent research and design efforts over the last twenty years, widespread adoption of sonification to display complex data has largely failed to materialize, and many of the challenges to successful sonification identified in the past persist. Major impediments to the widespread adoption sonification include fundamental perceptual differences between vision and audition, large individual differences in auditory perception, musical biases of sonification researchers, and the interdisciplinary nature of sonification research and design. The historical and often indiscriminate mingling of art and science in sonification design may be a root cause of some of these challenges. Future sonification design efforts that explicitly strive to meet either artistic or scientific goals may lead to greater clarity and success in the field and more widespread adoption of useful sonification techniques.
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Aleksandrov, Andrey. "FOR THE FAILED DIGITALIZATION OF THE EMPLOYMENT DOCUMENTATION AND THE JUSTICE ON LABOR DISPUTES AND THE DAMAGES SUFFERED BY THE SOCIETY FROM THIS." In THE LAW AND THE BUSINESS IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY 2020. University publishing house "Science and Economics", University of Economics - Varna, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36997/lbcs2020.338.
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Still slow and uncertain, but still tangible, our labor legislation is beginning to recognize the benefits of digitizing labor law documentation - speed, security, economy, etc. The most important step in this direction was the adoption of the Ordinance on the type and requirements for the creation and storage of electronic documents in the employment file of the employee in 2018. However, are the administrative and judicial practice ready for such a "revolution"? From today's point of view, the possible conclusions do not seem promising.
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Wullems, Christian, and Anjum Naweed. "Low-Cost Railway Level Crossings: Breaking Down the Barriers." In 2014 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2014-3808.
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Level crossing risk continues to be a significant safety concern for the security of rail operations around the world. Over the last decade or so, a third of railway related fatalities occurred as a direct result of collisions between road and rail vehicles in Australia. Importantly, nearly half of these collisions occurred at railway level crossings with no active protection, such as flashing lights or boom barriers. Current practice is to upgrade level crossings that have no active protection. However, the total number of level crossings found across Australia exceed 23,500, and targeting the proportion of these that are considered high risk (e.g. public crossings with passive controls) would cost in excess of AU$3.25 billion based on equipment, installation and commissioning costs of warning devices that are currently type approved. Level crossing warning devices that are low-cost provide a potentially effective control for reducing risk; however, over the last decade, there have been significant barriers and legal issues in both Australia and the US that have foreshadowed their adoption. These devices are designed to have significantly lower lifecycle costs compared with traditional warning devices. They often make use of use of alternative technologies for train detection, wireless connectivity and solar energy supply. This paper describes the barriers that have been encountered for the adoption of these devices in Australia, including the challenges associated with: (1) determining requisite safety levels for such devices; (2) legal issues relating to duty of care obligations of railway operators; and (3) issues of Tort liability around the use of less than fail-safe equipment. This paper provides an overview of a comprehensive safety justification that was developed as part of a project funded by a collaborative rail research initiative established by the Australian government, and describes the conceptual framework and processes being used to justify its adoption. The paper provides a summary of key points from peer review and discusses prospective barriers that may need to be overcome for future adoption. A successful outcome from this process would result in the development of a guideline for decision-making, providing a precedence for adopting low-cost level crossing warning devices in other parts of the world. The framework described in this paper also provides relevance to the review and adoption of analogous technologies in rail and other safety critical industries.
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Lynne Markus, M., and Terry Connolly. "Why CSCW applications fail: problems in the adoption of interdependent work tools." In the 1990 ACM conference. ACM Press, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/99332.99368.
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Weerakkody, Niranjala. "Technology and Marginalization: A Case Study of the Limited Adoption of the Intranet at a State-owned Organization in Rural Australia." In InSITE 2004: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2755.
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Taking a critical theory approach and the pluralist view of technology, this paper examines the problems in organizational communication that arose due to the implementation of a limited intranet electronic mail system as the main channel of communication between a rural state-owned organization and its city-based Head Office, installed at the sole discretion of the latter. The intranet was provided only to the administration division and managers of some units due to financial constraints. This required others to receive information carried via the intranet through a gatekeeper who due to information and work overload, failed to disseminate the information effectively and efficiently. Using a combination of qualitative data collection methods, this study found that the intranet had marginalized those without access to it and reinforced the privileged position of those already with higher status within the organization, contrary to the utopian predictions of new technologies as leading to social equality.
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Pilsudski, Thibault, Si Ying Tan, Devisari Tunas, Fabien Clavier, Andrew Stokols, and Araz Taeihagh. "The shift towards smart cities in Southeast Asian cities." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/uvxt9843.
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Smart cities utilise technological and digital solutions to resolve urban issues, to enhance accessibility of services, and increase the quality of life (ASEAN, 2018). In 2018, Singapore leveraged its ASEAN presidency to initiate the ASEAN Smart Cities Network to develop a collaborative forum to improve translation of smart technologies between ASEAN cities by exploring potential synergies and complementarities, developing tailored action plans and sharing best practices. However, the translation, adoption and implementation of technologies across unique geographical, developmental and governance contexts vary substantially (Taeihagh, 2017). Without sufficiently understanding these variations, the translation process will likely fail. To understand these variations and their implications for city governance, we seek to unpack the different institutional forces that shape the adoption and implementation of such technologies. The paper aims therefore to identify key aspects of urban governance that guide the adoption and implementation of smart city technologies, by questioning (1) the drivers for smart city adoption, (2) the origin of policy ideas, (3) the factors hindering or facilitating their local translation, and (4) the impact of smart city development on city-level governance. This paper is part of an ongoing research on smart cities in Indonesia.
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Rao, Prahalad K., Zhenyu Kong, Chad E. Duty, and Rachel J. Smith. "Three Dimensional Point Cloud Measurement Based Dimensional Integrity Assessment for Additive Manufactured Parts Using Spectral Graph Theory." In ASME 2016 11th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2016-8516.
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The ability of additive manufacturing (AM) processes to produce components with virtually any geometry presents a unique challenge in terms of quantifying the dimensional quality of the part. In this paper, a novel spectral graph theory (SGT) approach is proposed for resolving the following critical quality assurance concern in AM: how to quantify the relative deviation in dimensional integrity of complex AM components. Here, the SGT approach is demonstrated for classifying the dimensional integrity of standardized test components. The SGT-based topological invariant Fiedler number (λ2) was calculated from 3D point cloud coordinate measurements and used to quantify the dimensional integrity of test components. The Fiedler number was found to differ significantly for parts originating from different AM processes (statistical significance p-val. < 1%). By comparison, prevalent dimensional integrity assessment techniques, such as traditional statistical quantifiers (such as mean and standard deviation) and examination of specific facets/landmarks failed to capture part-to-part variations, and thus proved incapable of ranking the quality of test AM components in a consistent manner. In contrast, the SGT approach was able to consistently rank the quality of the AM components with a high degree of statistical confidence independent of sampling technique used. Consequently, from a practical standpoint, the SGT approach can be a powerful tool for assessing the dimensional integrity of AM components, and thus encourage wider adoption of AM capabilities.
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Raheem, Luqman, and Nasir Durid. "The impact of the regional factor in the democratic transition A comparative study between the experiences of Spain 1975 and Iraq 2003." In REFORM AND POLITICAL CHANGE. University of Human Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/uhdiconfrpc.pp126-148.
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The regional factor has always played an important role in the political developments of various countries and political experiences, as this factor constituted the role of the direct incubator for all the successful and failed experiences of political development throughout our time. The process of democratization is considered one of the most important political experiments of our time, which gained wide momentum after the Second World War. Especially after the peoples of the world realized the importance and preference of this system compared to the rest of the political systems. After the end of the Cold War, the world witnessed a remarkable trend towards liberal democracy, exhilarated by the euphoria of the victory of the Western camp led by the United States of America over its eastern historical opponent (led by the Soviet Union). Liberal democracy and its sovereignty over the world, rather they unleashed an unbridled optimism that says: ""The peoples and societies of the world are moving towards adopting the model of liberal democracy, because it is the model most responsive to the aspirations of human freedom and the release of his energies.
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Forbes, Hannah, Dirk Shaefer, Murtuza N. Shergadwala, and Jitesh H. Panchal. "Investigating the Challenges of Crowdsourcing for Engineering Design: An Interview Study With Organizations of Different Sizes." In ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2020-22466.
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Abstract Crowdsourcing has been identified as a valuable paradigm in the open design movement. In engineering design, it offers various benefits, such as the generation of diverse ideas and the involvement of consumers. Despite the potential benefits, there are many ways in which crowdsourcing initiatives may fail. An example of such a failure is when a previously successful initiative for a large organization fails to attract a suitable number of participants with diverse expertise for a start-up. Consequently, the start-up does not receive good sets of ideas, both in quantity and variety. Such failures of crowdsourcing initiatives are common due to the lack of appropriate design of crowdsourcing initiatives based on the organizational characteristics such as its size. While frameworks and guidelines exist for the design of crowdsourcing initiatives, whether these are useful for all sizes of organizations, is yet to be determined. Large organizations such as Procter & Gamble and NASA, now conduct crowdsourcing initiatives regularly. Furthermore, start-ups are emerging that leverage crowdsourcing as an integral part of their business model. On the contrary, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have fallen behind in the adoption of crowdsourcing processes. In this paper, we aim to identify the challenges associated with crowdsourcing and how and whether these differ according to organizational size. We present the results of an interview study with industry professionals from five organizations of varying sizes, and yield key challenges associated with the application of crowdsourcing. This paper discusses suggested support mechanisms for crowdsourcing in SMEs and directions for further research for crowdsourcing in engineering design.
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Buckley, Penelope. "A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies on Residential Consumer Experience with Smart Meters and Dynamic Pricing." In MOlecules and Materials for the ENergy of TOMorrow. MSH Paris-Saclay Éditions, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52983/yfcz6955.
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La littérature qualitative concernant l’étude de l’expérience des consommateurs avec les compteurs intelligents, ainsi que les incitations qui y sont associées, est analysée afin d’identifier les barrières à leur acceptation et à leur adoption. L’acceptation est un élément clé car les ménages doivent d'abord être prêts à installer des compteurs intelligents chez eux. L'adoption permet quant à elle de savoir si ces dispositifs peuvent être efficaces. Parmi les barrières identifiées, il y a le fait que les ménages ne font pas confiance aux compagnies d'énergie. Ils ne savent pas comment agissent les compteurs intelligents et comment ils peuvent les utiliser à leur profit. Ils trouvent que la tarification dynamique est complexe et lorsqu'ils ont le choix, peu d’entre eux optent pour cette tarification. L’effet sur la consommation de ces dispositifs est souvent de courte durée, les économies monétaires étant rarement suffisamment élevées pour encourager des changements de comportement persistants et les ménages étant contraints de faire un feedback selon leur niveau de confort personnel – sur lequel ils ne sont pas prêts à faire des compromis – et les rigidités de leur vie quotidienne. Grâce à cette analyse, différents segments cibles de consommateurs de ces compteurs intelligents sont identifiés.
Reports on the topic "Failed adoptions"
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Flagg, Melissa, and Jack Corrigan. Ending Innovation Tourism: Rethinking the U.S. Military’s Approach to Emerging Technology Adoption. Center for Security and Emerging Technology, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51593/20210030.
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As dual-use technologies transform the national security landscape, the U.S. Department of Defense has established a variety of offices and programs dedicated to bringing private sector innovation into the military. However, these efforts have largely failed to drive cutting-edge commercial technology into major military platforms and systems. This report examines the shortcomings of the DOD’s current approach to defense innovation and offers recommendations for a more effective strategy.
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Mpofu, David, Michael Ndiweni, Kwanele Moyo, Samuel Wadzai, and Marjoke Oosterom. Youth Active Citizenship for Decent Jobs: A Handbook for Policy & Practice. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2022.017.
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This Handbook has been created for development partners and civil society actors that design and implement youth employment interventions, particularly in contexts marked by fragility and political-economic crises. Youth employment programmes usually strengthen young people’s business and entrepreneurship skills. They fail to consider the civic and political competencies needed by young people in order to negotiate fair, safe, and decent working conditions and influence the wider policy environment for decent work. The Handbook offers suggestions for integrating youth active citizenship strategies into youth employment interventions, thus building young people’s civic and political skills. Adopting these strategies will strengthen the capacities of young people to engage both private sector and government actors, foster inclusion, and strengthen coalitions that can influence a enabling environment for decent jobs for youth. Recognising that many young people start their trade and businesses in theinformal economy, the Handbook takes their experiences as the point of departure. It is widely recognised that political economy matters for development and development interventions. This also applies to youth employment programming. Ideas in this Handbook recognise that politics influence youth employment opportunities. This is particularly the case in contexts commonly referred to as fragile, conflict-affected and violent settings (FCVS). Approaches to youth employment interventions need to respond to these dynamics to avoid that powerful actors capture them to serve their interests and avoid increasing risks to conflict. Moreover, the Covid-19 pandemic has proved that fragility is multidimensional and manifests in many countries across the globe. Early on in the pandemic, it quickly became clear that the informal economy would be hard hit. In addition, the challenging politics of FCVS influence opportunities for both formal and informal employment.