Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599696
Eray Uluhan, B. Badur
The motivation behind sub-topic or topic specific keyword discovery through Web pages is helping a user, who is insufficient in knowledge and experience about a topic, to find important concepts without much effort. Intuitively, a Web user would start searching the Web via querying search engines, visiting some pages, and spending a lot of time on deciding what is important about the topic and what is not. In this study, we try to mine important sub-topics or key concepts of a given topic automatically, through HTML based Web pages. Starting with a search query, the system gathers top-ranking pages returned from a search engine; and selects informative pages among them. These pages are processed further for extracting important phrases and then applied data mining techniques on these phrases to find candidate sub-topics. Each candidate phrase is given scores based on its relevance with the search query over the Web space. Using the proposed technique, the user should be able to quickly learn sub-topics or key concepts about a topic without going through the ordeal of browsing a large number of non-informative pages returned by the search engine.
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Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599610
C. Charoensiriwath
Several countries now have national programs to support cluster-based innovation in their key industries. They all realize that geographical clusters are significant drivers of innovations and competitiveness in todaypsilas fast-moving global economy. Cluster are formally planned and created with concentration of targeted industry and support infrastructure such as university researchers, supporting government agencies, vocational training providers, financial institutions, etc., This study follows the development of the hard disk drive (HDD) industry in Thailand. Over the past twenty years, the hard disk drive (HDD) industry in Thailand has grown steadily. The inflows of foreign investment in HDD-related manufacturing to Thailand have made the country the world largest exporter of hard disk drives and components in the past year. The Big 4 companies (Seagate Technology, Hitachi Global Storage Technology (HGST), Fujitsu and Western Digital) all have production bases in Thailand. With their presences, most of their suppliers have decided to have production bases or representatives in Thailand as well. This makes Thailand to have an almost complete supply chain of the HDD industry. This study analyzes the strategy employed by the Thai government to build national technological capability in hard disk drive technology through strategic cluster management. The government has established the Hard Disk Drive Institute (HDDI) as a center to develop infrastructure for research capability for the industry. This case study highlights the government roles and its strategy to formally build national technological capability on specific industry.
{"title":"Strategic cluster management for technological capability building: A case of hard disk drive cluster in Thailand","authors":"C. Charoensiriwath","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599610","url":null,"abstract":"Several countries now have national programs to support cluster-based innovation in their key industries. They all realize that geographical clusters are significant drivers of innovations and competitiveness in todaypsilas fast-moving global economy. Cluster are formally planned and created with concentration of targeted industry and support infrastructure such as university researchers, supporting government agencies, vocational training providers, financial institutions, etc., This study follows the development of the hard disk drive (HDD) industry in Thailand. Over the past twenty years, the hard disk drive (HDD) industry in Thailand has grown steadily. The inflows of foreign investment in HDD-related manufacturing to Thailand have made the country the world largest exporter of hard disk drives and components in the past year. The Big 4 companies (Seagate Technology, Hitachi Global Storage Technology (HGST), Fujitsu and Western Digital) all have production bases in Thailand. With their presences, most of their suppliers have decided to have production bases or representatives in Thailand as well. This makes Thailand to have an almost complete supply chain of the HDD industry. This study analyzes the strategy employed by the Thai government to build national technological capability in hard disk drive technology through strategic cluster management. The government has established the Hard Disk Drive Institute (HDDI) as a center to develop infrastructure for research capability for the industry. This case study highlights the government roles and its strategy to formally build national technological capability on specific industry.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123270977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599800
V. Khanna
Purpose - The last two decades have seen a remarkable increase in both interest and reactions to the concept of preserving the environment. This can be attributed to the increasing statutory and regulatory requirements of government and the pressure from consumers and the life- threatening of global ecosystem deterioration. Therefore, organizations are constantly under pressure to develop and implement Environmental Management System (EMS). While some sincere efforts have been made by the Indian organizations to implement EMS and their performance have been very good, still countrywide efforts are not adequate. Methodology/approach - This paper presents the adoption of EMS in Indian organizations, extent of EMS elements used and the status of implementation of cleaner production activities by the industries. This paper also presents the benefits accrued by the Indian industries based on 56 industries feedback who are either ISO 14001 certified companies or in the advance stage of ISO 14001 implementation. This has been supplemented by some case studies of the leading Indian organizations. Findings - Most of the Indian organizations feel that EMS has a positive effect in their performance. It is observed that Indian organizations are more inclined towards getting ISO 14001 certification rather than taking full advantage of EMS However, it is evident from the analysis that overall adoption of cleaner production activities are at the low level. The majority of the organizations seem to be implementing EMS out of pressure from competition, customer, government, domestic and export market. The paper concludes that though environmental awareness is on the increase in India, and commitment as well as compliance levels are far higher than before, India still lags behind in the implementation and has to go a long way. Research limitations/implications - The investigation and research findings are still exploratory. Future research can focus on the organizations that are at the initial stage of EMS implementation and comparison can be drawn. Future research can focus on sector wise performance. Broadly based and larger sample size would provide better picture of EMS implementation status in Indian organizations. Originality/value - Analysis is based on questionnaire based feedback. The study has been able to identify the extent of the usage of key EMS elements/ implementation of cleaner production activities and drivers for the implementation of EMS. The findings have been supported by the select Indian case studies.
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Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599892
D. Liou
Given the convenience of mobile services and Taiwanpsilas high mobile phone penetration, mobile banking looks set to become a wave in the near future, with the possibility to develop much faster than PC Internet banking. Mobile banking can contribute to the banking industry by serving as a source of revenue, an additional distribution channel, and as an image-enhancing product. Mobile banking is complex and dynamic because there are many role-players (e.g. providers, content partners, customers, and investors) in the development process. This study proposes a four-role model to identify the structure of the mobile banking system using system dynamics methodology. The study finds that consumers play an important though subtle part in developing mobile banking. Implications for mobile phone partners, business strategies of banks, and finance ministry policies are also discussed.
{"title":"Four-scenario analysis for mobile banking development contextualized to Taiwan","authors":"D. Liou","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599892","url":null,"abstract":"Given the convenience of mobile services and Taiwanpsilas high mobile phone penetration, mobile banking looks set to become a wave in the near future, with the possibility to develop much faster than PC Internet banking. Mobile banking can contribute to the banking industry by serving as a source of revenue, an additional distribution channel, and as an image-enhancing product. Mobile banking is complex and dynamic because there are many role-players (e.g. providers, content partners, customers, and investors) in the development process. This study proposes a four-role model to identify the structure of the mobile banking system using system dynamics methodology. The study finds that consumers play an important though subtle part in developing mobile banking. Implications for mobile phone partners, business strategies of banks, and finance ministry policies are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124274975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599876
G. Susman
This paper discusses the structure of the worldwide solar energy industry. It focuses on sets of firms that follow similar competitive strategies (i.e., strategic groups). The dimensions of their competitive strategies include choice of market (residential, commercial, government, utilities), and type of application (on-grid /off-grid, centralized/decentralized location, retrofit/new construction); other dimensions are also relevant (e.g., cost, differentiation, technology choice, technology leadership). The evolution of this industry depends on projected demand, e.g., government mandates, feed-in tariffs, tax incentives, rebates, price of conventional energy and supply (e.g., production capacity, availability of raw materials, process innovation, rate of learning, economies of scale). Some of these factors affect all firms in this industry equally, while others affect strategic groups differently, and thus their current and future market share and profitability. The performance of firms in the solar energy industry also depends on strategic choices (e.g., preemptive moves, vertical integration, rate of capacity expansion). This paper provides an overview of current and projected structure in the solar energy industry, and speculates on the direction in which this emerging industry might develop.
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Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599706
J. Cardenas, Ana Villanueva, Mauro Spinola
The organizational memory constructed inside organizations should take multiple utilities, focused in search of efficiency. And with adequate data, the capacity of being reused should be intended to desired benefits. That organizational memory is product of interaction what people keep on conforming social networks that generate streams of information to store into the memory. In this paper we suggest that social networks in conjunction with the generated social capital construct isolated organizational memories within distinct levels. To discover if this symbiosis between organizational memory and social networks exists, was made a conceptual review and analyzes from research cases that show how this linking is given. Finally we formulated 4 generic levels (of organizational memory and social networks) that would be founded within any organization. Then, we conclude that the ties integrating these 4 types are the generators of an obligatory coexistence by knowledge developing and sharing.
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Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599859
Y. Sawatani, Y. Fujigaki
The impact of R&D to service business is increasing rapidly by the movement to service economies. The shift to focus on the services businesses, which is happening in manufacturing industries, affects their internal business processes, which include research organizations. In this paper, we study service research activities in a manufacturing enterprise, focusing on the advanced service research initiative, which was initiated as On Demand Innovation Services (ODIS) in 2003, as an exploratory research experiment in IBM. We propose services research model for value co-creation based on the ODIS experiment. We found that new knowledge is created through services activities, which are not created in a laboratory, traditional research activities. In addition, these are keys to the successful service projects. We focused on specific knowledge created during services research model for value co-creation, however, there are another kinds of knowledge also created. To understand and form the research base of service businesses and innovations, we should explore more on service innovation projects and understand critical factors, such as new knowledge created in a project, how they are created, and how the knowledge make the service research base more fruitful.
{"title":"Services research model for value co-creation","authors":"Y. Sawatani, Y. Fujigaki","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599859","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of R&D to service business is increasing rapidly by the movement to service economies. The shift to focus on the services businesses, which is happening in manufacturing industries, affects their internal business processes, which include research organizations. In this paper, we study service research activities in a manufacturing enterprise, focusing on the advanced service research initiative, which was initiated as On Demand Innovation Services (ODIS) in 2003, as an exploratory research experiment in IBM. We propose services research model for value co-creation based on the ODIS experiment. We found that new knowledge is created through services activities, which are not created in a laboratory, traditional research activities. In addition, these are keys to the successful service projects. We focused on specific knowledge created during services research model for value co-creation, however, there are another kinds of knowledge also created. To understand and form the research base of service businesses and innovations, we should explore more on service innovation projects and understand critical factors, such as new knowledge created in a project, how they are created, and how the knowledge make the service research base more fruitful.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"79 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130602192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599781
Bi-Fen Hsu, Wan-Yu Chen, Mei-Ling Wang, Yen-Yu Lin
Previous studies of manufacturing management have ignored a critical theme: the relationship between supervisory support and work-family conflict. In this study, we explore the link between interpersonal relationships, guanxi, leader-member exchange theory, emotional intelligence, supervisory support, and work-family conflict. We gathered 244 valid questionnaires from workers in traditional industries in Taiwan and China. In the rapidly changing society of Taiwan, we found that supervisory support for work-family conflict had faded in traditional industries. Second, we found that leaders with a higher level of leader-member exchange and expressive ties to their subordinates tend to offer a higher level of supervisory support, but that leaders with higher level of instrumental ties to their subordinates tend to offer lower levels of support. Finally, the survey results also showed that a leaderpsilas level of emotional intelligence is not related to supervisory support. We discuss our findings in terms of their implications for management practices and future research.
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Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599621
Masaru Yarime, Y. Takeda, Y. Kajikawa
This paper examines the patterns of collaboration over national and disciplinary boundaries in emerging fields of trans-disciplinary science, taking the case of sustainability science as an example. Bibliometric data is used for empirical analysis. The patterns of collaboration on sustainability science show that research collaboration tends to be conducted between countries which are geographically located closely. That suggests that communication and information exchange could be limited within regional clusters. As the focused fields of research in sustainability science are different in each country, the formation of regional clusters could be a serious obstacle to collecting, exchanging, and integrating diverse types of knowledge, which is of critical importance in establishing the trans-disciplinary field of sustainability science. To address the challenge of knowledge integration, new types of organizational and institutional arrangements are emerging for research collaboration. Implications for organizational and institutional arrangements are discussed. The extent of knowledge integration between different disciplines in sustainability science is investigated.
{"title":"Patterns of collaboration in emerging fields of trans-disciplinary science: The case of sustainability science","authors":"Masaru Yarime, Y. Takeda, Y. Kajikawa","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599621","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the patterns of collaboration over national and disciplinary boundaries in emerging fields of trans-disciplinary science, taking the case of sustainability science as an example. Bibliometric data is used for empirical analysis. The patterns of collaboration on sustainability science show that research collaboration tends to be conducted between countries which are geographically located closely. That suggests that communication and information exchange could be limited within regional clusters. As the focused fields of research in sustainability science are different in each country, the formation of regional clusters could be a serious obstacle to collecting, exchanging, and integrating diverse types of knowledge, which is of critical importance in establishing the trans-disciplinary field of sustainability science. To address the challenge of knowledge integration, new types of organizational and institutional arrangements are emerging for research collaboration. Implications for organizational and institutional arrangements are discussed. The extent of knowledge integration between different disciplines in sustainability science is investigated.","PeriodicalId":168329,"journal":{"name":"PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128819310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-07-27DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599683
D. Dvir, A. Sadeh, A. Malach-Pines
Person-organization fit, the match between individuals and the organizations in which they work, has been extended to the fit between entrepreneurspsila personality (ENTP) and the profiles of ventures (VP) they manage, and its relationship to the venturepsilas success. Sixty three Israeli entrepreneurs working in new ventures responded to a specially designed questionnaire that included the following parts: (A) provided general data on the new venture; (B) assessed the venture type along two dimensions: novelty and technological uncertainty; (C) assessed the entrepreneurspsila personality that seemed relevant to these two dimensions and (D) assessed the venturespsila success. Findings revealed that entrepreneurs in high novelty and high technological uncertainty ventures had higher education and were more investigative, entrepreneurial, secure, curious and adventurous and less abiding of rules than those in low novelty and technological uncertainty ventures. These findings were interpreted as suggesting that entrepreneurs are more attracted to ventures that fit their personality. In addition, high novelty high technological uncertainty ventures were found to be significantly more successful (on 7 out of 10 success measures used) when compared to the low novelty and low technological uncertainty ventures.
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