De la réflexion stratégique au sein de la nouvelle économie : principes structurant l'analyse d'une chaîne de valeur famille-produit

La chaîne de valeurde la Firme -- Les chaînes de valeur industrielles -- Problématique spécifique : -- Les trois orientations de la nouvelle économie -- Vers une nouvelle conceptualisation de l'organisation des firmes : la chaîne de valeur famille-produit -- Stratégie de recherche -- L'échantillonnage théorique -- Validation des inductions théoriques -- Chaque activité d'une chaîne de valeur comporte sa logique spécifique -- Chaque activité d'une chaîne de valeur repose sur une stratégie spécifique -- Toutes les activités d'une chaîne n'ont pas la même valeur et cette valeur évolue dans le temps -- Une logique spatiale prévaut entre les activités d'une chaîne de valeur famille-produit

Collecting neurophysiological data to investigate users’ cognitive states during game play

This paper explores the potential of collecting neurophysiological data in order to further understand user’s learning experience. The experimental setup involves collecting electroencephalographic signal (EEG) from the brain cortex to infer users’ cognitive state while they played an educational video game designed to support the learning of Newtonian mechanics. Preliminary results suggest that this neuroscience perspective is quite promising in the idea of quantitatively characterizing users’ learning experience. This could be an innovative and promising avenue in general game development or in educational videogame research field

Consumers\u27 Online Cognitive Scripts:A Neurophysiological Approach

A cognitive script is a predetermined sequence of actions that define a well-known situation. Building on neuroscience literature, the objectives of this research-in-progress are to verify and validate that consumers activate cognitive scripts when shopping online, understand how cognitive scripts are formed by consumers over multiple online shopping trips, and investigate how consumers activating different cognitive scripts respond when facing a novel shopping environment. Twenty-one novice participants (i.e., no digital music purchase experience) were assigned to either an “intrascript” condition (multiple visits to a single website) or an “interscript” condition (single visits to multiple websites). Using psychometric and neurophysiological measures, our results suggest that intrascript consumers appear to use more automatic processing, while interscript consumers use more controlled processing. In addition, when visiting a new website, interscript consumers perceive this website as easier to use than intrascript consumers. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed

Project characteristics, project management software utilization and project performance: An impact analysis based on real project data

Project management software packages are increasingly used by companies. These tools require a substantial financial investment, hence the importance of identifying the real contribution of project management software packages to the realization of projects. However, studies on the impacts of software packages on the performance of engineering project management are rare and mostly based on perceptions. The objective of this study is to investigate, from real project data, the level of utilization of a project management software package, developed by an engineering construction firm recognized internationally, and its link with project performance and project characteristics. Results stemming from non-parametric tests and correlation analyses show that the level of use of the software, and some of its subsystems, appears to be linked to project performance. Project duration also seems to be the most critical project characteristic

Countermeasures for Mobile IT Distractions: An Exploratory Study

As mobile information technologies and smartphones became an integral part of our lives, it is important to understand their negative effects and how they can be controlled. Given the substantial demands multitasking exerts on the cognitive and attentional capacity of individuals, mobile IT multitasking (e.g., performing an IT task with a small device concurrently with a motor task) entails major safety risks as individuals miss important cues and become unaware of their environments. The objective of this research in progress paper is to answer: a) what are the countermeasures that are designed to curb the safety risks associated with mobile IT multitasking? and b) why do organizations choose to adopt a specific portfolio of these countermeasures? Through the lens of deterrence theory in IS we conceptualize the mobile IT multitasking countermeasures, and using an exploratory qualitative approach, we attempt to theorize the factors impacting the adoption of these countermeasures

Keeping Calm in the Digital Age: Theorizing on a Self-Monitoring System of Technostress

People spend increasing time interacting with information technologies (IT) due to teleworking, which has become an important cause of psychological stress. Meanwhile, technological advances enable the monitoring of stress via methods that capture individuals’ physiological states like automatic facial expression analysis (AFEA). This research-in-progress article proposes a novel theory that aims at explaining and predicting the impact of AFEA of stress self-monitoring systems on users’ psychological stress. The theory proposes that AFEA of stress self-monitoring systems can increase facial expression self-awareness, and consequently inhibit users’ facial expressions of stress, which can in turn decrease users’ psychological stress. The theory has implications for the design science, affective computing, and technostress domains. It is hoped that the theory will generate discussions on the potential of stress self-monitoring systems in the workplace, education, and society

Project characteristics, project management software utilization and project performance: an impact analysis based on real project data

Project management software packages are increasingly used by companies. These tools require a substantial financial investment, hence the importance of identifying the real contribution of project management software packages to the realization of projects. However, studies on the impacts of software packages on the performance of engineering project management are rare and mostly based on perceptions. The objective of this study is to investigate, from real project data, the level of utilization of a project management software package, developed by an engineering construction firm recognized internationally, and its link with project performance and project characteristics. Results stemming from non-parametric tests and correlation analyses show that the level of use of the software, and some of its subsystems, appears to be linked to project performance. Project duration also seems to be the most critical project characteristic