Interdependence Research Articles

Utopia come metapolitica

The defeat of the twentieth century revolutionary movements leaves a gigantic void. The space of hope can be taken up again by the renewal of the utopian dimension. Utopia must be conceived as a criterion of meaning, as an indication of direction and not as a social model to be realized. Recognizing Marx’s brilliant diagnostic skills but criticizing his erroneous prognosis and his ruinous therapies, we must draw from the critique of the category of fetishism the implications that allow us to understand why global capitalism does not generate a subject capable of becoming aware of its possible overcoming. The very category of politics, as a projection of evil on the adversary, has become useless if one must imagine the current condition of interdependence as capable of evolving towards a pact of balance and peace among peoples, classes, genders, with an eco-friendly use of natural resources. Utopia can be built over a very long period, transforming the level of awareness to experiment projects of evolutionary coexistence.

A konfliktuspotenciálok elemzésének jelentősége a marketing és az értékesítés integrációjában

Our research aims to identify the critical interfaces between sales and marketing that need to be improved in order to ensure productive cooperation. The relationship between the two departments is full of conflicts and interdependencies. The improvement of communication is of strategical importance, as it is key to staying competitive in the market. The effectiveness and quality of the sales-marketing cooperation is a key factor that is negatively affected by personal and organisational factors as well as a lack of information and conflicts. In addition to the key factors of managing the sales-marketing interfaces, we have also identified the actions that can promote their improvement, including strategic and organisational roles and responsibilities. Our empirical research results show that regular information exchange, more common and interdisciplinary meetings, and a clearly communicated and implemented corporate vision have a positive effect on the coordination and integration of the sales and marketing departments. Consequently, management is reponsible for establishing a corporate vision, i.e. a comprehensive management culture that is clearly communicated across the board in order to increase the employees’ sense of belonging. Of all elements of management culture, the most important factors are coordination and the establishment of a common strategic sysyem. All in all, corporate profit, which is of key importance to the employer, is largely dependent on the successful integration of the sales and marketing departments, which can be achieved through the implementation of the above factors.

Data Resource Profile The Scottish Social Care Survey (SCS) and the Scottish Care Home Census (SCHC)

Introduction: Linked health care datasets have been used effectively in Scotland for some time. Use of social care data has been much more limited, partly because responsibility for these services is distributed across multiple local authorities. However, there are substantial interactions between health and social care (also known internationally as long-term care) services, and keen policy interest in better understanding these. We introduce two social care resources that can now be linked to health datasets at a population level across Scotland to study these interdependencies. These data emerge from the Scottish Government’s centralised collation of data from mandatory returns provided by local authorities and care homes. Methods: Deterministic and Probabilistic methods were used to match the Social Care Survey (SCS) and Scottish Care Home Census (SCHC) to the Community Health Index (CHI) number via the National Records of Scotland (NRS) Research Indexing Spine. Results: For the years 2010/11 to 2015/16, an overall match rate of 91.2% was achieved for the SCS to CHI from 31 of Scotland’s 32 local authority areas. This rate varied from 76.7% to 98.5% for local authority areas. A match rate of 89.8% to CHI was achieved for the SCHC in years 2012/13 to 2015/16 but only 52.5% for the years 2010/11 to 2011/12. Conclusion: Indexing of the SCS and SCHC to CHI offers a new and rich resource of data for health and social care research.

TOXIC SCENES: Alexis Shotwell on “Shimmering Presences” and “Toxic Interdependencies”

TOXIC SCENES: Alexis Shotwell on “Shimmering Presences” and “Toxic Interdependencies”

Restructuring the Five Interdependent Mobilities – With Conceptualizing the Term of Mobility

Restructuring the Five Interdependent Mobilities – With Conceptualizing the Term of Mobility

Trayectoria territorial de la región enológica de Querétaro, México (1970-2017): enoturismo y calidad territorial

El surgimiento de actividades recreativas en zonas rurales denota un proceso de turistificación del territorio, en el que sus dimensiones material y simbólica son convertidas en mercancías al servicio de los mercados turísticos. Se aborda el caso de la región vitivinícola de Querétaro donde se describen los procesos de apropiación del territorio en el marco del enoturismo. A partir de la perspectiva de la biografía cultural del territorio y desde un enfoque cualitativo, se discute cómo el turismo ha significado un mecanismo de apropiación territorial y dinamización del territorio. Se observa que el enoturismo es una plataforma de exhibición para los vinos queretanos y es una herramienta para la postulación de la calidad territorial, asociado a estos productos. Calidad, turismo y territorio son tres realidades interdependientes que ilustran la consolidación del capitalismo tardío en el espacio rural, al mismo tiempo que son la precondición para la revitalización económica y cultural de los espacios productores de vino.

China’s Global Interdependence: International Reserves, Capital Inflows, Financial Market Transmission, and Exchange Rate Determination

“Quand la Chine s’eveillera, le monde tremblera …”[“When China rises, the world will tremble …”](Napoleon Bonaparte)1“There is a huge prize here that Xi Jinping is focused on: China eventually ecli...

Promoting Project Team Coordination in Repetitive Projects

Interdependencies within and between project teams and changes occurring throughout a project’s lifecycle create a need for project team coordination. The existing research on project team coordination has mostly focused on large or innovative projects. In addition, the existing research has focused mostly on the ways project team coordination takes place in different projects, with less focus on how beneficial circumstances for coordination are created or promoted. This study contributes to these knowledge gaps by studying how a standardized project management methodology introduced by a parent organization can promote project team coordination in repetitive projects. An embedded single-case study design with qualitative interview-based data collection was followed. The case firm introduced a management framework in its service centers to promote project team coordination in repetitive maintenance projects. The interviewees perceived improvements in communication, visibility of project and portfolio status information, and information sharing. The improvements were enabled by two coordination mechanisms of the management framework: regular meetings and visual whiteboards. The perceived improvements were considered beneficial for project team coordination, both within and between project teams.

“Who’s going to look after the river?”: Water and the Ethics of Care in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle

This paper analyses the trope of water in Thomas King’s latest novel The Back of the Turtle from an ethics-of-care perspective that puts in conversation Indigenous ethics, feminist care ethics and environmental ethics. I suggest that King’s focus on water offers a harsh—even if often humorous—critique of the anthropocentric, neoliberal extractivist mentality while proposing a transcultural ethics of care. Consequently, my analysis of the novel draws on the dialogue taking place in the realm of the Environmental Humanities in Canada and beyond about the centrality of water (See Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod and Astrida Neimais’ Thinking with Water; Dorothy Christian and Rita Wong’s Downstream: Reimagining Water; Astrida Neimanis’ Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology; Stacy Alaimo’s Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times), as well as on Indigenous epistemologies that eschew anthropocentrism in favour of attentive caring for the interconnected needs of humans and non-humans within interdependent ecologies, and feminist environmental care ethics that emphasize the importance of empowering communities to care for themselves and the ecologies that sustain them.

Karşılıklı Bağımlılık Kapsamında Türkiye-Rusya Enerji İlişkilerinin Analizi

Türkiye-Rusya enerji ilişkileri, Türkiye’nin artan enerji ihtiyacına bağlı olarak özellikle 21. yüzyıldagelişmiştir. Rusya, zengin enerji kaynaklarıyla Türkiye açısından önemli bir tedarikçi ülke halinegelirken, Türkiye ise hızla artan enerji ithalatıyla Rus ekonomisinin önemli bir gelir kaynağınadönüşmüştür. Kömür ve petrol alanında başlayan enerji ticareti, zamanla doğal gaz alanına taşınmış veson olarak iki ülke, Türkiye’nin ilk nükleer enerji santralinin inşası için anlaşmıştır. Bu çalışmada genelolarak Türkiye-Rusya enerji ilişkileri karşılıklı bağımlılık kapsamında değerlendirilmektedir. Enerjiilişkileri, iki ülke arasındaki siyasi krizlerden belirli ölçüde etkilenmesine rağmen, ilişkiler geneldekarşılıklı bağımlılık temelinde gelişmiştir. Bu kapsamda çalışmada ilk olarak karşılıklı bağımlılıkyaklaşımı açıklandıktan sonra, iki ülkenin enerji politikaları ve enerji profilleri incelenmektedir. Dahasonra çalışmanın ana eksenini oluşturan Türkiye-Rusya enerji ilişkilerinin gelişimi ele alınacaktır.Çalışma sonunda yapılan genel değerlendirmede, Türkiye ve Rusya arasında enerji alanında karşılıklıbağımlılığı olduğu, ancak Türkiye açısından bu bağımlılığın Rusya lehine dengesiz bağımlılığa dönüşmeriski taşıdığı sonucuna varılmıştır.

La crisis del sueño europeo: hogar y éxodo en el nuevo cine sobre migrantes y refugiados (2005-2018)

En las dos décadas del nuevo siglo, los conceptos de hogar, identidad y éxodo en los relatos de migrantes y refugiados han sido objeto de estudio en las artes visuales, en especial en el ámbito cinematográfico (Harrod, Liz y Timoshkina, 2015; Celik, 2015; Sternberg y Berghahn, 2010). En el presente artículo se propone la crisis de los valores del European dream como criterio de estudio de las obras de cineastas europeos o residentes en Europa que, entre 2005 y 2018, han realizado en sus historias una reflexión sobre los valores sociales del viejo continente: entre ellos, las ideas de integración, acogida e interdependencia como signos de una prosperidad actualmente discutida en el hogar continental común.

The Choice for a Minilateral Europe: A Historical Sociology of Defence-Industrial Capitalism

Extract ----- Abstract In order to acquire a new military transport aircraft in the 2000s, why did France decide to choose European minilateralism (A400M) rather than the alternative of Franco- American bilateralism (C-17 and C-130)? A “configurational” argument with regard to this decision is developed, using an approach that looks at the historical sociology of a political economy in arms procurement in Europe, derived from the work of Norbert Elias. This argument explains France’s choice of a minilateral Europe as resulting from the effect of social interdependence that is conceptualised by the notion of “configuration”. Establishing the positions adopted by French state and industrial actors required two years of fieldwork (2012 –2014). A total of 105 semi-structured interviews were conducted with French actors (political, military, administrative, and industrial) who took part in the negotiations from the mid-1970 to the early 2000s. Beyond presenting this data, this article contributes to the development of international political sociology by making the concept of configuration operational. Keywords: A400M, configuration, historical sociology, political economy, minilateralism, Europe

Estimating Risk Interdependency Ratio for Construction Projects: Using Risk Checklist in Pre-construction Phase

Estimating Risk Interdependency Ratio for Construction Projects: Using Risk Checklist in Pre-construction Phase

Influencing Factors on Marital Satisfaction in Newlywed Couples by Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model

Influencing Factors on Marital Satisfaction in Newlywed Couples by Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model

Археология и этнокультурная история казахов по русским картографическим материалам ХVIII — начала ХХ в.: теоретико-методологические проблемы

Рассмотрены некоторые теоретико-методологические проблемы вспомогательной дисциплины «Историческая картография» в контексте особенностей изучения картографических материалов по истории Казахстана XVIII — начала ХХ в. Отмечено, что методологической основой эффективного использования картографического материала Нового времени выступает комплексный междисциплинарный подход широкого взаимодействия гуманитарных наук и естествознания. Выявлено, что для наиболее плодотворного изучения и использования старых карт необходимо по возможности полное выявление всех имеющихся картографических материалов по конкретной проблематике. Установлено, что картографические материалы по истории Казахстана XVIII — начала XX в. следует изучать не изолированно, а как части картографии определенной эпохи во всех ее взаимосвязях и взаимообусловленностях с развитием смежных областей знаний (этнологии, археологии, истории, географии, астрономии, навигации, геодезии, полиграфии и т. д.), на базе глубокого знания социально-экономических и политических условий, без учета которых невозможна квалифицированная интерпретация источников такого типа.

Opening the horizons of clinical reasoning to qualitative research.

Clinical Reasoning (CR) is an important aspect of health professional education and effective practice. It is a complex series of factors and cognitive functions, involving higher-level thinking to define problems, examine the evidence and then making decisions and choices to improve the patient’s physiological and psycho-social state. CR consists of 3 interconnected and interdependent sub-processes: clinical experience and clinical context and Evidence-Based Practice. This essay focuses on the opportunities that Qualitative Research offers during the CR process when the doctor finds the evidence to address a patient’s health problem. Clinicians are often faced with questions that randomized clinical trials or systematic reviews of efficacy studies cannot answer. For this reason, we considered it necessary to offer an expanded view of the process of interpretation of the scientific literature used in daily clinical practice through the complex process of Clinical Reasoning, through the use of studies conducted with qualitative methods, which are able to respond to a different range of clinical questions, and to support studies based on the effectiveness of treatments. (www.actabiomedica.it)

A Study on Interdependency of International Trade among Korea, China and Japan

A Study on Interdependency of International Trade among Korea, China and Japan

Transportation system and power system interdependence: a comprehensive review on models and applications

Transportation system and power system interdependence: a comprehensive review on models and applications

Urbanización y naturaleza en el delta

El presente artículo analiza en perspectiva histórica tres lapsos de la historia y transformación del delta del río Guayas, con el propósito de examinar las contradicciones e interdependencias entre su urbanismo y su contexto natural. El estudio se basa en la idea de que una lectura crítica de la transformación urbano-ecológica del territorio en perspectiva histórica, puede aportar un entendimiento de la ‘urbanización de la naturaleza’ al considerar no solo la ciudad sino otros sitios y ecologías vinculadas a ella, las luchas políticas que les dan forma, y el desarrollo desigual. El estudio trae a la discusión temas clave sobre el urbanismo de Guayaquil y su interacción con el complejo hidrográfico del río Guayas: la ecología de los asentamientos precolombinos, la interdependencia moderna entre la transformación urbana y las conquistas ecológicas en el territorio, y el efecto de la expansión neoliberal en producción de la naturaleza.

2. L’évaluation des entreprises cotées en bourse : quelle valeur de vérité ?

La réglementation et les normes professionnelles adjugent à l’industrie financière un rôle fondamental dans la distribution de ressources, en considérant qu’elle est le lieu de réalisation de l’efficience des marchés financiers, où les prix reflèteraient toute l’information disponible sur les entreprises, et donc leur vraie valeur. L’analyse des méthodes d’évaluation montre qu’elles sont multiples, interdépendantes et contradictoires et qu’elles sont portées par différentes professions et entreprises dans des relations de hiérarchie, coopération et concurrence. Or, dans tous les cas, la notion de vraie valeur, définie à la fois de manière technique, comme résultat de l’application de procédures, et politique, comme hiérarchie des activités sociales, légitime les effets distributifs de l’industrie financière.