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Die Offenheit betrieblicher Innovationsprozesse. Eine mechanismenbasierte Analyse von Innovationsprojekten in der Windenergieindustrie
No full textIn unstable, changing fields, companies must open up their innovation processes and integrate the technical knowledge of heterogeneous actors (customers, suppliers, development partners, research institutions and approval bodies) to develop new technologies in accordance with set quality targets and time frames, despite potentially inconsistent technical requirements. However, cooperation agreements and intellectual property rights are not sufficient for inducing knowledge-sharing among development partners. Rather - and this is the central thesis of this dissertation - the success of open innovation processes depends on social norms and binding expectations that emerge out of the process of technology development. In order to verify this social mechanism, the dissertation investigates reasons for the failure of technology development in six innovation projects in the wind energy industry.In instabilen, im Wandel begriffenen Feldern müssen Unternehmen ihre Innovationprozesse öffnen, um das technische Wissen heterogener Akteure (Kunden, Zulieferer, Entwicklungspartner, Forschungseinrichtungen, Zulassungsstellen) zu integrieren und Technologieprojekte trotz potenziell inkonsistenter technischer Anforderungen innerhalb gegebener Zeit- und Qualitätsvorgaben zu realisieren. Damit die Entwicklungspartner ihr Wissen preisgeben, reichen Kooperationsverträge und Schutzrechte jedoch nicht aus. Vielmehr - so die zentrale These der Dissertation - basiert der Erfolg offener Innovationsprozesse auf sozialen Normen und verpflichtenden Erwartungen der kollaborativen Technologieentwicklung und Wissensintegration, die erst im Einführungsprozess institutionalisiert werden. Um diesen sozialen Mechanismus anhand von sechs Innovationsprojekten in der Windenergieindustrie empirisch zu überprüfen, fragt der Autor daher zugespitzt, woran die Einführung innovativer Technologien scheitert
Auswirkungen der Corona-Krise auf betriebliche Transformationsprozesse in produzierenden Unternehmen
No full textVor dem Hintergrund der weitreichenden staatlichen Eingriffe zur Eindämmung des Coronavirus seit dem Frühjahr 2020 fragt die vorliegende Studie, wie sich diese Maßnahmen auf betriebliche Transformationsprozesse bei produzierenden Unternehmen auswirkten. Fünf Fallstudien produzierender Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Größen und Branchen liefern dabei qualitative Einblicke in die betrieblichen Umgangsweisen mit der Krise und diskutieren die Auswirkungen der Krise auf laufende Transformationsprozesse. Im Fall des kleinsten Unternehmens für Oberflächenveredelungen stoppte die Krise die Transformation betrieblicher Innovationsprozesse abrupt (Fall A). Im Fall eines weltweit führenden Spezialisten für Sensortechniken hatte die Krise kaum Auswirkungen auf dessen laufende Vorbereitungen für industrielle Transformationen (Fall B). Im Fall eines traditionellen Lieferanten hochwertiger Komponenten bremste die Corona-Krise die avisierte digitale Transformation (Fall C). Im Fall eines innovativen Unternehmens der Medizintechnikbranche verlangsamte sich dessen starkes Wachstum aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie (Fall D). Im letzten Fall eines großen Lieferanten und Produzenten für Bahntechniken beschleunigte die Krise eher den seit Jahrzehnten laufenden Transformationsprozess des Unternehmens (Fall E). Die Untersuchung liefert außerdem Einschätzungen, wie produzierende Unternehmen bei der Krisenbewältigung zukünftig besser unterstützt werden können.Against the backdrop of far-reaching state interventions to contain the Corona virus since the early 2020s, this study asks how these measures have affected transformation processes in manufacturing companies. Five case studies of producing firms of different sizes and from different industries provide qualitative insights into how businesses have dealt with the crisis, discussing the impact of the crisis on ongoing transformation processes. In the case of the smallest company in the sample (case A), the crisis abruptly halted the transformation of its innovation processes. In the case of a world-leading sensor technology specialist (case B), the crisis had little impact on its ongoing preparations for industrial transformation. In the case of a traditional supplier of high-quality components (case C), the Corona crisis slowed down the process of digital transformation. In the case of an innovative company in the medical technology sector (case D), its rapid growth was decelerated due to the Corona crisis. In the last case of a large developer and producer of railway technologies (case E), the crisis accelerated the company's ongoing transformation in terms of new digital products, work processes and management styles. The study also provides an assessment of how manufacturing companies can be better supported in overcoming the crisis
Auswirkungen der Corona-Krise auf betriebliche Transformationsprozesse in produzierenden Unternehmen: Begleitforschung zur Arbeitsweltberichterstattung im Auftrag des BMAS, Bd. 2
Get PDFVor dem Hintergrund der weitreichenden staatlichen Eingriffe zur Eindämmung des Coronavirus seit dem Frühjahr 2020 fragt die vorliegende Studie, wie sich diese Maßnahmen auf betriebliche Transformationsprozesse bei produzierenden Unternehmen auswirkten. Fünf Fallstudien produzierender Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Größen und Branchen liefern dabei qualitative Einblicke in die betrieblichen Umgangsweisen mit der Krise und diskutieren die Auswirkungen der Krise auf laufende Transformationsprozesse. Im Fall des kleinsten Unternehmens für Oberflächenveredelungen stoppte die Krise die Transformation betrieblicher Innovationsprozesse abrupt (Fall A). Im Fall eines weltweit führenden Spezialisten für Sensortechniken hatte die Krise kaum Auswirkungen auf dessen laufende Vorbereitungen für industrielle Transformationen (Fall B). Im Fall eines traditionellen Lieferanten hochwertiger Komponenten bremste die Corona-Krise die avisierte digitale Transformation (Fall C). Im Fall eines innovativen Unternehmens der Medizintechnikbranche verlangsamte sich dessen starkes Wachstum aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie (Fall D). Im letzten Fall eines großen Lieferanten und Produzenten für Bahntechniken beschleunigte die Krise eher den seit Jahrzehnten laufenden Transformationsprozess des Unternehmens (Fall E). Die Untersuchung liefert außerdem Einschätzungen, wie produzierende Unternehmen bei der Krisenbewältigung zukünftig besser unterstützt werden können.Against the backdrop of far-reaching state interventions to contain the Corona virus since the early 2020s, this study asks how these measures have affected transformation processes in manufacturing companies. Five case studies of producing firms of different sizes and from different industries provide qualitative insights into how businesses have dealt with the crisis, discussing the impact of the crisis on ongoing transformation processes. In the case of the smallest company in the sample (case A), the crisis abruptly halted the transformation of its innovation processes. In the case of a world-leading sensor technology specialist (case B), the crisis had little impact on its ongoing preparations for industrial transformation. In the case of a traditional supplier of high-quality components (case C), the Corona crisis slowed down the process of digital transformation. In the case of an innovative company in the medical technology sector (case D), its rapid growth was decelerated due to the Corona crisis. In the last case of a large developer and producer of railway technologies (case E), the crisis accelerated the company's ongoing transformation in terms of new digital products, work processes and management styles. The study also provides an assessment of how manufacturing companies can be better supported in overcoming the crisis
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
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