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Piza, Juan Felipe Henao (2011) A multimethodology approach for planning community development projects : a case study in Colombia. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
In this action research project, a multimethodology (MM) approach for planning
community development projects (CDPs) is proposed. The MM approach is
composed of four planning stages; three Soft OR approaches; and a theoretical
framework for sustainable community development. The aim of the research is
to examine MM’s potential benefits in facilitating group planning and decisionmaking
within the context of a particular CDP in Colombia. Thus, the research
centres attention on illustrating a theoretical informed way for designing MMs
and a systematic procedure for evaluating their impacts in practice.
A case study is undertaken in order to evaluate MM’s benefits in a real-world
situation. It unfolds within the context of a Colombian governmental project
that seeks to improve the socioeconomic conditions of a group of families living
in a deprived community in Colombia. MM is employed in order to assist an
organisation to design ideas for new business units for some of the families of
this community. The case study entails dealing with different complexities and
difficulties, including with a decision-team that had highly deteriorated working
relations between its members.
The results suggest that the main benefits of MM were not only related to
clarifying and structuring the content of the problem, but also to improving the
quality of the social interactions between the members of this conflicting team.
Hence, it seems that MMs might facilitate decision-teams to deal with some
of the most common complexities that can be found in CDP-related problems,
such as: assessing trade-offs between multiple community’s dimensions, managing
uncertainty, etc., as well as facilitate the negotiation process of conflicting ideas
and improve the quality of the CDPs planned by them. In this regard, this
research aims to be able to contribute to the literature in MM and Community
OR (i.e. OR for community development).
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Community development -- Colombia -- Methodology, Community development -- Colombia -- Case studies, Economic development projects -- Colombia -- Methodology, Economic development projects -- Colombia -- Case studies | ||||
Official Date: | March 2011 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Warwick Business School | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Davies, Ruth, Prof. ; Franco, A. (Alberto) | ||||
Sponsors: | Research Councils UK (RCUK) | ||||
Extent: | 389 leaves : ill., charts | ||||
Language: | eng |
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