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Empirical analysis of determinants of adoption of proactive environmental strategies in India
No full textAdoption of cleaner technology for climate proactivity: a technology-firm-stakeholder framework
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Success factor of multinational business transformation change management
No full textAchieving operational excellence and producing the perfect product (right quality, right quantity, right time for right customer) is a common objective of all major manufacturers. This is done via introducing corporate programs, disrupting technologies, projects and initiatives that introduce changes to the way a business is conducted. The changes can be with respect to business process improvement, change in the roles and responsibilities, and re-organization . This impacts the employees of the organization who implement the change and requires to be managed properly to improve the adaptability and increase the effectiveness of the change. The change becomes significantly challenging in multinational organizations which are located across the globe. Multinationals needs to consider, not only the changes imposed by the new tools, but also the changes involved with dealing with organizational and international cultures. In this paper, the key success factors of multinational business optimization change management are discussed in detail. The paper focuses on the impact of the human factor on the success of user performance improvement and adoption rate based on a successful change management program. The paper also provides the results of a qualitative research study that emphases the effective of change management. The paper highlights the three level of change management (system initiative, organization and most importantly individuals). Despite the fact that senior management direction is a key success factor, the research results indicates that middle management plays a major role. Significantly impacting the success of the change. Depending on the size, speed and number of simultaneous changes, the change management program needs to be carefully designed to increase the level of adoption. The fair practices involved from the very beginning is another factor that gives the user the feeling of ownership. The paper helps organization in deploying complex systems while addressing cultural, social and human Issues. It provides a guideline that helps organization transferring technology while highlighting the importance of management role and partnership in deploying disruptive technology
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
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