Labour Market Intermediaries (LMIs) with a social purpose, or Social Innovation, are bubbling since the 1980s due to fragmentation of labour standards and growing number “non-standard forms work”. However, they face an important lack legitimacy especially in countries like France where market is highly regulated. Analysing legitimation trajectories two profit-limited LMIs, Employers’ Associatio...

Meta-Design In a world that is not predictable, improvisation, evolution, and innovation are more than a luxury: they are a necessity. The challenge of design is not a matter of getting rid of the emergent, but rather of including it and making it an opportunity for more creative and more adequate solutions to problems. Meta-design is an emerging conceptual framework aimed at defining and creat...

Meta-rules, or rules for making rules, affect the costs of innovation and thus the pace of economic growth. Pro-active adaptation of rules to a changing economic environment through explicit, well-designed meta-rules makes economic growth quicker, less painful, and more certain than through re-active adaption through crisis or through chancebased adaptation through evolution. Acknowledgments Th...

of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy MAPPING REUSE FOR META-QUERIER CUSTOMIZATION By Xiao Li May 2011 Chair: Dr. Randy Chow Major: Computer Engineering The primary goal of this dissertation is to investigate the methodologies for developing a system framework that supports ...

Meta-research is the study of research itself: its methods, reporting, reproducibility, evaluation, and incentives. Given that science is the key driver of human progress, improving the efficiency of scientific investigation and yielding more credible and more useful research results can translate to major benefits. The research enterprise grows very fast. Both new opportunities for knowledge a...

Since the publication of Roger’s fifth edition of Diffusion of Innovations in 2003, there is a need to investigate the recent Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) for Information Systems (IS) research for the purpose of finding trends. Much research has been conducted and needs to be synthesized to map a direction for future research. The methodology used in this study is meta-analysis of recent I...

In the year 2003 the administration portal for Switzerland, the Virtual Desk www.ch.ch, went live. This portal is based on a powerful meta-database of all available resources and services of the federation, the cantons and the districts and allocates a unique name, the URN (Uniform Resource Name), to every resource. The URN:Technology, adapted to the requirements of www.ch.ch, became an open st...

Most of industries currently spend too much time to find information on past product design process. This considerably reduces the time it can devote to innovation. The authors assume that the design process meta-model seems very interesting for modelling the design rational and then for accelerating information retrieval. Indeed, the model of the design process partly supports every resources ...