751 research outputs found

    Culture in global business transformation projects : the discovery of a grounded theory

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    Presently organisations engage in what is termed as Global Business Transformation Projects [GBTPs], for consolidating, innovating, transforming and restructuring their processes and business strategies while undergoing fundamental change. Culture plays an important role in global business transformation projects as these involve people of different cultural backgrounds and span across countries, industries and disciplinary boundaries. Nevertheless, there is scant empirical research on how culture is conceptualised beyond national and organisational cultures but also on how culture is to be taken into account and dealt with within global business transformation projects.\ud \ud This research is situated in a business context and discovers a theory that aids in describing and dealing with culture. It draws on the lived experiences of thirty-two senior management practitioners, reporting on more than sixty-one global business transformation projects in which they were actively involved. The research method used is a qualitative and interpretive one and applies a grounded theory approach, with rich data generated through interviews. In addition, vignettes were developed to illustrate the derived theoretical models.\ud \ud The findings from this study contribute to knowledge in multiple ways. First, it provides a holistic account of global business transformation projects that describe the construct of culture by the elements of culture types, cultural differences and cultural diversity. A typology of culture types has been developed which enlarges the view of culture beyond national and organisational culture including an industry culture, professional service firm culture and 'theme' culture. The amalgamation of the culture types instantiated in a global business transformation project compromises its project culture. Second, the empirically grounded process for managing culture in global business transformation projects integrates the stages of recognition, understanding and management as well as the enablement providing a roadmap for dealing with culture in global business transformation projects. Third, this study identified contextual variables to global business transformation projects, which provide the means of describing the environment global business transformation projects are situated, influence the construct of culture and inform the process for managing culture. Fourth, the contribution to the research method is the positioning of interview research as a strategy for data generation and the detailed documentation applying grounded theory to discover theory

    Semi-supervised classification of injection moulding processes

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    Author DI Oliver Reiter, BScMasterarbeit Universität Linz 2023Arbeit nach Ablauf der Sperre auf den öffentlichen PCs in den Bibliotheken der JKU+Medizin abrufba

    Fearless Radicalism: Alice Paul and Her Fight for Women’s Suffrage

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    About the author Anna Reiter is a senior majoring in history accompanied by a minor in political science. She is a member of Phi Alpha Theta and the Honors Program and will receive her BA in December, 2013

    Ruth Beckermann und die jüdische Nachkriegsgeneration in Österreich

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    This essay focuses on the film trilogy of the Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann: Wien retour (1983), Die papierene Brücke (1987) and Nach Jerusalem (1991). It locates Beckermann as a Jewish intellectual and writer in the socio-historical context of post-war Austria. The essay draws on information gained from an interview with Beckermann conducted by the author

    Photoprotecting uracil by coupling with lossy nanocavities

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    We analyze how the photorelaxation dynamics of a molecule can be controlled by modifying its electromagnetic environment using a nanocavity mode. In particular, we consider the photorelaxation of the RNA nucleobase uracil, which is the natural mechanism to prevent photodamage. In our theoretical work, we identify the operative conditions in which strong coupling with the cavity mode can open an efficient photoprotective channel, resulting in a relaxation dynamics twice as fast as the natural one. We rely on a state-of-the-art chemically detailed molecular model and a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian propagation approach to perform full-quantum simulations of the system dissipative dynamics. By focusing on the photon decay, our analysis unveils the active role played by cavity-induced dissipative processes in modifying chemical reaction rates, in the context of molecular polaritonics. Remarkably, we find that the photorelaxation efficiency is maximized when an optimal trade-off between light-matter coupling strength and photon decay rate is satisfied. This result is in contrast with the common intuition that increasing the quality factor of nanocavities and plasmonic devices improves their performance. Finally, we use a detailed model of a metal nanoparticle to show that the speedup of the uracil relaxation could be observed via coupling with a nanosphere pseudomode, without requiring the implementation of complex nanophotonic structuresThis work has been funded by the European Research Council through Grants ERC-2016-StG- 714870 (S. Felicetti, J. Feist, and J. Fregoni) and ERC-2015- CoG-681285 (J. Fregoni, PI Stefano Corni) and by the Spanish Ministry for Science, Innovation, and Universities - Agencia Estatal de Investigación through Grants RTI2018- 099737-B-I00, PCI2018-093145 (through the QuantERA program of the European Commission), and MDM-2014- 0377 (through the Marıá de Maeztu program for Units of Excellence in R&D). T. Schnappinger and R. de Vivie-Riedle gratefully acknowledge the DFG Normalverfahren. S. Reiter gratefully acknowledges financial support by the International Max Planck Research School of Advanced Photon Science (IMPRS-APS

    Further studies on radioactive fallout: progress report no. 2, September 1965

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    Includes bibliographical references.Sponsored by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission AT(11-1)-1340.Heavy iodine-131 fallout over the midwestern United States, May 1962 / E. R. Reiter and J. D. Mahlman -- Case study of mass transport from stratosphere to troposphere, not associated with surface fallout / E. R. Reiter and J. D. Mahlman -- Relation of tropopause-level index changes to radioactive fallout fluctuations / J. D. Mahlman -- Behavior of jet streams in potential fallout situations / E. R. Reiter -- Development of computer programs for computation of Montgomery stream functions and plotting of thermodynamic diagrams / J. D. Mahlman and W. Kamm

    Wind forecasting techniques for input into an automatic air traffic control (ATC) system: final report

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    July 1962.CER62ERR51.Prepared by Colorado State University for the Research Division of the Systems Research and Development Service, Federal Aviation Agency under Contract ARDS-450.A. Introduction: purpose and scope of project / Elmar R. Reiter -- B. Checking and preparing of input data / Ben Duran, Genevieve S. Garst, and Elmar R. Reiter -- C. Current status of numerical analysis / Ferdinand Baer -- D. Forecasting experiments with a kinematic extrapolation technique / Elmar R. Reiter and Patricia White -- E. Outlook for future work / Elmar R. Reiter

    FEniCS implementation of a decoupled numerical Finite Element scheme for the Ericksen-Leslie Equations

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    FEniCS implementation of a decoupled numerical Finite Element scheme for the Ericksen-Leslie Equations equipped with the Dirichlet Energy. Funding: The author acknowledges financial support received in the form of a Ph.D. scholarship from the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation for Freedom (dt.: Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit) with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – The Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+ (EXC-2046/1, project ID: 390685689).If you use this software, please cite it using the metadata from this file
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