Cooperation Coordination Research Articles

The Research on Cooperation Coordination Model of Transboundary Water Pollution

At first, this paper introduced some related domestic and global researches which are about lake basin transboundary water pollution, and put forward several basic assumptions combining the lake basin situation. Based on this foundation, this paper constructed the minimum cost of the whole region, and proposed the cooperation coordination model of the lake basin transboundary water pollution. Then it took advantage of Poyang lake for empirical analysis, and got the function of pollutant reduction cost and function of environmental damage cost by means of multiple regression analysis with the five main data of Poyang lake from 2001 to 2010. Next, through cooperation coordination model establishment and solution, the paper could get the conclusion that compared with the actual pollution reduction plan the model solution is better. At last, the paper talked about the deficiencies and improvement.

Peran BKAD Subosukawonosraten dalam Kerjasama Antar Daerah

Badan Kerjasama Antar Daerah (BKAD) merupakan badan yang mengkoordinasikan kerjasama antardaerah untuk menghindari persaingan ego daerah sekaligus meningkatkan keunggulan kompetitifdalam skala wilayah yang lebih luas. Studi ini mengkaji peran BKAD Subosukawonosraten dalamkerjasama dan koordinasi antar daerah di wilayah kerjanya yang dulunya tergabung dalamKaresidenan Surakarta. Studi ini menganalisis bentuk dan karakteristik lembaga, peran dalampelaksanaan kerjasama, serta aspek-aspek yang mempengaruhi kerjasama. Studi ini dilaksanakandengan pendekatan kualitatif. Studi kasus menggunakan metode wawancara snowballing denganBapak –Ing Ramto sebagai narasumber pertama selaku salah satu inisiator kerjasama. Hasil analisismengindikasikan suatu independensi BKAD karena sifatnya yang non struktural dalam menjalankanperan koordinasi, fasilitasi, dan evaluasi dalam seluruh pelaksanaan kegiatan kerjasama. Namundemikian, studi ini menemukan permasalahan kelembagaan yang berpotensi menghambat peranBKAD, yaitu terkait keberadaan pegawai struktural di dalam BKAD. Temuan tersebut dapat mengarahpada terhambatnya peran BKAD sebagai badan yang berperan sentral dalam kerjasama antar daerahkarena keberadaan pegawai struktural cenderung mengurangi independensinya.Kata kunci: BKAD, Subosukawonosraten, badan induk, keunggulan kompetitif daerah

Air quality action planning: why do barriers to remediation in local air quality management remain?

UK local air quality action planning has failed to remediate exceedances of air quality targets, particularly for nitrogen dioxide, which are widespread and persistent a decade after the first local action plans were drafted. This paper is relevant to a range of administrations charged with managing air quality. Using a literature review and local authority survey, it explores barriers to improving air quality, i.e. resource limitations, absence of local authority powers, and a lack of intra-governmental co-operation and inter-governmental co-ordination. It concludes that the causes of these inefficiencies are flawed subsidiarity and devolved responsibility decoupled from the powers necessary to implement required actions. Challenging opportunities to reconceptualise air quality action planning to protect public health are suggested.

An experimental research on governance mechanisms for cost of value chain

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the governance mechanism of overcoming or solving three problems: cooperation problem, coordination problem and appropriation problem. Also to raise the value chain cost efficiency and to elevate the value chain competitive advantage.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology is the experimental study. The authors design an experience simulating the transaction process across firms to explore the separate and joint governance effects of trust and incentive on the cost of value chain.FindingsAccording to the experimental results it is found that the high level of trust between firms and the incentive based on the joint interests of value chain can effectively mitigate or avoid the cooperation, coordination and appropriation problems, and thus have significant governance effects on the cost of value chain. Incentive is out of effect when a much lower level of trust across firms exists, which reflects that there is a significant complementary relationship between trust and incentive mechanisms.Research limitations/implicationsThe research limitation is that the practical experience and the cognition of experimenters of the researchers will influence the conclusion of the experiment, so the research on the influences of other factors must be deepened.Originality/valueThe paper's value is in setting out a value chain cost management theory frame, demonstrating trust and incentive as two kinds of governance mechanism in the value chain cost management mechanism, adopting experiment method to verify the above theory, and providing the relevant behavior evidence for future research.

Opportunities for Quality Improvement in Bereavement Care at A Children's Hospital: Assessment of Interdisciplinary Staff Perspectives

This study examined the current state of bereavement care at a university-based children's hospital from the perspective of the interdisciplinary staff. In all, 60 staff members from multiple disciplines participated in in-depth interviews. In at least two-thirds of the interviews, issues related to the bereavement experience of both staff and families emerged and were consistently identified. Themes included: disparities in bereavement care based on relationship factors; logistics of time and space; geographical distances; the different cultures and languages of families; continuity in family follow-up; needs of siblings and other family members; staff communication, cooperation, and care coordination; staff suffering; and education, mentoring, and support for staff. This evidence-based needs assessment furnishes an empirical basis for the design and implementation of bereavement services for both families and staff. It can serve as a template for evaluation at other children's hospitals and thus contribute to the sound and creative development of the field of pediatric palliative care.

Applying Agent-Based System and Negotiation Mechanism in Improvement of Inventory Management and Customer Order Fulfilment in Multi Echelon Supply Chain

A supply chain (SC) is a coordinated system involved in moving products or services from supplier to customer. With growing focus on supply chain management, it is realized that inventories across the supply chain should be efficiently managed through greater cooperation and better coordination. Multi-agent systems (MAS) offer a new dimension for cooperation and coordination. MAS consist of a collection of automated agents who can perform a specific task intelligently without any human supervision and communicate with each other cooperatively. In this research, a multi-agent system has been developed to simulate a multi echelon SC. These agents are coordinated to control inventories and minimize the total cost of SC by sharing information, forecasting knowledge and using negotiation mechanism in special situation. The result showed that in comparison to a traditional supply chain network, this system decreases the total cost and bullwhip effect.

What Drives Different Types of Capital Flows and their Volatilities in Developing Asia?

Understanding the determinants of capital inflows is essential to designing an effective policy framework to manage volatile capital flows and their disruptive potential. This paper aims to identify factors that explain the size and volatility of various types of capital flows to developing Asia, vis-à-vis other emerging market economies. The estimates for a panel dataset show that per capita income growth, trade openness, and change in stock market capitalization are important determinants of capital inflows to developing Asia. Trade openness increases the volatility of all types of capital inflows; while change in stock market capitalization, global liquidity growth and institutional quality lowers the volatility. A regional factor plays an important role in determining the size and volatility of capital inflows in emerging Europe and emerging Latin America, suggesting that regional economic cooperation and policy coordination may be an important element in designing a policy framework to manage capital inflows.

Destination network management: a conceptual analysis

PurposeThis paper aims to focus on managing networks within destinations, or destination network management. The purpose is to provide a conceptual definition of the term.Design/methodology/approachDestinations are seen as networks, and networks are approached from a strategic perspective. Reviewing and drawing on the literature on destination management, tourism networks, strategic networks and strategic management the paper proposes a concept that could be of use in analyses of network management.FindingsIt is suggested that managing is a value‐creating activity embedded within a network, and that there are two approaches to network management: strategic management and the coordination of cooperation among the actors involved.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper is conceptual in nature. The authors intend to test the developed hypothesis in empirical case studies in the near future.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to the literature on destination management in proposing a novel concept of destination network management, and introducing a dynamic, activity‐oriented approach as opposed to the actor‐focused destination management organization (DMO) view.

Accounting and Co-Constructing: The Development of a Standard for Electronic Health Records

Patient records are central, constitutive parts of health care and hospitals. Currently, substantial sums are being invested in making patient records electronic, in order to take advantage of IT's ability to quickly accumulate, compute, and propagate data to multiple sites, to enhance coordination of health care services and cooperation among staff, and make patient records immediately accessible to distributed actors. Investors also aim to increase health care services' accountability and integration, and improve quality and efficiency. This paper analyses a Danish national standard for electronic health records, on the basis of an application prototype test designed to that standard. The analysis shows that, inscribed in the standard is an ambition to increase the accountability of staff and health care services at the cost of increased work, loss of overview, and fragmentation of patient cases. Significantly, despite the standard having been conceived and developed in a process of co-construction involving clinicians, clinicians did not find it adequate for their work. This analysis argues this was the result of the model of work embedded in the standard coming from a stance external to practice. Subsequently, a flip-over effect occurred, in which the model of work became a model for work. Hence, this paper argues that co-construction processes should not only include users as representatives of a profession, but strive to produce experiences and knowledge intrinsic to practice.

Public Policy Responses to Cybercrime

AbstractBreaches of the ethics, confidence and trust that are embedded in the information society give rise to a range of risks that are of concern to individuals, industry and public administration. This special issue of Policy & Internet is concerned with the policy implications of cybercrimes that result from the abuse of networked technologies. It provides a range of multidisiciplinary views that are actively being sought by policymaking communities and which impact on national and supra‐national legislation, public‐private cooperation, and international coordination against transnational crime.

Civilian Crisis Management in the EU – Structural and Functional Aspects

This article offers a general overview of civilian crisis management in the EU, its mechanisms and instruments, the nature of civil-military cooperation (coordination), and an overview of civilian crisis management missions. Particular attention will be paid to the EULEX Mission in Kosovo as a case-study of how participating civilian experts judge both the mission itself and the mission preparations (i.e. selection and training of personnel, mission strategy, mission related activities, the problems identified etc.). The article will argue that seemingly trivial operational details, such as personnel selection, the quality of pre-deployment training and advance preparation are important factors which, if not properly coordinated, could jeopardise EU goals in the field of crisis management. The author also presumes that unregulated civil-military cooperation and coordination can lead to the failure of crisis management operations.

Preparing primary care for the future – perspectives from the Netherlands, England, and USA

All modern healthcare systems need to respond to the common challenges posed by an aging population combined with a growing number of patients with (complex) chronic conditions and rising patient expectations. Countries with 'stronger' primary care systems (e.g. the Netherlands and England) seem to be better prepared to address these challenges than countries with 'weaker' primary care (e.g. USA). The role of primary care in a health care system is strongly related to its organisation and funding, thus determining the starting point and the possibilities for change. We selected the Netherlands, England, and USA as examples for the diversity of approaches to organise and finance health care. We analysed the main problems for primary care and reviewed strategies and practice models used to meet the challenges described above. The Netherlands aim to strengthen prevention for chronic diseases, while England strives to improve the management of patients with multimorbidity, prevent hospital admissions to contain costs, and to satisfy the increased demand of patients for access to primary care. Both countries seek to reorganise care around the patient and place their needs at the centre. The USA has to provide sufficient workforce, organisation, and funding for primary care to ensure better access, prevention, and provision of chronic care for its population. Strategies to improve (trans-sectoral) cooperation and care coordination, a main issue in all three countries, include the implementation of standards of care and bundled payments for chronic diseases in the Netherlands, GP commissioning, federated and group practice models in England, and the introduction of the Patient-Centred Medical Home and accountable care organisations in the USA. Organisation and financing of health care differ widely in the three countries. However, the necessity to improve coordination and integration of chronic disease care remains a common and core challenge.

The Danish eID case: twenty years of delay

The focus of this article is to explain why there is still no qualified digital signature in Denmark as defined by the EU eSignatures Directive nor any other nationwide eID even though Denmark had an early start in eGovernment, and a high level of “e-readiness” compared to other nations. Laying out the technological, organizational and legal dimensions of eID in Denmark, and comparing these with a number of other European countries made it possible to explain this paradox. Thus, the three main reasons for the special route development has taken in Denmark seems to be concerns over privacy, lack of intergovernmental coordination and lack of cooperation between public and private sector. However, with the recent tender on digital signatures won by the PBS and the roll-out of the NemID it seems that Denmark will finally—after twenty years of delay—have an eID which can be widely used in the public as well as the private sector.

Trust and the successful coordination of SME co-operation – an empirical study in Slovenia

This paper aims to investigate the role of trust and test the impact of trust on performance in the context of co-operation between small- and medium-sized enterprises (‘SMEs’) in a transition country. Based on a sample of 122 Slovenian SMEs, an analysis based on OLS regression reveals that trust does have a strong impact on performance. We thereby identify trust as a powerful co-ordinating mechanism for SME relationships involving co-operation in transition economies.

Transition processes and pathways across Austrian long-term care provision. Lessons to be learnt in a European context

Purpose: To draw attention to incentives and disincentives inherent in current health and social care provision in Austria by following common and possible pathways of an older and care dependent person across the Austrian long-term care system. To learn from continuity and discontinuity in transition processes as well as from elements of national and European good practice, which may serve to fill gaps and bridge missing links. Context: Ageing societies have significantly changed the demand towards current health and social care provision. In particular, a strong increase in multi-morbidity and chronic diseases, often affecting all different dimensions of human life, has elucidated the urgent need for intensified cooperation and better coordination within and between health and social care provision. However, transition processes, which may efficiently link the different health and social care service sectors and which allow to optimally and with dignity deal with complex individual situations, are often hindered or even blocked by inappropriate regulations or disincentives inherent in the present systems. The adverse effects of such disincentives usually become apparent in regularly recurring troubles and sometimes even paradox situations for users and providers at the level of everyday practice. To follow the pathway of a common example case and to use it for a systematic survey and analysis of transition processes at the practical level is expected to facilitate the insight in underlying incentives and disincentives. To additionally put such pathways in a wider European context and comparison allows the highlighting of national and international initiatives of good practice and to bring to light regulations, which are well or inappropriately adapted to current needs.

Country-level governance of global health initiatives: an evaluation of immunization coordination mechanisms in five countries of Asia

In recent years there have been innovations in immunization financing and new technologies, and the scaling up of investment by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) in the Asia region. The main mechanism for coordination of this global health initiative (GHI) investment is country-level 'Inter-Agency Coordination Committees' (ICCs). The aim of the evaluation was to determine the utility and future perspectives of stakeholders regarding the role of ICCs in improving immunization services in the Asian Region. A literature review, documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews (n = 65) were undertaken in five countries (India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia), with senior level members of Ministries of Health and the GAVI partnership. The evaluation has identified that there have been significant changes recently in the strategic environment for immunization, including developments in new vaccines, increasing GAVI investment, trends towards health system integration and decentralization, and institutional development of the non-government sector. This evaluation found that ICCs are functioning well in relation to information sharing and GAVI application processes. However, they are performing less well in the areas of evaluation, strategic gap analysis and coordination of immunization technical co-operation. There are high levels of institutional and contextual complexity at country level that require a more focused global response by GAVI to the governance challenges of institutions and partners implementing GHIs at the country level. ICCs should be maintained and strengthened in the more pluralistic context of an 'immunization coordination system' that is represented by the wider health sector, regulatory authorities, and civil society and private sector interests. Managing through systems, rather than being over-reliant on committees, will broaden participation in implementation and, in doing so, expand the reach of immunization and maternal and child health care services in developing countries.

Intraoperative use of somatosensory-evoked potentials: is general anaesthesia comparable to awake condition?

Editor, We have read with great interest the article by Fielmuth and Uhlig [1] on the role of somatosensory-evoked potentials (SSEPs) in detecting cerebral ischaemia during carotid endarterectomy. The authors made an assessment of the validity of SSEP monitoring during carotid endarterectomy in awake patients under locoregional anaesthesia. They correctly reported the current substantial variety of SSEP parameters and thresholds related to these SSEP parameters used to detect critical deterioration in cerebral blood flow (CBF). Their study was designed to compare SSEP tracings with the objective clinical–neurological examination in order to evaluate the reliability of the different SSEP-generated criteria. They referred to Shapiro and Aidinis [2], who developed a model, which can be seen as the methodological basis for current neuromonitoring during carotid surgery. This model correlates neuronal integrity and electrical activity with CBF. Using this approach to interpret changes in SSEP tracing as a perfusion-dependent neuronal metabolic situation, different parameters and values have been established to detect a relevant reduction in CBF.

The Coordination of Cooperation in Strategic Business Networks – the Cruise Baltic Case

The purpose of this study was to analyze the coordination of cooperation in strategic business networks in the tourism industry. The various facets of the coordination are explored in an intensive single case study on Cruise Baltic. The data includes the narrative accounts of 22 actors in the case network, a strategic network promoting cruise tourism in the Baltic Sea region. The study reveals different forms of coordination which enhance network development. Through the adoption of the strategic network approach it offers a current and fresh perspective on destination management and marketing. Furthermore, it pinpoints the need for coordinative activities on the different levels and dimensions of cooperation.

Governing the Americas: assessing multilateral institutions

Governing the presents the first systematic assessment of the functioning of hemispheric institutions since the introduction of the Summit of the Americas process in 1994. The authors evaluate the effectiveness of inter-American institutions with regard to core issues of democratic governance, security, trade, and economic development. They consider, as well, the impact of the profusion of multilateral institutions on the coordination and efficiency of hemispheric cooperation. Exploring why some multilateral efforts have worked while others have been more problematic, they also offer a reasoned assessment of the future of inter-American cooperation. This is the first systematic assessment of the functioning of inter-American institutions - in the areas of democratic governance, security, trade, and economic development - since the introduction of the Summit of the Americas process in 1994.

The joint economic lot sizing problem: Review and extensions

With the growing focus on supply chain management, firms realize that inventories across the entire supply chain can be more efficiently managed through greater cooperation and better coordination. This paper presents a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the joint economic lot sizing problem (JELP) and also provides some extensions of this important problem. In particular, a detailed mathematical description of, and a unified framework for, the main JELP models are given. Additionally, a comparative empirical study of the main policies proposed for JELP is conducted. The focus of this study is on assessing the deviation of these policies from the optimal solution. Studying the performance of different models provides additional insights that will help in justifying their use in more complex supply chain models that involve more stages or other practical considerations of interest.