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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"coordination mechanisms"”.
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Analysis of alternative coordination mechanisms for the Saskatchewan cow-calf sector
… felt that increased vertical and horizontal coordination were essential for further improvements of the beef industry. They thought that the development of ready-to-eat beef products was very important along with improvements in meat quality. This includes a need for improvement in meat …
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Economic and Strategic Implications of Coordination Mechanisms in Value Chains: A Nonlinear and Dynamic Synthesis
… profits, than the tactical component price coordination mechanism. From a strategic management perspective, results imply that faster transmission of information is economically valuable.
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Management of cross-team interfaces in large-scale agile development
… that many large-scale agile practices act as coordination mechanisms. Large-scale agile programs use these coordination mechanisms to: (1) reduce the quantity and complexity of cross-team interfaces; (2) identify interfaces up front; (3) surface interfaces as they emerge in development; (4) …
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Situating mHealth in the workplace: a coordination studies perspective
… An interpretive case study explores the coordination of mHealth in the workplace, and analyses unexpected outcomes to identify their implications for theory and practice. In order to highlight this phenomenon the research focussed on the experiences of the clinic staff who were …
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A multi-agent framework for coordination and system integration
This thesis presents a multi-agent framework for coordination and integration of information systems. By modeling typical enterprise information systems as consisting of multiple agents with different functionalities, the methodology provides the representational formalism, coordination mechanisms, …
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Human Development and Regional Inequalities: Spatial Analysis Across Brazilian Municipalities
… countries, may need to be replaced with some coordination mechanisms. Second, if there is a willingness to implement 'pro-equality' policies, social policies should be spatially focused, instead of being applied universally across all municipalities. Third, a few spatial strategies are …
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The impact of sales and operations planning on supply chain performance : an investigation of contingency and organisational culture in S&OP implementations
… can also be described as a means for internal coordination in which a cross-functional team reaches consensus on sales forecasts, capacity and/or production plans. This thesis aims to develop a deeper understanding of S&OP and in turn the specific means through which supply chain performance is …
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Strategic management of America's counter-terrorist response: the role of boundary spanning, networking, and collateral organizations in emergency management
… communication; and existence of formal external coordination mechanisms. Comparisons are drawn across managerial and technical levels of the experienced and non-experienced organizations.
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Three essays on the organizational dimensions of the strategic management of patents
… research on the processes and organizational mechanisms through which firms implement their patent strategies. The first chapter investigates the organizational configurations that lead to success in granting a patent and capture value from innovation. Using a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative …
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An empirical study of the coordination in a distributed software development team
… successful implementation. The need for good coordination is especially important when the development team is geographically distributed and has to rely on information and communication technologies to support its activities. With limited available coordination mechanisms, distributed …
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Exploring the Adoption Process of MBSE: A Closer Look at Contributing Organizational Structure Factors
… can address the issue of integration is through coordination mechanisms. The ultimate goal is to achieve implicit coordination through the use of connected models, but getting to that point will require coordination between different subunits. Interview responses were evaluated for coordination …
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INDONESIAN NATIONAL ARMED FORCES EFFECTIVENESS IN THE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE/DISASTER RELIEF ROLES
… study evaluates the extent to which coordination between civilian authorities and the TNI has impacted disaster management outcomes in Indonesia. Analysis reveals significant improvements in TNI’s capabilities in performing HA/DR between the two case studies. Enhanced civil-military …
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Institutional innovation in water management : the case of Mexico City's recharge wells
… level are a decidedly local affair, which makes coordination difficult and thus constitutes a challenge for sustainable water management in Mexico City as a whole. Ineffective formal coordination mechanisms among the three levels of government, and the incentives that explain the uneven adoption …
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Essays on variational inequalities and competitive supply chain models
… structure of these policies; (iii) we consider coordination mechanisms; and (iv) we present some computational results. We also consider a modified model that uses option contracts and finally present some extensions.
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A Data-Quality Driven Framework for Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks
… issues in this thesis: (T1) light-weight coordination mechanisms among sensors to collect valuable information from the environment and ( T2) efficient dissemination methods to deliver the information of the best quality from sensors to subscribers. For the first issue, we propose a …
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Regulation mechanisms in molecular motors: engineering bioinspired transportation at micron-scale
… to unveil unprecedented insights into the coordination mechanisms of molecular motors and the regulation of intracellular cargo transport. The research explores the impact of various mechanical and biochemical factors, including cargo-motor linkage stiffness, the influence of adapter …
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The organisation of supply in a tourism destination : An analysis of a networked community - the Waitomo Caves Village
… fine-grained exchanges become informal coordination mechanisms which act as glue to bind together the webbed patterns of complexity. This narrative explores how these socially complex relationships between organisations act as a source of strategic leverage for the network group. With …
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Market imperfections and the effectiveness of subcontracting and informal institutions in export market transactions in Ghana
… and subcontractual relations remain inadequate coordination mechanisms for engendering greater export success. Under conditions of market imperfections and endemic opportunism, the informal trade arrangements and loose arm’s length subcontracting relations only enable the small firms to achieve …
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Unlocking Collective Intelligence in Decentralized AI
… of individual models. Second, it explores the coordination mechanisms among system nodes in the absence of a central authority or trusted server to ensure orderly collaboration. Specifically, it answers questions like who should a node talk to. When does random collaboration selection work? …
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