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Techno-Economic and Sustainable Challenges for EV Adoption in India: Analysis of the Impact of EV Usage Patterns and Policy Recommendations for Facilitating Seamless Integration
Get PDFThis paper explores the intricate challenges that are impeding the widespread adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and explores the concerted efforts of the research community towards addressing these obstacles. The surge in interest surrounding EVs as a sustainable transportation alternative is undeniable, yet several hurdles persist in hindering their mass acceptance. From limitations in battery technology and charging infrastructure to concerns over range anxiety and manufacturing sustainability, these challenges form a multifaceted barrier. However, the research community has been actively engaged in tackling each issue with innovative solutions. Advancements in battery chemistry and energy storage, coupled with improvements in charging networks and smart grid integration, are poised to reshape the EV landscape. Moreover, studies on user behavior, public policy, and lifecycle analysis are contributing to the development of holistic strategies for enhancing EV adoption. By delving into these challenges and the ongoing research endeavors, this paper sheds light on the evolving pathway towards a future where EVs can thrive as a mainstream mode of transportation. Also, an analysis is conducted to evaluate the economic viability of EVs based on daily range considerations, with the objective of determining which category of users would benefit most from adopting EVs. Furthermore, policies are proposed that are aimed at establishing a harmonious and balanced EV ecosystem
A Typology of Business Model Reconfiguration in Incumbent Firms
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to shed light on patterns of change in incumbent firms and, in doing so, identify different types of approaches to business model reconfiguration (BMR). Drawing on data spanning a 10-year period in the empirical context of mature, low-tech firms in the Swedish wood manufacturing industry, this paper develops a typology of BMR approaches, namely Incremental, Modular, Integrated and Transformational BMR. The paper illustrates the nature of these types and offers several insights into the meaning and significance of each for our understanding of BMR and the design of business models in general
How do you enable business model innovation to thrive in your organisation?
Get PDFIn this interview-based article, Professor Christian Nielsen summons two of the latest decades’ biggest management thinkers, the two inventors of the Business Model Canvas, Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, for a conversation about the current challenges for companies in doing business model innovation. According to Alex and Yves, companies face two major challenges. First, companies have inadequate governance structures for allowing innovators to do decent work, and second, the old guard knows jack shit about innovation. Unfortunately, it is precisely the old guard sitting with the management reigns at this time. Our conversation identifies three enablers to help overcome these challenges. First, the enabler is about ensuring leadership commitment and allocating management time to innovation. The second enabler is the ability to kill ideas. This is important, because every company needs to focus its innovation efforts, besides ensuring that budgets and resources are channeled in the most fruitful directions. The third enabler is building an innovation culture that coexists with an exploitation culture and where innovators can thrive. In successful companies, innovators are not pirates; they are highly esteemed contributors to corporate success. Finally, we get a sneak peek at their current work focus
Testing texture in presidential inaugural address: Variation across culture
Get PDFThis study adopts the Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), specifically the textual metafunction, to explore cohesion in Ghanaian and American Presidential Inaugural Addresses (PIAs). The SFL theory is aided by the corpus-assisted approach to text analysis. In all, sixteen PIAs given by different presidents from the American and Ghanaian contexts constitute the corpus for the study. The findings revealed that both Ghanaian and American presidents make use of all the four grammatical cohesive devices as texture creation agents in their inaugural speeches. However, these cohesive agents were deployed at different frequencies. Unlike their Ghanaian counterparts, the American presidents chose grammatical cohesive devices that were comparatively more diverse. The findings have implications for the SFL theory and other research works on texture in political discourse in general and PIAs in particular
How closer can methodologies approach life? The study of “bodily knowing” in Japan
Get PDF"Bodily knowing" or "shintai chi" has emerged in Japan since the 1990s in sports and exercise science, education, and cognitive science. This paper explores specific methodologies used in bodily knowing research to shed light on its future development. Bodily knowing encompasses skills, movements, and knowledge rooted in the body. Various fields advocate for studying bodily knowing, recognizing its potential. The paper highlights existing methodologies in bodily knowing research, including analyzing sports and movement skills, exploring aesthetics in everyday life, and self-support research by individuals with disabilities. These methodologies reveal aspects that traditional scientific approaches may neglect and offer insights into constructing a potent methodology for bodily knowing research
How to Apply Somaesthetics? Practices, Methods, and Research Design in Somaesthetic Approach
Get PDFIn this article, I address the field of somaesthetics from the perspective of a researcher and pedagogue. I propose ways to apply the analytic, pragmatic, and practical dimensions of somaesthetics in the academic context. I also consider what defines a somaesthetic inquiry, how we could construct our research designs and evaluate our methods, and why it is essential to articulate somaesthetic knowledge in an accessible and credible way. I reflect on these questions with reference to the texts by philosopher Richard Shusterman and soma design researcher Kristina Höök. The article aims to illuminate the main characteristics of somaesthetics and outline some possible methodological directions, especially for researchers, pedagogues, developers, artists, and students who wish to conduct their somaesthetic inquiries in academia
Foraging Amid Perplexity: Queer Pragmatism, Neuropragmatism, and the Erotic Arts
Get PDFI address Shusterman’s challenge to develop a more inclusive and progressive ars erotica by relating it to Malabou’s challenge to recognize the bodily effects practicing philosophy has on identity. I frame these challenges in neuropragmatic terms, specifically its evolutionary conceptions of experience, inquiry, and intelligence. Through this framing, both somaesthetics and neuropragmatism are faced with perplexities from Malabou’s invitation to queer thinking itself. I draw on queer pragmatism to propose some initial responses that deliberately resist resolution
Academic Filmmaking in the New Humanities: Articles. Introduction to the special issue
Get PDFThe article provides an introduction to the first of a pair of special issues devoted to academic filmmaking, which, apart from this introduction, contains eleven prose articles. The article describes the variety of filmmaking practice in the academy, and some of the venues where examples of the practice are published or exhibited. It gestures at the multiple origins of academic filmmaking with special reference to the tradition of the essay film, and finds a key reflexive moment in Eric S. Faden’s (prose) “Manifesto for Critical Media” (2008), which articulated the challenge of using “image, voice, pacing, text, sound, music, montage, rhythm” to create scholarly audiovisual work. The introduction goes on to set out the aims for the special issues, and to describe the contents of the eleven articles in the first issue and some of the features, concerns or approaches shared between and across those contents. The eleven articles deal with themes raging from academic filmmaking as activism, to vulnerability and embodiment, to the challenges of production and publishing, and of institutional legitimization.
 
Economics and ethics: Is economics a moral science?
Get PDFThe contemporary macroeconomic mainstream has faced substantial scrutiny, particularly from economists with more heterodox perspectives. They argue that its assertion of modern economies operating smoothly along an intertemporal equilibrium path lacks alignment with real-world circumstances. Historical evidence shows that such harmony is rarely the norm. However, the conventional viewpoint is open to diverse criticisms. Is it possible for the field of economics to evade its inherent ethical and moral dimensions? Within macroeconomics, there appears to be an absence of ethical grounding. This article addresses this question