Protocol-Independent Data Acquisition for Precision Farming

This paper proposes an optimal design of network and a routing mechanism that is independent from fixed protocols. It provides an optimized route for diversified mesh network, which can support interorganizational communication in a large-scale operation. Decentralization of the system ensures that every protocol acts independently and selects the best optimal path during transmission of data without modifying their architecture and technology. Incorporation of definite source configuration improves the mobility of the systems. Each sensor is individually processed to balance the data load and prevent congestion. Simple transmit-receive test is performed by circulating messages of increasing size between end sensors and network destination. The proposed technique is considered to be effective in terms of interoperability speed, data accuracy and bit error rate (BER) with an increment of 27.13%, 99.98%, and 15.12%, respectively. Finally, the test demonstrates its expediency in terms of adaptability and scalability.

What Influences Relationship Formation in a Global Civil Society Network? An Examination of Valued Multiplex Relations

Recent interorganizational communication research has taken up the question: why are networks structured the way they are? This line of inquiry has advanced communication network research by helping explain how and why networks take on certain structures or why certain organizations become positioned advantageously (or not). Yet, those studies assume relationships among organizations are either present or absent. This study considers how the strength of ties and multiplex relationships among organizations may reveal a more complex explanation for why networks take on certain structures. Our results challenge some long held assumptions about the mechanisms that influence network formation. For instance, our results offer important insights into the consequences of closure mechanisms, the applicability of preferential attachment to real-world networks, and the nuances of homophily in network formation on multidimensional relationships in a communication network. Implications for interorganizational networks are discussed.

308 Communities of Practices as Preferred Sources of Biosecurity Information in Crisis Situations

Communities of practice create opportunities for interorganizational communication within an industry that are immediately adaptable to crisis situations. The collaborative efforts, for example, of extension agents, veterinarians, swine researchers, and industry groups that exist for promoting biosecurity on an ongoing basis can be intensified for responding to or preparing for outbreaks of such diseases as Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus or African Swine Fever. This presentation explores the function of communities of practice in such crisis situations. Ultimately, the presentation provides a series of best practices for designing messages that effectively promote biosecurity through strategic communication.

What Are the Conflicting Tensions in an Italian Cooperative and How Do Members Manage Them? Business Goals’, Integrated Management, and Reduction of Waste within a Fruit and Vegetables Supply Chain

Social enterprise is a model of hybrid organization driven by the need to generate positive externalities by reinvesting their surplus for social and environmental objectives. One of the biggest problems arising from joining financial goals with social goals is the presence of increasing tensions between the members and stakeholders involved. Nevertheless, there has not been enough focus on how managers, employees, and stakeholders respond to the tensions caused by contradictions and how they try to reach a balance between financial, environmental, and social goals. Therefore, the present study is aimed at investigating how members of an agricultural cooperative in the Apulia region (Italy) try to join the organizational forms of business and social values, namely, the sustainable practices related to CO2 emission reduction, resource use efficiency, and food waste mitigation. Additionally, the study goes further and explores whether and how these contradictory pressures are solved. Starting from the sensemaking approach, the study carried out an inductive case study through the use of a multiple case study design and in-depth interviews. The findings highlight the following two novel aspects: (1) Managers prefer to adopt a cumulative mitigating hybridization approach and (2) a weak integration can be noticed between social and commercial dimensions, originating from a lack of holistic perspective and poor interorganizational communication.

IMPLEMENTASI KETERBUKAAN INFORMASI PUBLIK DI UNIVERSITAS ISLAM NEGERI SUNAN GUNUNG DJATI BANDUNG

The implementation of public information disclosure in State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung has not been optimal. At the time of initial observation, the researcher found some problems such as lack of UIN community participation and the public to request information, lack of some received informations, lack of supports from UIN officers and the government. The situation is also facilitated by lack of public information disclosure socialization conducted by UIN officers to UIN community and the public. The aim of the research is to describe the implementation of public information disclosure in UIN. The method of the research is a qualitative research. The informants of the research are 4 people who consist of the policy executives and the community who gets the impact of the policy. The data are collected from the field and library by interview, observation and documentation. The data are analyzed by Miles and Huberman’s analysis model including three lines of activity, namely data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. Viewed from aspects of sizes and standards of policy, resources, interorganizational communication and implementer activities, characteristics of implementer agents, implementer disposition/attitudes, and economic, social and political environments, the implementation of public information disclosure in UIN still finds many obstacles and lacks, so it has not been optimized. In order to be optimized, the research recommends to improve the public information disclosure socialization to UIN community and the public and the fulfillment of digital infrastructures in order to easily deliver information.Keywords: Policy Implementation, Public Information Disclosure, Public Policy.

The Contingency Effect of Relational Competency on the Relationship between Information Technology Competency and Firm Performance

Drawing upon the resource-based and relational view, this study examines how the three types of IT competencies (i.e., IT objects, IT operations, and IT knowledge) differentially affect firm performance and how such effects are moderated by interorganizational communication (IOC). We test the hypotheses of interest with data collected from 258 firms in China. The results of hierarchical regression analysis reveal that IT operations and IT knowledge significantly improve firm performance, while IT objects are found to be insignificant. In addition, the moderating effect of IOC on the relationship between the three types of IT competencies and firm performance varies across diffenent types of IT competencies. Specifically, IOC positively moderates the relationship between both IT operations and IT knowledge and firm performance. However, the moderating effect of IOC on the relationship between IT objects and firm performance is not significant.