Search results for "Sourcing"

Joint Route Planning under Varying Market Conditions

2006

Purpose - To provide empirical evidence on the level of savings that can be attained by joint route planning and how these savings depend on specific market characteristics.Design/methodology/approach - Joint route planning is a measure that companies can take to decrease the costs of their distribution activities. Essentially, this can either be achieved through horizontal cooperation or through outsourcing distribution to a Logistics Service Provider.The synergy value is defined as the difference between distribution costs in the original situation where all entities perform their orders individually, and the costs of a system where all orders are collected and route schemes are set up si…

TEAM-BASED INNOVATION CONTESTS FOR CROWDSOURCING: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON IDEACONNECTION PLATFORM

2022

Crowdsourcing for innovation contests represents a promising mechanism to access and integrate external ideas. Among various crowdsourcing types, online, team-based contest is one of the most prominent one. The objective of this study is to deepen the understanding of team-based crowdsourcing by exploring specifically the issues that characterise the innovation process of crowdsourcing in a virtual team setting. To empirically pursue this aim, we conducted an interview-based case study leveraging interviews of 106 solvers and 24 facilitators moderating the team of solvers, which have participated in contests through the IdeaConnection crowdsourcing platform. We found that five main issues …

LocalRec 2018 workshop report the second ACM SIGSPATIAL workshop on recommendations for location-based services and social networks * Seattle, Washin…

2019

Driven by technological advances in hardware (positioning systems, environmental sensors), software (standards, tools, network services), and aided by various open movements (open, linked, government data) and the ever-growing mentality of sharing for the greater good (crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, collaborative and volunteered geographic information), the amount of available geo-referenced data has seen dramatic explosion over the past few years. Human activities generate data and traces that are now often transparently annotated with location and contextual information. At the same time, it has become easier than ever to collect and combine rich and diverse information about locations. Exp…

Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia, Vol. 20, Issue 2  

2012

Semantic Annotation and Retrieval of Services in the Cloud

2013

Recently, the economy has taken a downturn, which has forced many companies to reduce their costs in IT. This fact has, conversely, benefited the adoption of innovative computing models such as cloud computing, which allow businesses to reduce their fixed IT costs through outsourcing. As the number of cloud services available on the Internet grows, it is more and more difficult for companies to find those that can meet their needs. Under these circumstances, enabling a semantically-enriched search engine for cloud solutions can be a major breakthrough. In this paper, we present a fully-fledged platform based on semantics that (1) assist in generating a semantic description of cloud services…

Une approche sensible du Crowdsourcing dans le design de meuble

2013

Une étude sur les modes de diffusion du design de meuble peut s’appuyer sur la compréhension de la socialisation électronique. En effet, la mise en place de communautés virtuelles d’usagers de meubles peut être un instrument marketing pertinent quant à l’appropriation à venir des meubles produits. L’existence éventuelle de communautés virtuelles, sous formes de pages Facebook, de forums de discussions voire de Blogs, de passionnés du meuble pourrait être analysées quant à leur pertinence prescriptrice. On peut imaginer, à cet égard différentes familles d’usagers au sein de ces communautés virtuelles : les pros, les passionnés, les experts, les pairs, les entrepreneurs, etc. La démarche de c…

Convergences des logiques sociales de la collaboration et des communautés en ligne

2012

How to create and / or control a group online, in or outside the boundaries of the organization so that it contributes to economic development of the company? This question functionalist concerns us, as sociologists and researchers in CIS, the hypothetical convergence of marketing and managerial logics in building community online. Fruits of political knowledge management, management of the symbolic and innovation processes in the organization in part, and an effective marketing strategy of intermediation between the user / consumer / innovator and consumer product for another part, the convergent approach and instrumental group online is sure to redefine the contours of the process of soci…

OUTSOURCING ACCOUTING – BENEFITS AND LIMITS IN THE CURRENT ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT IN ROMANIA

2013

Economic environment today can be characterized as unstable and unpredictable result of globalization and the financial crisis. In such a business environment any entity is threatened and face significant challenges due to resource constraints. One way to address current challenges is to outsource accounting work. The aim of the paper is to underline (based on literature review) the benefits and limits of outsourcing accounting in the current economic environment in Romania.

Accounting outsourcing in micro and small entities − opportunities and threats

2019

Farming Efficiency and the Survival of Valuable Agro-Ecosystems: A Case Study of Rice Farming in European Mediterranean Wetlands

2009

Beyond the conventional role of providing food, rice farming in European Mediterranean wetlands performs a valuable non-marketable function related to the provision of environmental services. Rice and biodiversity are jointly produced, so that provision of flooded-rice-fields based environmental services depends crucially on private profitability of rice farming. Recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and increasing access of third party countries to the domestic European market are challenging the competitiveness of European rice growers. This paper combines conventional competitiveness indicators and non-parametric efficiency analysis to ascertain the economic profitabilit…