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Guenther Anders.
No full textDigital ImageThe author Guenther Anders was born on July 12, 1902 in Breslau, the son of William Stern.4607
Deling af spekulativ information på sociale medier:En ramme til forståelse af begrebet
No full text(...) I mange tilfælde er det dog ikke muligt at afgøre, hvorvidt en information er sand eller falsk. Sådan information benævner vi i denne artikel som“spekulativ information”. Denne type information har ikke fået megenopmærksomhed i litteraturen om fake news og disinformation, der oftestarbejder ud fra en implicit antagelse om, at der er tilstrækkeligt grundlagfor at kategorisere informationen som falsk, eller bare begrænser sit fokustil denne type situation. Med dette udgangspunkt argumenterer vi i denneartikel for, at spekulativ information også kan være højst problematisk,hvorfor dette informationsproblem også i større grad bør undersøges.Som argumenteret i litteraturen, så er den akademiske verdens færdigheder og stringens nødvendige for at løse problemerne med såkaldte “information disorders” (Wardle, 2018; Wardle og Derakhshan, 2017). Detteinvolverer, at vi som udgangspunkt forstår, hvad disse problemer omfatter. For at bidrage til dette, konceptualiserer vi i denne artikel fænomenet “spekulativ information”. I den sammenhæng har vi særlig fokus på kommunikation på sociale medier, som er karakteriseret ved korte beskeder,hvilket udfordrer mulighederne og normerne for at underbygge de delteinformationer.Først præsenterer vi en ramme til forståelse af spekulativ information. Dernæst identificerer vi problemtyper forbundet med spekulativ information. Artiklen afsluttes meden diskussion af, hvad der kan gøres for at mindske de negative konsekvenser af spekulativ information
Identifying variety-induced complexity cost factors in manufacturing companies and their impact on product profitability
Full text linkMany manufacturing companies experience increasing product variety, which not only leads to significantly increased operations’ costs but also to an uneven distribution of these costs across product variants. To deal with this challenge, managers need to accurately quantify the costs of product variety-induced complexity to understand its impact on company revenues. However, quantifying complexity costs is no trivial task, as both the variety-related factors that generate more complexity and the costs implied by these factors are specific to each company. Therefore, we extensively reviewed the relevant literature to build a list of possible complexity cost factors generated by product variety, which are here named variety-induced complexity cost factors (VCCFs). This list is intended to be used by managers as a reference set of VCCFs to help identify and subsequently quantify the costs of product variety-related complexity in manufacturing companies and finally attribute them to end product variants. To evaluate the usefulness of this list, the identified VCCFs were examined in six companies using both the judgment of managers and data from their enterprise resource planning systems. This empirical examination not only provides evidence of the usefulness of this list but also data, rarely available in academic literature, on the costs of product variety-induced complexity and its proportion of company revenue. It also suggests that it is important to research effective ways to get, elaborate, and present data to calculate the costs of product variety-related complexity and reports a viable approach used in six companies
The reduction of product and process complexity based on the quantification of product complexity costs
Full text linkComplexity management is an increasing challenge for industrial companies. To address this issue, this paper develops a procedure to reduce the complexity of products and processes. This procedure includes five steps: (1) definition of the scope of the products and processes to be included in the analysis, (2) grouping of products into A,B, and C categories, (3) identification and quantification of the most important complexity cost factors, (4) identification of initiatives for the possible reduction of complexity costs and the quantification of possible cost savings, and (5) evaluation and prioritisation of initiatives. To test the usefulness of the suggested procedure, it was applied at a globally leading manufacturer of mechanical consumer products. The case study demonstrated the usefulness of the proposed procedure in (1) supporting the allocation of complexity costs in relation to individual product variants, (2) achieving a better understanding of the cost structure of product assortment and business processes, and (3) providing a basis for generating and evaluating initiatives aimed at reducing the complexity of products and processes. The case study also showed that the use of the procedure can produce considerable financial benefits
Wolfgang Fritz Haug und Karl Marx : „Kritik der Warenästhetik“ und ihre theoretischen Ursprünge
No full textWolfgang Fritz Haug bemüht sich in seiner Schrift "Kritik der Warenästhetik" (1971/2009), die Manipulation der Konsument_innen durch die Ästhetisierung kapitalistischer Produkte zu begründen. In marxistischer Terminologie wirft er einen Blick auf die ökonomische Basis, um die (ästhetische) Herrichtung des Warenangebots zu beschreiben. Der Ursprung dieser Modifizierungen liegt nach Haugs Rekonstruktion in dem Austauschverhältnis der Waren begründet, das er, wie Karl Marx es im "Kapital" (1867) entwirft, skizziert. Anders als Marx widmet sich Haug aber weniger der grundlegenden Analyse der Warenform sondern dem bereits fortgeschrittenen Warentausch. Obwohl er eine "Kritik der Warenästhetik" schreibt, die sich in der Nachfolge marxistischer Theorie versteht, fehlt ihm ein Marx’scher Begriff der Ware selbst
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