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Monti, Teresa, Samuele Colombo, Francesca Montagna, and Gaetano Cascini. "The relation between service and digital transition: implications for designers." Proceedings of the Design Society 4 (May 2024): 315–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pds.2024.34.

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AbstractService and digital transitions create a range of solutions by combining their features and introducing both human and automated agents as intermediaries. The paper classifies non/digital product/service and explores how these transitions change user involvement. A model is proposed to assess the user's role with human (service) and automated (digital) intermediaries. Utilizing user journey phases, the model is applied to four case studies, revealing commonalities in transition occurrences. Evidence suggest a potential adoption in design identifying the key phases per each transitions.

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Gliedt, Travis, Christina E. Hoicka, and Nathan Jackson. "Innovation intermediaries accelerating environmental sustainability transitions." Journal of Cleaner Production 174 (February 2018): 1247–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.054.

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Vaughn, Michael Patrick. "Supermodel of the World: The Influence of Legitimacy on Genre and Creativity in Drag Music Videos." Social Psychology Quarterly 82, no. 4 (September 23, 2019): 431–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0190272519869314.

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Who gets to define what counts as art when a genre is in flux? In the present analysis, I find that legitimated artists may also be able to act as intermediaries, such as critics and gatekeepers. In doing so, these artists-as-intermediaries, under certain conditions, can shift the meaning of the genre as it transitions. Using the current transition of drag performance from scene-based to industry-based genre as a case, I present a multistage qualitative analysis of televised and digital drag performance. I report three key findings from this analysis: (1) some legitimated artists can become intermediaries when their genre is in transition, (2) these legitimated artists-as-intermediaries can influence genre expectations, and (3) legitimated artists-as-intermediaries’ influence on genre expectations can, in turn, influence the creative expression of other artists. Each of the three findings, however, has the effect of limiting creativity of the artist-as-intermediary and future artists within the industry-based genre.

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Bumpus, Adam Geoffrey, and Benjamin A. Neville. "Multilevel Intermediaries: Entrepreneur-Incumbent Interactions in Sustainability Transitions." Academy of Management Proceedings 2020, no. 1 (August 2020): 15090. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2020.15090abstract.

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van Lente, Harro, Marko Hekkert, Ruud Smits, and Bas van Waveren. "Roles of Systemic Intermediaries in Transition Processes." International Journal of Innovation Management 07, no. 03 (September 2003): 247–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1363919603000817.

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We note the emergence of a new type of intermediary organization, which functions at system or network level, in contrast to traditional intermediary organizations that operate mainly bilaterally. These "systemic intermediaries" are important in long-term and complex changes, such as "transitions" to sustainable development, which require the coordinated effort of industry, policy makers, research institutes and others. We use the Systems of Innovation approach to characterize the roles of traditional and systemic intermediary organizations. A review of recent changes in innovation systems points to the need of more systemic efforts, such as the articulation of needs and options, the alignment of relevant actors and the support of learning processes. In a phase model of transitions additional roles of systemic intermediaries are identified. A case study of the Californian Fuel Cell Partnership shows how the efforts of systemic intermediaries in encompassing systemic innovations are useful and necessary, but not sufficient.

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Kanda, Wisdom, Mika Kuisma, Paula Kivimaa, and Olof Hjelm. "Conceptualising the systemic activities of intermediaries in sustainability transitions." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 36 (September 2020): 449–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2020.01.002.

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Kivimaa, Paula, Anna Bergek, Kaisa Matschoss, and Harro van Lente. "Intermediaries in accelerating transitions: Introduction to the special issue." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 36 (September 2020): 372–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2020.03.004.

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de Mello, Adriana Marotti, Paula Sarita Bigio Schnaider, Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes, Roberta Souza-Piao, Rubens Nunes, and Vivian Lara Silva. "Meso-institutions as systemic intermediaries in sustainable transitions governance." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 52 (September 2024): 100870. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100870.

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Roser, Thorsten, Ksenija Kuzmina, and Mikko Koria. "Enabling Sustainable Adaptation and Transitions: Exploring New Roles of a Tourism Innovation Intermediary in Andalusia, Spain." Tourism and Hospitality 4, no. 3 (June 30, 2023): 390–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp4030024.

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Tourism is a major global and local industry creating value through services that are enhanced and enabled through intermediaries that support innovation in the sector. This exploratory case study examines the roles and activities of a publicly funded tourism innovation intermediary for small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and professionals in Andalucia, Spain. We note the gap in knowledge on how intermediaries may best support stakeholders in achieving resilience and sustainability in transitions in tourism service ecosystems. Building on interviews, reports, and observations, this study finds that the intermediary has successfully supported its stakeholders in enhancing their adaptability in the current service ecosystem. There is less evidence of achieving deliberate transformations towards long-term sustainability and resilience. As the intermediary is uniquely positioned at the meso-level of the regional tourism service ecosystem, this study proposes exploring engagement to cover both macro and micro-level activities to enable moving towards becoming a transition intermediary and a regional sustainability catalyst. This study furthermore proposes an expanded range of roles and activities for the intermediary to enable moving towards resilience and sustainability, while contributing to the understanding of innovation intermediaries supporting sustainability in the tourism sector.

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Stephens, Phoebe, and Steven A. Wolf. "Agritech Entrepreneurship, Innovation Intermediaries, and Sustainability Transitions: A Critical Analysis." Journal of Innovation Economics & Management N° 42, no. 3 (August 23, 2023): 43–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/jie.pr1.0145.

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Kivimaa, Paula, Sampsa Hyysalo, Wouter Boon, Laurens Klerkx, Mari Martiskainen, and Johan Schot. "Passing the baton: How intermediaries advance sustainability transitions in different phases." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 31 (June 2019): 110–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2019.01.001.

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Silver, Jonathan, and Simon Marvin. "Powering sub-Saharan Africa’s urban revolution: An energy transitions approach." Urban Studies 54, no. 4 (September 29, 2016): 847–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016668105.

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This paper develops a geographic understanding of urban energy transitions in sub-Saharan African towns and cities. In doing so this paper seeks to critically reflect on the value and limits of urban transitions analysis as a framework for understanding energy networks beyond the largely integrated systems across the Global North. We explore how these potentials and deficits can be addressed by examining promising developments across a series of debates in urban studies that can help sensitise this approach to energyscapes in the African context. By reviewing urban transitions analysis through these debates the paper offers four important contributions to expand existing ways of understanding energy transition. These include the particular urbanisation dynamics of African towns ands cities, the need to locate the urban across energy regimes, the agencies of various intermediaries and urban actors and the contested politics inherent in the governing of energy networks. In the conclusion we reflect on the specific directions that have emerged from the paper in relation to our contributions, offering a geographically informed framework that allows us to better examine the challenges and specificities of transition across these rapidly growing urban regions.

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van Lente, Harro, Wouter P. C. Boon, and Laurens Klerkx. "Positioning of systemic intermediaries in sustainability transitions: Between storylines and speech acts." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 36 (September 2020): 485–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2020.02.006.

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Kundurpi, Aravind, Linda Westman, Christopher Luederitz, Sarah Burch, and Alexander Mercado. "Navigating between adaptation and transformation: How intermediaries support businesses in sustainability transitions." Journal of Cleaner Production 283 (February 2021): 125366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125366.

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Danvers, Stuart, Jonathan Robertson, and Ambika Zutshi. "Conceptualizing How Collaboration Advances Circularity." Sustainability 15, no. 6 (March 22, 2023): 5553. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15065553.

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The Circular Economy (CE) is heralded as an important concept with the potential to guide businesses and society toward a more sustainable future. However, while collaboration is widely accepted to play a central role in advancing circularity, little is known about how organizations effectively work together to achieve these outcomes. This is particularly problematic given that any shift toward collaboration requires systematic approaches based on effective collaborative processes between organizations. This conceptual paper addresses this gap by providing a comprehensive investigation of collaboration and circularity. The paper is based on a systematic literature review of 66 scientific publications as the foundation for analysis. Based on the analysis, the paper contributes to the CE literature by offering a novel approach to conceptualizing collaboration and circularity. A conceptual framework is provided which differentiates CE strategies at three stages of the product lifecycle. The paper makes a second contribution to the CE literature by examining the role that multilevel collaboration plays in facilitating a transition from a linear economy to a CE and, in particular, the significance of government in managing collaboration opportunities between partners. We highlight intermediaries as important accelerators in this transition. Future research directions are provided, including how government and intermediaries—among others—collaborate for CE transitions.

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van Veelen, Bregje. "Caught in the middle? Creating and contesting intermediary spaces in low-carbon transitions." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38, no. 1 (June 10, 2019): 116–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654419856020.

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The distributed nature of renewable energy has given rise to new forms and scales of energy governance, in particular the emerging role of households and community organisations in generating and distributing renewable energy. Accompanying this trend has been the emergence of intermediary organisations, whose role it is to mediate between these actors cf. the market and the state, with the aim to move from local experimentation to widespread transformational change. While in recent years a significant body of research has emerged that has considered intermediary functions, less is known about intermediary spaces. By tracing how intermediary spaces are shaped, negotiated, protected, and expanded, this article makes three contributions to the literature on energy governance and low-carbon intermediaries. First, a focus on the relational nature of intermediary spaces challenges the community/state binary in energy governance. Second, it highlights the power dynamics behind these emergent relational spaces; showing such spaces are not neutral, but produced through social relations within and beyond them, affecting the functions that intermediaries seek to fulfil. Third, it provides an understanding of how the ever-changing nature of intermediary spaces can also enable new spaces for action to emerge and challenge the status quo.

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DE LA FUENTE, I. M., L. MARTINEZ, J. M. AGUIRREGABIRIA, J. VEGUILLAS, and M. IRIARTE. "LONG-RANGE CORRELATIONS IN THE PHASE-SHIFTS OF NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF BIOCHEMICAL OSCILLATIONS AND IN EXPERIMENTAL CARDIAC RHYTHMS." Journal of Biological Systems 07, no. 02 (June 1999): 113–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218339099000103.

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In biochemical dynamical systems during each transition between periodical behaviors, all metabolic intermediaries of the system oscillate with the same frequency but with different phase-shifts. We have studied the behavior of phase-shift records obtained from random transitions between periodic solutions of a biochemical dynamical system. The phase-shift data were analyzed by means of Hurst's rescaled range method (introduced by Mandelbrot and Wallis). The results show the existence of persistent behavior: each value of the phase-shift depends not only on the recent transitions, but also on previous ones. In this paper, the different kind of periodic solutions were determined by different small values of the control parameter. It was assessed the significance of this results through extensive Monte Carlo simulations as well as quantifying the long-range correlations. We have also applied this type of analysis on cardiac rhythms, showing a clear persistent behavior. The relationship of the results with the cellular persistence phenomena conditioned by the past, widely evidenced in experimental observations, is discussed.

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Chebrolu, Shambu Prasad, and Deborah Dutta. "Managing Sustainable Transitions: Institutional Innovations from India." Sustainability 13, no. 11 (May 28, 2021): 6076. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13116076.

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Despite the widespread disruptions of lives and livelihoods due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it could also be seen as a gamechanger. The post-pandemic recovery should address fundamental questions concerning our food systems. Is it possible to reset existing ecologically unsustainable production systems towards healthier and more connected systems of conscious consumers and ecologically oriented farmers? Based on three illustrative cases from different parts of India, we show how managing transitions towards sustainability require institutional innovations and new intermediaries that build agency, change relations, and transform structures in food systems. Lessons from three diverse geographies and commodities in India are presented: urban farming initiatives in Mumbai, conscious consumer initiatives in semi-urban Gujarat for pesticide-free mangoes, and resource-poor arid regions of Andhra Pradesh. Through these examples, we show that, beyond the technological solutions, institutional innovations such as urban community-supported farming models, Participatory Guarantee Schemes, and Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) can enable sustainable transitions. Sustainable lifestyles in a post COVID-19 world, as the cases show, require collective experimentation with producers that go beyond changed consumer behaviour to transform structures in food systems.

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Kivimaa, Paula, Wouter Boon, Sampsa Hyysalo, and Laurens Klerkx. "Towards a typology of intermediaries in sustainability transitions: A systematic review and a research agenda." Research Policy 48, no. 4 (May 2019): 1062–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.006.

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Dr. Ayenew Birhanu Worku. "The Roles of Political Parties and Their Challenges in Political Transition: The Case of Ethiopia." PanAfrican Journal of Governance and Development (PJGD) 2, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 103–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.46404/panjogov.v2i1.2915.

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The political parties of any country are expected to remain committed to the political and economic improvement of their country. As one of the main intermediaries between the state and citizens, one would therefore expect political parties to have a key role in achieving a democratic and peaceful transition. This article focuses on the contribution, actual or potential, of political parties to political transitions. The objective of this study is to examine the roles of political parties in ongoing reform efforts and the challenges they face in Ethiopia. The paper reports mainly on the findings of semi-structured interviews with local and national politicians carried out during 2020 as well as an analysis of political parties’ programs. This study indicates that political parties are the main agents of political representation, and play a crucial role in articulating and aggregating citizens’ demands in democracies. As such, this study argues that political parties have a major role to play in political transitions though, in Ethiopia, they have generally not lived up to expectations. The findings reveal that the very nature of transition and the prevailing character of political parties in Ethiopia have inhibited that role. The study concludes that the unpredictability of post-reform trends, a weak political culture, and inefficiency of political parties, which are in turn related to the nature of party systems, prompted political instability which in turn hampered the anticipated political transition in Ethiopia.

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Frantzeskaki, Niki, and Judy Bush. "Governance of nature-based solutions through intermediaries for urban transitions – A case study from Melbourne, Australia." Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 64 (September 2021): 127262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127262.

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Lorquet, Nadège, Jean-François Orianne, and François Pichault. "Who takes care of non-standard career paths? The role of labour market intermediaries." European Journal of Industrial Relations 24, no. 3 (November 8, 2017): 279–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680117740425.

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As flexible career paths become more common in European labour markets, how to combine the flexibility required by non-standard work with new patterns of security is the focus of political debate. Some European Union (EU) countries have launched radical labour market reforms, while in others such reforms remain limited. This paves the way for bottom-up solutions developed by private and non-profit labour market intermediaries in order to support the job transitions of non-standard workers. We map these initiatives through a multidimensional grid and explore the extent to which they contribute to renewed regulation of modern labour markets. We outline two ideal-typical approaches. The first extends internal labour markets to triangular employment relationships by considering workers as ‘quasi-employees’. The second involves more disruptive solutions by treating non-standard workers as ‘quasi-self-employed’.

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Bush, Ruth E., Catherine S. E. Bale, Mark Powell, Andy Gouldson, Peter G. Taylor, and William F. Gale. "The role of intermediaries in low carbon transitions – Empowering innovations to unlock district heating in the UK." Journal of Cleaner Production 148 (April 2017): 137–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.01.129.

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Shaw, Christopher, Victoria Hurth, Stuart Capstick, and Emily Cox. "Intermediaries’ perspectives on the public’s role in the energy transitions needed to deliver UK climate change policy goals." Energy Policy 116 (May 2018): 267–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.02.002.

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Sultana, Razia, Thomas Birtchnell, and Nicholas Gill. "Grassroots Innovation for Urban Greening within a Governance Vacuum by Slum Dwellers in Dhaka." Sustainability 14, no. 18 (September 16, 2022): 11631. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141811631.

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The nature-based solutions of slumdwellers are paramount to the ongoing integrity of major cities in the global South. The paper investigates the urban-greening decision-making of slum citizens whose civic participation finds support in shared governance initiatives: non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs). The background informing the conceptual framework guiding this research derives from socio-technical transitions scholarship on critical niches in grassroots innovations. The objective of this research is to examine how slum dwellers are implementing urban greening in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The research considers how slum dwellers manage a governance vacuum through civic participation with NGOs and CBOs. The methods in this study comprise qualitative fieldwork in Dhaka and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and citizens. The research findings show that a governance vacuum requires an adjustment to the perspective on grassroots innovations to endure in the global South in contexts where there is limited opportunity locally for intermediaries to achieve scale. There is a limit to the extent that the critical niches perspective applies to grassroots innovations in greening Dhaka’s slums; therefore, we contribute nuance as a refinement to the approach. The study offers a complementary explanatory framework for how NGOs, CBOs and other intermediaries at the grassroots contend with, and even thrive within, a vacuum of governance in the enactment of urban greening in Dhaka’s slum settlements.

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Tanniru, Mohan, Jacqueline Jones, Samer Kazziha, and Michelle Hornberger. "Care transition to skilled nursing facility – A model and a case study." Journal of Hospital Administration 8, no. 3 (May 16, 2019): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jha.v8n3p38.

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Background: Healthcare providers have focused on improving patient care transitions to reduce unanticipated readmission costs, improve patient care quality post-discharge and increase patient satisfaction. This is especially true in US since the introduction of the Affordable Care Act. While there are several practices and evidence-based programs discussed in the literature to address care transition post-discharge, the key challenge remains the same – how to structure the care transition program to influence its effectiveness. In this paper, we focus on modeling one particular care transition – moving a patient from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) – and discuss how improved capacity building and use of intermediaries such as advanced nurse practitioners have shown promise in reducing patient readmissions.Method: The methodology proposed here uses service dominant (SD) logic research to inductively derive a model for service exchanges between the two provider ecosystems. This model is then used to analyze service gaps and look for opportunities to innovate within an SNF and improve its capacity to deliver care. Use of intermediation that expands the service model with the addition of more care providers besides the hospital and SNF is also discussed to reduce patient readmissions. Results: The study demonstrates that a number of actors have to work collaboratively to make care transition effective in meeting the patient and provider goals. Specifically, when two care facilities, hospital and SNF, are involved in care transition, opportunities exist to improve their internal capacity to address care within and across facilities. Conclusion: The paper makes two important contributions. It shows the role of SD Logic in identifying opportunities for service innovations in support of care transition, and it shows the role of actors in provider-customer ecosystems to make the transition effective.

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Xhoxhi, Orjon, Remzi Keco, Engjell Skreli, Drini Imami, and Bari Musabelliu. "THE ROLE OF INTERMEDIARIES’ POWER ON CONTRACTING DECISION BETWEEN FARMERS AND INTERMEDIARIES." New Medit 18, no. 3 (September 15, 2019): 3–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.30682/nm1903a.

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The paper investigates the determinants of farmers’ participation in contract farming (CF) in the context of a transition country, namely Albania. The focus is on intermediaries’ bargaining power effect on farmers’ engagement in CF. Exploratory factor analysis is used to develop measures for the latent variables, while a logit regression model is employed to test the hypothesized relationship. The results show that intermediaries’ bargaining power moderates negatively the relationship between farmers’ specific investments and CF participation. Farmers’ with high specific investment are reluctant to contract with buyers who have power because contracting with such a buyer implies that they can extract higher values from farmers’ specific investments. Other strong predictors of contracting decision are farmers’ trust on the intermediary, intermediary’s advice to the farmer and intermediary’s specific investment.

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Franklin, Aimee L., and Carol Ebdon. "Participatory Budgeting in the Philippines." Chinese Public Administration Review 11, no. 1 (June 29, 2020): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/cpar.v11i1.250.

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Participatory budgeting has been adopted and adapted by governments around the world. Existing literature points to a variety of desired outcomes from these efforts, but does not clearly distinguish the impacts on individuals, groups, and society. This study uses the case of the Philippines to explore the differences in impacts of participatory budgeting within and across the three levels. Reforms in the Philippines were similar to efforts in other countries, but there were adaptations, including a national mandate for the decentralization of participatory budgeting to local governments and the required representation of civil society organizations in local resource allocation processes. Some gains in individual education and efficacy, representation of marginalized groups and social justice, and government accountability were seen in the Philippines, but they seem to be idiosyncratic to the local context. Civil society and democratic legitimacy advances, though, were weaker, at least partly due to challenges in involving third-party intermediaries in the process, and continued issues with elitism and corruption. Like other participatory budgeting cases, the outcomes have not been uniform, and transitions in national leadership hinder institutionalization.

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Leurent, Martin. "Stimulating niche nurturing process for heat production with nuclear plants in France: A multi-level perspective." EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies 5 (2019): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2019001.

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This paper examines how intermediaries could interact with other important actors identified by the multi-level perspective (MLP) framework, the niche actors and regime actors, to create niches for nuclear heat production in France. Whatever is the source, recovering the wasted heat is a matter of energy efficiency. Nuclear plants could remain used for several decades in France. It is thus legitimate to investigate those possible niche nurturing processes which may allow a more efficient use of this technology. Challenges are high, and our conclusions modest regarding the possible breaking through of such exploratory and collective systems. Without significant windows of opportunity, even the most willing intermediation may not be able to change the status quo. It is however important to highlight the multifarious pathways that energy transitions could follow. Drawing on lessons from the MLP, this paper proposes three key actions for intermediation willing to move beyond technology-push approaches that can lead to tension and low legitimacy. These are, sharing questions instead of knowledge; mobilise, interest, involve a legitimate place; and prevent or avoid conflicts among stakeholders. Regime changes possibly enhancing the deployment of sustainable heating systems, not only nuclear plant sourced, are also discussed.

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Jardón-Valadez, Eduardo, and Alfredo Ulloa-Aguirre. "Tracking conformational transitions of the gonadotropin hormone receptors in a bilayer of (SDPC) poly-unsaturated lipids from all-atom molecular dynamics simulations." PLOS Computational Biology 20, no. 1 (January 11, 2024): e1011415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011415.

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Glycoprotein hormone receptors [thyrotropin (TSHR), luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin (LHCGR), and follicle stimulating hormone (FSHR) receptors] are rhodopsin-like G protein-coupled receptors. These receptors display common structural features including a prominent extracellular domain with leucine-rich repeats (LRR) stabilized by β-sheets and a long and flexible loop known as the hinge region (HR), and a transmembrane (TM) domain with seven α-helices interconnected by intra- and extracellular loops. Binding of the ligand to the LRR resembles a hand coupling transversally to the α- and β-subunits of the hormone, with the thumb being the HR. The structure of the FSH-FSHR complex suggests an activation mechanism in which Y335 at the HR binds into a pocket between the α- and β-chains of the hormone, leading to an adjustment of the extracellular loops. In this study, we performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to identify the conformational changes of the FSHR and LHCGR. We set up a FSHR structure as predicted by AlphaFold (AF-P23945); for the LHCGR structure we took the cryo-electron microscopy structure for the active state (PDB:7FII) as initial coordinates. Specifically, the flexibility of the HR domain and the correlated motions of the LRR and TM domain were analyzed. From the conformational changes of the LRR, TM domain, and HR we explored the conformational landscape by means of MD trajectories in all-atom approximation, including a membrane of polyunsaturated phospholipids. The distances and procedures here defined may be useful to propose reaction coordinates to describe diverse processes, such as the active-to-inactive transition, and to identify intermediaries suited for allosteric regulation and biased binding to cellular transducers in a selective activation strategy.

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Friedkin, Noah E. "A Formal Theory of Reflected Appraisals in the Evolution of Power." Administrative Science Quarterly 56, no. 4 (December 2011): 501–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0001839212441349.

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This article investigates the evolution of power with a formal theory that focuses on the influence network through which control of a group’s outcomes emerges via direct and indirect interpersonal influences on group members’ positions on a series of issues over time. Power evolves when individuals’ openness or closure to interpersonal influences correspond with their prior relative control over the group’s issue outcomes. In groups with members who are appraising the relative power of their members over the outcomes of prior issues, a mechanism of “reflected appraisals” will elevate and dampen members’ self-appraisals of their relative power and the amount of influence they accord to others. Across a series of issues over time, this mechanism suffices to generate state transitions of a group’s influence network. The result is an evolution of the group’s influence network such that, with rare exceptions, power becomes concentrated and the preferences of a single leader control the group’s outcomes via intermediaries. A laboratory experiment and a simulation provide support for the theory. The analysis suggests that the evolution of the influence network toward concentrated forms of power and control is generated by fundamental social psychological responses to power and may occur in all enduring social groups whose members are dealing with a lengthy sequence of issues, independent of the conditions of bureaucratic organizations.

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Fatima, N., N. Singhal, S. Goyal, R. Sheikh, and P. Sharma. "Capital Adequacy Ratio — a Panacea for Indian Banks during COVID-19 Pandemic." Finance: Theory and Practice 28, no. 2 (April 30, 2024): 50–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.26794/2587-5671-2024-28-2-50-59.

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A stable financial system acts as a catalyst for the economic growth and development of a country. The healthy banking sector is the core of a sustainable economy as banks act as intermediaries between depositors and lenders of money. In the surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial sector witnessed significant transitions in terms of digital transformation. In India, the banking sector has remained resilient throughout the pandemic due to government and regulators’ policy efforts and the maintenance of capital adequacy requirements. Banks have maintained higher capital buffers, better liquidity requirements, and lower leverage, cushions against pandemic shock. In the present paper, the researcher provides a conceptual elucidation of Basel norms, analyzes the component-wise Capital to Risk-Weighted Asset Ratio (CRAR) of Indian Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) and examines the CRAR position of SCBs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study also evaluated the distribution of SCBs by CRAR and examined the capital ratios of public, private, and foreign sector banks from 2016 to 2022. The ANOVA analysis output revealed a significant difference in the CRAR of public, private, and foreign banks. The study concludes that adequate CAR levels help banks mitigate the risks that arise during pandemic crises and aid them in conducting their banking operations effortlessly. Further, it concludes that public sector banks (PSBs) still lag behind their counterparts in maintaining adequate CRAR, and hence, they need to reduce the accumulation of risk-weighted assets (RWA).

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Dong, Xiaojuan, Xiangyun Gao, Zhiliang Dong, Haigang An, and Siyao Liu. "Network evolution analysis of nickel futures and the spot price linkage effect based on a distributed lag model." International Journal of Modern Physics B 33, no. 19 (July 30, 2019): 1950206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217979219502060.

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In many cases, the correlation between time series has a certain lag effect. To study the lag correlation between two time series variables, we select London Metal Exchange (LME) nickel futures and spot prices from 3 January 2008 to 29 December 2017 as sample data to carry out stationarity tests, cointegration tests and Granger causality tests to determine the stationarity and correlation of two time series. Then, we use the method of combining the distributed lag model and sliding window method to construct a network. We select the best sliding window length through a sensitivity test. The time series is reconstructed into a complex network by taking the types of patterns as the nodes and the conduction relationship between the patterns as the edges. The number of transitions between patterns is defined as the weight of the edge. The results show that the spot price changes are caused by the change in nickel futures price and that the optimal sliding window length is 64. Additionally, 12 types of patterns account for a large proportion of the patterns in the network. Six patterns are the main intermediaries of pattern transmission and appear centrally with the change in the market environment. Therefore, the relationship model between these futures and spot prices has remained stable for a long time. Combining the positive and negative news of the market, we identify the timing of the change in the relationship model and can use this approach to improve the accuracy of early warning methods. This study provides a method to construct a complex network using a distributed lag model, which can help analyze two real time series variables with lag correlation.

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Talmar, Madis, Bob Walrave, Rob Raven, and A. Georges L. Romme. "Dynamism in policy-affiliated transition intermediaries." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 159 (May 2022): 112210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.112210.

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Judson, Ellis P., Sandra Bell, Harriet Bulkeley, Gareth Powells, and Stephen Lyon. "The Co-Construction of Energy Provision and Everyday Practice: Integrating Heat Pumps in Social Housing in England." Science & Technology Studies 28, no. 3 (January 1, 2015): 26–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.23987/sts.55341.

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Challenges of energy security, low carbon transitions, and electricity network constraints have led to a shift to new, efficient technologies for household energy services. Studies of such technological innovations usually focus on consumer information and changes in behaviour to realise their full potential. We suggest that regarding such technologies in existing energy provision systems opens up questions concerning how and why such interventions are delivered. We argue that we must understand the ways by which energy systems are co-constituted through the habits and expectations of households, their technologies and appliances, alongside arrangements associated with large-scale socio-technical infrastructures. Drawing on research with air-source-to-water heat pumps (ASWHP), installed as part of a large trans-disciplinary, utility-led research and demonstration project in the north of England, we investigate how energy services provision and everyday practice shapes new technologies uptake, and how such technologies mediate and reconfigure relations between users, providers and infrastructure networks. While the installation of ASWHP has led to role differentiation through which energy services are provided, the space for new forms of co-provision to emerge is limited by existing commitments to delivering energy services. Simultaneously, new forms of interdependency emerge between users, providers and intermediaries through sites of installation, instruction, repair and feedback. We find that although new technologies do lead to the rearrangement of practices, this is often disrupted by obduracy in the conventions and habits around domestic heating and hot water practices that have been established in relation to existing systems of provision. Rather being simply a matter of increasing levels of knowledge in order to ensure that such technologies are adopted effi ciently and effectively, our paper demonstrates how systemic arrangements of energy provision and everyday practice are co-implicated in socio-technical innovation by changing the nature of energy supply and use.

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Song, Jiongjiong, and Amelia C. Regan. "Transition or Transformation?: Emerging Freight Transportation Intermediaries." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1763, no. 1 (January 2001): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1763-01.

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Hyysalo, Sampsa, Jouni K. Juntunen, and Mari Martiskainen. "Energy Internet forums as acceleration phase transition intermediaries." Research Policy 47, no. 5 (June 2018): 872–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.02.012.

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Cunha, Sieglinde Kindl da, Sérgio Luis Dias Doliveira, Thiago Cavalcante Nascimento, Flavia Massuga, Cleber Trindade Barbosa, and Antonia Felicia Benítez Duarte. "Intermediaries of transition to sustainability: influences and perspectives." Revista de Gestão Ambiental e Sustentabilidade 11, no. 1 (October 28, 2022): e21497. http://dx.doi.org/10.5585/geas.v11i1.21497.

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Objetivo: Esta investigação teve como objetivo compreender o papel dos intermediários nas transições sociotécnicas para a sustentabilidade, segundo a literatura de 2010 a 2022.Metodologia: Para isso, foi realizada uma revisão sistemática da literatura a partir do Methodi Ordinatio que resultou na análise de 42 artigos considerados mais relevantes de acordo com o tema abordado.Originalidade/Relevância: As transições para a sustentabilidade e intermediários configuram-se como um campo de pesquisa emergente. Esse estudo é, portanto, relevante ao identificar os avanços na produção científica, evidenciando aspectos intrínsecos ao assunto, além de lacunas para pesquisas futuras. Resultados: Com base na caracterização dos estudos, os resultados mostram um crescimento nas publicações nos últimos anos, sendo a maior expansão a partir de 2018. O foco foi maior em pesquisas empíricas, com destaque para transições sustentáveis no setor de energia, seguido dos setores industrial, agrícola, de mobilidade e transporte e construção civil. Além disso, verificou-se que os atores intermediários podem contribuir de diferentes maneiras para transições de sustentabilidade. Eles desenvolvem papeis de apoio à inovação, financiamento de projetos, gestão de redes, articulação de expectativas das partes interessadas, difusão do conhecimento, mobilização de recursos, transferência de tecnologia, alinhamento de objetivos e apoio a implementação e renovação de políticas, por exemplo.Contribuições sociais para a gestão: Entender o processo no qual os intermediários se configuram nas transições para a sustentabilidade é fundamental para compreender as alterações de natureza ambiental, social e econômica nos mais diversos setores na contemporaneidade.

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Gerard, Caprio. "The role of financial intermediaries in transitional economies." Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 42 (June 1995): 257–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-2231(95)00036-y.

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Moss, Timothy. "Intermediaries and the Governance of Sociotechnical Networks in Transition." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 41, no. 6 (June 2009): 1480–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a4116.

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Bush, R. E., and C. S. E. Bale. "The role of intermediaries in the transition to district heating." Energy Procedia 116 (June 2017): 490–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.05.098.

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Colovic, Ana, Annalisa Caloffi, Federica Rossi, and Margherita Russo. "Institutionalising the digital transition: The role of digital innovation intermediaries." Research Policy 54, no. 1 (January 2025): 105146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105146.

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Boyle, Evan, Clare Watson, Gerard Mullally, and Brian Ó Gallachóir. "Regime-based transition intermediaries at the grassroots for community energy initiatives." Energy Research & Social Science 74 (April 2021): 101950. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.101950.

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Troplini, MSc Rovena. "Albania among Bank Based System’s Countries." ILIRIA International Review 3, no. 2 (December 31, 2013): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.21113/iir.v3i2.119.

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The Albanian financial system has entered a new phase of its development. Financial system in Albania is bank oriented, as financial market is not active. Because of the important and deep changes that have altered the image of the banking system, the conditions for more dynamic development of non-banking intermediaries and capital markets have been created. The analysis is based on the standard indicators of size and activity of banking intermediaries. The results of the analysis show that the size and activity of Albanian banking system is growing faster but limiting the crediting process only on banks. However, the achieved level of development of banking intermediaries is still below of other advanced transition economies. Albanian financial system needs to develop quickly the activities of pension funds, investment funds and bond/asset markets in order to create great opportunities to the Albanian economy.

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Hoffmann, Thomas, and Sander Sagar. "Intermediary Liability in the EU Digital Common Market." IDP Revista de Internet Derecho y Política, no. 34 (December 13, 2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.7238/idp.v0i34.387691.

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The European Union is committed to its transition towards climate neutrality and digital leadership, and synergies to be created in the EU Digital Common Market provide ample opportunities to achieve these goals: While from an economic perspective, the maximisation of market opportunities and the creation of a globally competitive digital economy are desirable, the transition must be technologically and ecologically sustainable and additionally compatible with established EU consumer protection standards. The latter is especially relevant in terms of the liability of online intermediaries for digital services, taking into account the rapid transformation of the digital architecture and the emergence of new major digital platforms for sales and services. This chapter, which is based on the Bachelor thesis handed in by Sander Sagar and supervised by Thomas Hoffmann for graduation at TalTech Law School, Tallinn University of Technology, intends to elucidate how the transition towards a common digital market is legally established in practice using as an example the adoption of the intermediaries’ liability regime to a digitalized environment from the E-Commerce Directive to the Digital Services Act.

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Sovacool, Benjamin K., Bruno Turnheim, Mari Martiskainen, Donal Brown, and Paula Kivimaa. "Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era." Energy Research & Social Science 66 (August 2020): 101490. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101490.

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Simion, Kristina. "Bottom-Up Explorations: Locating Rule of Law Intermediaries after Transition in Myanmar." Journal of Burma Studies 23, no. 1 (2019): 125–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jbs.2019.0004.

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Ellis, Paul D. "International trade intermediaries and the transfer of marketing knowledge in transition economies." International Business Review 19, no. 1 (February 2010): 16–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2009.09.005.

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Cole, Harold L. "A few speculations on the role of financial intermediaries in transitional economies." Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 42 (June 1995): 303–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-2231(95)00037-z.

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OSBORN, EMILY LYNN. "‘CIRCLE OF IRON’: AFRICAN COLONIAL EMPLOYEES AND THE INTERPRETATION OF COLONIAL RULE IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA." Journal of African History 44, no. 1 (March 2003): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853702008307.

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This article investigates the role of African colonial employees in the functioning of the colonial state in French West Africa. Case studies from the 1890s and early 1900s demonstrate that in the transition from conquest to occupation, low-level African colonial intermediaries continually shaped the localized meanings that colonialism acquired in practice. Well-placed African colonial intermediaries in the colonies of Guinée Française and Soudan Français often controlled the dissemination of information and knowledge in the interactions of French colonial officials with local elites and members of the general population. The contributions of these African employees to the daily operations of the French colonial state show that scholars have long overlooked a cadre of men who played a significant role in shaping colonial rule.

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