Revisiting Corruption Mathematical Models in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Disaster response by philanthropy has faced numerous challenges flagged in the literature, including duplication of efforts, inefficiencies, waste, and inadequate goal achievements. However, there is little literature on how to organise philanthropic acts in the face of disasters. This paper assesses the influence of lean thinking in improving disaster response processes and sustainability. The paper further proposes a framework for applying lean thinking by philanthropic organisations. A mixed research methods strategy was employed with 212 staff surveys in Southern Africa. Twenty-three indepth key informant interviews were also conducted. The results revealed that lean thinking succeeds with philanthropic organisations if a high level of management commitment, teamwork, and adaptability to change the organisation's setup exists. A framework is presented through Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), tailor-made for philanthropic organisations in Southern Africa. External and internal determinants were found to equally contribute to lean thinking's success in reducing waste and increasing value. Despite being limited to developing economies, this paper extends prior research on the lean application and integrates lean thinking in a philanthropic setting. Findings drawn from diverse countries imply that results may be reasonably generalised. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDUndeniably, when any disaster strikes, the repercussions are catastrophic and sometimes inestimable. Lives are lost, economic productivity diminishes, and it can take numerous years to restore the affected area to its previous position, especially in low-income communities such as those prevailing in Africa (Ngwenya and Naude 2016). Although natural meteorological events trigger these disasters, the literature confirms that their catastrophic consequences are due to social, human factors such as poor land use, unauthorised buildings, poor town planning, inequality, and corruption, for example (Cerase 2018). Disaster consequences are described as "everything but an act of God and can be predicted and prevented through human knowledge and rational decisions" (Cerase 2018, p.218). Philanthropy

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Applying lean thinking for disaster responses: The case of philanthropic organisations

Mogotsi

Alagidede

Saruchera

2022

Int Social Sci J

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A Corruption Impunity Model Considering Anticorruption Policies

Delgadillo-Alemán,

Kú-Carrillo,

Torres-Nájera

2024

MCA

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Corruption is a global problem that affects the fair distribution of wealth of every country to different degrees and represents a problem to be solved to prevent the diversion and waste of resources. Among the different efforts to first measure it and later reduce it by proposing strategies, there exist a variety of indices, such as the corruption perception index, and other related issues, such as the global impunity index, the laxness of anticorruption policies, etc., which are computed for different countries worldwide. Based on these indices, we propose a model for corruption using a system of ordinary differential equations, considering anticorruption policies. Those three factors were identified after analyzing the phenomenon and available data, particularly for Mexico. Also, we fit it to the reported data of this country and perform simulations expecting to predict the short term, and performed a sensitivity analysis. The model is capable of reproducing the observed oscillatory behavior of the phenomenon. The model fit can still be improved by including the data for the anticorruption policies, which were only studied for different scenarios. Moreover, the model is susceptible to application in other countries, as long as data are available, and then provides a computational tool to predict and visualize the effect of appropriate public policies to fight corruption.

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Revisiting Corruption Mathematical Models in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Applying lean thinking for disaster responses: The case of philanthropic organisations

Applying lean thinking for disaster responses: The case of philanthropic organisations

A Corruption Impunity Model Considering Anticorruption Policies

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