The basic premise of the "Beyond Strategy" approach is that in business we put up fantasy measures that we call business planning, such as budget planning and strategic planning, which Stacey claims is a political process, primarily as social defences against anxiety. This distorts what we are actually doing and distracts us from the actual direct experiences we are having of each other as what...

New generation IP-services are forecasted to be the future technology enablers of commercial Business-to-Business (B2B) services and solutions. The Information Societies Technology (IST) FORM project has defined an open development framework for the management of these new B2B enabling environments. A key element of the framework is the concept of reusable components or Building Blocks for the ...

Single parenthood as a common psychosocial phenomenon seems to be regarded as one of the most significant issues in the psychological domain and needs to be taken into serious consideration due to emotional, psychological, and social problems created by it. With regard to the rapidly growing population of single parents and their children experiencing relationship-based problems, interventions ...

Most of prior creativity support systems aimed to support to generate ideas efficiently in the situation restricted in time and space. In this paper, we propose a novel method and its implementation to support long-term ideageneration in everyday life. In order to understand actual idea-generation, we have carried out a cognitive diary study. Based on the results, we have designed a system cons...

This paper presents set of arguments for incorporating urban commons as a way to increase resilience of the city. Vacant fallout shelters in residential neighborhoods are suitable case study, i.e. type of public place which could benefit from establishing commons management regime. Based on literature review on urban commons and site analysis, policy recommendations for developing urban commons...

This paper examined the volatility spillover effects between futures market and spot market in China, using both VAR model and TVP-VAR model. This study found strong bi-directional volatility spillovers between CSI futures and spot markets, and the change of futures’ volatility decreased the change of spot market’s volatility. This results support the hypothesis that the risk management functio...

Supply factors affecting the costs of obtaining schooling explain much the U-shaped trend in the skill premium in the U. S. across the twentieth century. Specifically, the direct costs fell dramatically in the early part of the century as a result of increased public funding and falling fertility rates during the high school movement. The foregone earning costs of schooling were also low for mi...

To make informed private label (PL) strategy decisions, retailers must understand the factors influencing consumer’s brand choices. Previous PL studies have investigated grocery products, and ignored unique features of different types of own brands. We investigate attitudes towards buying a retailer-endorsed brand, or store brand (SB), in apparel retailing. Customers of a Finnish department sto...

Previous research has indicated a variable effect of exercise on adolescents’ cognitive function. However, comparisons between studies are difficult to make due to differences in: the mode, intensity and duration of exercise employed; the components of cognitive function measured (and the tests used to assess them); and the timing of the cognitive function tests in relation to the exercise. The...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the total quality management (TQM) practice and the continuous improvement of international project management (CIIPM) practice. Based on a literature review and qualitative interviews with TQM and project management experts, four hypotheses are posed on how TQM elements affect CIIPM. A cross-sectional survey collected from ov...