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Teknoloji tabanlı talebe-dayalı taşımacılık iş modellerine geçiş: karşılaştırmalı bir araştırma
Today, the world has been witnessing to structural changes at different levels and some external factors
(e.g. COVID-19) have particularly accelerated these changes. In the new world order, people seek effective
solutions to some challenges they confront in their daily lives while organisations are in quest for becoming
more competitive by using innovative technologies to address these needs. As a result, with the introduction
of digitalisation, there has been a transformation from traditional business models towards technologybased on-demand business models to be used in transportation. Especially, considering the complex
structure and high density of metropolitan cities, such as Istanbul, using on-demand transportation
platforms can be worthwhile for passengers. However, despite the increasing attention paid to these
platforms, there is a limited number of studies exploring these business models and their impacts from
different aspects. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the practices of two exemplary technologybased on-demand transportation business models, Uber and BiTaksi, and to propose strategies based on
several prominent attributes. Consequently, the discussions and proposed strategies regarding the
established attributes hold a significant potential to advance the nascent knowledge about digital
transportation business models, especially in the comparison of an international and a national platform,
and to offer strategic guidance to practitioners and policy-makers in business environment.Dünya, günümüzde, farklı düzeylerde yapısal değişikliklere tanıklık etmekte ve bazı dış faktörler (COVID19 gibi) bu değişiklikleri özellikle hızlandırmaktadır. Yeni dünya düzeninde, insanlar günlük yaşamlarında
karşılaştıkları bazı zorluklara karşı etkili çözümler ararlarken, örgütler de bu ihtiyaçları karşılamak için
yenilikçi teknolojiler kullanarak daha rekabetçi olma arayışına girmektedirler. Sonuç olarak,
dijitalleşmenin hayatımıza girmesiyle birlikte, ulaşımda, geleneksel iş modellerinden teknoloji tabanlı
talebe-dayalı iş modellerine bir dönüşüm olmaktadır. Özellikle, İstanbul gibi büyükşehirlerin karmaşık
yapısı ve yüksek yoğunluğu göz önünde bulundurulduğunda, talebe bağlı taşımacılık platformlarını
kullanmak yolcular için faydalı olabilmektedir. Ancak, bu platformlara gösterilen ilginin artmasına rağmen,
literatürde bu iş modellerini ve bunların etkilerini farklı açılardan inceleyen sınırlı sayıda çalışma
bulunmaktadır. Buna bağlı olarak, bu araştırma, teknoloji tabanlı talebe-dayalı iki örnek taşımacılık iş
modeli olan Uber ve BiTaksi'nin pratiklerini araştırmayı ve öne çıkan çeşitli niteliklere göre stratejiler
önermeyi amaçlamaktadır. Sonuç olarak, belirlenen niteliklere ilişkin tartışmalar ve önerilen stratejiler,
taşımacılıktaki dijital iş modelleri hakkında yeni oluşmaya başlayan bilgileri ilerletme, özellikle
uluslararası ve ulusal bir platformun karşılaştırılmasında, ve iş çevresinde yer alan gerek uygulayıcılara
gerekse de politika belirleyicilere stratejik rehberlik etme konusunda önemli potansiyel taşımaktadır
IS2020 A Competency Model for Undergraduate Programs in Information Systems: The Joint ACM/AIS IS2020 Task Force
The IS2020 report is the latest in a series of model curricula recommendations and guidelines for undergraduate degrees in Information Systems (IS). The report builds on the foundations developed in previous model curricula reports to develop a major revision of the model curriculum with the inclusion of significant new characteristics. Specifically, the IS2020 report does not directly prescribe a degree structure that targets a specific context or environment. Rather, the IS2020 report provides guidance regarding the core content of the curriculum that should be present but also provides flexibility to customize curricula according to local institutional needs
Análise do perfil de uso de transporte sob demanda por aplicativo (ride-sourcing) na cidade de São Paulo
O ride-sourcing (serviço de viagens sob demanda por aplicativo) já exerce um importante papel no transporte urbano, e dado o pouco tempo da ascensão deste serviço no Brasil, ainda existem poucos estudos acerca dos seus impactos. Este artigo busca caracterizar o perfil de uso do ridesourcing, a distribuição espacial das residências dos usuários e estimar modelos ordenados de escolha discreta para determinar o perfil dos usuários frequentes. Resultados descritivos mostram que a maioria das viagens é feita a lazer e que economia de tempo e de dinheiro são os principais motivos para seu uso, enquanto os modos mais substituídos são táxi, transporte coletivo e carro, respectivamente. Análises espaciais mostram que a frequência de uso não está diretamente relacionada à proximidade das residências dos usuários de linhas estruturantes de transporte coletivo, enquanto o modelo logit ordenado apontou que o perfil de usuário frequente é mulher, jovem e de renda familiar elevada. Os resultados ajudam a entender os padrões de uso e podem embasar o desenvolvimento de regulamentações que promovam a integração da nova mobilidade com o sistema de transporte atual das cidades
Reengineering RCRA: The Command Control Requirements of the Waste Disposal Paradigm of Subtitle C and the Act’s Objective of Fostering Recycling-Rethinking the Definition of Solid Waste, Again
INTRODUCTION In 1992, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Definition of Solid Waste Task Force (Task Force). 1 Specifically, the Task Force was created to eliminate perceived disincentives to recycling, eliminate regulatory loopholes for those recycling practices presenting risks to health and the environment, and clarify the definition of solid waste. 2 In September, 1994, the Task Force published a report titled Reengineering RCRA for Recycling: Definition of Solid Waste Task Force: Report and Recommendations (Reengineering RCRA). 3 This report advocated a new national regulatory system for recycling. 4 Consistent with past practice, the proposed system is to be administered by the EPA through jurisdiction vested in it by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA), 5 as amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 (HSWA) 6 . 7 The development of a regulatory system for the recycling of industrial, commercial, and municipal solid wastes is currently among the most significant issues in the environmental policy arena. 8 While the development of other solid waste policies (such as the shift to producer responsibility and the development of market forces to encourage waste reduction and reuse) are increasingly being addressed on a global scale, RCRA recycling is a distinctly national issue. 9 The focus of this article is to develop a regulatory framework for a new national recycling system. The discussion contained herein advocates a regulatory system that moves away from perceptions of recycling as a subset of ..
Legal Protection of Sui Generis Databases
It is undeniable that databases are an essential building block of the Information Society. Today, every business in developed countries operates fully based upon clientele databases, economic statistics, and industries profiles; and innovation and invention rely heavily on collections of facts, data and information that scientists discovered in research and development or exchanged among them. Legislatures have envisaged a need and significance of the free flow of access to information, thereby prescribing copyright protection only to creative selection and arrangement of the contents of databases, not the factual contents contained within. However, the advent of technology avails unconventional methods of copying, altering, and recompiling to manipulate the contents of databases. Anyone can make use of technology, gather information, recompile them, and take this opportunity to enter into market, being possessed by original players and creating unfair competition. Original database makers, therefore, are suffering from losses in investment and crying for a legal solution, giving rise to possible intellectual property right of sui generis databases or a right of its own kind. Throughout history, it is clear that copyright extends only to the creative or expressive contents, not the underlying facts, data, or information. Although there were battles between publishers or authors, copyright law meant to reward creative genius rather than contribution of finance or pure labor. Over centuries, its rationale remained unchanged, promoting a proper balance of author\u27s incentive to complement creativity cycle and the public\u27s free and open access to information to keep the market place of ideas intact. For the protection of collections and compilations, Article 2(5) of the Berne Convention makes clear that it extends only to the creative elements of the selection and arrangement of the contents. However, it is insufficient for database industries who have contributed capitals and entrepreneurial efforts in the making of databases. To maximize profit, lobbyists from database industries have urged their governments to recognize a property right in the compiled facts and information resulted from entrepreneurial effort alone. This endeavor has reached not only national level, but also international. Such concept of protection, thus, opposes the principle of the free flow of access to information that copyright law has promoted. The scientists and those, who are in the educational field, express concern that such regime impedes the free flow of access to facts, data, and information by increasing a cost to access them. Developing and least developed countries worry about negative impacts of sui generis protection on their socio-economic infrastructure, particularly human resources development, not only because of an increasing cost to access, but a fear of losing their traditional knowledge, such as collections of undeveloped medical plants and compilations of unimproved medical treatments. A justifiable intellectual property right in sui generis databases, if any, must be considered and based upon the concept to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedom for all in the global society to benefit from the progress of science and the use of arts and literatures
An aesthetic for sustainable interactions in product-service systems?
Copyright @ 2012 Greenleaf PublishingEco-efficient Product-Service System (PSS) innovations represent a promising approach to sustainability. However the application of this concept is still very limited because its implementation and diffusion is hindered by several barriers (cultural, corporate and regulative ones). The paper investigates the barriers that affect the attractiveness and acceptation of eco-efficient PSS alternatives, and opens the debate on the aesthetic of eco-efficient PSS, and the way in which aesthetic could enhance some specific inner qualities of this kinds of innovations. Integrating insights from semiotics, the paper outlines some first research hypothesis on how the aesthetic elements of an eco-efficient PSS could facilitate user attraction, acceptation and satisfaction
Legal Protection of Sui Generis Databases
It is undeniable that databases are an essential building block of the Information Society. Today, every business in developed countries operates fully based upon clientele databases, economic statistics, and industries profiles; and innovation and invention rely heavily on collections of facts, data and information that scientists discovered in research and development or exchanged among them. Legislatures have envisaged a need and significance of the free flow of access to information, thereby prescribing copyright protection only to creative selection and arrangement of the contents of databases, not the factual contents contained within. However, the advent of technology avails unconventional methods of copying, altering, and recompiling to manipulate the contents of databases. Anyone can make use of technology, gather information, recompile them, and take this opportunity to enter into market, being possessed by original players and creating unfair competition. Original database makers, therefore, are suffering from losses in investment and crying for a legal solution, giving rise to possible intellectual property right of sui generis databases or a right of its own kind. Throughout history, it is clear that copyright extends only to the creative or expressive contents, not the underlying facts, data, or information. Although there were battles between publishers or authors, copyright law meant to reward creative genius rather than contribution of finance or pure labor. Over centuries, its rationale remained unchanged, promoting a proper balance of author\u27s incentive to complement creativity cycle and the public\u27s free and open access to information to keep the market place of ideas intact. For the protection of collections and compilations, Article 2(5) of the Berne Convention makes clear that it extends only to the creative elements of the selection and arrangement of the contents. However, it is insufficient for database industries who have contributed capitals and entrepreneurial efforts in the making of databases. To maximize profit, lobbyists from database industries have urged their governments to recognize a property right in the compiled facts and information resulted from entrepreneurial effort alone. This endeavor has reached not only national level, but also international. Such concept of protection, thus, opposes the principle of the free flow of access to information that copyright law has promoted. The scientists and those, who are in the educational field, express concern that such regime impedes the free flow of access to facts, data, and information by increasing a cost to access them. Developing and least developed countries worry about negative impacts of sui generis protection on their socio-economic infrastructure, particularly human resources development, not only because of an increasing cost to access, but a fear of losing their traditional knowledge, such as collections of undeveloped medical plants and compilations of unimproved medical treatments. A justifiable intellectual property right in sui generis databases, if any, must be considered and based upon the concept to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedom for all in the global society to benefit from the progress of science and the use of arts and literatures
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