Social innovation in rural development: identifying the key factors of success

2016 ◽  
Vol 183 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Neumeier
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Factors Of Success

scholarly journals Evaluating Innovation in European Rural Development Programmes: Application of the Social Return on Investment (SROI) Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Courtney ◽  
John Powell
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Rural Development Programme ◽  
Social Return On Investment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovation Outcomes

The quest for innovation lies at the heart of European rural development policy and is integral to the Europe 2020 strategy. While social innovation has become a cornerstone of increased competitiveness and the rural situation legitimizes public intervention to encourage innovation, the challenges of its effective evaluation are compounded by the higher ‘failure’ rate implied by many traditional performance measures. Social Return on Investment (SROI) is employed to assess the social innovation outcomes arising from implementation of Axes 1 and 3 of the 2007-13 Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE). Analysis of primary data gathered through structured face-to-face interviews from a weighted sample of 196 beneficiaries reveal that social innovation outcomes generate a total of £170.02 million of benefits from Axis 1 support measures, compared to £238.1 million of benefits generated from innovation outcomes from Axis 3 measures. Benefits are generated through four social innovation outcome categories: individual, operational, relational, and system; and range from changes in attitudes and behaviour to institutional change and new ways of structuring social relations. The paper calls for more comprehensive evaluation approaches that can capture, and value, the multiple benefits arising from social innovation, and further bespoke applications of SROI to help develop and legitimise innovation indicators that will enable stronger linkages back into the policy process.

scholarly journals Social Services Administration in Gwagwalada Area Council: Militating Factors

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irechukwu Eugenia Nkechi ◽  
Chima Paul
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personal Observation ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural Dwellers

This study attempted to determine the factors militating against effective social services administration and its unfolding empirical manifestations on the well-being of the rural dwellers in Gwagwalada Area Council in Abuja, Nigeria as well as its attendant effects on rural development. Based on the data generated from 200 respondents (rural residents and staff of the area council) using questionnaire, interview and personal observation, it was discovered that lack of involvement of the rural dwellers in decisions regarding the design and implementation of the social service programmes by the Council is one of the key factors. The paper recommends accordingly among others, that effective social services administration should reflect the wishes and aspirations of beneficiaries. 

scholarly journals Key factors of success in the application of last planner system in construction work

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 636
Author(s):  
Andrean Mandala ◽  
Nunung Widyaningsih ◽  
Bambang Purwoko Kusumo Bintoro
Keyword(s):  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Consistency Ratio ◽  
Global Weight ◽  
Priority Weights ◽  
Last Planner System ◽  
Last Planner ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Factors Of Success

This study aims to identify what factors are the key to the successful implementation of the Last Planner System in construction work based on existing journals to be applied in the construction environment and determine the priority weight / key factors of success from the questionnaire results from experts with the Analytic method Hierarchy Process. The method used in this study uses the Analytic Hierarchy Process to find priority weights and software uses Expert Choice. From the results of the analysis obtained Key Success Factors in construction work, namely as many as 10 criteria where stakeholder criteria with the highest priority weight with a global weight of 0.2279 which have a value of consistency ratio below 0.1 or 10%, ie 0.08 or 8%, then an evaluation of the comparison pairing between criteria is consistent and as many as 24 sub-criteria where the sub-criteria of stakeholder support for the implementation of LPS with the highest priority weighting with a global weight of 0.1812 which has a consistency ratio below 0.1 or 10% ie 0.07 or 7%, then an assessment of pairwise comparisons between sub criteria are consistent.  

scholarly journals AN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL OF SOCIAL INNOVATIONS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT: AGGRESSION AMONG RURAL ADOLESCENTS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dovilė VALIŪNĖ
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Physical Aggression ◽  
Urban Adolescents ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Rural Adolescents ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Social Innovations

Social innovation is very important for rural development. It is a lack of researchers about an individual level of social innovations in Lithuania. Adolescents’ aggression is an important social problem that can affect society and social innovations. It needs to find the differences in aggression between rural and urban adolescents because it could help to plan effective interventions for reducing aggressive behavior. The present study aimed to assess the aggression among rural and urban adolescents. It was hypothesized that rural and urban adolescents differ significantly on aggression. In order to verify the above hypothesis a sample of 479 (207 boys; 272 girls) students were selected from Lithuanian schools. The sample includes the similar size of rural (N=242) and urban (N=237) students. The age of participants was from 12 to 17. It was used Aggression Questionnaire developed by Buss and Perry (1992) in this research. The questionnaire involves four subscales: physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, and hostility. The results showed that urban girls had more physical aggression than rural girls. However, it was not found statistically significant differences in physical aggression among urban and rural boys. Also, it was not found any statistically significant differences in verbal aggression, anger, hostility among urban and rural adolescents.

Mobile instant messaging apps as an opportunity for a conversational approach to marketing: a segmentation study

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Letizia Lo Presti ◽  
Giulio Maggiore ◽  
Vittoria Marino ◽  
Riccardo Resciniti
Keyword(s):  
Latent Class ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Using Data

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how firms may be segmented with respect to their attitudes towards the use of mobile instant messaging (MIM) apps (e.g. WhatsApp, Messenger, WeChat, etc). in their marketing practices to identify the main approaches to the use of MIM in business. Moreover, this paper identifies the key factors which can motivate or hinder the adoption of these digital platforms. Design/methodology/approach Firms are segmented on the basis of their attitudes (perceived usefulness and perceived effectiveness of performance) towards the use of MIM apps in the business. Categories for size, age of the firm and the organization’s predisposition towards MIMs are explored using data from 311 firms and latent class analysis. Threats, triggers and their real usage are also identified to describe the different approaches towards the application of MIM apps in marketing practices. Findings Four clusters are identified – lukewarm, cold, believer and unaffected – along with significant covariates such as the importance of conversation with the client, the use of MIMs in the business, the threats and triggers that can foresee adherence. The results help to understand how to approach the client using social messenger applications. MIM apps can be used for strategic marketing and not only for operative marketing. Originality/value This paper offers a more nuanced understanding of how firms engage through MIM apps by focusing on the firms’ attitudes towards MIM apps. It extends the knowledge on the firms’ reactions to these disruptive technologies and profiles the firms according to their social innovation attitudes, something that has not yet been investigated in the extant marketing literature.

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