From civic institution to community place: the meaning of the public market in modern America

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy B. Kurland ◽  
Linda S. Aleci
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
Public Market

scholarly journals Hygienic-sanitary conditions of food sold in the public market and open market in the municipality of Arapiraca-AL

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Lucineide Santos da Silva ◽  
Claudimary Bispo dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Open Market ◽  
Check List ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Market ◽  
Sanitary Conditions

As feiras e mercados públicos oferecem diversos produtos e serviços em um único local, revelam hábitos e manifestações culturais, sendo de grande importância sócio-econômico-cultural para o município. Porém, os alimentos muitas vezes são comercializados em condições que propiciam a contaminação por microrganismos quando não são adotadas práticas adequadas de manipulação e exposição. Sendo assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar as condições higiênico-sanitárias dos alimentos perecíveis comercializados na feira livre e no mercado público do município de Arapiraca-AL. Foram realizadas duas visitas semanais em dezembro/2018, uma visita no Mercado Público, e a outra na feira livre, que ocorre no dia de segunda-feira, localizada nas ruas próximas ao Mercado Público. Os alimentos avaliados foram frutas e hortaliças, carnes e pescados, através de um roteiro de inspeção (check-list) baseado na Resolução da Diretoria Colegiada – RDC nº 216/2004 da Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária – ANVISA, cujos itens selecionados foram condições de comercialização, condições de armazenamento, condições de higiene dos manipuladores e das instalações. Na maioria dos aspectos avaliados, principalmente na feira livre, os resultados foram insatisfatórios, devido ao não cumprimento das normas vigentes. Conclui-se que a feira livre não possui estrutura mínima para que possam ser aplicadas as normas higiênico-sanitárias na venda de carnes e pescados e o mercado público apesar de ter uma melhor infraestrutura, os feirantes desrespeitam essas normas.

Assessing performance-use preferences through an institutional logics lens

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-20
Author(s):  
Benard Ngoye ◽  
Vicenta Sierra ◽  
Tamyko Ysa
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Measurement Systems ◽  
Cognitive Frames ◽  
Public Market ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Performance Measurement Systems

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of shared cognitive frames, in particular, that of institutional logics, on the deployment and use of performance measurement systems (PMSs) in the public sector.Design/methodology/approachUsing novel priming techniques derived from behavioral and social psychology, three institutional logics – the public, market-managerial and professional logics – are differentially surfaced in three independent experimental groups. The influence of these primed institutional logics on performance measurement use preferences are then empirically assessed using appropriate analysis of variance techniques.FindingsContrary to theoretical predictions, the paper reveals logic congruence regarding some uses of PMSs in the public sector, and divergence regarding others. Individuals applying a public logic were more likely to propose performance measurement use for strategic planning or strategic alignment; while those applying a professional logic were more likely to propose performance measurement use for learning, compared to otherwise primed individuals.Research limitations/implicationsConsidering the sample size and the novelty of the priming tools, it is feasible that other potentially significant effects may have been missed.Originality/valueThe paper addresses a gap in literature regarding the influence of shared cognitive frames on performance measurement use in public sector organizations. The paper further presents priming techniques embedded within an experimental design as an appropriate method for the micro-level study of attitudes, preferences and judgments in the public sector.

Constraints of Time

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gergely Baics
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Cycles ◽  
Problem Of Time ◽  
Public Markets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Food Shopping ◽  
Public Market ◽  
New Yorkers

This chapter addresses the problem of time by examining the temporal geography of household provisioning. It scrutinizes the seasonal, weekly, and daily schedules of food shopping, outlining how complementary rhythms provided steady supplies to customers, while also sustaining permanent and stable trade at the public markets. The provisioning journey was structured not only by the distance one traveled to the public market but also by the conjunctures of time. Just as public markets distributed all varieties of foodstuffs to New Yorkers at a dozen privileged locations, their year-round business agglomerated food supplies of widely different seasonal cycles. Not surprisingly, seasonality first and foremost determined the frequency of residents' marketing visits.

The Purpose of the EU Procurement Directives: Ends, Means and the Implications for National Regulatory Space for Commercial and Horizontal Procurement Policies

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 1-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Arrowsmith
Keyword(s):  
Public Procurement ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Market ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Do So

AbstractThere currently appears to be considerable confusion amongst regulators and stakeholders over the purpose of the EU’s directives on public procurement and lack of a clear vision of what the directives seek to achieve. Against this background this article has two objectives. First, it seeks to provide a framework for understanding the directives’ functions and their relationship with national policy. In this respect it identifies the ends and means that the directives do, or could, adopt and/or which have been ascribed to them, and considers the implications of each for national regulatory space. Secondly, for each of the ends and means it suggests a specific legal interpretation of its actual and potential role in the EU’s legal framework.It is argued that the directives seek to promote the internal market and that they seek to do so solely by three means—prohibiting discrimination, implementing transparency, and removing barriers to access. It rejects, on the other hand, certain broader conceptions of the directives, including that they promote a single market by standardising procedures; that they replicate in the public market the competitive process of the private market; and that they seek value for taxpayers’ money. It is argued that rejection of these broader functions has important implications for the scope of national regulatory space, both as regards the ‘commercial’ aspects of public procurement—notably ensuring value for money and an efficient procurement process—and as regards ‘horizontal’ policies in the sense of policies that promote social and environmental objectives through public procurement.

Effectives of private equity and venture capital investments comparing with stock and bond market

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Piotr Zasępa
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Private Equity ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Bond Market ◽  
Capital Investments ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Market ◽  
Equivalent Method ◽  
Rate Of Returns ◽  
Venture Capital Investments

This paper examines approach and possibility of comparison of venture capital rate of returns with specific public benchmarks. Rate of return that are used by the public market analytics do not fit within venture capital cash flow characteristics. One of the methods that are presented in this article is Public Market Equivalent which enable simple comparison of venture capital rate of returns with effects of the public index or bond market for Bond Market Equivalent method.

Biotechnology Venture Investing and Neurodegenerative Medicine: Promise of New Approaches to Cure an Ailing Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dushon DeVere Riley ◽  
Mark Cochran
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Venture Capital ◽  
Neurodegenerative Diseases ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Genetic Knowledge ◽  
Venture Capitalists ◽  
Financial Model ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Market ◽  
Public Health Challenges

Neurodegenerative diseases are one of the leading public health challenges of the next 50 years. Pharmaceutical therapies have traditionally targeted the later stages of neurodegenerative diseases; however, this strategy - as the recent failures of clinical trials for Alzheimer’s drugs have highlighted - has been unsuccessful. Venture capital has underperformed as well during this time, as many new companies have been unable to maintain growth once they reach the public market and have produced less than desirable returns. As a result, venture capitalists have opted for later-stage financing. Nevertheless, new technologies are being developed to answer the question of how to best address neurodegeneration. New tools of detection will allow for much earlier diagnosis and a much greater chance of discovering and applying effective treatments. Realizing that genetic knowledge is insufficient to produce innovative treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, scientists have begun to apply the genetic knowledge attained towards a future of individualized treatments. As these new tools of detection converge with an increased ability to create very precise individual solutions, the risk of successful future investments should come down and provide the potential for outsized returns that have traditionally governed the venture capital financial model.

Improving IPO market still not an exit path

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Steven Burrill
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Going Public ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Market

Recent suggestions that improving IPO activity will lead biotech venture investors to lucrative exits seems to be a bit premature and detached from the reality of these deals. The maxim oft repeated by venture investors has never been truer: IPOs are financing events, not liquidity events. Venture-backed biotechs that are going public are doing so with substantial participation from their venture investors as well as other insiders. This trend is increasing. What’s troubling in all of this is that not only are venture investors not replenishing their war chests through IPOs, they are emptying them because public market investors are unwilling to take on the role of funding the public debuts of these companies without the participation of the venture investors. That means IPOs are failing to generate the returns venture investors need to reinvest in promising new innovative companies. It’s also directing large sums of capital from investors who have traditionally funded early-stage companies into later stage deals where investors see less risk and a faster path to desired returns.

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