Cosmopolitanism and the culture of peacebuilding

Goetze, Catherine; Guevara, Berit Bliesemann de

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“…A purposive/judgmental sampling technique was chosen to serve the aim of this research by including respondents who are of relevance of the study. Purposive sampling is favored when access to the targeted population is highly limited (Goetze and Guevara, 2014;Neuman, 2003) as is the case with bank clients whose personal information and contact details are protected by strict confidentiality laws and secrecy regulations (Moore, 2014;Tu and Meredith, 2015).…”

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Deposit withdrawal intentions of profit-sharing investment depositors: evidence from Morocco

Rhoudri

Benazzou²

2022

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the factors affecting deposit withdrawal intentions among Moroccan profit-sharing investment account holders. Design/methodology/approach Applying the push-pull-mooring (PPM) theory, a quantitative survey, based on insights brought to light by a previous qualitative study, was developed and administered to 166 depositors from five participatory banks at branches located in Morocco. Structural equation modeling was then used to evaluate the significance of relationships between the various variables under study. Findings Empirical findings showed that the PPM model with a second-order construct structure exhibited a better representation of the observed variables as compared to a first-order factor model. The results of the structural analysis indicated a significant direct relationship between withdrawal intention and each of the PPM model constructs: push and pull factors were found to have a positive impact on withdrawal intention, while mooring factors had a significant inverse relationship with withdrawal intention. The results of this study also revealed that the moderating role of the mooring construct was found in both relationships between push and withdrawal intention and between pull and withdrawal intention. Research limitations/implications The absence of a longitudinal study measuring the actual withdrawal behavior is the main limitation of this study. Furthermore, withdrawal intention was examined without differentiating between individual and corporate depositors. Finally, despite being insightful, the empirical findings should be generalized with caution, as the sample was purposely chosen by the banks’ management. Practical implications This study implied that participatory banks should stress the importance of mooring factors, as they strongly inhibit depositors’ intention to shift their funds to the conventional banking system. Moreover, this study provides great indications to Moroccan regulators and policymakers on a number of issues that can be used to develop policies that could improve the participatory banking system. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study represents the first attempt to confirm the effectiveness of the PPM model in examining depositor-withdrawal intentions. This study is also the first of its kind to address profit-sharing investment depositors’ apprehensions in the Moroccan context, to the best of the authors’ knowledge.

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Deposit withdrawal intentions of profit-sharing investment depositors: evidence from Morocco

Rhoudri

Benazzou²

2022

JIMA

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“…In other words, they tend to focus on the daily lives of international interveners and of people living in the regions of intervention, as well as on the daily interactions between them. More and more studies propose a sociology of international workers (Goetze and de Guevara, 2014; Heathershaw, 2016; Mosse, 2011), and provide stimulating insights into the individuals involved in IOs’ work. They show, for instance, that they share a number of social characteristics and values, and that their previous postings in the field are key in the construction of their professional identity and practices.…”

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Understanding International Organizations’ Headquarters as Ecosystems: The Case of Geneva

Dairon

Badache

2021

Global Policy

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The objective of this article is to explore the spatial and temporal dynamics of an important but often neglected space of global governance: the cities in which the headquarters of international organizations (IOs) are located. For this purpose, this article proposes a conceptualization and an empirical application of the concept of 'ecosystem'. This conceptualization builds on classic sociological ideas and organization theory to develop an innovative understanding of these cities which are more than mere hubs. We use this metaphor to describe an HQ city where one or several IOs have their seats. As a result, it is a space characterized by specific geographical and temporal features that can be qualified as spatial and temporal proximity between the elements composing the ecosystem. Based on original empirical sources, we apply this concept to the so-called International Geneva. We argue that conceptualizing headquarters as ecosystems helps to consider how HQs' location influences the daily work of IOs. Policy Implications• The geographical and temporal proximity that characterizes IO ecosystems can lead to positive outcomes for the work of IOs such as increased synergies between organizations, economies of scale, and having access to a qualified labor pool.• However, these potential gains do not happen automatically. IO ecosystems need organizational leadership and resources to foster cross-organization work, that may have a trickle-down effect on other members of the ecosystem (e.g. national authorities, diplomatic representations, NGOs, etc.

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“…Policy formulation is contingent on practising the norms of a sociologically bounded field competently; micro-sociological patterns and routines therefore become decisive in explaining why some decisions are reached while others are not. Studies of the micro-sociology of interveners reveal how their culture and habitus lead them to isolate themselves from local populations, ignore local dynamics, attempt to impose preconceived templates, and privilege universal over local knowledge (Autesserre, 2014: 250; Goetze and De Guevara, 2014; Higate and Henry, 2009; Pouligny, 2006). Ignorance of local concerns creates policy failures, because what is appropriate in the culture of interveners, is inappropriate in responding to local needs and culture.…”

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Improvising the international: Theorizing the everyday of intervention from the field

Philipsen¹

2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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In this article, I argue that the introduction of ethnography to International Relations has not taken full advantage of the potential of bringing these two fields together. Using international intervention as an example, I suggest that to bring out this potential we need to be more attentive to the classical virtues of ethnography. This means taking the subjects of our studies much more seriously, as people capable of making sense of and reacting to the structures of power they are embedded in. Here implementers tasked to put international policies into action in relation to a concrete context provide an overlooked source of knowledge. Using their experiences, reflections and ways of dealing with the concrete dilemmas that arise in their daily work enables us to analyse intervention as concrete relations of power that play out, affect and are mitigated by people in the field. Seeing knowledge as in this manner arising from the field provides a deeper knowledge that is necessary if we want to read intervention not only as an exertion of power from the international to the local, but as dynamically reshaped, resisted and made sense of in the field.

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Cosmopolitanism and the culture of peacebuilding

Cited by 22 publications

References 67 publications

Deposit withdrawal intentions of profit-sharing investment depositors: evidence from Morocco

Deposit withdrawal intentions of profit-sharing investment depositors: evidence from Morocco

Understanding International Organizations’ Headquarters as Ecosystems: The Case of Geneva

Improvising the international: Theorizing the everyday of intervention from the field

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