scholarly journals Bohemian Cultural Scenes and Creative Development of Chinese Cities: An Analysis of 65 Cities Using Cultural Amenity Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5260
Author(s):  
Jun Wu ◽  
Hao Zheng ◽  
Tong Wang ◽  
Terry Nichols Clark
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Truncated Regression ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Expressive Dimension

There has been a cultural turn in urban development, as an increasing number of scholars are stressing the importance of culture in urban research and policy agendas. Specifically, the bohemian cultural scene could drive an integral cultural policy approach between the cultural scenes city and the creative city approach. Based on amenities data from 65 major Chinese cities, this paper investigates the relationship between bohemian cultural scenes and creative development of Chinese cities as well as regional differences using tree-based model, ordinary least squares (OLS) and truncated regression, and provides conceptual and quantitative support for a bohemian cultural scenes policy. Factor analysis suggests the bohemian cultural scene in Chinese cities consists of two dimensions: self-expression and charisma. According to regression results, bohemian scenes significantly promote urban creative development; specifically, charisma has a stronger impact on urban creativity than self-expression. There are also significant regional differences: northern and eastern cities should focus on the development of the charismatic dimension, creative subjects should adjust away from prudent industriousness and practice dynamic experimentalism; whereas southern cities should focus on the self-expressive dimension, and continue to promote tolerance, inclusivity and expressive practice. Finally, the bohemian scenes policy demands an integral policy approach sensitive to the existing socioeconomic context: policymakers should incorporate specific amenities into existing qualities of local spaces and cultural consumption to stimulate creative development.

Does capacity utilisation influence financial performance? A study of Indian public bus transport companies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shivam Kushwaha ◽  
Shankar Prawesh ◽  
Anand Venkatesh
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Truncated Regression ◽  
Capacity Utilisation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Unit Increase ◽  
Unused Capacity

PurposeThe objective of the paper is to get a better understanding of capacity utilisation (CU) in Indian public bus companies. More specifically, this paper would be measuring CU and identifying the drivers of the same. Finally, the influence of CU on the financial performance of Indian bus companies is examined.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the CU in Indian public bus companies. Truncated regression was used to identify the drivers of CU. Subsequently, the ordinary least squares (OLS) regression was used to analyse the influence of CU on Indian bus companies' financial performance. The period of study was from 2013 to 17.FindingsThe significant drivers of CU were fleet age, passenger lead and fleet utilisation. Additionally, it was found that CU had a significant positive influence on the financial performance of Indian public bus companies and a unit increase in unused capacity has led to an increase of 7% in the operating ratio of the bus companies.Practical implicationsGetting insights into CU, apart from technical efficiency, is of immense use to both public transport researchers and practitioners. Managers of public bus companies should be mindful of CU as it has a significant bearing on their financial performance.Originality/valueThis is the first study in public transport, which establishes the linkage between CU and financial performance. Besides, a modified measure of cost-efficiency has also been conceptualised in this study.

Organisational justice’s relationship with job satisfaction and organisational commitment among Indian police

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanif Qureshi ◽  
James Frank ◽  
Eric G Lambert ◽  
Charles Klahm ◽  
Brad Smith
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
The North ◽  
Organisational Justice ◽  
Distributive Fairness ◽  
Police Agencies ◽  
Indian State

The concept of justice plays an important role in shaping the attitudes of citizens towards criminal justice agencies. Additionally, research indicates that police officers’ perceptions of justice within their own organisation can affect their attitudes towards it. Most of the research to date has focused on police officers in Western nations; however, the effects of organisational justice could be universal (i.e. cut across different police agencies and nations) or contextual (i.e. vary between cultures). The current study examined the association between perceptions of two dimensions of organisational justice, distributive (fairness in outcomes) and procedural (fairness in procedures/processes), with job satisfaction and organisational commitment among Indian police officers. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis of survey data collected from 827 officers stationed in the Sonepat and Rohtak districts in the north Indian state of Haryana indicated that perceptions of distributive justice and procedural justice (in terms of promotions and evaluations) had significant positive relationships with both job satisfaction and affective organisational commitment. The findings support the contention that perceptions of organisational justice have important effects on Indian police officers.

scholarly journals Knowledge Management Practices and Innovation Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Risk-Taking and Proactiveness

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gema García-Piqueres ◽  
Ana-M. Serrano-Bedia ◽  
Marta Pérez-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Process Innovation ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Knowledge Management Practices ◽  
Innovation Outcomes

This study, by the application of a linear regression by ordinary least squares (OLS), aimed to explore the relationships between knowledge management practices (KMP) and innovation outcomes (product, process, organizational, and commercial), and how they can be moderated by two dimensions of the entrepreneurial orientation (proactiveness and risk taking). This empirical study used survey data from a sample of 288 Spanish family small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The results revealed a positive effect of all the KMPs studied for at least one of the innovation variables studied. Regarding the moderating effect of proactiveness and risk taking on the KMP-innovation outcomes relationship, proactiveness negatively moderated the relationship between knowledge creation and product/process innovation. Moreover, a positive moderating effect was found for the case of knowledge application and process innovation. With regard to risk taking, the evidence found was mixed, and confirmed for some KMPs and all the innovation measures, with the exception of process innovation. The only positive moderating effect found was for knowledge storage and product innovation, whereas, contrary to expected, a negative moderating effect was found for knowledge creation, transfer, and application practices and commercial, product, and organizational innovations, respectively.

scholarly journals Intra-urban connectedness, policy mobilities and creative city-making: national conservatism vs. urban (neo)liberalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Borén ◽  
Patrycja Grzyś ◽  
Craig Young
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Policy Mobilities ◽  
The City

This article aims to advance the literature on policy mobility by decentring the primacy of mobility itself and focusing on understanding what cities do in order to ‘arrive at’ localized versions of urban policy in relation to globally circulating ideas around creativity. The paper explores the performance of a particular local ‘creative economy’ in terms of institutional and strategic adjustments, key drivers and individuals and events, and the role of long-term local, national and international influences on ‘creative cityness’. It does this through an analysis of cultural and creativity policy and local stakeholders in the cultural policy scene in Gdańsk, Poland, focusing on the local performative aspects of mobile policies and arguing the need to understand the formation of a ‘common local project’ as a form of intra-urban connectedness alongside inter-urban connectedness. The paper extends the range of contexts in which the ‘creative city’ has been analysed to include post-socialist, post-European Union accession Central and Eastern Europe, thus making an original contribution by studying these issues in the context of the complex multi-scalar relations between the city, national government and the supranational European Union and the ideological conflict between national authoritarian neoliberalism and urban and supranational scale (neo-)liberalism.

scholarly journals Regional Variability within Global-Scale Relations between Passive Microwave Signatures and Raining Clouds over the Tropical Oceans

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 897-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun-Kyoung Seo ◽  
Michael I. Biggerstaff
Keyword(s):  
Brightness Temperature ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Rain Rate ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Northwestern Pacific ◽  
Eof Analysis ◽  
Shallow Convection ◽  
Regional Variability ◽  
Tropical Oceans ◽  
Rain Rates

AbstractEmpirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of radiance vectors associated with emission and scattering indices for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) has been performed to examine the regional variability in relations between brightness temperature and rain rate over portions of the tropical oceans known to exhibit regional differences due to different thermodynamic environments and different large-scale forcing. The TMI indices and rain rates used in this study are the products of the Goddard profiling algorithm (GPROF), version 6. The EOF framework reduces the nine-dimensional space of the brightness temperatures and their polarizations to just two dimensions associated with the EOF coefficients. Vertical profiles of reflectivity from the TRMM precipitation radar (PR) are used to show that the statistically obtained EOFs represent bulk physical characteristics of raining clouds. Hence, EOF analysis provides an efficient framework for diagnosing regional differences in cloud structures that affect brightness temperature–rain-rate relations. The EOF framework revealed fundamental differences in the behavior of TMI surface rain-rate retrievals versus retrievals that are based on the PR aboard the TRMM satellite. In EOF space, TMI rain rates were bimodally distributed, with one mode indicating higher rain rates with greater high-density ice and rainwater content in the cloud and the other mode being consistent with moderately heavy warm rain from shallow convection. In contrast, the PR rain-rate distribution showed high rain rates being assigned over a much greater diversity of cloud structures. The manifold of EOF space constructively shows that, of the regions examined here, the tropical northwestern Pacific Ocean region produces the greatest occurrence of particularly strong cumulonimbus clouds.

scholarly journals Theoretical Foundations of Cultural Policy and Integration of the Idea of Culture in Public Discourse

2014 ◽  
pp. 13-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga N. Astafieva
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Regulatory Mechanisms ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Cultural Image ◽  
Public Status ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The article describes the problems of contemporary policy of Russia in the sphere of culture: public status of culture, recognition of culture as a powerful integration potential of society and a source of creative development of individual. There are analyzed the results of the Year of culture in Russia. There are outlined the main directions of theoretical and expert activities, related to the development of the conceptual basis and regulatory mechanisms of strategic management in the field of culture. It was shown that the achievement of compliance of the developed model of cultural policy with the cultural image of Russia is a long way which was started by the Year of culture.

scholarly journals ANYONE CAN HEAR: RESEARCH POTENTIAL OF CLASSICAL RADIO FORMAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-127
Author(s):  
Tatiana A. TSVETKOVSKAYA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Humanitarian Mission ◽  
Formative Stage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Effective Instrument

The article analyzes the ‘Classical’ format of the radio. For centenary history of the industry’s development, a wealth of factual material has been accumulated and it needs systematization and conceptualization, however classical music is rarely noticed by media researches. The exception is the formative stage of musical broadcasting with organization of the first symphony’s and opera performances’ broadcasting. Meanwhile, there’s a lot of topics, discussion of which can not only interest theorists, but make a significant practical difference. Particular emphasis should be given to the filling of musical air, analyzation of which will help to identify new horizons of applied musicology and to correct radio stations’ strategies. Even though the radio of classical music outlines trends which are specific for academic art in general, there is a number of specialties arising from the nature of mass-media. Duality like this distinguishes the structure of its program too, the quality of which can not be evaluated without taking into account the functional specific of radio. The work of different broadcast’s filling is based on unified principles in accordance with certain set parameters, which helps to choose from basis and form in playlists the compositions of certain styles, genres, characters, duration, connecting them with the elements of sound design and the hosts’ commentaries. Nevertheless, undeniable artistic merit of the content not only ineffective radio of classical music and don’t give them considerable advantages over competitors, but overshadow it to the end of rating. At the same time behind the imaginary easiness of adhering the FM-standards hides the danger of homogenizing the important characteristics of airing compositions, which calls into question the possible realization the humanitarian mission of the classic radio, including the save of cultural heritage, musical education and creative development. In this situation just technology can’t guarantee the result, so it is important to create multi-level approach to the research of radio’s ‘Classical’ format as a original artistic phenomenon and a effective instrument of cultural policy.

scholarly journals Is London Really the Engine-Room? Migration, Opportunity Hoarding and Regional Social Mobility in the UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 240 ◽  
pp. R58-R72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Friedman ◽  
Lindsey Macmillan
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Downward Mobility ◽  
Engine Room ◽  
The Uk ◽  
First Time ◽  
Domestic Migrants

In this paper we explore for the first time regional differences in the patterning of occupational social mobility in the UK. Drawing on data from Understanding Society (US), supported by the Labour Force Survey (LFS), we examine how rates of absolute and relative intergenerational occupational mobility vary across 19 regions of England, Scotland and Wales. Our findings somewhat problematise the dominant policy narrative on regional social mobility, which presents London as the national ‘engine-room’ of social mobility. In contrast, we find that those currently living in Inner London have experienced the lowest regional rate of absolute upward mobility, the highest regional rate of downward mobility, and a comparatively low rate of relative upward mobility into professional and managerial occupations. This stands in stark contrast to Merseyside and particularly Tyne and Wear where rates of both absolute and relative upward mobility are high, and downward mobility is low. We then examine this Inner London effect further, finding that it is driven in part by two dimensions of migration. First, among international migrants, we find strikingly low rates of upward mobility and high rates of downward mobility. Second, among domestic migrants, we find a striking overrepresentation of those from professional and managerial backgrounds. These privileged domestic migrants, our results indicate, are less likely to experience downward mobility than those from similar backgrounds elsewhere in the country. This may be partly explained by higher educational qualifications, but may also be indicative of a glass floor or opportunity hoarding.

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