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Communicating Innovation And Sustainability In Family Businesses Through Successions, Chanun Somboonvechakarn

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) contribute significantly to the economy, despite the fact that their survival rate is declining over generations. The purpose of this research is to create a communication model suitable for SMEs during succession for innovation and business sustainability. Fourteen innovative family SMEs in Thailand are selected using the assembled multiple-case study method, and in-depth individual interviews are conducted using the data triangulation method with the incumbents, successors, and long-serving non-family employees as participants from each business. There are two main findings. Issues regarding organizational innovation, social capital in the form of internal and external network relationships, …

Invited Perspective - Engaging Aspirations To Nurture Communities, Kentaro Toyama

Subsistence Marketplaces

For subsistence communities, the question is whether aspirations can be applied to motivate behavior that is, on the one hand consistent with people’s aspirations, but which might otherwise be difficult to elicit. Could poorer households be encouraged to save, to spend more on their children’s education, or to act against unhealthy social norms? A couple of examples suggest this is not only possible, but highly successful in contexts where other appeals fail.

“You’Ll Never Really Be One Of Us”: Women’S Underrepresentation In The Aviation Workforce, Rebecca K. Lutte Ph.D., Shannon M. Morrison Ph.D.

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

Women are underrepresented in many aviation occupations despite outreach and recruitment efforts from multiple organizations. Attracting women into aviation is a necessity not only to address workforce demand but also to achieve the benefits of a more diverse workforce to include enhanced profitability, safety, and innovation. To address the gender gap, the research presented here attempts to inform recruitment/retention strategies by identifying both the positive and negative factors that influence a woman’s decision to pursue a career in aviation and the decision to persist. Additionally, factors such as participation in youth outreach programs, role of mentors, influencers who support or …

Future-Proofing Students In Higher Education With Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Technology: A Knowledge Management Case Study, Thomas Menkhoff, Siew Ning Kan, Eugene K. B. Tan, Shaohui Foong

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In this paper we report experiences in implementing a new course ‘Understanding Drone & Robotics Technology – History, Usage, Ethics & Legal Issues’ at the Singapore Management University framed as a strategic knowledge management (KM) initiative in an institution of higher learning aimed at capturing, sharing and creating new knowledge about disruptive technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles. We posit the new course as a knowledge innovation initiative (similar to a KM-enabled business case in a corporate setting) in support of the university’s mission and vision so as to deliver new value to students and to stay ahead of the …

Innovation Process Of Amorphous Cellulose - Graphene Oxide Hybrid Structure For Water Treatment In A Shrimp Farm, Kongkiat Phuphantrakun

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Amorphous cellulose-graphene oxide bead composites are popularly employed in water purification. However, the existing fabrication methods of amorphous cellulose (AC) and amorphous cellulose-graphene oxide (ACGO) beads are complicated with many chemical use, multi-step, time and energy-consuming. In this research, we proposed an efficient method for fabricating amorphous cellulose-graphene oxide (ACGO) beads using less chemical under a simple 2-step approach. The production process of AC and ACGO beads was successfully fabricated via sulfuric acid (H2SO4) gelatinization and regeneration using eucalyptus paper as a raw material. The cellulose gel was droplet-extruded into deionized (DI) water and transformed into a solid bead via …

นวัตกรรมกังหันลมแกนนอนขนาดเล็กแบบไร้เพลาสำหรับผลิตกระแสไฟฟ้าจากระบบลมระบายอุตสาหกรรม, วชิระ พุทธิแจ่ม

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ลมระบายที่ถูกปล่อยทิ้งจากภาคอุตสาหกรรมเป็นแหล่งพลังงานลมที่มีศักยภาพสูงในการผลิตกระแสไฟฟ้า เนื่องจากการไหลของลมสม่ำเสมอ มีความเร็วลมสูง แต่การผลิตกระแสไฟฟ้าจากลมระบายอุตสาหกรรมยังไม่เป็นที่แพร่หลายเนื่องจากพบว่าเกิดผลกระทบเชิงลบต่อประสิทธิภาพของระบบระบายอากาศเมื่อนำกังหันลมแบบดั้งเดิมไปใช้ ผู้วิจัยได้สร้างนวัตกรรมกังหันลมแกนนอนแบบไร้เพลาเพื่อแก้ไขข้อจำกัดเหล่านี้ งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาและสร้างต้นแบบนวัตกรรมกังหันลมแกนนอนแบบไร้เพลาสำหรับผลิตกระแสไฟฟ้าจากลมระบายอุตสาหกรรม ศึกษาการยอมรับผลิตภัณฑ์จากมุมมองลูกค้า และประเมินความสามารถในการลงทุนเชิงพาณิชย์ งานวิจัยนี้มี 5 ขั้นตอน คือ ขั้นตอนแรก ทำการศึกษาทฤษฎี งานวิจัย สิทธิบัตรที่เกี่ยวข้องเพื่อหาช่องว่างในการวิจัย นำสนอแนวคิดสร้างสรรค์แบบอเนกนัย แล้วเลือกแบบที่มีความเป็นไปได้มาทำม็อคอัพเพื่อพิสูจน์แนวคิด ผลการศึกษาพบว่าต้นแบบกังหันลมแกนนอนแบบไร้เพลาสามารถหมุนได้ที่ความเร็วลม 5 เมตรต่อวินาทีขึ้นไป ขั้นตอนที่สอง ทำการออกแบบและสร้างต้นแบบกังหันลมแกนนอนแบบไร้เพลา ศึกษาการไหลของลมระบายผ่านกังหันลมแกนนอนแบบไร้เพลาโดยโปรแกรมสร้างแบบจำลองการไหลและการทดสอบจากต้นแบบจริงในห้องปฏิบัติการ ศึกษาผลกระทบต่อระบบลมระบายเมื่อติดตั้งใช้งานและความสามารถในการผลิตกระแสไฟฟ้าของต้นแบบกังหันลมแกนนอนแบบไร้เพลาที่มุมของแกนยึดใบพัดที่ต่างกัน พบว่าในเชิงเทคนิคต้นแบบกังหันลมแกนนอนแบบไร้เพลาที่มีมุมของแกนยึดใบพัดตั้งแต่ 105 ถึง 150 องศา สามารถหมุนได้ที่ความเร็วรอบในช่วง 25 ถึง 275 รอบต่อนาที เมื่อความเร็วลมตั้งแต่ 4 เมตรต่อวินาทีขึ้นไป มีศักยภาพในการผลิตกระแสไฟฟ้าและมีความเป็นไปได้ในการปรับปรุงให้มีประสิทธิภาพดียิ่งขึ้น โดยที่ลมระบายสามารถไหลผ่านกังหันลมแกนนอนแบบไร้เพลาสู่ภายนอกได้ โดยไม่ทำให้เกิดผลกระทบเชิงลบต่อประสิทธิภาพการระบายลม ขั้นตอนที่สาม ทำการออกแบบและปรับปรุงต้นแบบสำหรับการทดสอบภาคสนาม พบว่ากังหันลมแกนนอนแบบไร้เพลาสามารถติดตั้งและใช้งานในพื้นที่ที่จำกัดได้ โดยไม่มีผลกระทบเชิงลบต่อระบบลมระบายเช่นเดียวกับผลในห้องปฏิบัติงานและทราบถึงแนวทางในการพัฒนาผลิตภัณฑ์ให้มีประสิทธิภาพในการผลิตกระแสไฟฟ้าสูงขึ้นและมีความคุ้มค่ามากขึ้นในมุมมองของผู้บริโภคต่อไป ขั้นตอนที่สี่ ทำการศึกษาการยอมรับนวัตกรรมด้วยแบบสอบถาม โดยการสำรวจกลุ่มเป้าหมายจำนวน 322 คน พบว่าผู้ประเมินเห็นคุณค่าของนวัตกรรม มีการยอมรับเทคโนโลยีในระดับสูง และมีความสนใจอย่างมากที่จะนำกังหันลมแกนนอนแบบไร้เพลาไปใช้งาน ขั้นตอนสุดท้าย จัดทำแผนการนำไปใช้ประโยชน์เชิงพาณิชย์ โดยการจัดตั้งธุรกิจแบบสตาร์ทอัพดำเนินการผลิตกังหันลมแกนนอนแบบไร้เพลาสำหรับผลิตกระแสไฟฟ้าจากลมระบายอุตสาหกรรม ใช้เงินทุนเริ่มต้น 100 ล้านบาท จากการวิเคราะห์ความเป็นไปได้ทางการเงิน ธุรกิจนี้มีความเป็นไปได้ในเชิงพาณิชย์ โดยมีระยะเวลาคืนทุนเท่ากับ 3.17 ปี อัตราผลการตอบแทนการลงทุนคือ ร้อยละ 16.1 มูลค่าปัจจุบันในการลงทุนเของโครงการนี้เป็นบวก โครงการนี้มีความเป็นไปได้ในการทำธุรกิจ

Factors Affecting Web-Based Social Service Referral Technology Adoption In The Nonprofit Sector, Elizabeth A. Hutton

Master's Projects

Nonprofits play a significant role in providing social services that increase communities' overall well-being (Ressler et al., 2021; Reckhow et al., 2019; Smith & Phillips, 2016), and adopting new technologies helps promote these positive outcomes (Hackler & Saxton, 2007). However, with new technologies emerging at a pace few nonprofit organizations can keep up with, how do nonprofit leaders decide which technologies to adopt given their limited resources? This study seeks to understand what factors affect nonprofit leaders' technology adoption decision-making. Online referral platforms are not new in health or homeless organizations. Web-based coordinated social service referral tools are more recently …

City Of Missoula Partnership Project: Supporting The Affordable Housing Trust Fund, Petra Leah Slater

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

As housing prices continue to increase rapidly in Missoula, it is more important than ever for community members to be aware of the resources available to them that support access to affordable housing. I have partnered with the City of Missoula to research and design a new webpage for the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The Affordable Housing Trust Fund was adopted in July of 2020 and aims to provide housing developers and nonprofit organizations funding with the goal of creating new, affordable housing options for Missoulians. The new webpage for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund will expand community knowledge …

Covid-19: The Financial Implications On Museums, Grace Beehler

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

My article discusses the financial implications of the pandemic on museums and how they have had to change based on revenue losses. I discuss the impact on museums through statistical evidence, lower-cost alternatives museums have had to implement, and how museums will be impacted financially moving forward.

Identifying Industry 5.0 Contributions To Sustainable Development: A Strategy Roadmap For Delivering Sustainability Values, Morteza Ghobakhloo, Mohammad Iranmanesh, Muhammad Faraz Mubarak, Mobashar Mubarik, Abderahman Rejeb, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Scholars believe that the newly introduced Industry 5.0 has the potential to move beyond the profit-centered productivity of Industry 4.0 and to promote sustainable development goals such as human-centricity, socio-environmental sustainability, and resilience. However, little has been done to understand how this ill-defined phenomenon may deliver its indented sustainability values despite these speculative promises. To address this knowledge gap, the present study developed a strategy roadmap that explains the mechanism by which Industry 5.0 delivers its intended sustainable development functions. The study first developed and introduced the Industry 5.0 reference model that describes the technical and functional properties of this …

Editorial, Michael E. Whitman, Herbert J. Mattord, Hossain Shahriar

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Since 2016, it has been the mission of the Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research, and Practice (JCERP) to be a premier outlet for high-quality information security and cybersecurity-related articles of interest to teaching faculty and students. This is the 13^th edition of the (JCERP) and, as ever, we are seeking authors who produce high-quality research and practice-oriented articles focused on the development and delivery of information security and cybersecurity curriculum, innovation in applied scholarship, and industry best practices in information security and cybersecurity in the enterprise for double-blind review and publication. The journal invites submissions on Information Security, Cybersecurity, …

Application Of Competitive Intelligence For Insular Territories: Automatic Analysis Of Scientific And Technology Trends To Fight The Negative Effects Of Climate Change, Henri Dou, Pierre Fournie

International Journal of Islands Research

Islands are fragile territories because of their geographical position. As a result, climate impacts can have serious consequences, of which some are irreversible. Therefore, it is necessary to allow insular territories to benefit from the latest scientific and technological advances in combating climate effects. The current article shows how to deal with automatic analysis of scientific information on the one hand, but also its applications via patents. We will analyse the latest scientific results as well as their possible applications using patent analysis. We will also focus on experts, laboratories, and leading companies, that are active on the field. The …

Exploring The Influential Determinants Of Iot Adoption In The U.S. Manufacturing Sector, Ronville D. Savoury, Jodine M. Burchell

International Journal of Applied Management and Technology

Manufacturers have been hesitant to adopt the Internet of Things (IoT) due to a lack of understanding of factors related to IoT adoption. This correlational study uses a combination of diffusion of innovation theory and technology–organization–environment framework to examine if a relationship exists between relative advantage, complexity, compatibility, technology readiness, top management support, firm size, competitive pressure, and regulatory support and intent to adopt IoT in U.S. manufacturing organizations. A sample of 168 IT leaders was used. Multiple regression analysis indicated significant relationships between intent to adopt IoT and three variables: technology readiness, top management support, and competitive pressure. The …

The Pandemic Changed The Face Of Retail. Here’S How Center City, Philadelphia — The State’S Leading Job Market — Is Faring On The Road To Recovery, Francisco O. Velasquez-Turcios

Capstones

The pandemic changed the face of retail. Here’s how Center City, Philadelphia — the state’s leading job market — is faring on the road to recovery.

Link to capstone project: https://franvela033.github.io/Capstone/

Change Management In The Irish Defence Forces During Technological Change, Paul Hegarty Lt Cdr

Irish Business Journal

Extant literature fails to address change management in the military during technological change. Few researchers have examined how military organisations, undergo change and what, if any, processes do they use to manage this change. As such, whether change management processes are found to have a positive impact on military organisations or not, the extant literature in the sociology and military domains are being added to by the findings of this research.

The aim of this paper is to determine if the Irish Defence Forces would benefit from the introduction of change management processes when implementing new technological systems. The extant …

A Nation In Crisis... In Three Acts, William D. Senn

Proceedings from the Document Academy

A dramatic, spoken-word performance based on a detailed examination of the text of more than 1.7 million tweets concerning coronavirus and covid that were sent during the hours surrounding the president's declaration of emergency on March 13, 2020 including the transcript of the remarks made at the Rose Garden press conference. The researcher used the Twitter JSON API to retrieve all of the tweets containing the search terms "covid" and "corona" occurring during the timeframe. A text analysis was performed to identify the most frequently occurring n-grams present in the corpus of tweets. Thematic analysis and sentiment analysis were used …

Fast Fashion From A Buddhist Perspective, Elizabeth Mclaughlin

HON499 projects

The connection between Buddhism and fast fashion is not immediately apparent, nor is it a particularly well-researched area. However, the topic of consumption underlies both topics, relating to each in markedly different ways. Buddhist precepts outline practices of mindful and sustainable consumption within limited means; fast fashion fosters consumption on a massive, global scale. The work of Ernst Friedrich Schumacher, a man with a career in economics that was aided by great concern for the survival and success of humankind, offers clarity to the conversation about Buddhism and fast fashion. He pioneered the field of Buddhist economics, which seeks to …

Excelling In Telework: A Delphi Study, Ashley Carlin Smith

Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this Delphi study was to determine the factors IT management experts identify as necessary for healthcare employees to reach positive decision outcomes in virtual workplaces, to rate the importance of the identified factors, and to determine the practices IT management experts recommend for implementation for the five most important factors. Methodology: This study used a Delphi method that consisted of three rounds to collect data from 15 IT management professionals who are experts in leading virtual teams at Southern California hospitals. In Round 1, participants were asked to identify the factors healthcare employees need to reach …

The Application Of Design Thinking On Evaluating A User Self-Service Data Analytics/Science Platform, Aheeka Pattnaik

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis is aimed at utilising design thinking and the first half of the double diamond framework to i) set-up a research and select the appropriate participants, ii) gather requirements and define user personas from those eligible participants, and then iii) define the framework for evaluating a user self-service data analytics/science platform. Derived from the author’s own experiences, both as a Business Analyst (BA) and Citizen Data Scientist, with no-, low-, and code-based data analytics and science platforms are being implemented for enabling user self-service analytics – for users who are completely new to the space of data analysis and …

Reflections On Co-Creating, Developing And Evaluating Virtual Reality Fieldtrips (Vrf): The Student’S Perspective, Catherine Gorman, Jennifer Stewart, Louise Bellew

Conference papers

To ensure graduates have the skill to work within the tourism industry, and spurred on by the paradigm shift in teaching due to Covid 19, this research focused on developing innovative solutions using technology. Using virtual assessment techniques, industry co-created evaluation, and integrated assessment, it explored how virtual field-trips can be developed as part of remote teaching methods. To provide context to the topic of sustainable tourism and technology, a student-led virtual seminar with industry was undertaken linking with TU Dublin Green Week 2021. In place of a fieldtrip using Google Earth and Screen-casto-matic, students created videos incorporating the sustainability …