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Article
Publication date: 11 November 2019

Visualizing community pride: engaging community through photo- and video-voice methods

Eric Ping Hung Li, Ajnesh Prasad, Cristalle Smith, Ana Gutierrez, Emily Lewis and Betty Brown

The purpose of this paper is to consider the potential of visual (i.e. non-textual) research methods in community-based participatory research.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to consider the potential of visual (i.e. non-textual) research methods in community-based participatory research.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors draw on a case illustration of a photo- and video-voice campaign involving rural communities in British Columbia, Canada.

Findings

The authors find that visual research methods, in the form of photo- and video-voice campaigns, allow participants to form ties between their community and the broader sociocultural, natural and political milieu in which their community is located. The authors highlight the benefits of using such methodological approaches to capture an emic perspective of community building.

Originality/value

The contribution of this study is twofold. First, this study uses a photo- and video-voice campaign to showcase the role of visuals in articulating community pride – that is, how locals construct identity – and a sense of belongingness. Second, by focusing its analytical gaze on the idea of “community,” this paper revisits the importance of active involvement of research participants in the execution of empirical studies. Ultimately, the authors urge organization and management studies scholars, as well as those working in the social sciences more broadly, to further explore the value of innovative community-based research approaches in future work.

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Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, vol. 14 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/QROM-03-2018-1621
ISSN: 1746-5648

Keywords

  • Photo-voice
  • Community pride
  • Community-based participatory research
  • Rural communities

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Book part
Publication date: 23 November 2020

Legality of Drones under LOAC and International Law

Vivek Seharwat

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Drones and the Law
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-248-220200002
ISBN: 978-1-80043-249-9

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Book part
Publication date: 13 July 2016

The Enemy of My Friend Is Easy to Remember: Balance as a Compression Heuristic

Matthew E. Brashears and Laura Aufderheide Brashears

Balance Theory has accumulated an impressive record of empirical confirmation at both the micro- and macro-levels. Yet, it is unclear why humans consistently prefer…

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Purpose

Balance Theory has accumulated an impressive record of empirical confirmation at both the micro- and macro-levels. Yet, it is unclear why humans consistently prefer balanced relations when imbalance offers the opportunity to reap material rewards. We argue that balance is preferred because it functions as a “compression heuristic,” allowing networks to be more easily encoded in, and recalled from, memory.

Methodology/approach

We present the results of a novel randomized laboratory experiment using nearly 300 subjects. We evaluate the independent and joint effects of degree of balance/imbalance and presence/absence of kin compression heuristics on network recall.

Findings

We find that memory for relationship valence is more accurate for balanced, rather than imbalanced, networks and that relationship existence and relationship valence are separable cognitive elements. We also use comparisons between kin and non-kin networks to suggest that humans are implicitly aware of the conditions under which imbalanced networks will be most durable.

Research limitations/implications

We show that the tension/strain postulated to generate mental and behavioral responses to increase balance likely stems from cognitive limitations. More broadly, this connects balance theory to models of human cognition and evolution and suggests that human general processing ability may have evolved in response to social, rather than physical, challenges.

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Advances in Group Processes
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0882-614520160000033001
ISBN: 978-1-78635-041-1

Keywords

  • Social networks
  • balance theory
  • cognition
  • memory

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Article
Publication date: 22 December 2020

Lesson study and the long-term impact on teacher professional community development

Emily Lewanowski-Breen, Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain and Maria Meehan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long-term impact of participating in school-based lesson study on mathematics teachers' professional community.

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long-term impact of participating in school-based lesson study on mathematics teachers' professional community.

Design/methodology/approach

A study was conducted with six mathematics teachers, from two post-primary schools in the Republic of Ireland, following up on their participation in school-based lesson study over the academic year 2012/13 (see Ni Shuilleabhain, 2016). Qualitative data were generated through one-to-one, semi-structured interviews with the participating teachers and analysed using an empirical framework for teacher community formation (Grossman et al., 2001).

Findings

Analysis of the interview responses suggests that the mathematics teachers in both schools, Doone and Crannog, had developed a mature professional community during their participation in lesson study in 2012/13. Furthermore, the research finds that, in the absence of any other professional development intervention, both teacher communities have been sustained at this level six years later. These findings suggest that a lesson study may serve as a potential structure to foster the development of sustainable professional communities within subject-based teacher groups.

Originality/value

While a lesson study has been shown to support the development of teacher professional communities, previous research has not addressed the sustainability of the communities which emerge. This study, therefore, adds to the existing literature by investigating teachers' perceptions of the long-term impact of lesson study participation on their professional community.

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International Journal for Lesson & Learning Studies, vol. 10 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLLS-09-2020-0059
ISSN: 2046-8253

Keywords

  • Teacher professional community
  • Lesson study
  • Teacher learning
  • Professional development
  • Mathematics education

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Publication date: 17 February 2015

Implementing Institutional Change: Flexible Work and Team Processes in a White Collar Organization

Kelly Chermack, Erin L. Kelly, Phyllis Moen and Samantha K. Ammons

The purpose of this chapter was to examine the implementation of a flexible work initiative that attempted to challenge two institutionalized precepts of contemporary…

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Purpose

The purpose of this chapter was to examine the implementation of a flexible work initiative that attempted to challenge two institutionalized precepts of contemporary white-collar workplaces: the gendered ideal worker norm, with its expectation of the primacy of paid work over family and personal life, and the assumption of managerial control over employees’ schedules and work location.

Methodology/approach

Using ethnographic and interview data, how the Results Only Work Environment (ROWE) was experienced by employees in four different teams within the Best Buy, Co., Inc. corporate headquarters was explored.

Findings

Comparing more and less successful implementation across teams, results suggested that collective institutional work is required for the emergence of new norms, expectations, and legitimated practices. Findings indicated that managers’ task-specific knowledge – their deep experience with the tasks that the team is charged with completing – is a structural condition that facilitates managers’ trust in employees and encourages team experimentation with new practices.

Research limitations

Data for this study was limited to one organization and four teams. Future research should include similar organizational change efforts in other organizations and in larger teams.

Practical/social implications

These findings may promote a better understanding, among researchers and practitioners, of the importance of manager knowledge and background and how this appears to be key to achieving institutional change.

Originality/value

This research is an example of an innovative approach to workplace flexibility and applies an institutional theory lens to investigate variation in the implementation of organizational change.

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Work and Family in the New Economy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0277-283320150000026019
ISBN: 978-1-78441-630-0

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  • Institutional change
  • flexible work
  • ideal worker norm
  • control

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Publication date: 17 October 2017

The Ostroms and Hayek as Theorists of Complex Adaptive Systems: Commonality and Complementarity

Paul Lewis

This chapter uses the theory of complex systems as a conceptual lens through which to compare the work of Friedrich Hayek with that of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom. It is…

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This chapter uses the theory of complex systems as a conceptual lens through which to compare the work of Friedrich Hayek with that of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom. It is well known that, from the 1950s onwards, Hayek conceptualised the market as a complex adaptive system. It is argued in this chapter that, while the Ostroms began explicitly to describe polycentric systems as a class of complex adaptive system from the mid-to-late 1990s onwards, they had in fact developed an account of polycentricity as displaying most if not all of the hallmarks of organised complexity long before that time. The Ostromian and Hayekian approaches can thus be seen to share a good deal in common, with both portraying important aspects of society – the market economy in the case of Hayek, and public economies, legal and political systems, and environment resources in the case of the Ostroms – as complex rather than simple systems. Aside from helping to bring out this aspect of the Ostroms’ work, using the theory of complex systems as a framework for comparing the Hayekian and Ostromian approaches serves two other purposes. First, it can be used to show how one widely criticised aspect of Hayek’s theory of society as a complex system, namely his account of cultural evolution via group selection, can be strengthened by an appeal to the work of Elinor Ostrom. Second, it also helps to resolve a tension – ultimately acknowledged by the Ostroms themselves – between some of their explicit methodological pronouncements and the actual, substantive approach they adopted in their analysis of polycentric systems.

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The Austrian and Bloomington Schools of Political Economy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-213420170000022003
ISBN: 978-1-78714-843-7

Keywords

  • Complexity
  • emergence
  • methodological individualism
  • systems theory JEL Classification: B2, B3, B4, B5, B25M B31, B41

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Publication date: 10 July 2020

Sex, Identities, and Social Media

Katrin Tiidenberg and Emily van der Nagel

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Sex and Social Media
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-406-420201005
ISBN: 978-1-83909-406-4

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Article
Publication date: 2 March 2015

Challenging the concept of risk in relation to women’s entrepreneurship

Anne Laure Humbert and Clare Brindley

This paper aims to challenge the myth of risk-averseness among women entrepreneurs and analyses risk in the context of gender. It explores risk perceptions and examines…

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This paper aims to challenge the myth of risk-averseness among women entrepreneurs and analyses risk in the context of gender. It explores risk perceptions and examines the relationship between the concept of risk and women’s socially attributed roles.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper adopts a qualitative approach, where ten Irish women business owners were interviewed, that encouraged them to talk about their entrepreneurial experiences. The research design aimed to elicit data concerning how gender and the socio-economic context influenced risk.

Findings

Risk is shown as a gendered concept which needs to be widened to suit the experiences of women entrepreneurs and the influences of the gendered expectations of care dictated by the socio-economic environment.

Practical implications

Risk as a concept needs to be expanded to go beyond financial risk. The different types of risk encountered by women should be addressed by policy to promote a further growth of women-led enterprises and support those considering self-employment.

Originality/value

The paper develops an understanding of risk among women entrepreneurs in their socio-economic context. It challenges the viewpoint of seeing women entrepreneurs as risk-averse and thus leading to low-growth prospects for their business ventures.

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Gender in Management: An International Journal, vol. 30 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-10-2013-0120
ISSN: 1754-2413

Keywords

  • Gender
  • Women
  • Risk
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Motherhood
  • Socio-economic context

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Article
Publication date: 11 June 2018

Mental health and policing interventions: implementation and impact

Eddie Kane and Emily Evans

Interactions between individuals experiencing mental health (MH) problems and the police are complex and may affect the way in which both parties react to and experience…

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Interactions between individuals experiencing mental health (MH) problems and the police are complex and may affect the way in which both parties react to and experience the interactions. The purpose of this paper is to examine three commonly used interventions to improve these interactions.

Design/methodology/approach

Mixed methods were used to examine embedded MH professionals in command and control rooms, Liaison and Diversion Teams and Street Triage. The authors also reviewed the use of Section 136 (s136) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (2007) during the period these interventions were deployed.

Findings

There was strong support for these interventions but also gaps, resource and operational issues that need to be addressed if they are to have optimal effect on delivering appropriate diversion from the justice system, reduce reoffending and improve MH outcomes for individuals. The use of s136 remained relatively constant.

Originality/value

Despite a recent increase in the level of investment related to these interventions the evidence base remains limited. This study provides baseline of research evidence for those who commission and provide services for individuals experiencing mental ill health and who are in contact with the justice system.

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Mental Health Review Journal, vol. 23 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/MHRJ-10-2017-0046
ISSN: 1361-9322

Keywords

  • Policing
  • Liaison and Diversion
  • Embedded staff
  • Section 136
  • Street Triage

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Publication date: 10 December 2018

Index

Tony Langham

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Reputation Management
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-607-120181015
ISBN: 978-1-78756-607-1

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