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

Einer wachsenden Vergleichbarkeit von Produkten und einfachen, produkt-begleitenden Dienstleistungen versuchen Produkthersteller vielfach durch einen Wandel zum Losungsanbieter zu begegnen (JOHANSSON et al. 2003). Kern solcher Strategien sind hybride Produkte (im Folgenden auch als Losungen bezeichnet). Darunter sind zu kundenspezifischen Problemlosungen integrierte Leistungsbundel aus Sachgutern und Dienstleistungen zu verstehen, deren Wert fur den Kunden durch die Integration den Wert der Teilleistungen ubersteigt (KERSTEN et al. 2005; JOHANSSON et al. 2003; REISS, PRAUER 2001).

Komplexitätsmanagement als Herausforderung hybrider Wertschöpfung im Netzwerk

on push/pull allocation and centralized/decentralized queuing strategies. The model incorporates,

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An empirical exploration of requirements engineering for hybrid products

The emergence of digital platforms changes the way how companies interact with their ecosystem. Successful platforms like Apple’s App Store utilize an ecosystem of third-party developers to drive innovation. Those platforms are expanding the sphere of influence beyond internal resources and capabilities by taking advantage of a scalable ecosystem of external developers. However, until now it is unclear on how those companies establish a platform ecosystem. This article draws on two case studies in the form of ridesharing and accommodation platforms to illustrate how they transitioned through four evolutionary phases with the help of tight and loose coupling partnerships.

Tight and Loose Coupling in Evolving Platform Ecosystems: The Cases of Airbnb and Uber

A common characteristic of the IS discipline is that the bulk of the empirical evidence is embodied in case studies. However, the ever-growing body of case based evidence also constitutes a major challenge to the IS discipline. Although each case study may provide rich insights into specific phenomena, it is difficult to generalize on the basis of single-N or small-N case studies. What IS research would benefit from is a method that allows for the quantitative inquiry of the vast amount of primarily qualitative case studies. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the case survey method as new mode of inquiry to supplement the rich repertoire of IS review methods. Therefore, we show how the case survey method is embedded in the landscape of review methods used in IS research and what its principal stages, techniques, limitations and potentials are.

Using the Case Survey Method for Synthesizing Case Study Evidence in Information Systems Research

Service oriented device architecture (SODA) is a promising approach for overcoming interoperability issues and especially for extending the IT support of business processes to devices. It is based on the encapsulation of devices as services, and therefore on design principles of service oriented architectures (SOA). However, there is a lack of generalized concepts that resolve SODA-specific design problems. This paper contributes to this research gap by a) identifying a set of SODA-specific design problems, b) analyzing existing SOA design patterns regarding their applicability for SODA, and c) proposing a set of new pattern candidates which resolve open SODA design problems.

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Helmut Krcmar

Papers

Komplexitätsmanagement als Herausforderung hybrider Wertschöpfung im Netzwerk

An empirical exploration of requirements engineering for hybrid products

Tight and Loose Coupling in Evolving Platform Ecosystems: The Cases of Airbnb and Uber

Using the Case Survey Method for Synthesizing Case Study Evidence in Information Systems Research

Service Oriented Device Integration - An Analysis of SOA Design Patterns