scholarly journals KNOWING THE RIGHT PERSON IN THE RIGHT PLACE: POLITICAL CONNECTIONS AND RESISTANCE TO CHANGE

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 641-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Bellettini ◽  
Carlotta Berti Ceroni ◽  
Giovanni Prarolo
Keyword(s):  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals The politics of bailouts: Estimating the causal effects of political connections on corporate bailouts during the 2008–2009 US financial crisis

Public Choice ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vuk Vukovic
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Troubled Asset Relief Program ◽  
Top Executives ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Relief Program

AbstractIn 2008, as the financial crisis unfolded in the United States, the banking industry elevated its lobbying and campaign spending activities. By the end of 2008, and during 2009, the biggest political spenders, on average, received the largest bailout packages. Is that relationship causal? In this paper, I examine the effect of political connections on the allocation of funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to the US financial services industry during the 2008–2009 financial crisis. I find that TARP recipients that lobbied the government, donated to political campaigns, or whose top executives had direct connections to politics received better bailout deals. I estimate regression discontinuity design and instrumental variable models to uncover how election outcomes for politicians in close races affected the distribution of bailout funds for connected firms. The results do not imply that some banks were deliberately favored over others, just that favored banks benefited because of their proximity to the right people in power. If being politically connected matters in general, in times of crisis it matters even more.

Political Ideologies and their Social Psychological Functions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Jost ◽  
Christopher M. Federico ◽  
Jamie L. Napier
Keyword(s):  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Status ◽  
Traditional Institutions ◽  
Psychological Functions ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Right

Ideology has re-emerged as a vital topic of investigation in social psychology. This chapter proposes that political ideologies possess both a discursive (socially constructed) superstructure and a functional (or motivational) substructure and that ideologies serve social psychological functions that may not be entirely rational but help to explain why individuals are drawn to them. System justification, it argues, is the ‘glue’ that holds the two dimensions of left–right ideology (advocacy vs. resistance to change and rejection vs. acceptance of inequality) together. To vindicate and uphold traditional institutions and arrangements, the right defends existing inequalities as just and necessary. To bring about a more equal state of affairs, the left is motivated to challenge existing institutions and practices (the status quo).

Global Telemedicine and eHealth

2013 ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
S. A. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Engineering Management ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Hospital Access ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Care Models ◽  
Ubiquitous Access ◽  
The Right

This chapter is about the intersections taking place globally in the delivery of healthcare. In today’s world, quality health is about access: access to transportation to the hospital, access to the right people, doctors, nurses, and specialists, and the doctor’s access to the latest lab tests and equipment. But in our future, all of this goes away. You do not need transportation, as medical ecosystems are becoming ubiquitous. Access to the best medical care available means access to the hospital system living in the cloud. The best labs are built into our phones whereby today’s array of sensors can be focused on prevention and delivery systems designed for keeping people healthy. Behind this is the driving vision that medicine will be transformed from reactive and generic to predictive and personalized, reaching patients from the cloud through their telephones in their own homes, making up for a coming shortage in doctors and nurses. Where this brings us is that there is an abundance of confusion as to what Telehealth and eHealth is or what it will be. This chapter addresses an eHealth definition for review, thoughts on eHealth systems, resistance to change issues to be considered, the CVS Minute Clinic’s introduction of innovation and disruptive eHealth care models and systems, a Systems Engineering Management proof of concept project with the Kansas Department of Corrections, and globally oriented conclusions and recommendations. (Diamandis & Kotler, 2012).

Global Telemedicine and eHealth

2015 ◽  
pp. 1570-1586
Author(s):  
S. A. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Engineering Management ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Hospital Access ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Care Models ◽  
Ubiquitous Access ◽  
The Right

This chapter is about the intersections taking place globally in the delivery of healthcare. In today's world, quality health is about access: access to transportation to the hospital, access to the right people, doctors, nurses, and specialists, and the doctor's access to the latest lab tests and equipment. But in our future, all of this goes away. You do not need transportation, as medical ecosystems are becoming ubiquitous. Access to the best medical care available means access to the hospital system living in the cloud. The best labs are built into our phones whereby today's array of sensors can be focused on prevention and delivery systems designed for keeping people healthy. Behind this is the driving vision that medicine will be transformed from reactive and generic to predictive and personalized, reaching patients from the cloud through their telephones in their own homes, making up for a coming shortage in doctors and nurses. Where this brings us is that there is an abundance of confusion as to what Telehealth and eHealth is or what it will be. This chapter addresses an eHealth definition for review, thoughts on eHealth systems, resistance to change issues to be considered, the CVS Minute Clinic's introduction of innovation and disruptive eHealth care models and systems, a Systems Engineering Management proof of concept project with the Kansas Department of Corrections, and globally oriented conclusions and recommendations. (Diamandis & Kotler, 2012).

scholarly journals Education for Sustainable Development: Emerging Themes from Adopters of a Declaration

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambika Zutshi ◽  
Andrew Creed ◽  
Brian Connelly
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Environmental Initiatives ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Right

Universities that sign the Talloires Declaration signify their commitment to education for sustainable development. This research explores whether the signification is a strategic desire to be seen to be doing the right thing, or a genuine commitment to enhancing sustainability and helping the environment. This semi-structured interview research involves communication with the sustainability managers in the majority of Talloires signified universities in Australia. Since Australia has a comparably high rate of commitment to the Talloires Declaration, the findings represent rich and deep insight into reasons and motivations that can inform the adoption process around the world. Applying institutional theory and related concepts of structuration, isomorphism, and signaling, the findings are analyzed to reveal the range of environmental initiatives and the underlying explanation of themes. Current strategies and future directions for universities are indicated. Findings are that higher education is a key mechanism in business and society for finding and harnessing knowledge-based solutions. The challenge is that institutionalization has created resistance to change through coercive, normative, and mimetic isomorphism, along with rhetoric. Structuration factors should be considered in the context of making positive changes for sustainability in the university sector.

scholarly journals Rediscovering Tomkins’ Polarity Theory: Humanism, Normativism, and the Psychological Basis of Left-Right Ideological Conflict in the U.S. and Sweden

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Nilsson ◽  
John Jost
Keyword(s):  
Social Dominance ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
System Justification ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
The Right ◽  
The U.S

According to Silvan Tomkins’ polarity theory, ideological thought is universally structured by a clash between two opposing worldviews. On the left, a humanistic worldview seeks to uphold the intrinsic value of the person; on the right, a normative worldview holds that human worth is contingent upon conformity to rules. In this article, we situate humanism and normativism within the context of contemporary models of political ideology as a function of motivated social cognition, beliefs about the social world, and personality traits. In four studies conducted in the U.S. and Sweden, normativism was robustly associated with rightist (or conservative) self-placement; conservative issue preferences; resistance to change and acceptance of inequality; right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation; system justification and its underlying epistemic and existential motives to reduce uncertainty and threat; and a lack of openness, emotionality, and honesty-humility. Humanism exhibited the opposite relations to most of these constructs, but it was largely unrelated to epistemic and existential needs. Humanism was strongly associated with preferences for equality, openness to change, and low levels of authoritarianism, social dominance, and general and economic system justification. We conclude that polarity theory possesses considerable potential to explain how conflicts between worldviews shape contemporary politics.

scholarly journals MANAGING BANKING INDUSTRY CHANGES UNDER THE COVID 19 PANDEMIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (27) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Radović ◽  
Vera Zelenović ◽  
Jelena Vitomir
Keyword(s):  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Change Resistance ◽  
Managing Change ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

The success of a change is valorized by a new state, and whether it will occur depends on several influential factors: environment, management, knowledge, the will to change, resistance to change, entrepreneurial spirit, motivation, risk. Managing change and making the right decisions is much easier when the path ahead of the manager is known. In contingencies, such as the global pandemic, Covid 19, banks' readiness to respond to challenges and manage change that threatens to overcome them is evident, which is the subject of this research. The aim of the research is to show the importance of banks in the course of starting to reorganize themselves and manage changes in a way that will enable them to survive in the market. For those banks that were not ready for changes, new business opportunities and customer satisfaction were lost, and employees were inefficient.

Effectiveness of Critical Discourse Analysis to Solve Constrained Employment Relations

2021 ◽  
pp. 377-394
Author(s):  
Dipak Kumar Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Relationship Power ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Right

In employment relationship, power is a dominant construct. Power per se can have adverse effect on institutional employment, which even culminates to conflict and resistance to change. When organizations are constrained by the negativity of workers' power it is difficult to bring order, and even to offer the right solution for lack of problem identification. This book chapter explains the process of interventions in two organizations to solve the problem of constrained employment relations, pertaining to workers' redeployment subsequent to technological change. The author in this case played the role of an interventionist and using primarily the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) could evolve a solution, which ultimately could redeploy most of the erring workmen in restructured job positions, even outside their job family. The book chapter is unique in application of CDA in specific issues pertaining to constrained employment relations. The chapter at the end also discusses on implications for practice of CDA in organizational research, particularly to resolve conflict in employment relations. However, the paper has the inherent limitations as the results are very much organization specific.

scholarly journals Beyond ‘Liberals’ and ‘Conservatives’: Complexity in Ideology, Moral Intuitions, and Worldview among Swedish Voters

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Nilsson ◽  
Henry Montgomery ◽  
Girts Dimdins ◽  
Maria Sandgren ◽  
Arvid Erlandsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Moral Intuitions ◽  
Green Party ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
Social Ideology ◽  
The Right ◽  
Progressive Party

This research investigated the congruence between the ideologies of political parties and the ideological preferences ( N = 1515), moral intuitions ( N = 1048), and political values and worldviews ( N = 1345) of diverse samples of Swedish adults who voted or intended to vote for the parties. Logistic regression analyses yielded support for a series of hypotheses about variations in ideology beyond the left–right division. With respect to social ideology, resistance to change and binding moral intuitions predicted stronger preference for a social democratic (vs. progressive) party on the left and weaker preference for a social liberal (vs. social conservative or liberal–conservative) party on the right. With respect to political values and broader worldviews, normativism and low acceptance of immigrants predicted the strongest preference for a nationalist party, while environmentalism predicted the strongest preference for a green party. The effects were generally strong and robust when we controlled for left–right self–placements, economic ideology, and demographic characteristics. These results show that personality variation in the ideological domain is not reducible to the simplistic contrast between ‘liberals’ and ‘conservatives’, which ignores differences between progressive and non–progressive leftists, economic and green progressives, social liberal and conservative rightists, and nationalist and non–nationalist conservatives.

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