Services constitute strategic components of firms’ value proposition, specifically for manufacturing firms currently called to servitize their products develop product-service systems. In order new services, they need acquire, assimilate, transform and exploit external knowledge, thereby partnering with stakeholders, a strategy labelled open service innovation . Yet research on management in ge...

This qualitative study investigates the different methods for selecting sex partners by Korean homosexuals considering factors related to homosexual identity and sexual behavior. We take the approach of the grounded theory to examine the issue of sexual partnering of men who have sex with men (MSM). In-depth interviews of urban MSM and bisexual men were conducted. The snowball sampled through a...

Firms increasingly look outside their organizational boundaries to identify partners that can improve the effectiveness of R&D projects. The strategy for using partners, however, varies significantly across projects. In some, partners are used primarily to lower development costs and/or supplement development capacity; in others they are used to improve the quality of the final product. How sho...

In order to gain competitive advantage, container port operators have begun to apply partnering strategies to the integration of the resources of their vertical allies, especially the container carriers. Intelligent management of the involved risk is the core issue in determining an effective partnering strategy. This paper aims to establish a risk analysis model to examine the potential partne...

Despite the growing prominence and capabilities of self-driving cars, little is known about human interaction with such autonomous vehicles. I am studying human interaction with multiple levels of automation and navigation in a simple driving simulator to discover principles for interaction design that encourage effective partnership between people and automated vehicles. I have conducted two e...

Background Burnett County, located in northwest Wisconsin within a few hours of the Twin-Cities metropolitan region, is home to over 500 lakes (see Figure 1). Heavy development pressures and a strong local identity with the lakes have fueled interest in protecting their health and aesthetic appeal. The county enjoys a long history of partnerships for lake management that includes county agencie...

This paper combines the idea of a hierarchical distributed genetic algorithm with different interagent partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from bottom up, with higher-level sub-populations optimising larger parts of the problem. Hence higher-level subpopulations search a larger search space with a lower resolution whilst lower-level subpopulations search a sma...

Aligning IT with business strategically is the recent area of attention among researchers and practitioners because its potential impact on organizational performance. Currently, large numbers enterprises are migrating towards cloud computing as on-premise implementation Information technology (IT) infrastructure expensive. The purpose this research to examine factors that influence alignment i...