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- Alerby, Eva, et al.
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Lära om lärande
- 2000
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Pesämaa, Ossi, 1970-, et al.
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Cooperative Strategies for Improving the Tourism Industry in Remote Geographic Regions : An Addition to Trust and Commitment Theory with one Key Mediating Construct
- 2008
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1502-2250 .- 1502-2269. ; 8:1, s. 48-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The success of cooperative relationships is influenced by interorganizational commitment, which is a long-run goal of networks. Our research examined cooperative relationships in the tourism industry to better understand what makes them successful. The study is an extension of previous empirical research on commitment. The overall research questions were: “What factors lead to interorganizational commitment in remote tourism destinations?” and “What are the relationships between the factors?” A literature search was conducted to identify factors related to organizational commitment. Search findings suggested a model proposing that interpersonal commitment mediates the effect of trust and reciprocity on interorganizational commitment. Data for the model was collected from a sample of tourism firms in successful cooperative networks. The theoretical model was purified based on convergent, nomological and discriminant validity as well as construct reliability. Our findings demonstrated that the relationship between trust and interorganizational commitment is in fact mediated by interpersonal commitment. We confirmed that reciprocity is directly related to interorganizational commitment, and is not mediated by interpersonal commitment. Thus, tourism firms should develop cooperative strategies in their networks by focusing on enhancing interpersonal commitment through trust, thereby ultimately helping to strengthen interorganizational commitment.
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- Pesämaa, Ossi, 1970-, et al.
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To protect and attract : firms cooperating in nature-based tourism destinations
- 2008
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Ingår i: Tourism, Culture & Communication. - : Cognizant, LLC. - 1098-304X .- 1943-4146. ; 8:3, s. 159-167
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores solutions to potential communication problems that arise from cooperation in nature-based tourism (NBT) destinations. The questions posed in this article are: "When is a local firm in an NBT destination likely to cooperate with other firms?" and "How can cooperation be facilitated among NBT firms?" The primary focus of our research, therefore, is how to facilitate cooperation in NBT destinations. To do so, we first review different risk elements by describing a simulated scenario in which two participants (NBT firms) confront a prisoner's dilemma with different options—cooperation and competition. The outcome of that scenario demonstrates that cooperation is only rational when the benefits of cooperation are greater than those for competition. Such situations do not occur in single games involving the prisoner's dilemma, but only in infinitely repeated games. Because cooperation may not be rational from a game theoretic perspective, policy makers and the firms involved should work actively to increase the benefits of cooperation. We conclude that cooperation is best achieved by having activities coordinated either by a strong, aggressive company or a strategic hierarchical network. Our logic is that coordinating activities from one point will increase the likelihood that partners have the same information and thus minimize conflicts.
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- Pesämaa, Ossi, et al.
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Validating a model of cooperative procurement in the construction industry
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Ingår i: International Journal of Project Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0263-7863 .- 1873-4634. ; 27:6, s. 552-559
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Project management in the construction industry involves coordination of many tasks and individuals, affected by complexity and uncertainty, which increases the need for efficient cooperation. Procurement is crucial since it sets the basis for cooperation between clients and contractors. This is true whether the project is local, regional or global in scope. Traditionally, procurement procedures are competitive, resulting in conflicts, adversarial relationships and less desirable project results. The purpose of this paper is to propose and empirically test an alternative procurement model based on cooperative procurement procedures that facilitates cooperation between clients and contractors in construction projects. The model is based on four multi-item constructs - incentive-based compensation, limited bidding options, partner selection and cooperation. Based on a sample of 87 client organisations, the model was empirically tested and exhibited strong support, including content, nomological, convergent and discriminant validity, as well as reliability. Our findings indicate that partner selection based on task related attributes mediates the relationship between two important pre-selection processes (incentive-based compensation and limited bid invitation) and preferred outcome of cooperation. The contribution of the paper is identifying valid and reliable measurement constructs and confirming a unique sequential order for achieving cooperation. Moreover, the findings are applicable for many types of construction projects because of the similarities in the construction industry worldwide.
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- Renbi, Abdelghani, et al.
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Power and energy efficiency evaluation for HW and SW implementation of nxn matrix multiplication on Altera FPGAs
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 6th FPGA world Conference, FPGAworld '09. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781605588797 ; , s. 1-7
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Matrix multiplication is most often involved in graphics, image processing, digital signal processing, robotics and control engineering applications. In this paper we compared and analyzed the power and energy consumption in three different designs, which multiply two matrices A and B of nxn 32-bit items and store the result in C matrix of nxn 64-bit items. The first two designs use FPGA HW with different number of storage registers 2n and 2n2 and the third design uses a computer system piloted by NIOS II\e processor with On-Chip memory. We showed that NIOS II\e is not an energy efficient alternative to multiply nxn matrices compared to HW matrix multiplier on FPGA.Since our target FPGA is the Altera cyclone II family, we also had to find one acceptable method to measure the real power consumption in the FPGA device.
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