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Siu, Wai Sum. "Small firm marketing : an analysis of small firm marketing approaches in Hong Kong." Thesis, Durham University, 1997. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1645/.
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Axelsson, Julius, and Emil Ulander. "Does pay dispersion affect firm performance? : A study of publicly traded Swedish firms." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-324798.
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This thesis investigates the short and long-term effects of pay dispersion on firm performance in publicly listed Swedish firms. Pay dispersion refers to the difference in compensation between or within organizational levels. There are two contradicting theoretical views of pay dispersions effect on firm performance. While tournament theory suggests that high pay dispersion increase employees’ incentives to exert higher effort, thus increasing firm performance, fairness approaches predicts that high pay dispersion creates feelings of unfairness, thus negatively affecting firm performance. Based on these theories and previous research, Hypothesis 1 predicts a positive short-term effect of pay dispersion on firm performance, and Hypothesis 2 predicts a negative long-term effect of pay dispersion on firm performance. Using a first differences fixed-effects regression including controls for firm characteristics and corporate governance indicators, three measures of pay dispersion are tested on two proxies for firm performance (price to book and return on assets). We conclude after extensive robustness tests that pay dispersion has no effect on firm performance, neither on short nor on long-term. Therefore, both hypotheses are rejected.
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Lilienfeld-Toal, Ulf von [Verfasser]. "Boundaries of the Firm : Contract-Theoretic Approaches / Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal." Aachen : Shaker, 2003. http://d-nb.info/1181600898/34.
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Fagan, Elise. "Evidence-based design: structured approaches in leading landscape architecture practice." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34626.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jessica Canfield
Landscape architecture is embarking on a new design frontier, one where its practitioners are increasingly being asked by clients to design using credible evidence and to ensure design performance. As design disciplines follow in the footsteps of other evidence-based practices, like medicine and engineering, landscape architecture is poised to become a more scholarly profession – a profession of evidence-based landscape architecture. Evidence-based landscape architecture was first coined and defined in 2011 by Brown and Corry as “the deliberate and explicit use of scholarly evidence in making decisions about the use and shaping of land” (Brown and Corry 2011, 328). Current literature explains the benefits of practicing evidence-based design (EBD). These include ensuring design performance, justifying client investment, quantifying the value of design, systematically managing complex projects, marketing the firm to clients, attracting the most innovative designers to the firm, and adding to the knowledge base of the landscape architecture field. However, little is known about how landscape architecture firms are engaging evidence-based design in daily practice. This thesis examines how four leading landscape architecture firms (Design Workshop, Mithun, Sasaki Associates, and OLIN) have developed unique EBD approaches to integrate, apply, and propagate evidence-based design in professional practice. In order to study and analyze the four firms’ EBD approaches, individual comprehensive case studies were conducted. Qualitative data was collected through: focused interviews with directors and leaders of evidence-based design at each firm; casual observations made during office visits; and, a review of firm literature. A case study framework for EBD approaches in professional practice was developed based on discussion topics that consistently emerged from the interviews. The framework was used to organize, analyze, and present the findings into four major themes. A cross-case analysis was conducted to compare the development, implementation, and effects of EBD approaches at each firm. Findings reveal that each firm has developed an EBD approach to meet the need for engaging complex problems and meeting increasing client expectations for performance. While each firm’s EBD approach is unique, similarities and characteristics emerged between the case studies. The most consistent factors identified across cases include: having academic founders of the firm; the implementation of EBD- or research-specific roles and responsibilities; the creation of tools to organize and understand data; cultivating design cultures to support the EBD approach vision; the communication and transparency of relationships with clients and consultants; and, the reporting of findings for the advancement of the profession. Although any landscape architecture firm is likely to employ at least one of these concepts, the developed integration, application, and propagation of a majority of these concepts is what makes these firms unique and successful in applying EBD in professional practice. It was also found that the design processes themselves vary dramatically across the firms. EBD in practice is therefore not prescriptive and does not always look the same. The findings and case study framework developed in the study are useful primarily for landscape architecture firms looking to develop, integrate, apply, and propagate their own EBD approach.
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Piesse, Jenifer. "Firm level approaches to the measurement of production efficiency, technical change and total factor productivity in transition economies." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285834.
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Stikeleather, James A. "Toward a Systemic Model for Governance and Strategic Management: Evaluating Stakeholder Theory Versus Shareholder Theory Approaches." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7092.
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The research’s intent is improvement in governance and strategic management initially by comparing Shareholder Theory and Stakeholder Theory and making results useful for both Practitioner and Academic audiences. A conceptual model for how a society establishes and evolves the roles it legitimizes for a business to support reasoning about those roles and the process originating the expectations, responsibilities, obligations, contributions and freedom to act in the roles is proposed. Understanding this process would enable better governance and strategic management of a firm while avoiding unintended consequences when fulfilling the role and consequences for failing the role. The model becomes a basis for comparing Shareholder and Stakeholder Theories.
Context for the model comes from practitioner narratives around changes occurring in business and their themes around the relationship of a business with its ecosystem. To incorporate both the societal and business relationship components, the model building process was based upon concepts and ideas from General Systems, Economics, Sociology, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Evolution, Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems, Semiotics, as well as Business. This was an iterative abductive, inductive, deductive process with each iteration compared to relevant theory, integrated across the subject domains, then tested against other academic research on the issue, evidence of the model in practice, and a culturomics study across social and industry literature.
These results are exploratory, descriptive, directional, and suggestive for future research opportunities. Problems with Stakeholder Theory are identified but potentially addressed with the conceptual model, in turn suggesting a systemic approach to governance and strategic management. It was determined that Shareholder Theory results in many unintended consequences detrimental to society and the firm. The conceptual model provides points of intervention in the process and suggests potential tooling for governance and strategic management.
A side effect of the research was a perspective on the practitioner / academic divide as the research grappled with the “wicked problem” nature and transdisciplinary nature of process being described. By introducing systems and complexity paradigms in the model, potential ways to address the divide are suggested, such as 3 level analysis (micro, meso, macro).
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Church, Allen Dale. "Systematic Approaches to Motivating Fire Service Employees." Thesis, Grand Canyon University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3563140.
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Firefighters are known for putting their own lives on the line in order to protect others' lives and property. The events of September 11th, 2001, pointed this out to the entire nation. The fact that firefighters are willing to run into burning buildings while others are trying to get out, or face situations that others find horrific, points to the fact that these individuals are motivated to serve and put service above self. However, even firefighters deal with issues of chronic stress and burnout. Considering the critical role firefighters play in society, it is important to delineate what motivates them to persevere in their chosen field. Firefighters across the country may be either volunteers, typically in smaller rural settings, or paid professionals in urbanized communities. This dissertation provided research into intrinsic and extrinsic motivation relative to professional firefighters in a union environment. Through quantitative research involving a nonexperimental design with a validated and reliable survey instrument, fire chiefs and union represented firefighters were queried as to the degree that firefighters were intrinsically or extrinsically motivated. The results showed that firefighters were, for the most part, motivated through intrinsic means. However, the collected data also demonstrated that extrinsic motivation through forms of recognition is also desired by firefighters. The overall result of this research provides options for fire service leaders to consider in maintaining a highly motivated cadre of firefighters, and thus reducing the potential for chronic stress and burnout to occur.
Keywords: Firefighters, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation
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Blanco, Arroyo Omar. "Business Cycle Fluctuations and Granular Behavior: an Empirical Analysis vs. the Agent-Based Approach." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/14102.2022.369361.
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This thesis aims to quantify the granular size of an economy, i.e., the number of granular firms. Empirically, we find that the contribution of idiosyncratic shocks to gross domestic product (GDP) fluctuations is attributed to a very small number of large firms. From a certain number of firms onwards the additional contribution plateaus. Theoretically, we find that this behavior can be explained by the share of economic activity commanded by the largest firm, the volatility of the largest firm with respect to GDP volatility and two summary statistics for large firm dynamics: the tail index of firm size distribution and the size-volatility elasticity. Finally, we use an agent-based model to study in detail how this behavior emerges.Programa de Doctorat en Economia i Empresa
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Mackay, Jem. "www.swarmtv.net : non-hierarchy through open source approaches to distributed filmmaking." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2015. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/8756/.
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An increasing number of filmmaking projects borrow approaches from open source programming methodologies in the practical process of film production. The potential benefits of open filmmaking include fast development times, customizable storytelling, less-biased reportage and a rich learning environment for future filmmakers, among others. There has been very little academic study about the challenges of this approach and the opportunities it affords for distributed filmmaking. This thesis explores the possibility of incorporating open source programming methodologies into the practice of distributed filmmaking. It develops a number of emergent policies and procedures that relate to this practice, and tests them out using an interactive website called “Swarm TV”. This online environment acts as a prototype for these policies and procedures, as well as functioning as a probe, testing their effectiveness in the filmmaking projects. Data is collected from the website and has been used from a number of projects over the last nine years, to reflect on how these emergent policies and procedures affect the dynamics of a filmmaking community. From the context of open source programming, the digital revolution has emphasized three main characteristics that are significant in open source methodologies: Openness, Non-hierarchy & Collaboration. These concepts are explored in this thesis to define guidelines for distributed filmmaking projects where open source methodologies are implemented. Analysis of the effectiveness of these policies and procedures is provided for filmmaking projects using Swarm TV, and conclusions are developed focused on the effectiveness of open source approaches to filmmaking projects in distributed communities. The practical research in this thesis demonstrates the extent to which open source methodologies are effective for the filmmaking process, and also, identifies the emergent policies and procedures that might facilitate distributed filmmaking in an online environment.
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Ralph, Sarah. "'Watching with mother' : how film stars are utilized in mother-daughter relations." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/ab08f6c8-5961-44ce-b454-14cb40fdce49.
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This research presents the processes and findings of an interdisciplinary study of mothers’ and daughters’ shared relations to film stars. Principally grounded within the cultural studies tradition of investigating the role of media in everyday life, the research explores the intergenerational transmission of film star tastes and preferences between mothers and daughters, building upon existing literature from the fields of star studies, family sociology, memory studies and audience research. It also takes a new perspective on the study of audiences for stars from the work of art anthropologist Alfred Gell, who posited the notion that the study of art should concern its ‘practical mediatory role’ within social interactions. The research was conducted by means of an empirical audience study of paired mother-daughter dyads of varying ages, class backgrounds and social circumstances, and was carried out in two phases: a preliminary online survey which recruited 92 mother-daughter pairs; and 16 follow-up telephone interviews with selected mothers and daughters. The first phase utilized quali-quantitative methods of analysis to explore various models of mother-daughter-star relations, while the second phase used a combined analytical approach that coupled an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis approach with elements of memory studies to further investigate those identified dyadic models. An overarching finding of the thesis is that film stars perform varying, but also evolving, functions within mother-daughter relationships depending upon the socio-demographic make-up of the dyad. Other more specific findings include: that class identifications are a key determinant in mother-daughter shared gender preferences in regard of admired stars, and that in mother-daughter relationships where there is a greater distance in their age gap, mothers specifically carve out shared times between the pair, using film stars as a common resource which provides a communicative coinage within their relations.
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Donno, Annalisa <1983>. "Multidimensional Measures of Firm Competitiveness: a Model-Based Approach." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/5173/.
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The concept of competitiveness, for a long time considered as strictly connected to economic and financial performances, evolved, above all in recent years, toward new, wider interpretations disclosing its multidimensional nature.
The shift to a multidimensional view of the phenomenon has excited an intense debate involving theoretical reflections on the features characterizing it, as well as methodological considerations on its assessment and measurement.
The present research has a twofold objective: going in depth with the study of tangible and intangible aspect characterizing multidimensional competitive phenomena by assuming a micro-level point of view, and measuring competitiveness through a model-based approach.
Specifically, we propose a non-parametric approach to Structural Equation Models techniques for the computation of multidimensional composite measures.
Structural Equation Models tools will be used for the development of the empirical application on the italian case: a model based micro-level competitiveness indicator for the measurement of the phenomenon on a large sample of Italian small and medium enterprises will be constructed.
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Weng, Zhiquan. "Consumer Search and Firm-Worker Reciprocity: A Behavioral Approach." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281985969.
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Smith, Benjamin. "Spandex cinema : three approaches to comic book film adaptation /." Read thesis online, 2009. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/SmithBP2009.pdf.
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Brytting, Tomas. "Organizing in the small growing firm : a grounded theory approach." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics [Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet vid Handelshögsk.] (EFI), 1991. http://www.hhs.se/efi/summary/319.htm.
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Teixeira, Henrique Oliveira. "Bank networks and firm credit: an agent based model approach." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/15973.
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Starting from the idea that economic systems fall into complexity theory, where its many agents interact with each other without a central control and that these interactions are able to change the future behavior of the agents and the entire system, similar to a chaotic system we increase the model of Russo et al. (2014) to carry out three experiments focusing on the interaction between Banks and Firms in an artificial economy. The first experiment is relative to Relationship Banking where, according to the literature, the interaction over time between Banks and Firms are able to produce mutual benefits, mainly due to reduction of the information asymmetry between them. The following experiment is related to information heterogeneity in the credit market, where the larger the bank, the higher their visibility in the credit market, increasing the number of consult for new loans. Finally, the third experiment is about the effects on the credit market of the heterogeneity of prices that Firms faces in the goods market.
Partindo da ideia de que os sistemas econômicos se enquadram na teoria da complexidade, onde seus inúmeros agentes interagem entre si sem um controle central e que essas interações são capazes de alterar o comportamento futuro dos agentes e de todo o sistema, semelhante a um sistema caótico, incrementamos o modelo de Russo et al. (2014) para a realização de três experimentos com foco na interação entre bancos e empresas em uma economia artificial. O primeiro experimento diz respeito a Relationship Banking onde, segundo a literatura, a interação ao longo do tempo entre bancos e empresas é capaz de produzir benefícios mútuos, principalmente devido a redução da assimetria de informação entre eles. O experimento seguinte está relacionado a assimetria de informação no mercado de crédito, onde quanto maior o banco, maior sua visibilidade no mercado de crédito, elevando na mesma proporção as consultar para novos emprestimos. Por fim, o terceiro experimento é relativo aos efeitos no mercado de crédito da heterogeneidade de preços que as empresas se deparam no mercado de bens
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Naaman, Dorit. "Sensing film, a cognitive approach to film narration and comprehension." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0014/NQ59640.pdf.
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Zeschky, Marco. "Exploration for innovation : capability-based search approaches in established firms /." Lichtenberg : Harland Media, 2010. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3419781&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Zeschky, Marco. "Exploration for innovation capability-based search approaches in established firms." Lichtenberg (Odw.) Harland Media, 2009. http://d-nb.info/999847120/04.
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Wolfs, Guido Lodewijk Marie. "Firm internal labour markets in the Netherlands a contract-theoretical approach /." Maastricht : Maastricht : Universitaire Pers Maastricht ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 1992. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=8261.
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Collins, Lorna Anne. "The making of an entrepreneurial firm : an integrated multi-level approach." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438874.
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Yeoh, Chiar Chuen. "Product innovation learning in a small firm : a case study approach." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264622.
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Bock, Adam J. "Business models : an empirical approach to firm structures and organisational change." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/6199.
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Popular though poorly-defined, the business model construct has generated a fragmented and non-accretive research literature. Despite prominence in the practice community for scholarly research has yet to converge on construct boundaries or establish a research framework in organizational theory. This study develops an integrative approach to business models and identifies business model formation and change processes. Prior studies address business models within the strategy discourse of competitive positioning. The failure to disentangle business models and strategy has limited theoretical and practical research. A quasi-systematic review of the academic literature combined with a discourse analysis of the business model in practice yields an empirical assessment of business model language. Managers use business models to address opportunities rather than position the firm for competitive advantage. This anchors an integrative definition for the business model as the design of organizational structures to enact an opportunity. Building on this framework, an analysis of structured interviews with 556 large firm CEOs establishes the links between organizational structures and strategic flexibility. Working within a capabilities and structural framework, the study extends research on strategic flexibility firms engaged in business model innovation in a global, cross-industry context. Creative culture enables strategic flexibility while partner dependence inhibits it. In addition, firms that focus managerial attention without giving up non-core activities achieve flexible outcomes. Finally, a case-based study of innovative entrepreneurial firms unpacks characteristics of business model formation and change processes. In contrast to theories of outward-facing strategic fit with environment, entrepreneurial firms undergo an internallydriven process towards business model coherence. The case studies reveal a self-evolving narrative process operating at multiple levels within the firm. The application of a narrative framework facilitates a novel sense-making approach to theories of change at entrepreneurial firms.
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Vassiliou, Andrew. "Analysing film content : a text-based approach." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2006. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2244/.
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Bryant, Benjamin. "Modeling Moving Droplets: A Precursor Film Approach." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2003. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/142.
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We investigate the behavior of moving droplets and rivulets, driven by a combination of gravity and surface shear (wind). The problem is motivated by a desire to model the behavior of raindrops on aircraft wings. We begin with the Stokes equations and use the approximations of lubrication theory to derive the specific thin film equation relevant to our situation. This fourth-order partial differential equation describing the height of the fluid is then solved numerically from varying initial conditions, using a fully implicit discretization for time stepping, and a precursor film to avoid singularities at the drop contact line. Results describing general features of droplet deformation, limited parameter studies, and the applicability of our implementation to the long-term goal of modeling wings in rain are discussed.
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Marshburn, David G. "Agile Software Development Approach and Firm Performance: Exploring Dynamic Capabilities as the Missing Link." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1589465728412254.
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Heung, Bithiah Lok Sze. "Statistical approaches to developing a global fire model using satellite observations." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538074.
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Martin, Emma. "Exploring the employment relationship in the small firm : a social action approach." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396839.
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Chang, Shou-Wei. "Valuing the firm and its equity : a cash flow contingent claims approach." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266522.
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FARIA, EDUARDO THOMAZ. "ALLOCATION OF FIRM ENERGY RIGHTS AMONG HYDRO PLANTS: A GAME THEORETIC APPROACH." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5707@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOO objetivo desta monografia é investigar a aplicação de distintas metodologias de alocação de energia firme de usinas hidrelétricas através da teoria dos jogos de coalizão. Mostra-se que não existe uma maneira ótima, única, de se fazer esta repartição, mas existem critérios para verificar se uma metodologia de repartição específica apresenta algum aspecto inadequado. Um desses critérios é a justiça. Mostra-se que este critério equivale a pertencer ao chamado núcleo de um jogo cooperativo. O cálculo da energia firme será formulado como um problema de otimização linear e serão investigadas vantagens e desvantagens de distintos métodos de alocação (a benefícios marginais, geração média no período crítico, última adição e nucleolus). Em seguida será desenvolvida uma aplicação do esquema Aumann-Shapley (AS) à repartição da energia firme de usinas hidrelétricas. Demonstra-se que além de robusto em relação aos tamanhos dos recursos e eficiente computacionalmente, este método fornece para o problema do firme uma alocação pertencente ao núcleo e, portanto, atende à condição de justiça. A aplicação do esquema AS será apresentada para o Sistema Brasileiro e serão comparados os resultados obtidos por este método com outros esquemas de alocação adotados no Sistema Hidrelétrico Brasileiro.
The objective of this work is to investigate the application of different methodologies of allocation of firm energy rights among hydro plants using a gametheoretic framework. It is shown that there is not an optimal and unique approach to make this allocation but there are criteria to verify if a given approach presents any inadequate aspect. One of these criteria is the justice, or fairness. It is shown that this criterion is equivalent to the condition of the core of a cooperative game. The calculation of the firm energy will be formulated as a linear program and advantages/disadvantages of different allocation methods (marginal allocation, average production on the dry period, incremental allocation and nucleolus) will be investigated. Next, an application of the Aumann-Shapley (AS) scheme to the problem of allocation of firm energy rights will be developed. It is shown that, besides being robust and computationally efficient, this scheme provides an allocation that belongs to the core of the game and therefore meets the condition of justice. The AS scheme will be applied to the Brazilian system (composed of about 100 hydro plants) and the results obtained will be compared with the allocation schemes currently adopted in the Brazilian system.
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AYALA, GUSTAVO ALBERTO AMARAL. "ALLOCATION OF FIRM CAPACITY RIGHTS AMONG THERMAL PLANTS: A GAME THEORETICAL APPROACH." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12366@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROO objetivo desta dissertação é analisar a aplicação de metodologias de alocação de capacidade firme de usinas termelétricas através da teoria dos jogos cooperativos e suas conseqüências na cooperação entre os agentes. Mostra-se que não existe uma maneira ótima, única, de se fazer esta repartição, mas existem critérios para verificar se uma metodologia de repartição específica apresenta algum aspecto inadequado. Um desses critérios é a justiça. Mostra-se que este sentido de justiça equivale a pertencer ao chamado núcleo de um jogo cooperativo, onde não há subsídio de um subgrupo por outro. O cálculo da capacidade firme ou Capacidade de Suprimento de Carga será formulado como um problema de otimização linear e serão investigadas vantagens e desvantagens de distintos métodos de alocação (benefícios marginais, última adição, Nucleolus, Shapley). A aplicação desses métodos tem um crescimento exponencial de esforço computacional, o método de Aumann- Shapley abordado em seguida fornece para o problema de alocação de capacidade firme uma solução computacional mais eficiente, embora em sua descrição aparentemente o método aumente o esforço computacional. Em seguida foram realizados resultados numéricos com sistemas genéricos de pequeno porte.
The objective of this work is to investigate the application of different methodologies of allocation of firm capacity rights among thermal plants using a game-theoretic framework and the consequences in the cooperation among the agents. It is shown that there is not an optimal and unique approach to make this allocation but there are criteria to verify if a given approach presents any inadequate aspect. One of these criteria is the justice, or fairness. It is shown that a one sense of justice is equivalent to the condition of the core of a cooperative game. The calculation of the firm capacity will be formulated as a linear program and advantages/disadvantages of different allocation methods (marginal allocation, incremental allocation, Nucleolus, Shapley) will be investigated. The complexities of these methods are exponential, so it will be shown that the Aumann-Shapley (AS) scheme to the problem of allocation of capacity rights will be more efficient. Numerical results about the difference allocations in these methods are presented in general smalls systems.
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Pussep, Anton. "Firm Strategies and Business Models in the Software Industry: A Configurational Approach." Phd thesis, TUprints, 2017. https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/6192/1/Diss_Anton_Pussep.pdf.
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Researchers have long focused on the determinants of firm success, which is of crucial interest to practitioners as well, since being successful is at the very heart of economic activity. Extant research
emphasizes three levels of analysis at which determinants occur: firm, industry, and group level. Each level has been found to affect firm success. At group level, firms choose between a limited set
of competitive approaches. The resulting groups are referred to as configurations. The analysis of configurations, their characteristics, and effects are the particular focus of configurational research
and this thesis.
Along with a multitude of other concepts, scholars have used industry-specific conceptualizations of firm strategy to derive configurations, referred to as strategic groups. Despite theoretical and methodological weaknesses in its beginnings, strategic group research has overcome initial challenges and produced a strong body of theoretical argument, methodology, and empirical evidence
in the tradition of configurational research.
More recently, business models have emerged as a topic of growing interest to researchers and practitioners. Though some methods from configurational research have been applied to business models, previous studies do not nearly grasp the full potential of configurational analysis. In addition to methodological shortcomings, business model research is still under criticism for theoretical and conceptual weaknesses.
This thesis uses the theoretical and methodological body of knowledge from strategic group research and applies it to strategies and business models of software firms. The particular case
of the software industry is chosen because of its dynamics, size, growth, and importance to other industries. In order to improve our understanding of strategies and business models in the software
industry, a software-specific value chain is derived and used as the main theoretical foundation to both concepts. Building upon detailed conceptualizations, three empirical studies are presented, each using a unique dataset to analyze the concepts at hand.
The empirical studies demonstrate the applicability of configurational analysis to software firms and provide insights into their characteristics and success factors. The results indicate that the most distinctive delineators of strategies and business models determine a firm’s product and market scope, such as firm size, share of international revenues, and the number of targeted industries. Strong empirical evidence suggests that broader scope is associated with higher success in terms of higher performance, higher risk-adjusted performance, and in some cases lower risk. Being consistent with the economic properties of software products and markets, such as network effects, the findings bear rich implications for researchers and practitioners, including decision makers, investors, analysts, and policy makers.
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Andrews, Richard Quentin Dunkley. "The identification and measurement of political risk : toward a firm-centric approach." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15948.
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Bibliography: pages 168-181.Political risk analysis is the study of economic and social discontinuities and changes which result in speculative constraints and opportunities for transnational business. This paper explores the problem of establishing definitional congruity at conceptual and operational levels of analysis and recommends the adoption of firm-centric approaches to assessing risk originating in the political environment. Conclusions are arrived at by means of partial induction, based on a rigorous comparative examination of a comprehensive body of literature. The first section delineates various fiduciary frameworks, historical and definitional issues, covering the foundational concepts of certainty, uncertainty, chance and risk. Current definitions of political risk are compended, and a new definition is suggested, compatible with the day-to-day operations of globalised firms. Models and methods for the measurement and identification of political risk are reviewed in the second part of the paper. Conceptual and operational incongruencies are investigated from a perspective which aims at establishing the need for a firm-specific conceptual schematicisation of political risk. Approaches based on aggregation by macro or micro distinction are rejected in favour of the proposed conceptual model. Finally, the remaining part of the paper considers current and past models which place the firm at the centre of the analytical procedure. An abstract model of the firm is described for the purpose of including constraints on business interests, norms, rules, practices and procedures, profitability and other goals. Some empirical data is discussed with a view to confirming the necessity for adopting firm-centric approaches. The conclusion recommends further research in the form of empirical case studies which consider risk in relation to the individual firm.
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Vidal, Tomás David. "Empirical analysis of market behaviour: a mesoscopic approach." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669625.
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With this doctoral dissertation, we aim to contribute to the literature in two different ways. On the one hand, using an agent based model, we provide policymakers and investors with new methods that can be used in financial markets to assess their stability, describe their dynamics, and forecast their future performance. On the other hand, we analyse the evolution of the cross-sectional distribution of activity in the real economy to better understand the firms' destiny. The main results of our two first chapters show that models based on the social interactions provide investors with useful information to set trading strategies, while the last chapter of this thesis demonstrates that the firms' destiny can be tracked by means of the analysis of their profit and growth rate cross-sectional distribution over time.
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Hajduček, Peter. "Vedenie rýchlo rastúcej firmy – Footshop." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-206153.
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The aim of this study is to analyse available tools and strategic management theories dealing with the growth of the company, to apply the theory in the form of case study on the fast growing small business and propose recommendations for the management of similar companies. The theoretical part is focused to the issue of the strategic management tools. Furthermore it deals with comparison of rigorous and agile approach to managing and planning the growth of the company. The analytical part of the work is written as a case study of company, which is growing by hundreds of percent per year. It describes the situations and decisions in company during its growth. Different approaches to the management are shown on specific examples of the company situations. At the end, there are recommendations for companies at a similar stage. Description of new management tools and methods implemented in company is also a part of study. This is particularly the delegation at higher level, reporting, focusing on the core business and managing business transformations while preserving its identity.
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Dallmeyer, Matthew John. "Reducing Fir Filter Costs: A Review of Approaches as Applied to Massive Fir Filter Arrays." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1417544448.
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Johann, Matthew A. "Fire-Robust Structural Engineering: A Framework Approach to Structural Design for Fire Conditions." Link to electronic thesis, 2002. http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-1219102-155849.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute.Keywords: structural engineering; fire safety; framework approach; performance-based design; information management; finite element; lumped-parameter; laboratory tests; steel; beam; restrained; plastic analysis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-182).
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Haar, Sébastien. "Supramolecular approaches to graphene : generation of functional hybrid assemblies." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAF040/document.
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Cette thèse démontre le potentiel dont dispose l’exfoliation en phase liquide du graphite dans le but d’obtenir des feuillets de graphène dispersés dans un solvant organique. Ainsi le mécanisme d’exfoliation a été étudié en profondeur, en particulier, l’influence de plusieurs paramètres (température, puissance et solvants). Le choix de ses paramètres se montre crucial dans le contrôle du procédé, et pour l’obtention des feuillets de graphène ayant une taille ciblée. Il est donc possible de fabriquer des nano-feuillets de quelques dizaines de nanomètre qui en plus possèdent des propriétés de photoluminescence.Dans le but de comprendre le mécanisme d’exfoliation en phase liquide assistée par des molécules, une nouvelle approche a été mise au point : l’approche supramoléculaire. Cette approche se base sur l’utilisation de surfactants d’un nouveau type. En effet, les molécules sélectionnées possèdent une longue chaine alkyle. Cette chaine s’adsorbe sur la surface du graphène et permet de stabiliser les feuillets lors de l’exfoliation. L’influence de la taille de la chaine alkyle de ces molécules lors de l’exfoliation a été vérifiée. De plus, ces molécules ont été équipées de différentes fonctions supramoléculaires afin qu’elles puissent former des dimères sur la surface du graphène. L’ajout de ces molécules augmente non seulement le rendement d’exfoliation mais aussi le nombre de mono-feuillets présents dans ces dispersions. Ces dispersions présentent des propriétés conductrices lorsqu’elles sont déposées sur des substrats. Une nouvelles méthode de déposition a été mise au point afin d’améliorer et d’augmenter la conductivité mais aussi le pourcentage de transparenceThis thesis demonstrates the potential of exfoliation of the graphite in the liquid phase in order to obtain graphene sheets dispersed in an organic solvent. Thus the exfoliation mechanism has been studied, in particular, the influence of several parameters (temperature, power and solvents). The choice of parameters is actually crucial for the control of the process, and to obtain graphene sheets having a targeted size. It is therefore possible to manufacture nanosheets of several tens of nanometers, which in addition exhibit photoluminescence properties.In order to understand the exfoliation mechanism in liquid phase assisted by molecules, a new approach has been developed: the supramolecular approach. This approach is based on using a new type of surfactant. Indeed, the selected molecules carry a long alkyl chain. This chain is adsorbed on the surface of graphene and can stabilize the sheets during exfoliation. The influence of the size of the alkyl chain of these molecules during exfoliation was verified. Furthermore, these molecules have been equipped with various supramolecular functions, which can form dimers on the surface of graphene. The addition of these molecules not only increases exfoliation performance but also the number of mono-layers present in these dispersions. These dispersions have conductive properties when deposited on substrates. A new deposition method was developed to enhance and increase conductivity but also the percentage of transparency
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Herde, Patrick William. "Marketing performance measurement: overview of approaches and practices for high technology firms." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/5685.
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Previous issue date: 2004-11-08T00:00:00ZA June 2004 survey by the CMO Council of 320 senior marketing executives indicated that few high techcompanies (Iess than 20%) to date had developed meaningful, comprehensive measures and metrics for their marketing organizations. In fact over 80% of the companies surveyed expressed dissatisfaction with their ability to benchmark marketing programs business impact and value. However, the survey also revealed that companies that establish a formal, comprehensive measurement program achieve superior financiai returns and have higher CEO confidence in the marketing function. This thesis provides an overview of information required for marketing executives to understand and implement marketing performance measurement (MPM) processes at their organiza:tions. It 'surveys the latest issues facing marketers in the high technology industry regarding the demands for greater accountability, value of measurement for improving marketing processes, initiatives to determine marketing return on investment (MROI), and the importance of marketing measures in corporate reporting. The thesis makes a case ,for MPM by outlining the benefits of measurement for both marketers and the corporation. The work then scopes 'some general marketing measurement concepts and delves into approaches to MPM as proposed by industry, academics, and analysts. Finally, the thesis enumerates a: few practices that every high tech marketer should explore when adopting MPM. 'fhe tips are generalized, but should familiarize any CMO, vice president, or director of marketing who is tasked with bringing greater accountability to her organization with a general overview of what's needed to enable measurement processes and rigor with regards to MPM.
Um levantamento de 320 executivos de marketing feito pelo Conselho CMO e divulgado em junho de 2004 indicou que poucas companhias de alta tecnologia (menos de 20% das empresas entrevistadas) têm desenvolvido medidas e métricas úteis e expressivas para as suas organizações de marketing. Porém a pesquisa também revelou que companhias que estabeleceram medidas formais e compreensivas atingiram resultados financeiros superiores e tiveram mais confiança do CEO na função de marketing. Esta dissertação provê uma visão geral da informação precisa para executivos de marketing entenderem e implementarem processos para medição de performance de marketing (MPM) em suas organizações. Ela levanta questões para gerentes de marketing na industria de alta tecnologia com respeito às demandas para maior responsabilidade final, valor de medição para o melhoramento dos processos de marketing, iniciativas para determinar a lucratividade dos investimentos em marketing, e a importância das atividades de marketing nos relatórios corporativos. Esta dissertação defende a implementação de MPM, mapeando seus benefícios de medição para ambos gerentes de marketing e as suas empresas. o trabalho logo explora alguns conceitos gerais de medição de marketing e investiga algumas abordagens a MPM propostas pela industria, pela comunidade acadêmica, e pelos analistas. Finalmente, a dissertação descreve algumas práticas que todo gerente de marketing na industria de alta tecnologia deve considerar quando adotando MPM. As sugestões são gerais, mas devem familiarizar o leitor com as informações precisas para habilitar processos e rigor na sua organização com respeito a MPM.
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Grufman, Niklas, and Cornelia Larker. "Assessing the value of advice : Evaluation approaches of small management consulting firms." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-173387.
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Whilst utilization of management consulting services has become an integral part of the contemporary economy and functioning of many organizations, intangibility leaves clients unable to predict or objectively assess the values created in consulting engagements. According to scholars, attempts to counteract the principal-agent related risks of opportunism and divergent incentives are expected to increase following higher competition, consumer awareness and anticipated increased demand for performance-based pricing. Improved comprehension of means to evaluate consulting services should become increasingly significant not only for the management consulting firms with increasing needs to tangibilize value and prove “success” to a greater extent, but also for the purchasing organizations in both private and public sectors. The academic attention to the industry has been described as surprisingly low, and previous scholars urge for increased empirical data on evaluation practices in general, and for additional contexts and sizes of consulting firms, in particular. Accordingly, this study aims to contribute with empirical data and understanding of consultants’ reasoning and approaches through asking; How do small Swedish management consulting firms approach evaluation of their engagements in terms of client satisfaction and value generated within the client organization, and; what is the rationale behind the eventual evaluation approach(es) used? Based on a literature review on primarily the fields of; the management consulting industry, intangibility of knowledge-intensive services, and scholarly suggested evaluation methods, semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior managers, partners and CEOs representing ten small-sized management consulting firms in Sweden. The purposively sampled respondents were categorized based on relative size and relative service offering, enabling comparison between size and type of business. Thematic analysis of the interviews showed great similarities between firms, and that valuation approaches are commonly unstructured, situational and goal-oriented, focused on aggregated satisfaction, rarely including objective measurements, initiated by the consultant, conducted through dialogue and sometimes supported by questionnaires. It was concluded that the evaluation approaches are generally highly subjective and focused on capturing client perceptions. Discrepancies between respondents’ practices and scholarly suggested methods were identified, and analysis of variations concluded that smaller firms seem to have less developed evaluation approaches. The respondents’ rationales were described and categorized into; drivers, deterrents and obstacles. Potential catalysts for change, including price sensitivity, client demand and performance-based pricing were identified. Whilst the study does provide requested empirical data and may facilitate improved comprehension of means to counteract intangibility to benefit clients and consultants - and hopefully increase public interest for these issues - further research is needed to nuance the findings, especially through capturing clients’ perspectives.
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Nyazika, Tatenda. "Conceptualization of fire barriers : fundamentals and experimental approach." Thesis, Lille 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LIL1R044/document.
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Le feu est à la cause des pertes en vies humaines et des dégâts matériels considérables. En cas d’incendie dans un système fermé tel que les bâtiments, navires, ou avions, un feu doit être compartimenté et sa propagation restreinte afin de sauver des vies et des biens en laissant le temps aux personnes d’évacuer. Afin d’y arriver, une barrière de feu ayant une très faible inflammabilité qui limiterait la propagation du feu doit être conçu et assemblé. L’objective de ce travail de thèse est de fournir les bases fondamentales pour la conception de barrières feu efficace quand ils subissent une contrainte thermique. En se basant sur la compréhension du comportement au feu de matériaux de références c.-à-d. le silicate de calcium, la mousse de mullite à cellules fermées, la mousse phénolique, et un revêtement intumescent à base de silicone, des tests feux avec un flux radiant externe basé sur la norme ISO 5660 du cône calorimètre sont effectués. En parallèle, des modèles numériques sont développés afin de prédire le comportement au feu de ces barrières feu. Leurs domaines d’application ainsi que leurs limites sont expliqués. Les propriétés physiques d’entrées requises pour alimenter les modèles sont obtenus soit par mesure directe par analyse thermique, soit de la littérature. Par ailleurs, des études de sensibilité sont effectués afin d’identifier les paramètres essentiels qui contrôlent le comportement au feu des matériaux de référence. Les modèles numériques sont ensuite appliqués à la conceptualisation de nouvelles barrières feu grâce à la méthodologie basée sur le "performance-based design" ainsi que l’optimisation. Enfin, après les étapes de conception et les études de sensibilité, les règles fondamentales sur la conceptualisation de barrières de feu pour un scenario feu précis en accord avec des normes définies sont énoncéesFire causes injuries, the loss of lives and property. In the case of a fire in an enclosed system such as buildings, naval ships or aircraft, the fire should be compartmentalized and restricted from spreading from one point to another in order to save lives and property as well as give people enough time to evacuate. To accomplish this, fire barriers exhibiting low flammability and limiting fire spread need to be designed and assembled. The aim of this PhD is to provide with the fundamentals on how to design efficient fire barriers when subjected to a thermal stress. Based on understanding the fire behavior of selected reference fire retardant materials i.e. calcium silicate, closed-cell mullite foam, phenolic foam and a silicone-based intumescent coating, fire tests using the external radiant heat flux from the ISO 5660 cone calorimeter are conducted. At the same time, numerical models are developed to predict the fire behavior of these fire barriers and their applicability as well as limitations are explained. The input materials properties to run the numerical models are obtained from both direct measurements and from the literature. In addition, sensitivity studies are conducted in order to identify the governing parameters that control the fire behavior of the reference fire resistant materials. The numerical models are then used for the conceptualization of innovative fire safe materials based on the performance-based design process and optimization. Finally, based on the sensitivity studies and the conceptualization process, fundamental rules on how to make an efficient fire barrier in order to meet certain requirements in a given fire scenario are clearly stated
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Andersdotter, Sara. "Choking on the madeleine : encounters and alternative approaches to memory in a contemporary art practice." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2015. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/7841/.
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This practice-based thesis proposes radical, critical, creative reconsiderations of memory and how the mnemic may be expressed in art practice. The research took place through developing a series of works within contemporary installation art practice, which considers the experience of memory an abstract, affective event. The thesis confronts the typical assumptions and ocularcentric misconceptions that the mnemic is a visual phenomenon. It challenges presumed relationships between photographs and memory then asks: How may notions of memory be re-examined through art practice so as to allow alternative expressions of memory to emerge? After the critique, the thesis offers an alternative concept of memory that may be incorporated into art practice: the memory-event. The concept emerged through my art practice alongside engagement with the writings of philosophers Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and contemporary theorists such as Simon O’Sullivan and Brian Massumi. The inquiry utilises O’Sullivan’s framework as a method towards parallel critique and creation in contemporary art practices; these counter existing forms of thought. The framework includes seven Deleuzean concepts applied in rethinking memory: the encounter, affect, the production of subjectivity, the minor, the virtual, the event, and mythopoesis. The thesis adopts this approach, and demonstrates how the memory-event developed through phases of research. Firstly, the thesis establishes and critiques prevailing ideas and expressions of memory. It then defines the methods and theories to disrupt existing assumptions of the mnemic, showing how the defined methods and theories were applied in reconsidering and posing alternatives to established assumptions. Included is a visual and textual portfolio of work exploring the ideas of memory produced in my art practice. The implications of this research for art practice constitute, through the mobilisation of the memory-event, potentials for liberation from the constraints of representation and common assumptions of memory. This produces innovative expressions of the mnemic experience, and continues to challenge ways in which memory is considered.
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Salazar, Fernando Morais Farré. "Assessing competition in banking industry: a multiproduct approach." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/11075.
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This paper aims to investigate the competition aspects of banking multiproduct operation. Based on an extension of Panzar and Rosse (1987)’s test to the case of a multiproduct banking firm, we take advantage of a new dataset constructed to Brazilian banking conglomerates to infer the impact of conglomeration on market power. We find that banks offering classic (i.e., loans and credit cards) and other bank products (i.e., brokerage services, insurance and capitalization bonds) have substantially higher market power than the ones which offer only classic products. Results suggest a positive bias on the traditional estimates of competition in which the multioutput actions are not taken into account.
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Ivans, Jr William Jeffrey. "A Decision Support Framework for Assessing the Technical Adequacy of Performance-Based Design Approaches to Fire Safety Engineering." Digital WPI, 2017. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-dissertations/491.
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"This research effort addresses key challenges associated with the technical review and acceptance of performance-based design approaches to fire safety engineering through development of a decision support framework and associated tool. Such design approaches seek to confirm that the overall fire safety system, which includes the building and its protective features, meets a set of fire safety objectives established by relevant stakeholders, and this confirmation is achieved through fire safety analysis, or the application of analytical and computational tools and methods. While the current approach to performance-based fire safety analysis relies on guidelines and standards, these rather generic, process-oriented documents do not provide fire protection engineers (FPEs) sufficient guidance to address critical elements of the analysis process in a systematic, consistent and technically adequate manner. Should a fire safety analysis contain technical deficiencies, then it becomes less clear that the design solution being proposed truly achieves the desired fire safety objectives. Moreover, project stakeholders, including the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ), may lack the necessary qualifications, expertise, or design intimacy to, suitably and reliably, identify and challenge deficient analyses. As a result, the current approach to fire safety analysis and its quality assurance has led to large variations in analysis quality and consequently levels of delivered performance. With no existing equivalent, a decision support framework is proposed that will assist the AHJ and FPEs in determining whether a fire safety analysis is of sufficient technical adequacy to support decision-making, regulatory or otherwise. Additionally, a decision support tool is developed to provide measures of confidence regarding an analysis’s conclusions and assist in identifying those aspects of the analysis most requiring corrective action. Lastly, while developed to address performance-based design approaches to fire safety engineering, the framework may easily be adapted to similar approaches in other fields of engineering, or more generally, applications that make use of process-oriented, analysis-driven design."
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Sommerlad, Jordan N. "The Feeling of Falling:A Student Filmmaker's Approach to Short Narrative Filmmaking." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1368503096.
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González, Ferriz Fernando. "The influence of new marketing approaches on the export performance of Spanish firms." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/663155.
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This thesis pretends to determine the variables that have an influence on the export performance of Spanish companies in the fashion sector. To do so, a special attention has been paid to new marketing approaches, considering the trends related to relationship marketing and new technologies. The result is the EMSP model of internationalization.Esta tesis pretende determinar las variables que afectan al rendimiento de las exportaciones en las empresas españolas del sector de la moda. Para ello, se ha prestado especial atención a los nuevos enfoques de marketing, considerando las tendencias asociadas al marketing relacional y a las nuevas tecnologías. El resultado es el modelo EMSP de internacionalización.
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Burnetts, Charles. "The concept of sentimentality in critical approaches to film and its cultural antecedents." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/3602c69e-176a-49a2-feb6-34c0efee8213/10/.
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This thesis examines how sentimentality, as a term central to film criticism, has been mobilized, denigrated, quarantined or ignored over 300 years of aesthetic debate. It responds to the often vexed question of what the sentimental means, by unpacking the concept's intellectual and artistic history, tracing a transition from the Enlightenment use of sentimentality as a positive concept denoting pedagogy and moral feeling, to its entrance into the modern vernacular as a term connoting its own excess, as a function of its alleged appeals to indulgent or unearned pathos. A key question of the research concerns whether the sentimental can be recuperated within contemporary moving- image culture once we are re-familiarized with its early (lesser known about) critical applications. I contend in such a vein that the unpacking of such positive aspects of the sentimental very much colours our critical understanding of such cinematic figures as Charlie Chaplin, Steven Spielberg and those in their wake, both in terms of their films and the reception of those films. I argue that the early, classical and post- classical periods of cinema can be significantly differentiated in terms of how sentimental cinema fares critically, providing new insights into such intellectual spheres as naturalism, modernism and postmodernism in relation to the cultural reception of cinema. Theories of emotion (especially in relation to spectatorship and film theory) are also examined closely up to what I argue to be a now established, and indeed, valorised melodramatic ‘mode' of contemporary mainstream cinema, as applicable to Hollywood and beyond. As a theoretical tradition that both validates ‘feeling' in its pedagogical and idealist aims while remaining problematic ideologically, I show how the sentimental demands to be understood alongside the most contemporary of critical positions, not least in terms of the critical turn towards affect and the body.
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Rossholm, Anna Sofia. "Reproducing Languages, Translating Bodies : Approaches to Speech, Translation and Cultural Identity in Early European Sound Film." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filmvetenskapliga institutionen, 2006. http://www.diva-portal.org/su/theses/abstract.xsql?dbid=1333.
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Bondegård, Michael, and David Enocksson. "Organisation, Innovation, Productivity : An Exploratory Approach on Swedish Firms." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-158509.
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Does Swedish firms’ organisational structure matter for innovation and productivity? The objective is to identify the most influential aspects in firms’ organisational structure concerning their propensity to innovate. We compose indices of both concepts to explain differences in productivity. The results suggest that measuring customer satisfaction, letting employees take part in discussions on progress, cooperating with other firms and having elements of learning in the daily work seem to distinguish innovative firms from non-innovative ones. Moreover, the results indicate that organisation and innovation activities matter for productivity.Learning organisations matter, Statistics Sweden
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Woodrow, Michael. "Educating engineers for a holistic approach to fire safety." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8224.
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Problems can be solved using existing knowledge and methods derived from past experiences; and in building design, where buildings are sufficiently similar to those already built, this process can be optimised by creating standardised solutions to common problems. There is significant demand for specialist engineers who can apply these standardised solutions to established problems quickly and accurately; but novel designs generate entirely new problems for which established solutions are not always applicable. Generalist engineers working on novel designs must first define the problems before they can develop options and if necessary, create optimised solutions. Fire safety engineering (FSE) is the process of achieving fire safety in our built environment. The field requires both specialists trained in current practice and generalists skilled in creative and critical thinking. Current fire safety engineering education is mostly aimed at producing specialists, yet there is growing demand for generalists in high-end architecture, hindered by a lack of generalist education. Current education literature in FSE explains in detail what to teach, however they do not explain how to motivate students to learn what is taught; how to create the ‘need to know’ - the purpose that drives learning. The purpose can either be intrinsically motivating (i.e. the subject is interesting) or extrinsically motivating (i.e. if you don’t learn it then you will fail the exam). The former is sustained by autonomy and choice; the latter is sustained by control. Control increases the likelihood that the predicted outcome will be realised, but by definition reduces the likelihood of realising any other outcome, including potential innovation.Initially a study was created to test the effects of creating an autonomous learning environment within a traditional lecture-based ‘fundamentals’ course at the University of Edinburgh. This study, along with observations at a range of US universities led to the formation of an overarching theory of education. Ultimately, purpose is the goal students strive to achieve; autonomy creates the opportunity to think and learn independently; and structure provides the constraints that converge students towards an optimised result, supported by sound evidence and reasoning. Thus the key to generalist education was to provide purpose, autonomy and structure (PAS) in that order. The PAS concept was trialled at EPFL (Switzerland) and the participating students, with no prior knowledge of fire engineering, produced work of exceptional quality. In summary, the present study offers an observational validation that Purpose, Autonomy & Structure (PAS) can be used to effectively support the generalist way of thinking and although the examples given in this paper are related to fire safety engineering (due to the need for generalists in that field), the qualitative evidence on which the conclusions are based is not subject-specific, implying that the PAS methodology could be applied to other disciplines.
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Lewis, Gavin Peter. "Masculinity and difference in popular film : an historical approach." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401338.
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