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Exploring the coevolution of design and technology

Schweisfurth, Tim; Tietze, Frank; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2011

The importance of design for the success of product innovations has caught increasing attention of scholars lately (Rindova and Petkova, 2007, Verganti, 2008). Previous research is related to user-centered design (Brown, 2008, Veryzer and Borja de Mozota, 2005a), design contribution to NPD...

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The Red King Effect: When the slowest runner wins the coevolutionary race

Bergstrom, Carl T.; Lachmann, Michael - 2003

Mutualisms provide benefits to those who participate in them. As a mutualism evolves, how will these benefits come to be allocated among the participants? We approach this question using evolutionary game theory and explore the ways in which the coevolutionary process determines the allocation...

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Enhancing business continuity management capacities in the insurance industry : a Southeast Asian perspective

Wong, Kok Loon; Barnes, Paul H. - 2011

As a resilience enhancing practice, business continuity management (BCM) can play an important role in aiding …

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Resilience in critical infrastructures : the case of the Queensland electricity industry

Sinclair, Natalie - 2009

interdependent network conditions that exist both regionally and globally. The notion of resilience as an adaptive capacity … reliability through the lens of resilience from an organisation and system perspective using two recognised resilience … contribute to a body of knowledge encompassing resilience and high reliability in critical infrastructure industries. The …

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Mudancas em Infra-estrutura, Agencia Humana e Resiliencia em Sistemas Socio-ecologicos: Arcabouço Teórico e Abordagem Metodologica

Perz, Stephen G.; Valho, Lucas Araujo Car; Passos, Veronica - 2008

Propomos aumentar o conhecimento sobre os impactos da construção e melhoramento em obras de infra-estrutura, nesse caso em particular das estradas, e nas relações entre as pessoas e a floresta. Este tema multifacetado será abordado por um complexo sistema de interações, com ênfase na...

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Beyond adaptation: Resilience for business in light of climate change and weather extremes

Linnenluecke, Martina; Griffiths, Andrew - 2010

occurrence of weather extremes into corporate strategy and decision making. The authors advance the notion that a resilience … framework might provide insights into dealing with new types of environmental change. They contend that by developing resilience …

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The Ghost of Development Past: The Impact of Economic Security Policies on Saami Pastoral Ecosystems

Hausner, Vera H.; Fauchald, Per; Tveraa, Torkild; … - 2011

conservation with development interventions. Particularly, in marginal and risk prone areas erosion of resilience could make … big push was accompanied by reindeer herd accumulation and a corresponding degradation of resilience, increasing the … push policies have resulted in an economic security trap (EST). The gradual reduction of resilience has persisted as the ex …

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Robustness Trade-offs in Social-Ecological Systems

Janssen, Marco A.; Anderies, John M. - 2007

"The governance of common-pool resources can be meaningfully examined from the somewhat broader perspective of the governance of social-ecological systems (SESs). Governance of SESs invariably involves trade-offs; trade-offs between different stakeholder objectives, trade-offs between risk and...

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Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective

Anderies, John M.; Janssen, Marco A.; Ostrom, Elinor - 2004

"What makes social-ecological systems robust? In this paper we look at the institutional configurations that affect the interactions among resources, resource users, public infrastructure providers, and public infrastructures. We propose a framework that helps to identify potential...

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Reduncancy and Diversity in Governing and Managing Common-Pool Resources

Low, Bobbi S.; Ostrom, Elinor; Simon, Carl P.; Wilson, James - 2000

"In many fields, policymakers seem to have an increasing preference for simple, large, non- redundant systems of analysis and governance. To address this question, we examine several arenas in which scholars have studied the costs and benefits of different levels of redundancy, including:...

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