Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

Deposits of clastic carbonate-dominated (calciclastic) sedimentary slope systems in the rock record have been identified mostly as linearly-consistent carbonate apron deposits, even though most ancient clastic carbonate slope deposits fit the submarine fan systems better. Calciclastic submarine fans are consequently rarely described and are poorly understood. Subsequently, very little is known especially in mud-dominated calciclastic submarine fan systems. Presented in this study are a sedimentological core and petrographic characterisation of samples from eleven boreholes from the Lower Carboniferous of Bowland Basin (Northwest England) that reveals a >250 m thick calciturbidite complex deposited in a calciclastic submarine fan setting. Seven facies are recognised from core and thin section characterisation and are grouped into three carbonate turbidite sequences. They include: 1) Calciturbidites, comprising mostly of highto low-density, wavy-laminated bioclast-rich facies; 2) low-density densite mudstones which are characterised by planar laminated and unlaminated muddominated facies; and 3) Calcidebrites which are muddy or hyper-concentrated debrisflow deposits occurring as poorly-sorted, chaotic, mud-supported floatstones. These

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According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

Data Mining Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

Information technology (IT) has a tremendous impact on management control through new ways of retrieving and processing information about performance deviations and control effectiveness. This paper explores the role of IT-enabled management controls on the example of information systems for Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC IS). We apply a grounded theory approach to structure value drivers of GRC IS into a framework. We relate the value drivers to existing theories to understand the impact of IT on management controls. We argue that IT serves as catalyzer for more effective management controls by enabling managers to exploit and explore richer data about performance deviations and potential shocks. We structure the catalyzing effects as value drivers of IT in a balanced control model. This paper uses the lens of management theories on GRC IS and establishes a research agenda for understanding the catalyzing function of IT for management controls by suggesting links between previously separate theories.

From Detecting Deviations to Preventing Shocks: The Value of IT for Management Controls

Entwicklung eines Systems zur Analyse der Auswirkungen des Distributed Processing auf Tätigkeitsprofile und Arbeitsabläufe

Geschäftsmodelle in der digitalen Wirtschaft

Dieser Beitrag stellt eine Methode zur bedarfsgerechten Gestaltung der Telekooperation vor. Unserer Meinung nach kommt es bei der Gestal?tung der Telekooperation insbesondere auf die integrierte Betrachtung von ?weichen? Faktoren (aus der betrieblichen Organisationslehre und Personalwirtschaft) und ?harten? Faktoren (Software-Engineering und Wirtschaftlichkeitskriterien) an. Das Projekt BT?V (= Bedarf f?r Telekooperation in der ?ffentlichen Verwaltung) hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, eine solche integrierte Methode f?r die Gestaltung der Telekooperation in der ?ffentlichen Verwal?tung zu entwerfen und zu evaluieren, die sich am Bedarf der Nutzer orientiert und genauso flexibel und schnell ?nderbar ist, wie ihr Anwendungsgebiet. Es werden zun?chst Ausgangspunkt, Konzept und die Ziele des BT?V-Projekts erl?utert. Daran anschlie?end wird ein ?berblick ?ber die Vorgehensweise und Charakteristika der ?BT?V-Methode? gegeben. Ein Ausblick auf die Weiterentwicklung der BT?V-Methode schlie?t den Artikel.

Die BTÖV-Methode: Vorgehensweise und Ziele bei der bedarfsgerechten Gestaltung von Telekooperation in der öffentlichen Verwaltung

Open data in administration is a phenomenon in which public sector information is made available and can be used by everybody for what it seems an unlimited amount of purposes. As publicly available information can often be generated and provided in huge amounts and through multiple sources, specific needs for processing, curation, linking, visualization and maintenance result in the need for Big data and Linked data approaches.

Helmut Krcmar

Papers

From Detecting Deviations to Preventing Shocks: The Value of IT for Management Controls

Entwicklung eines Systems zur Analyse der Auswirkungen des Distributed Processing auf Tätigkeitsprofile und Arbeitsabläufe

Geschäftsmodelle in der digitalen Wirtschaft

Die BTÖV-Methode: Vorgehensweise und Ziele bei der bedarfsgerechten Gestaltung von Telekooperation in der öffentlichen Verwaltung

Introduction to the Big, Open, and Linked Data (BOLD), Analytics, and Interoperability Infrastructures in Government Minitrack