From Quality to Quantity: Organizational Linkage Analysis

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From Quality to QuantityOrganizational Linkage
Analysis

• Tugrul Temel
• International Service for National Agricultural
  Research
• June 28, 2002

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Outline

• Objective
• Approach and Method
• Applications
• Future research

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Objective

• Introduce a method for linkage analysis
• Illustrate it with three applications
• Describe the system
• Content of the system, organizations, content of
  organizational linkages
• Characterize the structure of the system
• dominant subordinate organizations
• leverage points
• Discuss ways to strengthen the linkages
• Interface orgs to link public private sectors

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Approach and Method

• A systems approach
• learning takes place everywhere in society
• interaction of scientific and socio-economic orgs
  speed up learning about the problem
• Graph theoretical concepts
• to identify cause-effect pathways
• to detect influence points
• to detect organizational mismatches

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Matrix of Relations
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Matrix of Coded Relations
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Cause-Effect Diagram
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Application I

• Agricultural innovation system
• (by Temel, Janssen, Karimov)
• a set of organizations that jointly and/or
  individually contribute to the development,
  diffusion, and use of new agricultural
  technologies, and
• that directly and/or indirectly influence the
  process of technological change in agriculture.

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The Agricultural Innovation System of Azerbaijan

• Matrix of relations

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The Agricultural Innovation System of Azerbaijan

• Matrix of coded relations

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The Agricultural Innovation System of Azerbaijan

• Cause-effect diagram

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Application II

• Agriculture-health-environment system (by Temel
  and Maru)
• Many disciplines to understand the nature of
  problems faced
• Many organizations to develop and to provide
  solutions
• Still many more organizations to implement these
  solutions in communities concerned.

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Agriculture-Health-Environment System

• Identify critical gaps with respect to DIKR needs
  and linkages
• Identify O-I-T capacities required for actual
  change to come through optimal linkages for
  effective flow of DIKR
• Plan implement actions to promote support
  these capacities
• Monitor assess the impact of these actions on
  the organizational and the system performance

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Agriculture-Health-Environment System
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Agriculture-Health-Environment System
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Agriculture-Health-Environment System
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Application III

• Social network analysis (by Temel)
• Analysis of questionnaires with scaled answers

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Future research

• The systems approach should be reformulated as a
  mathematical model to allow testing of specific
  hypotheses on linkages.
• Analysis of cases in which rare but influential
  interactions take place between the organizations