Transnational Investments

Waldron, Darren

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“…They mentioned leadership and culture (strong, aware and empathetic leadership combined with staff that are empowered, trust each other and are well looked after), network (effective external partnerships, well-managed internal resources and the ability to leverage knowledge across the organisation) and change readiness (a unity of purpose and a proactive posture combined with the regular testing of plans to counter vulnerabilities), as main characteristics of a resilient organisation, and the study found all these elements in this case study. The learning from the case study may help NGOs in the scenario planning process, as non-profits area required to respond to the crisis in short term, while preparing for the long term (Waldron et al, 2022). NGOs can enhance their resilience to the crisis situation, while at the same time, they can contribute to community resilience just like BMCWs did.…”

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“…Dedicated to their social mission, many NGOs across the globe responded to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, but they worked under extreme stress and faced multiple challenges. ‘Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve been working to provide emergency relief, keep staff and constituents safe, and stabilize their financial health—all while staying on mission under extraordinary stress’ (Waldron et al, 2022, p. 1). It is important to understand how uncertainty is co-constituted with social, institutional and political orders, which requires research approaches focused on context and local practices (Rasmussen & Sahay, 2021).…”

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Dealing with Uncertainties During COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from the Case Study of Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society (BMCWS), Mumbai, India

Singh

2023

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economie

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The article presents the case study of ‘Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society’, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), working for the welfare of the people primarily in the area of health, education and vocational training, in both, urban and rural areas of Maharashtra (India). Following a qualitative approach, the article aims to understand the challenges encountered by the organisation due to uncertainties induced by the COVID-19 pandemic situation in India and its responses. The study shows that innovative business strategy and participatory-public-philanthropy-person (PPPP) model of sustenance helped the organisation to transform it into a ‘sustainable organisation’. Several long-term measures undertaken with its focus on innovation, stakeholders’ engagement for strategic decisions, community participation, collaboration, and business-like behaviour enabled the organisation to deal with the uncertainties in ‘normal times’. The legacy of good work done by the organisation helped it to gain the trust of all the stakeholders involved. During the COVID-19 crisis, the organisation undertook several short-term measures immediately to respond to the situation and received unconditional support from the staff and also from the community. The outcome was organisation and community resilience, which helped them to deal with the uncertainties in normal times as well as emergency/crisis situation. This article developed a framework for the NGO to deal with uncertainties for achieving their mission during a crisis situation like COVID-19. A combination of long-term and short-term measures, and its focus on innovative business strategy and PPPP model of sustenance, is the clear reflection of the entrepreneurial approach adopted for community development and decisions made by the leader of the NGO played critical role. Thus, the study suggests to follow ‘judgement-based approach towards entrepreneurship’ for understanding NGOs’ actions in crisis situation. The findings provide learnings for NGOs, interested in creating sustainable social organisation, and help them to prepare better to deal with uncertainties during a crisis situation.

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Dealing with Uncertainties During COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from the Case Study of Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society (BMCWS), Mumbai, India

Singh

2023

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economie

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“…One interesting type of meaning relatedness among the senses of a single lexeme is metonymy. Words are metonymously related when ''we use [one] word not in its established sense but to name a category in contextual association with the category usually named by the word'' (Waldron 1967, quoted in Taylor 1990. Examples of metonymy are also found in Kakataibo, as can be seen in the pair xe ¨ox 'tangarana tree' (Triplaris sp.)…”

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Name Types, Polysemy and Contrast Sets in Kakataibo Ethnobiological Nomenclature (Pano, Peru)

Zariquiey

2014

Journal of Ethnobiology

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The present paper examines the different types of plant and animal names used in Kakataibo (Pano, Peru) in terms of the typology of ethnobiological nomenclature proposed by Berlin et al. (1973; slightly modified in Berlin 1992). While doing so, this paper highlights and discusses the major issues posited by the Kakataibo ethnobiological lexicon, which mainly arise due to the pervasive presence of specific-folk generic polysemy in the language. More precisely, this paper shows that the pervasive presence of this type of polysemy creates a type of contrast set, whose members combine the taxonomic properties of secondary names and complex primary names of the productive type. This is a widespread property of the Kakataibo ethnobiological taxonomic system, which invites us to rethink the distinction between these two types of ethnobiological nomenclature. A comparison of the Kakataibo data with data from other Pano languages is also offered in this paper.

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“…Motivations for semantic change are of two types: ‘linguistic drifts’ (changes in the central meaning of words, mainly slow and regular) and ‘cultural shifts’ (variations in word associations, mainly culturally motivated) [ 17 ]. Half a century ago, Waldron [ 18 ] identified changes in meaning based on variations between lexical relations: “Change of meaning, then, essentially concerns a shift of relations between words on the one hand and integral senses on the other hand” (p. 139). In relation to this, Traugott [ 19 ] reflected on the conditions of semantic change, considering that behind every variation in meaning, there is a chain of causality that, in fact, belongs to extralinguistic causes (i.e., material, social, or psychological conditions).…”

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Tracking diachronic sentiment change of economic terms in times of crisis: Connotative fluctuations of ‘inflation’ in the news discourse

Fernández-Cruz,

Moreno-Ortiz

2023

PLoS ONE

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The present study focuses on the fluctuation of sentiment in economic terminology to observe semantic changes in restricted diachrony. Our study examines the evolution of the target term ‘inflation’ in the business section of quality news and the impact of the Great Recession. This is carried out through the application of quantitative and qualitative methods: Sentiment Analysis, Usage Fluctuation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis. From the diachronic Great Recession News Corpus that covers the 2007–2015 period, we extracted sentences containing the term ‘inflation’. Several facts are evidenced: (i) terms become event words given the increase in their frequency of use due to the unfolding of relevant crisis events, and (ii) there are statistically significant culturally motivated changes in the form of emergent collocations with sentiment-laden words with a lower level of domain-specificity.

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Transnational Investments

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Dealing with Uncertainties During COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from the Case Study of Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society (BMCWS), Mumbai, India

Dealing with Uncertainties During COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from the Case Study of Bombay Mothers and Children Welfare Society (BMCWS), Mumbai, India

Name Types, Polysemy and Contrast Sets in Kakataibo Ethnobiological Nomenclature (Pano, Peru)

Tracking diachronic sentiment change of economic terms in times of crisis: Connotative fluctuations of ‘inflation’ in the news discourse

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