Search Results - subject:"\"Wicked\" problems"

Deliberating together: Public deliberation in the context of the Hungarian health insurance reform

Raisio, Harri - In: Society and Economy 31 (2009) December, pp. 253-269

It is most often the case that planners of health care reforms and policies try to solve highly complex, or wicked … problems. Issues that have no single experts. Collectively, by gathering many different people and bringing them to genuine …

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Assessing impediments to NPM change

Steane, Peter; Dufour, Yvon; Gates, Donald - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 28 (2015) 2, pp. 263-270

Purpose – When new public management (NPM) emerged in the mid-1980s, most governments such as New Zealand, Australia and Canada embraced it as a better way to provide public services. A more recent assessment of NPM would conclude that its appeal has faded. The purpose of this paper is to...

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The complexity of wicked problems in large scale change

Waddock, Sandra; Meszoely, Greta M.; Waddell, Steve; … - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 28 (2015) 6, pp. 993-1012

/methodology/approach – This conceptual paper integrates wicked problems and complexity theories to understand and cope with large system … organizations, arguing that by understanding change initiatives through the lenses of complexity and wicked problems, change agents … problems at hand in relation to the large systems where they are embedded. This paper builds upon wicked problems and …

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RAAIS: Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Innovation Systems (Part I). A diagnostic tool for integrated analysis of complex problems and innovation capacity

Schut, Marc; Klerkx, Laurens; Rodenburg, Jonne; Kayeke, Juma - In: Agricultural Systems 132 (2015) C, pp. 1-11

This paper introduces Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Innovation Systems (RAAIS). RAAIS is a diagnostic tool that can guide the analysis of complex agricultural problems and innovation capacity of the agricultural system in which the complex agricultural problem is embedded. RAAIS focuses on the...

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A new look at planning and designing transportation systems: A decision-making model based on cognitive rationality, stakeholder engagement and quantitative methods

Cascetta, Ennio; Cartenì, Armando; Pagliara, Francesca; … - In: Transport Policy 38 (2015) C, pp. 27-39

Transportation systems are complex sociotechnical systems and this dual nature is reflected in the literature dealing with their planning, i.e. defining courses of action from both public and private points of view. On the one hand, the social sciences literature makes it clear that most...

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Geospatial and machine learning techniques for wicked social science problems: analysis of crash severity on a regional highway corridor

Effati, Meysam; Thill, Jean-Claude; Shabani, Shahin - In: Journal of Geographical Systems 17 (2015) 2, pp. 107-135

The contention of this paper is that many social science research problems are too “wicked” to be suitably studied using conventional statistical and regression-based methods of data analysis. This paper argues that an integrated geospatial approach based on methods of machine learning is...

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Managing the wickedness of socially responsible marketing

Fodness, Dale - In: Journal of Business Strategy 36 (2015) 5, pp. 10-17

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the wicked problems inherent in socially responsible marketing and … related conceptual areas (the Cynefin framework, complexity science and wicked problems) to think about sustainable marketing … successful development and implementation of sustainable marketing. Originality/value – Growing concern for so-called “wicked …

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Assessing impediments to NPM change

Steane, Peter; Dufour, Yvon; Gates, Donald - In: Journal of organizational change management 28 (2015) 2, pp. 263-270

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287621

Collaborative problem structuring using MARVEL

Veldhuis, Guido Arjan; Scheepstal, Peter van; Rouwette, … - In: EURO Journal on decision processes 3 (2015) 3/4, pp. 249-273

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The complexity of wicked problems in large scale change

Waddock, Sandra; Meszoely, Greta M.; Waddell, Steve; … - In: Journal of organizational change management 28 (2015) 6, pp. 993-1012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448458