Moral dimensions of wicked problems in higher education teaching and learning. A scoping review
This scoping review explores the current state of research on moral wicked problems in higher education. Wicked problems are complex, uncertain, and value-laden challenges that require approaches that transcend disciplinary boundaries and integrate ...
Daniela Schmitz +2 more
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The distinction between wicked and tame problems has been a major influence on design and numerous other fields since it was developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by design theorist Horst Rittel and urban designer Melvin Webber. The characteristics
Ben Sweeting
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Risk Management in the Arctic Offshore: Wicked Problems Require New Paradigms [PDF]
Recent project-management literature and high-profile disasters—the financial crisis, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the Fukushima nuclear accident—illustrate the flaws of traditional risk models for complex projects.
Haley, Sharman, Kaempf, Mandy
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Wicked problems or wicked people? Reconceptualising institutional abuse [PDF]
AbstractInstitutional abuse is a global issue, sometimes ascribed to the behaviour of a few wicked people. It persists despite regulatory measures, interventions from enforcement and protection agencies, organisational policies and procedures. Therefore, the accurate recognition and early detection of abuse and taking corresponding steps to deal with ...
Burns, Diane +2 more
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Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance
ABSTRACT Intensifying wildfire regimes and expanding human settlements into wilderness areas have heightened concerns about the wildland–urban interface (WUI) due to the associated increase in fire risk. However, the WUI presents broader social‐ecological challenges that go beyond wildfire risk and remain understudied.
Clara Mosso +5 more
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Building the Plane While Flying It: How Projects Serve to Implement, Pilot and Co‐Create EU Policy
ABSTRACT This article theorizes how projectified governance enables bottom‐up policy shaping in the EU, using the European Universities Initiative (EUI) as a case study. It develops a framework that combines bottom‐up Europeanization with resource exchange theory to explain how project networks influence EU policymaking.
Alina Felder‐Stindt
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Clusters of water governance problems and their effects on policy delivery
Public policy problems are increasingly being characterised as wicked or tame problems, assuming that this classification is also meaningful for attempts to effective problem-solving. But do distinct ‘wicked’ or ‘tame’ problems empirically exist?
Sabrina Kirschke +3 more
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The Production of Food and Fiber: An Adaptation of CoP Features for Sustainable Water Use in Agribusiness [PDF]
Citation: Harris, K. D., & James, H. S. (2016). The Production of Food and Fiber: An Adaptation of CoP Features for Sustainable Water Use in Agribusiness. Sustainability, 8(11), 15.
Harris, Keith D., James, H. S.
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Embracing Complexity in HRM Research: A Call for System and Process Perspectives
ABSTRACT Human resource management (HRM) is inherently complex. It involves systems of principles, practices, and activities operating at individual, group, organizational, and macro levels, which are interlinked through complex processes. Yet, empirical research has not kept pace with this conceptual richness.
Rebecca Hewett, Madleen Meier‐Barthold
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Wicked Policy Problems & the Necessity of the Fundamental Revision of Traditional State-Society Relations in Iran [PDF]
The present theoretical- analytical article aimed at the study of the characteristics of wicked problems & the strategies applied for their management according to the ideas of Rittel and Weber.
ali Karimi(maleh)
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