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Seminal article [14] on “Building theories from Case Study Research” has motivated researchers of diverse areas to adopt case study methodology to build concepts and theories and case research on TQM implementation concepts is no exception. The purpose of this paper is to identify the critical success & failure factors for TQM Implementation from the real case analysis. It has been found that...
Adequate documentation is critical for successful implementation, maintenance and further developments of product configuration system (PCS) specially in companies making complex and highly engineered products. This article is based on experience of modelling and utilizing a PCS from an Engineer-To-Order (ETO), where the main focus is on the challenges concerned with the documentation of the PCS,...
The German initiative Industry 4.0 will involve amongst other issues networking and integration of several different parties (e.g., manufacturing companies, suppliers, customers, sub-contractors) through value networks. This initiative underpins that this collaborative partnership will only be feasible if standardization and open standards are available. For this purpose a reference architecture is...
Through a large-scaled quantitative research based on the theory of planned behavior, we intended to find out why people in Taiwan usually do or don't do electricity-saving behaviors at home. Four user types were discovered based on their goal, attitude, and behavior of electricity usage. By understanding the needs of different user types, we can take advantage of knowing users' needs to try to change...
Strategic entrepreneurship is an emergent research field which has gained increasing attention of researchers. In the process of strategic entrepreneurship, ambidexterity plays a key role. This paper illustrated the ambidexterity in entrepreneurship from a perspective of dynamic capability, to make a better understanding of entrepreneurship.
Biofuel has become a kind of promising energy to substitute fossil fuels for its huge potential on reducing carbon dioxide emission as well as solving energy shortage. However, non-technology problems, especially the supply chain management has become the important bottlenecks. This paper focused on subsidy contract of a three-level biofuel supply chain and formulated a model to maximize the profits...
The nature of cyberspace continues to evolve, and so do the associated threats. The focus of the cyber security industry is typically (and understandably) on high-value assets. However, there is a large user group intersecting with corporate and government IT users, which lacks the resources -- in terms of finance, time and/or knowledge -- to deal with the threats that they face. We argue that greater...
Developing centre for research and development (R&D) activities is crucial to provide and synergies the intellectual resources to generate ideas and new invention for the benefit of the people. Through empirical research, the novel methods and best practices could be identified both from academia and industry settings that can inform the factors that need proper planning and strategy in developing...
This paper describes how and why a Centre of Excellence for HPC and Engineering should be established and showcases the added value for its potential users. We list the necessary elements for creating a baseline and we describe the roles the different stakeholders of such a Centre are called to play. The Centre brings together (HPC) Resource Providers, Application/Code Owners and Business specialists...
Patent data has been used for generating patent-based indicators for tracking the technology development of high-tech companies. In this paper, we further show the promises of exploiting patent data for the analysis and prospecting of high-tech companies in the stock market. Specifically, we aim at investigating the relationship between the patent activities of high-tech companies and the dynamics...
The article presents the approach to the conceptualization of the financial knowledge used for an Intelligent Dashboard for Managers. The content of the knowledge is focused on essential financial concepts and relationships related to the management of small and medium enterprises (SME). That includes the illustration of the conceptualization of the ontology. The designed ontology was split into six...
Many countries like the US, Brazil, Australia, Canada and some European countries have proposed policies to encourage the use of biofuels by the implementation of regulations to encourage their use in the different sectors of the economy. Among them we find the public transport sector. It is still difficult to assess the potential environmental and social benefits of the use of biofuels because they...
Tactical planning consists of developing production plans to fulfill client demands with a minimal logistic cost. However, plans generated by classical models for tactical planning do not consider a minimum financial need in terms of Working Capital Requirements (WCR) to maintain the activities related to the operating cycle. In this paper, we introduce a first link between tactical planning and the...
Emerging business models such as digital ecosystems involving collaborative innovation, participatory decision-making and flexible organizational structures are set to significantly affect inter- and intra-enterprise structure and functionality. This has seen the appearance of increasingly complex Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) scenarios featuring various partnership levels, increased resilience...
Implementation of the sustainable policy guidelines at a company level is not an easy task. The decisions about resource allocation, changes in process organization or new investments should be considered taking into account their economic, environmental and social effects. Remanufacturing processes contributes to the fulfilment of the circular economy paradigm. The existing body of literature highlights...
Evolving metamodels are in the center of Model-Driven Engineering, necessitating the co-evolution of dependent artifacts like models and transformations. While model co-evolution has been extensively studied, transformation co-evolution has received less attention up to now. Current approaches for transformation co-evolution provide a fixed, restricted set of metamodel (MM) changes, only. Furthermore,...
Over the last decade, companies have been including social and environmental strategies in response to stakeholders demand. Efforts are been made to identify when a sustainable strategy can improve economic performance. Innovation is seen as the panacea, but recently, researchers have found that these innovations are really effective when are applied not only to products and process but to the entirely...
Process mining is a modern family of techniques applied to datasets generated from business processes run in organizations, in order to improve and obtain useful insights and performance measurements on the processes themselves (with clear societal and economical benefits). While these techniques are very promising in understanding business processes, their complete and efficient implementation inside...
In the strategic management field, the ecosystem concept is increasing significance. This paper provides an overview of 90 previous studies on the ecosystem concept published in leading academic journals in strategic management field and clarifies the four major research streams. The first perspective is the industrial ecosystem perspective, which is based on the concept of industrial ecology. The...
The automotive industry faces three major challenges - shortage of fossil fuels, politics of global warming and rising competition from new markets. In order to remain competitive companies have to develop more efficient and alternative fuel vehicles that meet the individual requirements of the customers. Functional integration combined with new technologies and materials are the key to stable success...
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