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Abstract Participation of employees can be seen as a key factor for the innovation capacity of small and medium … factors of self-organized and innovation-oriented employee's participation. It suggests causalities between them and pleads … outline of a development-oriented framework of reference for an affirmative encouragement of participation in innovation …
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Abstract The literature regarding the relation between innovation and participation usually neglects the fact that the … involvement of employees in innovation processes constitutes in itself an innovation. Participation as innovation encounters some … this article highlights some specific barriers regarding innovation of participation schemes. It then shows how employee …
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The adoption of the agile methods' principles has emerged as an effective way to develop service oriented architectures as it paves the way for a better reply to the changing needs of the environment and even the customer. However, these changes may also require the evolution of the development...
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In this paper, a novel security-enhanced agile software development process, SEAP, is introduced. It has been designed, tested, and implemented at Ericsson AB, specifically in the development of a mobile money transfer system. Two important features of SEAP are 1) that it includes additional...
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This article relates relevant aspects of business: logistics, innovation, female participation and multicriteria models …, through a multiattribute model, the female participation in logistics, having as a thread the innovation processes. …. One issue that is paying close attention is the participation of women in different social spheres, including business. On …
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The authors argue here that contemporary use of action research shares the exploratory, inductive nature of many qualitative research approaches—no matter the type of data collected—because the type of research problems studied are set in complex, dynamic, rapidly changing contexts and...
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This paper reports on MexCo (Mexico-Coventry), an ongoing online intercultural learning project underpinned by action research. Its aim is to embed internationalisation into the curriculum of the institutions involved in order to promote citizenship competences, online intercultural...
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This paper presents findings emerging from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program …
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Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) is providing businesses with the means of assembling virtual teams comprising of members in diverse locations. However research shows that virtual team dynamics are different from face to face dynamics. Recent research adds force to the view that conflicts...
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Decision-making in many standardization committees is consensus-based, but this can be difficult to achieve if stakeholders have conflicting interests. This article develops an approach to consensus-building in standardization by applying the Harvard method of negotiation to standardization. The...
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