Shared Value System Research Articles

Collaborative cultures: Ubuntu as a pedagogical foundation for educating independent film-makers

This case study centres on the Ubuntu Collaboration Model introduced to Bournemouth University in the UK in 2018. Initially focused on undergraduate teaching, the model is now embedded as part of the university’s practice-based and industry-focused Media Production master’s programmes (2019–ongoing). The goal of this initiative is to develop and install a practical approach to film teaching that deliberately fosters a consciousness of cross-cultural collaboration among emerging independent film-makers coming from diverse backgrounds. The model is founded on the principles of the African philosophical concept of Ubuntu, which suggests, among other things, that we can only progress productively through a shared value system that finds expression in respectful social interaction (that is, collaboration). Co-authored with master’s students, this case study contextualises and analyses the experiences of the master’s film production cohort who were part of this pedagogical journey in 2022/3.

Family members’ commitment to the firm and a firm’s exploratory innovation: the moderating effect of building a system of shared values

Nous étudions l’influence de l’engagement des membres de la famille propriétaire – dans une entreprise familiale – sur l’innovation exploratoire tout en considérant le rôle de la construction du système de valeurs organisationnelles. Sur la base d’un échantillon de 47 PME familiales, les résultats montrent que l’engagement est négativement lié à l’innovation exploratoire. En outre, la construction du système de valeurs influence positivement l’innovation exploratoire et son effet modérateur favorable est confirmé. Nous montrons l’importance de la construction du système de valeurs organisationnelles dans l’orientation de ces entreprises envers l’innovation, ce système contribuant à atténuer les effets néfastes de l’engagement familial.

Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case

We define tribalism as a mode of articulation that draws an antagonistic frontier between societal groups. Unlike populism, tribalism does not have a hegemonic character. It articulates groups through a horizontally oriented, shared value system; whereas populism is an essential part of a democratic system, tribalism disregards democracy. To conceptualize tribalism as a separate theoretical frame from populism or (ethno)nationalism, we used discourse theoretical analysis to analyze the Facebook pages of four political party leaders in Slovakia (Marian Kotleba, Krisztián Forró, Igor Matovič, and Boris Kollár). Kotleba’s page showed tribalistic features by articulating an antagonistic divide between “us,” the people, linked by shared values and identities, and anyone not sharing those values, or “them.” His representation of his party’s fight against oppressive forces, combined with their apathetic stance toward democracy, makes his a prime example of a tribalist party. While populism is an ever-expanding area of research and a framework widely used to analyze political entities and events, it is a word often thrown around and thus overused. Tribalism offers an alternative approach to analyze political instances in a national and transnational context in a more nuanced way, and to gain a better understanding of previously overlooked phenomena.

Partnership and Motivations for Starting a Family of One's Own in the Opinions of Students with Disabilities.

Creating and maintaining stable, happy intimate relationships is a right every individual has. Previous research has shown that people with disabilities are at risk of building unsatisfactory partner relationships. The aim of the study was to ascertain the beliefs of students with disabilities concerning their motives for starting families and, in regard to potential partners, their tolerance for risky life experiences and the personal qualities accepted. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of 2847 university students in southeastern Poland. It was found that the following motives for entering into a permanent relationship were considered more important by students with disabilities than they were by students without disabilities: enhancement of self-esteem (p = 0.001), high economic potential of a partner (p = 0.007) and a shared system of values and interests (p = 0.036). Love (p = 0.031) and the mental qualities (p = 0.010) of a partner were considered less important by students with disabilities than they were by students without disabilities. Moreover, students with disabilities are far more likely than students without disabilities to accept disability (p < 0.001) in potential partners. They are also significantly more willing to enter into relationships with people who have risky life experiences, even in the form of violence against previous life partners (p < 0.015) and children (p = 0.001), addiction to alcohol (p < 0.001) or drugs (p = 0.01) and the resulting treatment, and those having served time in prison (p = 0.034). Educational and institutional support for students with disabilities should be intensified with regard to partner selection being satisfactory to both partners.

Understanding how firms implemented shared value strategy: a Brazilian business context

PurposeThis paper aims to identify how companies implemented shared value strategies to reconcile profitability and social-environmental welfare and explain through an interactive methodology the main elements and their relationships that compose a shared value creation system.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use the interactive qualitative analysis (IQA) method to conduct a qualitative study in the sustainability field of investigation. Participants are both data sources and analysts which brings a different perspective to data analysis. Results emerged from the interaction between the researchers and the participants. The method mixes qualitative and quantitative protocols to bring robustness to the research.FindingsRelevant findings are (1) a shared value creation system is composed of nine elements which are business results, social-environmental results, ecosystem, impact, materiality matrix, profitability, purpose-driven leadership, social-environmental welfare and sustainable economic development; (2) the system's primary driver is purpose-driven leadership; (3) The use of renewable materials and the reduction in the use of natural resources in the value chain are the main criteria companies employed to meet business and societal objectives simultaneously; (4) the IQA method enabled the consolidation of a Shared Value Creation System Diagram which other scientists may use to replicate the study.Research limitations/implicationsThe research investigated a specific country context. Other researchers may use the shared value system diagram to replicate the study with companies in other countries.Practical implicationsFindings show that the knowledge about shared value creation system elements and their cause-effect relationships guides business leaders in developing strategic objectives to reconcile profitability and social-environmental welfare. This is essential knowledge, especially in a context in which companies are increasingly required to assume their social and environmental responsibilities. Besides, a management challenge in the stakeholder-oriented approach is still how strategies can be implemented.Originality/valueThe research design is innovative in using the IQA method in the sustainability field of investigation. The method procedures and protocols allowed for a deeper understanding of the subject, revealing its richness and its potential for replicability in other contexts.

A case for somatic practices as embodied mindfulness

Presenting convergences between mindfulness and somatic practices, this article makes a case for somatic practices as embodied mindfulness. It discusses historical origins as well as brief comments supporting some shared value systems and qualities espoused in both practices. After giving an overview of embodied cognition theory and the Interacting Cognitive Subsystems model, I trace how developing expertise in both somatic and mindfulness practices create the same cognitive repatterning to support the argument that somatics is a field of embodied mindfulness practices.

Multi- and interdisciplinary design of urban infrastructure development

Due to the environmental crisis, there is a need for a more conscious and integrating design process within the field of urban infrastructure development. Through cooperation between civil engineering and spatial design resilience of the built environment can be increased. Delft University of Technology investigates interdisciplinary design as a method and incorporates this into its MSc-level education of students in the faculties of civil engineering and architecture. The focus of the research was on the reconstruction projects after disasters like hurricanes and tsunamis. By way of surveys of the participating students, the effectiveness of the interdisciplinary design methods used, and the interpretation of the terms multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary are revealed. From survey results about understanding of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary it can be concluded that interdisciplinary design should entail a conscious and orchestrated process in which the disciplines present their ideas within a shared value system before systematic integration. The challenges are at personal and cognitive levels, an open attitude is necessary to be able to perceive and react, process and understand, retrieve information. Only then decisions on – and production of – appropriate responses come out of co-creation between engineering within the spatial design process.

Strategic intent constellations in market expansion of a Chinese firm: the case of Dalian Wanda

ABSTRACT This article examines the strategic intent behind foreign acquisitions made by the Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda (‘Wanda’) in the global film and cinema industry. It develops new theory on the existence and nature of strategic intent constellations using basic propositions on (1) business and financial intent, and (2) political intent during market expansion. A mixed methods approach encompassing qualitative and quantitative datasets is used to show the complexity and interrelatedness of business and financial, and political motivators for Wanda’s foreign acquisitions. A strategic intent constellation is inducted and defined as a complex system, order or host of an organization’s strategy, structures and shared value systems that interact with each other providing direction for the organization. The study provides empirical richness in a relevant marketing strategy setting related to global market expansion and helps develop novel theory about broader strategic intent constellations in corporate China that help understand differences in the notion of strategic intent across the globe.

Study to assess the existing cultural beliefs and associate practices regarding newborn care among mothers in Chandu Village at Gurugram, Haryana

Introduction: Culture is defined as a shared system of beliefs, values and behavioural expectations that provide social structure for daily living. Not all customs and beliefs are harmful. Some of them have positive values while others may be of no role or positively harmful for the baby’s health in various forms like physical, psychological, social development. The objective of the study was to explore the cultural beliefs and associate practices in new born care among mothers. Statement Of The Problem:“ A study to assess the existing cultural beliefs and associate practices regarding newborn care among mothers in Chandu Village at Gurugram, Haryana”. Method: Research approach used was quantitative, a descriptive design was used. targeted population of newborn babies were’100 mothers. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect the data. The data was collected by structured knowledge questionnaire and analysed and interpretation by descriptive and interferential statics. Result: Result shows that 98%mothers follow the cultural associate practices whereas 2% do not follow. Overall mean value was13.19±1.978. Conclusion: The finding of the study concluded that the mothers with the average knowledge scores regarding cultural beliefs and associate practices of newborn babies are more as compared to the low cultural beliefs and practices.

Creating shared value: the case of innovability at Suzano in Brazil

PurposeThis study aims to investigate how Suzano implemented shared value (SV) strategies to reconcile profitability and social welfare by joining innovation and sustainability.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use an exploratory, descriptive qualitative approach using the interactive qualitative analysis (IQA) method. IQA procedures and protocols were operationalized to get to Suzano's SV system. Primary data were collected through in-depth interviews. Content analyses were conducted with the support of Atlas.ti software.FindingsThe most relevant findings of this research are (1) Suzano developed a unique strategy to spread collaborative and innovation mindset throughout the organization called “innovability”; (2) Suzano's effort to understand local community's demands and a collaborative work raised the companies' profitability and enabled prosperity for the community; (3) the IQA procedures and protocols enabled the development of a Suzano's SV system, composed of nine elements and their relationships. They are purpose-driven leadership, materiality matrix, social welfare, profitability, ecosystem, business results, social results, impact and sustainable economic development, (4) purpose-driven leadership is the system's driver.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was limited to studying the implementation of the SV as a strategy to reconcile profitability and welfare. Despite the findings about the company's conflicts with local communities and the strategy with small family producers, other studies could evaluate the strategy of different stakeholders, such as the supply chain since Suzano is one of the leading companies of paper sales in Brazil.Practical implicationsBy using IQA protocols and the nine elements of this study, other researchers may replicate it to investigate the adoption of SV strategies in other organizations. The SV system developed in this study may be used by business leaders to disseminate the SV policies and practices in their organization.Social implicationsThe company adopts the three forms of SV -reconceiving products and markets, redefining productivity in the value chain and developing clusters with the local community-as strategies for sustainable and collaborative management. Suzano was led to get involved with the problems and conflicts' root causes. By doing so, the company unlocked innovation as a driver to achieve sustainable and responsible management. For them, innovation is in service of sustainability, creating innovability. Both concepts are part of the whole organization culture and practice. Innovability is Suzano's essence, and SV strategies are the means to scale it.Originality/valueThe originality of the paper relies on the method and techniques used to gather and analyze primary data, in which the unit of analysis (Suzano's SV strategy) was considered a system. Major findings were validated with research participants. By using IQA protocols and the nine elements of this study, other researchers may replicate it to investigate the adoption of SV strategies in other organizations.

Building a systems framework to facilitate adaptive organizational change in state fish and wildlife agencies

AbstractState fish and wildlife agencies in the United States are confronted with the realities of a rapidly changing society. With declines in historical sources of revenue and the growth of diverse voices with values that differ from those emphasized by traditional policies and user groups, agencies are faced with diminishing relevancy and are encountering institutional challenges that inhibit their ability to serve the broader public. Here, in collaboration with a group of fish and wildlife agency leaders from 11 states, conservation professionals, and academics, we employ qualitative methods and concepts from systems theory to develop an integrative model of a state wildlife agency. We use this model to identify leverage points to induce transformational change toward an ideal future state: one driven by a system of shared values toward wildlife and a mission to improve quality of life for all people. Our findings point to the importance of developing interventions that will lead to changes in agency culture, systems of governance, and policy and action, and enhance the accessibility of natural resources and opportunities for diverse publics to engage with and benefit from fish and wildlife. We offer recommendations for state wildlife agencies to engage in adaptive organizational change and for university programs to support agency needs.

Transposed Appetites: Mary of Jerusalem’s Cannibalism in Post-Reformation Narratives

This essay examines the intersection of ritual sacrifice, blood libel, and child murder in the story of Mary of Jerusalem, whom Josephus describes as having killed and eaten her own son during the 70 CE destruction of Jerusalem. While Reformation accounts of Mary’s cannibalism served, unsurprisingly, as an opportunity for satirical attack on the host, it is striking that pre-Reformation writers also relied on the same Eucharistic association. Juxtaposing medieval and early modern Protestant accounts of Mary’s cannibalism reveals a shared value system that elevates the symbolic or sacramental over the literal or corporeal. Notably, these stories overlap when they commend the religious praxis of the writers by disparaging that of their predecessors as stubbornly carnal: the Jews in the case of the medieval writers, and the Catholics for those interpreting the story after the Reformation. Although there are some key differences—Protestant texts are less implicated in the blood libel literature that dominated medieval Europe—both pre-and post-Reformation narratives confirm the overwhelming appeal of healing flesh, particularly as it pertains to the powerful mediation of Mary’s holy namesake, the Virgin. Linking pre-Reformation accounts of Mary’s cannibalism to their post-Reformation counterparts, this essay illuminates an important aspect of the Protestant reception of medieval theology: specifically, the degree to which both parties were preoccupied with the power of the Eucharist and the Virgin Mary’s part in it, how similarly they sought to expel its resultant anxieties about anthropophagy, and further, how the practical theology of the Eucharist changed in the Protestant world.

"Heritage painting" in the painting of Kazakhstan. Cultural Memory and Meanings of History

The article is devoted to the study of the works of the leading masters of contemporary art of Kazakhstan K. Azhibekuly and Zh. Musapir. On the basis of the analysis of easel and monumental works of these artists their creative method is designated by analogy with cinematography as «heritage painting». Considering a painting in the context of the study of the work of cultural memory, two significant concepts of the Kazakh fine arts can be identified – national identity and memory, which are inextricably linked, since the identification awareness is based on a shared system of values and memories. It was defined that one of the most important constants of the works of the selected masters is the desire to strengthen the national symbols, value orientations and identification strategies in the modern situation associated with globalization and the homogenization of ethno-cultural features.

Research culture: science from bench to society.

ABSTRACTResearch is a long process in which the collaboration between stakeholders involved in academia, industry and governments is crucial. Ideally, these stakeholders should work together to better align the innovation process with the values, needs and expectations of the research community. Reflecting on how we perform research and how our discoveries can benefit society is therefore of the utmost importance. The complete system of shared values concerning the research process is embedded in the concept of research culture, which has been gaining more attention in recent years. With the hope of increasing awareness of research culture among established scientists and early-career professionals, in this manuscript we discuss what research culture is, what it consists of and how it can positively influence scientific developments.

Participative epistemology in social data science: combining ethnography with computational and statistical approaches

ABSTRACT In this paper, I introduce the notion of participative epistemology and discuss how it can contribute to make social data science more accountable. I do so by offering the case of a project where ethnographic, computational and sequence analysis methods have been used in combination. By presenting here in greater detail research design and pilot results of a project using professional networking data to understand the careers of IT industry analysts, I suggest a view on the collaboration between data science and social science as coordinated labour. The application of participative epistemology to social data science is articulated in three points: (1) a more tactical view on the partnerships with commercial data where shared value system is not a pre-requisite for coordinated knowledge production; (2) an appreciation for complementarities in perspective between phenomenological sociology, expertise in computer science associated to digitalisation and the narrative positivism linked with the use of statistics and (3) a view on social data science as contributing empirical sociology with new sensitizing concepts, taking ethnography to reflectively address its own presuppositions.

Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c.1250–c.1650, by Richard Mackenney

Richard Mackenney’s book has the goal of restoring the popolo (common people) of Venice to their rightful place in the history of the Venetian Republic. The author shares this enterprise with several scholars currently researching the lagoon city. But whereas others are seeking to undermine the mythic idea of a contented and quiescent popolo by examining popular resistance to the regime, Mackenney excavates an autonomous popular sphere in which the artisans and working people of Venice lived their lives largely uninvolved with, and undisturbed by, the ruling patrician regime. In the city’s many guilds and confraternities (known in Venice as scuole), the popolo found an outlet for their ‘energy’ (p. 7) and forged a synthesis of their economic, political and religious lives, one that focused on the ‘shared value system’ (p. 188) of mercy. These corporate organisations were the ‘institutional infrastructure’ (p. 189) that contributed to the longevity and...

Digital Waistlands: Pro-Ana Communities, Religion, and Embodiment

Abstract Pro-ana is an online community that shares resources that support the progression and maintenance of eating disorders. It simultaneously offers participants anonymity and visibility in virtual space as well as the chance to develop social connections with other like-minded individuals who support, rather than censure, their “deviant” behaviors. This paper attends to the intersection of religion, embodiment, and digital culture in the pro-ana movement by exploring how anas embody religious values through their performances of pro-ana culture. We see this both in terms of the more obvious mobilizations of religious rhetorics common with some of the pro-ana community, as well as in more subtle manifestations of Protestant values embedded in key pro-ana commitments and behaviors. By analyzing the popular pro-ana site “MyPancakeAddiction,” I explore how anas embody this digital culture through performances of a shared value system rooted in commitments to individualism, self-control, and mastery – themes often associated with Protestantism.

ONE OF THESE THINGS_IS_LIKE THE OTHERS: WHAT BIG TECH PLATFORMS CAN LEARN FROM LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES, AND SUPERMARKETS

Large technology platforms are facing mounting public pressure to be more transparent and proactive about their approach to content moderation. Existing research on platform governance often focuses on the ways in which the platforms are unprecedented (e.g., their size, scale, and use of algorithmic systems to sort and filter information), and thus contend with unique challenges as they attempt to manage their outsize role in shaping the contemporary public sphere. However, their distinctive features notwithstanding, platforms are currently grappling with questions that have long been fundamental to democracies with heavily marketized media systems. How can information intermediaries best operate in the public interest? Can for-profit platforms reconcile their private interests with the public good? Through what kinds of organizational infrastructures and shared value systems might this reconciliation be accomplished? Using a comparative case study approach, this paper addresses these questions by examining institutions that have historically inhabited a structural position in the public information landscape that is similar to large technology platforms. Specifically, we look at how bookstores, libraries, and supermarkets decide what to stock on their shelves and magazine racks, and how they respond when controversies arise. The study maps several considerations each of these intermediaries have faced in order to develop a typology of approaches to information curation and moderation. By examining a variety of oft-overlooked approaches to information curation and outlining their respective benefits and drawbacks, we hope to contribute a historical and conceptual perspective to scholarly and industry conversations about platform governance.

Raising strong, solid Koolunga: values and beliefs about early child development among Perth’s Aboriginal community

AbstractThere is a paucity of published information about conceptions of Aboriginal child rearing and development among urban dwelling Nyoongar/Aboriginal people in Australia. We detail the unique findings from an Aboriginal early child development research project with a specific focus on the Nyoongar/Aboriginal community of Perth, Western Australia. This research significantly expands the understanding of a shared system of beliefs and values among Nyoongar people that differ in important ways from those of the broader Australian (Western) society. Consistent with the findings of research with other Aboriginal groups in Australia, and internationally, our work challenges assumptions underpinning a range of early childhood development policies and highlights the implications of cultural biases and misunderstandings among non-Aboriginal professionals in child and family services, education and other settings.

Economic sustainability of Russia under the Conditions of Technological Transformations

Climate change and the development of digital technologies have prompted a rethinking of the dominated model of economic growth. In 2011 American publicist and economist Jeremy Rifkin has published the book “The third industrial revolution”, in which the author describes a new scientific picture of the world, which implies a transition from an “ownership economy” to a “sharing economy”. In 2016 the president of the World Economic Forum in Davos Klaus Schwab put forward the idea of a “fourth industrial revolution”, which, in his opinion, opens up new opportunities for collective innovation and the creation of shared value systems by connecting the physical, digital and biological worlds. The purpose of the article is to generalize the features of modern world technological transformations and determine the degree of Russia’s involvement in the development of the main directions of science and technology of the 21st century. The methods of analysis used include synthesis, abstraction, generalization and an integrated approach to cognition. The author considered the trajectories of modern technological transformations and discussed the role of the USSR in the design of techno-centric foundations of the sustainable development model. Also, the author analyzed the main provisions of state programs of Russia in the medium-term development of information, bio- and nanotechnologies.