107 research outputs found
A Dynamic Network Measure of Knowledge Evolution: A Case Study of MIS Quarterly
Citation measures are the central metrics to assessing the impact of an article, the viability of research streams, the career success of scholars, as well as the quality and status of journals and academic units. While measuring the magnitude of the future usage, they cannot capture the substantial effects that an article may have on the subsequent use of its predecessors - whether it amplifies or disrupts the existing literature. We embrace that it is imperative to not only assess its impact but also assess how an article reinforces the existing research streams or breaks into a new stream to understand its true effect. Accordingly, we introduce a new, dynamic measure, and conduct a case study using all articles published between 1979-2016 at MIS Quarterly to illustrate the validity of the new measure, and conclude with some future research topics and implications
Inferring Fluid Dynamics via Inverse Rendering
Humans have a strong intuitive understanding of physical processes such as
fluid falling by just a glimpse of such a scene picture, i.e., quickly derived
from our immersive visual experiences in memory. This work achieves such a
photo-to-fluid-dynamics reconstruction functionality learned from unannotated
videos, without any supervision of ground-truth fluid dynamics. In a nutshell,
a differentiable Euler simulator modeled with a ConvNet-based pressure
projection solver, is integrated with a volumetric renderer, supporting
end-to-end/coherent differentiable dynamic simulation and rendering. By
endowing each sampled point with a fluid volume value, we derive a NeRF-like
differentiable renderer dedicated from fluid data; and thanks to this
volume-augmented representation, fluid dynamics could be inversely inferred
from the error signal between the rendered result and ground-truth video frame
(i.e., inverse rendering). Experiments on our generated Fluid Fall datasets and
DPI Dam Break dataset are conducted to demonstrate both effectiveness and
generalization ability of our method
Measurement and Analysis of the Swarm Social Network With Tens of Millions of Nodes
Social graphs have been widely used for representing the relationship among users in online social networks (OSNs). As crawling an entire OSN is resource-and time-consuming, most of the existing works only pick a sampled subgraph for study. However, this may introduce serious inaccuracy into the analytic results, not to mention that some important metrics cannot even be calculated. In this paper, we crawl the entire social network of Swarm, a leading mobile social app with more than 60 million users, using a distributed approach. Based on the crawled massive user data, we conduct a data-driven study to get a comprehensive picture of the whole Swarm social network. This paper provides a deep analysis of social interactions between Swarm users, and reveals the relationship between social connectivity and check-in activities.Peer reviewe
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Innovation: Integration of Random Variation and Creative Synthesis
Sarah Harvey has developed an important model called creative synthesis for the use of dialectical reasoning in creative endeavors. This model is put in direct opposition to the evolutionary model called random variation, which, according to Harvey, promotes incremental innovation, while creative synthesis promotes radical innovation. In emphasizing the affirmative stage of the dialectical process, creative synthesis offers a description of how groups can be consistently successful in creative endeavors through collective attention, enabling ideas, and building on similarities. We propose that creative synthesis is not a rival to but an extension of random variation and that the same dialectical reasoning used by Harvey allows us to integrate the two models into a more versatile hybrid: evolutionary synthesis. We contend that the hybrid model better reflects the complexity of reality and avoids the problem of routinization. It appears that innovation is all about Darwin and Marx.Keywords: Evolutionary Theory,
Evolutionary synthesis,
Creativity,
Creative synthesis,
Evolution,
Innovation,
Dialectics,
Random variatio
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Innovation Performance in New Product Development Teams in China's Technology Ventures: The Role of Behavioral Integration Dimensions and Collective Efficacy
In emerging markets, technology ventures increasingly rely on new product development (NPD) teams to generate creative ideas, and to mold these innovative ideas into streams of new products or services. However, little is known about how behavioral integration (a behavioral team process) and collective efficacy (a motivational team process) jointly facilitate or inhibit team innovation performance in emerging marketsâespecially in China, the worldâs largest emerging-market setting with collectivist and high power-distance cultures. Drawing on social cognitive theory and behavioral integration research, this article elucidates the relationships between behavioral integration dimensions (i.e., collaborative behavior, information exchange, and joint decision making) and innovation performance, and also examines how collective efficacy moderates these relationships in Chinaâs NPD teams.
Results from a sample of 96 NPD teams in Chinaâs technology ventures reveal that information exchange is positively associated with innovation performance. Collaborative behavior positively but marginally influences innovation performance, whereas joint decision making doesnât relate to innovation performance. Moreover, collective efficacy demonstrates an important moderating role. Specifically, both collaborative behavior and joint decision making are more positively associated with innovation performance when collective efficacy is higher. In contrast, information exchange is less positively associated with innovation performance when collective efficacy is higher.
This study makes important theoretical contributions to the literature on team innovation and behavioral integration in emerging markets by offering a better understanding of how behavioral and motivational team processes jointly shape innovation performance in Chinaâs NPD teams. This study also extends social cognitive theory by identifying collective efficacy as a boundary condition for the overall effectiveness of behavioral integration dimensions. In particular, this study highlights the condition under which behavioral integration dimensions facilitate or inhibit NPD team innovation performance in China.Keywords: emerging markets, technology ventures, team innovation, behavioral integration, new product development, collective efficacyKeywords: emerging markets, technology ventures, team innovation, behavioral integration, new product development, collective efficac
Management Innovation and Firm Performance: An Integration of Research Findings
While the effect of technological innovations (TI) on firm performance is established, performance contributions of management innovations (MI) is as yet undetermined. Theoretical discourse on the motivation for the adoption of MIs questions their performance outcome, and an integration of empirical research of the MI-performance relationship is lacking. This study thus examines three questions: (1) is the adoption of MI beneficial to organizations; (2) is the impact of MI on performance at par with that of TI; and (3) what are the potential sources of inconsistency in the MI-performance relationship? We quantitatively integrate the empirical findings using 52 independent samples from 44 articles published in peer-reviewed journals via two different proceduresâsupport score and meta-analysisâfor complementarity and reliability. The results from both procedures indicate that: (1) MI positively affects performance; (2) the direction and strength of the effect of MI on performance does not differ from that of TI; and (3) industrial sector (manufacturing vs. service) and construct measurement (both innovation and performance) moderate the MI-performance relationship. We discuss the implications of our findings for future research on innovation and performance in organizations
Energy transfer in zinc porphyrinâphthalocyanine heterotrimer and heterononamer studied by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)
Two or eight zinc triphenyl porphyrins were conjugated with Zn-phthalocyanine or H2-phthalocyanine to form ZnPcâ(ZnTPP)2, ZnPcâ(ZnTPP)8, H2Pcâ(ZnTPP)2 and H2Pcâ(ZnTPP)8. Energy transfers from the porphyrin moiety to phthalocyanine part were quantitatively studied with the modality of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). By measuring the fluorescence increment from the phthalocyanine moiety and the decrease from porphyrin part under selective excitation at the B band of the porphyrin part in those conjugated compounds and their equimolar mixture of compositions, energy transfer efficiencies were estimated to be 90% for H2Pcâ(ZnTPP)8 and ZnPcâ(ZnTPP)8, and 60%, 30% for ZnPcâ(ZnTPP)2 and H2Pcâ(ZnTPP)2, respectively
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