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Spiraling between learning and alignment toward digital service innovation
No full textPurpose-This study aims to develop insight and theory on the process toward digital service innovation (DSI), and how companies deal with the rising complexity associated with DSI through organizational learning and alignment, both inside and outside of the organization. Design/methodology/approach-In-depth, longitudinal case studies of three manufacturers are developed as illustration, based on purposeful sampling. Per case, multiple semi-structured interviews are conducted, and insights are validated through additional data gathering. Each company's DSI process is reconstructed through critical incident technique. Next, through systematic combining, a middle-range theory is developed by proposing a theoretical frame and propositions concerning the relations between DSI, learning and alignment. Findings-We posit that, as companies gradually develop and progress toward DSI, they deal with a rising degree of complexity, fueling their learning needs. Companies that are apt to learn pass through multiple cycles of learning and alignment to overcome specific complexities associated with different DSI stages, with each cycle unlocking new DSI opportunities and challenges. 2 Originality-This study applies a stage-based view on DSI combined with complexity management and organizational learning and alignment theory. It offers a theoretical frame and propositions to be used by researchers for future DSI related studies, and by managers to evaluate alternative DSI related strategies and implementation steps
Essays on servitization
No full textAbstract: Servitization describes the addition of services to manufacturers\u2019 core product offerings to create additional customer value. This thesis contributes to the servitization research field through four empirical studies and one tool for practice. The first essay 'Boosting servitization through digitization' is concerned with the question how technology enables firms to offer better value to customers through services. In this essay, we explore different pathways for digitally-enabled servitization and apply the dynamic resource-based view to pinpoint specific resource configurations at different levels of dynamicity supporting each pathway. In the second essay 'Internal levers for servitization', we look into service upscaling from three perspectives, namely a content-, process- and context-perspective, to explore the organizational barriers that inhibit firms from servitization. We also develop and test a new methodology (consisting of a diagnostic instrument and set of workshops) to help firms upscale the service business. The third essay \u201cThe antecedents of digital servitization\u201d revisits the topic of technology-enabled servitization addressed earlier. Here, we use a dynamic capabilities perspective to investigate the relationships between firms\u2019 learning mechanisms and the likelihood of them developing a strategy for servitization, digitization, or a combination of the two, in a deductive fashion. In addition, from a contingency perspective, we consider the influence of the environment as a potential amplifier of these relationships. In the fourth essay \u201cWhat drives servitization?\u201d, we move into rather uncharted research territory: i.e., the microfoundations of servitization. One of the elements contributing to servitization success (or failure) is the motivation of the decision-maker(s) in charge of the service transition process. Contrary to the third essay, we use an abductive approach (the purpose being to develop theory rather than test it) and apply a behavioral strategy lens to explore the motivational and strategic drivers of decision-makers for servitization. The final essay \u201cAre you ready for servitization?\u201d is not an empirical study as such and therefore added as an appendix chapter at the end of the thesis. In this essay, we offer an assessment tool to be used by practitioners to measure firms\u2019 capacity for servitization. First, we zoom in on several aspects identified throughout the thesis that play a crucial role in the successful transition towards services. Next, we present the tool and discuss the results of two case firms that have applied it
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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