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Not so different altogether: Putting Lean and sociotechnical design into practice in a process industry

2021

Purpose: The shop-floor organization under lean production (LP) has been hotly debated for about three decades. As this organization concept leaves considerable room for interpretation, the content of lean-inspired changes can vary widely. This paper pleads for a contingency view of how LP is implemented and how the outcomes of lean-inspired changes rely on users’ interpretations of the concept in particular production contexts.Design/methodology/approach: A case study was conducted in two large Norwegian chemical plants. Data from the observations and interviews were supplemented by interviews with top managers in 2017 and 2018. The first author also followed a management audit in one plan…

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF THE ACCURACY OF RFID BASED LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS FOR INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSES

2009

A cultural comparison study of smartphone adoption in Uzbekistan, South Korea and Turkey

2017

Smartphone popularity is increasing due to the technological advances that mean manufacturers can make more sophisticated devices, and telecommunication companies can provide better connections. Gartner reported that 403 million smartphones were sold in the fourth quarter of 2015, a 9.7% increase over the same period in 2014. It is a common perception that users tend to utilise advanced technology to increase productivity. However, there are studies indicating quite opposite or alternatively slow rates of adoption. To avoid this, companies invest in studying consumer behaviour. The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of drivers and cultural differences on smartphone acceptance in…

A Management Model of ICT Adoption in Latvia

2012

AbstractThis paper describes and analyzes the validity of a managerial model for ICT adoption. The proposed model of ICT adoption decision has two components: an objective component (largely from an economic understanding) and a managerial component (from firm level factors). The factors in both components were considered at firm level. The analysis and confirmation come from a survey of 500 businesses in Latvia in 2008. Confirmation of the theoretical model was accomplished using Ordered Logistical Regression analysis. Analyses results revealed that the dimensions of perceived benefits (top line growth and efficiency gains), technology absorption capacity (employees openness to change, com…

Why have consumers opposed, postponed, and rejected Innovations during a pandemic? A Study of mobile payment Innovations

2021

The highly infectious nature of the COVID-19 virus has made the use of contactless payment methods a health exigency. Yet, consumers are resisting using mobile payments (m-payments) during the pandemic, a confounding behavior that needs to be better understood. The present study explicates this behavior by examining consumer resistance to m-payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, it provides more granular findings by measuring three levels of resistance/non-adoption, namely, postponement, opposition, and rejection. In this way, the study adds depth to the literature, which has largely examined resistance at an aggregate level to yield generic findings. Toward this end, the study…

The diversion of institution

2010

The diversion of an institution is a notion which was established by the jurisprudence of the « French Court of Cassation », in the early 1990s, about adoption and the phenomena of surrogate mothers.From a chronological point of view, the diversion of institution first broke away from the studies of the doctrine dedicated to the abuse of rights , and was first used by the jurisprudence in labour law, before being dedicated to family rights. Because it deals with diversion of the finality of a legal system institution, it is often confused with the abuse of rights, the abuse of power, and fraud of the law or similar. Nevertheless, common points between the diversion of institution and other …

L'homosexualité et la constitution de la famille : situations française et européenne

2016

The 2013-404 law of 17 May 2013 which opened up the possibility for people of the same gender to get married shows a turning point for the family rights in France. This law, sometimes described as a real tsunami, is the outcome of taking into account the homosexuals' claim for starting a family. Before 2013 the French right did not allow a homosexual couple to be a homoparental family. It did not authorize people of the same gender to get married. Moreover Assisted Reproduction is only reserved to heterosexual couples and Gestation for Others is strictly forbidden in France. This seemingly constrained consensus on the non-legal recognition of the homosexual family is reinforced by the Europ…

Adoption à des fins de transmission de l'exploitation agricole, obs. sous CA Grenoble, 17 juin 2004.

2006

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L'adozione nel contesto e co-testo scuola. Literature review su adozione-scuola con Atlas.ti

Our research wants to be a meta-analysis work; its purpose is to focus on adoption and to analyse the “textual-semantic correlates” through which this topic has been understood and interpreted by international literature. In particular, the aim is to describe and codify the semantic-linguistic treatment of “adoption of children” theme with reference to school adjustment issue. In the title of the following thesis, “Adoption in the school context and co-text”, the term co-text (stemming from linguistics) points out the inquiry function in texts and the purpose of meta-reflective comparison among texts of articles coming from the journals with a high impact factor. After selecting those journ…

Proceedings XVII NATIONAL CONGRESS ITALIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CLINICAL AND DYNAMIC SECTION MILAZZO, MESSINA - SEPTEMBER 25-27 2015 Abstracts

2015

Introduction National and international literature shows many studies and reflections about different aspects of adoption, especially focused on parents-child attachment relationship, as well as on children’s psychosocial adjustment. Current research directions in Psycho-Juridical work’s efficacy regarding adoption process and its outcomes are limited. Particularly, the adoption matching process evolves and develops over time, as strongly influenced not only by the characteristics of everyone involved (adoptive couple and child) as well as by the professionals’ actions that operators do before, during and after the adoption process. Objectives Our main objective is to examine the progress o…