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de los Reyes, Gastón, Markus Scholz, and N. Craig Smith. "Beyond the “Win-Win”." California Management Review 59, no. 2 (February 2017): 142–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008125617695286.
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While Porter and Kramer’s Creating Shared Value (CSV) works well as a management framework to address “win-win” business and society issues, it leaves managers ill-equipped to legitimately manage issues where they face the prospect of “win-lose” or “lose-win” social engagements. For legitimacy, managers need to bolster CSV with ethical frameworks—specifically, norm-taking and norm-making frameworks. Managers can be better positioned to create shared value through CSV+, a multi-part framework built around CSV and augmented by ethical frameworks.
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Wensing, Emma H. "Book Review: Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon." International Review for the Sociology of Sport 40, no. 1 (March 2005): 125–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690205052174.
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Chare, N. "Book Review: Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon." Feminist Theory 6, no. 3 (December 1, 2005): 369–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146470010500600309.
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Ernstoff, Alexi, Katerina S. Stylianou, Marlyne Sahakian, Laurence Godin, Arnaud Dauriat, Sebastien Humbert, Suren Erkman, and Olivier Jolliet. "Towards Win–Win Policies for Healthy and Sustainable Diets in Switzerland." Nutrients 12, no. 9 (September 9, 2020): 2745. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12092745.
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The first Swiss national dietary survey (MenuCH) was used to screen disease burdens and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of Swiss diets (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, slimming), with a focus on gender and education level. The Health Nutritional Index (HENI), a novel disease burden-based nutritional index built on the Global Burden of Disease studies, was used to indicate healthiness using comparable, relative disease burden scores. Low whole grain consumption and high processed meat consumption are priority risk factors. Non-processed red meat and dairy make a nearly negligible contribution to disease burden scores, yet are key drivers of diet-related GHGs. Swiss diets, including vegetarian, ranged between 1.1–2.6 tons of CO2e/person/year, above the Swiss federal recommendation 0.6 ton CO2e/person/year for all consumption categories. This suggests that only changing food consumption practices will not suffice towards achieving carbon reduction targets: Systemic changes to food provisioning processes are also necessary. Finally, men with higher education had the highest dietary GHG emissions per gram of food, and the highest disease burden scores. Win–win policies to improve health and sustainability of Swiss diets would increase whole grain consumption for all, and decrease alcohol and processed meat consumption especially for men of higher education levels.
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Cellich, Claude. "A Review of “Built to Win: Creating a World-Class Negotiating Organization”." Journal of International Consumer Marketing 23, no. 5 (September 14, 2011): 380–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08961530.2011.602954.
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Lai, Lawrence W. C., and Frank T. Lorne. "Sustainable Urban Renewal and Built Heritage Conservation in a Global Real Estate Revolution." Sustainability 11, no. 3 (February 6, 2019): 850. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11030850.
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Abstract: A global real estate revolution has been transforming the urban landscape everywhere. Development and redevelopment projects have mixed with, if not become an integral part of, real estate construction. At the same time, there is a drive to commodification in this revolution, as shown by a growing trend to conserve built heritage in new development projects characterised by the rise of museums. This paper reviews some examples of attempts in various parts of the world to combine real estate development and conservation and applies the fourth Coase theorem to explore how built heritage conservation and urban renewal in Hong Kong, hitherto problematic in terms of their invasion of private property, can become a win-win outcome in the context of this global real estate revolution.
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Pinheiro, Manuel Duarte, and Nuno Cardoso Luís. "COVID-19 Could Leverage a Sustainable Built Environment." Sustainability 12, no. 14 (July 21, 2020): 5863. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12145863.
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The health system’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has involved research into diagnoses and vaccines, but primarily it has required specific treatments, facilities and equipment, together with the control of individual behaviour and a period of collective confinement. The aim of this particular research, therefore, is to discover whether COVID-19 is capable of changing the built environment (BE) and leveraging specific solutions for sustainable buildings or urban areas. Some historical reviews of infectious pandemics have highlighted the development of new solutions in the BE as an additional contribution towards preventing the spread of infection. The BE has an important role to play in supporting public health measures and reducing the risk of infections. The review of potential COVID-19 measures shows the existence of well-referenced solutions, ranging from incremental alterations (organisation of spaces, erection of physical barriers) to structural alterations (windows, balconies) with different timeframes and scales (ranging from changes in building materials to the design of urban areas). A critical exploratory assessment makes it possible to identify measures that may help not only to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission (or even prevent it), but also to increase resilience, improve air quality and lower energy requirements or the use of materials, and thus potentially increase the sustainability of the BE. COVID-19 measures challenge us to rethink buildings and urban areas and potentially leverage sustainable BE solutions with win-win outcomes (minimalist design and other solutions). The specific composition of this set of measures must, however, be further researched.
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Lowenfish, Lee. "Built To Win: Inside Stories and Leadership Strategies from Baseball's Winningest GM (review)." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 15, no. 2 (2007): 134–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nin.2007.0012.
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SHIH, Hui Min, and Lincey QI. "Alibaba’s Media Conglomerate Dream." East Asian Policy 08, no. 04 (October 2016): 91–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s179393051600043x.
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Since 2009, Alibaba has aggressively built its media landscape by buying up media assets and integrating old and new media. Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma has reportedly maintained good relations with the Chinese government, a win-win situation that is beneficial to the development of China’s big data technology and internet/e-commerce sector. In 2016, China for the first time became the world’s biggest "acquiring nation" in the technology industry.
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Hoy, Benjamin. "Teaching History With Custom-Built Board Games." Simulation & Gaming 49, no. 2 (March 26, 2018): 115–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1046878118763624.
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Purpose. This article investigated the potential of a custom-built board game as a means to teach historical empathy, improve class participation, and to improve student understanding of the limitations of archival collections. Method. Participant behavior as well as verbal and written feedback were collected during a pilot study of POLICING THE SOUND. A total of 88 undergraduate and graduate participants from History and Indigenous Studies took part during the pilot study. Results. Student participation and understanding of historical context improved during the game. While graduate and undergraduate students showed similarity in their enjoyment of the game and their belief that it made historical arguments, the curricular differences in graduate and undergraduate programs influenced how each group approached the game. Conclusion. Participant feedback, facilitator observation, and external observation indicate that groups of players can resolve confusion more efficiently than individual players can, time constrained decision-making may help maintain student engagement, an inability to win does not necessarily cause disengagement in short educational games, and that a structured debrief is important in achieving educational goals even in custom-built games.
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Tang, Xiao Bo, Cai Hong Zhao, Xue Hong Wu, and Juan Zhang. "Optimization of Spot Power Price in Coordinated Fast Charging Model of Electric Vehicles." Applied Mechanics and Materials 448-453 (October 2013): 3135–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.448-453.3135.
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A real-time mechanism as a level of electricity price is proposed to dispatch electric vehicle fast charging load. Considering the peak load shifting effect of grid, the benefit of charging station and the desire of customer, the mathematics model is built. And a genetic algorithm is used to solve this problem. Finally, a simulation based on an areas predicted data of year 2020 is made to show that the proposed method can lower the peak-valley difference, promise charging station benefit as well as meet customers desire, and achieve a win-win result.
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Soboil, Mark Lucas, and Jon G. Sutinen. "Empirical analysis and transboundary management for Georges Bank multispecies fishery." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63, no. 4 (April 1, 2006): 903–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f05-269.
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This paper reports the results of a bioeconomic evaluation of alternative management strategies for the Georges Bank transboundary multispecies fishery. Because the distribution of the principal groundfish resources on Georges Bank involves substantial movement and migration across the USCanada boundary, the harvest by one country affects the benefits to the other country. An empirically based model of the transboundary multispecies fishery was built to simulate alternative management strategies imposed by each country. The simulations were used to help determine whether the status quo management is superior to any other strategy and, if not, what other strategies are better in terms of economic performance. Our aim is to determine whether there are combinations of US and Canadian harvest policies that would make both countries better off and whether a “winwin” strategy exists in the fishery. The results suggest that there are winwin strategies in terms of economic benefits, but such strategies may not be legally feasible under current fisheries law.
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Snodgrass, Anthony. "Soft targets and no-win dilemmas: response to Dimitris Plantzos." Antiquity 85, no. 328 (May 2011): 629–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00068022.
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Most of the opposition directed at the new AcropolisMuseum (herafter NAM), both beforeand since its opening in June 2009, has turned out to be politically motivated, mainly from the Left in Greece, mainly from the Right in Britain (the Daily Telegraph called it 'a hideous visitor centre in modern Athens'before it was even built [Wilson 2006]). Dimitris Plantzos comes at the museum from a different angle, but he too is determinedly on the attack. A first sign of this is his total silence about the protection and exhibition of the archaeological site underlying the museum, one of its major positive (and innovatory) features.
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Zhijian, Zhang, Peng Wang, Miyu Wan, Junhua Guo, and Jian Liu. "Supply Chain Decisions and Coordination under the Combined Effect of Overconfidence and Fairness Concern." Complexity 2020 (April 25, 2020): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/3056305.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the joint effect of overconfidence and fairness concern on supply chain decisions and design contracts to achieve a win-win situation within the supply chain. For this study, a centralized supply chain model was established without considering the retailers’ overconfidence and fairness concern. Furthermore, the retailers’ overconfidence and fairness concerns were introduced into the decentralized supply chain, while the Stackelberg game model between the manufacturer and the retailer was built. Furthermore, an innovative supply chain contract, i.e., buyback contract, with promotional cost sharing was designed to achieve supply chain coordination along with overconfidence and fairness concern. Finally, a numerical analysis was also conducted to analyze the effect of overconfidence, fairness concern, and the validity of the contract. The principal findings of the study include the positive correlation between retailers’ overconfidence and optimal order quantity, sales effort, expected utility, and profit. Although the order quantity and sales efforts were not affected by the fairness concern of the retailer, the contract achieved coordination with a win-win outcome when the level of overconfidence and fairness concern was moderate.
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Liu, Pan, and Shu-ping Yi. "Investment Decision-Making and Coordination of Supply Chain: A New Research in the Big Data Era." Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 2016 (2016): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2026715.
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In a Big Data environment, in order to study the decision-making problem of Big Data information investment and the effects of using Big Data information to improve industry cost on supply chain coordination, firstly the importance of Data Company in supply chain was analyzed, and the original supply chain model was built. Meanwhile, some changes of consumer behavior were analyzed in a Big Data environment. Based on these, the market demand function and the benefit model of stakeholder were built and analyzed. Findings:(1)The first finding is whether an enterprise was suitable for gaining Big Data to improve its costs, which was determined by the cost improvement coefficient; namely, it was related to the ability of excavating and using the value of Big Data.(2)Whether the supply chain was the decentralized decision-making and the centralized decision-making, the thresholds of acquisition costs on Big Data information were equal. Moreover, the maximum value that they could undertake was same.(3)Meanwhile the fact that the quantity discount contract could achieve a win-win outcome for supply chain members was proved. The discount coefficient was related to consumers’ behavior preference in a Big Data environment.
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Sujarwo, Makmur, and Setyowati Soebroto. "Membangun strategi memenangkan pasar persaingan pada toko pakaian di kota Tegal." Benefit: Jurnal Manajemen dan Bisnis 3, no. 1 (June 6, 2018): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.23917/benefit.v3i1.5455.
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Abstract : This research is aimed to find out how far the improvement of store operation excellence, the increase of store communication effectiveness (visual merchandising), area trading optimization, focused marketing activity and community involvement have been built in clothing stores in Tegal city so that the retailers can win market competition.This study used a sample of 100 clothing stores in the city of Tegal as respondents. Respondents' answers to the closed questions about the variables studied in this study were then analyzed by using Multiple Regression Test while the answer to the open question was analyzed qualitatively.The results of this study indicate that increased communication effectiveness in the shop, focused marketing activities and community involvement significantly influence the strategy to win the clothing store retail market in the city of Tegal. For that it should be clothing store retailers can further improve these three variables to win more competitive market.Of the five variables above, the community involvement variable has the greatest effect for retailers to win the competition market with a score of 0.251. So a retailer to be more active in social activities by providing compensation to the poor and orphans. Keywords: Market winning strategy, excellence store operations, visual merchandising, area trading optimization, focused marketing activities and community involvement.
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Prabhu, Rohan, Scarlett R. Miller, Timothy W. Simpson, and Nicholas A. Meisel. "Built to win? Exploring the role of competitive environments on students’ creativity in design for additive manufacturing tasks." Journal of Engineering Design 31, no. 11-12 (December 1, 2020): 574–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09544828.2020.1851661.
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Branavan, S. R. K., D. Silver, and R. Barzilay. "Learning to Win by Reading Manuals in a Monte-Carlo Framework." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 43 (April 30, 2012): 661–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1613/jair.3484.
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Domain knowledge is crucial for effective performance in autonomous control systems. Typically, human effort is required to encode this knowledge into a control algorithm. In this paper, we present an approach to language grounding which automatically interprets text in the context of a complex control application, such as a game, and uses domain knowledge extracted from the text to improve control performance. Both text analysis and control strategies are learned jointly using only a feedback signal inherent to the application. To effectively leverage textual information, our method automatically extracts the text segment most relevant to the current game state, and labels it with a task-centric predicate structure. This labeled text is then used to bias an action selection policy for the game, guiding it towards promising regions of the action space. We encode our model for text analysis and game playing in a multi-layer neural network, representing linguistic decisions via latent variables in the hidden layers, and game action quality via the output layer. Operating within the Monte-Carlo Search framework, we estimate model parameters using feedback from simulated games. We apply our approach to the complex strategy game Civilization II using the official game manual as the text guide. Our results show that a linguistically-informed game-playing agent significantly outperforms its language-unaware counterpart, yielding a 34% absolute improvement and winning over 65% of games when playing against the built-in AI of Civilization.
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Rosie, George. "Double Crossings: The Tangled Tale of the Forth Road Bridges." Scottish Affairs 27, no. 3 (August 2018): 342–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2018.0247.
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This essay puts the Queensferry Crossing in the context of the earlier bridges across the Forth, notably the Forth Road Bridge. The earlier bridges were British-designed and British-built from mainly British materials. The Queensferry Crossing is not. Indeed, it might be seen as a reproach to what is left of Britain's industrial culture. It begs questions. Why is our share of the consortium so paltry? Why did British suppliers fail to win any of the big contracts? Are we lacking in the kind of skills the project needed?
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Yen, Chih-Feng, He-Yen Hsieh, Kuan-Wu Su, Min-Chieh Yu, and Jenq-Shiou Leu. "Solar Power Prediction via Support Vector Machine and Random Forest." E3S Web of Conferences 69 (2018): 01004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20186901004.
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Due to the variability and instability of photovoltaic (PV) output, the accurate prediction of PV output power plays a major role in energy market for PV operators to optimize their profits in energy market. In order to predict PV output, environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, rainfall and win speed are gathered as indicators and different machine learning models are built for each solar panel inverters. In this paper, we propose two different kinds of solar prediction schemes for one-hour ahead forecasting of solar output using Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest (RF).
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Williamson, Peter, and Feng Wan. "Emerging market multinationals and the concept of ownership advantages." International Journal of Emerging Markets 13, no. 3 (July 16, 2018): 557–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoem-08-2017-0319.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to re-assess the concept of ownership advantages in the light of successful international expansion of multinationals from emerging economies (EMNEs) and explore how these advantages are built. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a viewpoint based on analysis of the successful international expansion of a sample of Chinese EMNEs where success is measured their ability win share in overseas markets. This allows us to identify their ownership advantages, the antecedents of these advantages and how they were built using dynamic capabilities. Findings EMNEs have “non-traditional” ownership advantages that have been built by finding innovative ways to leverage the locational advantages of their home countries. The conversion of locational advantages into ownership advantages requires that firms build dynamic capabilities that enable them to innovate in the use of the locational advantages they enjoy. Research limitations/implications The study is limited to a small sample of EMNEs from China who have succeeded in winning market share in the initial phases of their international expansion. In the light of these limitations, the authors discuss the question the sustainability of their competitive advantage as well as the likely applicability of our findings to EMNEs from other EMNEs. Originality/value The authors revisit the paradox that despite the growth and success of multinationals from EMNEs in the past decade they are assumed to lack ownership advantages. The authors show that EMNEs’ ownership advantages differ from the traditional advantages such proprietary technologies and brand equity that are enjoyed by incumbent multinationals.
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Carpita, Maurizio, Enrico Ciavolino, and Paola Pasca. "Exploring and modelling team performances of the Kaggle European Soccer database." Statistical Modelling 19, no. 1 (January 10, 2019): 74–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1471082x18810971.
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This study explores a big and open database of soccer leagues in 10 European countries. Data related to players, teams and matches covering seven seasons (from 2009/2010 to 2015/2016) were retrieved from Kaggle, an online platform in which big data are available for predictive modelling and analytics competition among data scientists. Based on both preliminary data analysis, experts’ evaluation and players’ position on the football pitch, role-based indicators of teams’ performance have been built and used to estimate the win probability of the home team with the binomial logistic regression (BLR) model that has been extended including the ELO rating predictor and two random effects due to the hierarchical structure of the dataset. The predictive power of the BLR model and its extensions has been compared with the one of other statistical modelling approaches (Random Forest, Neural Network, k-NN, Naïve Bayes). Results showed that role-based indicators substantially improved the performance of all the models used in both this work and in previous works available on Kaggle. The base BLR model increased prediction accuracy by 10 percentage points, and showed the importance of defence performances, especially in the last seasons. Inclusion of both ELO rating predictor and the random effects did not substantially improve prediction, as the simpler BLR model performed equally good. With respect to the other models, only Naïve Bayes showed more balanced results in predicting both win and no-win of the home team.
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Jones, Peter Blundell. "Admirably perverse: tectonic expression and the puzzles of Galerie Goetz." Architectural Research Quarterly 13, no. 3-4 (December 2009): 220–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135510000072.
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The Galerie Goetz is a small art gallery built between 1989 and 1992, one of the early works of Herzog & de Meuron which helped to win them such commissions as Tate Modern and launched their spectacular international career. At first sight this box-like building standing at the far end of a villa garden in a Munich suburb seems rather dead-pan and understated: from the street [2] you register only the upper floor, a box measured out in five bays, for the ground level is perfectly obscured by the garden fence, an apparently banal element carefully remade by the architects.
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Sheldon, Marie, and Garry Young. "The UK Economy." National Institute Economic Review 160 (April 1997): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002795019716000102.
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The main slogan of the Conservative Party during the 1997 general election campaign has been ‘Britain is booming: don't let Labour blow it’. In our analysis of the UK economy, we discuss the extent to which Britain is indeed booming and how we expect it to develop once the election is over. Given their lead in the opinion polls, we have assumed that Labour will win the election and have built some of their policies into the forecast. This therefore provides some means of assessing whether Labour will ‘blow it’, although this will obviously depend on how they actually behave in office.
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Paustyan, Ekaterina. "A Treaty for the Rich and Politically Loyal? Explaining the Bilateral Center-Region Treaties in Post-Soviet Russia." Russian Politics 6, no. 2 (June 2, 2021): 185–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/24518921-00602002.
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Abstract This paper studies the signing of bilateral treaties between the federal and regional governments of Russia in the period of 1994–1998. Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 64 cases suggests that by signing bilateral treaties in exchange for political support President Yeltsin built a broad coalition with subnational leaders. This strategy allowed Yeltsin to win the 1996 presidential election but, in the long run, contributed to the preservation of authoritarian enclaves in Russia. The results are in line with the argument that authoritarian consolidation in Russia during the 2000s was deeply embedded in the center-region relations of the 1990s.
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Finlay & Lauren Akbar, Judy. "Caught Between Two Worlds." Canadian Journal of Children's Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants 3, no. 1 (November 24, 2016): 68–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/cjcr.v3i1.82.
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Mamow Ki-ken-da-ma-win: Everyone Searching for Answers Together (Searching Together) is a partnership-based approach to identifying priorities and issues of importance in remote First Nations in Ontario. The collective goal of this partnership is to learn from one another in the context of northern First Nations lived realities. This community assessment and mobilization process serves as a vehicle for understanding and taking steps to address community wellness. The Searching Together’s southern team is affiliated with faculty, staff and students at Ryerson University. The voices of youth captured herein are from four fly-in communities in northern Ontario and were gathered between 2011 and 2015. Children and youth played a powerful role in shaping the Mamow Ki-ken-da-ma-win process. The conversations with youth were arranged to accommodate their space and time and were built on established, trusting relationships with the youth facilitators on the team. The youth spoke with candour and had valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities they faced while living in their communities. They were thoughtful about how to overcome obstacles that interfered with their wellbeing and they clearly expressed their wishes, hopes and dreams for the future.
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Samad, Muhammad Riduan Bin. "Perceptions of ASEAN Youth Towards Japan: Impact on the Japanese Economy." IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 3, no. 2 (March 23, 2020): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/ikat.v3i2.51710.
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In exerting soft power to pursue its economic interests in Southeast Asia, Japan has been challenged by its regional rivals. In retaining its position, Japan needs to win the hearts and minds of ASEAN youths, a generation moving toward the middle class with significant purchasing power. Hence, a three-month online survey and a series of focus group discussions were conducted to gather information and perspectives about Japan from 222 youth respondents from the ten ASEAN countries. It was found that ASEAN young generations have a good impression of Japan and Japanese people, even though most of them have never been to Japan or personally interacted with a Japanese person. This perception has been built most effectively by Japanese popular culture, including animation and manga. However, youth development and exchange programs, and interactions with Japanese people are less influential factors, especially for those who are from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Thus, exposures to Japanese products and services to ASEAN young generations have not only contributed to the Japanese economy but also contributed to the positive perception toward the country. Given tighter government budgets, streamlining Japan’s soft power strategy will help it win over ASEAN youths for its future economic prosperity.
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Zhao, Weihong, Shengcheng Xie, and Hong Jin. "The Construction and Effectiveness of Regional Cultural Confidence Strategy in the Context of Brand Internationalization: Based on Big Data." E3S Web of Conferences 253 (2021): 02033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202125302033.
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Place brand cannot be built without regional culture, and regional cultural confidence from excellent regional culture is an important force for place brand internationalization and win host country consumers. Alao, regional culture also plays an important role in the informatization of brand matrix support. Based on the perspective of legitimacy, this paper puts forward the connotation of regional cultural confidence strategy and discusses the specific effectiveness of regional cultural confidence strategy. In the future, the regional cultural confidence strategy from the perspective of legitimacy can be exploratively constructed and tested based on big data, which is of great significance for enriching relevant theories of local brand internationalization strategy.
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Pereda, Asier, and Andrew Barron. "How to win friends and influence the right people: designing the corporate government affairs unit." Journal of Business Strategy 41, no. 5 (December 9, 2019): 27–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jbs-09-2019-0174.
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Purpose This study aims to explore how firms can design their government affairs (GAs) units in ways that improve their ability to monitor and influence legislative developments in their firms’ corporate political environments. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual work is informed by existing research into organizational design, brought to life with illustrative examples of firms’ political actions derived from interviews conducted with practitioners in the field. Findings In line with organizational design thinking, the authors find that high-performing GA units need to be designed and built using a blend of mutually reinforcing organizational mechanisms. GA units should be staffed by autonomous managers with mixed skills-sets. Moreover, they should not be constrained by formal rules, but instead given autonomy and support to create lateral relations with other business units. Practical implications This study provides a “recipe” that managers can follow to create opportunities for the exchange of political information within their firms and enable and motivate GAs practitioners to monitor and influence political developments more effectively. Originality/value This research exposes important, organizational antecedents of firms’ political strategies, which have not been systematically explored in the existing literature.
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Liu, Philip H. P. "Finding the Baoding Villages: Reviewing Chinese Conceptualisation of Sino-African Agricultural Cooperation." Africa Spectrum 53, no. 2 (August 2018): 91–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000203971805300205.
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Scholars usually examine African images of the Chinese to understand African responses to Chinese economic expansion, yet they rarely observe that a constructed image of Africa has been built up in China. That image is intrinsically racist and promotes the idea that Chinese investment can somehow “rescue” Africans from their “laziness.” This paper analyses the enduring legend of the Baoding villages, constructed to persuade the Chinese public that Chinese farmers could easily make their fortunes and win respect in Africa. A review of the history of Sino–African agricultural cooperation reveals that this fabricated narrative was convincing because it reinforced Chinese perceptions of African inferiority and reproduced existing ideologies of foreign aid and propaganda concerning policy effectiveness.
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Fahey-Gilmour, J., B. Dawson, P. Peeling, J. Heasman, and B. Rogalski. "Multifactorial analysis of factors influencing elite Australian football match outcomes: a machine learning approach." International Journal of Computer Science in Sport 18, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 100–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ijcss-2019-0020.
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Abstract In Australian football (AF), few studies have assessed combinations of pre- game factors and their relation to game outcomes (win/loss) in multivariable analyses. Further, previous research has mostly been confined to association-based linear approaches and post-game prediction, with limited assessment of predictive machine learning (ML) models in a pre-game setting. Therefore, our aim was to use ML techniques to predict game outcomes and produce a hierarchy of important (win/loss) variables. A total of 152 variables (79 absolute and 73 differentials) were used from the 2013–2018 Australian Football League (AFL) seasons. Various ML models were trained (cross-validation) on the 2013–2017 seasons with the–2018 season used as an independent test set. Model performance varied (66.5-73.3% test set accuracy), although the best model (glmnet – 73.3%) rivalled bookmaker predictions in the same period (70.9%). The glmnet model revealed measures of team quality (a player-based rating and a team-based) in their relative form as the most important variables for prediction. Models that contained in-built feature selection or could model non-linear relationships generally performed better. These findings show that AFL game outcomes can be predicted using ML methods and provide a hierarchy of predictors that maximize the chance of winning.
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Yoon, Duncan M. "Africa, China, and the Global South Novel: In Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo Inc." Comparative Literature 72, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 316–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-8255350.
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Abstract The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) presence in Africa has fundamentally changed globalization patterns. Most scholarship interrogates whether the Chinese presence is either a “new colonialism” or a “win-win” for development by focusing on economic or social scientific factors. In contrast, this article examines China as a trope in Congo Inc. (2014) by In Koli Jean Bofane. Congo Inc. is one of the first African novels to take the Africa-China relationship as central theme, depicting how Congolese actors negotiate the PRC’s presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The article examines the unexpected partnership of a trickster, Isookanga, and a stranded Chinese national, Zhang Xia, analyzing their partnership according to the relationship between time and globalization. The argument uses the concept of the postcolony’s durées to demonstrate how the narrative creates a global South temporality, which differentiates Africa-China patterns of globalization from previous instantiations. These durées include Isookanga’s digital consciousness enabled by a PRC-built cell tower; allusions to Chinese history; and Isookanga and Zhang Xia’s collaboration on Eau Pire Suisse. In sum Congo Inc.’s innovative temporality, embodied by the term mondialiste, signals a shift in type of postcolonial narrative toward the global South novel.
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Gorbenko, Ivan, and Oleksandr Zamula. "Devising methods to synthesize discrete complex signals with required properties for application in modern information and communication systems." Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies 3, no. 9(111) (June 30, 2021): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2021.234674.
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Information and communication systems (ICSs) must comply with increasingly stringent requirements to ensure the reliability and speed of information transmission, noise immunity, information security. This paper reports the methods to synthesize discrete complex cryptographic signals, underlying the construction of which are random (pseudo-random) processes; the methods for synthesizing characteristic discrete complex signals whose construction is based on using the nature of the multiplicative group of a finite field; the results of studying the properties of the specified signal systems. It is shown that the methods built provide a higher synthesis performance than known methods and make it possible to algorithmize the synthesis processes for the construction of software and hardware devices to form such signals. The win in the time when synthesizing nonlinear signals in finite fields using the devised method is, compared to the known method, for the period of 9,972 elements is 1,039.6 times. The proposed method for synthesizing the entire system of such signals, based on decimation operation, outperforms the known method of difference sets in performance. Thus, for a signal period of 2,380 elements, the win in time exceeds 28 times. It has also been shown that the application of such systems of complex signals could improve the efficiency indicators of modern ICSs. Thus, the imitation resistance of the system, when using complex discrete cryptographic signals with a signal period of 1,023 elements, is four orders of magnitude higher than when applying the linear signal classes (for example, M-sequences). For a signal period of 1,023 elements, the win (in terms of structural secrecy) when using the signal systems reported in this work exceeds 300 times at a period of 8,192, compared to the signals of the linear form (M-sequences)
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Qibtiyah, Alimatul. "Komunikasi Politik Muslimat NU dalam Suksesi Pemilihan Umum Kepala Daerah." Jurnal Askopis 1, no. 2 (September 30, 2017): 112–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.32494/ja.v1i2.34.
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The current political activity of women has become a meaningful conversation. Women have shown their existence as an important part of society that has and gives a positive meaning in the development of state and nation. Similarly, presented by Muslimat NU in Tegal District Election of Tegal District, Muslimat NU appear in front of the real to participate politically so that Pemilukada become an important moment in history as proof of their success. Through a gender approach to the theory of political communication, this article attempts to describe what the NU Muslimat motivates in the succession of the Tegal Regency Election of 2013, then how the political communication is built so that the effort succeeds in achieving its targets, as well as what factors are able to build political communication between them. The method used is interview and observation. The results of this study indicate that Umi Azizah, the elected vice-regent with an effective communication approach and his credibility and capital as a community activist for 20 years can take part in the political world substantially and can win the election with no money politics.
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Zhu, Chunxi. "Metaphors Trump Lives by: A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Trump’s Statements in 2020 Presidential Election Debates." International Journal of English Linguistics 11, no. 2 (February 28, 2021): 150. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v11n2p150.
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Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) helps to define the relationship between metaphor, power, ideology and cognition by recognizing conceptual metaphors in text or discourse. This thesis built a metaphor-centered analytical framework which connects discourse, cognition and ideology to investigate metaphors in Trump’s discourses in the 2020 Presidential Election Debates, which shed light upon cognitive structure and ideology behind his discourse. To win more votes, Trump managed to magnify Republican Party’s contribution while masking its defects, exaggerate the disadvantages of the Democratic Party while concealing its merits. Meanwhile, he declared himself one who represents the interests of ordinary people and to fight for their interests. Besides, his “patriotism” and “exclusiveness” also reflected populism characteristics.
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Will, Matthias Georg, and Ingo Pies. "Sensemaking and sensegiving." Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 14, no. 3 (September 3, 2018): 291–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jaoc-11-2016-0075.
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Purpose Change management projects typically fail because they meet employee resistance created by emotional sensemaking processes. This paper aims to present an in-depth explanation for these failures and how change managers could avoid them. Design/methodology/approach This study presents an argument in the following three steps: it begins with an empirically well-established fact that attempts at change management often trigger negative emotional responses; the moral foundations theory is then used to identify the typical categories of emotional responses that may result in resistance to organizational change; and the ordonomic approach to business ethics is built upon to substantiate the diagnosis that, in many cases, emotional responses cause employees to behave in a way that is collectively self-damaging. Findings The core idea of the current study’s contribution is that emotionally driven processes of sensemaking can easily become dysfunctional, especially in situations that require extensive change. Consequently, it should be top priority for managers to engage in sensegiving, which comprises: narratives that explain what is going on against the background of relevant alternatives and appropriate discourses that guide how employees form their expectations. In a nutshell, sensegiving attempts to reframe sensemaking processes. Practical implications Even if a win–win potential already exists, it can still be misperceived. If employees are used to thinking within a trade-off framework, this might trigger trade-off intuitions and negative emotions, in effect leading to a situation that makes everyone worse off. Such mental models might become a self-fulfilling prophecy. To counter such a tendency, sensegiving aims at a professional management of sensemaking processes. The task of successful change management, properly understood, is to create and communicate win–win potentials, ensuring that all parties involved understand that they are not asked to sacrifice their self-interest, instead they are invited to participate in a process of mutual betterment. Originality/value The literature on sensemaking draws attention to the empirical fact that resistance to change is typically driven by emotions. The moral foundations theory helps in exactly identifying which emotional dimensions are relevant in times of organizational change. The ordonomic approach to business ethics points out that – owing to their emotional nature – processes of sensemaking might fail, that they may mislead employees into behavioral patterns that are collectively self-damaging. Therefore, a top priority for management is to engage in sensegiving, that is, in (re-)framing sensemaking processes.
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Huang, Han, Yang Zhou, Mingjie Qian, and Zhaoqi Zeng. "Land Use Transition and Driving Forces in Chinese Loess Plateau: A Case Study from Pu County, Shanxi Province." Land 10, no. 1 (January 13, 2021): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10010067.
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Land use transition is essentially one of the manifestations of land use/cover change (LUCC). Although a large number of studies have focused on land use transitions on the macro scale, there are few studies on the micro scale. Based on the data of two high-resolution land use surveys, this study used a land use transfer matrix and GeoDetector model to explore the spatial-temporal patterns and driving forces of land use transitions at the village level in Pu County over a ten-year period. Results show that Pu County has experienced a drastic process of land use transition. More than 80% of cropland and grassland have been converted to forest land, and over 90% of the expansion of built-up land came from the occupation of forest land, cropland, and grassland. The driving forces of land use transition and its magnitude depended on the type of land use. The implementation of the policy of returning farmland to forest, or grain-for-green (GFG) was the main driving force for the large-scale conversion of cultivated land to forest land in Pu County. In the context of policy of returning farmland to forests, the hilly and gully regions of China’s Loess Plateau must balance between protecting the ecology and ensuring food security. Promoting the comprehensive consolidation of gully land and developing modern agriculture may be an important way to achieve a win-win goal of ecological protection and food security.
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Grossi, Renata. "The meaning of love in the debate for legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Australia." International Journal of Law in Context 8, no. 4 (November 14, 2012): 487–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552312000341.
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AbstractLove is ever-present in the debate for the legal recognition of same-sex marriage. Its importance, however, is often underestimated. I will show in this article that much can be gained by viewing this issue through the analytical lens of romantic love. This analysis will show that romantic love is a contested idea. On the one hand it claims to embody a radical and permissive ideology that is capable of penetrating established social and cultural divides. On the other hand, however, love has been accused of replicating patriarchy, and of being ideologically heteronormative. As such, love is not necessarily the answer needed to win the legal argument for same-sex marriage – not unless we begin a process of redefining love for our times.They say that the world was built for twoOnly worth living if somebody is loving you1
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Lindgjerdet, Frode. "Technology, Group Interest, and Norwegian Air Power, 1920–1940." Vulcan 3, no. 1 (May 29, 2015): 110–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134603-00301006.
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The Norwegian army and navy built their separate air arms around a few flimsy aircraft acquired from 1912. During the interwar period, the Army Air Force desired independence while its smaller naval counterpart fought tenaciously to remain part of the navy. The battle was carried out in the national military journals. Army aviation officers seduced by the air power theories of Giulio Douhet advocated independent operations; they maintained that challenges of air war and the skills required were independent of the surface over which it was fought. They also expected economic benefits from a unified service that could acquire fewer types of aircraft and unify technical services and education. Naval aviation officers maintained that naval air operations required knowledge of naval warfare, seamanship, tight naval integration, and specialized aircraft. What’s more, they resented the very idea that air power could win wars independently.
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Leavy, Brian. "Drivers, explorers, crusaders and captains: identifying and nurturing four types of entrepreneurial business builders." Strategy & Leadership 45, no. 5 (September 18, 2017): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sl-06-2017-0062.
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Purpose Brian Leavy interviews Chris Kuenne and John Danner about research into entrepreneurial personality published in their new book Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win Corporate. Design/methodology/approach By studying personality types, executives can learn how different types of successful entrepreneurs function, how they’re wired, motivated, lead and manage. Findings Using Kuenne’s and Danner’s“Builder Personality Discovery” instrument, corporations can begin to recognize which types of potential entrepreneurs they have, and then how best to support and reward their efforts in creating new business value. Practical implications Each typically interacts differently to five major dynamic challenges that every business builder faces, the “solution dynamic,” the “team dynamic,” the “customer dynamic,” the “sponsor dynamic” and the ‘scale dynamic.’ Originality/value Essential insights for corporate leaders championing entrepreneurial business builders in their firms and for assessing leaders of potential acquisitions.
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Morgan, Shaughn. "Safeguarding the future." APPEA Journal 55, no. 2 (2015): 436. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj14071.
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The present climate of coal seam gas (CSG) production in east coast Australia illustrates the importance of consultation and engagement with the government and stakeholders. This extends particularly to agricultural and community groups, and the impact they have on government policy decisions and in some instances, knee-jerk reactions based on emotion rather than science. Farmers are (and have been) strong environmental managers who want to ensure that the protection of prime agricultural land is safeguarded for future generations—however, so do petroleum companies and working side-by-side for a successful outcome is achievable. For instance, AGL Energy has invested in the agricultural sector from vineyards to growing cattle, allowing the company to engage in the sector directly. On the ground early engagement strategies increasingly need to be implemented with agriculture, which reassures the government and provides a win-win outcome by diffusing anti-groups and community divisions by bringing opportunities for sustainable economic benefit. One of the critical questions is how can this be done successfully without it being seen by the government and community as corporate spin. Particular reference will be made to NSW and the relationship that AGL Energy has built with agriculture organisations, such as Dairy Connect NSW and community groups such as Advance Gloucester. This extended abstract will illustrate that the opportunities for growth for CSG, agriculture and the community are only limited by narrow views of what is achievable and what is drawn from real-life experiences from AGL Energy operations in NSW.
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Sari, Silvia, and Sevty Wahiddirani Saputri. "ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF MARKETING MIX TOWARDS LOYALTY THROUGH COOPERATIVE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN SOUTH TANGERANG CITY." EkoPreneur 1, no. 1 (December 11, 2019): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.32493/ekop.v1i1.3670.
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Cooperative as an important pillar in economic development in Indonesia. Cooperatives need to improve their loyalty and customer satisfaction in order to win the competition with other rital businesses. The research aims to identify and analyze forming factors in customer satisfaction that contribute to customer loyalty. This research was conducted in South Tangerang City because there is an increase in the number of cooperative ventures. Primary data was collected through questionnaires to 100 cooperative customers in South Tangerang city with purposive sampling techniques, and data Analyzed with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The exogenous latent variable is the marketing Mix (7P). While customer satisfaction and loyalty as an endogenous latent variable. The results showed that the built model has fulfilled the criteria of goodness fit and variable measuring research has a reliability (CR ≥ 0.70, VE ≥ 0.50) which is good. The results of SEM analysis indicate that customer satisfaction is largely influenced by the people dimension (γ = 0.92). The People dimension is well formed by the ability of employees to provide clear information (λ = 0.97), employee appearance (λ = 0.87), fast employee response (λ = 0.84), and employee friendliness (λ = 0.57). This the human resources (people) on cooperative ventures need to be built sustainably and gradually the customer satisfaction proved able to foster cooperative customer loyalty. Keywords: Customer Satisfaction, Customer Loyalty, Marketing Mix, People, Cooverative
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Li, Bo. "Automatic Evaluation Based on Computer Science." Advanced Materials Research 998-999 (July 2014): 587–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.998-999.587.
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In this paper, we develop an automatic system which could help us to select or evaluate the most suitable target from a variety of candidates. Above all, we carry out an analytic hierarchy process including 3 levels with different factors. After combing with fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, we rank the candidates with final scores. More specifically, taking the selection of the best coaches of football in American universities as an example, a hierarchical structure it built, with coaches’ comprehensive capacity being the target level, their technical skills, competition records, and personal influence being criteria level, coaching experience, teams’ improvement factors, win-loss percentage, participation in highly-demanding competitions and awards of coaches being the corresponding index level. Then, we use cluster analysis to determine threshold of each index, and combine trapezoidal distribution function with fuzzy comprehensive evaluation to obtain the membership degree of the following five sectors: fully equipped, equipped, basically equipped, poorly equipped, not at all equipped. After scoring each coach, we obtain the final rank
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JATMIKO, MOCHAMAD IQBAL. "POST-TRUTH, MEDIA SOSIAL, DAN MISINFORMASI: PERGOLAKAN WACANA POLITIK PEMILIHAN PRESIDEN INDONESIA TAHUN 2019." Jurnal Dakwah Tabligh 20, no. 1 (July 1, 2019): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.24252/jdt.v20i1.9529.
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Today, positivistic in the political sphere has been invaded by the notion of relativism. The post-truth regime bursts into political discourse and public awareness. Community opinion is driven in distrust of objective data. Reality manipulation is increasingly being carried out for political purposes. In this condition, the community is more secure with pseudo-facts that match personal beliefs. The discourse of political lies is then packaged into alternative discourses to match objective facts. The development of massive information technology, through online media, helps the distribution of discourse in the community. Public awareness through opinion is built and new facts are created. This is how Indonesian political contestation in 2019 is full of strange discourses without data. Political recitals are chaotic because of the disparity among factions that spread lies, hatred, and nonsense. Community elements are exploited for the sake of discourse battle victory. Like passive objects that are annihilated, people are made slaves to win the political elite.
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Syafiq Sadun, Amirul, Jamaludin Jalani, Suziana Ahmad, Amiera Saryati Sadun, and Sumaiya Mashori. "Development of wireless vertical bar spinner combat robot." Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 18, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 759. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v18.i2.pp759-765.
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Recently, combat robot competition has become one of the most famous engineering competitions among schools and universities. The robots are usually built with a destructive weapon, which can immobilize or disable opponent’s robot and win the match. Despite the variety of robot design and concept, the trend has shown that most of the local contestant tend to design a horizontal axis weapon type. In this project, a wireless vertical axis bar spinner combat robot is designed and developed for the 3rd Malaysia Combat Robot Competition which was held at National Science Centre (PSN) in 2017. The robot is controlled using radio control (RC) and powered by a highly discharge 22.2V Lithium Polymer (LiPo) chemical battery. Furthermore, related analysis has been conducted to meet the design and performance requirement of the competition. With the DC brush motor and thick metal bar rotating in vertical axis, the robot has proven to produce high power, torque and speed during the competition.
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Yin, Hang. "Decision support for building renovation strategies." Boolean: Snapshots of Doctoral Research at University College Cork, no. 2011 (January 1, 2011): 221–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/boolean.2011.46.
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In Europe, buildings account for 40% of energy consumption and 36% of EU CO2 emissions. The energy usage of old structures built or rehabilitated before 1980 is as high as 300 kWh/m2/yr, which is greater than the figure for modern structures and passive houses. Obviously, old buildings are the major users of energy, as they use more than twice as much as the modern building. There are numerous published studies showing that energy savings of 40 to 74% can be achieved in commercial buildings through renovation. Implementing rational renovation, which results in efficient operation and maintenance and facilitates low energy consumption, creates a triple-win situation: it provides a much needed impetus to the European economy, it contributes to the achievements of energy and climate targets and it decreases energy costs for citizens, businesses and public bodies. Normally, the renovation of existing buildings usually involves decision-making processes. The challenge is that ...
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Simon-Peter Buba, Gumgaro, Razali Adul Hamid, Zuhaili Mohamad Ramly, Tchad Sharon Jatau, and James David Jatau. "Unique Factors of Best Value Procurement from the Perspective of Nigerian Construction Professionals." International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability 7, no. 2 (April 29, 2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/ijbes.v7.n2.354.
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The construction industry is vital to the economic development of any country. It has a major role in providing built infrastructures in an innovative and cost-effective way using an effective procurement approach. In contrast, the most widely used procurement method in Nigeria is the traditional procurement approach which is known for plaguing the industry with the poor working condition and poor performances thus, reducing the sustainability and quality of products and services. For this reason, there is a need for a procurement approach which utilises expertise to minimise the risk of non-performance and create a win-win environment for both client and contractors, while increasing transparency and add value to the project such like, the Best Value Procurement. Against the background, this paper aims to establish the perception of the Nigerian construction professionals on the unique factors of the Best Value Procurement. The paper outlines the following objectives: To identify the unique factors of the Best Value Procurement and, to establish the perception of the Nigerian construction professionals on the Best Value Procurement unique factors. Using a questionnaire survey, data was collected form 314 construction professionals involving Quantity Surveyors, Architects, Builders and Civil Engineers. Kruskal Wallis Test and mean score ranking was used for data analysis. The findings show that the professionals generally agree that the Best Value Procurement unique factors can bring about transparency, accountability, increase project performance and the contractor is the best to control risk and adds value to the project. This paper derives its significance from the need to stabilise the procurement system in Nigeria by transferring the risk and control to contractors who must act in the best interest of the client.
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Weerasinghe, R. P. N. P., and Y. G. Sandanayake. "Collaborative facilities management model: Sri Lankan perspective." Built Environment Project and Asset Management 7, no. 3 (July 13, 2017): 284–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bepam-02-2016-0004.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a collaborative facilities management (CFM) model incorporating facilities management (FM) functions that can be shared and performed collaboratively by two or more organisations to enhance the performance of FM functions of collaborating organisations. Design/methodology/approach A critical literature review followed by a preliminary investigation was used to identify main categories of FM functions that can be performed collaboratively and dimensions that affect FM collaboration. Subsequently, a detailed list of FM functions that can be performed collaboratively under eight different contexts based on three dimensions identified through observations, document reviews and in-depth interviews with experts who have experience in each context. Findings The paper introduces a novel concept of CFM to share utility/infrastructure facilities, facility services and information by two or more organisations to maintain, improve, adapt and ensure functionality of the built environments of the collaborating organisations. The study identified core business, geographical location and ownership as the key dimensions that affect CFM concept. The outcome of the study, which is CFM model, proposes FM functions that can be performed collaboratively and benefits of collaborating utilities/infrastructure facilities, facility services and information under the aforementioned key dimensions to create a win-win situation for the organisations. Practical implications The paper highlights the FM functions that can be performed collaboratively in order to provide favourable solutions for operational issues faced by facilities managers, while optimising the FM performance of the organisations. Originality/value The CFM model offers original insights to the FM functions that can be shared and performed collaboratively by organisations under different contexts to optimise the FM performance.
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Alavi, Shirin. "Collaborative Customer Relationship Management-Co-Creation and Collaboration through Online Communities." International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking 5, no. 1 (January 2013): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jvcsn.2013010101.
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There are four trends reshaping the world of business-technological advances and the speed with which new technologies are created and copied, the loss of geographic advantage resulting from globalization, the shake-up of traditionally stable industries as a result of deregulation and the rising power of the consumer and their ability to get what they want, when they want it, from whomever they want. With this in mind, the collaboration experience becomes one of the greatest competitive aspects for a business’s survival. This has made companies realize the significance of the two levers of Customer Value Management –Co-creation and Collaboration. Further, with the internet having built an open network where information can flow freely, innovation, entrepreneurship and democracy are fast thriving over the world. Self directed co-creation is a wide range of consumer activities that amount to consumer-side production of value. Thus individuals, online communities have become a considerable prolific force in e- commerce. This research paper details the usage of online communities as tool for co-creation and collaboration The research study further classifies the online communities of organizations on the basis of their scores on co-creation and collaboration and further goes on to develop a Community Co-creation and Collaboration Matrix (CCCM). The online communities which depict a high score on co-creation and collaboration are the most desirable from the organization’s perspective. They facilitate a dynamic environment in terms of reciprocity and optimal level of customization for a win-win organization-community member relationship. Co-creation and collaboration is the strategic outcome of collaborative customer relationship management. Thus online communities can be used to achieve the two important functions of Customer Relationship Management i.e. co-creation and collaboration.
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Foroughi, Javad, Farzad Safaei, Raad Raad, and Teodor Mitew. "Advances in Wearable Sensors: Signalling the Provenance of Garments Using Radio Frequency Watermarks." Sensors 20, no. 22 (November 20, 2020): 6661. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20226661.
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There is a significant nascent market for ethically produced products with enormous commercial potential around the world. A reliable method to signal the provenance of products is therefore critical for industry, given that competition based on price is not a viable strategy. The ability to trace and signal ethical treatment of animals is also of significant value to textiles manufactures. The efficacy of such a method can be measured with respect to the cost of implementation, scalability, and the difficulty of counterfeiting. The key to traceability is to win the trust of the consumer about the veracity of this information. Wearable sensors make it possible to monitor and improve the management of traceability and/or provenance. In this paper, we introduce a method for signalling the provenance of garments using radio frequency watermarks. The proposed model consists of two levels of authentication that are easy to use by legitimate vendors, but extremely difficult to imitate or hack, because the watermark is built-in and based on the radiation signature of electroactive materials.