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Journal articles on the topic "Rowing Social aspects Victoria"
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EGGERT, HÅKAN, and RAZACK B. LOKINA. "Regulatory compliance in Lake Victoria fisheries." Environment and Development Economics 15, no. 2 (November 13, 2009): 197–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x09990106.
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ABSTRACTThis paper analyzes the causes for regulatory compliance, using traditional deterrence variables and potential moral and social variables. We use self-reported data from 459 Tanzanian artisanal fishers in Lake Victoria. The results indicate that the decision to be either a non-violator or a violator, as well as the violation rate – if the latter – are influenced by changes in deterrence variables like the probability of detection and punishment and also by legitimacy and social variables. We also identify a small group of fishers who react neither to normative aspects nor to traditional deterrence variables but persistently violate the regulation.
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Krupinski, Jerzy, John W. G. Tiller, Graham D. Burrows, and Alan Mackenzie. "SOCIAL AND FAMILIAL ASPECTS OF ATTEMPTED AND COMPLETED SUICIDE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN VICTORIA." Australian Journal of Social Issues 33, no. 4 (November 1998): 323–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1839-4655.1998.tb01062.x.
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Parkinson, Debra, Alyssa Duncan, Jaspreet Kaur, Frank Archer, and Caroline Spencer. "Gendered aspects of long-term disaster resilience in Victoria, Australia." January 2022 10.47389/37, no. 37.1 (January 2022): 59–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.47389/37.1.59.
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Research conducted in 2018 documented the disaster experiences of 56 women and men in Australia aged between 18 and 93 years. This paper draws out the gendered factors that affected their resilience, and in so doing, begins to address the dearth of research related to gendered aspects of long-term disaster resilience. It is unique in capturing the voices of survivors who spoke of events 9 years after the 2009 Black Saturday fires and of earlier fires and floods in Victoria more than 50 years ago, including the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires. Over decades, gendered expectations of men and women significantly hindered resilience. Men spoke of the long-term cost to them of demands to ‘be strong’ in the worst of disasters and reasons they were reluctant to seek help afterwards. Women spoke of their contributions holding a lesser value and of discrimination. Discussions of violence against women and children after disaster, and suicide ideation in anticipation of future disasters offered critical insights. Protective factors identified by informants were not wholly intrinsic to their character but were also physical, such as essential resources provided in the immediate aftermath, and psychological and community support offered in the long-term. Factors that helped resilience departed from the ‘masculine’ model of coping post-disaster by moving away from a refusal to admit trauma and suffering, to community-wide resilience bolstered by widespread emotional, social and psychological support. Genuine community planning for disasters before they strike builds trust and offers insights for emergency management planners.
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Woon, Yuen-Fong. "Some Adjustment Aspects of Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese Families in Victoria, Canada." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 17, no. 3 (October 1, 1986): 349–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcfs.17.3.349.
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Fikriyati, Mirroh, Sri Katoningsih, and Sabbir Hasan. "Use of Loose Part Media With Cardboard and Sand Materials in Islamic Children's Schools." Nazhruna: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam 6, no. 1 (January 10, 2023): 60–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.31538/nzh.v6i1.2858.
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The purpose of this study is to describe the use of loose parts media made from cardboard and sand in learning at the Islamic Children's School TKIT Permata Hati Kartasura Sukoharjo. The research subjects were teachers, informants such as school leaders, and students. Data collection techniques with interviews, observation, and documentation. While the data analysis with the stages of data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusions, and verification, namely drawing conclusions and verifying the collected data. The results showed that loose parts media designed in ships and simple musical instruments have successfully stimulated the growth of 6 aspects of child development. Aspects of Moral Religion Values with the introduction of seawater that ships pass as a creation of God. Gross motoric physical aspects such as rowing. Physical aspects of fine motor skills include feeling the smooth and rough parts of the ship. A cognitive aspect with counting the number of doors, windows, and stairs on the boat. A language aspect with mentioning the vowel letters on the ship. Aspects of Social Emotional like patiently waiting for their turn in holding the boat. An aspect of art with hearing, imitating, and singing songs about ships. It is also strengthened by playing a musical instrument from a bottle filled with sand.
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Jernsand, Eva Maria. "Engagement as transformation: Learnings from a tourism development project in Dunga by Lake Victoria, Kenya." Action Research 15, no. 1 (March 2017): 81–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476750316678913.
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Participatory tourism development projects are considered effective and democratic since they engage people in interactive learning processes that change individuals and societies. In order to be transformative, a relational and social process must be acheived which challenges prior knowledge and beliefs. The purpose of this article is to explore engagement as a transformative feature of research and development practice. Three aspects of engagement are proposed through which higher learning loops and transformation can be enhanced: embodied and situated learning, relationship-building, and acknowledging and sharing power. These three aspects of engagement are explored through the case of developing an ecotourism site by Lake Victoria in Kenya.
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Hardcastle, Lesley, Terry Bartholomew, and Joe Graffam. "Legislative and Community Support for Offender Reintegration in Victoria." Deakin Law Review 16, no. 1 (August 1, 2011): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/dlr2011vol16no1art96.
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The status of offender rehabilitation has been influenced by the prevailing social climate, the promotion of ways to improve rehabilitation’s efficacy, and the well documented cycling of correctional imperatives. A renewed interest in offender transitions and reintegration has been apparent in recent years and most western correctional systems now feature policies and/or programs that address issues relating to the housing, employment, education and the broader ‘resettlement’ of offenders. However, this movement of correctional imperatives into the ‘social’ realm brings considerable challenges. Perhaps most significantly, the achievement of reintegration is dependent on juridical and community support in ways that other sentencing goals are not. Given the array of understandings of what ‘reintegration’ actually is, the abundance of programs claiming such a focus, and the reliance that reintegrative ideas have on community support, measuring the extent and nature of such support is seen as a useful exercise. With the above in mind, the goal of this paper is to identify legislative and community obstacles to the success of reintegrative ideals and policies. The paper first examines relevant legislation for references to reintegrative notions, finding a legislative ambivalence about such ideas. It then presents findings from a Victoria-wide survey of community views about the reintegration of ex-offenders. Participants in the community survey (n = 2635) were asked for their views about sentencing objectives, and the nature of their support for employment and housing initiatives. The results showed low levels of overall support for reintegration, with numerous more subtle distinctions being evident. The data also identify numerous areas where reintegrative programs are likely to be more readily accepted. The findings also indicate a need for targeted research into the correlates of community readiness for specific aspects of offender reintegration, and underlines the need for community education about the social implications of effective reintegration policies for urban, regional and rural communities.
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Ezzy, Douglas, Gary Bouma, Greg Barton, Anna Halafoff, Rebecca Banham, Robert Jackson, and Lori Beaman. "Religious Diversity in Australia: Rethinking Social Cohesion." Religions 11, no. 2 (February 18, 2020): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11020092.
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This paper argues for a reconsideration of social cohesion as an analytical concept and a policy goal in response to increasing levels of religious diversity in contemporary Australia. In recent decades, Australian has seen a revitalization of religion, increasing numbers of those who do not identify with a religion (the “nones”), and the growth of religious minorities, including Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism. These changes are often understood as problematic for social cohesion. In this paper, we review some conceptualizations of social cohesion and religious diversity in Australia, arguing that the concept of social cohesion, despite its initial promise, is ultimately problematic, particularly when it is used to defend privilege. We survey Australian policy responses to religious diversity, noting that these are varied, often piecemeal, and that the hyperdiverse state of Victoria generally has the most sophisticated set of public policies. We conclude with a call for more nuanced and contextualized analyses of religious diversity and social cohesion in Australia. Religious diversity presents both opportunities as well as challenges to social cohesion. Both these aspects need to be considered in the formation of policy responses.
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Hing, Nerilee, and Sharen Nisbet. "A Qualitative Perspective on Physical, Social and Cognitive Accessibility to Gambling." Journal of Gambling Issues, no. 24 (July 1, 2010): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.4309/jgi.2010.24.7.
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A possible relationship exists between heightened accessibility to gambling and the development and maintenance of gambling problems amongst employees at gambling venues. This paper takes an interpretive approach to exploring how working in a gambling venue influences accessibility to gambling. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with 40 hotel and club employees in Victoria, Australia. Data were analysed along three key dimensions of accessibility to gambling. In terms of physical accessibility, respondents generally felt shiftwork and split shifts heavily influence the times staff are likely to access gambling facilities. Aspects of social accessibility, including familiarity and comfort of gambling in the workplace, encouragement by other staff, and workplace cultures that do not deter staff gambling, were considered encouraging influences. Cognitive accessibility (or knowledge and understanding about gambling) was heightened by enhanced knowledge of gambling products and processes, greater knowledge of jackpot levels, a desire to know what competing venues are offering, and cognitive distortions around winning.
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Ban, Paul. "The Influence of Indigenous Perspectives of “Family” on some aspects of Australian & New Zealand Child Welfare Practice." Children Australia 18, no. 1 (1993): 20–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200003291.
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This article is written by a non indigenous person who has spent a number of years working with Torres Strait Islanders and is currently working in Victoria on a project that has its origins in Maori child care practice. The author has found that his work as a white social worker has been markedly influenced by contact with both Torres Strait Islander and Maori culture, and considers that this effect has been both positive and beneficial. White social workers for a number of years have been guilty of implementing an assimilationist policy where Governments treat indigenous people as though they are the same as white Australians. While this can be considered an equal treatment model, this policy and practice has been detrimental to the unique contribution indigenous people can provide to social work knowledge and understanding of child care practices. This article intends to share some insight into both these cultures and to hopefully influence readers to be more open when considering their dealings with indigenous people. Particular attention will be given to Torres Strait Islanders as they are indigenous Australians, with additional reference made to the influence of the Maoris in New Zealand.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Rowing Social aspects Victoria"
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Andrews, Alfred 1955. "Football : the people's game." Monash University, Dept. of History, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9104.
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Raftery, David Jonathon. "Competition, conflict and cooperation : an ethnographic analysis of an Australian forest industry dispute." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armr139.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 135-143. An anthropological analysis of an industrial dispute that occurred within the East Gippsland forest industry, 1997-1998 and how the workers strove to acheive better working conditions for themselves, and to share in the wealth they had created.
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Kataoka, Serena. "Re-acting aesthetic politics : from city to red zone to scenes of downtown Victoria." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/789.
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Tamis, Anastasios. "The state of modern Greek language as spoken in Victoria." 1986. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1223.
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This thesis reports a sociolinguistic study, carried out between 1981 and 1984, of the state of the Modern Greek (MG) language in Australia, as spoken by native-speaking first-generation Greek immigrants in Victoria. Particular emphasis is given to the analysis of those characteristics of the linguistic behaviour of these Greek Australians which can be attributed to the contact with English and to other environmental, social and linguistic influence. (For complete abstract open document)
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Rudden, Carolyn Louise. "What gets them rowing?: a comparative study of the achievement motivation of male and female elite rowers when training and racing." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2157.
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Elite athletes are highly motivated people. and need high levels of motivation to prevail through the tough training sessions and through set backs (Hardy, Jones & Gould. 1996). Therefore. research on motivation and specifically what contributes to a rower's motivation becomes significant from both a theoretical and practical view. The purpose of this study was to first. identify and understand motivational differences and similarities between the genders of elite rowers, using the framework of the Achievement Goal Theory. Second, it was to further explore these motivational differences and similarities between practice and competitive situations. This study investigated the phenomenon of motivation through a qualitative approach by interviewing 8 female and 5 male rowers from the Canadian Olympic Rowing team. where significant statements were identified and clustered into themes. Overall, there were more similarities than differences between the genders. Both genders had the goal to win, expressed the importance of the process rather than the end product and agreed that their teammates were very important to them and greatly influenced their behaviours and performances. Among the different situational environments, the rowers' responses illustrated that it was not only possible to be task, ego and socially involved at the same time, it tended to be the norm. Results from this study also challenged the traditional framework of the Achievement Goal Theory, including illustrating the importance of social orientation amongst the elite rowers. Several implications for athletes, coaches and sport organizations were mentioned to improve an athlete's performance.
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Katis, Jenny. "The Dynamics of Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Vietnamese Small Business in Victoria." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32618/.
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Small businesses represent by far the largest proportion of business entities within Australian business, and as such represent a vital component of the country’s economic structure (ABS, 2016). There has been a significant increase in the Australian population due to immigration from a range of countries. In fact, Australia is now very diverse, with migrants arriving from more than 200 countries across the world. There are approximately 5.3% of all small businesses that are run by Vietnamese entrepreneurs in Australia (ABS, 2016). It is clear from this figure that Vietnamese small businesses make up a significant proportion of this sector in Australia. This thesis examines the dynamics of Vietnamese migrants in small business in Victoria. The consideration of environmental and personal factors in understanding Vietnamese migrant business start-ups, survival and Ethnic Entrepreneurship theories has been the focus of discussion for this study. Firstly, there is a general consensus of what contributing environmental and personal factors influence the Vietnamese migrant in business start-up. Secondly, the thesis looks at how these factors are associated with the Ethnic Entrepreneurship theories identified in the literature. Lastly, the work identifies what factors have contributed to the Vietnamese migrant in sustaining their small business.
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Jiang, Benran. "A profile of young adults aged 20-30 years with cerebral palsy in Victoria: health, function, pain, quality of life, social participation, and service utilisation." 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/7129.
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INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability in childhood with a prevalence of approximately 2-2.5 per 100 live births. Improvements in paediatric care have increased the survival of individuals with CP. Overall 90% are expected to grow into adulthood yet little is known about the outcomes of young adults with this condition. In order to provide holistic services for this population, an understanding of various aspects of their lives is required.AIMS: To examine the outcome of young adults with CP from the perspective of perceived health status, functional ability, pain, quality of life (QOL), social participation, and healthcare service utilizations, compared with their able-bodied peers. To explore the determinants that contribute to the variation of these outcomes in the context of impairments, activity, participation, and personal and environmental factors.
METHODS: This is a population based cross sectional study of young adults with CP based on the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model. A cohort of 335 young adults with cerebral palsy born in Victoria, aged 20 to 30 years, was recruited from the Victorian Cerebral Palsy Register. Data of typically developed peers selected from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey 2004 were used for comparison for the outcomes of perceived health, pain, and social participation. Data from a population-based sample of 751 young adults in U.S. were used for comparative analyses of QOL. Participants were asked to complete a multidimensional questionnaire by self report, or proxy report by parents or carers for those with intellectual or severe physical impairments. The questionnaire was comprised of the Quality of Life Instrument for Young Adults, the Short Form-36 Health Survey Questionnaire version 2, the Gross Motor Function Classification System, the Barthel Index, and a demographic section.
RESULTS: A total of 335 young adults with CP participated; 207 (62%) were able to self report and 128 (38%) were proxy reported. Compared with their able-bodied peers, self reported physical health in this population was lower but mental health was similar. Gross motor function, independence in self care, and limb distribution together explained 60% of the variance in the physical health data. They experienced more pain, impaired function, and reduced social participation, but despite this, their contact with medical and allied health professionals was low. Pain was linked with limb distribution and had a negative impact on functional ability, employment participation and QOL. Impaired functional ability, intellectual disability, and communication impairments had major effects in reducing social participation. Self reported QOL was similar to their peers in social relationship and environmental context domains, but was lower in the domains of physical health, psychological well-being, and role function. The impact of CP on the individuals’ QOL was on physical and functional aspects, and sometimes on social relationships, but not on psychological well-being.
CONCLUSION: This study has demonstrated that greater efforts are needed to improve the health, function, QOL, and social participation in individuals with CP, accompanied by more research to monitor the effectiveness of interventions for them.
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Doggett, Anne University of Ballarat. "'And for harmony most ardently we long' : musical life in Ballarat, 1851-1871." 2006. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12761.
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"The study examines two decades in the musical life of Ballarat, a regional city in south-eastern Australia. Beginning at the time of the 1851 gold rush, it covers the period in which Ballarat grew from a rough mining camp to an established city with a socially and ethnically diverse population of over 40,000 people. The thesis pursues the aim of looking at the music practices of the community in ways that will further our understanding of the significance of music in the lives of the people."--Abstract.Doctor of Philosphy
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Doggett, Anne. "'And for harmony most ardently we long' : musical life in Ballarat, 1851-1871." 2006. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/14596.
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"The study examines two decades in the musical life of Ballarat, a regional city in south-eastern Australia. Beginning at the time of the 1851 gold rush, it covers the period in which Ballarat grew from a rough mining camp to an established city with a socially and ethnically diverse population of over 40,000 people. The thesis pursues the aim of looking at the music practices of the community in ways that will further our understanding of the significance of music in the lives of the people."--Abstract.Doctor of Philosphy
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Sheldrick, Philip. "From flesh and bone to bronze and stone : celebrating and commemorating the life of Queen Victoria in the British world 1897-1930." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155510.
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Why is it that if you walk through many of the cities of the United Kingdom, Australia, India, Canada, New Zealand, or any part of what used to be the British world you will usually find at least one and sometimes more statues of Queen Victoria? In the last years of her life Queen Victoria enjoyed a special place in the hearts and minds of people across the world. At the turn of the twentieth century, Victoria was a celebrity above all others, charismatic, immensely popular and an almost untouchable icon. Strangely, Victoria gained this lofty status through her association with two very different, and it would seem conflicting ideas - imperialism and domesticity. This thesis investigates just how Queen Victoria gained that level of celebrity and then how it turned her from flesh and bone to bronze and stone in Britain and across the British world from 1897 to 1930. It argues that two events in particular are the key to this transformation. The first, the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of 1897, transformed her in the eyes of the public into the representative figure of an entire age. The second, her death and funeral in early 1901, had such a public impact that it triggered the numerous commemorative efforts at home and abroad in the many years that followed. No work published to date has looked in detail at the historical significance of the celebration and monumental commemoration of Queen Victoria in the context of British and British imperial identity. This thesis aims to fill this gap in the work done so far on the imagery of Queen Victoria while also breaking new ground in considering just how her iconic status came into existence.
Books on the topic "Rowing Social aspects Victoria"
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Wigglesworth, Neil. A social history of English rowing. London, England: F. Cass, 1992.
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Rowing in England: A social history : the amateur debate. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990.
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Peiwen, Xie, ed. Huo wu lian ren: The return / Victoria Hislop. Taibei Shi: Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si, 2010.
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Soupourmas, Faye. Giving time: The economic and social value of volunteering in Victoria. Melbourne: Dept. of Human Services, 2002.
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Victoria. Parliament. Environment and Natural Resources Committee. Inquiry into eductor dredging in Victoria: Interim report and interim recommendations. Melbourne: L.V. North, Govt. Printer, 1993.
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Okeyo-Owuor, J. B. A review of biodiversity and socio-economics research in relation to fisheries in Lake Victoria. Nairobi, Kenya: IUCN Eastern Africa Regional Office, 1999.
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Patt, Judith. World tea party, Victoria: An exhibit of tea wares and tea-related art. Victoria, B.C: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2004.
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Gay, Peter. The bourgeois experience: Victoria to Freud. New York: Norton, 1998.
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Romeril, Barbara. Powerless in a privatised state: The impact of privatisation on domestic electricity disconnections, Victoria, 1985-1997. Melbourne: Financial and Consumer Rights Council, 1998.
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Linda, Woolley, and Victoria and Albert Museum, eds. Shoes. London: V&A Publications, 1999.
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Peralta, Alberto, and Mohamed Salama. "Sustainable Business Model Innovation for Event Management." In Event Project Management. Goodfellow Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781911635734-4771.
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Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously impacted many businesses with irredeemable consequences, while the rest are trying to keep rowing, believing that making business as usual will save them. Only a few embarked on what academics call the innovation of business models. And they are doing it at the speed of light because the world they knew is no longer the same. The event management domain is not different. There is an urgent need to consider the impact of the emerging trends and the unexpected turbulence on the event industry, in general, and event management in particular. There is a common consensus that business model innovation can provide an effective path towards acquiring competitive advantage. Still, event management practice seems to be facing real challenges connecting related concepts like eco-innovation, stakeholder engagement, long-term sustain- ability (based on the triple bottom line) and impact of public and private governance from both the supply and demand sides. In short, there are very few examples in the industry that connect eco-innovation and the ways organisations create, deliver and capture value (the value cycle), and avoid leaving value uncaptured (Yang et al., 2017). The few examples of the value cycle connected to eco-innovation – i.e., connecting business models and sustainable innovation – concentrate on properly integrating the eco-innovated products, services, processes with working business models. The sort of linear thinking that advocates pursuing the sustainability of a business model by just producing greener or environmentally-conscious services seldom considers eco-innovation of business models as driven by valueholders’ needs and interests. This chapter will discuss how business models in the event industry, while aiming to achieve the sustainability goals, balancing economic, social and environmental needs and requirements for better or greener products and extended value proposals, should realise that these are imposed by the valueholders affecting their value creation, delivery and capture cycle. The chapter starts with an introduction, explaining the relevant basic concepts of business models (BM), business model innovation (BMI) and sustainable business models (SBM) while linking to the concept of eco-innovation. The remaining sections explicate the concept of valueholder from a SBM perspective and its impact on the development and implementation of the SBM. The discussion starts by looking at how the concept of (institutional) logic can help to implement business model eco-innovation, with emphasis on the behavioural aspects that influence the decisions made, which determine the effectiveness of the BM.
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Wenn, Andrew. "Topological Transformations." In Human Centered Methods in Information Systems, 14–38. IGI Global, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-64-3.ch002.
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This chapter describes some aspects of the development of VICNET, an assemblage of computers, cables, modems, people, texts, libraries, buildings, dreams and images. It is a system that is difficult to characterise, it is dynamic both in geographical and ontological scope, size and usage. I have attempted to capture some of its nature through the use of several vignettes that may give the reader a small insight into parts of its being, then using some of the techniques and explanatory and exploratory mechanisms available from the field of science studies such as heterogeneous engineering and Actor Network Theory (ANT), I reveal some of the ways that VICNET came into existence. Many computer systems are undergoing continual evolution and it is extremely difficult to discern their configuration and what objects have agency at any given point in time; they can be thought of as open systems as described by Hewitt and de Jong (1984). VICNET, an Internet information provider established in 1994 as a joint venture between the State Library of Victoria and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, is one such system; it is being used by a large number of people and public libraries, yet simultaneously it is evolving and being shaped by the technology, the users and the environment of which it is part. Consider the system, VICNET as it is called, as a node of a much larger network. I have attempted to unfold this node to reveal the social and technical worlds contained therein, but I also fold the VICNET node in itself so that it becomes part of a much larger sociotechnical system – the Internet. This process of folding I refer to as a topological transformation and it is by studying transformations of this type that may help us understand how open systems come into being and evolve. In what follows, I provide a brief background to VICNET and the data collection method I used. Next, I discuss some the analytical techniques that are available for those who wish to study the development of technological systems. Following this all-too-brief comment I then present a selection of vignettes that show the varied nature of this socio-technical system. Presenting these then allows me to develop further the idea of social topologies introduced in the section on analytical techniques. In the final section there is some discussion as to why this way of looking at socio-technical systems may be useful.