BUILDING AND SUSTAINING VIRTUAL PATIENT MEDICAL HOMES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the [redacted] Primary Care Network’s ([redacted] PCN) ability to support 61 primary care practices in building and sustaining virtual Patient Medical Homes (PMHs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. A mixed methods evaluation determined that the [redacted] PCN achieved this mandate. The organization provided physician members with access to allied health care team members using virtual platforms. Care coordinators continued to optimize the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) from their home offices. Patient care remained of high quality, revealed through the analysis of patient experience data collected both before and during the pandemic. Despite a new requirement to work remotely, healthcare teams remained collaborative. The number of clinics that the PCN supported in improvement work remained steady as the pandemic progressed in March and thereafter.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/166317/1/AFM-90-21_PP.pdfDescription of AFM-90-21_PP.pdf : Main ArticleSEL

THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY? EMBODIED DEPORTABILITY, PRODUCTION, AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION ON NEW YORK DAIRIES

This dissertation provides a nuanced account of the subjective and embodied experiences of precarity in everyday life for immigrant farmworkers on New York dairies. It examines how worker precarity is shaped at multiple and inter-related scales of individual activity, collective behavior, and the law. By situating farmworkers in this web of relationships and actors, and framing my analysis with the lens of deportability, it examines how an objectively exploitative and repressive set of immigration laws, employment regulations, and socio-economic conditions are filtered through the everyday discretionary work of law enforcement agents, employers, labor contractors, and community members, and internalized as a particular subjective and embodied experience for individual workers. This analysis makes important contributions to several bodies of sociological literature, namely the scholarship examining the local enforcement of immigration law, deportability studies, precarious work, employment of immigrants, gender and migration studies, and new rural immigrant destinations. To understand the labor experiences of immigrant farmworkers on these levels, and the factors that shape those experiences, the dissertation uses a qualitative research approach attuned to identifying objective conditions of work as well as the ways they are internalized. This approach included a close reading of immigration laws and employment regulations, ethnographic analysis of the labor patterns and social relations of individual farms, and in-depth interviewing about the ways they are experienced by individual workers. In total, 66 immigrant farmworkers on 26 different farms, and 25 interviews with farm owners on 22 different farms, were conducted for this project throughout Western, Northern, and Central New York. The objective of this multi-scalar analysis was to defetishize the commodity milk – as well as the agrarian myths that prop up the dairy industry – in terms of both the objective and subjective relations of production. The first chapter contextualizes key concepts of “deportability in everyday life” (De Genova, 2005) and the criminalization of immigrants (Stump, 2006) in terms of the everyday lives of farmworkers. The second chapter examines the decision to hire undocumented immigrant workers from dairy farmers’ own perspectives, and shows that they face deep internal struggle over their roles and obligations. Chapter Three looks closely at the division of dairy farm labor and the labor process for immigrant workers, finding that workers demonstrate skill and agency in these jobs usually deemed “unskilled”. Yet, working conditions impose violence on their bodies in terms of hunger, inadequate sleep, and significant risk of accident and injury. Chapter Four describes and analyzes systems of social reproduction on farms to help explain why workers consent to the devastating consequences of industrial milking work. The final chapter reflects on the structure of production and reproduction, and analyzes its implications for worker agency and resistance

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: Can multinational enterprises lead the Decade of Action?

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015 by all UN member states and have been embraced by many multinational enterprises (MNEs) and international NGOs. They created a ‘hybrid governance’ platform in which companies, governments, NGOs, and knowledge institutes can work on achieving common goals through targeted action and serve as the leading global sustainable development framework until 2030. By the year 2020, however, progress towards the goals proved slow, prompting the UN to announce a ‘Decade of Action’. The slow or limited adoption and implementation of the SDG Agenda by MNEs – in close interaction with government policies – is one of the root causes for delayed progress. The question is no longer ‘why’ MNEs should develop sustainability strategies, but rather ‘how’. A number of related questions arise. What have been the roles of MNEs in progress towards the SDGs, what is needed from them in the future, and what can be the role of international business (IB) scholarship in shaping discussion and action? This Special Issue tackles these questions from four angles: (1) identifying and helping to fill theoretical gaps in IB research on the SDGs; (2) asking which SDGs and targets provide promising venues for societally relevant IB research topics; (3) assessing and helping to fill empirical gaps by using, complementing, and upgrading relevant SDG indicators; and (4) showing how IB research and policy practice can become better aligned

ASEAN at 50 : a historic milestone for FDI and MNEs in ASEAN

ASEAN has grown from one among many developing regions seeking the attention of international investors to a region of choice for many top-tier Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). These MNEs from across the world and representing a diverse set of sectors, industries and business activities, play a prominent role in the region, and will continue to do so in the future. ASEAN is the only developing region with a significant and diverse level of regional integration and value chains, in large part led by both foreign and its own MNEs. The “ASEAN at 50: A Historic Milestone for FDI and MNEs in ASEAN” publication highlights the astounding progress of the region in attracting FDI over the 50 years since ASEAN’s inception. The Report traces the contours of this transformation and the role of MNEs involved: from a poor region with little FDI, trading primarily in commodities to one ready to embrace the digital age

Violent conflict and social transformation: An institutionalist approach to the role of informal economic networks

Cet article cherche à contribuer à la discussion à propos du rôle des réseaux économiques informels lors de conflits violents. Il soutient que les transformations sociales qui découlent d'un conflit peuvent être soit productives ou destructives, selon la nature des institutions imbriquées au sein des réseaux sociaux. Il souligne en particulier la manière dont la relation historique des réseaux informels avec l'Etat façonne le contenu institutionnel de ces réseaux informels. Deux études de cas contrastées sont présentéés afin d'illustrer ceci. En Somalie, les institutions traditionelles de confiance et de réciprocité furent préservées lors du conflit, et ont contribué à la coordination économique ainsi qu'à la médiation du conflit. Au Sierra Leone, l'intrusion de réseaux patrimoniaux dans la vie communautaire traditionelle suite au conflit a contribué au développement de réseaux de jeunes ayant un comportement anti-social et opportuniste, ce qui causa un effondrement social.European Journal of Development Research (2009) 21, 81–94. doi:10.1057/ejdr.2008.8