Bridging Organizations Drive Effective Governance Outcomes for Conservation of Indonesia’s Marine Systems

Bridging Organizations Drive Effective Governance Outcomes for Conservation of Indonesia’s Marine Systems

This study empirically investigates the influence of bridging organizations on governance outcomes for marine conservation in Indonesia. Conservation challenges require ways of governing that are collaborative and adaptive across boundaries, and where conservation actions are better coordinated, information flows improved, and knowledge better integrated and mobilized. We combine quantitative s...

Bridging for Better Conservation Fit in Indonesia's Coastal-Marine Systems

Efforts to improve the fit between conservation initiatives (e.g., marine protected areas, no-take zones) and the dynamic social dimensions of coastal-marine systems remain underdeveloped. We empirically illustrate here how opportunities to enhance “conservation fit” are influenced by bridging organizations that serve to (1) better align conservation initiatives with characteristics of the soci...

Governance Principles for Physician Organizations.

The study notes the wide range in organizational size, structure, ownership and control, geographic location and governance structure and practices among participating organizations. It concludes that best governance practices now accepted in hospitals and health systems may not apply in the same way to physician organizations and that there is value in matching governance practices to organiza...

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Effective Strategies for Bridging Gulfs Between Users and Computer Systems

This paper describes design strategies that led to significant improvements in the usability and learnability of an enduser programming environment called RIDES. These strategies may be viewed as concrete procedures for building easily learned interfaces and were derived from Polson and Lewis' CE+ theory. RIDES was designed to make it possible for US Air Force training experts, with minimal pro...