"When we had political machines, they provided a degree of local responsiveness," he said.
Specifically, we propose that the complexity of metaphorical communication might substantially influence the effectiveness of strategy communication in MNCs, and that this influence differs as a function of the MNC's needs for global integration and local responsiveness.
In terms of the multinational firm, some scholars posit that MNEs should respond to pressures for global integration and local responsiveness with respect to CSR issues similarly as their organisational strategies respond to pressures of integration and responsiveness in their product markets (Grant and Gnyawali, 1996).
"And how formal you make the system requirements for affiliation will vary as each group of hospitals struggles with this tension -- centralization versus local responsiveness".
Layers of bureaucracy and short-term political priorities create major inefficiencies, emasculate local management, thwart local responsiveness and encourage creative accounting in responding to Whitehall target-setting.
Such a move, they say, could open the door to greater local responsiveness, democratic accountability and, most important of all, genuine integration of health and social care.
As for the possibility of tension between these more dynamic local arrangements and the centre, he was sanguine: "We must recognise, of course, a constructive tension between national consistency in performance and local responsiveness of police forces".As the Westwood affair has shown, though, this tension is not constructive at all at least, not as far as local involvement in policing goes.
The local responsiveness of sector partnerships benefits local employers, but it also creates better opportunities for graduates to join the middle class.
He zooms out at this point, moving away from interface tech to an application of AI for identifying what's going on in video streams which he says could have very big implications for local governments and city authorities wanting to improve their responsiveness to real-time data on a budget.
The degree of gap junctional coupling among thalamic astrocytes, in conjunction with the responsiveness to specific inputs, may also have functional implications for local recruitment of astrocytically mediated neuronal modulation.
