The short-term bias in policy programs for small business: exploring discontinuation of a successful growth program

PurposeWhen a successful policy intervention for small firm growth is ending, a continuation decision may be relevant. However, immediately after program termination, solid analysis of the growth of the treated firms in comparison with similar firms cannot be produced, so decision makers rely on less valid data. Moreover, the decision process is challenging because many players, alternative programs, decision levels and financial sources tend to be part of the process. In such a complex and volatile policy environment, successful programs may well be discontinued despite a clear continuation need. The purpose of the paper is to explore this weakness.Design/methodology/approachThe paper identifies four fundamental principles that are conducive for a rational continuation choice: “additionality,” “substitution,” “need” and “success”. It argues that if these principles are fulfilled, the rational choice would be to continue the program. To demonstrate that this rational outcome does not always happen in practice, an extreme case fulfilling the four principles well was selected.FindingsThe program aimed to enhance growth in small firms through manager training. It encompassed about 700 growth-oriented small firms in three years and was comprehensively evaluated after program termination. This evaluation demonstrated a high success rate of the program in all respects, including in terms of achieved growth compared to a control group of similar firms.Originality/valueThis discontinuation case suggests that non-rational reasoning plays a significant role in contemporary complex and volatile policy environments, which again points to a need for reform in this policy area.

KREATIVITAS SENI BATIK DI DESA WISATA JARUM KECAMATAN BAYAT KLATEN JAWA TENGAH PADA MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

The batik group in Jarum village is a group that has had batik skills and play a role in maintaining the existence of Jarum village as a tourist village. But entering the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, the batik group in Jarum village experienced many complex problems related to creativity in the development of batik products and management of branding promotion governance in the Covid-19 pandemic. The urgency of the situation, then through the implementation of the P3WILSEN Program from ISI Yogyakarta is trying to offer alternative programs for developing batik designs and products, as well as the assistance of social media management. In the implementation of art counselling activities, this time using the method of literature studies, discussions, lectures, and experimental methods. The application of this method is intended so that the way obtained in the learning process gets optimal results. The result of the P3WILSEN program is creating a new creation batik motif Mojo Arum that has been registered in Intellectual Property Rights and making promotion branding Nunggak Semi. It is expected that in the future, there will be follow-up with the implementation of other mentoring programs that synergize and be sustainable. Kelompok batik di Desa Jarum merupakan kelompok yang telah memiliki keterampilan membatik dan berperan dalam menjaga eksistensi Desa Jarum sebagai desa wisata. Namun memasuki era pandemi Covid-19, kelompok batik di Desa Jarum banyak mengalami permasalahan yang cukup kompleks, terkait dengan kreativitas dalam pengembangan produk batik dan manajemen tata kelola promosi branding di pandemi Covid-19. Adanya urgensi permasalah tersebut, maka melalui pelaksanaan Program P3wilsen dari ISI Yogyakarta ini mencoba menawarkan alternatif program pengembangan desain dan produk batik, serta pendampingan manajemen media sosial. Dalam pelaksanaan kegiatan penyuluhan seni kali ini digunakan metode kajian literatur, diskusi, ceramah, dan metode eksperimen. Penerapan metode ini dimaksudkan agar cara yang diperoleh dalam proses belajar mendapatkan hasil yang optimal. Hasil capaian Kegiatan P3wilsen, yaitu pembuatan motif batik kreasi baru Mojo Arum yang telah terdaftar dalam Hak Kekayaan Intelektual dan menciptakan branding promosi Nunggak Semi. Diharapkan ke depan terdapat tindak lanjut dengan pelaksanaan program pendampingan lainnya yang saling bersinergi dan berkesinambungan.

Innovation to what end? Exploring the dynamic landscape of Texas teacher preparation pathways

The teacher education and preparation marketplace is a complex mix of traditional and alternative programs. Though prior studies have identified a great deal of variation across these programs, an analysis of innovation has been limited. Drawing on theories of organizational innovation, and specifically, dimensions of innovation related to organizational structure, processes, and outcomes, we conduct an exploratory study of innovation in Texas’ teacher preparation marketplace. This descriptive study of teacher preparation programs includes an analysis of state and national data across three years (2014-2017). Data also include results from a content analysis of 30 sample program websites. Although most programs met accountability requirements, we found few programs signaled innovation related to program, teacher, and workforce characteristics. Rather, we identified organizational assimilation as programs adopted similar features to remain competitive. Our analysis suggests programs should critically unpack what it means to be innovative in a dynamic and competitive teacher preparation marketplace.

Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) with Different Application: A Systematic Mapping

It is very essential to develop the design and structure of Real time operating system (RTOS) exclusively if we are using this for some special tenders. There any researches believed that (RTOS) are conventional approach to designing devices (RTOS) are used to facilitate to implement different criteria and projects such as time to constrained products, the clustering, the fire alarm system, the wireless sensors powered by renewable energy sensors powered, the stability integrated modular Avionics (IMA) and the alternative programs. In this research, several publications have investigated to perceive the performance of RTOS. These study emphases on a review of RTOS in different criteria and projects to evaluate their performance on different Oss and computing platforms. In this publication data is collected comprehensively factors. In this paper, statistics and results helped in implementation of a more engrossed technique towards the implementation and improvement of RTOS. This paper, highest RTOS are clustering and performance for all applications, white alternate programs measured as least important.

Coronanomics: Strategi Revitalisasi UMKM Menggunakan Teknologi Digital di Tengah Pandemi Covid-19

The increasing spread of Covid-19 has had a tremendous impact on various sectors, especially in the health and economy sectors. MSMEs spread across Indonesia have a significant role in economic growth in Indonesia, and are also affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Researchers saw the importance of implementing digital marketing and transactions in the sustainability of MSME businesses in Jember Regency during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research uses a qualitative approach, namely literature study and descriptive study using a sample of informants from MSME actors in Jember Regency. The results of this study prove that the application of digital marketing and transactions has a positive influence on the sustainability of MSMEs in Jember Regency while still paying attention to the rules of social distancing. So it is deemed necessary to be implemented in the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic. In addition, Government support is needed in terms of accelerating the revitalization of digitalization in MSMEs, both in terms of policies and program alignments for MSMEs. Researchers at the end provide several alternative programs that can be run as a form of initiating national economic resilience through the revitalization of MSMEs.

Preventing School Failure and School Dropout

This chapter focuses on strengths-based approaches to preventing school failure and dropout. The underlying assumption is that the most effective way to prevent school failure is to simultaneously enhance school completion by building social and emotional skills and enhancing both academic and vocational development. A tiered model is used to introduce prevention strategies for all students, remediation for students who are at risk, and recovery of those who have dropped out. The first tier encompasses schoolwide interventions that increase student engagement and promote student aspirations. The second tier involves targeted prevention programs for students who are at increased risk of school failure. The final tier is designed to provide high-risk students and those who have dropped out the support they need to transition back into school or alternative programs. School failure is a complex problem that requires tiered models of services to effectively deliver comprehensive programming options.

From sociology to social theory: Critical cosmopolitanism, modernity, and post-universalism

This article focuses on the critical cosmopolitan aim of transcending sociology’s provincial outlook, which mistakenly universalizes Western societies’ historical experiences and normative aspirations. The authors argue that a change in perspective, from sociology to social theory, is crucial in this regard. While a sociological inflection carries a primary investment in the analysis of changes cosmopolitanism brings to the social world, social theory addresses the ontological and epistemological features that these changes precipitate. To demonstrate this, the authors offer a condensed reconstruction of critical cosmopolitan sociology, presenting Beck’s foundational formulation, outlining three main criticisms it faces and alternative programs stemming from them, and demonstrating how Delanty’s immanent-transcendent approach overcomes these limitations. To conclude, the authors address a crucial onto-epistemological challenge facing contemporary cosmopolitan scholarship, namely, how to mediate between the particular and the universal.