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Institutional Logics in Police Performance Indicator Development : A Comparative Case Study of Spain and Finland
2015
Police performance is not easily measurable and the organization and circumstances of police work vary among European countries. Further, police work is surrounded by multiple pressures to make it both economical and effective. Consequently, there are multiple institutional logics in decision-making which may affect the selection and the use of police key performance indicators (KPIs). The KPI selection and use processes reflect the institutional logics, though KPI use may also sometimes influence the institutional logics of police work. In this study, we analyze the KPIs and institutional logics in police work in Finland and Spain. A comparative case research approach is used in order to h…
RELATIONSHIP MARKETING ON THE INTERNET: BUILDING A LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH CUSTOMERS
2018
The purpose of the study is to find out the main approaches to the relationship marketing on the internet that could help companies to build a long-term relationship with their customers. Principal objectives are to find and analyse scientific literature on the topic; with statistical and empirical analysis to find out the main differences between relationship marketing in the traditional and internet dimension. The research methods of the paper are scientific literature theoretical analysis, statistical and empirical data analysis. The results of the research are both theoretical and practical. Using results companies will be able to share their customers seeing at what stage they are loca…
Corporate e-Governance Disclosure in the Digital Age: An Empirical Study of Spanish Listed Companies
2005
Corporate governance research has focused mainly on the analysis of the information that firms ought to disclose and the effects of disclosure, basically without considering the media involved. This paper examines the relevance of technology, and particularly the internet, for the improvement of corporate governance and transparency in listed companies. The need for this study is clear in view of the increasing interest shown by supervisory authorities for the oversight of the European and US capital markets in regulating not only content but also the manner in which corporate governance information is disclosed over the internet. In this paper we have quantified three corporate governance …
Virtual/Digital and Internet-based Machining
2008
This chapter provides comprehensive knowledge regarding the application of various virtual digital and information techniques to machining processes and machine tools, and their simulation and visualization. A number of manufacturing concepts used in modern industry, such as Internet-based manufacturing, digital manufacturing, virtual manufacturing and telemanufacturing, are characterized. In particular, architectures of digital manufacturing and virtual manufacturing, along with their practical applications, are presented. The architecture of the virtual machine tool and numerous examples of simulations of machining process performing on multi-axis/multitasking are visualized. Moreover, vi…
An Indo-French Virtual University Project
2016
Indo-French cooperation has existed for several decades, and has flourished in the recent period, with a number of flagship programmes and cross-border schemes in science, technology and management. Virtual universities refer to both conventional campus-based (hybrid and brick-and-mortar) universities offering online courses, and purely virtual universities with all their activities delivered online via the Internet. A virtual university is involved as a direct provider of learning opportunities and uses the Internet to deliver its programmes and courses while receiving tuition support. We propose in this ultimate chapter an innovative architecture for an Indo-French knowledge management sy…
Market Opportunity of China Telecom 3G Toward 4G - A Social-Technical Analysis for its Future Development
2013
In the Information and communication Technology (ICT) field, the success a new player will face is the challenge for the opportunity of new market development. China's mobile subscribers grew by 9.93 millions to 1.132 billions in February 2013.The convenience of communication prompted China’s growth, but there is little information available in literature about how it happened and what the next development steps will be for the China Telecom Industry.The purpose of this paper is an attempt to picture the future growth path of China Telecom market opportunities from 3G toward 4G and beyond, including viewing this from the angles of telecom/internet e-commerce regulation development; globaliz…
Structural Source of the Trap of ICT Advancement - Lessons from World ICT Top Leaders
2014
In light of the significant consequence of the trap of dramatic advancement of information and communication technology (ICT) in the global economy, both nations and firms that have been compelling their productivity decline. This resulted in great stagnation of ICT advanced economies and therefore its structural sources were analyzed. Based on an empirical analysis tracing, the trend in marginal productivity of ICT and its subsequent prices among the top ICT leaders in the world over the last two decades correlating with the effects of ICT, two faces of ICT advancement were identified. On one side, advancement of ICT contributes to its prices increase by new functionality development, its …
Smart plugs: A low cost solution for programmable control of domestic loads
2014
International audience; Balancing energy demand and production is becoming a more and more challenging task for energy utilities. This is due to a number of different reasons among which the larger penetration of renewable energies which are more difficult to predict and the meagre availability of financial resources to upgrade the existing power grid. While the traditional solution is to dynamically adapt energy production to follow the time-varying demand, a new trend is to drive the demand itself by means of Direct Load Control (DLC). In this paper we consider a scenario where DLC functionalities are deployed at a large set of small deferrable energy loads, like appliances of residential…
Large Scale Control of Deferrable Domestic Loads in Smart Grids
2016
International audience; In this paper, we investigate a realistic and low-cost deployment of large scale direct control of inelastic home appliances whose energy demand cannot be shaped, but simply deferred. The idea is to exploit 1) some simple actuators to be placed on the electric plugs for connecting or disconnecting appliances with heterogeneous control interfaces, including non-smart appliances, and 2) the Internet connections of customers for transporting the activation requests from the actuators to a centralized controller. Our solution requires no interaction with home users: in particular, it does not require them to express their energy demand in advance. A queuing theory model …
Research the Opportunities a Foreign Languages’ Competence for Professional Project Management in Latvia
2015
In the current competitive working environment time has become the key resource therefore universities must be able to satisfy higher education needs by enabling students to obtain as many professional skills and knowledge as possible. One of the solutions is to develop online studies by organising the language courses on the internet and by supplementing in-class courses with online study materials. The goal of this work is to research the opportunities a foreign languages’ competence for professional project management in Latvia. Research materials on foreign language teaching methods and applicable IC technological aspects were gathered, and a survey was completed and its results analyse…