A sketch of a mechanism-based explanation of cognitive path processes, lock-in of individual mental models and institutional rigidity

Haase, Michaela; Roedenbeck, Marc R. H.; Söllner, Albrecht

doi:10.1007/978-3-8349-9473-8_2

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“…Past decisions restrict future decisions and guide them into an overall direction that can be potentially ineffective (Arthur 1994;David 1985;Ebbinghaus 2005;Gerrits and Marks 2008;Mahoney 2000;Pierson 2000;Sydow et al 2012;Vergne and Durand 2010). It can be argued that the ingredients of simplification (bounded problems and solutions; linear processes; formal, hierarchical relations) correspond to mechanisms that create path-dependency (see Table 1): bounded problems and solutions form simplified mental maps by which people make sense of complex situations (Denzau and North 1994;Haase, Roedenbeck, and Söllner 2009); linear processes are guided by institutional procedures and agreements that ask for commitment (Ebbinghaus 2005;Torfing 2009); and hierarchical structures imply power relations that enhance the status quo (Ebbinghaus 2005;Pierson 2000;Torfing 2009). If there is a similarity between the ingredients of simplification and the mechanisms of path-dependency, the argument can be that simplification generates path-dependency and reduces the capacity to adapt and manoeuvre.…”

Section: Simplification and Its Relation To Path-dependencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Employing complexity: complexification management for locked issues

Joosse

Teisman

2020

Public Management Review

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In line with wicked problem literature, we argue that public management based on ordering societal issues to make them controllable and solvable (simplification) can be initially attractive, but in the long-term ineffective. We elaborate on an alternative management mode of increasing the complexity of both the problem and the approach to deal with the problem (complexification). Based on an in-depth casestudy about transforming Utrecht Central Station (the Netherlands), we present complexification as a management strategy to revitalize processes that got locked by simplification management. Path-dependency shows up as a weakness of simplification, and path-creation as a strength of complexification.

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Section: Simplification and Its Relation To Path-dependencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Employing complexity: complexification management for locked issues

Joosse

Teisman

2020

Public Management Review

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“…Based on Constructivism theory, the knowledge could be acquired not only from teachers, but also through means of meaning construction [1,2], with the helps from others(including teachers and partners) and using necessary learning materials [3]. Circumstances, Cooperation, Conservation and Meaning Construction are the four basic factors in learning [4].…”

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Scientific Practice-An Exploration of Education Mode on Training of the Talents of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Zhong¹,

Zhu²,

Ye³

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Abstract. Cultivating college students' innovation ability is the demand of higher education in the new century, and also the important symbol to measure the quality of education at universities. Recent years, through the project of 'National personnel training mode innovation experimental area', with the innovation education idea, undergraduate practical teaching reform was applied in Chinese Pharmacy major (CPM) in Jiangxi University of TCM, to cultivate the students' innovation ability and exploring spirit. The fifth semester was as the period of scientific practice, no theoretical courses were arranged in this semester. Students choose the laboratories and teachers they are interested in to carry out scientific research and practice. In the end of the practice the students should make a presentation to clarify what they have done and what harvest they got during the scientific practice. It is believed that most of the students in CPM in the university have improved their innovation ability after the scientific practice comparing to the students who didn't evolved in the practice. The education mode on training of the talents of traditional Chinese medicine provide a new way to cultivating the innovation ability of university students in a new time.

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“…It participates in the sustainability transitions discussion (Markard et al 2012) by exploring how culturally inscribed belief systems, embedded in society's dominant social paradigm ) and expressed by individuals with power, might affect the choices of pathway(s) in transforming socio-technical systems. Thus, this approach follows the line of Haase et al (2009) in considering the connection of path dependency theory and the concept of shared mental models, with special focus on the interplay between individual and collective mindsets. To elaborate on the question of 'how individual action is oriented to the behavior of others' (Haase et al 2009:24) we follow how individual discourses draw from and construct marketplace mythologies Veresiu, 2014, Humphreys andThompson, 2014).…”

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“…Thus, this approach follows the line of Haase et al (2009) in considering the connection of path dependency theory and the concept of shared mental models, with special focus on the interplay between individual and collective mindsets. To elaborate on the question of 'how individual action is oriented to the behavior of others' (Haase et al 2009:24) we follow how individual discourses draw from and construct marketplace mythologies Veresiu, 2014, Humphreys andThompson, 2014).…”

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7 Fairtrade Towns: A Community Based Social Marketing Perspective in Promoting Ethical Consumption

Samuel¹,

Peattie²

2021

Ethical Approaches to Marketing

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Providing low-income consumers access to transformative services such as healthcare is an ethical challenge of vital importance to marketers. However, most consumers at the base of the pyramid are excluded from the market for such transformative services because of financial constraints due to poverty. In this paper, instead of focusing on the micro-interplay between firms and consumers, we examine the macro-interplay among firms, consumers, and public policy in addressing the ethical challenge of market inclusion at the base of the pyramid.Specifically, we examine how the Vietnam government used a policy of free and universal health insurance for children under the age of six as a means of lowering affordability barriers and fostering market inclusion in the healthcare market. Overnight in 2005, all children under the age of six living anywhere in Vietnam became eligible for free health insurance. Using this policy intervention as a natural experiment, we compare market inclusion outcomes of children under the age of six with older children who were ineligible before and after the program was implemented. We show that lowering affordability barriers through public policy (1) increases access to target services, (2) increases consumers' overall out-of-pocket spending, and (3) increases access to complementary services. By adopting a macromarketing lens, this study makes a strong case for collaboration among firms, governments, and communities in addressing the ethical challenge of system-wide market inclusion in base-of-the-pyramid markets.

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A sketch of a mechanism-based explanation of cognitive path processes, lock-in of individual mental models and institutional rigidity

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Employing complexity: complexification management for locked issues

Employing complexity: complexification management for locked issues

Scientific Practice-An Exploration of Education Mode on Training of the Talents of Traditional Chinese Medicine

7 Fairtrade Towns: A Community Based Social Marketing Perspective in Promoting Ethical Consumption

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