The well-connected community: networking to the edge of chaos

Gilchrist, Alison

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“…Met andere woorden, hoe een organisatie zich gedraagt en welk karakter het laat zien hangt samen met de omgeving waarin ze functioneert, wat daar wordt verwacht en hoe daar wordt gereageerd op wat de organisatie ten toon spreidt. (Gilchrist, 2000). Als een organisatie niet voldoende inspeelt op de veranderde context, "verkalkt" ze.…”

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In beweging! Over de ontwikkeling en handhaving van de identiteit van een kennisorganisatie in een veranderende context

Haar¹,

Aarts²,

Verhoeven³

2010

JSI

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53MARIAn TeR HAAR, nOelle AARTS, PIeT VeRHOeVen subject of a case study performed by the Netherlands Institute for Sport and Physical Activity (NISB). Tackling problems and attaining goals requires the exchange and combination of goods, services and expertise. To achieve that, organizations work together in networks. Social problems, however, tend to be complex because they involve different parties with different backgrounds and different interests. Moreover, constant changes in the environment constantly require a response from organizations to safeguard their position. Confronted with changes, organizations are faced with dilemmas. These dilemmas reveal value contrasts that organizations have to deal with and that lead them to constantly reconsider their identity.Dilemmas and decision-making have been selected as the starting point for data collection in the study, the results of which show that, in order to preserve its mission, the NISB is constantly adapting its identity to suit the environment. In other words, a robust working method and a stable mission constantly create a new interactive identity. K e y w o r d sIdentity, organizational change, complexity, networks, sports and physical activity

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In beweging! Over de ontwikkeling en handhaving van de identiteit van een kennisorganisatie in een veranderende context

Haar¹,

Aarts²,

Verhoeven³

2010

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“…Continual adjustments and readjustments are made among system elements. Complex systems and chaos theory provide superior perspectives to that of the equilibrium concept in understanding COPE system change (Gilchrist 2000;Urry 2003).…”

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Globalization, Plague and the Local Community: Healthcare Capacity, Politics, and the Microbe War

Schwirian

2005

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is the first major international epidemic of the twenty-first century. In a few short months it spread to every continent, infected 8,096 people, and claimed the lives of 774. It hit older persons particularly hard; it killed 50 percent of the infected ofthat age category.The rate of plague's spread from one country to another has greatly increased as the globalization of the world's economy has produced rapid daily transportation of people, products, plants, animals, and, of course, microbes. Each day cities are at risk for the invasion of deadly infectious diseases. While international expert agencies such as the World Health Organization stand by to help fight outbreaks, ultimately, plagues are fought in the local community. I discuss two theses: (1) To successfully contain and fight a major epidemic the capacity of the community's health care system must be enhanced by its functional linkages to external expert and bridging organizations and systems of organizations;and (2) that the extent to which a community's health care system can draw on external expert and bridging organizations and systems is a function of the degree to which the political state in which the community is embedded facilitates (or fails to facilitate) those linkages.My focus is on Hong Kong and the cities of the People's Republic of China; they were at the epicenter of the SARS outbreak, and it was from them that the contagion spread to other countries. Findings show that plagues are not only matters of biology and health, but also matters of politics, power, and international relations.^Correspondence regarding this article should be sent to Kent Schwirian at schwirian.2@osu.edu or to the

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“…Secondly, the rhetoric often blurs 'procedural' justifications, that participation is a fundamental democratic right, and 'substantive' justifications, that it delivers improvements in services or communities (Burton, Goodlad, and Croft 2006). Thirdly, communities are enormously diverse, as reflected in the contested definitions of community (Plant 1974, Taylor 2003, Somerville 2011, and inherently complex, operating at 'the edge of chaos' as self-organised, dynamic networks with limited structure (Gilchrist 2000). It has been argued that a 'theory-based' approach is necessary to address these complexities in evaluating community participation programmes (Barnes, Matka, and Sullivan 2003).…”

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Divergence in Community Participation Policy: Analysing Localism and Community Empowerment Using a Theory of Change Approach

Rolfe

2015

Local Government Studies

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The last two decades have witnessed a significant turn towards community participation in public policy around the globe, raising concerns that states are resorting to 'government through community', shifting responsibilities onto communities. In order to unpack the ambiguous rhetoric of policy statements, this article employs ideas from evaluation methodology to develop a generic theory of change for community participation policy. The model is then utilised to analyse and compare the UK Coalition Government's Big Society/Localism agenda and the Scottish Government's Community Empowerment approach, demonstrating the ways in which these represent a clear example of policy divergence, and potentially significant alternatives to state-community relations in the context of austerity. The article also demonstrates the potential wider applicability of 'Theories of Change' methodology for policy analysis.

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The well-connected community: networking to the edge of chaos

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In beweging! Over de ontwikkeling en handhaving van de identiteit van een kennisorganisatie in een veranderende context

In beweging! Over de ontwikkeling en handhaving van de identiteit van een kennisorganisatie in een veranderende context

Globalization, Plague and the Local Community: Healthcare Capacity, Politics, and the Microbe War

Divergence in Community Participation Policy: Analysing Localism and Community Empowerment Using a Theory of Change Approach

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