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Creative business education: exploring contours of pedagogical praxis
No full textThis volume critically analyses the conceptual contours of pedagogical transformations in the field of creative business education. It calls for an integrated and ethnographic approach to understand, to analyse and to innovate creative curricula that is different from traditional business and management educations and its compliant culture. The book argues for a pluriversal vision based on social intelligence, critical thinking, inclusivity and creativity resulting in a holistic pedagogy that understands the social needs of people and of the planet. The critical reflections on everyday realities of life is central to this intercultural pedagogic approach to understanding and explaining different forms of contemporary crisis. The book brings together interdisciplinary academic practitioners and their praxis with different philosophical orientations within a single ethnographic and theoretical narrative to reclaim global citizenship rights in the age of artificial intelligence, democratic deficit, hyperreality and alienation. In this way, the volume breaks away from the narrow silo of disciplinary boundaries to outline the pedagogical praxis of creative and critical business education that challenges existing knowledge, power and institutions while offering alternative pedagogic approaches to learning, teaching and research
The organisational context of decision support system and expert system construction, implementation and evaluation
No full textPart one considers system evaluation, concentrating on the nature and evaluation of success and failure in ES, DSS and information technology (IT) and offering criteria for such assessments which are then applied to a sample of organisations. It assesses whether IT projects should be regarded as different from any other investment proposal. This part further considers the strategic argument in IT implementation and the inhibitions this provides for rigorous evaluation. Part two looks at the organisational use and role of the technology, encompassing organisational design and the nature of organisational expertise. It investigates current DSS and ES use and finds that this does not correspond to existing models; it proposes a value-added model of DSS and ES differentiation. Part two also examines the implications of DSS and ES for organisational restructuring, offering a model to assist in examination. Part three explores human information processing (HIP) and its relationship to the systems in question. It looks at the efffects of gender on DSS design and the penultimate paper in this part provides a link back to part one, addressing the nature of success from an HIP perspective. Finally, part four moves on to the development of models for use in DSS and ES model and rule-bases, describing the development of a network scheduling system and a set of sophisticated model bases within the management accounting domain.</p
Scenario networks to align and specify strategic information systems: a case-based study
No full textContemporary conceptions of the planning component of strategy stress the need for an accommodating approach. This is seen alternatively as contingent planning, where commitments are made stage-by-stage as the surrounding situation develops, or as a robust response, where the emphasis is on retaining freedom of manoeuvre through flexibility. In either concept, the strategic information system (SIS), as a critical asset of the firm, needs to accommodate (and indeed often shape) the emerging strategic plan. This paper presents a method based on discrete state networks that allows close mutual development of the overall strategic plan for a firm and its SIS. The method presents the future in a network of scenarios between which the firm can move. By considering desired trajectories in the network of scenarios the firm can identify the developmental requirements needed to bring about the movement between future states. The high-level SIS specification emerges from this trajectory analysis. An extensive worked example of an insurance firm is used to illustrate the method
Impact of e-business on perceived supply chain risks
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand the risks managers and individual supply chains perceive from e-business. Design/methodology/approach: This research takes a long-term, staged view of the risks managers and individual supply chains perceive from e-business. By taking a two-stage approach, investigating four supply chains at a three year interval, the research considers perceived risks from e-business and the extent to which these risks obtained. Findings: E-business has the potential to deliver substantial benefits, but it also involves new and different risks. This research finds that small firms (SMEs) adopted a "watching brief" rather than implemented e-business. Between the two studies it emerges that e-business can support rather than detract from inter-organisational relationships. Global forces are in evidence in terms of low cost competition, but low cost competitors are not e-enabled. Research limitations/implications: Limitations, pragmatism and opportunism in the sampling is acknowledged. For example, the work and concepts that led to the expectation of e-business dominating and decimating industrial supply chains may have been based in chains more open to external forces than the ones examined here. Further research is required that identifies the minimum critical mass necessary to retain national manufacturing capacity at a chain or sector level, and empirical work is needed on the suggested link between supply chain stability and certainty of payment. The cases here are based on four UK supply chains, so various chain forms are likely to have been excluded. Originality/value: This research, by taking a staged approach and going back to the same chain and reviewing perceived risks, identifies how the build up of numerous - but small - events, for example factory closures, can aggregate over time to be just as significant as high profile, headline-worthy risks. Methods that produce a snapshot such as a one-off survey may be inadequate for fully exploring an area such as risk. Especially if the risks are hard to assess and are biased toward high profile events - catastrophic risks rather than accumulations of smaller, less noticeable risks.</p
Towards a knowledge management consultation system
No full textKnowledge is a source of competitive advantage but moves towards inter-organizational collaboration mean that firms must give a high priority to knowledge management to ensure that they obtain maximum benefit from both internally generated and acquired knowledge. Knowledge transfer either to collaborators or internally is performed both on a person-to-person basis or more often by machine-to-person interaction. While knowledge management has been researched, there is little work that tries to model the fundamental interactions between repositories of knowledge or expertise and those seeking to acquire it. This paper introduces the concept of a knowledge management consultation system. The paper provides a characterization of the structure and functioning of such a system, in particular considering its necessary components, and distinguishes between knowledge, need and the carriers of these components. A model incorporating these components is proposed and an example is used to illustrate the scope and relationship of the components within the model. Implications of the model and its role in a research agenda for organizationally useful knowledge management systems are presented
Reflections on information systems practice, education and research: 10 years of the Information Systems Journal
No full textThis paper celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Information Systems Journal (ISJ) and the Editors reflect on the papers that have been published over that period and the changes that have occurred in the discipline of information systems. In the opening paper of ISJ, we suggested that the 'launch of a new journal in information systems prompts thought and debate concerning the state of the subject area and some contemplation of its past and future'. We discussed three areas of this 'not-yet-established discipline': practice, education and research. In this follow-up paper, we forgo our convention of ISJ editors not publishing in the Journal. We examine the issues raised in the first paper and consider what has happened in the intervening years as charted in the ISJ. The overview is necessarily selective, probably Anglocentric (with, perhaps, a slight Francophile tinge), sometimes downright opinionated, as well as over-estimating, perhaps, the contribution of one particular IS journal
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
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