Sustainable Distribution in Emerging Markets – African Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subrat Sarangi ◽  
Sanjay Patro ◽  
Ravi Shekhar Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Lead Author ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Economic Diversity ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Channel Structures

The paper focuses on studying the impediments for new entrants into emerging markets from a perspective of the African economies and proposes a conceptual framework for a sustainable distribution system. While there is a lot of research on emerging economies, African markets have remained relatively untouched, more so from the distribution perspective. Further, the speed at which business transformations are happening in these markets, academic research needs to keep pace with such changes. The paper proposes four broad impediments to distribution and eleven sub-dimensions i.e. political and security, cultural, ethnic and economic diversity, infrastructural gaps, channel structures and Governance, to name a few. The proposed conceptual framework defines four strategic interventions, namely, connecting with the masses, inclusive growth, leveraging existing networks and financing micro enterprises to build a sustainable network in the African markets. The methodology for the study is an integrative analysis of existing literature, case examples and personal experience on entry strategy advisory in Africa and other emerging markets by the lead author

scholarly journals A Head Formulation for the Steady-State Analysis of Water Distribution Systems Using an Explicit and Exact Expression of the Colebrook–White Equation

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1163
Author(s):  
Mengning Qiu ◽  
Avi Ostfeld
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Water Distribution ◽  
Solution Method ◽  
Water Distribution System ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Exact Expression ◽  
Contamination Source

Steady-state demand-driven water distribution system (WDS) solution is the bedrock for much research conducted in the field related to WDSs. WDSs are modeled using the Darcy–Weisbach equation with the Swamee–Jain equation. However, the Swamee–Jain equation approximates the Colebrook–White equation, errors of which are within 1% for ϵ/D∈[10−6,10−2] and Re∈[5000,108]. A formulation is presented for the solution of WDSs using the Colebrook–White equation. The correctness and efficacy of the head formulation have been demonstrated by applying it to six WDSs with the number of pipes ranges from 454 to 157,044 and the number of nodes ranges from 443 to 150,630. The addition of a physically and fundamentally more accurate WDS solution method can improve the quality of the results achieved in both academic research and industrial application, such as contamination source identification, water hammer analysis, WDS network calibration, sensor placement, and least-cost design and operation of WDSs.

scholarly journals Solid State Switching Control Methods: A Bibliometric Analysis for Future Directions

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 1944
Author(s):  
Akmal. Z. Arsad ◽  
Glorria Sebastian ◽  
Mahammad A. Hannan ◽  
Pin Jern Ker ◽  
M. Safwan A. Rahman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Switching Control ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Control Methods ◽  
Fast Switching ◽  
State Switching ◽  
Scopus Database

Recently, the development and controls of solid-state switching have gained significant popularity over the years especially in academic research. The development of control strategies in solid state switching applications to ensure fast switching in a protected distribution system has fueled a great deal of investigation and further developments. Therefore, a critical review and analysis in the field of solid-state switching for distribution systems are provided in this article. The Scopus database is used to compile a list of the most cited published papers in the field of solid-state switching control methods based on the identified criteria. The study explores 120 of the most cited articles emphasizing six keywords such as a solid-state breaker, solid-state transfer switch, static transfer switch, automatic transfer switch, automatic protection switches, and solid-state protection switch. The analysis was conducted using the Scopus database in the fourth week of January 2021. The 120 articles were collected from 24 different journals and 27 different countries. It is reported that 78% of the published papers outline the methodology based on control and test systems whereas 22% of articles are based on review surveys. From that, 73% of articles concentrate on the protection strategy in the system. The main objective of the article is to classify and define the highly cited published articles in the field of solid-state switching control methods as well as to provide direction for future research on fast switching in the distribution system. The analysis also highlights various factors, issues, challenges, and difficulties to identify the existing limitations and research gaps. This review will serve to strengthen the development concepts of solid-state switching control methods towards achieving improved operational performance, energy-saving, economic prosperity, and enhanced power quality. The authors believe that this bibliometric evaluation will allow academic researchers to identify opportunities for growth in the solid-state switching industry.

Using artificial intelligence to create value in insurance

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1145-1168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Riikkinen ◽  
Hannu Saarijärvi ◽  
Peter Sarlin ◽  
Ilkka Lähteenmäki
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Customer Data ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Service Logic ◽  
Access To Data ◽  
Convenient Access

Purpose Recent technological and digital developments have opened new avenues for customer data utilization in insurance services. One form of this data transformation is automated chatbots that provide convenient access to data leveraged through a discussion-like interface. The purpose of this paper is to uncover how insurance chatbots support customers’ value creation. Design/methodology/approach Three complementary theoretical perspectives – artificial intelligence, service logic, and reverse use of customer data – are briefly discussed and integrated into a conceptual framework. The suggested framework is further shown through illustrative case examples that characterize different ways of supporting customers’ value creation. Findings Chatbots represent a new type of interaction through which companies can influence customers’ value creation by providing them with additional resources. Based on the proposed conceptual framework and the illustrative case examples, four metaphors are identified that characterize how insurance chatbots can support customers’ value creation. Research limitations/implications The study is conceptual in nature, and the case examples are used for illustrative purposes. No representative data from those users who will eventually determine whether chatbots are of value was used. Practical implications Using the suggested framework, which is aligned with provider service logic, insurance companies can consider what kind of a role they wish to play in customers’ value-creating processes. Originality/value Automated chatbots provide convenient access to data leveraged through a discussion-like interface. This study is among the earliest to address their value-creating potential in insurance.

Organizational Change for the Human Services

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Packard
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Change Leadership ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Arc Model ◽  
Organizational Culture Change

This book presents an evidence-based conceptual framework for planning and implementing organizational change processes specifically focused on human service organizations (HSOs). After a brief discussion of relevant theory and a review of key challenges facing HSOs that create opportunities for organizational change, a detailed conceptual framework outlines an organizational change process. Two chapters are devoted to the essential role of an organization’s executive or other manager as a change leader. Five chapters cover the steps of the change process, beginning with identifying a problem or change opportunity; then defining a change goal; assessing the present state of the organization (the change problem and organizational readiness and capacity to engage in change); and determining an overall change strategy. Twenty-one evidence-based organizational change tactics are presented to guide implementation of the process. Tactics include communicating the urgency for change and the change vision; developing an action system that includes a change sponsor, a change champion, a change leadership team and action teams; providing support to staff; facilitating the development and approval of ideas to achieve the change goal; institutionalizing the changes within organizational systems; and evaluating the change process and outcomes. Four case examples from public and nonprofit HSOs are used to illustrate change tactics. Individual chapters cover change technologies and methods, including action research; team building; conflict management; quality improvement methods; organization redesign; organizational culture change; using consultants; advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice; capacity building; implementation science methods; specific models, including the ARC model; and staff-initiated organizational change.

Rural Resilience in Cancer Survivors: Conceptual Analysis of a Global Phenomenon

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Veronica Bernacchi ◽  
Jamie Zoellner ◽  
Jess Keim-Malpass ◽  
Pamela DeGuzman
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Psychosocial Health ◽  
Concept Analysis ◽  
Borderline Case ◽  
Rural Culture ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Treatment Interventions ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Measurement Tools

Aim: The aims of this analysis are to (1) identify the concept of rural resiliency in cancer survivors in the nursing literature and (2) propose a conceptual framework that may help nurses leverage rural resilience to improve survivorship care. Background: Rural cancer survivors demonstrate rural resiliency by utilizing aspects of rural culture to improve their psychosocial distress. However, resiliency in rural cancer survivors is poorly understood. Design: We used Walker & Avants’ concept analysis approach to direct article selection, review, and analysis. Review methods: We identified a definition, antecedents, consequences, attributes, empirical referents, and related terms, and provide model, contrary, and borderline case examples. Results: We identified 29 articles that met inclusion criteria. We propose a conceptual model of rural resiliency that is grounded in three domains of rural culture: spirituality, cultural norms, and social capital. Attributes of rural culture within these domains impact a cancer survivor’s psychosocial health, leading to either negative or positive psychosocial outcomes. Conclusion: A better understanding of how rural resiliency impacts cancer survivors can help clinicians and researchers provide culturally-targeted post-treatment interventions. Our proposed conceptual framework may guide nurse researchers to develop measurement tools that evaluate rural resilience and its impact on health outcomes. Keywords: rural, cancer survivor, resilience, concept analysis, conceptual frameworkDOI:  https://doi.org/10.14574/ojrnhc.v21i1.676

Neither Eyewitnesses, Nor Windows to the Past, but Valuable Testimony in its Own Right: Remarks on Iconography, Source Criticism and Ancient Data-processing

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPH UEHLINGER
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Potential Use

This chapter explores the potential use of visual sources, together with the methods employed for studying them, such as iconography or iconology, for the history of ‘ancient Israel’. It describes the theoretical and conceptual framework, particularly the notion of ‘eyewitnessing’, and considers the method, particularly iconography. The chapter also presents case examples chosen from monuments which are so well known to historians of ancient Israel that they are well suited to illustrate both the pitfalls of more conventional interpretations and the potential of alternative approaches. Before turning to the sources – namely visual evidence that may be related to the history of ancient Israel and Judah – the chapter discusses the state of the art among fellow historians in neighbouring disciplines, including those belonging to the so-called ‘humanities’ (or arts and letters). It also considers visual art and history, the metaphor of legal investigation, the balancing of testimony, and the particular status of an eyewitness.

scholarly journals Overcoming African institutional voids: market entry with networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Chipp ◽  
Albert Wocke ◽  
Carola Strandberg ◽  
Manoj Chiba
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Market Entry ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Institutional Voids ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Mode Of Entry

Purpose Literature on modes of entry has focussed on firm-level strategies. The predominant theories used are institutional theory and the resource-based view. Using an alternate approach – network theory – this paper aims to demonstrate an additional mode of entry: multiple firms entering together as an extension of an existing loose network, known as a bridging network. The extension of an external network across borders is an appropriate mode of entry in emerging markets, with no pre-existing networks or existing networks within a market that are weak, immature or missing. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual review, which develops four propositions, demonstrating that market entry with bridging networks may be the preferred mode of entry in the presence of institutional voids. Alternative modes may not be viable because of costs and risks associated with overcoming such voids. Findings Existing theory and case examples support the contention that market conditions facilitate firms to enter as networks rather than as singular entities. These conditions are found in markets with institutional voids and explain the dominant form of business groups in many countries and the operation of loose strategic alliances in emerging markets. Network entry facilitates market access speed may allow for local ties to remain undeveloped or be a first step in building in-country networks. Originality/value This paper heeds to the call for a network ecosystem approach to market entry, arguing that firms may enter as a collective in subsistence and emerging markets, which would explain the preponderance of business groups and loose alliances found.

Approaches to examination of Liquidity and Volatility Risk Pricing in Stock Markets–Implications for Indian Case

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Neha Bansal ◽  
Ved Prakash Bansal
Keyword(s):  
Asset Pricing ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Volatility Risk ◽  
Uncertain Factor ◽  
Risk Pricing

Liquidity and Volatility Risks is twin asset pricing issues that altogether affect the operational functioning and pricing in stock markets all over the globe. In developed countries as well in emerging markets, the researchers have put in large efforts to find the liquidity and volatility risk structures in individual stocks and well as market as a whole. There is also an on-going research to explore whether there is a common uncertain factor across these risk classes. In this paper we provide a conceptual framework of the issue of liquidity and volatility and also the approaches used by researchers to measure the liquidity and volatility risk.

scholarly journals Healthy cooking classes at a children’s cancer hospital and patient/survivor summer camps: initial reactions and feasibility

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 1650-1656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Raber ◽  
Karla Crawford ◽  
Joya Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Childhood Cancer Survivors ◽  
Inpatient Unit ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Hospital Inpatient ◽  
Eating Behaviours ◽  
Paediatric Cancer ◽  
Cancer Hospital ◽  
Cooking Classes

AbstractObjectiveChildhood cancer survivors (CCS) have been shown to practise suboptimal dietary intake and may benefit from nutrition interventions during and after treatment. Cooking classes have become popular for encouraging healthy eating behaviours in community-based programming and academic research; however, literature on teaching cooking classes in CCS is limited. The purpose of the present study was to address the development and implementation of classes for CCS based on a recently developed framework of healthy cooking behaviour.DesignA conceptual framework was developed from a systematic literature review and used to guide healthy cooking classes for CCS in different settings.SettingOne paediatric cancer hospital inpatient unit, one paediatric cancer in-hospital camp programme and two off-site paediatric cancer summer camp programmes.SubjectsOne hundred and eighty-nine CCS of varying ages and thirteen parents of CCS.ResultsSeventeen classes were taught at camps and seven classes in the hospital inpatient unit. Healthy cooking classes based on the conceptual framework are feasible and were well received by CCS.ConclusionsCooking classes for CCS, both at the hospital and at camp, reinforced the principles of the conceptual framework. Future trials should assess the dietary and anthropometric impact of evidence-based healthy cooking classes in CCS.

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