scholarly journals Strategic Technological Sourcing Decisions in the Context of Timing and Market Strategies: An Empirical Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 1450016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Brem ◽  
Daniel A. Gerhard ◽  
Kai-Ingo Voigt
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
German Industry ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Market Strategies

In times of changing business models and international competition, there is an inherent need for companies to foster and develop mechanisms to absorb new technologies for innovative products and processes effectively. Such considerations lead to the strategic make-or-buy decision which was the subject of our research. This quantitative explanatory study in the German industry shows in particular that companies base their decision for internal or external sourcing on multiple weighted criteria with scoring models and, even more common, with portfolio matrices. These results are in common with recent research, however, other results are surprising, e.g. just a small minority of companies involve people from controlling and legal departments in these decision processes. The paper also reveals differences between companies with different timing and competitive strategies, which are in line with the proposed characteristics of these strategic focuses in literature. Implications for theory and practice are given to foster future research in this area.

An Introduction to Dynamic Programming

1961 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 261-274
Author(s):  
Brian Gluss
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Programming ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Rand Corporation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Research ◽  
General Mathematical Theory

Dynamic programming, a mathematical field that has grown up in the past few years, is recognized in the U.S.A. as an important new research tool. However, in other countries, little interest has as yet been taken in the subject, nor has much research been performed. The objective of this paper is to give an expository introduction to the field, and give an indication of the variety of actual and possible areas of application, including actuarial theory.In the last decade a large amount of research has been performed by a small body of mathematicians, most of them members of the staff of the RAND Corporation, in the field of multi-stage decision processes, and during this time the theory and practice of the art have experienced great advances. The leading force in these advances has been Richard Bellman, whose contributions to the subject, which he has entitledDynamic Programming[1], have had effects not only in immediate fields of application but also in general mathematical theory; for example, the calculus of variations (see chapter IX of [1]), and linear programming (chapter VI).

scholarly journals Service modularity and architecture – an overview and research agenda

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 686-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saara A. Brax ◽  
Anu Bask ◽  
Juliana Hsuan ◽  
Chris Voss
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Architectural Innovation ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
Tangible Product

Purpose Services are highly important in a world economy which has increasingly become service driven. There is a growing need to better understand the possibilities for, and requirements of, designing modular service architectures. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the roots of the emerging research stream on service modularity, provide a concise overview of existing work on the subject, and outline an agenda for future research on service modularity and architecture. The articles in the special issue offer four diverse sets of research on service modularity and architecture. Design/methodology/approach The paper is built on a literature review mapping the current body of literature on the topic and developing future research directions in service modularity and architecture. Findings The growing focus on services has triggered needs to investigate the suitability and implementation of physical-product-focused modularity principles and theories in service contexts, and to search for principles/theories that enhance services. The expanding research stream has explored various aspects of service modularity in empirical contexts. Future research should focus on service-specific modularity theories and principles, platform-based and mass-customized service business models, comparative research designs, customer perspectives and service experience, performance in context of modular services, empirical evidence of benefits and challenges, architectural innovation in services, modularization in multi-provider contexts, and modularity in hybrid offerings combining service and tangible product modules. Originality/value Nine areas are recommended for further research on service modularity and architecture. The introductory piece also discusses the roots of service modularity and provides an overview of current contributions.

scholarly journals A Literature Review of the Strategic Decision-Making Context: A Synthesis of Previous Mixed Findings and an Agenda for the Way Forward

M n gement ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 42-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Said Elbanna ◽  
Ioannis C. Thanos ◽  
Rob J. G. Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Curvilinear Relationships

The aim of this article is to conduct a comprehensive literature review concerning the influence of contextual factors on strategic decision processes. Our literature review organizes the existing literature on contextual factors along the lines of an integrative framework for studying strategic decisions. Interestingly, the stream of research on strategic decision processes is dominated by studies showing mixed, contradictory, and inconclusive findings. The effects of each contextual factor on the strategic decision process differ substantially across the reviewed studies. This creates several opportunities for further research on the topic. The review also reveals a paucity of cross-cultural studies, longitudinal studies, and tests of complex relationships such as three-way interactions, curvilinear relationships, and mediation effects. We conclude our review by suggesting seven directions for future research and identifying several implications for theory and practice.

scholarly journals Mobile governement models and applications of the municipalities information systems services

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Θεοδώρα Ζάρμπου
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Models ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Model Concept ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
Value Propositions ◽  
Framework Development

The mobile local government services topic is an area that needs relentless attention and continuous steps towards its improvement taking advantage of the new technologies. Mobile technologies help in advancing municipal information systems, providing the citizens with the opportunity to perform easily routine transactions through their mobile devices anywhere-anytime.In order to have sustainable and useful mobile G2C information systems services, there is high need to successfully integrate the mobile government concept with the business model concept; such concepts could harmonically co-exist and yield fruitful results.This dissertation attempts to provide guidelines that could be used to highlight key tasks, which can steer successful development path through strategic steps and stages integrated into a theoretical framework, the GoMobi framework. To reach this point, there is a number of secondary objectives accomplished including: literature review of the concepts of mobile government and of business models, mapping of existing services, forming of a typology of mobile G2C services, and analysis of their value propositions. The theoretical model (GoMobi) is, finally, validated through case studies conduction.The findings of such dissertation contribute valuably to both theory and practice. The comprehensiveness of the mobile G2C services value propositions and barriers grounded theories, the inclusiveness of the mobile G2C services typology, the completeness of the mapping of the provided mobile G2C services in Greece, the integrity of the conceptual review of the business models dimensions, and the fruitfulness and flexibility of the GoMobi framework development, are innovative aspects in the academic environment. Finally, practitioners interested in entering the mobile government sector can be aware of the sector’s demands, additionally to having a holistic view of how to design, create, communicate, compare, analyze, evaluate, and modify their existing and future business dimensions of provided mobile information systems services.

Industry 4.0: proposing a framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 250-267
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Silva ◽  
Rodolfo Cardoso ◽  
Ramon Baptista Narcizo ◽  
Luiza Maciel Gonçalves ◽  
Yohana Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Technological Clusters ◽  
Practical Implications

The term Industry 4.0 has gained prominence in academic and business discourses in recent years, having its concept related to the so-called fourth industrial revolution. Goal: The present research aims to develop and present a framework with the concepts of Industry 4.0. Methodology: The study started from a quantitative analysis of the academic articles available in the Scopus database. Subsequently, a qualitative analysis of articles and technical reports (mostly) was carried out to obtain a more applied technological vision in the industry. With this, technological clusters were built and, finally, the Industry 4.0 framework was proposed. Results: As a result, it was possible to establish an overview of the publications, highlighting the main conceptual views of the different terms that converge for the fourth industrial revolution, as well as the main technologies associated with Industry 4.0, systematizing the knowledge in the industry 4.0 framework. Limitations of the investigation: The search has been limited to available and selected papers for reading. Practical implications: The practical contribution has been satisfactorily evaluated to assist future research on the subject. Value: Finally, the main contribution of the work is the creation of a framework that synthesizes and systematizes the relationships among the main characteristics, technologies, products and business models of the 4.0.

scholarly journals Digital manufacturing, industry 4.0, clould computing and thing internet: Brazilian contextualization and reality

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 459
Author(s):  
Wagner Cardoso ◽  
Walther Azzolini Junior ◽  
Jéssica Fernanda Bertosse ◽  
Edson Bassi ◽  
Emanuel Soares Ponciano
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Business Models ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Digital Manufacturing ◽  
Professional Qualification ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Creation

The digital era represents significant changes in the design of IT projects with an emphasis on digital infrastructure, especially in terms of investment and professional qualification, which requires, in Brazil, the creation of specific lines of financing by government development agencies. The creation of demonstration platforms could be an effective initiative to stimulate the dissemination of the concept and the establishment of partnerships between customers and suppliers of new technologies. On the other hand, and particularly for the consumer market, corporations can create new business models and modify their relationships with their consumers, users and even competitors. In fact, today, "Thing Internet" has come to significantly modify the paradigms of perception, production and distribution of the capitalist world. This article discusses, covering and understanding the main reasons for the existence of this gap between theory and practice regarding digital manufacturing and adjacencies, the perspectives of technological innovations in the digital era specifically in Brazil. Its content is the result of a bibliographical review carried out from April to June 2016.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF THE LEARNING-BY-EXPORTING EFFECTS ON BUSINESS MODELS: LITERATURE REVIEW AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-273
Author(s):  
G. S. Hovakimyan ◽  
G. G. Nalbandyan
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Learning By Exporting ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This review makes a significant contribution to the study of the “learning-by-exporting” effect. The article offers a detailed overview of the various views and studies on the subject. The work helps to review the evolution in the field of learning-by-exporting research through bibliometric analysis. Thirdly, this paper focuses on the most cited publications, as well as on the work of the last two or three years. Also, this article discusses the relationship between the learning-by-exporting and the self-selection hypothesis.

scholarly journals MAIN PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING IN THE CONDITIONS OF AN INNOVATIVE ECONOMY

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
N.N. Khakhonova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Innovative Economy ◽  
Innovation Economy ◽  
Commercial Organizations

The development of accounting in the conditions of the innovation economy is associated with the constant complication of the theory and practice of accounting, the emergence of new accounting facilities, new types of accounting and types of reporting. In the entire history of the existence of accounting, he did not develop as fast as our time. At the same time, it should be recognized that the theory of accounting barely disperse asks for changes in the economic, financial and investment activities of commercial organizations. The purpose of the article is to identify and review the current problems of accounting and analytical support for the management of innovative activities of economic entities, as well as to characterize the promising areas of development of accounting methodology in the conditions of an innovative economy. Based on the analysis of the problems of the formation of an innovative economy in Russia, the provisions of the Development Strategy of the Information Society of the Russian Federation for 2017–2030, the requirements of interested users of financial reports to disclosing information about innovation in the reporting of sustainable development revealed a number of emerging problems in accounting requiring their methodological solution and Develop the necessary practical recommendations for their elimination. To challenges and, accordingly, the prospects for the development of accounting in the innovation economy should include not only issues related to the recognition and evaluation of R & D results, but also the emergence of new types of accounting facilities (innovation, intellectual property facilities (OR), innovative products, innovative risks , human capital, intellectual capital, social capital, reputational capital, etc.), the emergence of new types of accounting (innovative accounting, accounting of innovation, integrated accounting, projected accounting, etc.), the emergence of new types of reporting (strategic derivative balance sheet, intellectual Derivative Balance Report, etc.). It is impossible not to mention the new technologies and tools used in the context of an innovative economy, such as benchmarking costs, Kook-Killing, Kaizen-Kosting, Allocation costs with the introduction of modern software, etc. The results of the study can be used as a theoretical base for further research in this area.

scholarly journals Relocations of Sports Spectators’ Customer Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Glebova ◽  
Michel Desbordes ◽  
Gabor Geczi
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Optimization Strategy ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Technological Impact ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sports Consumption

In this paper, we aim to explain a phenomenon of “Sports Spectators’ Customers’ Experiences’ (SSCX) locations”, overview today locations of sports consumption experiences for sports fans, find the changes in these locations, and define the main drivers of shift. It provides a concept for studying the effects of new technologies on sports spectator experiences, with the intention of future research at the intersection of topics Customer Experience (CX), Sports Spectacle (SS), and Technology. The main novelties of this study imply a rapid technology uptake and appear of absolutely new ways of sports spectating and locations. The culture of sports consumption and fans’ habits are the subject of changes, accordingly, it impacts SSCX. This study draws on pieces of literature spanning from technology, Sport Spectacle, Stadia, CX, Optimization strategy and combines them with data collection and analysis in the spirit of grounded theory. Data was collected in semi-structured interviews (N=10) with professional sports managers or technologies specialists. The outcome is a new conceptual framework on Locations and Relocations of SSCX. This question is important in the framework of the study of technological impact on SSCX. It helps Sports Managers and Marketing Professionals to better understand the research target audience, outline technological trends, find links and interrelation and define their impact.

Digitisation and Sustainable Development: The Opportunities and Risks of Using Digital Technologies for the Implementation of a Circular Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kottmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Critical Social

Digitisation is developing a transformational potential that is profoundly changing people, our societies and the planet. Like any major societal transformation, it offers both, significant opportunities for progress and significant risks with harmful consequences for societies. This paper, therefore, addresses the question: ‘What are the critical social outcomes and concerns flowing from the advances in digitisation on our work environment?’ To discuss the broad research question in sufficient depth, this paper focuses not only on specific critical social outcomes of digitisation but also on how some of them can be mitigated by combining digital tools with the concept of a circular economy (representing the abstract idea of sustainable development). The implementation of blockchain technologies and new business models shows that digital technologies have the potential to close the realisation gap between theory and practice of the circular economy concept by enhancing the information flow and the communication between stakeholders in the value chain. Nonetheless, the implementation of these technologies also entails social and economic risks, such as power abuse or regulatory arbitrage, which should be considered in advance. To avoid jeopardising digital innovations, future research should therefore develop a more holistic and interdisciplinary understanding of the complex interactions to exploit the potential of digitisation for social progress.

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