Learning and Adaptation of Contingent Workers in South Korea Corporations: A Study of Developmental Relationships

Developmental relationships have been considered an important factor for leaning and adaptation of workers. This paper aims to discover how the learning and adaptation of contingent workers differ from those of regular workers and focuses on developmental relationships in South Korea corporations

Digital Innovation towards a Service-Dominant Business: A Clinical Inquiry into Georgia Pacific\u27s Connected Restroom Initiative

The rapid and pervasive digitalization of businesses has spawned value creation by changing the nature and structure of products and services. At the same time, organizations have been challenged to cope with dynamic business landscapes as they apply digital technologies to renew their competitive positions. In this context, we aim to explore how organizations develop digital innovation initiatives to transform a traditional product-dominant business towards a service-dominant one and how the initiatives are constituted and entangled within and across the initiative stages. Based on close collaboration with Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Professional Division (GP PRO), we explore the path trajectory of the organization’s strategic connected restroom initiative through four stages: (idea-focus) initiation, (technology-focus) experimentation, (customer-focus) commercialization, and (process-focus) organization. Drawing on a clinical inquiry approach, we investigate the digital innovation initiative as combinations of strategic moves (co-evolution, reconfiguration, and renewal) and architectural moves (sensing usage, analyzing traces, and co-creating services). As a result, the dissertation contributes to the literature by adding new knowledge about the role of digital innovation in transforming incumbent product-oriented organizations towards a service-dominant focus as well as to practitioners by providing insights into the key challenges and opportunities they encounter in such initiatives

Content Analysis of M-Commerce: A Comparison of Apparel and Non-apparel Sites

To conduct a systematic and comprehensive assessment on mobile sites\u27 performance in facilitating mobile shopping, this study examined whether availability of service attributes differ between apparel and non-apparel mobile sites. The comprehensive coding guide developed and validated in the context of e-commerce research guided the conceptual development of this study. Mobile sites (N=194) from Internet Retailer (2011) were selected for content analysis. The updated m-commerce coding guide included the five dimensions such as convenience, customization, information, communication and visual merchandising. The findings show that apparel mobile sites outperform non-apparel sites for the convenience, customization and communication dimensions. No difference was found for the information and visual merchandising dimensions. The findings of this exploratory study offer a useful snap shot of the current performance of m-commerce sites for both scholars and practitioners

Current-Induced Resonant Motion of a Magnetic Vortex Core: Effect of Nonadiabatic Spin Torque

The current-induced resonant excitation of a magnetic vortex core is investigated by means of analytical and micromagnetic calculations. We find that the radius and the phase shift of the resonant motion are not correctly described by the analytical equations because of the dynamic distortion of a vortex core. In contrast, the initial tilting angle of a vortex core is free from the distortion and determined by the nonadiabaticity of the spin torque. It is insensitive to experimentally uncontrollable current-induced in-plane Oersted field. We propose that a time-resolved imaging of the very initial trajectory of a core is essential to experimentally estimate the nonadiabaticity.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

Service Attributes Available on Mobile Website

US m-commerce sales growth has been significant over the past few years. Total sales of products and services made using mobile phones and tablets reached $41 billion in 2013, accounting for 16% of total e-commerce sales. A majority of e-commerce consumers are expected to make purchases via mobile devices by 2017. Although mobile purchases are growing, most consumers still prefer to make actual purchases in physical stores or through retail websites (eMarketer, 2013)