Social Prosperity Research Articles

Knowledge as a theoretical object: Implications for knowledge management

The thesis of this paper is that, despite its substantial accomplishments over the past 40 years as a professional practice, knowledge management (KM) has yet to mature as an intellectual discipline. The goal of this conceptual paper is to accelerate this maturation by generalizing KM. The paper does so by identifying KM’s generic social phenomena and how these phenomena can be better understood through the development of theory oriented around knowledge that defines, predicts, and explains them. KM theory is examined through an extensive review of the existing literature. Four levels of organizational KM are offered, including two that examine an organization’s basis (resources) and essence (ideas and actions), while the second two build upon these to examine resource management in general, and the management of knowledge resources specifically. Treating KM as a theoretical object will lead to greater understanding of KM. This enriched understanding will lead to a more effective performance of KM. The achievement of this paper’s goal (i.e., generalizing KM) will facilitate the maturation of KM into a discipline and practice that consistently contributes to organizational effectiveness. Little KM literature exists on the conceptualization of knowledge as a theoretical object, which offers the opportunity not only to develop theory that defines, predicts, and explains KM within organizations more systematically but also ultimately to understand better the ways in which KM contributes to individual happiness, community cohesion, and social prosperity.

Craft Reconfiguration: Rediscovering Traditional Craft Despite Modernizing Forces

Using an inductive research design, the current study provides an exploration of how traditional craft can be reconfigured through entrepreneurial action, revealing unique processes by which craft persists as a source of meaningful jobs and income, despite modernizing forces. Whereas prior assessments primarily explore how modernization reconfigures traditional craft, the focus in this article is on entrepreneurship’s role in challenging cultural remnants attached to craft while maintaining traditional elements in contemporary craft. The findings indicate that craft can be recontextualized, revitalized, and repurposed through entrepreneurial action, such that it then can be rediscovered and adapted to contemporary market demands. First, craft is recontextualized, from a culturally anchored tradition mainly performed at home to a commercially embedded practice performed in organizational settings. Second, craft is revitalized through modern approaches to production, equipment, and design that turn craft into something more accepted in the broader economy and enable it to compete with industrialized products. Third, craft is repurposed, from a practice performed for family and friends to artistry that addresses market needs, shifting from marginalization to a far more commercial practice. These findings offer theoretical contributions to emerging efforts to rediscovering craft, in that they reveal the unique processes by which craft, even if pushed to the margins, can persist as a vital source of economic and social prosperity in the marginalized communities that rely on it.

Three Levels of Perception of Socio-political Conflict, or Another Damage to Human Nature

Major socio-political changes, as a rule, split society into their supporters and opponents. Each side creates its own humanitarian picture of the world, declaring it true, and the opponents' ideas as a delusion. In the minds of representatives of each of the parties to the conflict, a kind of segregation appears on the "right" and "wrong", which is one of the manifestations of damage to human nature, which brings suffering to a person, and disasters to society. The relevance of the topic is determined by the search for the causes of this damage and ways to overcome it – for the harmonization of both human and social life. The object of the study is universal generic damage, and the subject is its segregational manifestation during periods of major social conflicts. The novelty of the conducted research consists in an attempt to synthesize scientific and theological discourses in the conditions of modern post-secularism and substantiating the fact that in the coordinates of purely secular consciousness it is impossible to find the real causes of human damage and effective ways to overcome it, as everyone can see empirically by the example of their own life path. One of the main conclusions of the study is that a person's attitude to the socio-political split can be represented as three-part hierarchically, where the emotional, theoretical-methodological and metaphysical, or religious, or Christian level are distinguished. The first is characterized by misanthropic segregation and separation, the second by skepticism and ideological neutrality, where there is no division, but there is no unification, and the third by repentance and humility, healing the damage to our nature and leading to fraternal unification, human happiness and social prosperity.

Measuring, Modeling, and Forecasting the Mental Wealth of Nations.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deep links and fragility of economic, health and social systems. Discussions of reconstruction include renewed interest in moving beyond GDP and recognizing “human capital”, “brain capital”, “mental capital”, and “wellbeing” as assets fundamental to economic reimagining, productivity, and prosperity. This paper describes how the conceptualization of Mental Wealth provides an important framing for measuring and shaping social and economic renewal to underpin healthy, productive, resilient, and thriving communities. We propose a transdisciplinary application of systems modeling to forecast a nation's Mental Wealth and understand the extent to which policy-mediated changes in economic, social, and health sectors could enhance collective mental health and wellbeing, social cohesion, and national prosperity. Specifically, simulation will allow comparison of the projected impacts of a range of cross-sector strategies (education sector, mental health system, labor market, and macroeconomic reforms) on GDP and national Mental Wealth, and provide decision support capability for future investments and actions to foster Mental Wealth. Finally, this paper introduces the Mental Wealth Initiative that is harnessing complex systems science to examine the interrelationships between social, commercial, and structural determinants of mental health and wellbeing, and working to empirically challenge the notion that fostering universal social prosperity is at odds with economic and commercial interests.

The United Nations and the Environment: Some Personal Reflections

Drawing upon personal notes and memories, this article reflects on selected moments during the journey of global environmental awareness during the past 50 years. Through its convening power the United Nations, it’s myriad programs and associated organizations, has been the foundational institution. The emergence of the concept of sustainability and the existential crisis of climate change have dramatically altered the landscape during the period. Challenging questions about the governance of global interconnectedness and an agenda of peace and security that considers social inclusion, economic prosperity and environmental stewardship holistically remain a work in progress at Stockholm+50 and beyond.

Burocracias humanitarias en Colombia: conocimiento técnico y disputas políticas en la implementación de la Ley de Víctimas y Restitución de Tierras

Through an ethnographic study of the policy of reparation to victims in Colombia, this article examines the processes of the production of expert knowledge along different scales and disputes of humanitarian bureaucracies in Colombia. These emerge from the institutional deployment of development and peacebuilding paradigms, at least since 1982, with the creation of the National Rehabilitation Plan (PNR), the Social Solidarity Network (RSS) in 1994, the Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation in 2002, and the Department of Social Prosperity (DPS) in 2011. With the subjugation of some paramilitary groups in 2006 (Justice and Peace Law), the Victims and Land Restitution Law in 2011, and the peace agreements with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People’s Army (FARC-EP) guerrillas in 2016, transitional institutions associated with truth, justice, and reparation proliferated, and with them, specific bureaucracies and expertise. Thus, the article specifically examines the technical and political tensions between different professional and ideological configurations associated with the implementation of reparations policy and how these disputes are essential to understanding the moral and ideological dimensions of humanitarianism and development in Colombia. It also studies the role of cooperation agencies in inter-institutional strengthening as a specific dimension of the formation of the Colombian State. These articulations configure a moral economy of humanitarianism characterized by institutional experimentalism and the formulation of social projects, expectations, plans, and ideas that never reach the status of having been realized. This strips such policies of any transformative or emancipatory potential. Thus, from an ethnographic perspective, the article provides an account of the techno-political tensions of humanitarian bureaucracies at the middle scales of regional, national, and global institutional structures.

Accounting for Plural Cognitive Framings of Growth and Sustainability: Rethinking Management Education in Latin America.

This paper surveys future managers’ cognitive framings of interconnected concerns for economic growth, social prosperity, and the natural environment across six countries in Latin America, and elaborates on implications for sustainability management education. Our cluster analysis unveils three cognitive types. Our findings show that whereas some future managers exhibit a ‘business case’ cognitive frame, prioritizing economic growth over the environment, the other two clusters of participants show signs of cognitive dissonance with some of the tenets of the current growth paradigm while still not neatly fitting the definition of a paradoxical cognitive frame. In particular, individuals within the latter two groups do not visualize links among economic, social, and environmental dimensions that make up sustainable development. Following calls to enhance our understanding of sustainability micro-foundations, our study offers a more nuanced picture of the cognitive plurality beyond dichotomous characterizations of managerial cognitive frames as either business case or paradoxical. Moreover, results elucidate the cultural mediation that operates in the reproduction of business stances vis-à-vis nature, opening up possibilities for management education programs to engage with cognitive plurality to effect paradigmatic change.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10551-022-05180-4.

Strategies For Increasing Social Welfare Based On Strength In Olilit Village Tanimbar Islands Regency

This study aims to identify, describe, and analyze the strength factors that can be controlled and used by the village government in improving welfare; village government strategies in improving welfare related to the use of strength; factors influence the village government's strategy in improving the public prosperity. The method used to solve the research problem was descriptive qualitative research method. Informants were determined by purposive sampling technique, namely the research sample taken not depending on the number of population but adjusted to the purpose. Methods of data collection were done by interview, observation, and documentation. The data analysis technique was carried out by means of data reduction, data display, and data verification. From the results of the study, it was found that the resources of the Olilit village which were considered to be the strength of the village for improving welfare included the physical environment, tri sakti, tourism potential, culture and tradition, as well as the position of the western village in the district city. The strategy of the Olilit village government in improving the social prosperity was realized through the consistent attitude of the village government in paying attention to the operations of existing government officials and organizations, setting night study hours for students, fostering the younger generation, and providing compensation to families who were classified as poor, widows, and disabled. In addition, there are several factors that influence the implementation of the strategy, such as budget, facilities, consumerist lifestyle, political perspective of local government, and discipline.

Novel Fe2+ responsive nanofibrous membrane for corrosion detection and adsorption

Quick detection of iron corrosion and scrap metal adsorption, two major threats to human lives and social prosperity, have aroused rising research attention. In this study, an in-situ Fe 2+ indication and adsorption nanofibrous membrane were prepared taking advantage of electrospun technology. Thanks to the synergistic effect of physical and chemical adsorption, a high Fe 2+ adsorption capacity of 218.11 mg/g was achieved, which was verified by scanning electron microscope and simulation results. A distinct color change from white to red, with a board detection range from 1 to 1000 ppm, could be detected within 10 s. Relatively high HOMO-LUMO gap and partially ligand-centered charge transfer (LC), led to the color change of Phen-Fe 2+ fibrous membrane. The binding energy between Fe 2+ and phenanthroline is strong, making it reliable to iron corrosion detection and adsorption in a real-life situation. • PSA-Phen nanofibers were quickly responsive to Fe 2+ . • The Fe 2+ adsorption capacity in water can reach up to 218.11 mg/g. • The already adsorbed paper could be recycled by in-situ oxidation reaction.

Mapping recent (1997–2017) and future (2030) county-level social vulnerability to socio-economic conditions and natural hazards throughout Iran

Social vulnerability assessments are intended to help mitigate or prevent adverse socio-economic effects of environmental hazards on human societies. In this study, we monitored the change of social vulnerability to multiple environmental hazards over a 20-year (1997–2017) period in Iran and provide a prediction of social vulnerability for 2030 under the RCP 8.5 climate change scenario. Following validation of two social vulnerability index (SoVI) values based on Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and a weighed method using observed county-level disaster outcomes, social vulnerability to four environmental variables or risk factors (i.e., drought, flood, landslide, and earthquake) was evaluated with 32 socio-economic values using the weighted method. Social vulnerability was strongly correlated with its three dimensions (i.e., exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity), and each dimension was strongly correlated with its constituent variables. Results showed that despite improved adaptive capacity between 1997 and 2017, simultaneously increased sensitivity and exposure increased social vulnerability spatially unevenly throughout the country, with greater increases in northern and northeastern than in central and southeastern counties. Extrapolating socio-economic variables and accounting for projected increases in drought severity is expected to increase the social vulnerability of the country by ∼27%, with forty-three (11%) mostly northern, northwestern, and northeastern counties with a combined population of ∼37 million people (46% of the current Iranian population) exposed to high to very high levels of vulnerability by 2030. Adaptation programs to enhance the resilience following deteriorating socio-economic conditions and climate change-induced droughts in these counties may require better water management strategies to enhance water security. Given the socio-economic conditions of the country and international sanctions, programs should be flanked by more balanced investment in less developed and more vulnerable counties to increase economic and social prosperity and prevent mass migration to more developed areas. This major challenge necessitates more accurate economic planning, development of investment, and improved international relations.

Emerald City? The case for situational capital in advancing our understanding of Irish immigrants’ attachment to New York City as place

This paper explores the relevance of social capital in shaping Irish immigrants’ reconstructions of their attachment to New York City (NYC) as place. Using extracts from Irish immigrants’ previously unpublished oral histories, I make the case for situational capital, a multi-faceted and dynamic place-based resource which connects people in situ by virtue of their literal and metaphorical positionality. The coalescence of individual and collective memories, including childhood memories, underpinned the network of social relationships which fuelled interviewees’ quest to recreate and reimagine a sense of ‘home’ both in NYC and Ireland. The resultant situational capital created by these relationships fostered a reflexive and sustained attachment to place which served to advance the cumulative economic, cultural, political and social prosperity of Irish men and women individually and collectively over time and space. Situational capital was also instrumental in advancing opportunities for Irish men and women and altering the physical characteristics of neighbourhoods. It shaped the genius loci of NYC as reconstructed by those interviewed pivoting around the fluid and ambiguous notion of real and imagined ‘home.’

Convolution neural networks for pothole detection of critical road infrastructure

A well developed and maintained highway infrastructure is essential for the economic and social prosperity of modern societies. Highway maintenance poses significant challenges pertaining to the ever-increasing ongoing traffic, insufficient budget allocations and lack of resources. Road potholes detection and timely repair is a major contributing factor to sustaining a safe and resilient critical road infrastructure. Current pothole detection methods require laborious manual inspection of roads and lack in terms of accuracy and inference speed. This paper proposes a novel application of Convolutional Neural Networks on accelerometer data for pothole detection. Data is collected using an iOS smartphone installed on the dashboard of a car, running a dedicated application. The experimental results show that the proposed CNN approach has a significant advantage over the existing solutions, with respect to accuracy and computational complexity in pothole detection.

ОЗДОРОВЛЕНИЕ НАЦИИ: ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ПУТИ РЕШЕНИЯ

The issues of improving the health of the nation are considered as a set of actions of state authorities, society and business to protect public health as national wealth, to achieve the social well-being of the nation, its economic and social prosperity. The improvement of the nation is considered as a process of sustainable social and economic development (economic growth, poverty reduction, achievement of social justice), the acquisition of spiritual and moral health, the provision of guarantees for health protection and the achievement of passionate health and energy.

Ekološko preduzetništvo i održivi razvoj

The concept of sustainable development is central to the development of the future of humanity. The recent devaluation of development has brought about great changes, and the carriers of these changes have been able to predetermine, and predetermination, along with economic pressure, has contributed to the civilized development of friendship. Social prosperity grows when innovative processes are triggered, the economy is based on knowledge and the principles of sustainable development are triggered. The goal of this study is to link entrepreneurship and sustainable development and show the intertwining of components of sustainable development with environmental components.

Wind energy potential in sindh region

Electricity occupies an important place in the socio-economic recovery and social prosperity of any country. This should be taken into account because of the fundamental need for human improvement. At present, low power generation is a major problem in Pakistan, which immediately hampers the development of the country. 1/3 of the population of Pakistan has no electricity domestically in rural areas, and in urban areas, power cuts are approximately eight to ten hours, which is quite common. Although Pakistan constantly points out shortages in traditional sources, no further developments are being made in renewable sources such as wind. Thus, it is much better to use these natural resources to meet the needs of Pakistan. This paper explores the potential of wind energy in the Sindh region and the potential for the country.

A new scoring system for operational indicators guiding leprosy monitoring and surveillance in Brazil

Objective: We aimed to develop a new score to facilitate and enhance the quantitative assessment of operational standard indicators guiding leprosy monitoring and surveillance, based on data from Brazilian hyperendemic regions, 2004-2019. Methods: We analyzed epidemiological and operational standard indicators of leprosy control from the database of the Notifiable Diseases Information System in Brazil’s North and Northeast regions. The so-called IntegraHans Operational Score (IHOS) was generated, integrating 10 indicators, with a final semi-quantitative score varying from 0 (worst scenario) to 1 (best scenario). We then applied the IHOS within an ecological and population-based study to assess temporal and spatial leprosy distributions from 2004 to 2019. Results: In total, 343,888 new leprosy cases were analyzed (61% of cases in the country). There was a significant temporal trend of the IHOS annual percentage change [-0.3; 95% confidence interval (CI): -0.5 to 0.0] during 2010-2019, with large cities showing a worsening trend (average annual percentage change -0.8, 95%CI: -1.1 to -0.4). After 2010, municipalities with low and medium social vulnerability, and those with medium human development and medium and high social prosperity, showed improved IHOS scores. Spatial patterns with the best IHOS scenarios were observed in the states of Rondônia, Tocantins, and Pernambuco. Conclusion: The IHOS combines different operational parameters and is an effective and simple tool to assess leprosy control programs in Brazil. The worst IHOS scores over time were identified in critical areas, such as large cities in hyperendemic areas and municipalities with lower endemicity.

Travelling Wives and Unprotected Women: Representing the Female Traveller in Tom Taylor’s mid-Victorian Comedies (1860)

Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, Britain would boast of an economic and social prosperity, improving both national and international transport and tourism. However, certain social issues such as the Woman Question, or the altercations in the colonies raised questions about the Empire’s stability. In London, galleries, museums, and theatrical stages, would reproduce images of the colonies to satisfy the people’s appetite for the foreign. In these, mobile women were usually reduced to stereotypical characters. Thus, we can find a clear categorization of the female traveller: on the one hand, the faithful wife who accompanies her husband, and, on the other, the wild, undomesticated female (Ferrús 19). This article scrutinises women’s position and representation as travellers during the Victorian period. With this purpose in mind, we analyse two comedies written by English playwright Tom Taylor (1817-1880) for London’s stages: The Overland Route (Haymarket 23 February 1860) and Up at the Hills (St. James’s Theatre 22 October 1860). The plays’ setting (colonial India) offers us the opportunity to further discuss gender ideology and its relationship with travel during the mid-Victorian period.

From Utopia to Dystopia: The Demise of the Revolutionary Dream in Futuristic Cuban Cinema

The armed insurrection that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959 was one of the most influential events of the 20th century. Like the Russian and Mexican revolutions before it, the Cuban revolution set out to bring social justice and prosperity to a country that had suffered the evils of corrupt regimes. A small country thus became the center of world debates about equality, culture, and class struggle, attracting the attention of political leaders not only from Latin America but also from Africa, Asia, and Europe. Its intent to forge a model society has often been described in utopian terms. Writers, artists, and filmmakers turned to utopia as a metaphor to trace the evolution of the arts in the island from the enthusiasm and optimism of the first moments to the dystopian hopelessness and despair of the last decades. Indeed, the Cuban revolution, like so many other social revolutions of the 20th century, became the victim of a whole series of internal and external forces that ended up turning the promised dream into a nightmare tainted by autocratic leadership, repression, and political and economic isolation. Although Cuban literature has extensively addressed these issues since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, it is only recently that we can find similar trends in a cinematic output that portrays Cuba as a utopia gone sour. This article examines recent films such as Alejandro Brugués’ Juan de los Muertos (2011), Tomás Piard’s Los desastres de la Guerra (2012), Eduardo del Llano’s Omega 3 (2014), Rafael Ramírez’s Diario de la niebla (2016), Yimit Ramírez’s Gloria eterna (2017), Alejandro Alonso’s El Proyecto (2017), and Miguel Coyula’s Corazón Azul (2021). These films use futuristic imageries to offer a poignant (and often apocalyptic) depiction of the harsh paradoxes of contemporary life in Cuba while reflecting upon the downfall of utopia.

Chain of cycle of money

This paper researches the chain of the cycle of money. It is scrutinized the aspect of the application of the cycle of money with and without the enforcement of financial savings and/or the escaped financial savings. This work supplied the minimization and the case of maximization of the cycle of money. Consequently, it has declared the chain of money. Thus, scrutinized the case that there's a lack of the enforcement financial savings and in the end the case that there have disregarded the escaped financial savings. Therefore, exists an evaluation that stands at the application of the general public region and the application of the out of control enterprises. Thus, acquired effects approximately the application of the cycle of money displaying the factors and the behaviors of any financial system while there are and while there are no enforcement financial savings and/or the escaped financial savings. Concluding this work exhibits that a financial system that has an excessive frequency of the use of cash in its monetary, succeeds to have higher overall performance and social prosperity. The choice of G7 for the minimal tax fee of 15%, globally, complies with the closing acknowledgments of the fixed-length principle of the cycle of money. The structure and the dynamic of the economic system are affiliated with the reuse and distribution of money. For this scrutiny is used first-order derivatives below conditions, the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker approach, and the Q.E. logic.

Starting from The Reform of the Basic Economic System, We Should Truly Realize the Common Prosperity of Scientific Socialism

Starting from the basic economic system of true scientific socialism, this paper argues that in the development stage of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, we should continue to reform the existing Chinese economic system and make it conform to the nature of modern great productive forces so that it can give full play to the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of socialized great productivity organizers, intellectual property owners and human resource teams; That can not only promote the conscious development of economy, but also realize the conscious social fairness and common prosperity of social members under the new economic system.