To address the challenge of developing an effective extension program for Tasmanian dairy farmers in the context of adaptation to climate variability, a knowledge partnering approach was trialled. Knowledge partnering enabled extensionists to draw on the knowledge and experience of Tasmanian dairy farmers about changing weather patterns and the management implications of these and then design a...

The 2005 National HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey (NARHS) in Nigeria provides evidence that multiple sexual partnering increases the risk of contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Therefore, partner reduction is one of the prevention strategies to accomplish the Millenium Development Goal of halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS. We consider the numbers of girlf...

Choice mechanisms and social networks, including "marriage markets", seem well-suited to be modelled using agent-type simulations. Few real-world empirical examples are available in the public literature, particularly those using human populations of size. We reviewed partnership models in both the micro-simulation and agent-based literatures. We then empirically implemented an algorithm derive...

Relative to other marketing tools (e.g., advertising, promotions, personal selling) corporate sponsorship is seldom discussed in the marketing literature. This is unfortunate because corporate sponsor relationships can be advantageous to both nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and profit seeking corporations (Hernandez-Murillo and Martinek 2009). NPOs are organizations that strive to provide goods ...

Self-care management is essential for effective chronic disease management. Yet prevailing approaches of healthcare practitioners often undermine the efforts of those who require on-going medical attention for chronic conditions, emphasizing their status as patients, failing to consider their larger life experience as people, and most importantly, failing to consider them as people with the pot...

Partnering in research across disciplines and across countries can be challenging due to differing contexts of practice and culture. This study sought to demonstrate how central constructs that have application across disciplines and countries can be studied while concurrently considering context. Groups of nurses from Botswana, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, and Spain partnered to identify how ...

The rise of ‘HR business partnering’ over the last decade has led to an enormous growth in HR competency models. Competencies are believed to provide a mechanism for reinventing traditional HR roles and improving the effectiveness of HR professionals as business partners. But are they effective? The survey and interview evidence presented here suggest that the effectiveness of competency models...

Implementation of a model of care requires partnering among members of the health care team and patients and their families. Each participant must have clarity about each person’s role and how the system is used to implement and/or utilize a model of care delivery. A community hospital in the Midwest implemented Relationship-Based Care (RBC), a model based on concepts of partnering with self an...

To reach the global sustainability goals, multinationals, regardless of origin, play a significant role. Given their market power and globally distributed operations, they have position to either accelerate or inhibit changes. Knowledge about how corporate (CS) develops within internationalization strategies such as post-acquisition integration is, however, sparse. The purpose this paper was an...