Nature Of Openness Research Articles

How Does Government Intervention Affect Community Residents’ Satisfaction with Public Services—Evidence from CSS (2021) in China

The traditional model of community public service in China is experiencing a nuanced transformation, which has been spurred by increased government involvement and the growing openness of communities in the realm of public governance. Recent scholarly inquiries have revealed a strong association between the level of government intervention and the satisfaction of residents with public services. This means that communities with higher levels of government intervention typically enjoy more comprehensive public facilities and services, thereby increasing residents’ satisfaction with community public services. This article analyzes 2021 social security system data and finds that government intervention often has a beneficial impact on improving residents’ satisfaction with public services, although it may also have negative effects in certain specific areas. In addition, the impact of government participation and community openness on residents’ satisfaction is moderated by various factors such as residents’ own economic statuses and education levels. To achieve this goal, government officials and community leaders should focus on improving the nature and degree of government intervention and community openness in order to more fully meet the needs of residents and increase their satisfaction.

Konsep Good Governance Dalam Transparansi Anggaran Dana Partai Politik Perspektif Fiqh Siyasah

The level of public trust in political parties in Indonesia is currently experiencing a decline due to the lack of transparency by political parties regarding financial reports, activities, and the membership structure of political parties. This is exacerbated by many individuals within political parties who are involved in corruption cases or misappropriation of party funds. As a result, the public expects that the budgets of political organizations must be transparent for the public to trust political parties, which are organizations that reflect the hopes and desires of society. The current study seeks to grasp political parties' attempts to attain budget transparency to actualize the concept of good governance from the standpoint of fiqh siyasah. This study is a juris-normative study, which is a legal study that is constructed conceptually through law-in-books by exploring legal and non-legal literature. According to the findings of this study, budget transparency in political parties is one aspect of achieving good governance. In fiqh siyasah, budget transparency is an obligation as ordered by Allah SWT through QS. al-Baqarah (2): 282 and 283. In addition, some hadiths describe the nature of Abu Bakr Ash Siddiq's openness in managing the finances of Baitul Mal. Therefore, transparency of the fund's budget is an obligatory effort by every political party in Indonesia to ensure good governance.

Internal openness? How and why managing directors in SMEs involve employees in strategic conversations

PurposeThis paper investigates the ways managing directors (MDs) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) involve employees in strategic conversations. The paper examines how managers interact with employees in strategic conversations, and why the managers do so (or do not), to generate empirically grounded knowledge about the nature of internal openness in SMEs.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs a general inductive approach and is based on in-depth interviews with 60 Swedish MDs with development and growth ambitions.FindingsThe paper develops a model of employee involvement in strategic conversations based on the nature and intensity of the MD–employee interaction. A key finding is that SMEs exhibit wide variation in terms of employee involvement, from virtually no employee involvement to, in some cases, far-reaching company democracy. The reasons for this variation are complex, but personal preferences and company size are shown to have an impact, as does, to some degree, ownership structure. In contrast to existing research, the limitations and drawbacks of involving employees in strategic conversations are outlined.Originality/valueThe study provides important insight into MDs' views and practices of internal openness in strategic conversations in SMEs. A model of employee involvement in strategic processes is outlined, and potential limitations of internal openness are highlighted.

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION OF HUSBAND-WIFE COUPLES IN OVERCOMING BABY BLUES SYNDROME POSTBIRTH MOTHER

Married couples facing the birth of their first child certainly have to adapt to various changes in roles and responsibilities. Especially with my wife's condition with baby blues syndrome. Through this research, researchers want to know how interpersonal communication between husband and wife is after the birth of their first child with baby blues syndrome. This research is a type of qualitative descriptive research. Informants in this research used interview and observation techniques. The research informants were 2 husband and wife couples who had just had their first child and their wives both experienced baby blues syndrome. The results of this research show that there have been changes in interpersonal communication between husbands and wives who experienced baby blues syndrome after giving birth to their first child. The nature of dishonesty and openness is a factor in the message not being conveyed well. After the birth of their first child, the husband and wife's interpersonal communication was ineffective because it was influenced by baby blues syndrome which caused physical fatigue, as well as emotional changes for the wife. After all, they were the ones who cared more about the baby. Various problems that arise choose to resolve the conflict with alternatives, disorientation, segmentation & integration

The Spread of and Death from Infectious Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for FDI Attraction.

Are "economic bads" of infectious diseases and "economic goods" of foreign direct investment antagonistic to each other? This is the salient question that this research inquiry unravels for 34 African economies from 2000 to 2017. The empirical evidence revealed the following through a generalized method of moments (SGMM) inter alia: First, the mitigating roles of infectious diseases, such as malaria, HIV prevalence rate and AIDS, on global FDI inflows are unconditionally certified from a statistical and economic sense. Second, the diminishing influences of other confounders, such as low per capita GDP, shallow financial development, excruciating inflationary trend, and natural resource rents curse, are empirically endorsed, on the one hand, while the persistent nature of FDI and trade openness as boosting mechanisms for FDI are unambiguously applauded, on the other hand. Finally, a reduction in the numerical strength of the estimates after accounting for the outliers' effect from the models and the inclusion of additional controls do not diminish the robustness of already established findings, except for the HIV prevalence rate. On the policy front, if the foreign direct investment is truly pro-development outcomes, any policy interventions that eliminate infectious diseases will be Pareto-improving.

Trade openness and economic growth: Evidence from Azerbaijan

A review of modern economic literature shows the lack of consensus on the relationship between the trade openness policy and the economic growth of countries. There is also an opinion that the policy of openness in emerging and resource-rich countries presents more opportunities for growth and development. Is this true, and under what conditions does openness lead to growth? Exploring the nature of trade openness and economic growth relationship in resource-rich emerging countries is the purpose of this paper. Therefore, the economy of Azerbaijan, rich in hydrocarbon resources, has been chosen as the object of this study. Next, the VAR model using ADF tests and Johansen’s cointegration was chosen to analyze and evaluate the causal nature of the relationship between openness and growth. Trade openness ratio and GDP per capita growth are model variables. The study covers annual data from 1995 to 2020. It was found that there are no cointegration relationships between variables in the long run. However, there is a unidirectional causal relationship from openness to growth in the short run, and the effect of growth to openness is not statistically significant. The results show that Azerbaijan receives economic benefits from openness by selling oil to the world market. Yet, the short-run nature of such benefits and the lack of feedback from growth to openness suggest specific problems in the diversification and quality of the country’s exports.

BCAuth: Physical Layer Enhanced Authentication and Attack Tracing for Backscatter Communications

Backscatter communication (BC) enables ultra-low-power communications and allows devices to harvest energy simultaneously. But its practical deployment faces severe security threats caused by its nature of openness and broadcast. Authenticating backscatter devices (BDs) is treated as the first line of defense. However, complex cryptographic approaches are not desirable due to the limited computation capability of BDs. Existing physical layer authentication schemes cannot effectively support BD mobility, multiple attacker identification and attacker location tracing in an integrated way. To tackle these problems, this paper proposes BCAuth, a multi-stage authentication and attack tracing scheme based on the physical spatial information of BDs to realize enhanced BD authentication security for both static and mobile BDs. After initial authentication based on BD identity with its position information registration, preemptive authentication and re-authentication are performed according to spatial correlation of backscattered signal source locations associated with the BD. By exploiting clustering-based analysis on spacial information, BCAuth is capable of determining the number of attackers and localizing their positions. In addition, we propose a reciprocal channel-based method for BD re-authentication with better authentication performance than the clustering-based method for mobile BDs when the BDs is able to measure received signal strength (RSS), which also enables mutual authentication. We theoretically analyze BCAuth security and conduct extensive numerical simulations with various settings to show its desirable performance.

STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT OF TOFU HOME INDUSTRY IN MASBAGIK DISTRICT IN EAST LOMBOK

The purpose of this study was to determine the strategy for developing a tofu home industry in Masbagik District, East Lombok Regency. The method used is descriptive, data collection techniques using survey techniques with direct interviews and questionnaires. The location of the research was determined by purposive sampling in three villages, namely South Masbagik Village, Danger Village, and East Masbagik Village. The data obtained were analyzed using SWOT. The results of the research are focusing on the S-O strategy to maintain the number of human resources by utilizing the nature of openness between the owner and employees and improving the experience in order to get satisfaction from the community for tofu products, maintaining affordable prices and expanding market share by taking advantage of limited competitors and high public awareness of consuming tofu.

Industrialization in developing Asia since 1970: why technology, learning, and innovation matter

ABSTRACT The paper seeks to analyze the remarkable pace of industrialization in Asia during the past half century, even if its distribution was most unequal between countries, with a focus on selected countries described as the Asian-14. It argues that economic openness, while necessary was not sufficient. It was conducive to industrialization only when combined with sensible industrial policy that was implemented by effective governments. There was, of course, an enormous diversity in the nature of openness and the process of industrialization across countries. Yet, there were discernible patterns in the different paths to industrialization, pointing to determinants of success and factors underlying failure. The analysis highlights the importance of technological capabilities, learning and innovation, which were essential for the few countries that joined the league of industrialized nations. It concludes that this will be just as necessary for countries that follow in their footsteps or aspire to sustain their industrialization.

How open is innovation? A retrospective and ideas forward

This paper sheds fresh light on our 2010 paper How Open Is Innovation by taking into consideration notable developments in innovation over the last decade. The original paper developed four types of openness: sourcing, acquiring, selling, and revealing. Reflecting on important technological, organizational, and societal changes in the past decade, we highlight how these changes prompt novel questions for open innovation. While the core features of the original framework still stands, there are many new questions that have emerged in recent years. We end by charting a path for future research that emphasizes opportunities, costs and tradeoffs between different modes of open innovation, the need to better understand the nature of data, new organizational designs and legal instruments, and multilevel aspects and relationships that affect the extent and nature of openness.

The relationship between physical education and sports school students' positive thinking skill levels and their attitudes to learning: Comparison by gender and years of exercising

The aim of this study was to compare the relationship between physical education and sports high school students' positive thinking skill levels and attitudes of learning in terms of gender and years of doing sports. The study is a descriptive method, one of the quantitative research methods. The study group consisted of 280 (age: 20.98 ± 1.390) university students from School of Physical Education and Sports in Ordu university. As a result, it was concluded that the students' positive thinking skills were at a high level, and the nature of learning, anxiety, expectation, and openness to learning sub-dimensions of the attitude tolearning scale were at high levels. It was concluded that there is a statistically significant and positive relationship between the nature of learning, Expectation, and openness to learning, and positive thinking skill from sub-dimensions of the attitude to learning scale, but there is a negatively significant relationship between anxiety and positive thinking skills

Impact of Trade Openness on Nigerian Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation, 1970–2011

Geopolitical territories have often engaged in one form of trade or another with their neighbours. That is because no nation in the world can survive without one form of trade with other sovereign states. This study examines the nature of trade openness and economic growth in Nigeria from 1970–2011. The emphasis of this empirical study is to ascertain the impact of trade openness on Nigeria’s economic growth. Causal comparative or ex-post facto research design was adopted in the study. Econometric time series analyses like ADF unit root test, co-integration test and the ordinary least squared (OLS) were employed in the study. The result obtained was used to test the hypotheses, and it was revealed that (i) Trade Openness has positive significant impact on Nigeria’s economic growth; while (ii) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) responds to the shock of Trade Openness value as a proxy of total import and total export divided by GDP as well as change in Exchange Rate (DEXR) within Nigeria’s economy during the period of study. Thus, the co-integration results indicate that there exists long-run relationship among the variables used; hence; the researchers then recommended that there is urgent need for the government to create enabling environment for good trade policy that would attract both foreign and domestic private sector investment in the country. JEL Codes: F13, B27

Slicing the cake without baking it: Opportunistic platform entry strategies in digital markets

The growth of digital platforms relies on the generative nature of digital resources and platforms' openness to complementary innovation. These features often generate strong network effects and winner-take-all dynamics that protect incumbents from competition. However, under certain conditions, these same features render incumbent platforms vulnerable to competitive strategic moves via entrant platforms wherein the entrants can capture value and simultaneously avoid upfront investments in value creation. In this study, we identify three such strategies: platform exploitation, platform injection, and platform pacing. These strategies allow the entrant platform to capture value using the incumbent ecosystem's resources by copying parts of the resources (exploitation), by following the development cycle of key boundary resources (pacing), or by placing itself inside the platform (injection). In this study, we employ an interpretative cross-case synthesis to both theorize these strategies as a new category of opportunistic platform competition and to reveal their distinctive characteristics. Overall, the study demonstrates the potential for unconventional and opportunistic platform competition strategies that extend beyond more traditional ones, such as quality, variety, and network size.

Soft Power Jepang Di Dalam Anime Samurai Champloo Sebagai Bentuk Diplomasi Kebudayaan

Anime discourse as cultural diplomacy in the era of globalization is now increasingly massively. This research takes this potential as the focus that Samurai Champloo anime wants to use as a soft power form used for agricultural diplomacy by Japan in the era of globalization. Where this research will answer the forms of diplomacy carried out by anime. This study uses the theory of soft power which has sources in, the type of cultural politics contained in anime, and cultural diplomacy. This study uses qualitative discussion, this study discusses the diplomacy carried out in the anime film Samurai Champloo. The results showed that Japan made anime as a place to accommodate cultural forms originating from outside Japan as a way to show the nature of openness as a characteristic of anime to an international audience. Of the eight units of analysis through different episodes in the anime Samurai Champloo, six episodes use the type of cultural politics of the Internationalization of depoliticization. With the internationalization of depoliticization, it shows that extraterritorial development is the main goal so that anime can be integrated into other countries and be accepted by an international audience.

Moving Target Defense for Internet of Things Based on the Zero-Determinant Theory

At present, the proliferation of the online connected devices conceives the Internet of Things (IoT), in which many wireless sensors, smart devices are implemented. However, the nature of openness rooted in IoT makes itself vulnerable to be attacked. One of the pioneer countermeasures is the moving target defense (MTD), which encourages an active and dynamic defense in IoT. In this article, a macroscopic research in MTD is carried out. The existing macroscopic studies take advantage of a traditional game theory. Consequently, protected IoT devices need extra operations to dominate the game. In this article, we take a dramatically different approach where a player can dominate the game without extra operation. Our approach benefits from the power of the zero-determinant (ZD) strategy, in which the player who adopts ZD can unilaterally set the expected payoff of the adversary or itself. Aware of such a powerful strategy, both players may want to employ it for dominating the confrontation. In this case, two fundamental questions need to be answered: who should take the ZD strategy? and to what extent can the ZD player dominate the game? To solve these problems, we model the interactions between the IoT devices and the malicious attackers as a Markov game. Besides, we obtain the conditions to adopt ZD, based on which we deduce the effectiveness of the ZD player. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to employ the ZD strategy theory to enhance a better counterattack performance in IoT.

Critically studying openness: A way forward

Critically studying openness: A way forward

The Emergence of Openness in Open-Source Projects: The Case of OpenEhR

The meaning of openness in open source is both intrinsically unstable and dynamic, and tends to fluctuate with time and context. We draw on a very particular open-source project primarily concerned with building rigorous clinical concepts to be used in electronic health records called openEHR. openEHR explains how openness is a concept that is purposely engaged with, and how, in this process of engagement, the very meaning of open matures and evolves within the project. Drawing on rich longitudinal data related to openEHR we theorise the evolving nature of openness and how this idea emerges through two intertwined processes of maturation and metamorphosis. While metamorphosis allows us to trace and interrogate the mutational evolution in openness, maturation analyses the small, careful changes crafted to build a very particular understanding of openness. Metamorphosis is less managed and controlled, whereas maturation is representative of highly precise work carried out in controlled form. Both processes work together in open-source projects and reinforce each other. Our study reveals that openness emerges and evolves in open-source projects where it can be understood to mean rigour; ability to participate; open implementation; and an open process. Our work contributes to a deepening in the theorisation of what it means to be an open-source project. The multiple and co-existing meanings of ‘open’ imply that open-source projects evolve in nonlinear ways where each critical meaning of openness causes a reflective questioning by the community of its continued status and existence.

Masyarakat Muslim Melayu di Singapura: Kajian Terhadap Isu dan Tantangan dalam Dakwah dan Pemikiran Islam Era Globalisasi

This paper aims to examine and assess the position of Islam as al-Din or religion for Malay Muslim community in Singapore. By using primary and secondary sources in the field of Islamic thought, the main and primary issues faced Malay Moslem society from various ranks, as well as internal, external and et cetera in addition to studying the methods and approaches applied by MUIS (Majelis Ugama Islam Singapore) specifically as the Islamic supreme and organization in the republic to solve the problems that arise in society since the first. The result of the study showed that Islam in Singapore is ASWJ (Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah), as any other country in the overseas, but rather obvious distinction is due to the nature and attitude of openness and positiveness shown by Malay Muslim society in accepting diversity and different forms and thoughts. In summary, they are united in the difference “agree to disagree.”

A Hybrid Trust Evaluation Framework for E-Commerce in Online Social Network: A Factor Enrichment Perspective

The nature of autonomy and openness of E-commerce in online social (ECOS) networks poses a challenge to the security of transactions as it is difficult to ensure the reliability and trustworthiness of parties on both ends. Transactions in ECOS may, therefore, be conducted in an unreliable environment and be vulnerable to frauds. Trust management schemes, naturally, have come as feasible solutions. With a view to making improvement on the existing trust management mechanisms, we, in this paper, propose a factor-enrichment-based hybrid trust framework for trust measurement in ECOS, in which three levels of trust are used to establish trustworthy opinions among individuals for their transactions: 1) private reputation, which is defined as subjective trustworthy impression among individuals with respect to its feature of dynamic evolution; 2) common reputation, which is defined as collective and sharable trust degree and is proposed with two factors, a consistency factor and a continuity factor, introduced for enhancing the reliability of common reputation; and 3) the hybrid trust, which is proposed to obtain integrated trustable impressions based on private reputation and common reputation, with anti-fraud factor and confidence factor presented to further determine the trustworthiness of hybrid trust. Finally, we list the results of a series of examinations to further verify the performance of our mechanism.

An Alternative Approach: Openness in Education Over the Last 100 Years

What is the nature of openness, and what role has it played in education over the years? The concept of openness has traditionally been very difficult to define, and its history in education has often been ignored, obscured, or misrepresented in the literature, media, and popular culture. This paper provides an operational definition of openness and highlights the history of openness in education over the last century. This serves as a useful lens for better understanding the nature of openness and from which to examine the role of openness in education in new ways. This history legitimizes openness as an approach to education with historical significance, and establishes a precedent for certain types of instructional strategies and educational models that are common today. The paper concludes with a push for educators to continue thoughtfully integrating openness within the current educational system in a practical, experimental way. This will continue the integration of these systems and result in one that retains the strengths of both traditional and open approaches.