scholarly journals Public spaces and religion: an idea to debate, a monument to analyze

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (52) ◽  
pp. 279-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emerson Giumbelli
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
First Results ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Abstract The text presents the first results of a study conducted in Brazil about the construction of a monument that represents a Catholic saint. The analysis is developed in two planes. One focuses on discourses that constitute something as “public”. The other focuses on spatial dimensions: how material features influence configurations of public spaces. Each theoretical exploration corresponds to an analysis of certain facets of the monument, which are respectively related to the debates that it has triggered and the architectural solutions generated. The articulation between these two dimensions is inspired by thematizations and debates about what is public art. The aim is to contribute to the theoretical discussion and the empirical analysis of situations involving the presence of religion in public spaces.

Multidimensional performance evaluation styles: budget rigidity and discretionary adjustments

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keita Masuya ◽  
Eisuke Yoshida
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Performance Effects ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Purpose This study aims to reconceptualize performance evaluation styles and reveal their performance effects. Design/methodology/approach Based on a literature review, this study conceptualizes performance evaluation styles on two dimensions: priority of budgetary targets when setting performance criteria and use of accounting information for ex-post performance evaluation. This study discusses two concepts – budget rigidity and discretionary adjustments – to explain these two dimensions, and their optimal combination is then investigated by considering environmental uncertainty. The empirical analysis uses survey data from Japanese firms. Findings The results indicate that suitable combinations of budget rigidity and discretionary adjustments differ depending on environmental uncertainty. As expected, a combination of lower budget rigidity and higher discretionary adjustments is optimal in an uncertain environment. Contrary to expectations, a combination of higher budget rigidity and higher discretionary adjustments is optimal in a stable environment. Moreover, higher discretionary adjustments complement budgetary targets’ motivational effects, regardless of environmental uncertainty. Originality/value This study’s theoretical and empirical analysis suggests that it is difficult to understand the performance implications of performance evaluation styles without recognizing their multidimensionality and interdependencies. Moreover, the results demonstrate that discretionary adjustments in budget-based performance evaluations seem to act rationally in practice.

Reply to Smith

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-248
Author(s):  
Willem E. Saris ◽  
Cees P. Middendorp
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Statistical Procedures ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Although we appreciate the attention the critic has given to our paper, we are somewhat disappointed about the kind of criticism. It is said that the ‘empirical analysis is fundamentally flawed’. But if the analysis is flawed it must be very easy to show it by a reanalysis of the data. However, if one takes the time to look at the data used in this study one can see immediately that when the USSR's level of armaments is very low the USA is producing large amounts of missiles. On the other hand, when the USSR has a large number of missiles the USA's production is nil or very little. Consequently one must conclude that the USA cannot possibly be reacting to the activities of the USSR in the simple ways suggested by Richardson or Hamblin et al. This result was confirmed by our statistical analysis of the data. One can of course try other statistical procedures, as we did, but they all produce the same result: there is no reaction effect in the USA's behaviour.

Populism or Nationalism? The ‘Paradoxical’ Non-Emergence of Populism in Cyprus

2021 ◽  
pp. 003232172198915
Author(s):  
Giorgos Venizelos
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The People ◽  
National Question ◽  
The One ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This article investigates the curious non-emergence of populism in contemporary Cyprus despite the deep financial crisis and profound political disillusionment – conditions that are treated as necessary and sufficient. Putting emphasis on Cyprus’ key historical particularities, the article inquires into the ways Cyprus’ political past, and the subsequent salient ‘national question’, produce ambiguous notions of ‘the people’ on the one hand, and impede the potentials for a ‘populist moment’ on the other hand. By assessing the performative dynamics of oppositional parties in Cyprus, the empirical analysis suggests that the absence of populism is rooted in the following factors: First, nationalist discourse prevails over, and significantly weakens, populist discourse. Second, self-proclaimed challenger parties served ‘old wine in new bottles’ further undermining their position and claims. The failure of populism to take root in Cyprus, brings to the fore important theoretical insights relevant to the non-emergence of populism even under favourable conditions.

scholarly journals Audiovisual cultural artifacts of protest in the Basque Country

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arkaitz Letamendia
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Visual Sociology ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

In this article we propose the emergence of a new kind of visual protest and alternative communication called the Audiovisual Cultural Artifact of Protest (ACAP). These will be studied in the context of the Basque Country, which currently combines structural and conjunctural characteristics that make it an outstanding laboratory for the study of these artifacts. A theoretical analysis of the complex relationships between power, communication and resistance will be carried out, and a reading is proposed that deals with the different planes on which these resistances and disputes are expressed. Based on this analysis, four kinds of audiovisual artifacts produced in the Basque Country are studied. For the empirical analysis, the methodological reflections of visual sociology are taken into consideration. The results provide an overview of these Audiovisual Cultural Artifacts of Protest and the theoretical discussion confirms the emergence of these new forms of visual protest, indicating the existence of a broad-based dynamic in which their proliferation and diversification is occurring. The analysis of the case of the Basque Country allows these tactical and communicative innovations to be contextualised and a discussion to take place about the importance of that context, the discourse’s construction and the possible trend towards spectacularisation of the resistances.Caption: #U12Bilbora: MobiLIPDUBzioa Durangon (2012).

scholarly journals TEKNOLOGI DAN PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Eni Setyowati
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Development Technology ◽  
National Production ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Capital Intensive

People efficiently aware that exploitation of development technology gives significant economy advantage. This such of awareness supports the development of competition in technology innovation and the competition of exploitation technology to reach bigger economy advantage. The economical impact of the exploitation of technology constitutes occurring of management and organization transition in various companies both of a capital intensive and labour intensive. The writer also analyses an opinion of neoclassic economist about advancement of technology. The empirical analysis points out that national production (Y) is not only caused by capital development (K) and the growth of employee (L), but also caused by the other factor, which at the beginning are considered as residual factor. It is called Total Factor Productivity (TFP).

scholarly journals The Magnitude of Warfare Revisited – System Polarity and War Duration

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Marco Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
International System ◽  
The State ◽  
State System ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Hazards Model ◽  
Initial Support ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

One of the intractable debates in the study of international conflict is the linkage between polarity and magnitude of interstate warfare. Speculations about the effects of the structure of the international system can be traced back to the Treaty of Westphalia. This article revisits this debate with a focus on war duration, which has received little attention in the literature, and presents the first theoretical discussion of the connection between polarity and war duration. It also uses a hazards model to statistically test whether five different measures of polarity are associated with war duration (1816-1992). The results provide initial support for the hypothesis that an increase in the number of poles in the state system is associated with longer wars on average. The empirical analysis and the theoretical discussion are important for understanding the consequences of the declining U.S. hegemony.

Genealogical Traces of Populism and Multiple Typologies of Populist Orientation in South Korea

Populism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-52
Author(s):  
Sang-Jin Han
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Attitudinal Differences ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
National Flag ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Abstract This paper is aimed at two goals. The first is to outline major genealogical traces of populism in South Korea. The second is to develop multiple typologies of populist citizens. The first is speculative and comprehensive, while the latter is analytic and empirical. The major findings of the empirical analysis show significant attitudinal differences 1) between two groups of citizens: populist and conventionalist; 2) between two groups within populism, that is, power-oriented and public-oriented populist citizens; 3) between the neo-liberal populist and the welfare populist; and finally, 4) between the candlelight populist and the national flag populist. It is also found 5) that the multiple typologies of populist orientations are closely interrelated to merge into two distinct streams: one is conservative and the other is progressive. These findings yield many political implications that require further research and reflection.

scholarly journals Multi-criteria based Item Recommendation Methods

Rekayasa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Noor Ifada ◽  
Syafrurrizal Naridho ◽  
Mochammad Kautsar Sophan
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Cold Start ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Rating Prediction ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This paper comprehensively investigates and compares the performance of various multi-criteria based item recommendation methods. The development of the methods consists of three main phases: predicting rating per criterion; aggregating rating prediction of all criteria; and generating the top-  item recommendations. The multi-criteria based item recommendation methods are varied and labelled based on what approach is implemented to predict the rating per criterion, i.e., Collaborative Filtering (CF), Content-based (CB), and Hybrid. For the experiments, we generate two variations of datasets to represent the normal and cold-start conditions on the multi-criteria item recommendation system. The empirical analysis suggests that Hybrid and CF are best implemented on the normal and cold-start item conditions, respectively. On the other hand, CB should never be (solely) implemented in a multi-criteria based item recommendation system on any conditions.

Stability in Supply Chain Networks

2008 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 897-923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ostrovsky
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Matching Markets ◽  
Supply Chain Networks ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Stable Network

This paper studies matching in vertical networks, generalizing the theory of matching in two-sided markets. It gives sufficient conditions for the existence of stable networks and presents an algorithm for finding two of them. One is the best stable network for the agents on the “upstream” end of an industry. The other is best for the agents on the “downstream” end. The paper describes several properties of the set of stable networks and discusses applications of the theory to the design of matching markets with more than two types of agents and to the empirical analysis of supply chains. (JEL C78, D85, L14) The woollen coat, for example, which covers the day-labourer, as coarse and rough as it may appear, is the produce of the joint labour of a great multitude of workmen. The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the wool-comber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, must all join their different arts in order to complete even this homely production. —Adam Smith (1776)

A Model of how Discounting High-Priced Brands Affects the Sales of Low-Priced Brands

1996 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raj Sethuraman
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Analytical Modeling ◽  
Consumer Preference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fabric Softener ◽  
National Brand ◽  
Conventional Model ◽  
Brand Strength ◽  
Level Data ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Drawing on a consumer preference distribution structure postulated in analytical modeling research, the author develops a Separate Effects Model that separates the total discount effect of a competing high-priced brand on the sales of the focal low-priced brand into discount effect in the region where price of the competing brand is (1) above the price of the focal brand, (2) equal to the price of the focal brand, and (3) below the price of the focal brand. The author applies the model to store-level data on fabric softener and illustrates the steps involved in the estimation and usefulness of model results. In particular, he shows that the Separate Effects Model can (1) identify the source of the discount effect observed in the conventional model, (2) uncover discount effects not detected in the conventional model, and (3) guide managers’ decisions related to discount sizes and provide some insights about brand strength. An interesting substantive finding from the empirical analysis is that the leading national brand can draw sales from competing brands without reducing its price below the price of the other brands.

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