scholarly journals Consumer Innovativeness in Food Industry: From Literature Review Some Indications for Business Practices

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierluigi Passaro ◽  
Sergio Salomone
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Process ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Consumer Innovativeness ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

Objectives. Through the analysis of literature, the evolution of consumer’s behaviour is traced, although with broad strokes, with the purpose of outlining the consumer innovativeness related to the sector, in anticipation of the imminent and relevant innovations in food field. Final objective is that of highlighting the principal trends which determine the modern consumer’s choices in food sphere. Methodology. The explorative-type research is essentially based on a systematic analysis of literature in theme of bent to innovation in the consumer’s behaviour. Findings. The trend which is changing the attitude to create innovative products in food field will be determined not only by the changes in the consumer’s behaviour but above all by the necessity of including such changes in the innovation process, realized by companies.Research limits. The objective difficulty in the identification of a unanimous definition of innovation does not allow to be able to carry out such an empirical survey to measure the consumer innovativeness, especially in food field.Practical implications. The deep changes intervened in the life system of consumers on the one hand, and the succeeding each other of events that have profoundly conditioned the agro-food sector on the other hand, have been subjects of studies to understand the new approach of consumers to the food offer, useful for the companies in the definition of product innovation politics. Originality of the study. The limited literature in the field of consumer innovativeness, much more in the agro-food field, makes the present research original in its attempt of theoretical systematization of concept of bent to consumer’s innovation in food field.

scholarly journals Modern vision for critical flow in an egg-shaped section

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hachemi Rachedi Lamia ◽  
Lakehal Moussa ◽  
Achour Bachir
Keyword(s):  
Froude Number ◽  
Critical Regime ◽  
Critical Flow ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Smooth Channel ◽  
Critical Flow Regime ◽  
Modern Vision ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Steep Slopes

Abstract The critical regime plays a primordial role in the study of gradually varying flows by classifying flow regimes and slopes. Through this work, a new approach is proposed to analyze critical flow regime in an egg-shaped channel. Based on both the definition of Froude number and Achour and Bedjaoui general discharge relationship, a relation between critical and normal depths is derived and then graphically represented for the particular case of a smooth channel characterized by a generating diameter equal to one meter. The results show the influence of the slope on the frequency of occurrence of the critical regime. At the same time and independently of the flow rate, a very advantageous approach for the calculation of the Froude number has been proposed. The study shows that there are six zones to differentiate the various flow states, namely: on the one hand for steep slopes two subcritical zones interspersed by a supercritical zone and on the other hand for mild slopes a zone corresponding to uniform flow, an area where the flow is probably gradually varied and finally an area where the flow is abruptly varied. Based on the specific energy equation, a validation process concluded that the proposed relationships were reliable.

Discovering Product Innovation Potential within Existing Product Architectures

2015 ◽  
Vol 794 ◽  
pp. 540-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Rudolf ◽  
Casimir Ortlieb ◽  
Christian Tönnes ◽  
Günther Schuh
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Process ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Product Portfolio ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Product Success ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Continuous Stream ◽  
Innovation Approach ◽  
Innovation Processes

New and innovative products are drivers for successful and sustainable growth of companies. Only a continuous stream of innovations can defend established market segments and create new markets for the company. Especially for European companies, innovations offer the opportunity for differentiation against competitors and therewith help to consist the present cost pressure mainly coming from Asian countries. Thereby, innovation inherent risks regarding limited product success, longer development times and quality lacks threaten the success of the innovation process. With this paper, a new approach is introduced, which aims at the reduction of the risks in the innovation processes. This is realized by shifting the focus from a customer requirement driven innovation screening to a product portfolio based innovation approach. The idea is to identify innovation opportunities within existing portfolios to maximize the use of existing company capabilities.

scholarly journals Exploring Innovation Adoption Behavior for Sustainable Development: The Case of Hungarian Food Sector

Agronomy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 612
Author(s):  
József Tóth ◽  
Giuseppina Migliore ◽  
Jeremiás Máté Balogh ◽  
Giuseppina Rizzo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Planned Behavior Theory ◽  
Personal Skills

Innovation plays a key role in the success and sustainable development of businesses. The innovation process derives from the combination of personal skills and company resources that influence food company managers in their choices on innovation (the decision-making process). This study is an attempt to try to understand which psychological constructs affect innovation decision-making in the Hungarian food sector, using the empirical data from a 2017 survey conducted in Hungary among the largest food processing companies. Planned behavior theory (TPB) was applied to the study of factors affecting innovation decision-making. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used for data analysis. The results show that the positive attitude of Hungarian food business leaders towards innovation, evaluation of innovation and the strategic intention of placing innovative products and processes on the market have a positive relationship with innovation performance; however, the lack of adequate research skills, plus specific knowledge and skills is hindering the development of the hoped for process.

Integrative competency of a teacher as the condition of efficiency of the educational process in the modern age

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
D. D. Bychkova
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Personal Significance ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Online Stores ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Teacher Mentor

Formation and development of professional qualities of a person is a long and difficult process, which is divided into several levels of training, whereby achieving positive results at one level allows the transition to the next. First, a person gets an extensive database of knowledge, skills abilities at school, and this base helps him/her to determine his/her preferences and make a choice in favor of a certain profession. Then a person continues education for chosen profession in university, and then, after graduation, a person gets an opportunity to continue improving and self-educating in the chosen professional sphere. But all these levels of education are not possible to perform without the direct or indirect influence of the one who can teach, guide and even control the process of education. A person constantly interacts to some extent with a teacher, mentor, tutor and others while acquiring knowledge, forming skills and abilities. The modern generation is fundamentally different from the previous one, with different life approach and understanding of the world, as it lives in a hi-tech world of accessible information, virtual reality, social networks, online stores, smartphones and other gadgets. The boundaries between real and virtual worlds have almost been erased. Therefore, in order to increase the efficiency of learning and education processes in the new reality, a new approach, concepts and rules are needed, and consequently, new competencies that teacher should acquire. Taking into account the peculiarities of the term “competence” and also the fact that the field of teacher’s expertise is extensive and includes both educating and building students’ personality, there is a need to form an integrative competence of future teachers, which will provide them with essential assistance in their professional life. The paper formulates the definition of integrative competence; determines the place occupied by these competences in the hierarchy of competences; indicates the social and practical conditionality, significance of the competence, personal significance of the competence, competence indicators; gives a brief description of the fund of evaluation tools allowing to judge its formation.

PHYSICAL TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE IN FULLY NONEXTENSIVE STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 43-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
VIOREL BADESCU
Keyword(s):  
Equation Of State ◽  
Statistical Thermodynamics ◽  
Additive Functions ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Thermodynamic Entropy ◽  
Classical Gas ◽  
Nonextensive Thermodynamics ◽  
Temperature And Pressure ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

This paper generalizes previous results concerning the definitions of physical temperature and pressure in nonextensive statistical thermodynamics. The novelty is that both the internal energy and the volume are no longer additive functions. The new approach is referred to as "fully" nonextensive thermodynamics. The physical temperature is different from the inverse of the Lagrange multiplier. This fact changes the form of some usual thermodynamic relations. For example, the Clausius definition of the thermodynamic entropy has to be modified. As an application, the classical gas model is examined with statistical calculations performed under the Tsallis–Mendes–Plastino formalism of nonextensive thermodynamics. The specific heat expression differs from the one encountered in ordinary extensive thermodynamics but the equation of state keeps the same form.

scholarly journals Innovative absorption of the polish economy and directions their grown

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (146) ◽  
pp. 357-372
Author(s):  
Oleksandr OKSANYCH ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Process ◽  
Research Process ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Polish Economy ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Desk Research

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to assess the ability of the Polish economy to absorb innovative products and to analyze the factors on which it depends. Design/methodology/approach: The methods of critical analysis and synthesis, the method of generalization and logical methods as well as the desk research method were used in the research process. Practical implications: The article contains the definition and content of the concept of innovative adsorption of participants and beneficiaries of the innovation process as a necessary feature of building a knowledge-based economy. On the basis of reading scientific sources and statistical data, the author presents cause-and-effect relations between the involvement of enterprises and organizations in innovative processes and economic development. Originality/value: The author presented his own definition of the concept of innovative absorption of the economy and developed a concept of creating innovative absorption in the enterprise. The article is aimed at enterprise managers, decision makers of state institutions and scientists dealing with innovation problems.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Lex Mercatoria: Malynes, Schmitthoff and Goldman compared

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-483
Author(s):  
Dave de Ruysscher
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Law Merchant ◽  
Lex Mercatoria ◽  
The One ◽  
Ius Gentium ◽  
Do So

This article compares the doctrines on transnational commercial customs in Malynes’ Lex Mercatoria (1622) and in the writings of Clive M. Schmitthoff and Berthold Goldman. It is argued that core problems in conceptualizations of lex mercatoria are present in all these texts. Malynes unsuccessfully attempted to reconcile a new approach of considering law merchant as ius gentium on the one hand, with a tradition of particular customs of trade on the other. All three authors mentioned struggled when explaining how custom emerges from contracts or practice. Malynes, Schmitthoff and Goldman tried to apply existing notions (usage, custom) in order to do so, often referring to historical arguments, but they could not bridge the fundamental differences existing between customs of trade and ius gentium. As a result, all three authors failed in putting forward a workable theory of lex mercatoria. Non-matching legal views on international business practices were cut and pasted together, as it were, and new theories on lex mercatoria would do well not to replicate this approach.

Was it Rape? The David and Bathsheba Pericope Re-examined

2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Izuchukwu Abasili
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Academic Debate

AbstractIn view of the academic debate on whether David raped Bathsheba, this article takes a new approach to 2 Sam 11-12. Using narrative analysis, it reinterprets 2 Sam 11-12 with the Hebrew biblical definition of rape in mind. This new approach reveals that some of the opposing views of exegetes on this pericope are caused by the imposition of today’s definition of rape upon the narrative of 2 Sam 11-12. Our conclusion questions, on the one hand, the basis upon which some scholars suggest that David raped Bathsheba. Are they talking about ‘biblical-rape’ or are they using a contemporary concept of rape to judge the Hebrew bible? On the other hand, it disagrees with those scholars who accuse Bathsheba of seducing David for whatever motive.

INNOVATION AS NEW PRODUCTION PROCESSES AND NEW WAYS OF DOING BUSINESS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-112
Author(s):  
К. V. LOSEV ◽  
◽  
S. M. MOLCHANOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
New Production ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

The article describes the characteristics of the innovation process, reflects the essence of innovation. The points of view of the founders of the theory of economic dynamics on the innovation process are presented. The conditions influencing the development of scientific and technological progress and sustainable economic growth of the economy are revealed. A feature of the rapid development of information technology, science, digital transformation in a crisis situation caused by the COVID–19 pandemic has been identified. The authors noted the dependence on the different degrees of allocation by researchers of the material or intellectual result of the innovation process, the interpretation of the definition of innovative products. Examples of the implementation of innovative activities in some areas and industries are presented. The possibility of solving economic, social, environmental problems through the emergence of new production processes and new ways of doing business is emphasized. The authors summarize the importance of reorganizing and re–evaluating the existing resources of companies, finding effective approaches to improving the value chain for organizations and the impact of innovation on the creation of new jobs, investment growth and the development of a competitive economy.

Understanding functional illiteracy from a policy, adult education, and cognition point of view: Towards a joint referent framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Bulajić ◽  
Miomir Despotović ◽  
Thomas Lachmann
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Functional Illiteracy ◽  
Scale Levels ◽  
Components Of Reading ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract. The article discusses the emergence of a functional literacy construct and the rediscovery of illiteracy in industrialized countries during the second half of the 20th century. It offers a short explanation of how the construct evolved over time. In addition, it explores how functional (il)literacy is conceived differently by research discourses of cognitive and neural studies, on the one hand, and by prescriptive and normative international policy documents and adult education, on the other hand. Furthermore, it analyses how literacy skills surveys such as the Level One Study (leo.) or the PIAAC may help to bridge the gap between cognitive and more practical and educational approaches to literacy, the goal being to place the functional illiteracy (FI) construct within its existing scale levels. It also sheds more light on the way in which FI can be perceived in terms of different cognitive processes and underlying components of reading. By building on the previous work of other authors and previous definitions, the article brings together different views of FI and offers a perspective for a needed operational definition of the concept, which would be an appropriate reference point for future educational, political, and scientific utilization.

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