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Customer Oriented Ideation and its Impact on Customer Adoption of New Solutions
Full text linkCustomer adoption of new solutions is critical for the development of the modern business environment, and both academics and practitioners have been investigating this notion to uncover the customer adoption patterns to progress business and withstand competition. Despite the variety of marketing research techniques and practices commonly used to obtain customer data it has been said that the customers that “talk the talk” do not always “walk the walk” of innovation adoption. The challenge remains unchanged: making innovation accessible and easy to adopt in consumers’ everyday lives.
This thesis is looking into the processes of creating new solutions to identify the key drivers within the ideation processes that facilitate adoption. The research inquiry is supported by the tendencies in the industry, where, despite the increasing number of new technologies and approaches aimed to develop better products, the success-to-failure ratios remain quite low. The aim of the study is to design an integrative theoretical framework, explaining the drivers of ideation, the impact of customer orientation within ideation, and the influence it has on innovation adoption.
The author used integrated methodology, combining the best practices of the deductive approach, commonly applied in conceptual works, and qualitative research methodology, where further insights were uncovered via interviews and a focus group. In this research project, the integrated methodology has been applied to combine the strengths of each of the research techniques and uncover insights into the complex notions and relationships under investigation.
The findings include the introduction of COI and the three-dimensional model, facilitating the solutions development practice, aiming to help achieve a more sustainable growth within the service industries. The author has introduced a novel notion of Customer Oriented Ideation (COI) that focuses on the use of customer insights within the solutions development process and its impact on the market success. The author has also developed a questionnaire for further quantitative investigation of the framework, and further refined it via a pilot study
Alternative development indicators
No full textAbstract: This bachelor thesis deals with the issue of alternative development indicators and their use in assessing the socioeconomic progress of the Visegrad Group countries. Traditional measurement of development through gross domestic product is currently increasingly criticized for its limited ability to capture broader aspects of human well-being. The aim of this thesis is therefore to compare selected alternative development indices, specifically the Human Development Index (HDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII), the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), and the Gross National Happiness Index (GNH), in the Visegrad Group countries – the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary. The practical part of the thesis focuses on a comparative analysis of the development of these indicators in individual countries of the region. Secondary data from national statistical offices and international databases for the period 2004–2022 were used for the analysis. Methodologically, the thesis is based on descriptive and correlation analysis, which allow for the identification of differences in the level and dynamics of development as well as the interrelationships between individual indicators. The results of the work show that alternative indicators provide a more comprehensive view of development than traditional economic indicators and are a suitable tool for assessing the sustainable and inclusive development of the Visegrad Group countries.Abstrakt: Bakalářská práce se zabývá problematikou alternativních indikátorů rozvoje a jejich využitím při hodnocení socioekonomického pokroku zemí Visegrádské skupiny. Tradiční měření rozvoje prostřednictvím hrubého domácího produktu je v současné době stále častěji kritizováno pro svou omezenou schopnost zachytit širší aspekty lidského blahobytu. Cílem práce je proto komparace vybraných alternativních indexů rozvoje, konkrétně indexu lidského rozvoje (HDI), indexu genderové nerovnosti (GII), indexu vícerozměrné chudoby (MPI) a indexu hrubého národního štěstí (GNH), ve státech Visegrádské skupiny – České republice, Polsku, Slovensku a Maďarsku. Praktická část práce je zaměřena na komparativní analýzu vývoje těchto ukazatelů v jednotlivých zemích regionu. Pro analýzu byla využita sekundární data z národních statistických úřadů a mezinárodních databází v období let 2004–2022. Metodicky práce vychází z deskriptivní a korelační analýzy, které umožňují identifikovat rozdíly v úrovni a dynamice rozvoje i vzájemné vztahy mezi jednotlivými indikátory. Výsledky práce ukazují, že alternativní indikátory poskytují komplexnější pohled na rozvoj než tradiční ekonomické ukazatele a představují vhodný nástroj pro hodnocení udržitelného a inkluzivního rozvoje zemí Visegrádské skupiny
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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