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Innovation Und Wachstum Durch Aktive Servicegestaltung, Hubert Oesterle Nov 2004

Innovation Und Wachstum Durch Aktive Servicegestaltung, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


The Biggest Experience To Reduce Environmental Pollutants By Substitute Fuel Cng In The Middle East & The Middle Asia, Ali Momeni, Maziar Rostamnezhad, Nader Ale Ebrahim Oct 2004

The Biggest Experience To Reduce Environmental Pollutants By Substitute Fuel Cng In The Middle East & The Middle Asia, Ali Momeni, Maziar Rostamnezhad, Nader Ale Ebrahim

Nader Ale Ebrahim

Automobile industry is an exhaustive industry bringing development for any country. The industrial capabilities needed for development rest in this branch of industry. The Iranian automobile making companies move in line with this aim. But in recent decades, in addition to development of automobile industry, the pollution too has occupied the minds of the authorities of these companies. Some measures, investments, researches, and exhaustive studies related to the pollution problem have been made to produce an automobile of higher technology and lower pollution.


Agile Informationsinfrastrukturen, Hubert Oesterle Oct 2004

Agile Informationsinfrastrukturen, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Plan For Change: Kentucky Library And Museum, Timothy Mullin Oct 2004

Plan For Change: Kentucky Library And Museum, Timothy Mullin

Library Annual Reports, Reports, and Statistics

To create a dynamic, exciting library and museum, which will be an asset to both Western Kentucky University and the community at large, a number of changes in our normal operations need to take place. The problems are each addressed below; storage, new gallery space, new exhibits, and new operating procedures to better meet the needs of the community and the campus. This plan will address each aspect of the anticipated changes, and set some priorities. All changes described will be consistent with the strategic plans of the University Libraries and Western Kentucky University.


How To Make Knowledge Management A Dynamic Capability, Arun Kumaraswamy, Raghu Garud Oct 2004

How To Make Knowledge Management A Dynamic Capability, Arun Kumaraswamy, Raghu Garud

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.


Real-Time Enterprise - Vision Und Wirklichkeit, Hubert Oesterle Sep 2004

Real-Time Enterprise - Vision Und Wirklichkeit, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Industry Clusters And Economic Development: A Learning Resource, Edward J. Feser Sep 2004

Industry Clusters And Economic Development: A Learning Resource, Edward J. Feser

Edward J Feser

One of the most widely discussed issues in community and economic development today is the role of industry clusters as engines of regional growth and development. Many communities are undertaking cluster studies or initiating cluster planning exercises as a way to organize development strategies to promote key local economic strengths or to shore up identified weaknesses. A large consulting industry has emerged to serve governments’ interest in clusters and the research literature on the topic is growing rapidly. At the same time, some analysts have likened clusters to another economic development fad that will eventually be supplanted by the next …


The Making Of An Innovator, Hian Teck Hoon Sep 2004

The Making Of An Innovator, Hian Teck Hoon

Research Collection School Of Economics

Innovators experiment with things to come up with new ideas to improve the quality of existing products, develop differentiated or new products and re-organise business processes to lower costs. In a big corporation, there might be a whole R&D department where innovators are employed to design new blueprints so the company can constantly make new offerings. But innovators can also be found in small enterprises tinkering with recipes, for example, to win new customers. Innovators no doubt derive pleasure from their creative work. Yet, in modern economies, they must be employed in a firm that successfully translates their innovative activity …


Banken Als Echtzeitunternehmen? - Analogien Aus Der Technischen Industrie, Hubert Oesterle Aug 2004

Banken Als Echtzeitunternehmen? - Analogien Aus Der Technischen Industrie, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Real-Time Business: Rentable Kundenprozesse, Hubert Oesterle Aug 2004

Real-Time Business: Rentable Kundenprozesse, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Promet Business Engineering Case Studies (Becs) Version 2.0, Enrico Senger, Hubert Oesterle Jul 2004

Promet Business Engineering Case Studies (Becs) Version 2.0, Enrico Senger, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

Das vorliegende Dokument leitet eine Fallstudienmethodik für die Erstellung von Forschungs- und Lehrfallstudien im Business Engineering und in verwandten Themenstellungen ab.Es empfiehlt einen Multi-Case-Ansatz mit der Betrachtung aller Ebenen des Business Engineering und leitet dafür Struktur und Vorgehen ab. Dabei wird auch die (Zweit-)Verwendung von Forschungsfallstudien in der universitären Lehre berücksichtigt.Der Arbeitsbericht dient als Kochbuch, das Module auf unterschiedlichen Abstraktionsebenen bereitstellt und mit umfangreichen Beispielen, die in einer Fallstudien-Datenbank festgehalten sind, illustriert.


Intellectual Property Law And The Boundaries Of The Firm, Oren Bar-Gill, Gideon Parchomovsky Jun 2004

Intellectual Property Law And The Boundaries Of The Firm, Oren Bar-Gill, Gideon Parchomovsky

All Faculty Scholarship

Arrow's disclosure paradox implies that information that is not afforded legal protection cannot be bought or sold on the market. This paper emphasizes the important relationship between the paradox of disclosure and the boundaries of the firm question. Only legally protected inventions, i.e., patented inventions, may be traded; pre-patent stages of the innovation process may not. Consequently, by force of law, rather than by the guidance of economic principle, pre-patent innovation must be carried out within the boundaries of a single firm.


Technology Worth Patenting, Thomas G. Field Jr Jun 2004

Technology Worth Patenting, Thomas G. Field Jr

Law Faculty Scholarship

Inevitably scarce resources are better invested in deciding which [patent] applications are worth filing and seeking the broadest defensible claims for those that are chosen. Whether a patent can be obtained for less than, say, $10,000 is the wrong question. Whether a patent is worth having is the better question—particularly from the standpoint of prospective licensees.


Production And Political Economy In The Animation Industry: Why Insourcing And Outsourcing Occur, Feichin, Ted Tschang, Andrea Goldstein Jun 2004

Production And Political Economy In The Animation Industry: Why Insourcing And Outsourcing Occur, Feichin, Ted Tschang, Andrea Goldstein

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This paper presents a framework for explaining production patterns in creative industries. In particular, we focus on the conditions under which insourcing occurs in the US threedimensional animation industry and where outsourcing in the conventional two-dimensional animation industry occurs to the Philippines. The work that is outsourced is not the most creative component of the entire production process. Institutional decisions (as related to the location of decision makers and primary markets), and business conditions in the world market, have both positively and negatively affected the local Filipino industry and its position within the global division of labor. Implications for knowledge-based …


Intelligence Strategy: The Evolution And Co-Evolution Dynamics Of Intelligent Human Organizations And Their Interacting Agents, Thow Yick Liang Jun 2004

Intelligence Strategy: The Evolution And Co-Evolution Dynamics Of Intelligent Human Organizations And Their Interacting Agents, Thow Yick Liang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In the knowledge economy, the human minds are the most vital center of analysis. They are the complex adaptive systems capable of processing information, establishing knowledge structure, conceptualizing idea, and making decision. The intrinsic intelligence of the individual minds, as well as the organizational/ collective intelligence, drives the dynamic of all human systems. Primarily, the local self-enrichment processes of the interacting agents are autopoietic. In addition, global forces are also present in all human organizations. The global forces are constructive only if they support the elementary processes. The global forces originate from the orgmind of the organization. A complex relationship …


Wto/Ifitt Research Paper – E-Metric Evaluation, Patrick Horan Jun 2004

Wto/Ifitt Research Paper – E-Metric Evaluation, Patrick Horan

Conference papers

This discussion paper evaluates electronic channel-choice strategies and outcomes amongst hotel SMEs and discusses the initial steps associated with constructing a methodology to generate a set of metrics for evaluating the DMS electronic channel.


Value Chain Forum - Connecting Business Partners, Hubert Oesterle May 2004

Value Chain Forum - Connecting Business Partners, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Die Ideale Migration, Hubert Oesterle May 2004

Die Ideale Migration, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Obesity, Educational Attainment, And State Economic Welfare, Martin W. Sivula Ph.D. May 2004

Obesity, Educational Attainment, And State Economic Welfare, Martin W. Sivula Ph.D.

MBA Faculty Conference Papers & Journal Articles

For the first time in history, estimates of the overweight people in the world rival estimates of those malnourished. The World Health Organization (WHO, 2002) ranked obesity among the top 10 risks to human health worldwide. In the early 1960s, nearly half of the Americans were overweight and 13% were obese. Today some 64% of U.S. adults are overweight and 30.5% are obese. Even more alarming, twice as many U.S. children are overweight than were twenty years ago, a 66% increase. Non-communicable diseases impose a heavy economic burden on already strained health systems. Health is a key determinant of development …


Neue Herausforderungen Für Executives Im Echtzeitunternehmen, Hubert Oesterle Apr 2004

Neue Herausforderungen Für Executives Im Echtzeitunternehmen, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Determinants Of The Adoption Of Customer-Oriented Mobile Commerce Initiatives, Léger Pierre-Majorique, Luc Cassivi, S. F. Wamba Apr 2004

Determinants Of The Adoption Of Customer-Oriented Mobile Commerce Initiatives, Léger Pierre-Majorique, Luc Cassivi, S. F. Wamba

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

This paper investigates organizations implementing mobile commerce initiatives. Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is defined as the wireless B2B and B2C exchange of operational and financial data within a supply chain. Based on a survey conducted with 159 Canadian and Scandinavian executive managers, this paper tests several theoretical determinants of customer-oriented m-commerce initiatives. Results indicate that i) the adoption of electronic commerce is a strong determinant for the adoption of m-commerce initiatives, ii) software firms are more inclined to adopt m-commerce initiatives, iii) firm size does not influence the adoption of mobile commerce, and iv) contrary to expectations, firms focusing on B2C …


Coming Full Circle With Boyd's Ooda Loop Ideas: An Analysis Of Innovation Diffusion And Evolution, William S. Angerman Mar 2004

Coming Full Circle With Boyd's Ooda Loop Ideas: An Analysis Of Innovation Diffusion And Evolution, William S. Angerman

Theses and Dissertations

The Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) Loop ideas of Air Force Colonel John Boyd have impacted the Department of Defense (DoD), influenced military thought, paved the way for operational change, and helped to shape fighting doctrines. A wide variety of OODA Loop ideas and interpretations exist in the literature, but are unorganized and have not undergone holistic study to determine how Boyd's ideas have spread or changed over time. As such, this research analyzed a quarter century (1976-2003) sample of the OODA Loop literature to examine the diffusion and evolution of OODA Loop ideas since Boyd's original conceptualizations. This research used qualitative data …


Organic Production Systems: What The Biological Cell Can Teach Us About Manufacturing, Lieven Demeester, Knut Eichler, Christoph H. Loch Mar 2004

Organic Production Systems: What The Biological Cell Can Teach Us About Manufacturing, Lieven Demeester, Knut Eichler, Christoph H. Loch

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Biological cells run complicated and sophisticated production systems. The study of the cell's production technology provides us with insights that are potentially useful in industrial manufacturing. When comparing cell metabolism with manufacturing techniques in industry, we find some striking commonalities, but also some important differences. Like today's well-run factories, the cell operates a very lean production system, assures quality at the source, and uses component commonality to simplify production. While we can certainly learn from how the cell accomplishes these parallels, it is even more interesting to look at how the cell operates differently. In biological cells, all products and …


Real-Time Business - Chancen Aus Dem Business Networking, Hubert Oesterle Feb 2004

Real-Time Business - Chancen Aus Dem Business Networking, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Business Engineering - Eine St. Galler Vision, Hubert Oesterle Feb 2004

Business Engineering - Eine St. Galler Vision, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Rapid Implementation Of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Without Process Redesign, Elgar Fleisch, Hubert Oesterle, Steven Powell Jan 2004

Rapid Implementation Of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Without Process Redesign, Elgar Fleisch, Hubert Oesterle, Steven Powell

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Destination Websites Effectiveness Benchmarking, Patrick Horan, Andrew Frew Jan 2004

Destination Websites Effectiveness Benchmarking, Patrick Horan, Andrew Frew

Conference papers

This presentation examines the steps that should be taken in order to construct a comprehensive framework to evaluate the effectiveness of destination management systems from a hotel SME's perspective.


Cuba's Energy Challenge: Fueling The Engine Of Future Economic Growth, Jorge R. Piñón Jan 2004

Cuba's Energy Challenge: Fueling The Engine Of Future Economic Growth, Jorge R. Piñón

Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies Occasional Papers

No abstract provided.


Adequacy Of The 1995 Antitrust Guidelines For Ip Licensing: Commentaries From The 2002 Ftc And Doj Hearings, Clovia Hamilton Jan 2004

Adequacy Of The 1995 Antitrust Guidelines For Ip Licensing: Commentaries From The 2002 Ftc And Doj Hearings, Clovia Hamilton

Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications

In 1995, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adopted new guidelines for the licensing of intellectual property rights without violating antitrust laws. The 1995 Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property (IP Guidelines) state the antitrust enforcement policy of the DOJ and the FTC.1 The IP Guidelines drafted by the DOJ and FTC (the agencies) does not provide practitioners with a sufficient level of comfort as they attempt to predict the enforcement initiatives relative to intellectual property licensing.2 The IP Guidelines are inadequate because they misunderstand the nature of intellectual property markets and provide …


A Paradigm For Spreadsheet Engineering Methodologies, Thomas A. Grossman Jr., O Ozluk Jan 2004

A Paradigm For Spreadsheet Engineering Methodologies, Thomas A. Grossman Jr., O Ozluk

Business Analytics and Information Systems

Spreadsheet engineering methodologies are diverse and sometimes contradictory. It is difficult for spreadsheet developers to identify a spreadsheet engineering methodology that is appropriate for their class of spreadsheet, with its unique combination of goals, type of problem, and available time and resources. There is a lack of well-organized, proven methodologies with known costs and benefits for well-defined spreadsheet classes. It is difficult to compare and critically evaluate methodologies. We present a paradigm for organizing and interpreting spreadsheet engineering recommendations. It systematically addresses the myriad choices made when developing a spreadsheet, and explicitly considers resource constraints and other development parameters. This …