Case Study Of Institution Research Articles

The New Urban College Model: A Case Study of Paul Quinn College and Shifting Assessment Standards

AbstractIn this chapter, we focus on an institutional case study of Paul Quinn College, a historically Black college, to explore how its adoption of a “new urban college model” provides innovative ways of assessing institutions’ success in supporting their students.

Virtual Water Consumption: A Case Study in a Higher Education Institution in Northeast Brazil

Virtual Water Consumption: A Case Study in a Higher Education Institution in Northeast Brazil

Analysis of aquaponics as an emerging technological innovation system

Aquaponics is an approach of coupling two technologies: recirculation aquaculture (fish-farms) and hydroponics (soil-less cultivation of crops). While it is perceived as a way to contribute to more sustainable food systems, the technology is still in its infancy, with several challenges. This paper describes current conditions of development and identifies aspects that can promote or hinder future pathways. We focus our analysis on the EU, using Germany as an institutional case study, while also considering worldwide developments. We propose a framework to analyze aquaponics as an emerging technological innovation system at the interface between existing fish and plant production systems. The approach is explorative based on a literature review and interviews with experts. The main findings are that stakeholders have different views regarding the future development pathways, knowledge to manage complex systems in the long term is needed and it is still unclear how to design institutional conditions to deliver sustainable outcomes.

Improving public sector performance by using business process modelling and measurement: a case study analysis

P urpose of the pape r: The main purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the use of business process modelling and measurement as basic Business Process Management techniques to improve Enterprise Resource Planning systems and existing processes in public sector institutions. Methodolog y: The research methodology used is a single case study of a Polish public sector institution. The selected process has been modelled in an as-is and to-be state, i.e. before and after the organisational change and implementation of an ERP system. Results : The measurement of cost, time, quality and throughput capacity of a process demonstrates specific improvements and thereby proves an increase in the efficiency of public sector institutions. The author indicates that business process modelling and measurement are techniques useful in both the area of design and implementation of IT systems, as well as the design and improvement of an organisation. Research limitations: The main limitation of this research is the analysis of merely one process in a single institution with virtually no comparative analysis. Practical implications: The implementation of effectiveness and efficiency indicators as criteria for the public institution evaluation gives rise to the appreciation of the BPM concept as the appropriate management method in the public sector. Research results can be used as recommendations for policy makers who plan and evaluate projects to improve the efficiency of public institutions. Originality of the paper : The results of this study can contribute to the existing body of knowledge on BPM in the public sector. The uniqueness of the study arises from the merging of three research areas: improving performance of the public sector; the evaluation of cost-effectiveness IT projects in public administration; and, business process modelling and measurement applied to the aforementioned two areas.

Management Control for Microfinance: An Examination of the Belief System of A Malaysian Microfinance Provider

This paper examines how the belief system of a bank that provides microfinance services influences formal and informal control mechanisms and consequently shapes decisions and the strategic direction of microfinancing in Malaysia. Using institutional logics perspective as our theoretical lens, we conducted a case study in a Malaysian developmental financial institution (DFI) responsible for providing microfinancing. The results suggest that it is difficult to achieve a balance between economic and social considerations when the banking belief system is strongly rooted in the overall banking practices. This paper highlights the dominance of the banking logic over the social logic as reflected in the DFIA­s management control system. Specifically, it demonstrates how its belief system underpins its microfinance activities due to a focus on risk-return considerations, which aim to minimise non-performing loans and maximise commercial profits. This consequently affects clients who have obtained microfinance products and services. This paper also demonstrates how the hiring carriers of social logic do not appear to infuse the organisation with social logic, due to the vague and compartmentalised structure of the microfinance segment and a lack of long-term social goals in both external and internal monitoring systems.

Gaps in oral health-care service provision systems for children in Nigeria: A case study of a tertiary health institution.

The study investigated the common dental conditions of children seen in a Nigerian tertiary hospital. The referral patterns were also determined to know how many of the patients had sought care at the lower levels of health before visiting a tertiary hospital. All the children aged 0-15 years seen at the Dental hospital, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria over a 4-year period were included in the study. Information retrieved from their case notes including patterns of referral, presenting complaints, diagnosis, and treatment were extracted from the case records of the patients. Treatment plans for patients seen at this tertiary hospital were categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary health-care services. A total of 1,866 children sought treatment over a 4-year period at this tertiary hospital of which 1715 (91.9%) sought treatment without referral from lower levels of care. Only 102 (5.4%) children were referred from primary health care (PHC) centers. Six hundred and seventy-five (36.2%) children presented with pain while 502 (26.9%) attended for a "check-up." Furthermore, 779 (41.8%) children were diagnosed with periodontal disease (including gingivitis) and 539 (28.9%) with dental caries. Scaling and polishing with oral hygiene instruction was the most common treatment recommended. Only 5% of children seen at this tertiary health facility required specialized oral health-care services provided by tertiary health institutions. The range of oral health care needed and service provided by and for patients who visited this tertiary health-care institution can be effectively provided in a primary or secondary oral health-care delivery center. The poor integration of oral health care into PHC services in Osun State burdens the tertiary health-care institutions to provide nonspecialized oral health-care services.

Institutional Experiments: Progressive Responses to the Dissolution of Autonomous Art

The paper discusses radicalised forms of new institutionalism in the field of contemporary visual arts, which has emerged since 2010. The text focuses on case studies of European institutions associated with the international coalition L’internationale, to analyse how those institutions bend conventions of the modernist institution of art. The article argues that the institutions analysed move beyond the conceptual divisions embedded in modernism, such as the distinction between high art and popular creativity, or between use-value and aesthetical value of art. In this way, radical institutions respond to the transformation of both function and understanding of contemporary art, prompted by economic and social incorporation of artistic activities. The text discusses progressive institutional models of museums 3.0, the neoliberal museums of 1%, and the nationalist museums, as contradictory responses to the underlying, structural tension, caused by the dissolution of the modernist frame of art.

Proposta de sistemática para gestão estratégica de pessoas em instituição pública

Purpose: propose and characterize a system for Strategic People Management in a public educational institution. Methodology: is marked by three stages. The first step is literature review for survey of documents on the theme that embase and support the work’s fundamentals; the second step consists of the case study in a public educational institution for the current survey of practices; and the third step is the application of a questionnaire to the educational institution servers in order to receive the perception of these in spite of Institutions Strategic People Management. Findings: creation of a systematic proposal for Strategic People Management in a public institution through the measures identifies by the literature review, in conjunction with the school's institutional development plan, and by the case study and analyzes of the questionnaire responses applied to the educational institution. Limitations: This paper describes the relationships among theoretical constructors during the implementation process of people management in a public educational institution.The recent authors’ small number about the subject and the case study’s nature - reduced to only one institution - preclude generalizations. The geographical and temporal restriction of the study should be emphasized. Applications: this work’s applications are based on the interest in studying the application of the strategic people management in public educational institutions, aiming at innovation and its relation with a better organizational performance of the researched institution. Originality: The practices’ systematization of strategic people management in an educational institution proves to be original. For this proposition a case study was used and a questionnaire was applied to a sample of the institution's servers

Analytical study of the impact of Customer knowledge management on improving the performance of Algerian economic institutions Case Study: Ooredoo Communications

The study was designed to test the relationship between customer knowledge management and company performance, and then to demonstrate the impact of customer knowledge management philosophy on improving the performance of the company (Ooredoo). The study was conducted using two complementary methods: the first method was a documentary (descriptive) and the performance of the company. The second method was an analytical survey by means of an exploratory study through the questionnaire as a data collection tool. The truth coefficient was measured as a high degree of stability was achieved for a sample of 115 individuals. The data was analyzed using the statistical package (SPSS.V19) and counting tools Vision descriptive. One of the findings is that the National Telecommunications Company of Algeria (Ooredoo) has an average level of customer knowledge management and a high level of performance compared to its competitors. There is a statistically significant impact of customer knowledge management on the performance of the National Telecommunications Company Algeria (Ooredoo). This is based on the dimensions adopted in the study model.

Assistingthe government in the implementation Non-formal education: a case study of the Indonesian kasih bundo institute for the care and development of the disable children

Poverty is still a serious issue worlwide including in Indonesia. One important way to address it is by providing education by the government. However, the government alone cannot address the problem satisfactorily, and, therefore, it needs non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to assist. One of these type of NGOs is Yayasan Penyantun dan Pembina Anak Cacat (YPPAC) Kasih Bundo. This NGO assists the government by providing a non-formal education by establishing Pusat Kegiatan Belajar Masyarakat (PKBM) Kasih Bundo (The Kasih Bundo Study Centre for the Community). This article reports a study on this NGO, focusing on what it has done and what it has successfully achieved by looking at the social and economic background of their families. The result suggests that the NGO has successfully assisted the government in a significant manner.

Effect of Prophylactic Calcitriol Administration on Serum Ionized Calcium Concentrations after Parathyroidectomy: 78 Cases (2005-2015).

BackgroundProphylactic administration of calcitriol has been suggested to mitigate the risk of hypocalcemia after parathyroidectomy. The effect of calcitriol on postoperative serum ionized calcium concentrations has not been evaluated in dogs after parathyroidectomy.Hypothesis/ObjectivesTo determine the effect of prophylactic calcitriol administration on postoperative serum ionized calcium (iCa) concentrations in dogs with primary hyperthyroidism (PHPTH) treated by parathyroidectomy.AnimalsSeventy‐eight dogs with primary hyperparathyroidism treated surgically.MethodsMulti‐institutional retrospective case study. Medical records from 2005 to 2015 were evaluated. Dogs were included if they had a diagnosis of PHPTH and had surgery to remove parathyroid tissue. Serum iCa concentrations were monitored for a minimum of 2 days postoperatively. Two study groups were evaluated: calcitriol administration and no calcitriol administration.ResultsSerial postoperative iCa concentrations measured at 12‐hour time intervals for 2 days postoperatively were positively associated with preoperative iCa concentrations. This association was evident at each time interval, and the effect of preoperative iCa concentrations on postoperative iCa concentrations decreased as time elapsed (12 hours, P < 0.0001; 24 hours, P < 0.0001; 36 hours, P < 0.04; and 48 hours, P = 0.01). Prophylactic calcitriol administration was not found to be significantly associated with postoperative iCa concentrations or its rate of decrease after parathyroidectomy.Conclusion and Clinical ImportanceWe found no protective value in administering calcitriol prophylactically to prevent hypocalcemia in the immediate postoperative period (48 hours) after parathyroidectomy. Preoperative iCa concentrations had a significant positive association with postoperative iCa concentrations throughout the monitoring period.

Problems and Suggestions for Issued “Service Charge” Invoice in Higher Education Institutions

The issues of “service charge” related to tax payment has been focused specially after “Business Tax” change to Value-Added Tax that draws “service charge” not only related to personal income tax, but to VAT and Additional tax (fee) as well. The paper, taking a case study of higher education institutions of Hainan province, from the perspective of law, analyses the amount of issued invoice, examination and tax related business treatment and problems in higher education institutions, countermeasure and suggestions has proposed for further discussion.

Disruptive Innovation: successful implementation of an electronic marking in an Objective Structured Clinical Examinations – a single institution case study

This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. Problem: Objective Structured Clinical Examinations are commonly included in the suite of assessment tasks in health professional programs. Conducting these assessments using paper-based methods has resulted in challenges that have been identified across the range of disciplines. These challenges include laborious administrative processes, missing assessment data, delays in data analysis and result release, which may limit the capacity to provide feedback to students. Intervention: The implementation of an electronic marking system was piloted in an attempt to address these issues. The pilot included the identification and testing of the software, evaluation of its impacts on the conduct and outcomes of the assessment and the identified challenges. The outcomes were considered through the lens of disruptive innovation. Context: This medical program has an annual intake of more than 500 students with learning, teaching and assessment occurring at multiple distributed campuses in metropolitan, regional and rural areas of Queensland, Australia, and the United States of America. This results in a complex and resource-intensive assessment and data management process. The identified challenges were found to be compounded when the examination was delivered concurrently at several examination centres to a large cohort. Outcomes: The introduction of an electronic marking system was feasible to implement across multiple examination sites and to a large cohort, and was found to be more reliable and efficient compared with traditional paper-based assessment systems. Examiner feedback regarding accessibility and acceptability of electronic marking on tablet devices for clinical assessments was favourable with enhancements to qualitative feedback and no adverse impact on student results being identified. Lessons Learned: The utilization of an electronic marking system in Objective Structured Clinical Examinations was found to be consistent with both disruptive and sustainable innovation. The opportunity to provide immediate feedback was consistent with the definition of a disruptive innovation and improved data management and processing outcomes consistent with a sustainable innovation. Furthermore, the use of electronic marking systems technology is likely to be transferable to other competency and workplace-based assessments.

Professional and Social Problems of Young Researchers and Lecturers Based on the Opinion Poll Results (the case study of NTUU Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute)

Professional and Social Problems of Young Researchers and Lecturers Based on the Opinion Poll Results (the case study of NTUU Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute)

活動指標に基づく学際・融合研究開発プロジェク卜の経営管理 : 先端医工学連携拠点の事例研究( 研究開発における学際性)

活動指標に基づく学際・融合研究開発プロジェク卜の経営管理 : 先端医工学連携拠点の事例研究( 研究開発における学際性)

The digital university and the shifting time–space of the campus

ABSTRACTThis paper explores the concept of translocality, of being ‘simultaneously situated’ in more than one place, in the context of ‘distance’ education in the digital university. The author works with the concept of critical time to propose an additional term, transtemporality, to also recognise the multiple times and temporalities engaged and interwoven in digitally connected spaces of work and study. The paper draws on interview material from an institutional case study of expansion in digital education, paying particular attention to student locations in time and space, arguing that recognising the shifting time–space of the campus is essential to supporting and teaching growing numbers of distance and part-time students. The author proposes that, rather than digital connections being viewed as a form of ‘reaching out’ from the university campus to the wider world, the digital university might be considered, in its translocal and transtemporal form, as an opening up of the idea of the university; embodied and imagined through strong connections across multiple locations, times and temporalities.

Enhancing the work placement experience of international students: towards a support framework

This article reports the findings from an institutional case study into the work placement experience of undergraduate international students studying at a UK-based university. Given the centrality and importance of the employability and internationalisation agendas in higher education, little published literature considers both and how they impact upon the work placement experience of international students. With past increases in international student recruitment numbers and the drive for students, regardless of their nationality, to gain work experience, there is a need for institutions to better understand work placement from the international students’ perspective. Findings revealed that challenges exist in finding and securing work placement, with critical themes emerging to include placement information, visa rules, culture differences, prior work experience, academic preparation for placement and academic writing ability. A support framework is proposed to assist institutions to consider how they could align their practices to meet international students’ work placement and employability needs.

Analyzing a Cross-cultural Communication Framework From the Perspective of Relational Rationality: A Case Study of Chinese Confucius Institute in the Last Decade

Analyzing a Cross-cultural Communication Framework From the Perspective of Relational Rationality: A Case Study of Chinese Confucius Institute in the Last Decade

Context and the institutionalisation of PRME: The case of the University for the Common Good

This study assesses the significance of the degree of senior management commitment in determining the adoption and implementation of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). A case study of a Scottish PRME signatory institution confirms the suggestion in the literature that top-down commitment is a key driver of the implementation of PRME, but also suggests that the nature and shape of this commitment is likely to vary from Institution to Institution. It is concluded that attention to the local context and prevailing organisational circumstances is required to explain the timing of institutional commitment to PRME, the specific challenges that business school leaders face as they strive to institutionalise PRME, and the types of strategy employed.

Citation of scientific publications: Features and patterns

The case study of the RAS Pushchino Research Center institute’s scientific publications is accomplished. The author explores citation characteristics on the basis of bibliometric analysis. General patterns of the most intensive citation time periods are identified. Abnormal citation cases are characterized: stable or persistently high citation during the whole period from publication date; “deferred” citation - 15 years after publication; citation within the year of publication. Periodicals to increase the chances for high citation rate from the moment of publication are defined.