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- Darmani, Anna, et al.
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Twelve Years of Scholary Research: Content and Trend Analysis of the Journal Creativity and Innovation Management
- 2013
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Ingår i: IAMOT 2013 Proceedings. - 0981581765
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the internationally recognized journals that publishes and spreads literature concerning the relation between organizations and innovation and how creativity and imagination is organized is ‘Creativity and Innovation Management’ (CAIM). To date there has been only one attempt to analyze the corpus of publications in this journal from 1992-2000. As no further historical analysis of CAIM has been done after it, the purpose of this paper is to present a content analysis and verify some of the trends within published articles for the last 12 years. This study is conducted by analyzing the content of latest 360 CAIM articles (published from 2000 to 2012). Data collection and analysis are performed by utilizing Publish-or-Perish software and also, Excel statistical analysis tools. This methodology uses a multi-approach to content analysis by interpreting the text in titles and abstracts to evaluate several elements, for instance the authorship characteristics, geographical contributions or the nine themes previously proposed and visible in the CAIM journal. The study outcomes in addition to the descriptive statistics that provide an overview of the research contributions, intend to gain insights in two important aspects. First, this study confirms how the articles categorized in the nine themes have behaved in the last 12 years. Second, the study reveals that some trends in the literature came from emerging markets economies (EME), which has not been raised so far, as the relation of author’s countries and the themes of their publications in the EME context.
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- Gómez, Maria F, 1970-
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Social technology : impacting development through electricity access in the Amazon Region
- 2013
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Ingår i: IAMOT 2013 Proceedings. - 0981581765
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The actual Brazilian rural electrification program has benefited more than 14 million people since its inception in 2003. However, 900 thousand people are still without electricity services in the isolated areas of the Amazon region. In general, the program has used a grid-based technology to provide electricity to new users in Brazil. In the Amazon, challenges are related to the provision of services in isolated areas where grid extension is not viable. Reaching this population in their local environment and promoting their development is important. Aware of the importance of electricity services to the country’s development, the Brazilian government has recognized the need for implementing different energy technologies to generate power in isolated areas. However, there is an institutional gap that needs to be addressed.This paper explores the Social Technology concept and analyzes how it can support the current Brazilian rural electrification initiative. This concept provides a different view on how the relationships between institutions and technology could evolve in the Amazon region. In this direction, we elaborate on twelve implications of Social Technology implementation and analyze how they can contribute to deliver electricity services and guarantee valuable social impacts for the region. Can Social Technology principles help to identify concrete tasks to overcome the actual institutional shortcoming to achieve universal access in the Amazon? How to effectively incorporate them into the current Brazilian rural electrification initiative, considering local realities of isolated communities?The fact that achieving universal energy access has a significant impact on human development provides a starting point for our analysis. In the first section, we introduce challenges that the Brazilian government are facing in connection to universal access achievements in isolated areas, in the second section, we present the Social Technology concept and discuss its implications using the case of the isolated areas in Brazil to exemplify them. In the third section we analyze interconnections between structural components of Social Technology and the Brazilian rural electrification program and identify key actions to enhance rural electrification in isolated areas. Finally, we conclude with the identification of two concrete actions to achieve universal access in isolated areas and boost national development targets. First, local knowledge needs to be recognized, systematized and included in planning, implementation and monitoring of rural electrification projects. Second, effective communication channels need to be considered in the process. Participatory activities are crucial and transversal to possible solutions and provide the basis for a new and comprehensive institutional framework. We highlight the role of the government at central and local levels for the purpose of setting up the appropriate environment for these changes to happen.
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- Miterev, Maxim, et al.
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The Relationship between Project Complexity and Delay : Case Study of ERP Implementation Projects in Russia
- 2013
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Ingår i: IAMOT 2013 Proceedings. - 0981581765
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper investigates the intricate relationship between project complexity and project delay in an empirical study. The research is conducted in the context of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation projects in an industrial setting, which are inherently complex and often record delays. The study has a qualitative nature and adopts an inductive approach. Nine ERP-implementation project case studies have been examined with semi-structured interviews as the main data collection method. The study contributes to the project management research field by verifying and augmenting the existing frameworks on reasons for project delay and project complexity categories as well as by describing their interplay in the ERP implementation context. The paper concludes with the discussion of the possible future lines of inquiry and managerial implications of the study, highlighting potential problematic areas and discussing possible managerial responses.
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