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    Towards The Development of a Contingent Use of Systems Development Methodologies Model

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    Systems development methodologies (SDMs) are categorised into the plan-driven SDM and the agile SDM classes. Research has demonstrated that no single SDM is suitable for every systems development project situation. The aim of the paper is to present aspects of a study that developed a contingent use of SDMs model to investigate the contingent use of SDMs, and tests the model empirically. The developed hybrid model is tested using survey data collected from 155 systems development organisations. The results demonstrate that SDMs are adopted and continuously tailored during the systems development project life cycle. This has theoretical and practical implications in the design of SDMs and the deployment of SDMs. The empirical findings and the model presented in this study can assist researchers to investigate the contingent use of SDMs and improve their implementation in systems development projects. The findings provide insights on how practice and theory co-evolve and inform one another

    Learning in Hybrid-Project Systems: The Effects of Project Performance on Repeated Collaboration

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    This study advances contingency theories of performance-outcome learning in hybrid-project systems, in which both project participants and superordinate organizations influence the formation of project ventures. We propose that performance-outcome learning depends on the perceived relevance of prior performance and on organizational control over project participants. We examine this framework using data on 239 U.S. movie projects from the years 1931-40. In keeping with our theory, higher project performance led to future collaborations with the same partners, contingent on prior collaborations, project similarity, and organizational control. Our findings imply distinct patterns of network evolution and unfolding adaptation of hybrid-project systems through slow-moving, local adjustments

    Learning in Hybrid-Project Systems: The Effects of Project Performance on Repeated Collaboration

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    This study advances contingency theories of performance-outcome learning in hybrid-project systems, in which both project participants and superordinate organizations influence the formation of project ventures. We propose that performance-outcome learning depends on the perceived relevance of prior performance and on organizational control over project participants. We examine this framework using data on 239 U.S. movie projects from the years 1931-40. In keeping with our theory, higher project performance led to future collaborations with the same partners, contingent on prior collaborations, project similarity, and organizational control. Our findings imply distinct patterns of network evolution and unfolding adaptation of hybrid-project systems through slow-moving, local adjustments

    Too late to dissolve the people and elect another? Cognition, Contingent Consent and Turbulence in the Integration Process?

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    Consent to the process of European integration is contingent and the reproduction of consent is, in Renan’s (1882) terms, a ‘daily plebiscite’. Each new Treaty conveys a new understanding of what the EU is and ought to be. Analysis of the latest Treaty provisions, intended to bring Europe closer to the people and to address the democratic deficit, demonstrates the extent and implications of competition over competence between the various actors involved. The resulting compromises are manifestations of Haas’s (1976) ‘turbulence’ in practice and also contribute to further ‘turbulence’ by shaping understandings of what the role of the public and other actors within the EU system is and ought to be. Recognising the importance of cognition and contingent consent for the integration process, and the role of EU institutions in reproducing these, requires a rethink of existing approaches to European integration theory and a nuanced socialpsychology of the European Union

    Mirroring or misting: On the role of product architecture, product complexity, and the rate of product component change

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    This paper contributes to the literature on the within-firm and across-firm mirroring hypothesis – the assumed architectural mapping between firms’ strategic choices of product architecture and firm architecture, and between firms’ architectural choices and the industry structures that emerge. Empirical evidence is both limited and mixed and there is evidently a need for a more nuanced theory that embeds not only whether the mirroring hypothesis holds, but under what product architecture and component-level conditions it may or may not hold. We invoke an industrial economics perspective to develop a stylised product architecture typology and hypothesise how the combined effects of product architecture type, product complexity and the rate of product component change may be associated with phases of mirroring or misting. Our framework helps to reconcile much existing mixed evidence and provides the foundation for further empirical research

    Contingent support: exploring ontological politics/extending management

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    This paper is located within the critical management tradition of management education/development. The paper seeks to introduce the neglected area of Actor Network Theory and Mol’s anti-foundationalist ontological politics and demonstrates their potential to developing alternative critical pedagogy and management practice. Following a discussion of problem-based learning, the paper goes on to introduce the emergent pedagogic practice termed contingent support. Through a series of vignettes drawn from fieldwork collected from a second year undergraduate decision making module, the paper discusses carefully how the practice termed contingent support is informed by Actor Network Theory and ontological politics in particular. The paper goes onto reveal the significance of contingent support sensibilities of materiality, situatedness and performance and shows how they can give a new vigour to educators interested in developing more responsible management. Finally, the paper considers contingent support’s transformational potential and sets an agenda for future researc

    Contingent task and motion planning under uncertainty for human–robot interactions

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    Manipulation planning under incomplete information is a highly challenging task for mobile manipulators. Uncertainty can be resolved by robot perception modules or using human knowledge in the execution process. Human operators can also collaborate with robots for the execution of some difficult actions or as helpers in sharing the task knowledge. In this scope, a contingent-based task and motion planning is proposed taking into account robot uncertainty and human–robot interactions, resulting a tree-shaped set of geometrically feasible plans. Different sorts of geometric reasoning processes are embedded inside the planner to cope with task constraints like detecting occluding objects when a robot needs to grasp an object. The proposal has been evaluated with different challenging scenarios in simulation and a real environment.Postprint (published version

    Back to the Drawing Board : Inventing a Sociology of Technology

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