Suchergebnisse

In den vorliegenden Konferenzpapieren der SADCC geht es um die Themen: Nahrungsmittelsicherung, Kontrolle von Tierkrankheiten, Forschung im Bereich landwirtschaftliche Produkte sowie Bodenerhaltung. (DÜI-Ker)

In recent years a number of programmes have been developed which focus on the urban community rather than the individual as the beneficiary of welfare allocations. Working on the assumption that different views of social malaise will generate different programme types, this paper takes an analytical framework developed by Roland Warren and applies it to an Australian situation. The problem at stake is one of creating conditions in which a newly formed organization can enter an urban situation and begin to coordinate local activity. This paper discusses the difficulty a new organization has in breaking into the inter‐organizational field, the difficulty of achieving legitimacy, and means by which its activities may be prevented, blunted and repelled. These are illustrated with examples in metropolitan Adelaide.

Traditionally the problem of macroeconomic coordination has been discussed as being best done by either free-market competition or controlled planning. Such a formulation ignores several alternatives that societies can employ to encourage growth. Usually the argument for or against free-market competition has been fought on ideological grounds rather than by ascertaining whether it is most appropriate in some sectors of the economy rather than in others. To do this requires some way of conceptualizing economic sectors that breaks away from traditional thinking. This article suggests a four-sector model and then argues that there are four styles of coordination, each of which is most appropriate in a particular sector. It is argued that there is no single way to maximize growth in an economy and that different coordination mechanisms should be employed in different market contexts.

THE FIVE AUTHORS DISCUSS SOME OF THE PROBLEMS THEY SEE WHICH ARE RELATED TO THE COORDINATION WORK OF THE LOCAL SOVIETS. THE LACK OF COORDINATION BETWEEN VARIOUS LOCAL DEPARTMENTS IS SEEN AS ONE OF THE MAJOR CAUSES OF SLOW ECONOMIC GROWTH. THE FUNCTIONING OF LOCAL SOVIETS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE IS EXAMINED, AND PROSPECTS FOR BETTER COORDINATION ARE DISCUSSED.

This research examines and compares patterns of coordination among clusters of organizations which are all members of a larger network of human service agencies. The blockmodeling procedure developed by Breiger et al. was used to analyze the data collected, and three tightly connected clusters of agencies werefound to exist in the network. By evaluating the reasons why organizations reported being involved with others, it was found that the three interorganizational clusters existed for three predominantly different reasons: resource transactions, direct services, and planning and coordination. The three clusters were then compared on a number of dimensions of interorganizational coordination, and it was found there were significantly different patterns of relationships among these clusters of agencies while no significant differences among the clusters were found on perceived effectiveness and the degree of impact of the relationships. A theoretical explanation for the observed results is developed. The major conclusion is that it is important to determine the different reasons for interorganizational relationships if one is to understand the various patterns of coordination among clusters of organizations within interorganizational networks.