108 research outputs found

    Creating an entrepreneurial ecosphere within higher education institutions: towards a model of entrepreneurial university.

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    The ASEAN countries are progressing with tremendous opportunities and scopes emphasizing on the knowledge economy. Such attempt has invigorated to find new avenues of implementing the concept of entrepreneurial university. The main purpose of the study is to distinguish the Malaysian universities which possess hard and soft elements of the entrepreneurial university. Further, the study attempted to explore the possible significant differences in context of the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation within the entrepreneurial university paradigm

    Proceedings of the Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference (SPARC) 2011

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    These proceedings bring together a selection of papers from the 2011 Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference(SPARC). It includes papers from PhD students in the arts and social sciences, business, computing, science and engineering, education, environment, built environment and health sciences. Contributions from Salford researchers are published here alongside papers from students at the Universities of Anglia Ruskin, Birmingham City, Chester,De Montfort, Exeter, Leeds, Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores and Manchester

    SME strategic regeneration: building a holistic framework for decision-making in managing growth uncertainties and market volatilities for SMEs in Malaysia

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    This qualitative multiple case study research suggests an empirical approach with vantage points of Strategic Management, Strategic Innovations and Strategic Foresight perspectives to foster holistic decision-making for SME firms’ Strategic Regeneration impetuses at the onset of external environmental turbulence and discontinuous change. The study’s inductive approach focuses on a sensemaking approach for ‘meaningful’ discourse between SMEs’ owner-managers and its key stakeholders via institutionalising Dynamic Capabilities and ‘future-preparedness’ to read, recognise and react to strategic shifts concerning firm orientations in dealing with growth uncertainties and market volatilities at critical stages of the firm’s lifecycles. Four basic rationales for holistic decision-making framework were established based on critical review of the extant literature: (i) establishing strategic posture on Volatile, Uncertain, Complex & Ambiguous (VUCA) environments and crisis interventions; (ii) improving the management of strategic decisions and integrated resources; (iii) developing proficiency and focus on future strategic orientations; and (iv) implementing time-bounded pathways for strategy paradigms. In highly uncertain and volatile economic environments, anticipating change impetus and corollaries via a structured and dynamic platform to expound ambidexterity in strategy and strategic decision-making implementations were found to be purposeful and useful for SME firm’s strategic reform activities.Three case study impact clusters were compared with unit of analysis: (a) strategic postures; (b) strategic regeneration horizons; and (c) dynamic capability. This was accomplished via ten Malaysian SME firms sampled from five different industry/sectors for primary data collection. Through a set of 24 semi-structured interview questionnaires and use of interview templates, ten carefully selected key informants were fully interviewed and transcriptions were analysed using eleven thematic codes. The validation of seven research propositions developed for this study generated a coherent response with associated findings with contextual relevance and significance to the research aims and objectives. The conceptualisation of the ‘SME Strategic Regeneration’ framework further expounded recommendations on adoption of maturity model and strategic decision management best-practices to ‘rapidly’ improve strategy outcomes and efficacies, particularly for SMEs with highly turbulent crisis and acutely affected firms. Illustrated results from multiple case studies complemented the discovery of business recovery initiatives in Malaysian SMEs in several aspects, exhibiting valuable insights for further development and investigation. Findings from this study serves as the precursor to development of proponents to holistic decision-making and future-preparedness, for rapid and practical adoption by SMEs to tackle strategic issues of business continuity and sustainability throughout their active lifecycles, analogous to its maturity and evolution. Nonetheless, scarcity of research specific to Malaysian SMEs on this topic entails further development of future research into strategic decision management and strategy paradigms specific to SME domains

    Innovation and Leadership in the Media Industry

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    The invention of Scottish literature during the long eighteenth century

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    "The invention of Scottish Literature During the Long Eighteenth Century" examines the limited place in the canon traditionally allowed to creative writing in Scotland during this period and the overarching reading of creative impediment applied to it in the light of Scotland's fraught and not easily to be homogenised national history and identity. It interrogates the dominant mode of what it terms the Scottish literary critical tradition and funds this tradition to have many shortcomings as a result of its prioritising of literary and cultural holism. In examining the Scots poetry revival of the eighteenth century the thesis challenges the traditional identification of a populist and beset mode, and finds eighteenth-century poetry in Scots to be actually much more catholic in its literary connections. These more catholic "British" connections are reappraised alongside the distinctively Scottish accents of the poets Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns. The poetry of James Thomson, it is also argued, fits more easily into a heterogeneous Scottish identity than is sometimes thought and the work of Thomson is connected with the poets in Scots to show a network of influence and allegiance which is more coherent than has been traditionally allowed. Similarly, the primitivist agenda of the Scottish Enlightenment in creative literature is examined to demonstrate the way in which this provides license for reclaiming elements of the historically fraught or "backward" Scottish identity (thus an essentially conservative, patriotic element within the Scottish Enlightenment cultural voice is emphasised.). Also, with the writers of poetry in Scots, as well as with Thomson, and with those whose work comes under the intellectual sponsorship of Enlightenment primitivism such as Tobias Smollett, James Macpherson, James Beattie and others we chart a movement from the age of Augustanism and neoclassicism to that of sensibility and proto-Romanticism. From Burns' work to that of Walter Scott, John Galt and James Hogg we highlight Scottish writers making creative capital from the difficult and fractured Scottish identity and seeing this identity, as, in part, reflecting cultural tensions and fractures which are more widely coined furth of their own country. The connecting threads of the thesis are those narratives in Scottish literature of the period which show the retrieval and analysis of seemingly lost or receding elements of Scottish identity. Creative innovation and re-energisation rather than surrender and loss are what the thesis finally diagnoses in Scottish literature of the long eighteenth century

    Manga Vision

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    Manga Vision examines cultural and communicative aspects of Japanese comics, drawing together scholars from Japan, Australia and Europe working in areas as diverse as cultural studies, linguistics, education, music, art, anthropology, and translation, to explore the influence of manga in Japan and worldwide via translation, OEL manga and fan engagement. This volume includes a mix of theoretical, methodological, empirical and professional practice-based chapters, examining manga from both academic and artistic perspectives. Manga Vision also provides the reader with a multimedia experience, featuring original artwork by Australian manga artist Queenie Chan, cosplay photographs, and an online supplement offering musical compositions inspired by manga, and downloadable manga-related teaching resources

    The Multidimensional Depth of the Image: Body-Environment-Artefact (A philosophical reflection for graphic design)

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    Full version unavailable due to 3rd party copyright restrictions.The Multidimensional Depth of the Image: Body-Environment-Artefact Current discourses within cultural studies are re-iterating the limitations of language to adequately describe the affective domains of corporeality and materiality in the study of cultural artefacts. Within the discourse of graphic design, however, there remains an enduring focus placed upon models of language and communication to understand the meaning of designed materials. Rather than upholding a focus upon language, this thesis undertakes a theoretical investigation to extend the literature available to the discourse of graphic design to better understand how visual materials ‘come to mean’ within the experience of an embodied subject coupled to an affective environment. This thesis proposes an ontology of images that is emergent as a part of what, within the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, is describes as a mind-body-world system through which the ‘meaning’ of visual materials should be grounded. This thesis asks not ‘what’ visual materials mean but rather ‘how’ visual materials come to mean in terms of a complex relationship involving the embodied perceptual experience of the maker and the viewer that is immersed within an affective environment, what the thesis terms the multidimensional depth of the image. A phenomenological theory of art is extended to include a range of materials of popular visual culture to frame a study of how form and style come to mean qua the gestures of an embodied experience as coupled to an environment — a meaning that reciprocally emerges through the embodied experience of the work by the viewer. The environmental processes of which an embodied subject’s movements are coupled are brought into focus through enactive conceptions of mind within the cognitive sciences, describing how mind and meaning are emergent within an autopoietic organism-environment system. This provides a framework in which the affective dimensions of matter can be more fully understood as having a cognitive efficacy. Within this context, Material Engagement Theory (an approach within cognitive archaeology) is utilized to include a more focussed discussion of the affective domains of materials, objects, and artefacts and their role in the emergence of mind and meaning.HER

    AAS/GSFC 13th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics

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    This conference proceedings preprint includes papers and abstracts presented at the 13th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics. Cosponsored by American Astronautical Society and the Guidance, Navigation and Control Center of the Goddard Space Flight Center, this symposium featured technical papers on a wide range of issues related to orbit-attitude prediction, determination, and control; attitude sensor calibration; attitude dynamics; and mission design

    Academic Catalog: 2019-20

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