Social Unrest

Jovanoviæ, Aleksandar S.; Renn, Ortwin; Schröter, Regina

doi:10.1787/9789264173460-en

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“…Specifically, our study suggests that policymakers may want to consider promoting a sense of "fairness and justice" into the entrepreneurial ecosystems. Once women perceive that these concepts are institutionalized into rules, norms, entrepreneurial narratives and stories, they will become highly motivated to leverage such institutional capital to undertake entrepreneurial endeavors (Jovanovic et al, 2014;Lounsbury and Glynn, 2001). Additionally, our study also provides insights for policy makers with regard to how to promote economic growth via digital entrepreneurship in the face of natural disasters such as COVID-19.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Past social unrest events indicate that underlying social tensions in the urban social stratification system had emerged and erupted. More importantly, social unrest signals to people that they may have opportunities to speak out to secure social fairness and justice (Jovanovic et al, 2014). Even if municipal governments temporarily resolve urban social unrest with a variety of political and economic tactics such as repression and political maneuver (Cai, 2020;Lee and Zhang, 2013), political leaders and cadres must take such events seriously and actively seek ex-post solutions to avoid a repetition of events.…”

Section: Gendered Difference In Live-streaming Activity In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Jump to platform faster? Gender, institutional change, and pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempt

Parboteeah

Fang

2023

NEJE

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PurposeThe authors enrich and extend the existing institutional anomie theory (IAT) in the hope of sharpening the understanding of the joint effects of selected cultural values and social institutional changes on women's pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempts. The authors theorize that women are culturally discouraged to pursue pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempts or wealth accumulation in a specific culture. This discouragement creates an anomic strain that motivates women to deviate from cultural prescriptions by engaging in pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempts at a faster speed. Building on this premise, the authors hypothesize that changes in social institutions facilitate the means of achievement for women due to the potential opportunities inherent in such institutional changes.Design/methodology/approachUsing a randomly selected sample of 1,431 registered active individual users with a minimum of 10,000 followers on a leading entertainment live-streaming platform in the People's Republic of China, the authors examined a unique mix of cultural and institutional changes and their effects on the speed of women's engagement in live-streaming platform activity.FindingsThe authors find support for the impact of the interaction between changes in social institution conditions and cultural values. Unexpectedly, the authors also find a negative impact of cultural values on women's speed of engaging in pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempts.Originality/valueThe authors add institutional change to the IAT framework and provide a novel account for the variation in the pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempts by women on the platform.

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Section: Practical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Section: Gendered Difference In Live-streaming Activity In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Jump to platform faster? Gender, institutional change, and pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempt

Parboteeah

Fang

2023

NEJE

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“…This would call for a more general understanding of a societal resilience culture to include social stability next to a focus on a specific hazard only [47]. Moreover, the root causes of societies [48] play out in industrialised as much as in developing country contexts.…”

Section: Decoding Compounding Events and Escalations In Social Cohesionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Here Comes the Flood, but Not Failure? Lessons to Learn after the Heavy Rain and Pluvial Floods in Germany 2021

Fekete

Sandholz

2021

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Floods are a known natural hazard in Germany, but the amount of precipitation and ensuing high death toll and damages after the events especially from 14 to 15 July 2021 came as a surprise. Almost immediately questions about failure in the early warning chains and the effectiveness of the German response emerged, also internationally. This article presents lessons to learn and argues against a blame culture. The findings are based on comparisons with findings from previous research projects carried out in the Rhein-Erft Kreis and the city of Cologne, as well as on discussions with operational relief forces after the 2021 events. The main disaster aspects of the 2021 flood are related to issuing and understanding warnings, a lack of information and data exchange, unfolding upon a situation of an ongoing pandemic and aggravated further by critical infrastructure failure. Increasing frequencies of flash floods and other extremes due to climate change are just one side of the transformation and challenge, Germany and neighbouring countries are facing. The vulnerability paradox also heavily contributes to it; German society became increasingly vulnerable to failure due to an increased dependency on its infrastructure and emergency system, and the ensuing expectations of the public for a perfect system.

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“…Mass social unrest is “an expression of collective dissatisfaction with the political system [that] manifests itself in unconventional forms of protest behavior” (Jovanović, Renn, & Schröter, 2012, p. 42, italics added). In this understanding, emphasis shifts from conventional nonviolent protest that aims at the satisfaction of particularistic demands (e.g., demonstrations, sit-ins, temporary traffic blockades) to larger, often violent, activities that target specifically the state (e.g., general strikes, riots, and social insurrections).…”

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Civil Compliance and “Political Luddism”

Pappas

O’Malley

2014

American Behavioral Scientist

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When badly hit by the same global financial and economic crisis in the early 2000s, the Irish and the Greek societies reacted in quite different ways. Whereas Ireland remained largely acquiescent and displayed a high degree of civil compliance, Greeks took massively to the streets using violence and attacking specifically the state and the state personnel, a phenomenon we refer to as “political Luddism.” It is shown that the two countries are quite similar in terms of their economic condition, cultural background, social composition, ideological profiling, and party system dynamics, among other factors. What, then, explains the two countries’ dissimilar reactions to crisis? Through a detailed analysis of the cases, the article offers evidence that the most compelling explanation relates to the varying ability of the Greek and Irish states to continue providing basic public goods and other state-related services to their respective societies.

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Social Unrest

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Jump to platform faster? Gender, institutional change, and pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempt

Jump to platform faster? Gender, institutional change, and pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempt

Here Comes the Flood, but Not Failure? Lessons to Learn after the Heavy Rain and Pluvial Floods in Germany 2021

Civil Compliance and “Political Luddism”

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