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Vukmirović, Dragan, and Dejana Kresović. "The transformative potential of generative artificial intelligence." Napredak 5, no. 2 (2024): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/napredak5-52069.
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This paper analyses the transformative potential of generative artificial intelligence at macro, meso, and micro levels of social and economic structures. The aim is to determine the impact of these technologies on various aspects of society and economy, including business operations and the labour market. The potential of new technologies to increase productivity, transform business models, and create new professional roles has been examined through a comprehensive analysis of data and studies. It has been concluded that generative artificial intelligence can fundamentally change the labour market, globally increase gross domestic product, and improve both the public and private sectors. The paper provides insights into future trends and regulatory and structural changes that are necessary for optimising the application of generative AI.
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Serpa, Sandro, Ljubisa Micic, Anđelka Štilić, and Zoran Mastilo. "Sociology of Artificial Intelligence for Social Sustainability in the Digital Age." Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 14, no. 1 (2025): 37. https://doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2025-0003.
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Sociology offers a valuable lens through which to examine the societal transformations taking place in the age of artificial intelligence. By analysing micro-, meso- and macro-social levels, sociology can shed light on how AI affects processes such as socialisation, education, training, employment, communication, leisure and work. Furthermore, the impact of AI on social sustainability is a critical concern. This paper proposes a reflexive analysis of the sociology of AI to explore its potential contributions to social sustainability in the digital age. It considers the challenges associated with accessing and promoting digital literacy for AI, both as consumers and producers. It also considers the implications for sociology as a scientific discipline, encompassing both research methodologies and the products of inquiry. Through this analysis, the paper seeks to provide insights into how the sociology of AI can contribute to a more sustainable society in the digital age, and to identify the obstacles that need to be overcome to achieve this goal. Received: 22 May 2024 / Accepted: 22 December 2024 / Published: 11 January 2025
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LaPalme, Matthew L., Sigal G. Barsade, Marc A. Brackett, and James L. Floman. "The Meso-Expression Test (MET): A Novel Assessment of Emotion Perception." Journal of Intelligence 11, no. 7 (2023): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11070145.
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Emotion perception is a primary facet of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and the underpinning of interpersonal communication. In this study, we examined meso-expressions—the everyday, moderate-intensity emotions communicated through the face, voice, and body. We theoretically distinguished meso-expressions from other well-known emotion research paradigms (i.e., macro-expression and micro-expressions). In Study 1, we demonstrated that people can reliably discriminate between meso-expressions, and we created a corpus of 914 unique video displays of meso-expressions across a race- and gender-diverse set of expressors. In Study 2, we developed a novel video-based assessment of emotion perception ability: The Meso-Expression Test (MET). In this study, we found that the MET is psychometrically valid and demonstrated measurement equivalence across Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White perceiver groups and across men and women. In Study 3, we examined the construct validity of the MET and showed that it converged with other well-known measures of emotion perception and diverged from cognitive ability. Finally, in Study 4, we showed that the MET is positively related to important psychosocial outcomes, including social well-being, social connectedness, and empathic concern and is negatively related to alexithymia, stress, depression, anxiety, and adverse social interactions. We conclude with a discussion focused on the implications of our findings for EI ability research and the practical applications of the MET.
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Rahmawati, Fiqih. "Collaboration of Artificial Intelligence and Journalists in Online Media from the Perspective of Human-Machine Communication." Kalijaga Journal of Communication 6, no. 1 (2024): 103–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/kjc.61.06.2024.
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This study aims to analyze the collaboration between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and journalists in online media using the Human-Machine Communication (HMC) approach. The research method used is a literature study. Data is processed using Miles and Huberman data analysis techniques. The results of this study indicate that AI is used in three primary stages of journalism: news gathering, news production, and news distribution. At the news gathering stage, AI assists journalists in collecting news materials from various sources and analyzing audience interest in specific topics. AI is used in news script creation, editing, and proofreading at the news production stage. AI chatbots and NLP programs help with automatic news writing and factual verification. Meanwhile, at the news distribution stage, AI is used for content personalization, news recommendations, and SEO optimization in online media. From the HMC perspective, collaboration between AI and journalists can be conceptualized as a unidirectional and two-way process. Collaboration between AI and journalists in a social context also occurs at the micro, meso, and macro levels, where interactions between humans and machines affect the social situation, the immediate reality of individuals, and the structure of society as a whole.
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SHCHERBAKOVA, ELENA SERGEEVNA, and ALEKSEY IVANOVICH SHINKEVICH. "TRENDS IN THE SUCCESS OF STARTUPS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES IN STIMULATING INNOVATION WITHIN THE «SIX-SPIRAL» MODEL." MANAGING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, no. 2 (2025): 12–24. https://doi.org/10.55421/2499992x_2025_2_12.
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In order to identify global trends in economic development and the transition to Industry 5.0, the Russian economic system is tested at three levels: macro, meso and micro in five planes: country, industry, region, system element and client. At the country level, Russia's profile is visualized based on seven areas according to the methodology of the Global AI Index, posted on the UK news portal Tortoise Media for 62 countries, in terms of innovation, investment and implementation. For the second level, light industry was selected as one of the promising sectors of the Russian economy. The innovation ecosystem at the regional level is revealed through new key elements within the framework of the strategy for the socio-economic development of the Republic of Tatarstan until 2030: market, social and personnel opportunities, financial, non-financial and «soft» support measures. The next level - «system element» is limited to student startups financed from 2022 to 2024 by the Russian Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology...
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Mykhalchuk, Nataliya, and Eduard Ivashkevych. "Psycholinguistic Features of the Development of Social Intelligence of the Teacher." PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 23, no. 1 (2018): 242–57. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1211618.
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The authors of the research worked out the structure of the teacher’s social intelligence, identified and substantiated psychological determinants for the development of personal qualities of teachers, the peculiarities of using by the teachers the cognitive styles of activities which would determine the high level of the development of social intelligence. It was shown that a social intelligence of a teacher was a complex personality neoplasms, which contained cognitive, systemic and integral substructures. Systemic substructures are communicative and prognostic competences which in their turn contain integral components, in particular, mechanisms of anticipation, decentralization, intellectual initiation, decision-making, planning, control and self-control, reflection and etc. At the same time, the communicative competence and the ability of a teacher that are a part of substructure of cognitive competence of a specialist are presented, first of all, on the micro-level of social intelligence (the ability to understand and to predict the effects of the behaviour of people, the ability to summarize logically important features and various nonverbal reactions of a person; the ability to understand changes in verbal reactions of a person depending on the context of social situation, which caused them; the ability to understand the logic of the development of the situation of interpersonal interaction, the importance of the behavior of different people in these situations, and also a personal and intellectual reflection). Meanwhile, the prognostic competence and empathy are presented on the meso-level, whereas the mechanisms of anticipation, decentralization, intellectual initiation, decision-making, planning, control and self-control, reflection, etc., ensuring the functioning of social intelligence, are on the macro-level.
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Wilkens, Uta. "Artificial intelligence in the workplace – A double-edged sword." International Journal of Information and Learning Technology 37, no. 5 (2020): 253–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijilt-02-2020-0022.
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PurposeThe aim of this paper is to outline how artificial intelligence (AI) can augment learning process in the workplace and where there are limitations.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a theoretical-based outline with reference to individual and organizational learning theory, which are related to machine learning methods as they are currently in use in the workplace. Based on these theoretical insights, the paper presents a qualitative evaluation of the augmentation potential of AI to assist individual and organizational learning in the workplace.FindingsThe core outcome is that there is an augmentation potential of AI to enhance individual learning and development in the workplace, which however should not be overestimated. AI has a complementarity to individual intelligence, which can lead to an advancement, especially in quality, accuracy and precision. Moreover, AI has a potential to support individual competence development and organizational learning processes. However, a further outcome is that AI in the workplace is a double-edged sword, as it easily shows reinforcement effects in individual and organizational learning, which have a backside of unintended effects.Research limitations/implicationsThe conceptual outline makes use of examples for illustrating phenomenon but needs further empirical analysis. The research focus on the meso level of the workplace does not fully refer to macro level outcomes.Practical implicationsThe practical implication is that it is a matter of socio-technical job design to integrate AI in the workplace in a valuable manner. There is a need to keep the human-in-the-loop and to complement AI-based learning approaches with non-AI counterparts to reach augmentation.Originality/valueThe paper faces workplace learning from an interdisciplinary perspective and bridges insights from learning theory with methods from the machine learning community. It directs the social science discourse on AI, which is often on macro level to the meso level of the workplace and related issues for job design and therefore provides a complementary perspective.
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Amran, Alfian. "The Role of Intelligence in Mitigating the Covid-19 Pandemic in the South Sumatera Province." Dinasti International Journal of Management Science 6, no. 2 (2024): 309–15. https://doi.org/10.38035/dijms.v6i2.3683.
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The problem of this thesis is what the provincial government's policies and the role of intelligence are in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic in South Sumatra. To analyze the problem, Ryan Nugroho's public policy theory is used, which states that public policy consists of macro, meso and micro policies. Analyzing the role of intelligence using Biddle and Thomas consists of four dimensions, namely the people who take part in social interactions, the behavior that appears in these interactions, position and relationships. Qualitative research methods were used to collect data with sources from the Governor of South Sumatra, Head of the Health Service, Head of BNPB, Regents and Mayors, Hospital Leaders, District Heads and Village Heads, Head of South Sumatra BINDA, KABAGDUKOPS and members of POSDASouth Sumatra Province's policy takes the form of macro policy, namely Law of the Republic of Indonesia number 17 of 2023 concerning health. Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 1 of 2020 concerning State Financial Policy and Financial System Stability. South Sumatra province's meso policy in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic refers to the Republic of Indonesia Minister of Health Regulation number 23 of 2023 concerning guidelines for handling the 2019 corona virus disease (COVID- 19), South Sumatra governor's regulation number 37 of 2020 concerning guidelines for adapting new habits to society productive and safe in the situation of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) in South Sumatra Province, and micro policies ensure that economic transactions continue to run by implementing health protocols, the Governor of South Sumatra also invites Regents and Mayors to continue to facilitate community activities while adhering to health protocols. The active intelligence role played by KABINDA, KABAGDUKOPS and BINDA SUMSEL in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic, mass vaccination activities and providing mask assistance shows BIN's involvement in supporting the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Novolodskaya, Galina. "Reproduction of Competitive Human Capital as a Factor of Ensuring Russia's Economic Security in the Global Economy." Baikal Research Journal 14, no. 3 (2023): 1128–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2411-6262.2023.14(3).1128-1142.
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The growing interest in the study of the reproduction of competitive human capital is caused by the destabilization of the political, social and economic situation in the world in the conditions of pandemics and the sanctions policy of the countries of the «golden billion». The implementing of artificial intelligence leads to the reduction of even the elite layer in the labor market, such as IT specialists. Enterprises of basic industries and related industries face a decrease in demand and reduce staff. The digitization of processes results in personnel reductions in sectors that provide financial, informational, and other services. Job cuts — reduction in disposable income — reduction in demand — reduction in economic growth — reduction in investment resources and opportunities: all this requires the search for new levers to improve efficiency and life security. The analysis of modern economic scientific literature shows an underestimation of the reproduction characteristics of a specific factor and investment resource — a person, his creative component in the process of its productive use. The reproductive perspective allows for the alignment of interests among all parties involved in the production process within a company, the creation of value-added chains at regional and national levels, and serves as a key factor in increasing their competitiveness in global markets. This approach fits well with the search for mechanisms to ensure economic security at all three levels: micro, meso and macro in the global economy of a multipolar world.
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Qin, Wenke, Wenpeng Li, Zhuohao Zhang, Weiya Chen, and Min Wan. "Landscape Character Classification with a Deep Neural Network: A Case Study of the Jianghan Plain." Land 13, no. 12 (2024): 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land13122024.
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Grounded in the theoretical and methodological frameworks of landscape character identification from the European Landscape Map (LANMAP) and landscape character assessment (LCA), this study developed an AI-based tool for landscape character analysis to classify the Jianghan Plain’s landscape more effectively. The proposed method leveraged a deep learning model, the artificial intelligence-based landscape character (AI-LC) classifier, along with specific naming and coding rules for the unique landscape character of the Jianghan Plain. Experimental results showed a significant improvement in classification accuracy, reaching 89% and 86% compared to traditional methods. The classifier identified 10 macro-level and 18 meso-level landscape character types within the region, which were further categorized into four primary zones—a lake network river basin, a hillfront terrace, surrounding mountains, and a lake network island hill—based on natural and social features. These advancements contributed to the theoretical framework of landscape character assessment, offering practical insights for landscape planning and conservation while highlighting AI’s transformative potential in environmental research and management.
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Domegan, Christine, Patricia McHugh, Brian Joseph Biroscak, Carol Bryant, and Tanja Calis. "Non-linear causal modelling in social marketing for wicked problems." Journal of Social Marketing 7, no. 3 (2017): 305–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsocm-02-2017-0007.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show how non-linear causal modelling knowledge, already accumulated by other disciplines, is central to unravelling wicked problem scoping and definition in social marketing. Design/methodology/approachThe paper is an illustrative case study approach, highlighting three real-world exemplars of causal modelling for wicked problem definition. FindingsThe findings show how the traditional linear research methods of social marketing are not sensitive enough to the dynamics and complexities of wicked problems. A shift to non-linear causal modelling techniques and methods, using interaction as the unit of analysis, provides insight and understanding into the chains of causal dependencies underlying social marketing problems. Research limitations/implicationsThis research extends the application of systems thinking in social marketing through the illustration of three non-linear causal modelling techniques, namely, collective intelligence, fuzzy cognitive mapping and system dynamics modelling. Each technique has the capacity to visualise structural and behavioural properties of complex systems and identify the central interactions driving behaviour. Practical implicationsNon-linear causal modelling methods provide a robust platform for practical manifestations of collaborative-based strategic projects in social marketing, when used with participatory research, suitable for micro, meso, macro or systems wide interventions. Originality/valueThe paper identifies non-linear causality as central to wicked problem scoping identification, documentation and analysis in social marketing. This paper advances multi-causal knowledge in the social marketing paradigm by using fuzzy, collective and interpretative methods as a bridge between linear and non-linear causality in wicked problem research.
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Zhang, Shitao, Chun Chu-ke, Hyunjoo Kim, and Changqiang Jing. "Public View of Public Health Emergencies Based on Artificial Intelligence Data." Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2022 (August 5, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/5162840.
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In the current environment where the network and the real society are intertwined, the network public view of public emergencies has involved in reality and altered the ecology of communal public views in China. A new online court of influence has been created, and it affected the trend of events. As the main type of public emergencies, public health emergencies are directly related to people’s health and life insurance. Therefore, the public often pays special attention. At present, correct media guidance plays an irreplaceable and important role in calming people’s hearts and stabilizing social order. If news and public view are left unchecked, it is likely to cause panic among the people. However, in reality, public view research has always been a research object that is difficult to intelligentize and quantify. Based on such a realistic background, the article conducts a research on public view of public health emergencies based on artificial intelligence data analysis. This study designs an expert system for network public view and optimizes the algorithm for the key problem: SFC deployment. Finally, the system was put into real news and public opinion research on new coronavirus epidemic prevention, and experimental tests were carried out. The experimental results have shown that in the new coronavirus incident, the nuclear leakage incident, and the epidemic prevention policy, the data obtained by the public through the Internet are 50%, 68.06%, and 64.35%, respectively. For the system function in this study, both ICSO and IPSO are far better than the optimization results of CSO and PSO. For most of the test functions, IPSO is better than ICSO’s optimization results, which better fulfills the needs of the research content. This study will make an in-depth analysis of the evolution process of online public opinion on public emergencies from the macro-, meso-, and micro-perspectives, in order to analyze the dissemination methods and internal evolution mechanism of various public emergencies of online public opinion, which provides countermeasures and suggestions for the government to guide and manage network public opinion.
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Ahmad, Tanvir, Eyner Arturo Aliaga Lazarte, and Seyedali Mirjalili. "A Systematic Literature Review on Fake News in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Can AI Propose a Solution?" Applied Sciences 12, no. 24 (2022): 12727. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app122412727.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an incredible amount of fake news and conspiracy theories around the world. Calls for the integration of COVID-19 and fake news-related research have been advanced in various fields. This paper aims to unpack a structured overview of previous research topics and findings and identify gaps. Our goal in this systematic review is to (a) synthesize the selected earlier studies, (b) offer researchers a structural framework for future COVID-19 and fake news research, and (c) recommend relevant areas for future research. In this study, we focus on eighty conceptual and empirical studies on misinformation of COVID-19-related news on social media. We identify vital publications and methodological and theoretical approaches that exist in the COVID-19 literature. The articles were systematically analyzed, focusing on the research context and time frame, data collection/analysis procedures, and equivalence issues. While COVID-19 research has been advancing significantly over the past couple of months, numerous questions remain unexplained in the domain of the social media landscape. For example, our review suggests that researchers should begin to concentrate on a process framework blending Artificial Intelligence (AI) to curb the fake news problem. This can be achieved in all three phases, e.g., the study of individual decisions and experiences, the experiences of groups and organizations and the interactions between them, and finally, the interactions at the broadest level (micro, meso, and macro stages).
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Baum, Tom, Shelagh K. K. Mooney, Richard N. S. Robinson, and David Solnet. "COVID-19’s impact on the hospitality workforce – new crisis or amplification of the norm?" International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 32, no. 9 (2020): 2813–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-04-2020-0314.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hospitality workforce in situ between mid-April and June 2020. Design/methodology/approach This is a viewpoint paper that brings together a variety of sources and intelligence relating the impacts on hospitality work of the COVID-19 pandemic at three levels: macro (global, policy, government), meso (organisational) and micro (employee). It questions whether the situations faced by hospitality workers as a result of the pandemic are seed-change different from the precarious lives they normally lead or just a (loud) amplification of the “normal”. Findings In light of the fluid environment relating to COVID-19, conclusions are tentative and question whether hospitality stakeholders, particularly consumers, governments and the industry itself, will emerge from the pandemic with changed attitudes to hospitality work and hospitality workers. Practical implications This raises questions about hospitality work for key stakeholders to address in the future, some of which are systemic in terms of how precarious labour forces, critical to the global economy are to be considered by policy makers, organisations in a re-emerging competitive market for talent and for those who chose (or not) to work in hospitality. Social implications This paper contributes to ongoing debates about precarious work and the extent to which such practices are institutionalised and adopts an “amplification model” that may have value in futures-orientated analysis about hospitality and tourism. Originality/value This paper is wholly original and a reflection on the COVID-19 crisis. It provides a point of wider reference with regard to responses to crises and their impact on employment in hospitality, highlighting how ongoing change, fluidity and uncertainty serve to magnify and exacerbate the precarious nature of work in the industry.
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Gladiy, M. V., M. G. Porhun, O. V. Kruglyak, I. S. Martynyuk, N. M. Chornoostrovets, and M. B. Kulakova. "ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES OF PROFITABLE USE DAIRY GENETIC RESOURCES IN UKRAINE." Animal Breeding and Genetics 62 (December 8, 2021): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.31073/abg.62.06.
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The current situation in the dairy sector of Ukraine has become threatening to the economic security of the state. During the years of independence there was a significant reduction in the number of dairy herds (from 8.5 million to 1.7 million), the production structure of dairy cattle changed from mainly large-scale production (where 74% of cows were kept in agricultural enterprises in 1990) to small-scale one (when now 75% of cows are kept in households). Due to the systematic reduction of the dairy herd and the reduction of its own full-fledged fodder base because of the reorientation of the agricultural sector to more marginal crops, the gross production of raw milk and its receipt for industrial processing is reduced. On average, milk production in Ukraine decreases annually by 1.5%.
 The purpose of the article is to form scientific and methodological approaches to the profitable use of genetic resources of dairy farming in Ukraine in modern conditions. Research methods: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, classification), content analysis of scientific sources and legal documents, statistical, economic and mathematical.
 Research results. The situation in the industry is currently showing signs of a systemic crisis, when negative phenomena have spread to all levels of economic activity. Therefore, there is a need for a comprehensive analysis of the current state of the industry to identify factors and reserves to increase the profitability of the use of genetic resources of dairy farming, which is proposed to be carried out in stages: 1) economic assessment of the effectiveness of the dairy industry at the macro level of economic activity (in the country, region); 2) at the meso level (by breed of genetic resources of livestock); 3) at the micro level (in economic entities (agricultural enterprise, peasant (farmer) economy, personal economy)).
 The use of genetic resources of dairy farming can be considered profitable when all the above parameters of efficiency are achieved at the macro-, meso- and micro-levels of economic activity. This comprehensive approach makes it possible to draw conclusions about the achievement of individual targets (production, economic, social, environmental, etc.) and the prerequisites for ensuring the sustainability of the dairy industry as a whole.
 Ensuring the sustainability of the industry as a production system requires a focus on key areas: management system, breeding work, technology of maintenance and feeding. The introduction of the achievements of modern selection science is especially noticeable in the system of measures to ensure profitable livestock farming. It is the parameters that describe the stable properties of the animal, characterize the genetically determined resource potential, which has a decisive influence on the implementation of all other types of resources involved in production (land, labor, intelligence, capital) and the degree of their payback. Therefore, an important area of state support for the profitability of the use of genetic resources of dairy farming should be the financial support of the national breeding system.
 Growth of milk production in a short time can be achieved in the largesale sector by increasing the number of dairy cows of specialized breeds with high genetic productivity potential, which is positive in terms of modern intensive technologies, economic efficiency, attractive investment.
 Conclusions. Ensuring the sustainable development of the industry in condition of livestock reduction requires a comprehensive analysis of its current state, which must be conducted at all levels of economic activity to identify factors and reserves to increase the profitability of the use of genetic resources of dairy cattle. The criteria for the effectiveness of the development of the dairy industry is the achievement of both individual parameters (production, economic, social, environmental, etc.) and its stability as a whole.
 In the system of measures to ensure the profitable use of genetic resources of dairy farming is important to implement the achievements of modern breeding science. This parameters that describe the stable properties of the animal, characterize the genetically determined resource potential, which has a decisive influence on the implementation of all other types of resources involved in production (land, labor, intelligence, capital) and the degree of their payback. Therefore, an important area of state support for the profitability of the use of genetic resources of dairy farming should be the financial support of the national selection system.
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Sætra, Henrik Skaug. "A Framework for Evaluating and Disclosing the ESG Related Impacts of AI with the SDGs." Sustainability 13, no. 15 (2021): 8503. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13158503.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) now permeates all aspects of modern society, and we are simultaneously seeing an increased focus on issues of sustainability in all human activities. All major corporations are now expected to account for their environmental and social footprint and to disclose and report on their activities. This is carried out through a diverse set of standards, frameworks, and metrics related to what is referred to as ESG (environment, social, governance), which is now, increasingly often, replacing the older term CSR (corporate social responsibility). The challenge addressed in this article is that none of these frameworks sufficiently capture the nature of the sustainability related impacts of AI. This creates a situation in which companies are not incentivised to properly analyse such impacts. Simultaneously, it allows the companies that are aware of negative impacts to not disclose them. This article proposes a framework for evaluating and disclosing ESG related AI impacts based on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The core of the framework is here presented, with examples of how it forces an examination of micro, meso, and macro level impacts, a consideration of both negative and positive impacts, and accounting for ripple effects and interlinkages between the different impacts. Such a framework helps make analyses of AI related ESG impacts more structured and systematic, more transparent, and it allows companies to draw on research in AI ethics in such evaluations. In the closing section, Microsoft’s sustainability reporting from 2018 and 2019 is used as an example of how sustainability reporting is currently carried out, and how it might be improved by using the approach here advocated.
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Serpa, Sandro, and Carlos Miguel Ferreira. "Micro, Meso and Macro Levels of Social Analysis." International Journal of Social Science Studies 7, no. 3 (2019): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v7i3.4223.
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Micro, meso and macro are levels or scales that can and may be mobilised in social analysis. This paper aims to contribute to the reflection and discussion, in particular, of the use of the meso level in the apprehension of social reality, in its potential advantages and disadvantages. For this purpose, a document collection and selection was carried out. Furthermore, the authors’ experience in teaching and research in social sciences, especially in the area of Sociology, was also used. This analytical exercise allows concluding that the meso-social level is mobilised in some perspectives, focusing in a privileged way on the group or the organisation as a structure and intermediate process between the other two levels. As for implications, it may be asserted that the meso level only has heuristic capabilities in the interpretation of a particular social context if the other two levels are not neglected in the analysis.
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Daellenbach, Kate, Ciahn Dalgliesh-Waugh, and Karen A. Smith. "Community resilience and the multiple levels of social change." Journal of Social Marketing 6, no. 3 (2016): 240–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsocm-06-2015-0032.
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Purpose This study aims to better understand the micro–meso–macro perspective in social marketing, through the examination of a transformative, primarily meso-level initiative aimed at developing more resilient communities in the face of disaster. Design/methodology/approach Research was oriented around two cases of community resilience planning. Relevant documents were reviewed, and a series of semi-structured interviews with the manager and advisors in an emergency management office were conducted, followed by in-depth interviews with 15 individual community participants. Findings The findings suggest a multilevel (micro–meso–macro) model of social change, incorporating fluid and interactive movement between the levels. In the context examined, community leaders were initially motivated to be involved due to their role, sense of altruism and curiosity. Their motivation to continue was encouraged, as misconceptions around emergency response were addressed and the value of community connections was highlighted. As planning progressed, greater involvement and empowerment resulted. Research limitations/implications This study is limited in its focus on two communities, and the context of emergency preparation and response. However, it contributes insights into a leading initiative designed to help build community resilience and insights into a micro–meso–macro perspective of social change. Practical implications The study also suggests that social marketers, when implementing a meso-level initiative, will benefit from considering multiple levels, seeking the involvement and cooperation of meso-level leaders which will help facilitate downstream change. Originality/value Contributing to the discussion of the micro–meso–macro levels of social marketing, this research examines disaster preparation and response – a context not frequently examined in social marketing. Findings suggest that interactive, multi-level thinking, especially considering the individual implementers of meso-level change as a “target market”, will benefit social well-being initiatives.
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Bower, Marlee, Eleisha Lauria, Olivia Green, et al. "The Social Determinants of Loneliness During COVID-19: Personal, Community, and Societal Predictors and Implications for Treatment." Behaviour Change 40, no. 1 (2023): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bec.2023.3.
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AbstractObjectiveThe COVID-19 pandemic dramatically altered social determinants of health including work, education, social connections, movement, and perceived control; and loneliness was commonly experienced. This longitudinal study examined how social determinants at the personal (micro), community (meso), and societal (macro) levels predicted loneliness during the pandemic.MethodsParticipants were 2056 Australian adults surveyed up to three times over 18 months in 2020 and 2021. Multi-level mixed-effect regressions were conducted predicting loneliness from social determinants at baseline and two follow-ups.ResultsLoneliness was associated with numerous micro determinants: male gender, lifetime diagnosis of a mental health disorder, experience of recent stressful event(s), low income, living alone or couples with children, living in housing with low natural light, noise, and major building defects. Lower resilience and perceived control over health and life were also associated with greater loneliness. At the meso level, reduced engagement with social groups, living in inner regional areas, and living in neighbourhoods with low levels of belongingness and collective resilience was associated with increased loneliness. At the macro level, increased loneliness was associated with State/Territory of residence.ConclusionsTherapeutic initiatives must go beyond psychological intervention, and must recognise the social determinants of loneliness at the meso and macro levels.
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Verharen, Lisbeth, Mariël Van Pelt, Ilse Menheere, Nicole Moorman, and Richard Sleegers. "SWAN: SOCIAL WORK AT ALL LEVELS. DESIGNING A TOOL FOR MULTILEVEL INTERVENTION." Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice 32, no. 3 (2023): 25–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.54431/jsi.747.
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Social workers focus on changes and improvements in people’s social functioning and the social quality of society. To do so, they intervene at different levels: individuals and households (micro), groups, neighbourhoods and communities (meso), and organisations and policies (macro). Opportunities for multilevel interventions are under-utilized in the Netherlands, as social workers mainly focus on the micro level. Researchers from HAN and Movisie were asked to develop a tool which supports decision making on various intervention levels. In a design-oriented study, together with social workers, they developed SWAN (Social Work at All Levels): a conversational guide in the form of a card set, based on the theory of social quality and the decisive professional model. This tool is designed to help social workers look more broadly at a practice situation, recognise points of intervention at different levels, choose between interventions at these levels, and to justify their choices. Although social workers can use SWAN to identify intervention opportunities at all levels, it is not yet clear whether this actually leads to more interventions at meso and macro level.
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Ooms, Linda, Mette van Kruijsbergen, and Dorine Collard. "Can Health-Enhancing Sporting Programs in Sports Clubs Lead to a Settings-Based Approach? An Exploratory Qualitative Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 11 (2021): 6082. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116082.
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There is limited knowledge about how a settings-based approach can be best applied in a sports club setting. This qualitative exploratory study examined whether and how sporting programs focusing on individual behavior change (i.e., increasing physical activity levels of inactive people) and implemented on the micro-level of the sports club, can be a first step towards a settings-based approach (i.e., inclusion of the meso- and macro-level of the sports club). In addition, this study explored factors that influenced the inclusion of the meso- and macro-level of the sports club. Telephone interviews were conducted with representatives of sixteen sports clubs about program activities on all levels of the sports club. Thematic analyses were performed to explore stimulating and hindering factors. After multiple years, six sports clubs also had program activities on the meso-level and twelve sports clubs had activities on the macro-level. Program activities differed per level within a sports club and on the same level between sports clubs. Cultural and social factors influenced macro-level activities, while predominantly economic factors influenced meso-level activities. Based on these factors, sports clubs could develop, prioritize, and choose strategies that support them in developing a settings-based approach when increasing physical activity levels of inactive citizens.
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Justsinta Sindi Alivi, Rym Boudjouada, and Hajar Nurma Wachidah. "Understanding Language Teachers’ ICT Uptake from Ecological Perspectives." Journal of Contemporary Islamic Education 4, no. 1 (2024): 103–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.25217/jcie.v4i1.4387.
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 This paper summaries factors affecting teachers’ decision to use ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in teaching modern languages. This paper tries to understand the teachers’ ICT uptake from ecological perspective discussing that teachers’ attitudes are influenced by environments in different levels (e.g. micro, meso, macro). In this paper, the environments refer to micro as teacher, meso as institution, and macro as beyond institution levels. Teacher levels define the aspects related to teachers’ psychological and demographic characteristics. Institutions levels describe the teachers’ decision from the influence of support and social circle in the institution. Beyond institution levels discuss the influence from wider environments such as government and public demand.
 
 
 
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Karakachanov, A. "INTEGRATIVE THEORY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT." Scientific heritage, no. 135 (April 23, 2024): 44–50. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11044736.
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This article presents the main provisions of the Integrative Theory of Social Development, the purpose of which is to propose a general model of changes in society, covering all its levels. It is the desire to embrace the development of society as an integral process at three levels - macro-, meso- and micro- - that defines it as integrative. The latter involves the inclusion of three more theoretical constructs that explain the specifics of processes at these levels.
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Nahorna, Nadiia. "Analysis of factors of students' psychological readiness for social entrepreneurship." Організаційна психологія Економічна психологія 33, no. 3-4 (2024): 145–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.31108/2.2024.3.33.13.
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Introduction. Student's psychological readiness for social entrepreneurship takes place mainly at the university. This process is influenced by factors of different levels and types. Aim. Based on the analysis of scientific sources, to determine the levels and characteristics of the factors in students' psychological readiness for social entrepreneurship. Methods. Theoretical analysis, systematization and generalization of scientific literature on the research problem. Results. Students' psychological readiness for social entrepreneurship is influenced by macro-, meso- and micro-level factors. The macro-level factors include non-psychological factors (legal support for social entrepreneurship; social activities of non-governmental organizations; tax policy and economic freedom; state regulation of social entrepreneurship development) and psychological factors (students' knowledge of the role of social entrepreneurship and attitudes towards it; Ukrainians' war-related values and the need for work for victory). The meso-level factors include non-psychological factors (support of international programs; digital transformation of education and social entrepreneurship; close cooperation with university stakeholders and promotion of social entrepreneurship) and psychological factors (organizational development and organizational culture of the university). The micro-level factors include non-psychological factors (students' social and demographic characteristics; students' organizational and professional characteristics) and psychological factors (students' economic and psychological characteristics). Conclusions. Students' psychological readiness for social entrepreneurship is influenced by three-level factors, which can be both psychological and non-psychological. The knowledge of the macro-level factors can be helpful in understanding the general trends and the role of various stakeholders in the development of social entrepreneurship, as well as in developing social awareness and values of social entrepreneurship and spreading its positive experience. The meso-level factors are related to the work and atmosphere of the university as an educational organization. The meso-level factors are related to the work and organizational culture of the university, while the micro-level factors are about students' personal characteristics and experience.
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Koutroukis, Theodore, Dimos Chatzinikolaou, Charis Vlados, and Victoria Pistikou. "The Post-COVID-19 Era, Fourth Industrial Revolution, and New Globalization: Restructured Labor Relations and Organizational Adaptation." Societies 12, no. 6 (2022): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc12060187.
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This paper explores the directions of adaptation for socioeconomic organizations in the current global crisis and restructuring. We carry out an integrative and critical review, presenting the main questions—and possible directions of response—concerning how the post-COVID-19 era, the fourth industrial revolution, and new globalization seem to affect contemporary labor relations. We focus on the different levels of their manifestation (macro, meso, and micro levels), emphasizing worsening inequality trends in the work environment and the resulting organizational readaptation that seems to be required nowadays. The restructured labor markets can benefit from the diffusion of institutional innovations based on integrated social partnership schemes at the macro–meso–micro levels. We emphasize organizational adaptation at the microlevel, as the innovation and change management mechanisms it enables, presupposes, and harnesses are imperative for exiting any crisis.
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Suzuki, Naofumi. "A Capability Approach to Understanding Sport for Social Inclusion: Agency, Structure and Organisations." Social Inclusion 5, no. 2 (2017): 150–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i2.905.
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Despite the global diffusion of the term social inclusion, as well as the use of sport to promote it, questions have been raised regarding the extent to which sport is able to contribute to transforming the exclusive nature of the social structure. The lack of analytical clarity of the concept has not helped to address these questions. This article proposes a conceptual framework based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach, considering social exclusion as the denial of social relations that leads to serious deprivation of important capabilities. A person’s capabilities could potentially be improved through micro-, meso-, and macro-level social processes. At the micro level, sport-based social inclusion programmes could offer such social relations to varying degrees, though sport’s values are only relative to other leisure activities. The scale of impact depends primarily on the meso-level processes, in which the size and quality of each programme can be improved through organisational learning, and secondarily on the macro-level processes whereby the organisational population is institutionalised. It is argued that more research needs to be done on the meso and macro levels, as they are concerned with the ultimate potential of sport to facilitate structural transformation towards more socially inclusive society.
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TOPALOVA, I. A. "MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS PROCESSES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CYBERPHYSICAL SYSTEMS AT THE MESO LEVEL." Economic innovations 24, no. 3(84) (2022): 111–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2022.24.3(84).111-120.
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Topicality. In the conditions of total digitalization in the world, the use of the latest technologies and their implementation in all spheres of human life, conducting business processes under the influence of cyber-physical systems, switching thinking to the formation of a "social society", new approaches to the management of physical and living labor, the development of adaptive management mechanisms business processes, which requires a new understanding of the economic activity itself and the participation of human potential in this process, the management of business processes acquires special importance.Aim and tasks. The purpose of this work is the formation of a system characteristic of business process management of entrepreneurial structures under the influence of cyber-physical systems at the meso-level. This goal made it possible to formulate the following tasks: to determine the management of business processes at three levels: enterprise, territorial organization (region), state; carry out modeling of business processes by chains: "Subject-Subject", "Subject-Market of resource-raw material base, products and services", "Subject-State"; consider modern technologies that are the basis of cyber-physical systems.Research results. This article determines that modern authors have not sufficiently developed the issue of managing business processes under the influence of cyber-physical systems at the regional level. It has been proven that the region as a socio-economic system is identified with the formation of a business process, since sub-processes, operations; functions are performed, which occur sequentially, interact with each other and must be balanced. The economic justification of business processes is given, based on the following provisions: creation of value, target receipt of results, definition of business process boundaries, interaction of participants and their adaptation, responsibility and delegation of powers within the process, involving the latest information and communication technologies, functional support and savings of existing potential. The system vision of business process management at the meso-level is considered from the position of: the enterprise; territorial organization; of the state, which will allow to more clearly and concretely carry out economic processes of entrepreneurial activity and adapt to external influences.A conceptual approach to the management of business processes at the meso-level, based on the system-activity approach and under the influence of cyber-physical systems, is proposed and substantiated according to three models: "Subject-Subject", where processes, sub-processes, functions, operations are defined from the point of view of the enterprise , tasks; "Subject-Market of the resource base, products and services", where administrative regulations, regulation and coordination of the economic activity of all subjects of the territorial entity are formed from the point of view of the territorial organization; "Subject-State", where, from the position of the state, relationships are established with all participants in business processes and state authorities, business processes between regions and countries are formed.The types of technologies used in the implementation of business processes are given, namely: Big data and analytics, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, Block chain, cloud solutions, simulations and stimulators, 3D printing, virtual and augmented reality, robotics.Conclusion. Interrelationships arise between the subjects of business processes at the meso-level, in which there is a clearly defined coordinator (head, center, regional and local bodies) of management and, accordingly, participants, whose interaction allows: to carry out the transformation of the value proposition (development of technologies, software, modeling and prognostication); improve the operational model (implementation of systems, robots, devices); change the internal infrastructure (data processing based on analytical knowledge and implementation of New Practices); to build relationships with clients at a higher quality level (upgrading staff qualifications and acquiring new competencies); reduce costs (Big data, cloud solutions, 3D printing); increase productivity (collection and exchange of data, analysis, calculation, evaluation of options). The impact of cyber-physical systems on the management of business processes allows changing some elements and the process itself to adapt to today's requirements.
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Mann, Stefan. "Synthesizing Knowledge about Structural Change in Agriculture: The Integration of Disciplines and Aggregation Levels." Agriculture 11, no. 7 (2021): 601. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11070601.
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It is common sense that it needs social and economic perspectives to understand structural changes in agriculture. The current study asserts that, likewise, the integration of the farm level (micro), the sectoral level (meso), and the societal level (macro) are needed to gain insight into the system of agricultural structures. Following a review of the literature, these three levels were integrated in a cycle in which the interdependencies between different units of analysis were evaluated. The study concludes that it enhances the understanding of structural change on each level if the other levels are also taken into account. It therefore contributes not only to the literature on agriculture, but also to the discussion about the rationale of an analytical meso-level between the analysis on micro- and macro-levels.
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Rodriguez, Sophia, Benjamin J. Roth, and Leticia Villarreal Sosa. "“Immigration Enforcement Is a Daily Part of Our Students’ Lives”: School Social Workers’ Perceptions of Racialized Nested Contexts of Reception for Immigrant Students." AERA Open 8 (January 2022): 233285842110731. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23328584211073170.
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This qualitative analysis examines school social workers’ equity work for immigrant students, including their perceptions of immigration enforcement and school climates that support or hinder immigrant student experiences. We conceptually expand understandings of nested contexts of reception and racialized organizations across macro, meso, micro levels, and how they affect immigrant students’ educational experiences, mobility, and belonging. Utilizing open-ended responses from a unique national survey data set, we examine school social workers’ perceptions of the macro, meso, micro racialized contexts that immigrant students encounter, how school social worker perceptions reflect racial attitudes as part of the racialized organization of schools in which they work, and how such racial attitudes influence their actions and potentially disrupt racial inequality in schools. Discussion of the impact of school social workers’ racial attitudes, and perceptions of racialized contexts and how they influence school social workers’ advocacy for immigrant students is offered.
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Lindgren, Tomas. "Religious Conflicts: Opportunity Structures, Group Dynamics, and Framing." Al-Albab 7, no. 1 (2018): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.24260/alalbab.v7i1.961.
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Explanations of violent religious conflicts usually focus on preconditions, facilitator causes or precipitating events at micro, meso or macro levels of analysis. As social psychology is the scientific study of the ways in which thoughts, feelings, perceptions, motives, and behaviors are influenced by interactions and transactions between groups and individuals, it can increase our understanding of the dynamics of religious conflicts at micro and meso levels. In this paper, I illustrate this point with a discussion of the utility of social movement theory for understanding the dynamics of religious conflicts. Social movement theory locates religious conflicts within broader contexts and complex processes by focusing on the interplay between micro and meso factors and the ways in which people perceive macro factors. Given certain conditions, religion can and often do contribute to collective violence. Religion is rarely, if ever, the main cause of intergroup conflicts, but is often used as an instrument for the mobilization of human and non-human resources. Appeal to religion may help conflicting parties overcome the collective action problem associated with intergroup conflicts. This does not necessarily mean that religious conflicts have unique characteristics or a logic of their own that sets them apart from other types of intergroup conflicts.
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Kussy, Mikhail, and Oleg Korolyov. "Comparative Characteristics of Economy’s Social Attributes of the System Levels of Hierarchy from the Standpoint of Economic and Mathematical Modeling." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Ekonomika, no. 4 (February 2020): 22–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/ek.jvolsu.2019.4.3.
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As a result of the research, the paper shows the essential need to take into account the social attributes of processes and phenomena in economy. From the standpoint of the interdisciplinary approach at various levels of the system three-hierarchy (micro-meso-macro) in economy, the following characteristics of social attributes are considered: “economic agent”, “expectations of the economic agent” and “preferences of the economic agent” taking into account their heteromorphism and heterogeneity, “intersubjective relations in economy”, “trust” between economic agents, “institutions”. The conclusions made as a result of the study make it possible to formulate the concept of selecting tools for economic and mathematical modeling of processes and phenomena at various levels of the system three-hierarchy (micro-meso-macro) in economy. Further studies will make it possible to select the most relevant tools for each level of the system three-hierarchy from the numerous apparatus used to model processes and phenomena in economy taking into account the concept proposed in this paper.
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Budanov, Mykola P. "System-Cluster Approach to Ensuring the Management of Energy Security of Enterprises in the Conditions of Entropy of the External Environment." Business Inform 8, no. 559 (2024): 209–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.32983/2222-4459-2024-8-209-217.
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The relevance of maintaining energy security at a high level is relevant both for the country as a whole at the macro level and for territorial entities of various types in the regions at the meso-level. Particularly acute are the problems associated with the disruption of previously established production relations, non-payments for the supplied energy resources, social and environmental tensions, etc. Under these conditions, great importance is attached to the issues of energy security of enterprises that determine energy security at the macro and meso levels of the economy. The complex structure of electric power systems (ЕPS) necessitates the development of adequate methods for determining their states, so that the measures formed taking into account the analysis carried out have the most optimal effect on changing the situation in a positive direction. The features of the system-cluster approach to ensuring the management of energy security of enterprises on the basis of the formation of energy clusters of the electric power system at the macro-, meso- and micro-levels of the economy are studied. The content of the concept of «energy cluster» is presented in the aspect of studying the problem of ensuring the management of energy security of enterprises of electric power systems at the macro-, meso- and micro-levels of the economy. The prerequisites for the formation of energy clusters are analyzed and the main theoretical approaches to cluster development, reflecting its multiaspectuality, are allocated. The system-cluster approach is considered as a set of measures capable of improving energy security by taking into account the territorial and sectoral relations of enterprises of the electric power system at the macro-, meso- and micro-levels of the economy. Various approaches to the application of system-cluster technologies to ensure the management of energy security of enterprises of electric power systems at the macro-, meso- and micro-levels of the economy are shown and a multi-level system-cluster approach is proposed. The theoretical and applied principles of constructing the configuration of management of the electric power system of the economy as a fractal-cluster object of energy security of enterprises in the conditions of entropy of the external environment on the basis of the system-cluster approach are formed. Scientific approaches to the definition of the concept of «system-cluster approach to ensure energy security management» are analyzed, as well as the author’s own interpretation of the concept of «energy cluster ensuring energy security management of enterprise» is provided.
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Pilati, Katia. "Operativizzare il capitale sociale degli immigrati e delle organizzazioni degli immigrati." SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI, no. 1 (June 2012): 105–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/sp2012-001006.
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The theoretical disorientation concerning the concept of social capital is contrasted with its application to the study of a rich variety of empirical phenomena. Methodologically, social capital has been usefully employed at various analytical levels, micro, meso and macro. The goal of this essay is to emphasize the modalities used to operationalize this concept in the immigration field and so to discuss its impact on immigrants' political integration. Analytically, we will consider two dimensions related to social capital: structure and relationship. Empirically, we will present immigrants' social capital both with respect to its meso level dimension concerning immigrants' organizations and with respect to its individual dimension.
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Mutiara Anggela, Ucha, Erlan Aditya Ardiansyah, and Cipto Wardoyo. "Psychological Effects of Language Manipulation in George Orwell’s Animal Farm: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach." IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature 12, no. 2 (2025): 2141–56. https://doi.org/10.24256/ideas.v12i2.5754.
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Abstract This research examines the psychological effects of language manipulation in George Orwell's Animal Farm using Van Dijk's sociocognitive approach. The study explores how language, through strategic manipulation, reinforces social control and psychological subjugation of characters at three levels: micro, meso, and macro. Using in-depth text reading and analysis methods, this study identifies linguistic structures, character interactions, and ideological constructions that contribute to the psychological effects on animals. At the micro level, word choice and sentence structure shape individual perceptions, instilling fear and encouraging obedience. At the meso level, social interactions between characters display emotional manipulation tactics that reinforce collective loyalty and obedience. The macro level highlights ideological changes in social structures, where language systematically conditions characters to accept unjust hierarchies as natural. These manipulative techniques cumulatively suggest that language functions as a tool of psychological control, influencing both individual cognition and collective behavior.
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Bachika, Reimon, and Markus S. Schulz. "Values and culture in the social shaping of the future." Current Sociology 59, no. 2 (2011): 107–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392110391128.
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This article introduces the Current Sociology monograph issue on Values and Culture. It discusses sociology’s renewed interest in values and the general approach on which the contributors converge despite diverse theoretical backgrounds, areas of focus and social settings. It explains how the studies in this publication contribute to the understanding of the formation and operation of values on micro, meso and macro levels in an increasingly globalized world.
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Villegas-Mateos, Allan, and Mario Vázquez-Maguirre. "Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Upper-Middle-Income Countries: Social Policy and Sustainable Economic Development Implications." Sustainability 16, no. 2 (2024): 729. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16020729.
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This study aims to explore how a region’s degree of vulnerability influences the perceived level of support toward social entrepreneurship from a social entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective. The study of social entrepreneurial ecosystems (SEEs) constitutes a promising area for its potential to support high-impact entrepreneurs, but they are currently underexplored in upper-middle-income countries. This study also combines a macro-level (countries) and a meso-level (vulnerability regions) analysis to better understand how national policies may affect the perceptions of different ‘regions’ and, consequently, sustainable economic development. This study follows principal component analysis and non-parametric statistics to compare the means of the countries and the levels of regions’ vulnerabilities based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s regional data from Chilean (n = 276) and Mexican (n = 188) experts. At the macro level, the results show that experts in Chile have a better perception of social policies for social entrepreneurship than their counterparts in Mexico. At the meso-level, experts in high-vulnerability regions have a better perception of the social ecosystem dynamism than those in the low-vulnerability regions. The results contribute to the urgent dialogue to set up strategies that allow upper-middle-income countries and their regions to achieve greater impact and sustainability.
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van Wijk, Jakomijn, Charlene Zietsma, Silvia Dorado, Frank G. A. de Bakker, and Ignasi Martí. "Social Innovation: Integrating Micro, Meso, and Macro Level Insights From Institutional Theory." Business & Society 58, no. 5 (2018): 887–918. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0007650318789104.
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Social innovations are urgently needed as we confront complex social problems. As these social problems feature substantial interdependencies among multiple systems and actors, developing and implementing innovative solutions involve the re-negotiating of settled institutions or the building of new ones. In this introductory article, we introduce a stylized three-cycle model highlighting the institutional nature of social innovation efforts. The model conceptualizes social innovation processes as the product of agentic, relational, and situated dynamics in three interrelated cycles that operate at the micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis. The five papers included in this special issue address one or more of these cycles. We draw on these papers and the model to stimulate and offer guidance to future conversations on social innovations from an institutional theory perspective.
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Nash, Mary, John Wong, and Andrew Trlin. "Civic and social integration." International Social Work 49, no. 3 (2006): 345–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872806063407.
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English New Zealand research into social work experience with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers supports international claims that a new field of practice is emerging. Migration across frontiers for social, political and economic reasons brings local social workers into contact with clients from all over the world as they struggle to settle into their new communities. Social workers in this field need to be skilled in work at all levels, micro, meso and macro. French Les recherches conduites en Nouvelle Zélande portant sur les expériences de travail social auprès des immigrants, des réfugiés et des demandeurs d'asile supportent les affirmations internationales à savoir qu'un nouveau champ de pratique est en émergence. Les migrations par-delà les frontières nationales pour des raisons sociales, politiques et économiques entraînent des contacts entre des travailleurs sociaux locaux et des clients en provenance du monde entier lorsque ceux-ci tentent de s'établir dans leurs nouvelles communautés. Les travailleurs sociaux dans ce champ de pratique doivent Átre outillés pour travailler à tous les niveaux car les cas qu'ils auront à traiter impliquent du travail à niveaux micro, méso et macro. Spanish La investigación en Nueva Zelanda sobre la experiencia del trabajo social con inmigrantes, refugiados y solicitantes de asilo apoya la creencia internacional que éste es un nuevo campo de práctica. Los movimientos migratorios por razones sociales, políticas, y económicas ponen a los trabajadores sociales locales en contacto con clientes provenientes de todo el mundo mientras éstos luchan por asentarse en sus nuevas comunidades. Los trabajadores sociales en este campo necesitan destrezas en todos los niveles, puesto que los casos frecuentemente necesitarán intervenciones en niveles micro, meso y macro.
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Marzoeva, Angelica V. "The Role of Non-Profit Associations in the Implementation of State Cultural Policy in Relation to Domestic Entrepreneurship." Общество: философия, история, культура, no. 2 (February 21, 2024): 149–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.24158/fik.2024.2.20.
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The article examines the peculiarities of the state cultural policy in relation to domestic private entrepreneur-ship. For their analytical assessment, a conceptual distinction of social interaction at the macro, meso and mi-cro levels is introduced. State policy in the field of entrepreneurship is implemented at the meso-level, where the processes of interaction between communities and organizations take place, as well as their interests and capabilities are manifested. At the same time, public structures act as intermediaries between the state and the microlevel, that is, entrepreneurs and individuals. It is shown that non-profit organizations perform a compensa-tory function in relation to those spheres of sociocultural life of society where the direct impact of the macro-level on the micro-level is difficult, not provided with administrative resources or powers. The author gives an idea of ideally functioning parties, movements and associations in the sociocultural sphere, the interaction of which is based on complementarity, rather than on competition and struggle. Stability of such a social mecha-nism is proposed to be ensured by the creation of a branched public-state structure that collects, processes, disseminates information about socio-cultural processes, problems and vital interests of various social groups at the meso- and microlevels.
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Hammoud, Mohammad, Maha Shuayb, and Maurice Crul. "Determinants of Refugee Children’s Social Integration: Evidence from Lebanon, Turkey, and Australia." Social Sciences 11, no. 12 (2022): 563. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11120563.
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This paper investigates the determinants of refugee students’ social integration in Lebanon, Turkey, and Australia. This paper seeks to understand how legal status and the corresponding length of refugee asylum shape refugee children’s social integration. The three host countries offer refugees different legal statuses ranging from short-term in Lebanon, medium-term in Turkey, and long-term in Australia. Therefore, our data collection covers a sample of 1298 middle school refugee students from all three countries. Our probit regression analysis sheds light on the importance of micro-level factors related to individual and household characteristics and meso-level factors related to school factors shaping refugee students’ social integration. The statistical dominance of meso-level factors indicates that the within-country differences are stronger than the between-country differences, yet it does not rule out the importance of macro policies that indirectly influence refugee students’ social integration by shaping provisions at the micro and meso levels.
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Qiang, Zhang. "Research on the Challenges and Countermeasures of Online Public Opinion under Generative Artificial Intelligence." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 32 (May 28, 2024): 124–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/gjdm0630.
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With the widespread application and sustained impact of AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) technology, exemplified by Chat GPT, the ecology of online public opinion in the field of news communication is undergoing profound changes. The new characteristics of online public opinion, such as massive data, multimodal information, precise dissemination, content confusion, and efficient rate, present challenges including more complex information, emotional dissemination, intricate fields, and difficult judgment and analysis. To address these, responses can be formulated from macro, meso, and micro levels, including accelerating legislative standardization, identifying responsible entities, and enhancing personal literacy, thereby improving the governance capacity of public opinion.
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Huang, Jiamin. "Research on the Talent Training Mode and Path in Continuing Higher Education Based on Digital Reform." Journal of Social Science Studies 8, no. 2 (2022): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jsss.v8i2.19487.
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As the digital reform unfolds at an incredible pace, the continuing higher education faces opportunities to transform and upgrade. Although emerging technologies such as 5G, Internet and artificial intelligence are gaining a foothold in continuing education, the continuing higher education must deal with challenges and issues in education orientation, teaching mode, talent training, etc. There is an urgent need of standardized management, reform and development. This paper aims to establish the accurate orientation and staggered development path for continuing education in colleges and universities on the macro, meso and micro levels. On the macro level, it studies the accurate orientation and staggered development path of continuing education in the digital reform era; on the meso level, it explores the standardized management of continuing higher education and reform measures of digital talent training mode; on the micro level, it discusses how to leverage the advantages in colleges and universities, build role models in digital reform education programs and learning bases, reform the standardized management and talent training mode, and propel the high-quality development of continuing higher education.
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Бельчук, YElyena Byelchuk, Мариен, and Lyudmila Mariyen. "Territorial Organization of Social Services in Central Russia: Shaping Features and Growth Drivers." Economics 2, no. 3 (2014): 22–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/5224.
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The paper considers several issues concerning spatial organization and
 development of social services at both macro- and meso-levels; reveals how
 various social services branches affect economic activities of territories of
 differing ranks, which plays a decisive role in human resources reproduction
 and helps to improve life quality of people, involved directly in shaping human
 capital of the society. The role of Central Russia and its constituent regions in
 shaping and running the national social services system is highlighted; drivers
 of social services territorial organization at the national state nucleus are
 examined. Also the author defines directions for further development of social
 services at the macro-region level, conducive to improving performance within
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Osadcha, Olga, and Svitlana Levytska. "SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL ECONOMICS AS A RESULT OF ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL REFORM IN UKRAINE: ACCOUNTING AND MANAGERIAL APPROACHES." International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (2016): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.3876.
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The article is devoted to the problems of providing a sustainable regional economics, which is a priority when implementing administrative-territorial reform. Indexes of sustainable economic development are given. The accuracy of accounting insights from social, economic and ecological business activity of the entities is pointed out. The sustainable activity of regional social and economic development on micro, meso and macro levels is analyzed, the indexes of accounting and financial reporting are being used.
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Redvers, Nicole, Asiya Odugleh-Kolev, Joanna Paula Cordero, et al. "Relational community engagement within health interventions at varied outcome scales." PLOS Global Public Health 4, no. 6 (2024): e0003193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003193.
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Relational community engagement may be a powerful approach with multiple health outcomes. Relational community engagement has the potential to promote health and involves collaborative efforts between multiple stakeholders. The COVID-19 pandemic further highlighted the centrality of community engagement in health crises. Challenges continue to persist, however, in genuinely engaging and empowering communities for better health outcomes. Understanding the multi-level and complex relational nature of community engagement is essential to comprehend its influence on health at micro, meso, and macro scales of influence. The purpose of this narrative review was to synthesize the literature on relational community engagement within varied health interventions at the three major system levels (micro, meso, and macro) to support the development of future research agendas. At the micro level, relational community engagement interventions demonstrated a range of positive outcomes including: increased sense of control, satisfaction, positive behavior, improved knowledge, behavior change, empowerment, and overall positive health and social outcomes. At the meso level, relational community engagement interventions resulted in increased trust between stakeholders and groups/teams, and increased community senses of ownership of interventions, decisions, structures. At the macro level, relational community engagement interventions influenced broader societal factors and had positive impacts on health policy and governance including collaboration between sectors and communities as well as increased access to services. The review highlights the potential versatility and effectiveness of interventions that prioritize relationships, health promotion, and social change while underscoring the significance of holistic and community-centered approaches in addressing diverse health and social challenges.
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Homan, Patricia. "Structural Sexism and Health in the United States: A New Perspective on Health Inequality and the Gender System." American Sociological Review 84, no. 3 (2019): 486–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0003122419848723.
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In this article, I build a new line of health inequality research that parallels the emerging structural racism literature. I develop theory and measurement for the concept of structural sexism and examine its relationship to health outcomes. Consistent with contemporary theories of gender as a multilevel social system, I conceptualize and measure structural sexism as systematic gender inequality at the macro level (U.S. state), meso level (marital dyad), and micro level (individual). I use U.S. state-level administrative data linked to geocoded data from the NLSY79, as well as measures of inter-spousal inequality and individual views on women’s roles as predictors of physical health outcomes in random-effects models for men and women. Results show that among women, exposure to more sexism at the macro and meso levels is associated with more chronic conditions, worse self-rated health, and worse physical functioning. Among men, macro-level structural sexism is also associated with worse health. However, greater meso-level structural sexism is associated with better health among men. At the micro level, internalized sexism is not related to physical health among either women or men. I close by outlining how future research on gender inequality and health can be furthered using a structural sexism perspective.
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Brush, Candida G., Anne de Bruin, and Friederike Welter. "A gender‐aware framework for women's entrepreneurship." International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 1, no. 1 (2009): 8–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17566260910942318.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to offer a new gender‐aware framework to provide a springboard for furthering a holistic understanding of women's entrepreneurship.Design/methodology/approachThe paper builds on an existing framework articulating the “3Ms” (markets, money and management) required for entrepreneurs to launch and grow ventures. Drawing on institutional theory, it is argued that this “3M” framework needs further development and “motherhood” and “meso/macro environment” are added to extend and mediate the “3Ms” and construct a “5M” framework to enable the study of women's entrepreneurship in its own right.FindingsIt was found that “Motherhood” is a metaphor representing the household and family context of female entrepreneurs, which might have a larger impact on women than men. The meso/macro environment captures considerations beyond the market, such as expectations of society and cultural norms (macro), and intermediate structures and institutions (meso).Practical implicationsFor the women entrepreneur, this analysis has implications for understanding the sources of the challenges they face by providing insights on the importance of the interplay of both individual and societal factors that impact on their enterprise. For policy makers, it turns the spotlight on the need for an integrated approach for fostering female entrepreneurs that is not blind to overarching institutionalised social structures and gender asymmetries.Originality/valueThe framework helps lay a foundation for coherent research on women's entrepreneurship. It is unique in making explicit the social embeddedness of women entrepreneurs and considers the multiple levels of influence on their entrepreneurial actions.
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Amelina, Anna, and Niklaas Bause. "Forced migrant families' assemblages of care and social protection between solidarity and inequality." Journal of Family Research 32, no. 3 (2020): 415–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.20377/jfr-375.
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The article analyses various forms of care and social protection that forced-migrant transnational families exchange despite their individual members living in different countries. It presents outcomes of a small-scale empirical study of the family practices of mobile individuals from Syria and Afghanistan who arrived in Germany during and after the "long summer of 2015". Building on social protection research and transnational care studies, the article introduces the concept of care and protection assemblages, which highlights the heterogeneity, processuality and multi-scalar quality of migrant families’ efforts to improve well-being. It includes an empirical analysis that illustrates key elements of the proposed concept and shows the significance of cross-border circulation of remittances, the selectivity in the cross-border circulation of emotions and limitations on the cross-border circulation of hands-on and practical care. These findings are framed by an analysis of solidarity organizations at the meso-level and (multiscalar) securitized asylum policies at the macro-level in the German context. The proposed conceptual framework takes into consideration migrant families’ simultaneity of solidarity and inequality experiences by locating the examination of family-making at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of analysis.
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Parkinson, Joy, Chris Dubelaar, Julia Carins, Stephen Holden, Fiona Newton, and Melanie Pescud. "Approaching the wicked problem of obesity: an introduction to the food system compass." Journal of Social Marketing 7, no. 4 (2017): 387–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsocm-03-2017-0021.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on food consumption as part of the wicked problem of obesity. Specifically, the authors seek to explore the complex interplay between stakeholders such as food producers, marketers, health and medical practitioners and policymakers and their influence on the ways in which individuals consume food and also chart a course forward using a systems approach, social marketing techniques and social enterprise to develop solutions to effect change. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper that proposes the food system compass to understand the complex interplay between stakeholders. Findings This new tool will provide social marketers with an improved understanding of the complexity of interactions between stakeholders and outcomes and integrating the necessity for coordination within and across micro, meso, exo and macro levels of the system as well as across sectors, institutions and stakeholders. Research limitations/implications This is a conceptual paper and proposes the food system compass which offers a foundation for future research to expand upon. Originality/value This paper seeks to advance the theoretical base of social marketing by providing new insights into the trans-disciplinary and dynamic circumstances surrounding food consumption and obesity and highlights leverage points where joint actions can be facilitated with actors across and between micro, meso, exo and macro levels.
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Kenten, Charlotte, Ana Martins, Lorna A. Fern, et al. "Qualitative study to understand the barriers to recruiting young people with cancer to BRIGHTLIGHT: a national cohort study in England." BMJ Open 7, no. 11 (2017): e018291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018291.
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ObjectivesBRIGHTLIGHT is a national evaluation of cancer services for teenagers and young adults in England. Following challenges with recruitment, our aim was to understand more fully healthcare professionals’ perspectives of the challenges of recruiting young people to a low-risk observational study, and to provide guidance for future recruitment processes.DesignQualitative.SettingNational Health Service (NHS) hospitals in England.MethodsSemistructured telephone interviews with a convenience sample of 23 healthcare professionals. Participants included principal investigators/other staff recruiting into the BRIGHTLIGHT study. Data were analysed using framework analysis.ResultsThe emergent themes were linked to levels of research organisational management, described using the levels of social network analysis: micro-level (the individual; in this case the target population to be recruited—young people with cancer); meso-level (the organisation; refers to place of recruitment and people responsible for recruitment); and macro-level (the large-scale or global structure; refers to the wider research function of the NHS and associated policies). Study-related issues occurred across all three levels, which were influenced by the context of the study. At the meso-level, professionals’ perceptions of young people and communication between professionals generated age/cancer type silos, resulting in recruitment of either children or adults, but not both by the same team, and only in the cancer type the recruiting professional was aligned to. At the macro-level the main barrier was discordant configuration of a research service with a clinical service.ConclusionsThis study has identified significant barriers to recruitment mainly at the meso-level and macro-level, which are more challenging for research teams to influence. We suggest that interconnected whole-system changes are required to facilitate the success of interventions designed to improve recruitment. Interventions targeted at study design/management and the micro-level only may be less successful. We offer solutions to be considered by those involved at all levels of research for this population.