A Multi-level Integrated Analysis of Socio-Economic Systems Metabolism: an Application to the Italian Regional Level

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 350-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppina Siciliano ◽  
Alessandro Crociata ◽  
Margherita Turvani
Keyword(s):  
Regional Level ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Multi Level

Civic Participation and Social Embeddedness: Differences Between Urban and Rural Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-67
Author(s):  
Tuuli-Marja Kleiner
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multi Level

Does civic participation lead to a large social network? This study claims that high levels of civic participation may obstruct individual social embeddedness. Using survey data from the German Survey on Volunteering (Deutscher Freiwilligensurvey; 1999–2009), this study conducts macro- as well as multi-level regressions to examine the link between civic participation and social embeddedness. Findings reveal that civic participation on the sub-national regional level is not generally associated with social embeddedness, but it affects the participants’ and non-participants’ possibilities for friendships differently. This holds especially true in urban areas, but the effect cannot be found in rural areas. The analysis has implications for further research to enhance the social embeddedness of the excluded.

Channels of synthesis forty years on: integrated analysis of spatial economic systems

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey J.D. Hewings ◽  
Suahasil Nazara ◽  
Chokri Dridi
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Economic Systems

scholarly journals Multi-Level Optimization Approach to Managing the Development of Hierarchical Socio-Economic Systems

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Roman Zhukov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Target Function ◽  
Optimization Procedure ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Indicator Values ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Standard Values ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Formalized Description

The purpose of the article is to develop a multi-level optimization approach to the management of hierarchical socio-economic systems (HSES). The starting point of the approach is to build a model of the functioning of HSES at the regional level (meso–level), which includes a set of models that characterize the results of the functioning of elements and their aggregates that form subsystems – classes – within the framework of a formalized description of the object of research. For each element and subsystem (for the selected subsystems, its own model of functioning can be built) of the considered hierarchy level, particular and integral indicators of performance, efficiency and harmony, which serve as indicators of the set (normative, expected) functioning of HSES, are formed. If indicators deviate from standard values, an optimization procedure is performed, which consists in searching for such conditions (state and impact factors for each of the considered subsystems and their elements), in which indicator values will correspond to the standard (expected) values. In general, this problem is reduced to the problem of multi-criteria optimization, where the target function consists of a combination of private and aggregated production functions, the parameters of which are determined using the factor analysis of dependencies. Object and cybernetic models illustrating the multi-level optimization approach to the management of HSES are presented.

scholarly journals Prospects for System Expansion of Institutional Economic Theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Georgе B. Kleiner
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Type Systems ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Duality Principle ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
System Expansion ◽  
Institutional Economic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Methodological Holism

The article discusses the ways of creating unified economic theory describing the functioning and interaction of significant units of the national economy and the economy as a whole. The general construction of a unified economic theory, its connection with the system economic theory and its system components (object, process, project, environmental economic theories) is determined. Based on the example of institutional economic theory, it is shown that the expansion of its terminology and conceptual apparatus within the framework of the construction of a unified multi-level economic theory allows minimizing the contradictions between the “old” and “new” institutionalism, methodological individualism and methodological holism. This expansion is carried out following the principle of the maximum possible system community in two lines. The first line is expanding the subject area (along with organizations as systems of the object type, systems of the process, project, the environment types are also considered as the focal subject of study). The second line is the expanding the instrumental area (analysis of the influence on the behavior of agents from not only institutional subsystems but also information, infrastructural, network, mental, and other environmental subsystems). As a result, each system receives the compact and maximum volumetric internal systemic content and, at the same time, the minimum volumetric external systemic environment, which creates conditions for the effective application of the duality principle in the theory of economic systems. Thus, the system expansion of institutional theory should take place in two lines: content of the theory per se and creation of its immediate environment.

scholarly journals Balanced territorial economic development in the conditions of providing stability of human resources management

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Anastasiia Bantash ◽  
Viktor Koval ◽  
Maryna Bashynska ◽  
Valentyna Kozlovtseva
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Development Factor ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. Reforming the territorial organization of power on the principles of decentralization is one of the key areas of systemic social transformation in Ukraine. The development of a country is impossible without the development of its regions and depends on how effective and efficient is the management of human resources at the regional and local levels, which act as an economic resource and ensure its social integrity and capacity to implement reforms at the regional level. Aim and tasks. The purpose of this article is to study the impact of decentralization reforms in Ukraine, in particular its impact on management efficiency and ensuring the stability of human resources development for the balanced development of territorial socio-economic systems. Results. The paper considers theoretical and practical issues of decentralization as a process that is currently taking place in Ukraine. Emphasis is placed on the fact that decentralization should become a development factor for social, cultural, economic, financial, environmental and other systems, and through these systems a development factor for citizens. At the regional level, it is within the territorial socio-economic systems that human potential is concentrated and human resources are reproduced, which are a source of competitive advantage. Conclusions. The lack of rational zoning of territories and a balanced administrative-territorial structure is due to the lack of effective regional management, which should be based on the use of improved organizational and economic mechanisms for the development of administrative-territorial units. In conditions when human resources were considered not as a factor of production, but as an important resource for achieving the goals of the organization, uniting the interests of representatives of united territorial communities becomes the main principle of reproduction of human resources and balanced development of territories. To achieve the self-sufficiency of local self-government, a number of objective and subjective dangers of the development of undesirable political consequences are currently hindered. The decisive factor in overcoming the negative processes in the economy and social life of the country is the formation of personnel policy in a decentralized government, as the ability of government to manage effectively depends on the professional level of its managers.

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