Context Of Cooperation Research Articles

A Comparative Analysis of the Energy Policies of China and Russia in Kazakhstan

The objective of this study is to analyze the energy policies of China and Russia in Kazakhstan. Firstly, the historical context of energy cooperation between Kazakhstan, China, and Russia will be examined. Secondly, the distinctive approaches taken by each country will be evaluated. Finally, the impact of these two regional powers on Kazakhstan’s energy policy will be assessed. Kazakhstan holds a prominent position in the global energy sector owing to its considerable reserves of oil and natural gas. China and Russia acknowledge Kazakhstan’s crucial role as an energy source and invest significantly in its energy industry. Though both countries use Kazakhstan’s energy resources, they have distinct approaches. China adopts a proactive and assertive stance towards Kazakhstan, entering into advantageous agreements and investing in infrastructure initiatives. On the contrary, Russia maintains a passive stance by concentrating on preserving its current energy infrastructure and strengthening its hold over Kazakhstan’s energy reserves. To summarize, the energy strategies pursued by China and Russia in Kazakhstan carry substantial ramifications for the creation and transaction of energy resources within the region.

Platformy streamingowe i ich wpływ na lokalny rynek audiowizualny

The article focuses on outlining the potential direction of research on the Polish audiovisual market in the face of its platformization. The aim is to analyze and problematize the contexts of cooperation between an independent, local production company and a global platform in the film production process. It is an attempt to capture the characteristics of this cooperation by juxtaposing general industry practices with work culture, standards and rules specific to selected platforms and the long-term effect in the form of a potential impact on the diversification of production and its content. The outlined issues will be analyzed on the basis of industrial reflexivity based on cooperation with Netflix and HBO Max, collected using the method of partially structured in-depth interviews.

Extensive Tracking of Nomadic Waterbird Movements Reveals an Inland Flyway.

Waterbirds are highly mobile and have the ability to respond to environmental conditions opportunistically at multiple scales. Mobility is particularly crucial for aggregate-nesting species dependent on breeding habitat in arid and semi-arid wetlands, which can be ephemeral and unpredictable. We aimed to address knowledge gaps about movement routes for aggregate-nesting nomadic waterbird species by tracking them in numbers sufficient to make robust assessment of their movement patterns. We hypothesised that analysis of long-distance movements would identify common routes with consistent environmental features that would be useful as context for conservation management. We used GPS satellite telemetry to track the movements of 73 straw-necked ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis) and 42 royal spoonbills (Platalea regia) over 7 years (2016-2023). We used these data to identify long-distance movements and to demarcate and characterise movement routes. We identified common routes used by both species, including a 'flyway' over 2000 km long, spanning Australia's Murray-Darling Basin from the south-west to the north-east. This flyway connects important breeding sites and is characterised by flat, open/unforested areas with low elevations of < 350 m and mid to high rainfall. The flyway corresponds to an area west of Australia's Great Dividing Range, which appears to act as a low-permeability barrier to the movement of both species. Identification of an inland flyway for waterbirds in Australia provides important context for multi-jurisdictional cooperation and strategic management. Where resources are limited, water and wetland management efforts (e.g., environmental watering) should be preferentially located within this route. Similarly, targeting threat mitigation within common movement routes may have disproportionate importance for long-term population viability. Given the widespread distribution of similar species globally, there are likely to be other flyways worthy of scientific and conservation management attention that could be identified using our approach.

Enhancing Payroll Systems for Accountability and User Experience: A Case Study at Kanindo Cooperative, Malang

The research aims are to evaluate and develop a payroll accounting information system for the Cooperative Agro Niaga Indonesia Syariah Malang, East Java, which functions as the research object. The analytical approach employs the Business Process Management (BPM) framework, while the system design process employs the ADDIE model. The researcher selected the BPM framework to evaluate the integration of information technology in the accounting information system process more thoroughly. Research is done in five stages. The problem analysis step comes first. At this stage, the information on company issues taken through interviews, documentation, and observational data collection. The second stage involves designing the system using the Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) model and matrix. The third step involves developing a web-based employee payroll accounting information system. The company develops this system to improve the quality of its commercial operations. The implementation stage, which includes evaluation, comes last. This study distinguishes itself by integrating the BPMN framework and ADDIE model to address the complex requirements of payroll accounting systems in a sharia-based cooperative context. Unlike prior studies, this research offers a dual-methodological approach that combines detailed business process visualization with iterative system refinement, ensuring a higher degree of standardization, automation, and user-friendliness. The application in Cooperative Agro Niaga Indonesia Syariah Malang represents a novel contribution by tailoring IT solutions to the unique needs of a rapidly growing sharia financial institution, demonstrating scalability and adaptability for similar organizations.

Constructive and Destructive Voice Behaviors in Cooperatives: The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Drives

This study aims to understand how job satisfaction relates to constructive and destructive voice in cooperatives by developing an integrated theoretical model that combines Social Exchange Theory (SET) and Motivational Synergy Theory (MST). We investigate the underlying motivational explanation by adopting a follower-centric perspective and focusing on intrinsic and extrinsic factors related to leadership styles and performance-based rewards. The empirical mediation analyses of 300 workers of Italian cooperatives show specific associations of job satisfaction with constructive and destructive voice via transformational and transactional leadership and performance-based rewards. Unlike most existing literature, this study considers employee voice as an extra-role behavior that can be positive (constructive) or negative (destructive) for the organization. Moreover, it brings new theoretical perspectives to the voice debate by combining SET and MST, thus developing fertile grounds for further studies. Finally, it extends existing knowledge about employee voice to the under-investigated but highly relevant context of cooperatives.

Behavioral inhibition and social maladjustment: The moderation role of social behaviors during cooperative and competitive peer interactions.

Behavioral inhibition (BI) is a temperamental characterized in early childhood by intense wariness and negative affect toward novelty, and is linked to children's emotional symptoms and peer problems. How children behave or respond toward diverse social contexts can influence the relation between BI and social adjustment. This study investigated the effect of children's affiliative and antagonistic behavior in cooperative and competitive contexts on the relation between early BI and social adjustment using a longitudinal design. Children's BI (at age 2) was assessed via laboratory observations. Affiliative and antagonistic behaviors (at age 4) were coded during a dyadic truck game in the cooperative and competitive contexts. Children's emotional symptoms and peer problems (at age 4) were assessed using parental reports. These results suggest that high affiliative behavior in the cooperative context was linked to a reduced level of peer problems in inhibited children. Interestingly, highly antagonistic behavior in the competitive context was linked to a reduced level of emotional symptoms in inhibited children. These findings extend our understanding of the role social behavior plays in the social adjustment of behaviorally inhibited children by highlighting the contribution of socially appropriate behaviors in social contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

A Pact with the Devil: The Madman Theory and Nonaggression Pacts

Abstract This study explores the onset of nonaggression pacts at the individual level, focusing on how leaders’ perceived madness influences security agreements. While the Madman Theory suggests that perceived madness could be an asset in crisis bargaining, it also signals uncertainty and hostility to other states. Consequently, states seek security assurances through nonaggression pacts to manage the risks posed by such leaders. On the other hand, leaders adopting the Madman strategy may strategically pursue these pacts as signaling devices to alleviate diplomatic isolation and mitigate their overall reputation for madness for strategic purposes. By utilizing McManus’s perception-based measures, my findings indicate that leaders with a strong reputation for madness significantly influence the formation of nonaggression pacts, whereas moderate levels of madness do not have the same effect. The impact of a strong reputation for madness diminishes when states are distant from the mad leader or are protected by more military alliances. This study sheds light on the role of leaders’ reputations in security agreements and extends the scope of the Madman Theory beyond crisis bargaining to broader contexts of security cooperation.

Infants Produce Optimally Informative Points to Satisfy the Epistemic Needs of Their Communicative Partner.

Pragmatic theories assume that during communicative exchanges humans strive to be optimally informative and spontaneously adjust their communicative signals to satisfy their addressee's inferred epistemic needs. For instance, when necessary, adults flexibly and appropriately modify their communicative gestures to provide their partner the relevant information she lacks about the situation. To investigate this ability in infants, we designed a cooperative task in which 18-month-olds were asked to point at the target object they wanted to receive. In Experiment 1, we found that when their desired object was placed behind a distractor object, infants appropriately modified their prototypical pointing to avoid mistakenly indicating the distractor to their partner. When the objects were covered, and their cooperative partner had no information (Experiment 2) or incorrect information (Experiment 3) about the target's location - as opposed to being knowledgeable about it - infants pointed differentially more often at the target and employed modified pointing gestures more frequently as a function of the amount of relevant information that their partner needed to retrieve their desired object from its correct location. These findings demonstrate that when responding to a verbal request in a cooperative task 18-month-old infants can take into account their communicative partner's epistemic states and when necessary provide her with the relevant information she lacks through sufficiently informative deictic gestures. Our results indicate that infants possess an early emerging, species-unique cognitive adaptation specialized for communicative mindreading and pragmatic inferential communication which enable the efficient exchange of relevant information between communicating social partners in cooperative contexts.

국제개발협력과 로컬라이제이션: 이론적 변천과 실천적 적용

Purpose: By introducing localisation and exploring its key issues, this study aims to raise awareness of localisation within the context of international development cooperation in Korea and derive implications. Originality: Localisation is an approach for promoting sustainable development by strengthening local capacities and expanding the use of locally available resources, with its necessity being increasingly highlighted amid the global economic crisis and various international challenges. Methodology: This study analyzes key discourses of international development cooperation, the theoretical background and major concepts of localisation, as well as evaluation frameworks and issues, through a literature review. Result: Localisation is regarded as a key paradigm in international development cooperation, as it enhances the autonomy of partner countries and incorporates the local social and cultural context. Moreover, it has been identified as playing a significant role in reshaping power dynamics between donors and local actors, while fostering the active participation of local communities. Conclusion and Implication: The successful implementation of localisation necessitates equitable partnerships, active engagement of local communities, resolution of conflicts over control between donors and local entities, and a development approach that prioritizes sustainability. Addressing these challenges requires establishing a forum for dialogue grounded in mutual trust and cooperation between donors and local actors, thereby enhancing the sustainability of international development cooperation.

Increased sensitivity to social hierarchy during social competition versus cooperation.

Social hierarchy is a typical feature of social organization. The ability to quickly recognize social hierarchy information is crucial for adapting to social contexts. Here, we adopted fast periodic visual stimulation with electroencephalography to assess the neural responses to social hierarchy during social competition and cooperation, respectively. Participants first learned hierarchical faces from a competitive game versus a cooperative game. We then sequentially presented the learned hierarchical faces with a specific frequency in a set of faces. Results showed that participants rated the inferior player as lower in the social hierarchy in the cooperative context compared to the competitive context, indicating that social context affects the judgment of others' rank. Moreover, higher neural responses to high and low-hierarchy faces versus medium-hierarchy faces were observed, suggesting rapid discrimination of social hierarchy from faces. Interestingly, rank-specific neural responses were more pronounced in the competitive context than in the cooperative context, indicating increased sensitivity to social hierarchy during social competition versus social cooperation. This study provides behavioral and neural evidence for rapid, automatic processing of social hierarchy information and for an increased sensitivity to such information in competitive versus cooperative social contexts.

Comparing Sino-Nordic systems of higher education: ideology, institutional logics, subaltern governance, and emergent identities

ABSTRACT China is a key player in global science. Collaboration between Chinese and Western universities is critical for enhancing global networks of research and innovation. However, the potential for cooperative outcomes is currently limited by obstacles to collaboration. At the core of these challenges is the continued misunderstanding of ideology and governance between Chinese and Western higher education. Contributing to increased sub-regional understanding of higher education systems, this research provides an important Sino-Nordic comparative understanding of institutional autonomy, academic freedom, professional academic identity and organizational change. Through an empirical case-study and document analysis of macro-social ideopolitical steering logics, institutional logics, and organizational-level complexity, this research finds that within both China and the Nordics, incongruent macrosocial ideo-political steering logics deprofessionalize/politicize the academic profession through a state-driven procedural strengthening, yet substantive narrowing/weakening of institutional autonomy/academic freedom. The implications of this research should be understood within a contemporary context of limited trust and cooperation between China and the Nordics. Through a bridging view of convergent/divergent ideopolitical steering logics within respective systemic higher education contexts, and their effects on professional academic identity and agentic change, increased understanding of respective HE systems may provide avenue for increased sub-regional academic/scientific engagement and cooperation.

Revisiting research on the governance of interorganizational relationships

This essay re-examines the literature on the governance of interorganizational relationships, focusing on the insights of alliance research using transaction cost economics. Despite substantial progress, challenges arise because research has not devoted attention to some mechanisms of governance (i.e., administrative controls and supporting legal institutions) compared with others (i.e., incentives). Parties can develop bespoke collaborative agreements that mix and match various mechanisms of governance along these dimensions, rather than accessing a typical bundle commonly associated with a discrete organizational form. This conclusion challenges the iconic governance continuum and surfaces new methodological opportunities for this research stream. The essay also challenges what we think we know by identifying a variety of omitted variable problems that often crop up in governance research (e.g., focusing on the cooperative context of collaboration while not attending to the competitive context, excluding critical administrative structures when studying the interplay between contracts and trust, assuming transactional attributes are exogenous rather than endogenous to a search process, failing to account for shifting institutional supports for collaboration, etc.). By clarifying what we know and do not know about alliance governance, the essay identifies some pathways for developing more reliable, cumulative knowledge on interorganizational relationships.

Neural mechanisms underlying competition-induced optimal decisions in individuals with high entrepreneurial intention

In a rapidly changing and uncertain business environment, individuals with high entrepreneurial intention (HEI) inevitably need to compete or cooperate with others to maximize their gains. However, the effects of competition and cooperation on the risky decision-making and neural mechanisms of individuals with HEI are not clear. By combining the modified Devil Task and electroencephalogram (EEG) technology, the current study showed that a competition context is more likely to motivate optimal decisions and enhance the total decision gains for individuals with HEI than a cooperation context. A positive relationship between the frequency of optimal decisions and the total gains of decision-making for individuals with HEI was also found, and this relationship was mediated by the degree of entrepreneurial intention. The EEG results showed that individuals with HEI made decisions in the competition context with greater P2 amplitude of frontal regions than in the cooperation context, and source localization analyses revealed that this difference in brain activity was manifested in the medial prefrontal cortex. Finally, the results revealed a positive relationship between the P2 amplitude and the degree of entrepreneurial intention of individuals with HEI. Overall, the study suggests that competition is an effective way to motivate individuals with HEI to make optimal decisions and, thus, maximize their profits, providing new perspectives on ways to promote successful entrepreneurship.

Nigeria’s industrial policy transformation in the era of Sino-African cooperation

This paper examines the changing nature of industrial policies in Africa within the context of Sino-African cooperation, utilizing Nigeria as a case study. It contends that sustained failures of industrial policies, attributed largely to the inability of ruling elites to enforce reciprocal control mechanisms are encouraging policymakers to consider incorporating Chinese investment into their industrial strategies. This integration is driving significant changes in Africa’s industrial policy practice, as national strategies are adjusted to attract and accommodate Chinese capital and technical support. This study leverages a variety of sources including interviews with Nigerian government officials involved in industrial policy design and implementation, industry representatives benefiting from industrial policies, policy documents, and media sources. The research aims to shed light on the dynamic interaction between international development cooperation and domestic policy transformations, illuminating the profound impact of Chinese involvement on Africa’s industrial policy landscape.

Exemplary Self-Discipline, Leniency towards Others: Competitive Contexts Amplify the "Black Sheep Effect" in Restoring Ingroup Trust.

Intergroup interaction, a pivotal aspect of social interaction, encompasses both cooperation and competition. Group identity significantly impacts individual behaviors and decision-making processes. This influence manifests in two contrasting ways when addressing rule-breaking by interaction partners: in-group favoritism, where individuals are more lenient towards infractions committed by in-group members, and the black sheep effect, where in-group members are penalized for their rule-breaking. Although trust is crucial in intergroup interactions, the precise impact of group identity on trust restoration and the potential moderating role of intergroup interaction types remain to be elucidated. This study presents two experiments designed to explore these dynamics. In Study 1, the manipulation of group identity through a point estimation task was utilized to evaluate its impact on intergroup trust restoration via a series of repeated trust games. Study 2 aimed to explore the moderating role of intergroup interaction on intergroup trust restoration by contrasting cooperation and competition situations. The results uncovered a "black sheep effect", where participants demonstrated a greater propensity for trust restoration with out-group members than with in-group members. This effect, however, was only evident in competitive contexts. Conversely, in cooperative contexts, the individual's trust in the in-group and out-group members is effectively repaired. These findings contribute to a deeper comprehension of trust dynamics in intergroup interactions, promoting trust establishment and repair between diverse groups, thereby boosting team collaboration efficiency and mitigating conflicts.

Legality and Implications of International Law on Cooperation between Indonesia and Norway in the Environmental Sector

The issue of environmental protection has become a significant concern in international relations, with numerous countries striving to preserve the environment through various initiatives. One such initiative is the conduct of international cooperation, which is implemented through a special program on the environment. This study seeks to ascertain the dynamics of the cooperation between Indonesia and Norway on environmental matters, with a particular focus on the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme, which operated from 2017 to 2021. The objective of this initiative, which falls under the umbrella of environmental cooperation, is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation. The REDD+ program is a funding mechanism designed to support initiatives aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation. The methodology employed in this research entails the utilization of qualitative research techniques, namely descriptive analysis, to generate insights from the data collected. This study's theoretical approach is informed by the context of international cooperation, particularly the historical bilateral relationship between Indonesia and Norway. The results of this research indicate the implementation of cooperation between Indonesia and Norway in the environmental sector through the REDD + program between the years 2017 and 2021, which was met with a number of significant challenges. These included issues related to the protection of forests, delays in fulfilling cooperation requirements, and disagreements with indigenous peoples. Additionally, the study identifies the problem of the implementation of Result Based Payments by Norway and the termination of Indonesia-Norway REDD+ cooperation.

Revealing Knowledge Mining Intelligence: A Paradigm Shift from Data Mining in the Foreign Cooperation Context

Revealing Knowledge Mining Intelligence: A Paradigm Shift from Data Mining in the Foreign Cooperation Context

In pop pursuit: social bond strength predicts vocal synchrony during cooperative mate guarding in bottlenose dolphins.

Vocal communication is an emblematic feature of group-living animals, used to share information and strengthen social bonds. Vocalizations are also used to coordinate group-level behaviours in many taxa, but little is known of the factors that may influence vocal behaviour during cooperative acts. Allied male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) use the 'pop' vocalization as a coercive signal when working together to herd single oestrous females. Using long-term association and acoustic data, we examined the influence of social and non-social factors on pop use by allied male dolphins in this context. Neither pop rate nor pop bout duration were influenced by any of the factors examined. However, allied males with stronger social bonds engaged in higher rates of vocal synchrony; whereby they actively matched the timing of their pop production. Hence, social bond strength influenced pop use in a cooperative context, suggesting dual functions of pop use: to induce the female to remain close, and to promote social bond maintenance and cooperation among males. This article is part of the theme issue 'The power of sound: unravelling how acoustic communication shapes group dynamics'.

Distributed event-triggered formation control of UGV-UAV heterogeneous multi-agent systems for ground-air cooperation

Within the context of ground-air cooperation, the distributed formation trajectory tracking control problems for the Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems (HMASs) is studied. First, considering external disturbances and model uncertainties, a graph theory-based formation control protocol is designed for the HMASs consisting of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). Subsequently, a formation trajectory tracking control strategy employing adaptive Fractional-Order Sliding Mode Control (FOSMC) method is developed, and a Feedback Multilayer Fuzzy Neural Network (FMFNN) is introduced to estimate the lumped uncertainties. This approach empowers HMASs to adaptively follow the expected trajectory and adopt the designated formation configuration, even in the presence of various uncertainties. Additionally, an event-triggered mechanism is incorporated into the controller to reduce the update frequency of the controller and minimize the communication exchange among the agents, and the absence of Zeno behavior is rigorously demonstrated by an integral inequality analysis. Finally, to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed formation control protocol, some numerical simulations are presented.

PELATIHAN JURU BUKU KSP/USP KOPERASI BERBASIS KOMPETENSI SKKNI KABUPATEN/KOTA DI PROVINSI SUMATERA SELATAN

Cooperatives as economic entities based on the principles of togetherness and shared prosperity require the existence of bookkeepers who are skilled and knowledgeable in managing finances and administration. Training for KSP/USP Cooperative Bookkeepers Based on Competency in Districts/Cities in South Sumatra Province has had a positive impact on the competency, skills and knowledge of Savings and Loans Cooperative/Usp bookkeepers. The training methods used include a practical approach with a focus on direct application in the cooperative context. The training participants consisted of cooperative bookkeepers from various cooperatives in different regions in South Sumatra province. Training focuses on basic understanding of organizational management, cooperative accounting, cash flow management, accurate financial reporting, and the application of technology in administration. The training results showed a significant increase in the bookkeeper's technical skills and conceptual knowledge after attending the training. Participants also reported increased confidence in managing their day-to-day administrative tasks. Apart from that, this training also encourages collaboration between cooperatives and the exchange of best practices in financial management. The final result is that participants are provided with a certificate from BNSP. In conclusion, competency-based training has proven effective in improving the skills and knowledge of cooperative bookkeepers. This has important implications in increasing the operational efficiency of cooperatives as well as increasing members' and stakeholders' trust in cooperative financial management