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As systems become more complex and have longer lifespans, they will likely encounter contextual variation or be themselves subject to change. Systems need to not only be feasible but viable as well. That is, they need to be able to continue to provide value in spite of any potential exogenous or endogenous changes. Viability has been defined for other domains, but it has not been defined for engineered...
Due to Internet and social media web, the world as we know it is deeply changing integrating two different aspects of the social interaction: the one that develop in the real world and the one that develop in web society. In this paper we focus on the importance of generalized knowledge (agents' categories) in order to understand how much it is crucial in these two worlds. The cognitive advantage...
Under settings of China's economic transition period, strategic flexibility is the crucial capability to allow the Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to proact or respond timely and effectively to quickly changing conditions. Starting from the perspective of top management team (TMT) and its members' leadership sources, this paper explored the impact of TMT managerial discretion on...
Innovation culture is relatively at a slow pace in South Africa compared to other countries. Leadership plays a critical role in creating an innovation culture within orgainsations. Due to globalization, uncertainties, technology, lack of skills and innovative leadership style, many orgainsations are struggling to survive firmly. This study was aimed to develop an innovative model by applying the...
Group disruptions are very prevalent in practice, yet only little research examines them. We extended the literature on group disruption by exploring its antecedents and consequents. We proposed both perception of guanxi (a Chinese indigenous variable) and perceived organizational politics (an external environmental factor) played roles in group disruption phenomenon, suggesting that group members...
The study on the dynamic capabilities of supply chain and enterprise development in turbulent environment will be the further deepening and development of resource-based theory. This paper plans to first analyze the concept of the dynamic capabilities of supply chain, and then carries out theoretical and empirical analyses on components of the supply chain's dynamic capabilities. By using exploratory...
Through scenarios describing the traditional organization structures, this paper makes an advancement, shows how Equipment Efficient Support cobweb organization structure works much more efficient than the traditional structures by scientific analysis and evaluation of them, and proved by the Order Degree model which is built on entropy theory. This finding provides an academic base for developing...
Empowerment is an effective management tool and has made tremendous benefits for employees and organizations, which has been approved by many studies and practices. However in China, it is so common that managers don't want to empower. So the main aim of this research is to analyze that phenomenon from the perspective of empowerment risk perception. From the data of 209 managers and 618 subordinates...
Research has demonstrated how successful coordination can lead to greater organizational performance. In information technology (IT) project-based environments, coordinating the knowledge needed to perform activities is a particularly salient issue. Indeed, research has demonstrated how team cognition, or the awareness team members have about each other's capabilities, is a critical factor for project...
The growing number of PKIs (Public Key Infrastructure) and the increasing number of situations where partners of a transaction may carry certificates signed by different CAs (Certification Authority) point out the problematic of trust between the different CAs. The degree to which a relying party can trust a CA depends upon the quality of its announced policy and its commitment to this policy. In...
We present a practical, systematical method for the evaluation of the soft error rate (SER) of microelectronic devices. Existing methodologies, practices and tools are integrated in a common approach while highlighting the need for specific data or tools. The showcased method is particularly adapted for evaluating the SER of very complex microelectronic devices by engineers confronted to increasingly...
How should a company organize a project team to develop new products? This study examined the relative effectiveness of four types of team structures by comparing the performance of 559 development projects in terms of development cost, new product development speed, and product commercial success. The results indicate that in general, autonomous team structure is superior to other team structures,...
With an increased focus on national security and public safety communications, the US Congress revisited its plan to reclaim television broadcaster frequencies to be reallocated and auctioned by the FCC and it specifically allocated a portion of that spectrum for use by public safety. The FCC was charged with the duty of auctioning this spectrum and licensing it to create a public safety network....
Dimensional analysis from a single image is an interesting topic of investigation in the research community, even though range sensors are becoming a common alternative for the generation of metric information in real-time. The interest in obtaining metric measurements from a single image is motivated by a wide spectrum of applications such as cultural heritage, civil engineering, urban planning,...
As Grid networks grows, the complexity of resource management in Grid networks dramatically increases. To manage the Grid resources efficiently, policy based resource management system is suitable. However, the policy which made at a moment could not be appropriate to other time because the condition of the grid resources with time space changes. Thus, in this paper, we propose asynchronous policy-based...
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