Innovative Strategies, Feedbacks, Leaning, and Change

2016 ◽  
pp. 111-139
Author(s):  
Diana Valeria Suarez
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Innovative Behavior ◽  
Innovative Strategy ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Path Creation ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Shed Light

Innovation literature sustains that the environment impacts firms' behaviors and this leads to changes in the firms' innovative strategies. Innovative strategies, in turn, impact on firms' performance, which feedbacks the set of decisions (and possibilities) about the innovative strategy. Although there is a vast empirical literature that support this theory, scarce attention has been paid to the changes in the innovative behavior, resulting from these feedbacks between past and present decisions. This chapter aims to contribute to that gap in the literature by providing a dynamic perspective to the firms' innovative decisions. Results show that looking at continuities and changes in the firm's innovative strategy helps to understand how innovation impacts performance. This way, results show that the sources of path creation are a key element behind innovation and more research from that perspective could shed light on the subject.

scholarly journals Semiotic Machine

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai Nadin
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
The World ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Normative Dimension ◽  
Shed Light

A semiotic machine, no matter how it is embodied or expressed, has to reflect the various understandings of what the knowledge domain of semiotics is. It also has to reflect what methods and means support further acquiring knowledge of semiotics. Moreover, it has to express ways in which knowledge of semiotics is tested, improved, and evaluated. Given the scope of the endeavor of defining the semiotic machine, the methodological approach must be anchored in the living experience of semiotics. Accordingly, the cultural-historic perspective, which is the backbone of any encyclopedic endeavor, is very much like a geological survey for a foundation conceived from a dynamic perspective. The various layers could shed light on a simple aspect of the subject: At which moment in the evolution of semiotics does it make sense to make the association (in whatever form) to tools and to what would become the notion of a machine? Reciprocally, we would have to explain how the various understandings of the notions tool and machine are pertinent to whatever was the practice of semiotics at a certain juncture. Yet another reference cannot be ignored: The reductionist-deterministic view, celebrated in what is known as the Cartesian Revolution. Since that particular junction in our understanding of the world, the reduction of semiotic processes to machine descriptions is no longer a matter of associations (literal or figurative), but a normative dimension implicitly or explicitly expressed in semiotic theories. Given this very intricate relation, we will have to systematize the variety of angles from which various understandings of the compound expression semiotic machine can be defined.In our days, such understandings cover a multitude of aspects, ranging from the desire to build machines that can perform particular semiotic operations to a new understanding of the living, in view of our acquired knowledge of genetics, molecular biology, and information biology. That the computer—a particular form of machine—as an underlying element of a civilization defined primarily as one of information processing, could be and has been considered a semiotic machine deserves further consideration.

FORMATION OF AN INNOVATIVE STRATEGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF IT ENTERPRISES

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
S.I. OVSYANNIKOVA ◽  
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E.L. TIKHANOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Innovative Strategy ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Current State ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Step Algorithm ◽  
Implementation Of Innovations ◽  
It Enterprises

The purpose of the study: to consider the process of formation and implementation of an innovative strategy for the development of IT–enterprises – the sphere using tools that streamline the target guidelines of stakeholders in accordance with the general target vector of the organization's development. The subject of the research is economic, organizational and managerial relations in the process of forming an innovative strategy for the development of IT–enterprises. Research methodology: the research was in the analysis of the current state of innovative activity of IT–enterprises, determining the prospects for their development based on the implementation of innovations; the following methods were used: content – analysis of scientific publications; a critical analysis of the available approaches to the definition and research of the studied problems; comparative analysis and synthesis. Results of the research: the author's typology of innovative strategies for the development of IT–enterprises is presented. It is substantiated that in the context of modern socio-economic conditions, innovation is a priority aspect of the sustainability of IT–enterprises in the market. An innovative strategy is a competitive advantage for an organization and can increase its profitability. A model for the formation of an innovative development strategy for an IT enterprise and a step-by-step algorithm for its implementation, taking into account the interests of stakeholders, is proposed.

scholarly journals Inquiry-based learning. Beliefs of trainee teachers in a physics course

2022 ◽  
Vol 2159 (1) ◽  
pp. 012018
Author(s):  
C A Pabón-Galán ◽  
C A Hernández-Suarez ◽  
L S Paz-Montes
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Learning Beliefs ◽  
Innovative Strategy ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Trainee Teachers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Physics Course ◽  
Science Training

Abstract The teaching of physics should be supported by practical or laboratory activities that seek to develop the scientific competencies of the students who study physics, so it is necessary to propose innovative strategies, such as research-based learning, in which students answer research questions through the analysis of data, which increases the interaction between the student and the physical concepts under investigation. Therefore, the objective of the study was to analyze the beliefs of teachers in natural science training at a public university in Colombia who take the subject of physics on research-based learning, to provide information on how to guide the use of innovative strategies. The study responds to a type of quantitative research with a descriptive approach and was based on a field design. On the other hand, the results reflect slightly positive beliefs of students in initial teacher training who study physics about research-based learning as an innovative strategy, although it is recommended to expand the sample to generalize. Finally, the analysis reveals as a conclusion that the implementation of innovative methodologies such as inquiry-based learning for science teaching, especially physics, should be promoted and supported more effectively to foster motivation, skills development, and conceptual understanding. of the scientific contents.

The Impact of Quantitative Easing on Emerging Markets – Literature Review

e-Finanse ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Piotr Bartkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Quantitative Easing ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sufficient Precision

AbstractThe article presents the results of the review of the empirical literature regarding the impact of quantitative easing (QE) on emerging markets (EMs). The subject is of interest to policymakers and researchers due to the increasingly larger role of EMs in the world economy and the large-scale capital flows occurring after 2009. The review is conducted in a systematic manner and takes into consideration different methodological choices, samples and measurement issues. The paper puts the summarized results in the context of transmission channels identified in the literature. There are few distinct methodological approaches present in the literature. While there is a consensus regarding the direction of the impact of QE on EMs, its size and durability have not yet been assessed with sufficient precision. In addition, there are clear gaps in the empirical findings, not least related to relative underrepresentation of the CEE region (in particular, Poland).

scholarly journals JUSTIFIED BELIEF IN A DIGITAL AGE: ON THE EPISTEMIC IMPLICATIONS OF SECRET INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES

Episteme ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boaz Miller ◽  
Isaac Record
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Epistemic Responsibility ◽  
Modes Of Operation ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Justified Belief ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Justificatory Status

AbstractPeople increasingly form beliefs based on information gained from automatically filtered internet sources such as search engines. However, the workings of such sources are often opaque, preventing subjects from knowing whether the information provided is biased or incomplete. Users' reliance on internet technologies whose modes of operation are concealed from them raises serious concerns about the justificatory status of the beliefs they end up forming. Yet it is unclear how to address these concerns within standard theories of knowledge and justification. To shed light on the problem, we introduce a novel conceptual framework that clarifies the relations between justified belief, epistemic responsibility, action and the technological resources available to a subject. We argue that justified belief is subject to certain epistemic responsibilities that accompany the subject's particular decision-taking circumstances, and that one typical responsibility is to ascertain, so far as one can, whether the information upon which the judgment will rest is biased or incomplete. What this responsibility comprises is partly determined by the inquiry-enabling technologies available to the subject. We argue that a subject's beliefs that are formed based on internet-filtered information are less justified than they would be if she either knew how filtering worked or relied on additional sources, and that the subject may have the epistemic responsibility to take measures to enhance the justificatory status of such beliefs.

Radical Tense-Indexical Historicality and the De Se

KronoScope ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
Carl Humphries
Keyword(s):  
Alternative View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
De Se ◽  
Temporal Expressions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Self Reference ◽  
A Current ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract “Being is said in many ways,” claimed Aristotle, initiating a discussion about existential commitment that continues today. Might there not be reasons to say something similar about “having been,” or “having happened,” where these expressions denote something’s being located in the past? Moreover, if history – construed not only as an object of inquiry (actual events, etc.) but also as a way of casting light on certain matters – is primarily concerned with “things past,” then the question just posed also seems relevant to the question of what historical understanding amounts to. While the idea that ‘being’ may mean different things in different contexts has indisputable importance, the implications of other, past-temporal expressions are elusive. In what might any differences of substantive meaning encountered there consist? One starting point for responding – the one that provides the subject matter explored here – is furnished by the question of whether or not a certain way of addressing matters relating to the past permits or precludes forms of intelligibility that could be said to be ‘radically historical.’ After arguing that the existing options for addressing this issue remain unsatisfactory, I set out an alternative view of what it could mean to endorse or reject such an idea. This involves drawing distinctions and analogies connected with notions of temporal situatedness, human practicality and historicality, which are then linked to a further contrast between two ways of understanding the referential significance of what is involved when we self-ascribe a relation to a current situation in a manner construable as implying that we take ourselves to occupy a unique, yet circumstantially defined, perspective on that situation. As regards the latter, on one reading, the specific kind of indexically referring language we use – commonly labelled “de se” – is something whose rationale is exhausted by its practical utility as a communicative tool. On the other, it is viewed as capturing something of substantive importance about how we can be thought of as standing in relation to reality. I claim that this second reading, together with the line of thinking about self-identification and self-reference it helps foreground, can shed light on what it would mean to affirm or deny the possibility of radically historical forms of intelligibility – and thus also on what it could mean to ascribe a plurality of meanings to talk concerning things being ‘in the past.’

CURRENT CHALLENGES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-363
Author(s):  
Reham Ershaid Sami NUSAIR ◽  
Omar Jamil Ahmad MUQEDI
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Development ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Sustainable Health ◽  
Shed Light

Health has become one of the most important concerns in the field of development in various societies, as it is one of the most important factors contributing to achieving sustainable development, because healthy development represents an important element in the process of social and economic development, where real development cannot be achieved without improving health conditions. This study aims to identify the concept of sustainable health development, and the factors that contribute to achieving it, and its future directions, as well as an add value research related to health service facilities and the challenges that prevent achieving sustainability. The two researchers adopted the descriptive approach and deductive analysis of sustainability indicators, by reviewing many scientific sources related to the subject of the study in order to shed light on the sustainable design of health care services

scholarly journals The DIVIDED SELF metaphor: A cognitive-linguistic study of two poems by Nabokov

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Mª Asunción Barreras Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Linguistic Study ◽  
Divided Self ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Embodied Realism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Shed Light

<p>This paper will approach two of Nabokov’s poems from the perspective of embodied realism in Cognitive Linguistics. We will shed light on the reasons why we believe that Nabokov makes use of the DIVIDED SELF metaphor in his poetry. In the analysis of the poems we will explain how the Subject is understood in the author’s life in exile whereas the Self is understood in the author’s feelings of anguish and longing for his Russian past. Finally, we will also explain how Nabokov’s use of the DIVIDED SELF metaphor thematically structures both poems.</p>

scholarly journals Built Heritage Attractions in Cultural Tourism: the case of Al - Mustansiriya Madrassa, Baghdad

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Huda Adil Abdulhameed Al-Obaidi ◽  
Osamah AbdulMunem Al-Tameemi
Keyword(s):  
Investment Project ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Historical Building ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

This research deals with the subject of Built heritage attractions in Muslim historical building, for what it represents, as an element dealing with Cultural tourism, in the process of developing tourism industry of the city. The location of Mustansiriya Madrassa in Baghdad’s commercial district could make it a profitable investment project to revive a cultural, artistic and tourist centre that could make it a cultural Tourism haven. The problem emerges through, how the role of built heritage to attract tourists in order to give vitality and liveability to the cultural tourism destination such as Al - Mustansiriya Madrassa which is one of the most popular heritage destinations, a historic school building situated in the ancient Abbasid district of Rusafa in the very heart of Baghdad. Therefore, the research's aim is to shed light on the heritage attraction as a mean to clarify the meaning of Cultural Tourism and specifying its definition. This research explains how the built heritage plays an important role in tourism in general and in the cultural tourism in particular because they attract tourists and provides a sustainable economic resource through its inclusion of values that make it distinct from other sources of attraction.

scholarly journals Rwanda’s Inyangamugayo: Perspectives from Practitioners in the Gacaca Transitional Justice Mechanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-172
Author(s):  
Jean-Damascène Gasanabo ◽  
Donatien Nikuze ◽  
Hollie Nyseth Brehm ◽  
Hannah Parks
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Shed Light

The Gacaca courts have been the subject of much academic work. Yet, few studies have examined the elected individuals who presided over Gacaca court trials, reflecting a broader paucity of research on local practitioners of transitional justice. Accordingly, this study asks two questions: (1) How did the Gacaca court judges, known as Inyangamugayo, perceive their duties to fight impunity and facilitate reconciliation? And (2) What challenges did the Inyangamugayo face as they sought to implement these duties? To address these questions, we interviewed 135 former Inyangamugayo. Our interviews shed light on the Inyangamugayo’s understandings of punishment and accountability, as well as on their perceptions of reconciliation at personal and societal levels. The interviews also illuminate the problems the Inyangamugayo faced while presiding over trials. Taken together, these findings contribute to scholarship on transitional justice pursuits by highlighting the perceptions and experiences of the individuals who implement transitional justice mechanisms.

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