1,146 research outputs found
From Stakeholder Management to Stakeholder Accountability
No full textConfronted with mounting pressure to ensure accountability vis-Ã -vis customers, citizens and beneficiaries, organizational leaders need to decide how to choose and implement so-called accountability standards. Yet while looking for an appropriate standard, they often base their decisions on cost-benefit calculations, thus neglecting other important spheres of influence pertaining to more broadly defined stakeholder interests. We argue in this paper that, as a part of the strategic decision for a certain standard, management needs to identify and act according to the needs of all stakeholders. We contend that the creation of a dialogical understanding among affected stakeholders cannot be a mere outcome of applying certain accountability standards, but rather must be a necessary precondition for their use. This requires a stakeholder dialogue prior to making a choice. We outline such a discursive decision framework for accountability standards based on the Habermasian concept of communicative action and, in the final section, apply our conceptual framework to one of the most prominent accountability tools (AA 1000). Copyright Springer 2006accountability standards, discourse ethics, Habermas, organizational accountability, stakeholder management, stakeholder dialogue,
Countering the Risks of Vocationalisation in Master’s Programmes in International Development (article pre-print)
No full textPre-print of article:
Denskus, T., & Esser, D. E. (2015). Countering the risks of vocationalisation in master's programmes in international development. Learning and Teaching, 8(2), 72-85. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2015.08020
sj-docx-1-evi-10.1177_13563890231204661 – Supplemental material for How are accountability and organisational learning related? A study of German bilateral development cooperation
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-evi-10.1177_13563890231204661 for How are accountability and organisational learning related? A study of German bilateral development cooperation by Daniel E. Esser and Heiner Janus in Evaluation</p
Biodiversität von Magerrasen, Wiesen und Weiden am Beispiel der Eifel - Erhaltung und Förderung durch integrative Nutzung
No full textBiodiversität von Magerrasen, Wiesen und Weiden am Beispiel der Eifel - Erhaltung und Förderung durch integrative Nutzung
No full textShaping urban futures : challenges to governing and managing Afghan cities / Jo Beall; Daniel Esser
No full textParallel als Buch-Ausg. erschiene
Determinants of IDP Voice (working paper): Four Cases from Sierra Leone and Afghanistan
No full textRosemarie Rogers Working Paper Series - Working Paper # 3
Modeling microbial growth and dynamics
No full textModeling has become an important tool for widening our understanding of microbial growth in the context of applied microbiology and related to such processes as safe food production, wastewater treatment, bioremediation, or microbe-mediated mining. Various modeling techniques, such as primary, secondary and tertiary mathematical models, phenomenological models, mechanistic or kinetic models, reactive transport models, Bayesian network models, artificial neural networks, as well as agent-, individual-, and particle-based models have been applied to model microbial growth and activity in many applied fields. In this mini-review, we summarize the basic concepts of these models using examples and applications from food safety and wastewater treatment systems. We further review recent developments in other applied fields focusing on models that explicitly include spatial relationships. Using these examples, we point out the conceptual similarities across fields of application and encourage the combined use of different modeling techniques in hybrid models as well as their cross-disciplinary exchange. For instance, pattern-oriented modeling has its origin in ecology but may be employed to parameterize microbial growth models when experimental data are scarce. Models could also be used as virtual laboratories to optimize experimental design analogous to the virtual ecologist approach. Future microbial growth models will likely become more complex to benefit from the rich toolbox that is now available to microbial growth modelers.German Research Foundation (DFG
Who Governs Kabul? (working paper): Explaining Urban Politics in a Post-War Capital City
No full textCrisis States Working Papers Series No.2 - Working Paper 43 Cities in Fragile State
Comparative perspectives on the changing business of journalism and its implications for democracy
No full textThe last decade has seen tremendous change in the commercial news media that play a central role in political processes in democracies around the world, as well as considerable progress in cross-national comparative media research. But despite the impact of Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini’s book Comparing Media Systems, empirical research into the institutional and systemic preconditions of journalism and news production has not kept pace with the rapid changes in the media, nor with the advances made in other areas of comparative media research (such as studies of news media use, journalists’ role-conceptions, and of news content). In this piece, we call for further institutionally and system-oriented mixed-methods comparative research to advance our understanding of how current changes are impacting journalism, the news media, and ultimately politics in different settings. We suggest that existing conceptions of media systems as ideal types need to be supplemented with more empirically grounded and systematically comparative understanding of media systems as dynamic, evolving real types to capture how journalism is changing today
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