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Ana Maria Esteves - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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mining and Social development refocusing community Investment using multi criteria decision analysis
Resources Policy, 2008Co-Authors: Ana Maria EstevesAbstract:This paper addresses the question: How can mining companies assess Social Investment projects so that projects create value for the company and communities in which they operate? Mining companies are still wrestling with the limits of their responsibility in relation to Social development even though they accept the business case for community Investment at a general level. Fully aware of the practical hazards involved in taking an active role in facilitating local development, companies increasingly avoid methods that are overly paternalistic or assume the functions of the national or local governments. Gaining senior management's commitment to long-term Social projects, which are characterised by uncertainty and complexity, is made easier if projects are shown to benefit the site's strategic goals. Case study research on large global mining companies, including interviews with Social Investment decision makers, has assisted in developing a Social Investment Decision Analysis Tool (SIDAT), a decision model for evaluating Social projects. Multi-criteria decision analysis techniques integrating business planning processes with Social impact assessment have proved useful in assisting mining companies think beyond seeking reputational benefits, to how they can meet their business goals and contribute to sustainable development.
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Evaluating community Investments in the mining sector using multi-criteria decision analysis to integrate SIA with business planning
Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2008Co-Authors: Ana Maria EstevesAbstract:Gaining senior management's commitment to long-term Social development projects, which are characterised by uncertainty and complexity, is made easier if projects are shown to benefit the site's strategic goals. However, even though the business case for community Investment may have been accepted at a general level, as a strategy for competitive differentiation, risk mitigation and a desire to deliver – and to be seen to deliver – a ‘net benefit’ to affected communities, mining operations are still faced with implementation challenges. Case study research on mining companies, including interviews with Social Investment decision-makers, has assisted in developing the Social Investment Decision Analysis Tool (SIDAT), a decision model for evaluating Social projects in order to create value for both the company and the community. Multi-criteria decision analysis techniques integrating business planning processes with Social impact assessment have proved useful in assisting mining companies think beyond the traditional drivers (i.e. seeking access to required lands and peaceful relations with neighbours), to broader issues of how they can meet their business goals and contribute to sustainable development in the regions in which they operate.
Brent W Roberts - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Investment in work reliably predicts change in conscientiousness and agreeableness a direct replication and extension of hudson roberts and lodi smith 2012
Journal of Research in Personality, 2016Co-Authors: Nathan W. Hudson, Brent W RobertsAbstract:The present study was a close replication of Hudson, Roberts, and Lodi-Smith (2012). Participants’ personality traits and Social Investment in work were measured twice over three years. Latent change models were used to examine the associations among the intercepts (levels) and slopes (changes) for these variables. Results revealed that levels of all of the big five traits except openness were generally related to levels of Social Investment at work. Longitudinally, changes in Social Investment in work were generally associated with simultaneously co-occurring changes in only conscientiousness and agreeableness. Age did not moderate these correlated changes. Overall, the results directly replicated those of Hudson et al. (2012) and suggest that personality traits develop in concert with job experiences.
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Personality Trait Development and Social Investment in Work.
Journal of Research in Personality, 2012Co-Authors: Nathan W. Hudson, Brent W Roberts, Jennifer Lodi-smithAbstract:A longitudinal study of employed individuals was used to test the relationship between Social Investment at work-the act of cognitively and emotionally committing to one's job-and longitudinal and cross-sectional personality trait development. Participants provided ratings of personality traits and Social Investment at work at two time-points, separated by approximately three years. Data were analyzed using latent change models. Cross-sectional results showed that extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and emotional stability were related to Social Investment at work. Additionally, a positive association was found between longitudinal change in Social Investment in work and change in personality traits-especially conscientiousness. Finally, the correlated changes in Social Investment and personality traits were invariant across age groups, suggesting that personality traits remain malleable across the lifespan.
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Social Investment and personality a meta analysis of the relationship of personality traits to Investment in work family religion and volunteerism
Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2007Co-Authors: Jennifer Lodismith, Brent W RobertsAbstract:Investing in normative, age-graded Social roles has broad implications for both the individual and society. The current meta-analysis examines the way in which personality traits relate to four such Investments—work, family, religion, and volunteerism. The present study uses meta-analytic techniques (K = 94) to identify the cross-sectional patterns of relationships between Social Investment in these four roles and the personality trait domains of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability. Results show that the extent of Investment in Social roles across these domains is positively related to agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and low psychoticism. These findings are more robust when individuals are psychologically committed to rather than simply demographically associated with the Investment role.
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evaluating five factor theory and Social Investment perspectives on personality trait development
Journal of Research in Personality, 2005Co-Authors: Brent W Roberts, Dustin Wood, Jennifer L SmithAbstract:Abstract In this paper, we evaluate the Five Factor Theory (FFT; McCrae & Costa, 1999 ) and Social Investment ( Helson et al., 2002 , Roberts and Wood, in press ) explanations of normative personality trait development in adulthood. FFT theory proposes that personality trait development is largely a genetic phenomenon, whereas the Social Investment theory proposes that it is largely the result of experiences in universal Social roles in young adulthood. A review of cross-cultural, longitudinal, and behavior genetics studies reveals little support for the FFT position and provisional support for the Social Investment theory.
Anton Hemerijck - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Investment as a policy paradigm
Journal of European Public Policy, 2018Co-Authors: Anton HemerijckAbstract:This contribution delineates the sui generis paradigmatic portent of the Social Investment perspective. After theoretically defining the notion of a policy paradigm in welfare state analysis, the s...
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Social Investment as a policy paradigm
Journal of European Public Policy, 2018Co-Authors: Anton HemerijckAbstract:ABSTRACTThis contribution delineates the sui generis paradigmatic portent of the Social Investment perspective. After theoretically defining the notion of a policy paradigm in welfare state analysis, the substantive core of the Social Investment paradigm is presented in two consecutive steps. First, the substantive core of the Social Investment policy paradigm is exemplified in terms of three core policy functions, relating to: raising and maintaining human capital ‘stock’ throughout the life course; easing the ‘flow’ of contemporary labour market transitions; and upkeeping strong minimum-income universal safety nets as Social protection and economic stabilization ‘buffers’. To drive home the conjecture of Social Investment as a policy paradigm in its own right, this will, in the final section, be compared with two preceding hegemonic ideal-typical policy paradigms: the demand-oriented Keynesian-Beveridgean welfare compromise of the post-war era; and its anti-thesis, the neoliberal supply-side critique of...
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two decades of change in europe the emergence of the Social Investment state
Journal of Social Policy, 2012Co-Authors: Kees Van Kersbergen, Anton HemerijckAbstract:Since the late1970s, the developed welfare states of the European Union have been recasting the policy mix on which their systems of Social protection were built. They have adopted a new policy orthodoxy that could be summarised as the 'Social Investment strategy'. Here we trace its origins and major developments. The shift is characterised by a move away from passive transfers and towards the maximalisation of employability and employment, but there are significant national distinctions and regime specific trajectories. We discuss some caveats, focusing on the question whether the new policy paradigm has been established at the expense of Social policies that mitigate poverty and inequality.
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The EU needs a Social Investment pact
2011Co-Authors: Frank Vandenbroucke, Anton Hemerijck, Bruno PalierAbstract:In this Opinion Paper, we argue that long term-goals of Social and economic policy in the EU must not fall victim to short-term policy orientations prompted by the banking crisis that hit the global economy in 2008 and the subsequent financial and fiscal problems affecting the Eurozone and the EU at large. We capture these long-term goals with the notion of a 'Social Investment imperative'. Social Investment is not a new idea per se. We first revisit the Social Investment perspective as proposed towards the end of the 1990s and draw some lessons from past experience. We maintain that a Social Investment impetus, given Europe’s adverse demography, is today more acute than ever before. Subsequently, we examine how a renewed Social Investment perspective can be rescued from one-sided policy orientations prompted by the economic crisis (First paragraph)
Jaap J. A. Denissen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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personality maturation during the transition to working life associations with commitment as a possible indicator of Social Investment
European Journal of Personality, 2019Co-Authors: Liselotte Den Boer, Theo A. Klimstra, Susan Branje, Wim Meeus, Jaap J. A. DenissenAbstract:The Social Investment theory (SIT) proposes that personality maturation is triggered by transitions into age–graded roles and psychological commitment to these roles. The present study examines the...
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Personality Trait Development During the Transition to Parenthood A Test of Social Investment Theory
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2016Co-Authors: Manon A. Van Scheppingen, Jaap J. A. Denissen, Joshua J. Jackson, Jule Specht, Roos Hutteman, Wiebke BleidornAbstract:Social Investment theory (SIT) proposes that the transition to parenthood triggers positive personality trait change in early adulthood. Using data from a representative sample of first-time parents compared to nonparents, the results of rigorous tests do not support the propositions of SIT. Specifically, we found no evidence for the proposition that parents show more pronounced mean-level increases in emotional stability, agreeableness, and conscientiousness compared to nonparents. We did find that agreeableness and openness changed depending on how long someone was in the parent role. Finally, our results suggest that high extraversion and low openness in both genders and high conscientiousness in females predict the likelihood to enter into parenthood. Discussion focuses on why this transition seems to be unrelated to mean-level personality trait change and the implications of these results for SIT.
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Personality Maturation Around the World A Cross-Cultural Examination of Social-Investment Theory
Psychological science, 2013Co-Authors: Wiebke Bleidorn, Theo A. Klimstra, Jaap J. A. Denissen, Peter J. Rentfrow, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. GoslingAbstract:During early adulthood, individuals from different cultures across the world tend to become more agreeable, more conscientious, and less neurotic. Two leading theories offer different explanations for these pervasive age trends: Five-factor theory proposes that personality maturation is largely determined by genetic factors, whereas Social-Investment theory proposes that personality maturation in early adulthood is largely the result of normative life transitions to adult roles. In the research reported here, we conducted the first systematic cross-cultural test of these theories using data from a large Internet-based sample of young adults from 62 nations (N = 884,328). We found strong evidence for universal personality maturation from early to middle adulthood, yet there were significant cultural differences in age effects on personality traits. Consistent with Social-Investment theory, results showed that cultures with an earlier onset of adult-role responsibilities were marked by earlier personality maturation.
Julian L Garritzmann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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public demand for Social Investment new supporting coalitions for welfare state reform in western europe
Journal of European Public Policy, 2018Co-Authors: Julian L Garritzmann, Marius R. Busemeyer, Erik NeimannsAbstract:ABSTRACTSocial Investment has recently received much attention among policy-makers and welfare state scholars, but the existing literature remains focused on policy-making on the macro level. We ex...
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wopsi the world politics of Social Investment an international research project to explain variance in Social Investment agendas and Social Investment reforms across countries and world regions
2017Co-Authors: Julian L Garritzmann, Bruno Palier, Silja Hausermann, Christine ZollingerAbstract:The “World Politics of Social Investment” (WoPSI) project aims at explaining variance in Social Investment agendas and Social in-vestment reforms across democratic countries in different regions of the World. Virtually all capitalist economies grapple with challenges of demographic change, slow economic growth, poor employment performance and increasing poverty rates. In dealing with these pro-blems, a Social Investment strategy appeals to a wide audience, both political and academic. However, Social Investment reforms and per-formances in democratic countries around the globe are highly une-qual and remain fragmentary: different countries have implemented different types of policy instruments, with different functions, at diffe-rent points in time, and to different degrees. Despite a growing number of scientific contributions on Social in-vestment reforms and their effects, a systematic mapping of the de-sign of Social Investment agendas and policies in different democra-tic countries around the globe is still lacking. Moreover, we lack an explanation for the variance in the development of Social Investment policy reforms. This is where we locate the research interest of the project presented in this paper. In order to understand why Social Investment agendas and policies have developed differently across countries, we need to study the politics of Social Investment reforms. Thus, we ask: How do Social Investment agendas and Social in-vestment policy reforms vary across democratic countries around the globe? Under what political conditions do Social Investment agendas and/or reforms develop? In this paper, we situate these questions in the existing state of the literature, and we outline a way to answer these research questions in the context of Social policy reforms in Latin America, East Asia, as well as Western and Eastern Europe. We argue that political coali-tions (actors and their interests), as well as the institutional embed-dedness of Social Investment politics are key factors in explaining the high variety of Social Investment agendas and policies between coun-tries.
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wopsi the world politics of Social Investment
Social Science Research Network, 2017Co-Authors: Bruno Palier, Silja Hausermann, Julian L Garritzmann, Christine ZollingerAbstract:This paper is the background paper for the collaborative research project "the World Politics of Social Investment (WoPSI)". The WoPSI project is aimed at studying the politics of Social Investment across the democratic world from a comparative perspective. The guiding research questions are descriptive as well as causal: How do Social Investment agendas and Social Investment policy reforms vary across democratic countries around the globe? How can we explain this diversity? Under what political conditions do Social Investment agendas and/or reforms develop? We are particularly interested in understanding the politics (political ideas and discourses, political cleavages and conflicts, political coalitions) surrounding the agenda setting and the adoption of Social Investment strategies, policies, and reforms. The aim of this background paper is to situate our project in the existing literature, to define our research questions and to develop a theoretical framework that is formulated in a sufficiently general way so that it applies to the politics of Social Investment reform in all democracies around the world. The background paper also defines the key concepts of our approach. This background paper is aimed at providing interested scholars and potential project team members with a substantial idea of the motivation of our project, as well as the theoretical and empirical perspective we adopt. It should also allow the readers to situate themselves relative to the framework we develop in this project, in order to evaluate if they would like to join this collective enterprise.
