This paper complements the ongoing empirical discussion surrounding participative budgeting by comparing its economic merits relative to a top-down budgeting alternative. We analyze a screening model of participative budgeting where the subordinate uses the budgeting mechanism to relay private information to his superior, in addition to a signaling model of top-down budgeting where the superior...

La recherche participative tient compte de la nature multiréférentielle réalité en favorisant des enquêtes terrain, au service pratique et qui combinent diverses expertises dont celles personnes directement concernées. Même si les niveaux d’implication varient, co-construction savoirs est un élément central du processus recherche.

In this paper, we propose a participative method to design a security risk reference model, composed of a domain model and a security risk model. We relate the application of the method to our attempt for a design of a national reference model of the medical laboratories in Luxembourg, for which we ran five participative workshops with domain experts to gather their knowledge. We validated the ...

This article analyses public service broadcasting in Europe, looking at public broadcasters’ role as promoters of participative processes. Computer-mediated communication and studies rooted in mediated human interactivity are used to explore participative elements provided by digital technology, and how these can be incorporated into the news websites, through an empirical study of 5 case studi...

The integration of risk reduction and climate change adaptation has become an urgent task in addressing increasing urban risk more effectively and efficiently. This paper analyses the extent to which climate change adaptation is integrated into the policies and regulatory frameworks that guide urban risk reduction in Nicaragua, and discusses related progress. The results reveal significant prog...

Participative design is an effective tool for designing organizational systems where conflicting and diverse goals of users and clients from different organizations must be reconciled. This paper presents a methodology for participative design based on Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). A brief overview of SSM is first presented. The design methodology is then presented within the SSM framework. T...

BACKGROUND Although some studies have used the Team Climate Inventory within teams working in health care settings, none of these included quality improvement teams. The aim of our study is to investigate the psychometric properties of the 14-item version of the Team Climate Inventory in healthcare quality improvement teams participating in a Dutch quality collaborative. METHODS This study in...