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Whittington, Richard, Eamonn Molloy, Michael Mayer, and Anne Smith. "Practices of Strategising/Organising." Long Range Planning 39, no. 6 (2006): 615–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2006.10.004.
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Larionova, Tat'yana Vladimirovna. "Organising Principles of Verbal Manipulative Communication Practices." Filologičeskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki, no. 5 (May 2020): 261–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2020.5.51.
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Simms, Melanie, and Jane Holgate. "Organising for what? Where is the debate on the politics of organising?" Work, Employment and Society 24, no. 1 (2010): 157–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017010361413.
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Many unions that have adopted ‘new’ organising approaches have tended to see organising as a ‘toolbox’ of practices rather than as having an underpinning political philosophy or objective. Adopting such an approach has left out the fundamental question of what are we1 organising ‘for’? Academics studying these developments have tended to evaluate organising outcomes against whatever objectives unions have set themselves and have not dealt with the question of what organising is and what it is for. It is important to examine the politics and processes underpinning organising activity and to keep in mind these fundamental questions. We (re)examine the political dynamics of organising and argue that there is a need for a more robust notion of power and the centrality of worker self-organisation in organising objectives.
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Celik, Michelle. "Organising a Chambers Information Service." Legal Information Management 22, no. 3 (2022): 126–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1472669622000251.
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AbstractThis article, written by Michelle Celik, outlines some of the working practices for an information professional in a barristers' chambers, highlighting how the culture differs to that of law firms. Michelle describes how the role has evolved since she began working in a set of chambers and the impact that Covid-19 has played on information provision in recent years. She discusses the importance of external libraries to the needs of barristers and her own relationship with the staff within chambers.
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Canella, Gino. "Networked Unionism: Reframing the Labour Movement and Starbucks Workers United’s Hybrid Organising Practices." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 21, no. 1 (2023): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v21i1.1358.
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 Union organising is surging in the United States, especially among younger workers in the service industries. This article examines this uptick in labour organising through a case study of Starbucks Workers United (SBWU). I studied this campaign from March to December 2022 using a variety of online and offline methods: conducting twenty-three in-depth interviews with SBWU organisers; attending strikes, direct actions, and planning meetings; and following these groups on social media. This study addresses two main questions: How are SBWU organisers communicating unionisation with their co-workers and to broader publics? And, how are social media influencing workers’ organising practices? Despite claims that social media are “a great radicalier”, this study demonstrates how workers were politicised by their material conditions in an industrialising workplace. While media helped organisers amplify their messages and recruit new members, the social relationships among organisers were central to SBWU’s early growth. By detailing how organisers navigated the contradictions within networked media, this study shows how worker-led campaigns like SBWU are reshaping the structure and composition of the US labour movement.
 
 
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Cointe, Béatrice, Christophe Cassen, and Alain Nadaï. "Organising Policy-Relevant Knowledge for Climate Action." Science & Technology Studies 32, no. 4 (2019): 36–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.23987/sts.65031.
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Greenhouse gas emission scenarios are key in analyses of human interference with the climate system. They are mainly produced by one category of computer models: Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). We analyse how IAM research organised into a community around the production of socio-economic scenarios during the preparation of the IPCC AR5 (2005-2014). We seek to describe the co-emergence of a research community, its instruments, and its domain of applicability. We highlight the role of the IPCC process in the making of the IAM community, showing how IAMs worked their way to an influent position. We then survey three elements of the repertoire that served to organise collective work on scenarios in interaction with the IPCC and the European Union, and which now frames the community and its epistemic practices. This repertoire needs to articulate epistemic practices with the pursuit of policy relevance, which shows how epistemic communities and patterns of co-production materialise in practical arrangements.
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Yang, Jun. "Participatory, self-organising, and learning." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 32, no. 2 (2020): 327–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.19156.yan.
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Abstract This article presents a case study on communication in online collaborative translation projects, drawing on a community of amateur Chinese translators called Yeeyan. Centring on the concept of ‘translaboration’, the study explores the collaborative dimension of translation by examining conversational discourse during the translation process. It argues that participants play the role not only of translators, but also of translaborators, who self-organise and resolve various kinds of issues through collaboration. The study uses dialogue act analysis and social network analysis to investigate the features and influence of communication that drive and shape translation and other collaborative activities. The findings show that communication can help mitigate organisational and quality risks in online collaborative translation. A learning process embedded in peer communication is also found. The study enriches existing knowledge of translaboration as a model of transdisciplinary research of collaborative practices in multi-agent relationships, collective problem-solving and knowledge communication.
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Bói, Loránd. "Regionalism in the organisation of traffic in Hungary." Acta Agraria Debreceniensis, no. 46 (May 16, 2012): 15–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.34101/actaagrar/46/2400.
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In the member states of the European Union, especially in Germany and Austria, regionalism has a growing importance by the organising of public services. At the field of public transport services the regional organising methods will be realised through the establishment of public transport associations in interest of coordinating the local, suburban and regional public transport interests. In the period since the 90’s there are a not a lot of best practices regarding the regional organisation of public transport services in Hungary. The study goals to present the position of the local and regional interest in the public transport organisation in Hungary, and deals with the reason the lack of best practices also.
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Bodemar, Annika, and Eivind Skille. "‘Stuck in structure’: How young leaders experienced the institutional frames at the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, 2012." International Review for the Sociology of Sport 51, no. 8 (2016): 940–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690214563198.
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The aim of this paper is to explore how young leaders within the Innsbruck Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee experienced the degree of freedom within the institutionalized structure of the International Olympic Committee. Employing a theoretical framework of new institutionalism, a qualitative case study including observations and interviews was conducted. The concept of translation provides a framework for analysing institutional change in organizations, where new ideas are combined with existing institutional practices and translated into new practices to varying degrees. The Innsbruck Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee consisted of young people with experiences from the event industry. This resulted in greater pressure to introduce new institutional solutions to the field. Despite being constrained by coercive pressure from the International Olympic Committee, new innovative elements were translated by the young leaders in the Innsbruck Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee into the International Olympic Committee event. However, the innovations were restricted to areas that the International Olympic Committee defined as less important such as sustainability projects as opposed to important areas like marketing.
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Shaaban, Sumer S. Abu, and Mohamed A. Shaat. "A Scenario-Based Learning Approach for Enhancing Al-Azhar University-Gaza Student-Teachers’ TEFL Practices in Inclusive Education Classes." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 13, no. 4 (2022): 740–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1304.06.
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The present study aimed to reveal the role of scenario-based learning (SBL) approach in enhancing elementary stage student- teachers' TEFL practices in inclusive education classes. The researchers followed a quasi-experimental research design and used the SBL approach with a group of 24 elementary stage student-teachers from Al-Azhar University-Gaza who were enrolled in inclusive education for Grades 1_4 course. The experiment was conducted during the second semester of the academic year 2018_2019 and consisted of 8-hr a week of training for 2 weeks. The participants tackled a set of scenarios and related questions delivered to them. Students had to work in groups of three or four to treat the scenarios that focused on the three main TEFL practices of inclusive education classes: organising class environment, organising special needs students and organising teaching evaluation activities. The researchers designed a test for TEFL practices in inclusive education classes and presented it to student-teachers before and after the experiment. The test was divided into two parts. The theoretical part included 30 TEFL practices in inclusive education classes, and each item included five options for students to choose one. The practical part included two classroom situations and invited students to write a scenario for each one. Results indicate that there are some fundamental bases to be considered when using the SBL, which showed a positive effect on enhancing AL-Azhar University-Gaza student-teachers' TEFL practices in inclusive education classes. Moreover, the participants made some suggestions for improving the use of SBL in teaching.
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Lichtenthaler, Eckhard. "Organising the external technology exploitation process: current practices and future challenges." International Journal of Technology Management 27, no. 2/3 (2004): 255. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijtm.2004.003955.
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Inch, Andy. "Organising waste in the city: international perspectives on narratives and practices." Critical Policy Studies 7, no. 4 (2013): 467–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2013.851317.
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Wood, Lisa Anne. "Organising the machine: material-discursive practices and mobile medical equipment engineers." Applied Mobilities 1, no. 2 (2016): 161–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23800127.2016.1246895.
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Diedrich, Andreas. "Organising Integration Support for Recent Immigrants in Sweden as a Spectacle: Practices and Consequences." puntOorg International Journal 8, no. 1 (2023): 78–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.19245/25.05.pij.8.1.5.
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This paper explores organising outside organisations in the context of the labour market integration of recent immigrants in Sweden. More specifically, it examines integration support events organised as a means of facilitating the efficient employment integration of recent immigrants. It draws on Guy Debord’s ideas of the spectacle in modern society and practice-based approaches to organising to explore how these events function as part of an integration spectacle as they produce and reproduce images of change and renewal where immigrants become employed and employers hire them, obscuring an otherwise sombre reality of inequalities. I use this lens to critically engage with field material collected as part of an ethnographically inspired field study of two annually held integration support events in Sweden, the Your Day! event and the Finally a Job! recruitment day, aimed at facilitating recent immigrants’ employment integration.
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Blix Germundsson, Lisa, Sören Augustinsson, and Alina Lidén. "Collaboration in the Making—Towards a Practice-Based Approach to University Innovation Intermediary Organisations." Sustainability 12, no. 12 (2020): 5142. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12125142.
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The study aims to understand and explore situations of collaboration between various actors in connection with a university-driven innovation intermediary organisation, and how the intermediary organisation facilitates collaboration in the making. To this end, we employ a case of a university-driven long-lasting intermediary organisation within the agricultural and forestry sectors. We examine three collaborative situations, using practice-based research and process theories as theoretical perspectives. A narrative approach is adopted as the method of investigation. The findings are presented in a conceptual model where the structures of the intermediary organisation are translated into practices, against which individuals can develop their collaboration processes. It is concluded that collaboration in the making is formed in the interplay between structures, practices and processes in relations between people. This implies that the organising of collaboration should focus its attention not only on structures but also on the practices and processes formed between people. The study contributes to the understanding of the organising of university innovation intermediary organisations by untangling the relations between structures, practices and processes in situations of collaboration between people.
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Kryukova, Ekaterina B. "Literature and Philosophy: Two Ways of Organising Language Universe." Observatory of Culture, no. 5 (October 28, 2014): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2014-0-5-4-9.
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Addresses literature and philosophy as language practices, which are close but not identical as concerns their structural organisation and essentially differ from other types of discourse. They are compared by the analogy to distinction drawn, according Ludwig Wittgenstein, between saying and showing, the two functions of language statement.
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Walz, Jonathan. "Historical archaeologies of spatial practices and power." Antiquity 89, no. 346 (2015): 985–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2015.57.
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Archaeologists who employ regional landscapes as an organising principle tend to be more concerned about how landscapes—natural, built and imagined—reflect cultural values than how landscapes shape human relations and community perspectives. As the authors of these two volumes skilfully demonstrate, communities deploy landscapes to materialise, and even to naturalise, claims to political authority and power. They reveal how the study of landscape at multiple scales spurs narratives and counter-narratives about how people experience the world and vie for control of it. Together, J. Cameron Monroe and James Delle advance the inherent possibilities of space and scale in historical archaeology.
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Issabekova, Ainash, Botagul Turgunbayeva, and Amangeldy Katenov. "Synergetic approach platform in organising methodological activity at school." Scientific Herald of Uzhhorod University Series Physics, no. 56 (May 19, 2024): 1251–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.54919/physics/56.2024.125he1.
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Relevance. The research relevance is determined by the interest of teachers� application of modern innovative education system, and their involvement in the learning process with the help of a diverse and new approach in education. Purpose. The study aims to investigate the basics of the synergetic method of teaching, and its application in the educational process of the school. Methodology. The study utilized questionnaires and assessments to explore how the synergetic approach is applied by 36 teachers in Taldykorgan City, Kazakhstan. Methodological approaches included self-assessment, creative potential tests, and a seminar on synergetic education principles, supported by methods like abstraction, analysis, synthesis, and axiomatic reasoning to assess its educational impact. Results. The results of the study indicate varying levels of engagement and adaptation to the synergetic approach among secondary school teachers in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan. Younger teachers demonstrated a keen interest in innovation and regularly incorporated new technologies into their teaching practices. Teachers with moderate experience exhibited a strong commitment to professional development through regular self-education activities. However, teachers with extensive experience showed less enthusiasm for adopting innovative practices, preferring traditional curricula. Overall, the implementation of the synergetic approach facilitated collaborative problem-solving and knowledge exchange among teachers, underscoring its potential to enrich educational methodologies and foster a dynamic learning environment. Conclusions. In conclusion, the study underscores the transformative impact of the synergetic approach on methodological activities within school settings, particularly in enhancing teachers' professional development and fostering innovative educational practices. The findings highlight that integrating synergetics into pedagogical frameworks enhances educators' abilities to navigate complex educational challenges, collaborate effectively, and adapt teaching methodologies to suit diverse learning needs. This research underscores the importance of ongoing support and training in synergetic pedagogy to sustain its benefits in improving educational outcomes and promoting continuous professional growth among teachers. Keywords: synergetic approach; multivariability; research competence; self-organisation; teacher�s professional status; methodological activity
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Watson, David, James Wallace, Christopher Land, and Jana Patey. "Re-organising wellbeing: Contexts, critiques and contestations of dominant wellbeing narratives." Organization 30, no. 3 (2023): 441–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13505084231156267.
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Wellbeing has emerged as an important discourse of management and organisation. Practices of wellbeing are located in concrete organisational arrangements and shaped by power relations built upon embedded, intersecting inequalities and therefore require critical evaluation. Critical evaluation is essential if we are to reorganise wellbeing to move beyond critique and actively contest dominant wellbeing narratives in order to reshape the contexts in which wellbeing can be fulfilled. The COVID-19 pandemic under which this special issue took shape, provides various examples of how practices continue to be shaped by existing narratives of wellbeing. The pandemic also constituted a far-reaching shock that gave collective pause to consider to the extent to which work is really organised to realise wellbeing and opened up potential to think differently. The seven papers included in the special issue reveal the problematic and uneven way in which wellbeing is pursued and examine possibilities to imagine and realise more radical practices of wellbeing that can counter the way in which ill-being is produced by the organisation of labour.
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Bedi, Innocent Kwame, and Hasso Kukemelk. "School Heads’ Practices Defined." Journal of Educational and Social Research 10, no. 5 (2020): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2020-0098.
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This study is part of a project investigating school heads’ practices and factors influencing them. The dearth of empirical research on school heads’ practices, their perceived stressfulness and how enjoyable practices performed are necessitated this study. School heads’ practices were examined using a convenient sample of senior high school heads and assistants in Ghana with appropriate statistical tools (exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and multinomial logistics regression). The findings revealed 22 activities that defined school heads’ practices. Regarding those activities, ‘organising information sessions with parents’ and ‘cooperating with organisations’ were least performed while activities related to counselling and administration, which were perceived as stressful, were performed equally. In total, practices perceived as stressful and enjoyable were performed more, while practices enjoyed significantly influenced the performance of practices in general. In practice, the knowledge of stressful and enjoyable practices guarantees the initiation of a suitable coping strategy than being ignorant, thereby improving school leadership and the health of school heads.
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Mattila, Malla, Nina Mesiranta, Elina Närvänen, Outi Koskinen, and Ulla-Maija Sutinen. "Dances with potential food waste: Organising temporality in food waste reduction practices." Time & Society 28, no. 4 (2018): 1619–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463x18784123.
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Smas, Lukas, and Johannes Lidmo. "Organising regions: spatial planning and territorial governance practices in two Swedish regions." Europa XXI 35 (2018): 21–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.7163/eu21.2018.35.2.
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In some European countries, sub-national regions are important geographical arenas for spatial planning. However, in Sweden, statutory regional planning is rather limited and the regional level is often described as having a weak position in the spatial planning system. In this article, we investigate territorial governance practices in two Swedish regions, with a focus on their interaction with the EU and the national level, and with the local level, as well as how these regions function as organisations and arenas for coordination of different policy fields. The study is based on semi-structured expert interviews and document analysis. The results show that spatial planning is practised both through statutory planning and soft planning approaches, and that these practices in different ways coordinate sectoral policies i.e. transport infrastructure and regional development. Both cases also illustrate difficulties not only of external coordination between different institutions and policy fields but also internally within organisations. It is also highlighted that spatial planning at the regional level focuses on coordinating actors and policy fields but that spatial planning is also an instrument to implement regional policies. In conclusion, it is argued that the organisation and territorial governance practices within a given institutional arrangement and the perception of spatial planning are crucial in determining how regions might function as multi-level coordination actors and policy arenas within spatial planning.
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Lea, YiShan. "The Praxis of Mentoring: Power, Organising and Emancipation." Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability 14, no. 1 (2012): 39–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10099-012-0005-9.
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The Praxis of Mentoring: Power, Organising and EmancipationThe purpose of this article is twofold: first, to juxtapose the praxis of mentoring with its domination and, second, to examine the praxis of mentoring. The rationale of the inquiry is based on social reconstructivist principles, recognising that relational structures and human experiences are both productive and reproductive in nature and in effect. The inquiry has pedagogical implications for institutional practices in education and political implications for individual voluntary versus institutional organising. It is potentially counter-hegemonic against the discourse of globalisation inevitability. Overall, the paper investigates the development and socialisation of human agency in institutional and social associations in which the praxis of mentoring intervenes.
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La Rocca, Antonella, and Ivan Snehota. "Value creation and organisational practices at firm boundaries." Management Decision 52, no. 1 (2014): 2–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/md-04-2013-0229.
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Purpose – Growing awareness that value for the customer is created in relationship between the supplier and the customer has consequences for sales and marketing functions, and businesses are increasingly experimenting with new organisational approaches and solutions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate organisational issues involved in implementing value programs in B2B firms and examine implications for managerial action. Design/methodology/approach – After a literature review on value creation in business relationships, the authors illustrate the case of a large industrial business experimenting with organisational solutions to support value-creation processes in customer relationships. Findings – The authors identify three issues management has to address in organising the customer interface: involvement of a variety of actors to access elements of effective customer-value solutions; supporting and orchestrating the interaction processes among those involved; and differentiation of the customer interface and sales approach to match the substantial differences in customer relationships. Research limitations/implications – There is a need for further, more systematic empirical studies of value-creation practices and solutions in how businesses organise the customer interface for value creation. Practical implications – Coping effectively with creating value in customer relationships implies experimenting with novel approaches and solutions in organising the sales and marketing activities as open networked sales organization and requires specific managerial capabilities. Originality/value – While creating customer value is generally believed to be positively related to the firm's performance and development, the organisational implications of focusing on creating value have been less explored. The original contribution of this work lies in zooming in on the organisational solutions to support the customer value-creation processes.
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Muzviyo, Simon, and Dr Abubaker Qutieshat. "The relationship between innovation capabilities and performance of Zimbabwean listed manufacturing firms." International Journal of Management Studies and Social Science Research 06, no. 05 (2024): 62–82. https://doi.org/10.56293/ijmsssr.2024.5205.
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This study examined the effects of innovation capabilities, namely work climate and wellbeing, ideation and organising structures, participatory leadership culture, and know-how development on firm performance. The study used survey data from 45 participants randomly chosen from 7 samples of Zimbabwean listed firms manufacturing firms. The results show that four aspects of innovation capability, namely work climate and wellbeing, ideation and organising structures, participatory leadership culture, and know-how development, have a positive and statistically significant effect on overall performance of listed manufacturing firms’ performance. The study’s contribution is highlighting the importance of policymakers creating collaborative platforms for manufacturing firms to exchange best practices, knowledge, and accelerate innovation adoption, while also providing targeted training, funding, and resources
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Dahl, Kari Kragh Blume. "Professional development lost in translation? ‘Organising themes’ in Danish teacher education and how it influences student-teachers’ stories in professional learning communities." Research in Comparative and International Education 14, no. 3 (2019): 357–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745499919865141.
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Retaining the quality of teachers and improving teacher education and professional development through professional learning communities (PLCs) has long been on the policy agenda of, among others, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the Framework for 21st Century Skills. This study explores and compares student-teachers’ use of PLCs in Danish teacher education institutions and how PLCs are shaped by institutional, organising themes. An ‘organising theme’ is conceptualised as a fundamental ‘idea’ of how – for instance institutional – everyday practices become organised; exploring how institutional organising themes are translated into educational practice in students’ PLCs makes it possible to understand how local moral worlds in teacher education institutions shape students’ communal work and professional development. Drawing on situated learning, social anthropology of institutions and the literature about PLCs, the professional narratives of three Danish student-teachers are compared. The findings suggest that professional development in PLCs takes place in the intersection between personal stories, situated learning in PLCs and institutional themes.
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Ahmed, Farheen, Kirsten Forkert, and David Featherstone. "Solidarity against the odds: trade union activism in a hostile environment." Soundings 82, no. 82 (2023): 27–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3898/soun.82.02.2022.
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A discussion on the challenges facing trade union activists in the light of the government's determination to create a hostile environment for trade unionists as well as people of colour - including the ways in which intersectionalities of race and class play out in the workplace and the labour movement. Topics discussed include: how and why people get involved in unions - and how to maintain their interest in the face of sometimes outdated practices; organising with the United Voices of the World (UVW) and larger trade unions; the relationship between students and university staff/academics in the University and College Lecturers (UCU) strike; migrant justice; cross-sector organising; activism versus bureaucracy; the effects of restrictive legislation on trade union activities, especially for workplaces where the union is not recognised or has limited resources; organising with the most precarious workers; the current increase in activism. There is also discussion of anti-migrant rhetoric within the Labour Party and trade union movement, but also recognition of the many examples of solidarity, including trade union solidarity with the Muhammad Idrish campaign.
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Alotaibi, Fahad Mazaed, Arafat Al-Dhaqm, Wael M. S. Yafooz, and Yasser D. Al-Otaibi. "A Novel Administration Model for Managing and Organising the Heterogeneous Information Security Policy Field." Applied Sciences 13, no. 17 (2023): 9703. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app13179703.
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Information security policy (ISP) plays a crucial role in maintaining the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of sensitive data. However, it is of high complexity and heterogeneity due to the variety and redundancy of security policy practices and complexity of organisational systems. Various and duplicate ISP models and frameworks have been offered in the literature. The duplicate security policy practices, procedures, and processes in the existing models have made ISP disorganised, unstructured, and unclear to organisational users. As a result, there is still a need for a standardised and integrated model to make it simpler to share, manage, and reuse ISP practices amongst the organisations. The main objective of this study is to construct a metamodel to unify, organise, and structure ISP practices. By identifying, recognising, extracting, and combining the common information security policy practices from various ISP models in a built ISP metamodel called ISPM, we seek to make it simple for users and field specialists to derive/instantiate security policy models for their organisations. The development and validation process of the ISPM is based on the common security frameworks such as ISO 27001 frameworks. The developed ISPM consists of 19 common security practices: organisation, risk management, access control policy, edit, review, compliance, business management, backup and recovery, incident response, SETA program, security awareness, security training, security education, email security policy, cloud security policy, network security policy, website security policy, physical security policy, and privacy security policy. Each common security practice consists of several operations and attributes. The performance of the developed ISPM was compared to that of other models to evaluate its completeness and logicalness. Using ISO 27001 as a framework, the findings confirmed the comprehensiveness of ISPM. Therefore, it can contribute to organisations’ security by helping them to develop their own security policy models.
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Chiu, Lim Khong, Asmahany Ramely, and Anisah Abdul Wafi. "MAKE GREEN GROWTH A PRIORITY: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN ORGANISING GREEN SPORTS TOURISM EVENTS." Malaysian Journal of Sustainable Environment 7, no. 1 (2020): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/myse.v7i1.8910.
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Despite many sports tourism events have been organized globally yet the understanding about the event greening practices is reasonably low. Hence, the impact of the sports event towards the environment and the communities are exceptionally high. For the purpose of this paper, some academic and consultancy-based literature on management and organization of sports tourism events in relation to green growth were reviewed. This conceptual paper focuses on the conceptualization and implementation of green sports events which covers the theory and principles of green practices, strategies and implementation of green practices in the case of selected Olympic Games, issues and challenges, and the roles of stakeholders. In addition, the critical insight from the literature also provides some “green” suggestions to be considered by sports tourism event organisers.
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Ozoliņš, Pēteris. "Preparation and Facilitation of Retrospective Meeting in Scrum process." Information Technology and Management Science 21 (December 14, 2018): 60–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.7250/itms-2018-0009.
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Agile methods have become very popular in software development. They emphasise importance of collaboration and communication in successful product development. Scrum is one of the most popular agile methods and it involves a number of artefacts and practices. The retrospective is one of the practices. It is an activity that serves a purpose as a team meeting to improve development processes. It is a time-boxed event, which should be planned and facilitated in order to obtain the best outcome. The paper aims at identifying appropriate practices for organising and running successful retrospectives. The practices are identified in the paper along with their attributes and usage suggestions.
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Jakavonytė-Staškuvienė, Daiva. "The policy of integrated languages didactics in Lithuania." Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji 37, no. 2 (2017): 111–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.5584.
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The article analyses the policy, theory and research-based practice of integrated languages didactics. It discusses teaching quality, determining factors, the role of integrated languages didactics, its challenges and sensitive aspects in organising integral learning. The development of learning curriculum (depending on the context) and reflection activities are the key element in establishing quality-focused integrated learning practices.
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Thygesen, Niels. "The gift economy and the development of sustainability." Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit 34, no. 6 (2019): 493–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269094219882261.
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This article contends that a new perspective on the economy – a gift economy – would be beneficial to the development of sustainability. The principles and practices of the gift economy (giving, receiving and reciprocating) are exemplified by a case study of the Danish island of Samsø, which has used it to achieve environmental sustainability, improve its economic situation and generate social value. In order to illustrate the values and principles that underpin the gift economy, the article shows the underlying exchange mechanisms used in this modern version of ‘gift-giving’ and contrasts them to using money as the medium of exchange. One of the mainstays of the gift economy is the willingness and obligation to reciprocate, and the case study highlights some of the original ways of organising that have emerged from the gift economy on Samsø and how significantly they differ from organising and managing by budgets. As such, the article attempts to reframe the understanding of the economy and, in particular, to qualify and illustrate the potential of the organising principles behind the gift economy and encourage readers to conduct further research and engage in initiatives that will make a positive contribution to the development of sustainability.
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Chapman, David. "Organising Committee Chair's address: Resilient pastures." NZGA: Research and Practice Series 17 (January 20, 2022): 7–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.33584/rps.17.2021.3522.
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High value animal products from New Zealand’s pasture-based livestock systems have consistently earned $25-$30B in export earnings per year for the country over the past 5 years (Ministry for Primary Industries 2021). Total earnings from dairy and meat of $30.5B in 2020 equate to 35% of New Zealand’s total goods and services export earnings of $86.4B. The importance of this revenue to the national economy has been shown in stark relief recently with the Covid-19 pandemic substantially reducing the earnings generated by other key export sectors such as tourism and international education. While our pasture-based livestock industries have ridden the coronavirus wave well compared with other sectors of the economy, they are facing change at a scale and pace not seen since the far-reaching reforms to the economic settings for agriculture introduced by the Lange Government in the early 1980s. Locally, the ramping-up of government environmental policies beginning c. 2011 has resulted in stringent regulations controlling the amounts of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and sediment that can be discharged into freshwater from farm systems. The most recent iteration in this policy sequence includes new National Environmental Standards for Freshwater, and the new National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPS-FW), which came into force in September 2020. These policies reverse the trends of the past two decades when agricultural productivity grew substantially in the virtual absence of regulation to control the environmental externalities of systems intensification. While the initial impacts on land use and farming practices have been localised (e.g., in the lake districts of Rotorua and Taupo), disruption to the farm systems that have emerged over the past two decades, especially intensive dairy systems, will be widespread in the future. For example, Doole et al. (2021) estimated that the new standards introduced in 2020 will require about 40% of New Zealand’s 11400 dairy farms to reduce nitrate leaching by an average of around 42% relative to requirements in previous iterations of the NPS-FW. The most significant global force driving change in New Zealand agriculture is climate change, via New Zealand’s commitment to the Paris Agreement to reduce carbon (C) emissions to net zero by 2050, C-neutral strategies being implemented by some of our largest customers (e.g., Nestle 2020), and the physical impacts of climate change on conditions for plant growth (e.g., Keller et al. 2021). Of direct and significant relevance to the livestock industries are the methane emission reduction targets proposed by government, of between 27% and 47% below 2017 levels by 2050. Meanwhile our international competitors have been steadily closing the gap in costs of production with New Zealand, and now have other fields on which to out-compete us (e.g., in C footprint) unless we can keep pace.
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Brown, June, Sarah A. Afuwape, Elin Downes-Grainger, Roger Howells, Eleanor Cole, and Sir David Goldberg. "Organising community mental health teams around GP practices: GPs' responses to the linkworker model." Primary Care Psychiatry 9, no. 2 (2004): 45–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1185/135525704125004664.
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Saxena, Lopamudra Patnaik. "Community Self-Organisation from a Social-Ecological Perspective: ‘Burlang Yatra’ and Revival of Millets in Odisha (India)." Sustainability 12, no. 5 (2020): 1867. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12051867.
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In this paper, I focus on the revival of an Indigenous community seed festival known locally as Burlang Yatra (‘Indigenous Biodiversity Festival’) in the district of Kandhamal in Odisha (India). This annual event brings together millet farmers to share knowledge and practices, including exchange of Indigenous heirloom seeds. Such community seed festivals remain largely underappreciated (and underexplored). Investigating Burlang Yatra through a social-ecological lens allowed for a greater understanding of its capacity to build and strengthen relationships, adaptation, and responsibility, three key principles that together link the social and the ecological in a dynamic sense. These principles, driven by intergenerational participation and interaction as well as social learning, can be seen as fostering ‘social-ecological memory’ of millet-based biodiverse farming. The festival’s persistence and revival illustrate a form of grassroots self-organising that draws on values of an Indigenous knowledge system. Within a restorative context, it has the capacity to repair and restore cultural and ecological relationships that the community has with their own foods and practices. This paper offers a new understanding of community self-organising from a social-ecological perspective and particularly in a marginalised context as supporting the revitalisation of Indigenous food systems.
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Black, Anne E., and Brooke Baldauf McBride. "Safety climate in the US federal wildland fire management community: influences of organisational, environmental, group and individual characteristics." International Journal of Wildland Fire 22, no. 6 (2013): 850. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf12154.
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This study examined the effects of organisational, environmental, group and individual characteristics on five components of safety climate (High Reliability Organising Practices, Leadership, Group Culture, Learning Orientation and Mission Clarity) in the US federal wildland fire management community. Of particular interest were differences between perceptions based on respondents’ Incident Position. Those in supervisory positions at the ground level (Type 1 Firefighters) and those at the top (Incident Commanders and operational leads) scored significantly higher than did mid-level supervisors (Single Resource, Division Supervisors, Task Force and Strike Team Leads). This was particularly the case for High Reliability Organising Practices, which measure the degree of communication among and between units, and Group Culture, which measures the tightness of a group and the degree of psychological safety felt by members. Both components directly affect the amount and type of information flowing within and between incident units. That the critical middle links in incident organisation perceive these essential safety-related functions to be significantly lower than do individuals at other levels provides a startling empirical insight into, and powerful leverage for further improving, incident operations and resulting safety outcomes.
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Özgünaltay Ertuğrul, Gülden, İkbal Aygün, and Erkan Urkan. "A Study Examining the Potential of the 5S Methodology for Improving Efficiency in Agricultural Production Processes." Turkish Journal of Agriculture - Food Science and Technology 13, no. 3 (2025): 587–93. https://doi.org/10.24925/turjaf.v13i3.587-593.7503.
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This study comprehensively examines the applicability of the 5S methodology as a tool for enhancing efficiency, occupational safety, and sustainability in the agricultural sector. The 5S methodology, predicated on the principles of sorting, organising, cleaning, standardising, and sustaining, aims to create safer and more productive workplaces. The research investigates its effects on both indoor agricultural machinery manufacturing processes and outdoor crop production practices. The analysis reveals notable advantages in manufacturing processes, including reduced waste, enhanced occupational safety, and improved product quality, particularly in production, assembly, and quality control processes. However, the methodology faces limitations in outdoor agricultural practices due to seasonal variations and open-field conditions, which challenge the cleaning, sorting, and organising stages. However, its application in maintenance, repair, and equipment storage processes has been shown to prolong the lifespan of machinery and ensure safer working conditions. The 5S methodology aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, serving as a practical approach to enhancing efficiency, workplace safety, and resource management in the agricultural sector. This study underscores the 5S methodology's promise as a sustainable solution for enhancing productivity and safety in agriculture.
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Anyidoho, Emmanuel D., and Teresa A. Ogina. "Management Dynamics in Early Childhood Centres: An Exploration of Organising Practices of Directors of Early Childhood Centres in Ghana." European Journal of Educational Management 8 (June 15, 2025): 105–15. https://doi.org/10.12973/eujem.8.2.105.
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This study investigates the organising practices of directors in Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) centres, focusing on Ghana and offering insights applicable to global contexts. The research examines how directors manage resources, define tasks, delegate authority, and align organisational functions to achieve operational and educational goals. From the findings, four key themes emerged: resource allocation and management, task definition and role assignment, delegation and authority, and functional integration and task alignment. Public centres demonstrated greater efficiency due to clearer role definitions and effective delegation, while private centres faced challenges such as limited resources, role ambiguity, and reluctance to delegate authority. Task alignment with organisational goals and resource optimisation were found to be critical for maintaining operational coherence and meeting educational objectives. As a major contribution, the study develops an Integrated Organising Framework to guide ECCD directors in addressing these challenges. The framework offers practical strategies for improving resource allocation, clarifying roles, and fostering organisational alignment, particularly in resource-constrained settings. By addressing identified gaps, this framework provides a systematic approach to enhancing service delivery, staff performance, and operational efficiency while remaining adaptable to policy changes and diverse community needs.
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Kislov, Roman, Gill Harvey, and Lorelei Jones. "Boundary organising in healthcare: theoretical perspectives, empirical insights and future prospects." Journal of Health Organization and Management 35, no. 2 (2021): 133–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhom-04-2021-475.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce a special issue on boundary organising in healthcare bringing together a selection of six leading papers accepted for presentation at the 12th Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC 2020) Conference. Design/methodology/approachIn this introductory paper, the guest editors position the special issue papers in relation to the theoretical literature on boundaries and boundary organising and highlight how these contributions advance our understanding of boundary phenomena in healthcare.FindingsThree strands of thinking – practice-based, systems theory and place-based approaches – are briefly described, followed by an analytical summary of the six papers included in the special issue. The papers illustrate how the dynamic processes of boundary organising, stemming from the dual nature of boundaries and boundary objects, can be constrained and enabled by the complexity of broader multi-layered boundary landscapes, in which local clinical and managerial practices are embedded.Originality/valueThe authors set the scene for the papers included in the special issue, summarise their contributions and implications, and suggest directions for future research.Research implications/limitationsThe authors call for interdisciplinary and multi-theoretical investigations of boundary phenomena in health organisation and management, with a particular attention to (1) the interplay between multiple types of boundaries, actors and objects operating in complex multi-layered boundary systems; (2) diversity of the backgrounds, experiences and preferences of patients and services users and (3) the role of artificial intelligence and other non-human actors in boundary organising.Practical implicationsDeveloping strategies of reflection, mitigation, justification and relational work is crucial for the success of boundary organising initiatives.
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Antonacopoulou, Elena P., Christian Moldjord, Trygve J. Steiro, and Christina Stokkeland. "The New Learning Organisation." Learning Organization 26, no. 3 (2019): 304–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tlo-10-2018-0159.
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Purpose This paper aims to revive the old idea of the Learning Organisation by providing a fresh conceptualisation and illustration. The New Learning Organisation is conceptualised, focussing on the common good through responsible action. It is positioned as responding to the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity, Bennett and Lemoine, 2014) conditions with a VUCA approach to Learning Leadership fostering Institutional Reflexivity and High Agility Organising . Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a new organisational learning framework – the 8As – Sensuous Organisational Learning framework. It illustrates the operationalisation of this framework in PART II through the educational practices and learning culture of the Norwegian Defence University College, Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy’s (RNoAFA) approach to growing (Military) leaders. Findings The Sensuous Organisational Learning – 8As – framework illustrates how attentiveness, alertness, awareness, appreciation, anticipation, alignment, activation and agility form an integral part of the New Learning Organisation. Their unique contribution as aspect of a Sensuous Organisational Learning framework is that they explicate how the three principles of Institutional Reflexivity, High Agility Organising and Learning Leadership can be operationalised to serve the common good. Research limitations/implications The paper presents a novel way of reviving the Learning Organisation beyond an ideology as a practical approach to responding to VUCA conditions. It introduces a new learning theory and injects a fresh perspective in our understanding of the role and impact of learning in the workplace. Practical implications By focussing on Learning Leadership practices that extend previous Organisational Learning frameworks, The New Learning Organisation promoted here focuses on responsible action to serve the common good through Institutional Reflexivity and High Agility Organising. Social implications By focussing on how the common good can be better served, the New Learning Organisation becomes a mantra for social change to identify the higher purpose that social actions must serve. Originality/value The need for fresh contributions in the Organisational Learning debate is long overdue. This paper marks a new chapter in Organisational Learning research and practice by demonstrating the value of sensousness as a foundation for improving the practical judgements across professional practices.
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Parchoma, Gale. "Symposium 3: Transdisciplinary research in technology enhanced/networked learning practices." Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning 8 (April 2, 2012): 496–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.54337/nlc.v8.9126.
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This symposium addresses the conference theme, theories and methodologies for research in networked learning, through exploring transdisciplinary research in the context of technology enhanced/networked learning (TEL/NL) practices across diverse geographical and disciplinary settings. For the purposes of this symposium, transdisciplinarity is distinguished from cross-, multi-, inter-, and post-disciplinarity via its combined recognition of sustained organising epistemological structures of disciplines, potential for disciplinary reorientation through dialogue, and focus on researching practices. Networked learning is distinguished from TEL by its constructionist underpinnings, its relational perspective on linkages among tutors, learners, and learning resources, and its "participative and democratic values" (Hodgson & Reynolds, 2005, p.11). The more generalist term, TEL, is defined by its accommodation of a broader range of ontological, epistemological, and pedagogical perspectives (Parchoma, 2011).
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Klungseth, Nora Johanne, and Siri Hunnes Blakstad. "Organising in-house cleaning services in public FM." Facilities 34, no. 13/14 (2016): 828–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/f-03-2014-0024.
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Purpose This paper aims to describe and discuss in-house cleaning services in local authorities to gain a better understanding of current practices. These descriptions are intended to increase researchers’, practitioners’ and educators’ understanding of the studied issue, as there at present does not exist a solid understanding of in-house cleaning services in local authorities. Previous studies provide little detailed information regarding the internal environment of facility management (FM) organisations, in particular with regard to FM organisations’ individual services. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on two descriptive case studies, one from Norway and one from the UK. The case studies are based on semi-structured, face-to-face in-depth interviews and document reviews. Findings The cases demonstrate that in-house cleaning services can be structured and managed in different ways, particularly with respect to the split in services, the management of staff and customer contracts, the span of control, the chain of command, self-managed leadership, cleaners’ hours of duty and the use of outsourcing. Research limitations/implications Although the previous research on particular FM services is limited, this paper’s detailed descriptions may stimulate further development and research within the field. The knowledge brought forward is part of bridging a knowledge gap on cleaning in FM research. This knowledge can contribute to advancements in the way this service is discussed and measured across contexts by encouraging more rigour and specific studies on cleaning. Originality/value This paper constitutes one of the first detailed descriptions of in-house cleaning organisation in local authorities. This is a type of service supply that is common in certain contexts and identified as beneficial to cost-saving in other contexts.
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Sen, Subhasis, and K. Rajagopal. "Trends in sports analytics for event management: A content analysis." Marketing Review 20, no. 1 (2020): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1362/146934720x15929907504058.
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This is a conceptual paper which explores recent trends in sports analytics for event management and the influence thereof on viewership, sponsorship and athletic performance. The content analysis here entails multiple case studies on sporting events; recommended practices for organising sporting events are highlighted using a site-ordered effects matrix. Analysis yields unprecedented outcomes related to sporting event ticket prices (relevant especially to fans and organisers), willingness of athletes to participate in mega events, technologies to be used to effectively reach out to passionate fans, and innovative practices to build a sound infrastructure involving sponsors, athletes and authorities.
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Suorsa, Anna, Anna-Maija Multas, Emilia Rönkkö, Eevi Juuti, Anelma Lammi, and Heidi Enwald. "Information practices in multi-professional work in urban planning." Information Research an international electronic journal 29, no. 2 (2024): 557–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.47989/ir292847.
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Introduction. This study investigates information practices to develop multi-professional work in the planning of healthy living environments in and around urban planning. Method. A qualitative approach was used to study information practices in two city organisations in Finland. 16 professionals working in urban planning, urban planning, traffic, landscaping, promotion of well-being and environmental health and protection were interviewed in semi-structural interviews. Analysis. Interview data was analysed with content analysis, focusing on the information practices in their organisational and multi-professional context. Results. The professionals maintained and developed information practices to use, seek, share and create information in their work on urban planning within city organisations and in the stakeholder networks. Conclusion. The complexity of information-based decision-making can be understood by understanding the wide range of information practices as using, seeking, sharing, and creating information in multi-professional work. In addition, it is important to note, that also organising and managing both information and information practices are needed in information-based decision-making.
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Perry, Beth, Zarina Patel, Ylva Norén Bretzer, and Merritt Polk. "Organising for Co-Production: Local Interaction Platforms for Urban Sustainability." Politics and Governance 6, no. 1 (2018): 189–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1228.
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Urban sustainability is a wicked issue unsuited to management through traditional decision-making structures. Co-productive arrangements, spaces and processes are inscribed in new organisational forms to bridge between diverse forms of knowledge and expertise. This article suggests that <em>local interaction platforms </em>(LIPs)<em> </em>are innovative responses to these challenges, developed in two African and two European cities between 2010 and 2014. Through elaborating the design and practice of the LIPs, the article concludes that the value of this approach lies in its context-sensitivity and iterative flexibility to articulate between internationally shared challenges and distinctive local practices. Six necessary conditions for the evolution of LIPs are presented: anchorage, co-constitution, context-sensitivity, alignment, connection and shared functions. In the context of increased uncertainty, complexity and the demand for transdisciplinary knowledge production, the <em>platform</em> concept has wider relevance in surfacing the challenges and possibilities for more adaptive urban governance.
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Grayson, Deborah, and Tamanda Walker. "Religion, the secular and the left." Soundings 73, no. 73 (2019): 54–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3898/soun.73.05.2019.
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This article outlines four common ways that religion and faith are managed within left-wing organising. The first (indifference) sees 'religion' and 'faith' as a set of traditional practices that will naturally disappear as modernity prevails. The second (hostility) sees religion in terms of oppressive institutions which need to be excised from public life. The third (limited welcome) takes religion as a racial category, highlighting links between Christian-Secular supremacy and colonial domination, but does not engage with religious content. The fourth (incorporation) recognises that spiritual practices can sustain collectives in effectively challenging oppression. These approaches are discussed through two contrasting examples of leftist organising. The first is Southall Black Sisters, for whom challenging patriarchy includes challenging its expression in religious institutions, and secular spaces are seen as a necessary part of creating collectives. The second is the role of spirituality and religion in community responses to the Grenfell fire – in particular the shared walking in silence; this has been crucial to the community's ability to maintain strength and experience solidarity in the face of incredible and ongoing injustice. In trying to understand how the left should go about building solidarities and alliances, the authors assert the value of localised and contingent readings of 'religion' and 'the secular'.
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Rudi, Jøran. "Organising Sound with Audio Clothes: An interview with Benoit Maubrey." Organised Sound 23, no. 3 (2018): 292–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771818000201.
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Benoit Maubrey’s work with audio art started in Berlin in 1982 with public sound sculptures, and he eventually turned to performative practices with portable audio embedded in clothes and costumes. His artistic practice currently spans site-specific and non-site-specific sound installations, locational and non-locational performances, as well as performed, interactive and non-interactive sound installations, and a comprehensive description of his artistic trajectory is planned for release in 2019: Benoit Maubrey – Sound Sculptures. His most well-known ensemble is The Audio Ballerinas, wearing tutus with a combination of solar cells, light sensors, samplers, radios, amplifiers and loudspeakers. The ensemble has been performing since its debut in Lille in 1990. Maubrey has developed a huge portfolio of audio ensemble performances on several continents, and an interesting thread of autonomy and critical reflection is running through his oeuvre. The costumes and their technical affordances have changed with new technological developments, and in this interview Maubrey explains these developments, and how he has maintained and extended his artistic focus.
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Ritchie, Laura. "Opening the Curriculum through Open Educational Practices: International experience." Open Praxis 10, no. 2 (2018): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.10.2.821.
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A successful international learning initiative focusing on student agency began with a link facilitating OE-enhanced teaching between a UK university and a US high school class. It became an international trip organised and funded by five UK students and their teacher who travelled to California, teaching and performing music across formal and informal learning settings. The project is now a credit-bearing class, retaining the original initiative’s openness within the university curriculum where final-year students collaborate with the teacher, self-organising to design and plan curricular details from travel logistics to musical interactions. Students engage in heutagogy, demonstrating the highest levels of autonomous, personal learning in this co-learning environment. Their assessment, a reflective journal, encourages engage with deeper learning processes. The original trip was documented as an eBook including 10,000 student-authored words telling their collaborative learning journey. The book was published without DRM an accessible model for other students and educators.
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Thasiah, Victor. "Prophetic Pedagogy: Critically Engaging Public Officials in Rwanda." Studies in World Christianity 23, no. 3 (2017): 257–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2017.0195.
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After genocide, civil war and a complex history of colonial and postcolonial state violence, many within and beyond the African Great Lakes region have called for Rwandan Christians to better maintain critical distance from the state and hold public officials responsible for the flourishing of all, regardless of ethnic identity or political persuasion. The pairing of Rwandan community organising practices and Emmanuel Katongole's political theology offers what I call a prophetic pedagogy for responding to this need. To support this claim, we consider (1) Katongole's theoretical contribution to prophetic Christianity in Africa; (2) the practical contribution of John Rutsindintwarane – the founder–executive director of PICO Rwanda (People Improving Communities through Organizing) – to critically engaging public officials through community organising; and (3) the views of PICO Rwanda's most respected leaders, who demonstrate the potential for holding the Rwanda government accountable. We also use PICO Rwanda's work to develop an effective response to Katongole's sharpest critics.
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Watkins, Heather M. "Beyond sweat equity: Community organising beyond the Third Way." Urban Studies 54, no. 9 (2016): 2139–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016651552.
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This paper explores the ambivalent nature of community organisation as a response to a ‘crisis of authority’ in post-industrial areas subject to urban regeneration. In the discourse of the Third Way, activism has been increasingly discursively framed as ‘participation’, legitimising a shift in welfare provision from the state onto civil society and a proliferation of private actors. As part of the process, existing local solidarities based on long-term shared interests and histories of conflict with the parts of the state, have been transformed (in theory) into social networks, forms of short-term instrumental co-operation based on consensus. Community activists are brought into contact with what Rose (after Foucault) describes as the ‘technologies’ of power which are deployed to produce governable subjects, co-opting and dividing them from their base communities. However, local participation also provides our most immediate experience of political economy, what Gramsci identifies as a sometimes fierce sense of difference, and the practical, historically acquired local knowledge, or ‘good sense’ which can form the basis of a challenge to hegemonic thinking. Engaging empirically with local organisers in the East Midlands, I conclude that the potential of this as a source of contestation depends on two dimensions of practice: (1) the development by activists of a critical understanding of how to foster or maintain long-term collective interests, identity and practices within their communities and (2) maintaining a clear sense of separation from the state which allows power to be confronted.