An Exploratory Study of Differences in Manufacturing Strategy between National and Global Production Firms

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Using System Dynamics to Analyze Innovation Diffusion Processes within Intra-organizational Networks

Contains fulltext : 111930.pdf (author's version ) (Open Access)The purpose of this study is to introduce system dynamics as a methodology to analyze intra-organizational innovation diffusion processes. Therefore, a purely algebraic model is replicated and analyzed in a system dynamics environment before it is extended by relaxing the restrictive assumption that intra-group diffusion and inter-group diffusion take place consecutively. The findings of this study suggest that the parallel occurrence of intra-group and inter-group diffusion can change the outcome of the diffusion process significantly. In addition, system dynamics is used to illustrate and analyze the complex dynamics of the diffusion process. The interplay between the self-reinforcing dynamics of intra-group diffusion and the balancing dynamics of inter-group diffusion is heavily influenced by the structure of the network. The simulations suggest that adopter-dominated groups should be connected to each other while non-adopter-dominated groups should be isolated from each other in order to increase the probability and speed of successful innovation diffusions. Major limitations of the study are that only one network structure between groups was examined and that all groups are considered to be homogeneous.30th International System Dynamics Conferenc

No way out? Analysing policy options to alleviate or derail success-to-the-successful in the energy system

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Supporting Long-term Personnel Planning of a Service Provider

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Tell me 'Why' or 'How' - A Heuristic to Choose between Quantitative and Qualitative Systems Analysis, paper in online proceedings

Contains fulltext : 157317.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)The purpose of this paper is to provide a heuristic that can help to decide whether qualitative or quantitative system dynamics modeling is useful in organizational modeling projects. The heuristic depends on the initial problem formulation, in form of a question to be answered. The argumentation is based on conceptual musings and on two short case studies to exemplify the usage of the heuristic. The value of the paper lies in the offering of an easy-to-use approach for a highly relevant decision in practical settings. Further research in this area should focus on a more theoretical distinction between quantitative and qualitative modeling.25th International Conference of the System Dynamics Societ

Raising Implementation Effectiveness of Innovations by Considering Structural Aspects of Organizations

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Inductive and Deductive System Dynamics Modeling. Paper in online proceedings

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Tangible Stock/Flow Experiments - Addressing Issues of Naturalistic Decision Making

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Wissenschaftliche Beiträge - Methoden der Längsschnittanalyse in den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

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