scholarly journals A Fuzzy-MOP-Based Competence Set Expansion Method for Technology Roadmap Definitions

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Chi-Yo Huang ◽  
Jih-Jeng Huang ◽  
You-Ning Chang ◽  
Yen-Chu Lin
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Expansion Method ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Research Database ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Technology Roadmapping ◽  
Technology Roadmap ◽  
High Technology Firms ◽  
Mathematical Programming Method ◽  
Intellectual Properties

Technology roadmaps have been widely adopted as an important management tool during the past three decades after their invention by Motorola in the 1980s. Technology roadmapping processes can be integrated with a firm’s competence sets and play dominant roles in strategy definitions. Although the issue of how multiple objectives can be dealt with in technology roadmaps by including the uncertainties of the modern management environment is important, it has seldom been addressed. To remedy this, we aim in this research to propose a competence set expansion method based on fuzzy multiple objective programming (FMOP). An empirical study based on the roadmapping of silicon intellectual properties (SIPs) of automotive applications will be used to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed roadmapping method. In the future, the proposed analytic technique can be integrated with the data mining results of academic research database, patent libraries, etc. The well-verified mathematical programming method can serve as a basis for research and development (R&D) strategy definitions by managers of high-technology firms as well as policy makers of governments.

A Fuzzy MOP Based Competence Set Expansion Method for Technology Roadmap Definitions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-Yo Huang ◽  
Yen-Chu Lin ◽  
Chia-Li Yang ◽  
Yu Sun ◽  
Jeng-Chieh Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Expansion Method ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Multiple Objective ◽  
Air Conditioners ◽  
Mapping Problem ◽  
The Road ◽  
Technology Roadmap ◽  
Expansion Technique ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Road Mapping

Technology roadmaps have already been widely adopted as an important management tool during the past three decades after the invention of the management tool by Motorola in the 1980s. The technology road-mapping processes which can be integrated with firms’ competence sets are very important for strategy definitions. However, how the uncertainties being associated with the costs, time, quality, etc. for technology road mapping were seldom discussed, not to mention how various objectives can be considered at the same time. Thus, this research aims to propose a fuzzy multiple objective programming based competence set expansion technique to resolve the above mentioned technology road-mapping problem. An empirical study based on the road-mapping of novel compressors for air conditioners will be used to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed framework. The well-verified analytic framework can serve as a basis for research and development (R&D) strategy definitions by practitioners.

scholarly journals Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Martinez-Alier ◽  
Isabelle Anguelovski ◽  
Patrick Bond ◽  
Daniela Del Bene ◽  
Federico Demaria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Corporate Accountability ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Water Justice

In their own battles and strategy meetings since the early 1980s, EJOs (environmental justice organizations) and their networks have introduced several concepts to political ecology that have also been taken up by academics and policy makers. In this paper, we explain the contexts in which such notions have arisen, providing definitions of a wide array of concepts and slogans related to environmental inequities and sustainability, and explore the connections and relations between them. These concepts include: environmental justice, ecological debt, popular epidemiology, environmental racism, climate justice, environmentalism of the poor, water justice, biopiracy, food sovereignty, "green deserts", "peasant agriculture cools downs the Earth", land grabbing, Ogonization and Yasunization, resource caps, corporate accountability, ecocide, and indigenous territorial rights, among others. We examine how activists have coined these notions and built demands around them, and how academic research has in turn further applied them and supplied other related concepts, working in a mutually reinforcing way with EJOs. We argue that these processes and dynamics build an activist-led and co-produced social sustainability science, furthering both academic scholarship and activism on environmental justice.Keywords: Political ecology, environmental justice organizations, environmentalism of the poor, ecological debt, activist knowledge

South Pacific transnational money laundering typologies

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Chelliah ◽  
Anita Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Money Laundering ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
South Pacific Island ◽  
Pacific Island Nations

Purpose The paper aims to present typologies of transnational money laundering in South Pacific island countries, thereby filling a gap in the extant literature. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on seven significant transnational money laundering cases involving South Pacific island nations. It provides analyses of the modus operandi of criminals and classifies those according to typologies from anti-money laundering authorities and bodies. Findings Typologies of money laundering have arrived through a content analysis of seven cases involving transnational money laundering destined for South Pacific island nations. The typologies which have emerged show the predominant forms of transnational money laundering in this region. This knowledge could be useful to government policy-makers and financial institutions pursuing anti-money laundering initiatives. Originality/value There is a dearth of academic research into typologies of transnational money laundering involving the South Pacific. This paper makes a useful contribution to the extant literature by providing the most recent typologies in this respect.

scholarly journals Redes de Empresas e Technology Roadmapping: Possibilidade de Conciliação para uma Gestão Estratégica

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139
Author(s):  
Luiz Guilherme Rodrigues Antunes ◽  
Thais Assis de Souza ◽  
Cléber Carvalho de Castro
Keyword(s):  
Technology Roadmapping ◽  
Technology Roadmap

Apresentando-se como uma estrutura complexa de interações, as redes interorganizacionais devem ser gerenciadas estrategicamente de forma a controlar variáveis dos negócios que influenciam no desempenho. Como uma ferramenta de apoio ao planejamento estratégico, o technology roadmapping (TRM), a partir de estruturação de roteiros baseados em tempo, objetivos e divisão de atividades por linhas setoriais de ação, capacita a gestão a reconhecer especificidades e traçar metas que alinhem objetivos estratégicos à disponibilidade tecnológica. Porém, como o technology roadmap pode ser associado com a gestão das redes de empresas? Como esta ferramenta pode ser utilizada a favor dessas configurações? Essas perguntas norteiam este ensaio teórico. Afim de responde-las, definiu-se como objetivo do presente artigo evidenciar a relação entre redes de empresa e technology roadmapping de forma a apresentar conciliações que facilitem e estimulem novos trabalhos no campo com foco em planejamento estratégico de redes interorganizacionais. Com intuito de complementar as evidências teóricas, também foi desenvolvido uma revisão de escopo sobre as temáticas afim de ressaltar a importância da aplicação do instrumento neste contexto.

Knowledge Co production and Behavioural Change, Collaborative approaches for promoting low carbon mobility

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Barr ◽  
Gareth Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Productive Process ◽  
Emergent Literature ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Personal Travel

Behavioural change has become regarded as a key tool for policy makers to promote behavioural change that can reduce carbon emissions from personal travel. Yet academic research has suggested that promoting low carbon travel behaviours, in particular those associated with leisure and tourism practices, is particularly challenging because of the highly valued and conspicuous nature of the consumption involved. Accordingly, traditional top-down approaches to developing behavioural change campaigns have largely been ineffectual in this field and this chapter explores innovative ways to understand and develop behavioural change campaigns that are driven from the bottom upwards. In doing so, we draw on emergent literature from management studies and social marketing to explore how ideas of service dominant logic can be used to engage consumers in developing each stage of a behavioural change campaign. Using data and insights from research conducted in the south-east of the UK, we outline and evaluate the process for co-producing knowledge about low carbon travel and climate change. We illustrate how behavioural change campaign creation can be an engaging, lively and productive process of knowledge and experience sharing. The chapter ends by considering the role that co-production and co-creation can have in developing strategies for low carbon mobility and, more broadly, the ways in which publics understand and react to anthropogenic climate change.

Price, Scarcity, and Consumer Willingness to Purchase Pirated Media Products

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony D. Miyazaki ◽  
Alexandra Aguirre Rodriguez ◽  
Jeff Langenderfer
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
High Price ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Consumer Decisions ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Willingness To Purchase ◽  
Constraint Effects ◽  
Main Effects

Worldwide purchases of pirated media products continue to rise despite various industry and government efforts to quell their growth. Academic research examining consumer decisions underlying the purchase of pirated media has been limited in its approach by focusing almost exclusively on main-effects relationships and by using noncausal research designs. This article addresses these shortcomings by examining how various factors that consumers may perceive as constraining their ability to purchase genuine products (e.g., high price, stockouts, low income, lack of channel access, government restrictions) lead them to acquire pirated products and to condone such behavior in others. The authors report the results of three studies (two of which are experimental) that test three moderators of the consumption constraint effects using various settings, stimuli, and consumer types. The findings support the hypotheses that factors that may be perceived as limiting consumption can lead to higher piracy-related activity and are moderated by ethical beliefs, interpersonal social influence, and trait psychological reactance. The authors discuss the results in terms of implications for policy makers, managers, and future research opportunities.

Researching Trafficked Women

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 769-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Bosworth ◽  
Carolyn Hoyle ◽  
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
Feminist Methods ◽  
Trafficking Victims ◽  
Definition Of

This article exposes methodological barriers we encountered in a small research project on women trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation and our attempts, drawing on feminist and emergent methods, to resolve them. It critically assesses the role of institutional gatekeepers and the practical challenges faced in obtaining data directly from trafficking victims. Such difficulties, it suggests, spring at least in part from lingering disagreements within the feminist academic, legal, and advocacy communities regarding the nature, extent, and definition of trafficking. They also reveal concerns from policy makers and practitioners over the relevance and utility of academic research. Although feminist researchers have focused on building trust with vulnerable research participants, there has been far less discussion about how to persuade institutional elites to cooperate. Our experiences in this project, we suggest, reveal limitations in the emphasis on reflexivity in feminist methods, and point to the need for more strategic engagement with policy makers about the utility of academic research in general.

Mill and Senior on London's Water Supply: Agency, Increasing Returns, and Natural Monopoly

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Tynan
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Natural Monopoly ◽  
Increasing Returns ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Grassroots Activism ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Debates

In recent years, water utilities have received increasing attention. Issues of ownership and market structure have been the focus of academic research, policy debates and grassroots activism. These recent concerns echo the contentious debate that raged over water supply in nineteenth century London from 1810 to 1902. Nassau W. Senior and John Stuart Mill were major players in the debates, as both theorists and policy makers.

scholarly journals Exploring work: the interaction between scientists and policy-makers. Case study of 863 Plan of China

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. C04
Author(s):  
Wen Ke
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Science Advice

Improving communications between scientists and policy makers have being received more and more attention in China. Based on negotiation-boundary work theory (Jasanoff, 1990), this paper presents an analysis of the interface between scientists and policy makers by drawing on the Strategic High-tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program). The analysis indicates, first, that it is very important of science advice in China, the negotiation and the consensus between scientists and policy makers is vital for policy making; second, that it is dangerous to rely on Technocracy in China, the policy makers give up the discretion while influence experts’ decisions by controlling the consist of scientist advisory committee, which directly result in politicalizing academic research. For scientists and policy makers in China, they should redefine their respective authority boundary, and make the interaction process open and transparent.

scholarly journals Restricted opportunity: the missing point in Nepali migration- discourse

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pralhad Karki ◽  
K D Manandhar
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
General Survey ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Employment Sector ◽  
Literature Of Migration ◽  
Push Factor

Restricted opportunity is the key push-factor that compels Nepalis to leave home for job abroad. Yet it is not taken seriously in the Nepali migration-discourse. A general survey of literature of migration issues in Nepal reveals how the factor is sidelined by stakeholders of migration particularly policy makers and those who are responsible for managing the foreign employment sector. Scholars are mostly found not emphasizing the point in their academic rhetoric on migration issues. Because of this there is a trend to surround migration discussion with two themes - remittance and labor-export.  Although the themes are important and relevant, they alone cannot make the migration discourse complete. Due attention should therefore be given to the restricted opportunity and all components attached to it.  Journal of Advanced Academic Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2016 150-159

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