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Sustainability – a new dimension in information systems evaluation

Piotrowicz, Wojciech Piotrowicz; Cuthbertson, Richard - 2009

The paper introduces new dimensions of Information Systems evaluation. Sustainability issues have increasing importance … require the monitoring and reporting of the impact of an organisation on sustainability. However, traditional IS evaluation … approaches are not able to capture the impact of IT/IS on sustainability, especially in relation to social and environmental …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441409

Sustainable supply chains – a framework for best practice assessment: results of the pilot study, BestLog project.

Piotrowicz, Wojciech; Cuthbertson, Richard; Islei, Gerd

section reviews EC policies on sustainability in transport and logistics. The main part of the analysis concentrates on the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441420

Sustainability Strategies in U.S. Agribusiness: Understanding Key Drivers, Objectives, and Actions

Rankin, Amber; Gray, Allan W.; Boehlje, Michael D.; … - 2011

This study explores the domain of sustainability from the agribusiness perspective by establishing levels or stages of … sustainability in terms of views, actions and performance measures. In addition, it analyzes factors including firm characteristics … and internal and external stakeholders that influence a company’s sustainability initiatives. In a sample of U …

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Research framework and empirical evidence of sustainable supply chain

D'Souza, Clare; Taghian, Mehdi; Sullivan-Mort, Gillian - 2010

The aim of this research is to conduct a review on the approaches used to assess different criteria on sustainability … complex sustainable assessments. A review was conducted on the present models that are used to examine sustainability within … that corporate commitment to sustainability, corporate reporting and management systems are significant predictors for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483790

Development and Testing of an Intervention to Improve Group Decision-Making Effectiveness in a Hidden Profile Scenario

Donovan, Angela S. - 2010

Research has repeatedly shown that when groups whose members have varying expertise are combined to make a decision, they tend to discuss common information at a higher rate than unique information, hindering their ability to make the best decision. In response to these findings and the fact...

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Building Collaborative Culture Between Design Research and Practice Through Graduate Education

Popovic, Vesna - 2005

The concept of this paper is based on the framework in which the research is situated within the social structure that constitutes people, activity, context and culture. It explores industrial(product) design’s and artifact’s contribution to knowledge generation and its utilisation by...

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When Advance Purchase need to be Made for Future Consumption – An Empirical Investigation of Consumer Choice under Bucket Pricing

Sun, Bao-Hong; Sun, Yacheng; Li, Shibo - 2006

Bucket pricing entails a prepaid price and a maximum consumption limit, which requires consumers to make advance purchase decisions before their consumption needs are fully revealed. We propose a dynamic model that involves how consumers form expectations of future consumption needs, learn to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441184

Essays on Integrating Product Design and Marketing Research.

Feit, Eleanor Mc Donnell - 2009

Engineers and product designers have developed sophisticated models to predict the technical performance of their designs, yet they seldom quantify how performance affects the desirability of the resulting products to consumers. Without this information, managers have difficulty judging which...

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Game theoretic derivations of competitive strategies in conjoint analysis

Choi, S. Chan; DeSarbo, Wayne S. - 1993

While conjoint analysis has been applied in a wide variety of different contexts in Marketing, most applications fail to explicitly consider retaliatory reactions from competitors. In this paper, a methodological extension is developed for conjoint analysis by explicitly modeling competition in...

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Exploring design and innovation: further developments in the innovation curriculum

Tabor, Emma; Chappell, Alison - 2001

The Exploring Design and Innovation booklet was developed as a curriculum resource to disseminate information about Millennium Products and the Design Council's Sharing Innovation web site. The Sharing Innovation project examined over 80% of the 1000 plus Millennium Products, looking at their...

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