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From Quality to Quantity: Organizational Linkage Analysis. Tugrul Temel International Service for National Agricultural Research June 28, 2002. Outline. Objective Approach and Method Applications Future research. Objective. Introduce a method for linkage analysis
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From Quality to Quantity:Organizational Linkage Analysis Tugrul Temel International Service for National Agricultural Research June 28, 2002
Outline • Objective • Approach and Method • Applications • Future research
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
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
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.
The Agricultural Innovation System of Azerbaijan • Matrix of relations
The Agricultural Innovation System of Azerbaijan • Matrix of coded relations
The Agricultural Innovation System of Azerbaijan • Cause-effect diagram
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.
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
Application III • Social network analysis (by Temel) • Analysis of questionnaires with scaled answers
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