Towards Co-Production of a Geographic Information System to Support Mobilizing Inuit Knowledge for Community-Led Land-Based and Guardian Programs: A Case with Clyde River Inuit Hunters in Nunavut, Canada

This research explores approaches towards supporting the co-production and mobilization of Clyde River, Nunavut, Inuit knowledge and meteorological information on local weather conditions. Through iterations led by a community organization, Ittaq Heritage and Research Centre, “Wavy” was collaboratively designed and developed as a custom, interactive geographic information system (GIS) to visualize human-relevant environmental variables, specifically winds and wave heights. With a community of users, Clyde River Inuit hunters, usability goals were identified and addressed in Wavy from ad-hoc meetings, semi-structured interviews, walkthroughs, follow-up gatherings, and heuristic evaluations. Key outcomes include: community-defined classifications of wave conditions and safety measures; a spatial data infrastructure for managing human-relevant environment variables for land-based and guardian monitoring programs; and the source code of Wavy with recommendations on advancing the user interface and experience for local to broader applications. Co-production of Wavy thus proved an effective strategy for advancing access to reliable local weather information

Architecture framework of IoT-based food and farm systems: A multiple case study

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to be a real game changer in food and farming. However, an important challenge for large-scale uptake of IoT is to deal with the huge heterogeneity of this domain. This paper develops and applies an architecture framework for modelling IoT-based systems in the agriculture and food domain. The framework comprises a coherent set of architectural viewpoints and a guideline to use these viewpoints to model architectures of individual IoT-based systems. The framework is validated in a multiple case study of the European IoF2020 project, including different agricultural sub sectors, conventional and organic farming, early adopters and early majority farmers, and different supply chain roles. The framework provides a valuable help to model, in a timely, punctual and coherent way, the architecture of IoT-based systems of this diverse set of use cases. Moreover, it serves as a common language for aligning system architectures and enabling reuse of architectural knowledge among multiple autonomous IoT-based systems in agriculture and food

Towards interoperability of entity-based and event-based IoT platforms: The case of NGSI and EPCIS standards

With the advancement of IoT devices and thanks to the unprecedented visibility and transparency they provide, diverse IoT-based applications are being developed. With the proliferation of IoT, both the amount and type of data items captured have increased dramatically. The data generated by IoT devices reside in different organizations and systems, and a major barrier to utilizing the data is the lack of interoperability among the standards used to capture the data. To reduce this barrier, two major standards have emerged: the Global Standards One (GS1) Electronic Product Code Information Service (EPCIS) and the FIWARE Next Generation Services Interface (NGSI). However, the two standards differ not only in the data encoding but also in the underlying philosophy of representing IoT data; namely, EPCIS is event-based, and NGSI is entity-based. Interoperability between FIWARE and EPCIS is essential for system integration. This paper presents OLIOT Mediation Gateway, now one of the incubated generic enablers offered by the FIWARE Foundation, that realizes the required interoperability between NGSI and EPCIS systems. It also demonstrates the applicability and feasibility of the Gateway by applying it to a real-life case study of integrating transparency systems used in a meat supply chain

Essays on Professionals' Temporal Autonomy

Professionals struggle to control their work time, despite often (1) having relatively greater control over their work tasks, and (2) wanting to control their work time. My dissertation addresses this empirical and theoretical puzzle by refining our understanding of why professionals face difficulties expanding their temporal autonomy, and identifying mechanisms and processes that can address these barriers. I draw upon data from four separate ethnographic studies of STEM professionals. In my first essay, I identify conditions under which managers either support or limit employees’ use of flexible work policies, and in turn, facilitate increases in professionals’ temporal autonomy. In my second essay, I show how professionals— independent of managers—collaborate to expand control over their work hours. In my third essay, I show how professionals’ temporal autonomy is shaped by family responsibilities. Overall, I contribute to the literature on professions, as well as related literatures on temporality and time in organizations, flexible work schedules, and the work-life interface. This dissertation also contributes to our understanding of gender inequality by showing how gendered experiences of time subtly disadvantage women.Ph.D

Occupational invocation : managing experts through occupational norms

Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2018Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-41).Using data from a 16-month ethnographic study of a pharmaceutical company research unit, I examine how managers can successfully manage expert contractors. These expert scientists perform essential work in advancing drug development projects. However, they often complete work late, refuse to perform requested work, and act in other ways that managers believe impedes project progress. Although the literature on expert management suggests that these challenges can be overcome by rewarding, punishing, and socializing experts, these practices are difficult to implement when expert workers are contracted from outside of the organization. I show how managers can manage expert contractors through a process I label occupational invocation. In this process, managers first publicly highlight experts' breaches of shared occupational norms. Managers then reintegrate experts by providing them with an opportunity to display a correction of their actions such that they align with the community's expectations as well as the contracting organization's interests. By referencing common norms, occupational invocation helps enable the management of expert contractors.by Vanessa Mariangela Conzon.S.M. in Management ResearchS.M.inManagementResearch Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Managemen

Implications of Childcare Responsibilities for Workplace Performances & Interactions

International audienceScientists with childcare responsibilities are evaluated by their colleagues as less competent and committed. The flexibility stigma has been extensively documented; however, the processes and mechanisms through which the use of flexible work arrangements lead to the flexibility stigma has received less attention. In this theory development paper, we identify mechanisms, grounded in workplace observation, that explain why faculty members who adapt their schedules to care for children may experience stigma in the workplace. We analyze and compare the time control approaches of female and male professors in the physical and formal sciences with and without childcare responsibilities. We show the implications time control and allocation strategies have for social exchange – specifically performances and interactions – in the workplace. Women with childcare responsibilities allocate most workplace interactions and performances to "service science" in which they are seen contributing - teaching and serving – to their department. They perform their research activities primarily in private and outside the office. Men without childcare responsibilities allocate most workplace interactions and performances to "public science" in which they publicly interact with peers on topics of science. Men with childcare responsibilities combine service science and public science. In performing service science, women with childcare responsibilities experience isolation from peers and develop reputations around service and teaching work. This may in turn lead colleagues to view them as less committed and competent. We discuss potential implications for scientific productivity, connecting our findings to recent studies of gendered productivity, patenting, and scientific advisory board participation findings.<br/

sj-pdf-1-asq-10.1177_00018392231174235 – Supplemental material for The Equality Policy Paradox: Gender Differences in How Managers Implement Gender Equality–Related Policies

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-asq-10.1177_00018392231174235 for The Equality Policy Paradox: Gender Differences in How Managers Implement Gender Equality–Related Policies by Vanessa M. Conzon in Administrative Science Quarterly</p