An empirical study of a Qualitative Systematic Approach to Requirements Analysis (QSARA)

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ban Al-Ani ◽  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Requirements Analysis

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF MANAGERIAL INNOVATIONS IN RUSSIA: DECISIONS’ BACKGROUND, MAJOR AREAS AND FREQUENCY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Guseva ◽  
◽  
Yaroslav Sovetkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
Russian Market ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Key Aspects

Unpredictable, complex and ambiguous business environments compel local and multinational companies to be more flexible and innovative in managerial practices. Nowadays managerial innovations (MI) are becoming a prevailing research area in management worldwide. This study investigates the key aspects of MI implementation in Russia from theoretical and empirical perspectives. The empirical study involved 1 025 employees from 791 companies operating in Moscow and the Moscow region as the major business centers of Russia. The results showed that companies operating in the Russian market base their decision to implement MI mostly on “proprietary investigation” (29% respondents). It was revealed that the major areas of MI implementation for such companies are “motivation” and “effective communication”, which are part of the “soft managerial practices”. Finally, the results of the study showed that in the majority of companies operating in the Russian market, the implementations of MI are made occasionally, without a systematic approach (39% respondents).

PROQRASS: A PROCESS-BASED APPROACH TO QUALITY REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS FOR SERVICE SYSTEMS

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (07) ◽  
pp. 943-962
Author(s):  
YE WANG ◽  
XIAOHU YANG ◽  
XINYU WANG ◽  
ALEKSANDER J. KAVS
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Requirements Analysis ◽  
Service Systems ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Quality Requirements ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Equity Trading

Satisfying quality requirements for service systems is quite crucial and challenging. However, there is a gap between quality requirements analysis and quality requirements design in service systems. In order to bridge this gap, we provide a systematic approach — ProQRASS — to model and analyze quality requirements of services based on business processes, which are frequently used to model services. ProQRASS consists of five steps: (1) constructing business process models; (2) associating quality requirements with functional requirements of services in business process models; (3) identifying potential conflicts and cooperation among quality requirements; (4) filtering out false conflicts and cooperation; (5) resolving conflicts among quality requirements. We illustrate ProQRASS through an equity trading service system. We also evaluate its capability through the comparison with other approaches and conduct a usability investigation involving industrial experts. The result shows that ProQRASS is effective and useful.

scholarly journals Formal Thought Disorder and Self-Disorder: An Empirical Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Nordgaard ◽  
Mette Gravesen-Jensen ◽  
Marlene Buch-Pedersen ◽  
Josef Parnas
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Formal Thought Disorder ◽  
Schizophrenia Spectrum ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Original Concept ◽  
Self Disorder

Background: Formal thought disorder was constitutively linked to the original concept of schizophrenia and has since been one of central features supporting its diagnosis. Bleuler considered formal thought disorder as a fundamental symptom of schizophrenia among other fundamental symptoms, including ego disorders. The contemporary concept of self-disorder represents a more developed, nuanced, and systematic approach to disturbances of self-experience than the Bleulerian concept of ego disorders. As fundamental symptoms, on Bleuler's account, are persistently present in every case, an association between these symptoms could be expected. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between self-disorder and formal thought disorder.Methods: A sample of 94 diagnostically heterogeneous patients was examined for formal thought disorder using clinical rating and a proverb test. The proverb test was analyzed for two different aspects of formal thought disorder: literal responses and bizarre responses. The sample was comprehensively assessed for psychopathology, including self-disorder as measured with the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience scale.Results: The patients, who provided bizarre responses, had a higher level of self-disorder, more negative symptoms, lower level of social functioning, and lower level of intelligence. Bizarre answers aggregated in patients diagnosed within the schizophrenia spectrum compared with patients outside the schizophrenia spectrum. We found moderate correlations between the two measures of formal thought disorder (clinically rated and bizarre responses) and self-disorder (0.454 [p < 0.01] and 0.328 [p < 0.01]). Literal responses did not differ between diagnostic groups and also did not correlate with bizarre responses. Specificity of bizarre responses for a diagnosis within schizophrenia spectrum was 86.89%, whereas sensitivity was 40.85%.Conclusion: The close relation between formal thought disorder and self-disorder further adds to the notion of self-disorder as a unifying psychopathological core beneath the apparently heterogeneous symptoms of schizophrenia.

scholarly journals Empirical Types of Social Maturity in Young People

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-280
Author(s):  
Anastasia A. Akbarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Behavioral Activity ◽  
Social Maturity ◽  
Cognitive Value ◽  
The Social

The paper presents the results of an empirical study aimed at the identification of empirical types of social maturity in young people; its relevance is due to the lack of typology of social maturity in modern socio-psychological literature. The study was performed on a sample of young people aged 18 to 30 years old (347 people, including 178 women and 169 men). We assumed that there are various empirical types of social maturity in young people depending on the evaluation of actualized personal and social resources, the orientation of social experiences, value orientations, and behavioral activity. We used methods based on the comprehensive program developed by A. B. Kupreichenko and A. L. Zhuravlev, as well as L. M. Smirnov’s method “Basic Values and Disvalues of Russians”. The aim of this study was to distinguish the main types of social maturity from an integrative position, reflecting the view of this phenomenon as a compound, including not only socially oriented, but also individual psychological components. It is shown that the systematic approach to the study of social maturity allows us to present this phenomenon as a unified socio-psychological construct. The following components are distinguished as components of social maturity analyzed in the study: cognitive, value, emotional and conative ones. Five empirical types of social maturity were found: “ascetic”, “ambitious”, “not actualized”, “asocial”, “socially mature”. The distinguished types of social maturity are differentiated according to the grounds of the social maturity components. In the future, these types can also become the basis for creating methodological tools that diagnose parameters distinguishing subjects with different manifestation and orientation of the social maturity phenomenon.

scholarly journals Constructing a framework for empirical research of foreign direct investment (FDI) and fdi intent

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Design Development ◽  
To Come

Foreign Direct Investment has been linked with an extensive number of positive consequences both on micro and macro level. Still, firms of emerging economies have difficulties attracting FDI. Part of the problem may also lie in the lack of FDI intent on behalf of the firm management to attain FDI. In this study, we aim to construct a framework that would use for a future empirical research of FDI attraction and FDI intent on the organizational level. A systematic approach is described providing a strong foundation for an empirical study soon to come. The process encompasses research design, development of the measurement tool, data collection, preparation and analysis-planning phase. Additionally, we suggest the potential findings and benefits of research following the framework developed.

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