IF 3 4区社会学

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-20 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X241264863

Youssef Er-Rays, Meriem M'dioud

{"title":"Evaluating the Effectiveness of Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Healthcare in Moroccan Hospitals and SDG 3: Using Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis and Tobit Regression.","authors":"Youssef Er-Rays, Meriem M'dioud","doi":"10.1177/0193841X241264863","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0193841X241264863","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Maternal, neonatal, and child health play crucial roles in achieving the objectives of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2030, particularly in promoting health and wellbeing. However, maternal, neonatal, and child services in Moroccan public hospitals face challenges, particularly concerning mortality rates and inefficient resource allocation, which hinder optimal outcomes. This study aimed to evaluate the operational effectiveness of 76 neonatal and child health services networks (MNCSN) within Moroccan public hospitals. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), we assessed technical efficiency (TE) employing both Variable Returns to Scale for inputs (VRS-I) and outputs (VRS-O) orientation. Additionally, the Tobit method (TM) was utilized to explore factors influencing inefficiency, with hospital, doctor, and paramedical staff considered as inputs, and admissions, cesarean interventions, functional capacity, and hospitalization days as outputs. Our findings revealed that VRS-I exhibited a higher average TE score of 0.76 compared to VRS-O (0.23). Notably, the Casablanca-Anfa MNCSN received the highest referrals (30) under VRS-I, followed by the Khemisset MNCSN (24). In contrast, under VRS-O, Ben Msick, Rabat, and Mediouna MNCSN each had three peers, with 71, 22, and 17 references, respectively. Moreover, the average Malmquist Index under VRS-I indicated a 7.7% increase in productivity over the 9-year study period, while under VRS-O, the average Malmquist Index decreased by 8.7%. Furthermore, doctors and functional bed capacity received the highest Tobit model score of 0.01, followed by hospitalization days and cesarean sections. This study underscores the imperative for policymakers to strategically prioritize input factors to enhance efficiency and ensure optimal maternal, neonatal, and child healthcare outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47533,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Review","volume":" ","pages":"343-379"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141731503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Ripple Effect of Managerial Behavior: Exploring Post-experimental Impact of Leading by Example on Small Firms' Cooperation and Performance. 管理行为的涟漪效应：探索 "以身作则 "对小型企业合作与绩效的实验后影响。

IF 3 4区社会学

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-08 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X241260466

Quang Nguyen, Huong Trang Kim

{"title":"The Ripple Effect of Managerial Behavior: Exploring Post-experimental Impact of Leading by Example on Small Firms' Cooperation and Performance.","authors":"Quang Nguyen, Huong Trang Kim","doi":"10.1177/0193841X241260466","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0193841X241260466","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cooperation between employees in a company is an important input to firm performance. This study examines how a manager's cooperative behavior and the visibility of this behavior affect the cooperation amongst employees, and subsequently firm performance. To do so, we conducted a field experiment with managers and their employees from 320 Vietnamese small and micro firms to determine the impact of a manager's leading by example (LBE) on employees' behavior, corporate culture, and firm performance. Both managers and employees participated in a Public Good experiment which aimed to elicit an individual cooperative behavior. Noteworthy is that the decision made by a manager in the experiment was given as an example to employees before they made decision in that same experiment. We considered that the example of cooperation by managers in the Public Good experiment communicated a powerful signal to the employees regarding the importance of fostering cooperation in the workplace. Such a signal by the manager, who is at the top in the organizational hierarchy, would impact their employees' behavior in the workplace and firm's outcomes beyond the experiment. Interestingly, we found that concealing a manager's identity from their employees enhances the impacts of LBE.</p>","PeriodicalId":47533,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Review","volume":" ","pages":"270-303"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141293836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Funding Innovation and Risk: A Grey-Based Startup Investment Decision. 资助创新与风险：基于灰色的初创企业投资决策。

IF 3 4区社会学

Evaluation Review Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/0193841X241262887

Manoj Kumar Srivastava, Ashutosh Dash, Imlak Shaikh

{"title":"Funding Innovation and Risk: A Grey-Based Startup Investment Decision.","authors":"Manoj Kumar Srivastava, Ashutosh Dash, Imlak Shaikh","doi":"10.1177/0193841X241262887","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0193841X241262887","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As found in behavioral decision theory, venture capitalists (VCs) rely on heuristics and bias, owing to their bounded rationality, either by limited alternatives or information and resources. India's booming startup scene challenges VCs in decision-making owing to information overload from numerous evolving ventures, which hinders informed judgment. VC investment behavior, due diligence, and cognitive factors related to decision-making have always drawn the attention of researchers. We provide an alternative approach for an optimal decision by VCs by identifying the attributes that influence investment or funding decisions at an early stage of a venture in tech-based industries. Through a literature review, we identify eight attributes, both on internal and external criteria, that venture investors consider when making investment decisions. Based on interviews with 20 experts, we further identify eight key tech-based sectors. Using grey system theory, we then determine the rankings of eight tech startups for investors' early-stage investment decisions. This study presents a linguistic variable-based approach of grey numbers to decide weights and ratings, the grey possibility degree to compare and rank different tech startups, and based on the results, suggests the ideal tech startup. We find that agritech ranks first; thus, investors should prefer venturing into such startups for early-stage investment. E-commerce and edutech ranked second and third, respectively, followed by electric vehicle infrastructure, insurtech, fintech, space tech, and software as a service.</p>","PeriodicalId":47533,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Review","volume":" ","pages":"304-342"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Narrators of submersive affective atmospheres: Analysing oceanic representations through narratives of sound

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Emotion Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101067

Geraint Rhys Whittaker , Kimberley Peters , Ilse van Opzeeland

{"title":"Narrators of submersive affective atmospheres: Analysing oceanic representations through narratives of sound","authors":"Geraint Rhys Whittaker , Kimberley Peters , Ilse van Opzeeland","doi":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emospa.2025.101067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Art-science installations with a focus on marine research are a critical way that the ocean is experienced by various publics beyond the physical boundaries of the sea. Like ocean themed cinema, documentaries, music, photo exhibitions, aquariums, museums and so on they contribute to how oceans are imagined and experienced without the need to get wet. Although they can never quite replicate the ocean, they offer touching points for embodied engagement with alternative imaginaries of the sea. <em>Mirrors</em> is a sound installation that follows the acoustic journey of the Minke Whale as it travels from Antarctica to the coast of Namibia, which debuted in 2023 as part of an international marine biodiversity symposium. Drawing from the development and delivery of <em>Mirrors,</em> this paper contends that sound installations are one way that audiences can know the ocean as they uniquely capture underwater worlds and anthropogenic impacts on marine life. This paper argues that key to the success of this is being able to create narratives that can inspire oceanic imaginations through what is introduced for the first time in this paper as ‘submersive affective atmospheres’.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47492,"journal":{"name":"Emotion Space and Society","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 101067"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Correctional officer recruits’ navigation of overwhelm: Internal and external strategies

IF 1 4区社会学

International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100731

Katy Konyk , Katherine Maurer , Rosemary Ricciardelli , Cheryl Regehr , Marjorie Rabiau

{"title":"Correctional officer recruits’ navigation of overwhelm: Internal and external strategies","authors":"Katy Konyk , Katherine Maurer , Rosemary Ricciardelli , Cheryl Regehr , Marjorie Rabiau","doi":"10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100731","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100731","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Internationally, little is known of how correctional officer recruits (CORs), those beginning their careers as federal COs, navigate states of overwhelm (i.e., moments of acute stress) and whether their responses to overwhelm could be adaptive to the carceral environment. In this study, we analyze qualitative interviews with 27 Canadian CORs (18 male, 8 female) on navigating overwhelm to understand their preemployment strategies for responding to acute stress. Our grounded theory analysis reveals that CORs engage in both externally focused (i.e., stressor resolution) and internally focused (i.e., emotion regulation) coping strategies to navigate overwhelm. Additionally, CORs seek out relational support and identify how overwhelm can be an opportunity to grow and learn new strategies. We discuss how CORs’ reports of employing both problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies can shape how the organization supports CORs and COs in maintaining and developing new coping skills for overwhelm, specifically by creating conditions for regulatory flexibility and fostering strong relationships.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Law Crime and Justice","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 100731"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143526677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Organizing abundance and shuffling at festivals: the Ferrara Buskers Festival case

IF 2 2区社会学

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101997

Paolo Ferri , Simone Napolitano , Luca Zan

{"title":"Organizing abundance and shuffling at festivals: the Ferrara Buskers Festival case","authors":"Paolo Ferri , Simone Napolitano , Luca Zan","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101997","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101997","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how festivals organize the abundance of their offerings. We argue that festivals organize this abundance differently depending on the interplay between organizers, artists, and festivalgoers as they negotiate their respective autonomy. The concept of ‘shuffling,’ inspired by digital music listening, serves as a framework to empirically explore this dynamic within the context of the Ferrara Buskers Festival (FBF). Drawing on archival material and interviews with the festival's organizers, the paper analyzes the FBF's evolution from a free-access street performance event to a ticketed, curated festival with reduced attendance. Over its 36-year history, the FBF has demonstrated shifting approaches to organizing abundance—from fostering serendipitous engagement to providing prearranged experiences—shaped by the varying roles of organizers, artists, and audience members. This study enhances festival literature by highlighting the importance of different approaches to organizing abundance in understanding the diversity of festivals across time and space. Besides, it enhances understanding of the shuffling dynamic at festivals, offering theoretical and methodological insights.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 101997"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143527102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Applying the WHO INSPIRE Framework to Ending Violence Against Pregnant Women and Unborn Children: A Case Study in Vietnam. 将世界卫生组织 INSPIRE 框架应用于消除针对孕妇和未出生儿童的暴力：越南案例研究。

IF 2.3 3区社会学

Violence Against Women Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1177/10778012241230324

Huyen Phuc Do, Michael P Dunne, Thang Van Vo, Lan Hoang Nguyen, Bao-Yen Luong-Thanh, Sara Valdebenito, Philip R A Baker, Bach Xuan Tran, Tuyen Dinh Hoang, Manuel Eisner

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What Women Want: Mental Health in the Context of Violence Against Women in Sri Lanka-A Qualitative Study of Priorities and Capacities for Care. 妇女想要什么：斯里兰卡暴力侵害妇女背景下的心理健康--关于护理的优先事项和能力的定性研究。

IF 2.3 3区社会学

Violence Against Women Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1177/10778012241230326

Alexis Palfreyman, Kavitha Vijayaraj, Safiya Riyaz, Zahrah Rizwan, Sambasivamoorthy Sivayokan, T H Samanmalee Thenakoon, Madhubashinee Dayabandara, Raveen Hanwella, Delan Devakumar

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When is violence honorable? Honor attitudes and aggression

IF 3.3 1区社会学

Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102383

Andrew T. Krajewski , Richard B. Felson , Mark T. Berg

{"title":"When is violence honorable? Honor attitudes and aggression","authors":"Andrew T. Krajewski , Richard B. Felson , Mark T. Berg","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102383","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102383","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Men who adhere to an honor code are more likely to view aggression as an appropriate response to provocations. Previous research typically examines aggression in general, but not all adversaries are the same. This research examines whether honor attitudes have as strong of a role in aggression against women and family members as it does in aggression between unrelated men. Our analyses use original survey data from male inmates and community members (<em>N</em> = 723) who reported about their aggression towards female partners, acquaintances, and strangers. Respondents described their recent verbal and violent disputes, including their adversary's gender and social relationship. Results suggest that men with stronger honor attitudes are more likely to engage in violence and verbal aggression against strangers and familiar (but non-intimate) adversaries, and more likely to use verbal aggression against female partners but are no more likely to use violence against them. Our incident analysis disentangles the effects of adversary gender and social relationship, and it suggests that honor attitudes have a weaker relationship with aggression against women and family members than with aggression against unrelated men. Our research clarifies the scope of honor attitudes by identifying the types of aggression they best explain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102383"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143512571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Figurations of belonging – How high-skilled migrants form relations of recognition

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104249

Gregor Schäfer , Claire Maxwell

{"title":"Figurations of belonging – How high-skilled migrants form relations of recognition","authors":"Gregor Schäfer , Claire Maxwell","doi":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104249","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104249","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The search for belonging is universal. Individuals seek comfort, stability and recognition in their relationships and in the social units that organise their lives. The concept of ’belonging’ is often used to capture these dynamics, but we argue that it could be theorised more carefully. Migrants may face a more difficult task in forging relationships of belonging because of the upheaval that cross-border mobility entails. In this paper, we focus specifically on the different figurations of belonging articulated by ’highly skilled migrants’ (HSMs) − a growing category of migrants found in many parts of the world. To inform our analysis, we reconceptualise belonging as shaped by different ’figurations of I-and-We’ (<span><span>Elias, 1978</span></span>) and the fundamental need for ’recognition’ (<span><span>Honneth, 1995</span></span>). Drawing on 54 interviews with HSM and their partners in Denmark, we illustrate two streams of figurations of belonging − one in their private lives and the other in their professional lives, often operating in concert. These figurations also operate at different scales − local, transnational and/or global − and shape how belonging is initiated, experienced and maintained for individuals who have migrated and may migrate again. The paper contributes by placing belonging on a stronger theoretical footing and by developing more specific articulations of the forms of belonging engaged in by HSMs that are maintained and initiated during processes of spatial mobility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12497,"journal":{"name":"Geoforum","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 104249"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143520413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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