scholarly journals Water institutional reforms: theory and practice

Water Policy ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Maria Saleth ◽  
Ariel Dinar
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Water Institutions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Diagnostic Framework

This paper aims to set the stage with an outline of the conceptual, analytical and theoretical aspects of water institutional reforms and a synthesis of the main findings from the reform experiences of six countries: Australia, Chile, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Utilizing the latest developments in the literature on the subject, this paper presents the analytics of unbundling water institutions to show their endogenous and exogenous linkages, the transaction cost approach as a diagnostic framework for understanding the role of factors affecting water institutions, and a stage-based perspective to provide insights into the internal mechanics and dynamics evident in the process of water institutional change. Using this analytical framework and theoretical approach, this paper also identifies a few practically relevant principles for reform design and implementation. Based on a review of country reform experiences, the paper also synthesizes reform theories with actual practices by providing anecdotal evidence for various theoretical postulates and practical reform principles.

Linkages within institutional structure: an empirical analysis of water institutions

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. MARIA SALETH ◽  
ARIEL DINAR
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
International Panel ◽  
Water Institutions ◽  
The World ◽  
Institutional Linkages

AbstractTaking water institutions as an illustrative context, this paper attempts a quantitative analysis of the structural and functional linkages within institutional structure and indicates their performance implications and strategic importance for promoting institutional reforms. Against an overview of existing empirical works on institutions in general and water institutions in particular, the paper develops an analytical framework for specifying alternative models of institution–performance interaction within the water sector under different assumptions concerning institutional linkages and their structural properties. These models are, then, empirically estimated using the perception-based information provided by an international panel of 127 water experts from 43 countries and regions around the world. Based on the model results, the paper offers quantitative evidences for institutional linkages and their performance implications, and concludes by indicating their policy roles, especially in developing some reform design and implementation principles useful to overcome the technical and political economy constraints for institutional reforms.

scholarly journals Beyond the academic’s dilemma: Transdisciplinary and existential perspectives of re-enchantment

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rennie Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Dialectical Tensions ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

The purpose of this article is to stimulate debate about the developing paradoxes and dilemmas facing the university academic. This article argues that academics are increasingly being steeped in an inauthentic existence due, at least partly to, egocentrism and sociocentrism. A modest transdisciplinary- existential analytical framework is applied as an intellectual method to reflect on the prevailing monological perspectives stifling the role of academics, in working towards building a more sustainable future. Using concepts such as the subject, facticity and transcendence, the article investigates the dialectical tensions between some of these monological perspectives and proposes avenues to create new possibilities to progress the role of the academic. The article argues that the multilogical perspectives of transdisciplinary thinking and the empowering perspectives of existential thinking can provide academics with the necessary conceptual tools to transcend egocentrism and sociocentrism. While it is likely that new contradictions will emerge as a result of this synthesis, open-minded academics are urged to ignite their imaginative powers and take up the challenge of creating and acting on new possibilities. A transdisciplinary-existential dialectical approach can provide a richer understanding of present dilemmas in academia and the world, and suggest more satisfying paths to a sustainable future.

scholarly journals Healthcare Signage Design: A Review on Recommendations for Effective Signing Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Rodrigues ◽  
Rita Coelho ◽  
João Manuel R. S. Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Guidelines And Recommendations

This article provides a set of recommendations, selected from the systematic literature review carried out, regarding signage systems for healthcare institutions that can be used for designing or redesigning more competent signage systems. The signage systems in healthcare settings are usually poorly designed due to the expansion of the original facilities, a lack of awareness of existing guidelines by the developers, and a lack of agreement between the existing recommendations. There are several guidelines and recommendations available in the literature; however, each work was developed for specific cultural contexts, so there is a lack of uniformity among them. Hence, there is a need to uniformize the guidelines for signage design in healthcare, in order to provide supportive information for developers to build and implement effective and efficient signage systems. This study examined the available literature on the subject and established a set of guidelines organized in categories to help the design process. A literature review was conducted, and 34 selected publications were analyzed from which recommendations were created. A best practices manual was also studied and used as the analytical framework to establish the design categories of the developed recommendations. This review resulted in guidelines divided into nine design categories that should be considered in the design and implementation process of signage systems in healthcare facilities.

Costs and Prices, Corporate Competitive Strategies and Regions

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
G L Clark
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Industrial Restructuring ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Market Strategies ◽  
Spatial Impacts

This paper makes a number of contributions to our understanding of industrial restructuring and regional adjustment. A distinction is made between restructuring and economic growth and development, with the author arguing that restructuring is more than autonomous economic change; it is a process of deliberate or planned structural reconfiguration. An analytical framework is used to understand the logic of restructuring from the vantage point of the competitive strategies of firms; how firms plan their market strategies given the nature and costs of production, market prices, and the temporal pattern of economic events. The author is also very much concerned with understanding the role of regions in restructuring, moving from the spatial impacts of restructuring through to an understanding of why regions have a significant role in shaping the design and implementation of restructuring, and then to an appreciation of the increasing status of regions in the competitive strategies of corporations. Throughout, reference is made to the experience of North America. In conclusion, however, some observations are made about the relevance of this framework to other countries.

scholarly journals Information Need and Information User: Theory and Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tran Thi Thanh Van
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Information Need ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
User Community ◽  
Theoretical System ◽  
Information User ◽  
Concept Classification ◽  
Role Of Information

This study discusses theoretical and practical issues of information needs and information users. The study presents a theoretical system about information needs and information users, including: concept, classification and role of information users; concept, classification, characteristics, and factors affecting information needs. The study affirms the practical values of information user's information needs for the development of society, the information and library industry and information user community.

scholarly journals The evolution of public relations research –an overview

1970 ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
Johanna Fawkes
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insight Into

The field of public relations is often misunderstood, due to its hybridity, complexity and competing perspectives within the field of scholarship. This essay, which is based on extensive engagement with literature conducted over decades of teaching and researching the subject, outlines the main schools of thought within the field. These are summarised as a) Excellence; b) Advocacy; c) Dialogue; and d) Critical and Cultural approaches. Each perspective reflects variations in understanding of the role of public relations in theory and practice, ranging from an idealised conceptualisation of the practitioner to a demonised view of the practice. It refers throughout to different attitudes to ethics found within these schools, as approaches to ethics provide insight into understandings of the role of public relations within society. The piece concludes with reflections on the growing engagement with promotional culture and emerging research directions.

scholarly journals On the role of interdisciplinary, transdiscliprinary, and philosophical knowledge in modern higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 01017
Author(s):  
Zoya D. Denikina ◽  
Anatoly V. Denikin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
System Level ◽  
Practical Solution ◽  
Classical Education ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Subject

The article traces the substantial and functional evolution of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge and its integration into the theory and practice of higher education. The method of distinguishing between classical, non-classical, and post-non-classical rationality is used to disclose the specifics of university transdisciplinarity. The proposed hypothesis suggests that in non-classical and post-non-classical education, different types of studied objectivity exist while when the subject boundaries are fixed, various forms of subject uncertainty are observed. Difficulties in the practice of non-classical education are associated with the objective of overcoming double uncertainty. In one case, the onedimensionality of the study depends on the choice of ontological conditions that are only sufficient for a given monodiscipline. In another case, the task of combining the intervals of studying a subject in the framework of multidisciplinary knowledge is being solved. Transdisciplinarity manifests primarily through educational modeling technologies. What can be attributed to the specifics of post-non-classical education is the study of two types of objectivity: the system-level reality in cases of severe disequilibrium and the system-operational reality in cases of mild disequilibrium. Thus, the subject area demonstrates substantial and systemic uncertainty. It is concluded that the study of systemic objects as a part of the educational process requires interdisciplinary efforts and is carried out in line with the following scheme: problem – project – concept – practical solution.

scholarly journals An Investigation of Expectation Gap between Independent Auditors and Users from Auditing Services Related to the Quality of Auditing Services Based on Their Role and Professional Features

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatah Behzadian ◽  
Naser Izadi Nia
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Expectations Gap ◽  
Expectation Gap ◽  
Audit Firms

In this research, using an analytical framework on factors affecting the quality of auditing services, we consider factors that affect an expectations gap in providers and users of auditing services related to factors affecting auditing quality. Effective factors studied in this regard are professional features, including the professional role of individuals in the auditing process (auditors against preparers of financial statements), professional experience of individuals, professional rating and size of auditing firms. The first statistical society consists of certified public accountants (CPAs) working in the auditing organization and audit firms in Iran, and the second statistical society consists of all investment companies that operate under the supervision of the Tehran Stock Exchange Organization. Based on the results of the research, the role of professionals in the auditing process is not effective as an independent auditor or financial statements provider, as well as the professional experience of individuals in the expectations gap from factors affecting auditing quality, while the size and qualities of the auditing firms were influenced by the expectations gap of individuals in the field of auditing regulation.

scholarly journals Study on the Factors Affecting the Embroidery Pattern Style of Miao in Leishan

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Zeyang Peng ◽  
Kehui Deng ◽  
Yilin Wei ◽  
Ziqi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

In response to the factor that affects the evolution of Leishan Miao embroidery style, this paper, based on field inspections and consulting related county chronicles, characterizes its style from two aspects: pattern composition and content, and tries to characterize its style from the perspectives of craftsmanship and the social role of embroidery women. By reviewing the angles of change, and analyzing the reasons for the evolution of embroidery styles, this research has found that the style of Miao embroidery can be summarized as the proper use of continuous and separate patterns, as well as the fusion of reality and illusion in the subject matter. The study holds that the comprehensive application of stitching is the technical guarantee for the evolution of styles. At the same time, the transformation of embroidery women's social roles from “women weavers” to “women farmers” and then to “businesswomen” is the potential motivation for the evolution of embroidery styles.

Resilience in the context of Italian micro and small wineries: an empirical study

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abel Duarte Alonso ◽  
Alessandro Bressan
Keyword(s):  
Vital Role ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Knowledge Gap ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Entrepreneurial Culture ◽  
Trust In Institutions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
European Sector

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study resilience among micro and small wineries. While the subject of organisational resilience has drawn the attention or numerous researchers, there is an argument that limited empirical evidence exist to support different theoretical constructs in regards to resilience. Thus, the paper addresses a knowledge gap. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire was designed to investigate strategies that can help businesses to become more resilient to contemporary challenges. A total of 273 owners and managers of Italian wineries participated in the study. Findings – Increasing costs, institutional barriers and the effects of the economic crisis on consumers’ wine purchases are perceived as most serious challenges. One fundamental impact is respondents’ loss of trust in institutions. Alternatives such as diversifying, knowledge of foreign languages and educational activities emerged as crucial to improve wineries’ performance, and therefore build their resilience. Practical implications – These findings highlight the vital role of institutions in developing supporting strategies to nurture an entrepreneurial culture among owners and managers of a very important group of businesses. Originality/value – By empirically investigating ways to achieve resilience among businesses of a traditional European sector, the study addresses a knowledge gap identified in contemporary research. The study also contributes to the development of the theory of resilience, for instance, by considering the literature on the theory of resilience, considering and adopting factors affecting micro and small enterprises’ resilience and identifying some of these factors in the context of micro and small wine enterprises.

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