345 research outputs found
โWolf Totemโ โ metaphorical narrative of sustainability reporting practice from a balanced ecosystem perspective: a longitudinal study of sustainability reporting by Chinese banks
This research attempts to explain and evaluate corporate sustainability reporting practices from an ecosystems perspective, through the application of metaphors. It argues that commonly held ideas of sustainable development, which many firms embrace to produce sustainability reports, narrowly focus on the sustainability performances of individual firms and fail to comprehend a broader systems view, that incorporates a holistic understanding of sustainability embracing ecological perspectives. The study draws on the work of Chinese intellectual Jiang Rong, author of a best-selling semi-autobiographical novel Wolf Totem, which documents the life experiences of a Beijing student sent to the Inner Mongolian countryside during Chinaโs Cultural Revolution. Reflecting on his experiences, the author describes the powerful interrelationships between human beings, animals, nature and culture that work in harmony to sustain nomadic life. The novel is used in this research as a contextual landscape to construct a series of multi-tiered metaphors to make sense of corporate sustainability reporting through metaphorical interpretations. By narrating the Chinese banking sector as the โecosystemโ, various actors within the sector are examined to establish their roles and functions in the ecosystem. This is made possible by conducting a summative content analysis on sustainability reports issued by Chinese banks for the period 2008 to 2012 and a metaphorical narrative representation of the findings. This research aims to become one of the first studies of its kind to use a cross-disciplinary framework and application of metaphors to comprehend sustainability reporting practice with a focus on the context of a financial service sector in a strong, emerging economy
The Diffusion of a Personal Health Record for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Primary Care
An autoethnographic study of a Mongolian English teacherโs journey in applying a task-based approach to an online English writing class for adult learners
This study explores the trajectory of a Mongolian English teacher incorporating task-based language teaching (TBLT) in an online writing class. Through autoethnograpy, it deepens teacherโs pedagogical understanding of technology-mediated TBLT, grounded their first-hand experience and learnerโs perceptions about this unique approach. The findings show the main challenges the teacher faced were teacherโs self-doubt and anxiety regarding TBLT, technology use and language proficiency. Overall, Mongolian learners perceived the lessons positively as it encouraged independent and reflective learning
COVID-19 study on sccientific articles in health communication: A science mapping analysis in Web of Science.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause a collapse in the health systems and economies
of many countries around the world, after 2 years of struggle and with the number of cases
still growing exponentially. Health communication has become as essential and necessary for control
of the pandemic as epidemiology. This bibliometric analysis identifies existing contributions,
jointly studying health communication and the pandemic in scientific journals indexed. A systematic
search of the Web of Science was performed, using keywords related to COVID-19 and health
communication. Data extracted included the type of study, journal, number of citations, number of
authors, country of publication, and study content. As the number of scientific investigations has
grown, it is necessary to delve into the areas in which the most impactful publications have been
generated. The results show that the scientific community has been quick to react by generating an
extraordinary volume of publications. This review provides a comprehensive mapping of contributions
to date, showing how research approaches have evolved in parallel with the pandemic. In
2020, concepts related to mental health, mass communication, misinformation and communication
risk were more used. In 2021, vaccination, infodemic, risk perception, social distancing and telemedicine
were the most prevalent keywords. By highlighting the main topics, authors, manuscripts
and journals since the origin of COVID-19, the authors hope to disseminate information that can
help researchers to identify subsisting knowledge gaps and a number of future research opportunities.This research was funded by Programa Operativo FEDER Andalucรญa 2014โ2020, grant number UMA18-FEDERJA-148โ and the APC was funded by Universidad de Mรกlaga/CBUA
Foreign bodies: public health and the regulation of racialized threats to empire and the citizen body
Who can truly be American? In the United States, the storybook citizen is conceived as a young, white, able-bodied, heterosexual, productive male. The menace of racialized contagion is integral to preserving this fiction and a prominent co-author of this work is the public health sector. Contagion is often articulated as a threat to the empire and to the citizenry and, invested with institutional authority, public health delineates which bodies are "fit" to constitute the body politic. Despite claims of universality, public health policies, recommendations and regulations are informed by historically-specific sociocultural beliefs about race, class, gender and sexuality. This thesis investigates how public health informs the constitution of and responses to racialized contagion. I argue that, in the American context, such formulations can be traced to the late nineteenth century when public health was bolstered by the American Civil War and came to prominence in a society being dynamically reshaped by emancipation, immigration and urbanization. For this project, I conduct a discourse analysis of historically-specific accounts of disease, specifically leprosy (and to a lesser extent syphilis) related to nineteenth century Chinese immigrants and Haitians as a โrisk groupโ for HIV/AIDS at the close of the twentieth century to examine the ways in which public health discourses that serve to exclude certain populations from the body politic (do not) persist. Through doing so, I intend to determine whether there is a pattern to the logics of racialized exclusion that has existed in public health since its inception. In short, do the contours of whiteness always require the construction of a diseased brown boogeyman and, if so, how is this danger constructed in the American context
The Case of Mongolia
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ผ๋ฌธ(์์ฌ) -- ์์ธ๋ํ๊ต๋ํ์ : ๊ณต๊ณผ๋ํ ํ๋๊ณผ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฒฝ์ยท๊ฒฝ์ ยท์ ์ฑ
์ ๊ณต, 2021.8. Jorn Altmann.Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered key
players in any country's social and economic development.
Adopting innovative technologies such as Big Data Analytics
(BDA) can bring better performance and competitive advantage
for SMEs, which is important for a country's economic growth.
This study aims to assess the main challenges and potentials of
BDA adoptions in SMEs and examine the impacts of its adoption
into business performance for SMEs in developing countries
aspect. To achieve the study's goal, a systematic literature
review (SLR) is conducted regarding the adoption of BDA in
SMEs. The most common SLR method among the researchers in
information system research, which was initiated by Kitchencham et al. (Kitchenham, Budgen, & Brereton, 2015) and
Okoli et al.(Okoli & Schabram, 2010), is adapted in the study. In
doing so, the SLR is focused on defining SMEs within various
aspects and is directed to determine the most common
influencing factors in BDA adoption in SMEs. In the result of the
SLR, widely discussed 34 distinct influencing factors are
identified in the adoption of BDA in SMEs from the previous
literature. In addition, the hypotheses are developed based on the
influencing factors, which show consensus among the
researchers. After that, a conceptual framework is developed for
developing the country aspect and control variables, and the
moderating variablesโ effect is also estimated. To evaluate
hypotheses and the conceptual framework, an online
questionnaire is conducted among Mongolia SMEs which run
businesses in various industries. The online questionnaire is
distributed to decision-makers and information technology
specialists in the firm. In total, 170 respondents participated in
the online survey. Based on the survey result, hypotheses are
tested. As a consequence, the collected data and proposed
framework are analyzed by using Partial Least Squares (PLS).
This is a method of Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) that
allows investigating the inter-relationship between the latent
and observed variables. In terms of statistical software tools,
Smart PLS v3.3.3 was employed, which is one of the useriv
friendly tools for data analysis. Finally, policies and
recommendations are deployed based on the findings.์ค์๊ธฐ์
(SME)์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ตญ๊ฐ์ ์ฌํ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์์
ํต์ฌ์ ์ธ ์ญํ ์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฃผ๋๋ค. ๋น
๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๋ถ์ (BDA)๊ณผ
๊ฐ์ ํ์ ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ฑํ์ ๊ตญ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ค์ํ ์ญํ ์ ํ๋
์๋ ์ค์๊ธฐ์
์ ๋ ๋์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ์ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ฌ ์ ์๋ค. ๋ณธ
์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ์ค์๊ธฐ์
์์ BDA ์ฑํํ๋ ๋ฐ์ ์๋ ์ฃผ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ ์ ์ฌ๋ ฅ์
ํ๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ๋์๊ตญ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ BDA ์ฑํ์ ์ค์๊ธฐ์
์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ์
๋ํ ์ํฅ์ ์กฐ์ฌํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๋ค. ๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ธฐ ์ํด
์ฐ์ SME์์ BDA ์ฑํ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํ ๋ฌธํ๊ฒํ (systematic literature
review (SLR))๋ฅผ ํ์๋ค.
์ ๋ณด ์์คํ
์ฐ๊ตฌ์๋ค ์ค์ Kitchencham et al [1]๊ณผ Okoli et
al. [2]์ ์ํด ์์๋ ์ ๋ณด ์์คํ
์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ SLR
๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ ์ ์๋ค. ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ์ ์ฉ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ๋ฌธํ
๊ฒํ ๋ฅผ ํตํด์ ๋ค์ํ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ SME๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ด์ ์ ๋ง์ถ๊ณ
์์ผ๋ฉฐ SME์์ BDA ์ฑํ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์ํฅ ์์ธ์ ๋ฐํ๋ค .
๋ฌธํ ๊ฒํ ํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ ํ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ SME์ BDA ์ฑํ์ ์์ด์
34 ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ ทํ ์ํฅ ์์ธ์ ๋
ผ์ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ธ๋์๋ค.
๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ๊ฐ์ค์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์๋ค์ ์ผ์นํ ๊ด์ ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ์ํฅ
์์ธ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ค์ ํ์๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ค์์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ๋์๊ตญ์ ์ํ ๊ฐ๋
์
์ฒด๊ณ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ฐ๊ณ ํต์ ๋ณ์ธ๊ณผ ์กฐ์ ๋ณ์ธ์ ์ํฅ๋ ์ถ์ ํ์๋ค. ๊ฐ์ค๊ณผ
๊ฐ๋
์ฒด๊ณ๋ฅผ ํ๊ฐํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ๋ชฝ๊ณจ์ ๋ค์ํ ์ฌ์
์ ์ด์ํ๊ณ
์๋ ์ค์๊ธฐ์
์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์ค๋ฌธ์กฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ค์ํ์๋ค. ์จ๋ผ์ธ
141
์ค๋ฌธ์กฐ์ฌ์ ์ฐธ์ฌ์๋ ํ์ฌ์ ์ฃผ์ ์์ฌ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ฐ ์ ๋ณด ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์๋ค.
์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ์์ง ๋ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ์ ์ ์ ๋ ์ฒด๊ณ๋ฅผ PLS (Partial Least
Squire)๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ ๋ถ์ํ์๋ค. ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์ ์ฌ ๋ณ์์ ๊ด์ฐฐ ๋ณ์ ๊ฐ์
์ํธ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ์กฐ์ฌ ํ ์์๋ ๊ตฌ์กฐ ๋ฐฉ์ ์ ๋ชจํ (SEM) ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด๋ค. ํต๊ณ
์ํํธ์จ์ด ๋๊ตฌ ์ธก๋ฉด์์๋ ์ ํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ด ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๋ถ์ ๋๊ตฌ ์ค ํ๋์ธ
SmartPLS v3.3.3 ์ ์ด์ฉํ์๋ค. ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก, ๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ๋ถ์ํ
๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐํ์ฌ ์ ์ฑ
๋ฐ ์ ์์ ์ ์ํ์๋ค.Chapter 1. Introduction 1
Chapter 2. Background on Big Data Analytics Adoption 6
2.1 Defination of Big Data 6
2.2 Defination of Small and Medium enterprises 9
2.3 Role of Big Data 10
2.4 Charateristics of developing countries 11
Chapter 3. Methodology and Model Design 13
3.1 Methdogology fused for analyzing Big Data Analytics in Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing countries 13
3.2. Model design 26
3.2.1 Factors 26
3.2.2. Theories 28
3.2.3. Classification of factors into categories 36
3.2.4. Impact on developing country 46
3.2.5. Impact on different industries 50
3.2.6. Theoritical background and hypothesis development 51
3.2.7. Technological context 54
3.2.8. Organizational context 58
3.2.9. Environmental context 61
3.2.10. Moderating variables 63
3.2.11. Control variables 65
Chapter 4. Framework for Mongolian case 67
4.1. Mongolia 67
4.2. Data collection 68
4.3. Basic understanding on moderating effect 70
4.4. Data analysis 71
4.5. Results 74
4.5.1. Reliability and validity 74
4.5.2. Structual model analysis 78
4.5.3. Moderating variables 82
Chapter 5. Conclusion 85
5.1. Discussion 85
5.1.1. Technological context 85
5.1.2. Organizational context 88
5.1.3. Environmental context 88
5.2. Contrubitions 89
5.3. Policy implication 90
5.4. Limitation and outlok 91
Appendix.1 93
Appendix.2 110
Bibliography 115
Abstract in Korean 140์
The Case for a Modern Euskara: Proposed Structural Changes to Euskara Batua
This paper comes into being because of this authorโs concern about the limited use and slow evolution of Euskara Batua, the version of the Basque language spoken today in parts of the Basque Country and the larger B, also called Euskal Herria, with its historical regions in Europe, bounded by Spain in the south and by France in the north, as well as in dozens of Basque communities in the USA, Central, and South America. Whatโs the problem? Well, currently the number of auxiliary verbs (verbal forms, aditz languntzaileak) in Euskara Batua as proposed by the Euskaltzaindia, the Academy of the Basque Language, approaches the number of 825, a gigantic number by any scale, any standard, in any language. In contrast, the number of auxiliary verbs in English is in the order of 12-15 (e.g., can, could, do, does, will, would, should, must, etc.), and this small number does the role and functions of all those 825 verbal forms in Euskara Batua. How has this happened? What was the Euskaltzaindia up to, and why? Why nobody within the Euskaltzaindia, or anywhere else, has said anything, objected to this unreasonable high number of 825 auxiliary verbs? Actually, there have been many objections, calling such system of verbs โartificialโ, โunnecessaryโ, โharmfulโ and more, but little has been done about it, really. Accordingly, this paper reports on an independent survey that this author conducted recently in order to ascertain the knowledge of Euskara Batua, in particular the knowledge of auxiliary verbs and the use of Euskara Batua outside the school environment, namely at home, at work, and on the street. Statistical results of this survey are reported in this paper
An Adaptive Framework for Improving the Effectiveness of Virtual Enterprises in the Supply Chain
This thesis describes a research project that develops an adaptive framework for improving the effectiveness of virtual enterprises in the supply chains in Mongolia. The research takes empirical and quantitative approach to study the phenomenon of virtual enterprises. Based on a literature review, the factors that influence organisations to join in virtual enterprises are studied by a higher-order factor analysis. As a result, agility is identified as one of the main benefits organisations can gain by joining a virtual enterprise temporarily and changes in business performance are conceived as the measures of effectiveness. Next, a taxonomy of enterprises is developed with five distinguishing clusters that achieve differing levels of agility and business performance. This study suggests that enterprises that are monitoring changes in their business environment take most advantage of agility and achieve the best levels of performance.
These findings then allow an adaptive framework based on common reference architectures to be developed as a main contribution of this study. The framework includes a breeding environment as a โpoolโ of prepared enterprises with the ability to form temporary collaborations to react responsively, rapidly and effectively to the fast-changing opportunities. A structural equation model was used to examine the model fit with the supporting hypotheses, based on the observed data. Then, a powerful clustered expectation maximisation algorithm was applied to the analysis of the grouped enterprises.
Finally, a simulation-based case study was conducted to validate the developed framework. The results provide rich empirical evidence of the beneficial impact of virtual enterprises on agile supply chains. The research provides rich empirical evidence of the beneficial impact of virtual enterprises on agile supply chains. It also provides theoretical and managerial insights that can be used to strengthen the drivers, enablers and capabilities that enhance the effectiveness of virtual enterprises collaboration in agile supply chains that can be translated to a global context. These are major contributions the โbody of knowledgeโ in themselves, but the research also adds usefully to the study of applied research methodologies in the area
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