scholarly journals Local and global properties of the harmonic polynomial cell method: In-depth analysis in two dimensions

2017 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 681-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ma ◽  
F.-C. W. Hanssen ◽  
M. A. Siddiqui ◽  
M. Greco ◽  
O. M. Faltinsen
Keyword(s):  
Harmonic Polynomial ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Cell Method ◽  
Global Properties ◽  
Depth Analysis

scholarly journals Corporate Governance: Can Creditors Fit in with Companies’ Board of Directors?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bashir Mande Tsafe ◽  
Zuaini Ishak ◽  
Kamil Md Idris
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Credit Contracts

How do suppliers of finance make sure that firm managers enforce credit contracts, or do not invest in bad projects? This approach is missing in corporate governance research. To bridge the gap, we take steps towards developing a stakeholder perspective with the focus on examining the effects of creditor participation in a firm’s top decisions, in relation to board performance. Based on a sample of 154 questionnaire survey responses from Nigerian public firms, after relating all measured items to every construct in the statistical tests of exploratory factor analysis (EFA), we employed the use of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in a structural equation modelling (SEM) approach for an in-depth analysis to estimate how well the stakeholder model fits the data. Building upon the construct creditor participation, and based on the proposed theory, we confirmed three dimensions – protect risk projects, protect collateral, and enforce contracts – to be confirmed measures of the latent construct. Significant creditors such as banks interfering in the firm’s board, especially in major board decisions, can reduce the potentials of managers to engage in high-risk projects. This has significant positive effects on the board’s role performance. However, items in the two dimensions – protect collateral and enforce credit contracts show weak measurements after EFA. The consequences are a new research agenda for boards has been set. The agenda will focus on the suppliers of debt finance, as significant to the firms akin with their equity shareholders’ counterparts. This will create knowledge; reduce conflicts of interests, and exploitation; and ensure equitable distribution of firm value. The approach exposes firms to access more inclusive strategic inputs especially on important and less risky projects that will yield better margin and sustainable growth. This may stimulate further debates on other stakeholder researches that are vital to debt financiers and boards, thus becoming actionable for practitioners in decisions on projects.  

scholarly journals Workforce diversity and organizational performance – a study of European football clubs

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-211
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Tworek ◽  
Anna Zgrzywa-Ziemak ◽  
Robert Kamiński
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Workforce Diversity ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Usa ◽  
European Football

Diversity management is viewed as one of the sources of competitive advantage, but the relation between workforce diversity and organizational goals is not indisputable. In-depth analysis of literature in this field does not allow for a clear answer concerning the nature of this relation (there is not a lot of empirical research available, and more importantly, they have significant limitations). The paper presents the results of empirical research aimed at exploring the relation between workforce diversity and organizational performance, which seem to break through the major limitations of previous studies in this area, i.e. the association of organizational performance mainly with financial results and the domination of American authors (60% of studies were conducted in the USA, a country with a specific culture). The research subjects of this article are European football clubs, which can be treated as a model for the management of contemporary organizations (the study covers 166 clubs from 10 countries). The obtained results clearly indicate the lack of dependency between workforce diversity (considered using two dimensions of primary identity – nationality and age) and the achieved results (considered using their place in the final table of the 2016/17 season and the total number of points). It was concluded on this basis that, in organizations free from discriminatory prejudices (which is the case for most football clubs), diversity management is somewhat vacant

The Malaise of Rural Life World in the Context of the New Countryside Construction in Southern Jiangsu, China

2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 1816-1823
Author(s):  
Yong Wang ◽  
Guang Bin Li ◽  
Liang Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Government Intervention ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Life World ◽  
Rural Markets ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
New Countryside Construction ◽  
Southern Jiangsu ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Countryside

Based on Habermas’s theory of the life-world, this paper attempts to examine the recent government’s policies to construct rural markets and countryside living form and to conduct an in-depth analysis of the crisis that is facing the rural life-world within these two dimensions. The paper questions the rationality of the government actions in new countryside construction of Southern Jiangsu. It is contended that excessive government intervention with the systematic lack of democracy and freedom will lead to multiple crises of rural life world and eventually cause the system to colonize the rural life world.

scholarly journals Surviving but not thriving: Comparing primary, vocational and higher education teachers’ experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Kovacs ◽  
Caroline Pulfrey ◽  
Emilie-Charlotte Monnier
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Online Distance Education ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Online Distance

AbstractIn this paper we examine the impacts of the global pandemic in 2020 on different levels of education system, particularly looking at the changes in teaching practice. The health emergency caused closure of schools, and online distance education became a temporary solution, creating discomfort for many teachers for whom this was the first time engaged with online education. In our research we investigated two important dimensions, namely, how technology was used and what the newfound distance meant in terms of the teacher-student relationship. The article offers insights into experiences of teaching from lockdown reported by 41 teachers at primary, vocational and higher education level in the region of Vaud, Switzerland. This comparative qualitative research has provided an opportunity for an in-depth analysis of the main similarities and differences at three distinctly different educational levels and a possibility to learn more about common coping practices in teaching. The study gives a contribution to a lack of comparative studies of teacher experiences at different educational levels. Results show two dimensions in handling the lockdown crisis: mastering the digital tools and the importance of student–teacher interaction. Whilst the interviewed teachers largely overcame the challenges of mastering digital tools, optimizing the quality interaction and ensuring the transactional presence online remained a problem. This indicates the importance of the social aspect in education at all levels, and implies that teacher support needs to expand beyond technical pedagogical knowledge of online distance education.

Actors’ interaction in the ERP implementation literature

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bambang Purwoko Kusumo Bintoro ◽  
Togar Mangihut Simatupang ◽  
Utomo Sarjono Putro ◽  
Pri Hermawan
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
New Classification ◽  
Erp Implementation ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Classification Framework ◽  
Depth Analysis

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the existence of studies, by exploring the current literatures, on interaction among actors in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation. Design/methodology/approach – A new classification framework is offered, along with the two dimensions of ERP implementation: determinants and outcomes, to provide four types of research classes. Hundreds of articles were searched by using keywords from journal data bases. The selected articles were grouped based on the new classification of ERP implementation, followed by an in-depth analysis by using the Context, Intervention, Mechanism, Outcomes logic and the system of systems methodologies (SOSM) framework. Findings – The interactions among actors in ERP implementation have been overlooked, although there is almost always disagreements, misperceptions, and conflicts. Managing the interactions among actors is considered important because common failures in ERP implementation are often caused by mismanaged interactions among the key actors. Unfortunately, the existing research has so far shown a small effort to study how the actors’ interactions are managed. Research limitations/implications – One key limitation of this research is that the number of actor-related articles is lesser than the factor-related articles. Further research should be conducted to explain how to manage the interactions among the actors in each stage of ERP implementation. Practical implications – A guidance to prepare the entire organization prior to the ERP implementation to seriously consider the typical conflict among actors on each stage of ERP implementation and its causal factors and how to resolve them. Social implications – The importance of understanding typical conflict among actors, its causal factors, and how to resolve them can be extended to other projects or social phenomenon. Originality/value – This proposed framework is new to the ERP literature and serves to identify and expand further research on actors’ interactions to improve the success of ERP implementation. This is the first research to identify the interactions among actors in ERP implementation by using a clearly structured methodological approach, which is conducted by critically reviewing the ERP implementation literature.

scholarly journals Concealment and discovery: The role of information security in biomedical data re-use

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 663-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niccolò Tempini ◽  
Sabina Leonelli
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Biomedical Data ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Role Of Information

This paper analyses the role of information security (IS) in shaping the dissemination and re-use of biomedical data, as well as the embedding of such data in material, social and regulatory landscapes of research. We consider data management practices adopted by two UK-based data linkage infrastructures: the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage, a Welsh databank that facilitates appropriate re-use of health data derived from research and routine medical practice in the region, and the Medical and Environmental Data Mash-up Infrastructure, a project bringing together researchers to link and analyse complex meteorological, environmental and epidemiological data. Through an in-depth analysis of how data are sourced, processed and analysed in these two cases, we show that IS takes two distinct forms: epistemic IS, focused on protecting the reliability and reusability of data as they move across platforms and research contexts, and infrastructural IS, concerned with protecting data from external attacks, mishandling and use disruption. These two dimensions are intertwined and mutually constitutive, and yet are often perceived by researchers as being in tension with each other. We discuss how such tensions emerge when the two dimensions of IS are operationalized in ways that put them at cross purpose with each other, thus exemplifying the vulnerability of data management strategies to broader governance and technological regimes. We also show that whenever biomedical researchers manage to overcome the conflict, the interplay between epistemic and infrastructural IS prompts critical questions concerning data sources, formats, metadata and potential uses, resulting in an improved understanding of the wider context of research and the development of relevant resources. This informs and significantly improves the reusability of biomedical data, while encouraging exploratory analyses of secondary data sources.

From “Self-Tested” to “Self-Testing”

2012 ◽  
pp. 119-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingming Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Tutoring ◽  
Intelligent Tutoring System ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Tutoring Systems ◽  
Self Testing ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Assessment Systems ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Way

This chapter consists of an in-depth analysis and synthesis of the research and development of self-assessment systems for learning. 15 intelligent tutoring systems were reviewed according to the way they support self-assessment during different learning stages – the timing of taking a self-test, the way the test is designed, and the way the feedback is produced upon the test result. The author noted a shift from students’ being self-tested (by the system) to self-testing themselves (by requesting and designing tests). This shift not only highlights the need for learners to exercise agency during learning by experiencing more autonomy for self-assessment but also establishes the pedagogical framework for intelligent tutoring system design. The author proposed a model of directed self-assessment which encompasses two dimensions with one emphasizing students’ initiatives and the other focusing on external scaffold from intelligent self-assessment systems. In this way, learners are greatly encouraged and scaffolded to take a more active part in managing and assessing their own learning.

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