In this work, a new type of collaborative learning activity is proposed in order to enable students to explore and understand information in highly mobile situations. We call this “mobile sensemaking” and is based on people engaged in multiple parallel, rapid and ad-hoc interactions, rather than structured decision processes. This activity takes place in a traditional classroom context, thus pr...

The role of middle managers in agriculture and agribusiness has been neglected by applied—as well as disciplinary—research, while gaining increasing importance in practice. This study provides an overview of middle management research and analyzes middle managers’ authority in human resource decision-making and human resource management practices based on in-depth interviews analyzed through a ...

La recherche participative tient compte de la nature multiréférentielle réalité en favorisant des enquêtes terrain, au service pratique et qui combinent diverses expertises dont celles personnes directement concernées. Même si les niveaux d’implication varient, co-construction savoirs est un élément central du processus recherche.

In this paper, we propose a participative method to design a security risk reference model, composed of a domain model and a security risk model. We relate the application of the method to our attempt for a design of a national reference model of the medical laboratories in Luxembourg, for which we ran five participative workshops with domain experts to gather their knowledge. We validated the ...

This article introduces a reflexion about behavioural specification for interactive and participative agent–based simulation in virtual reality. Within this context, it is necessary to reach a high level of expressivness in order to enforce interactions between the designer and the behavioural model during the in–line prototyping. This requires to consider the need of semantic very early in the...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate decision-making in export financing services by banks Hungary. case studies are one credit agency and eight commercial banks. data was collected through interviews interpret the content analysis with an inductive approach used. results show that system Hungary tends be centralized bureaucratic a mostly participative leadership style. Effectiveness pro...

This article analyses public service broadcasting in Europe, looking at public broadcasters’ role as promoters of participative processes. Computer-mediated communication and studies rooted in mediated human interactivity are used to explore participative elements provided by digital technology, and how these can be incorporated into the news websites, through an empirical study of 5 case studi...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose important determinants of knowledge sharing, including co-worker congruence, received task interdependence, organizational commitment and participative decision-making. Exchange ideology is considered a moderator in this study. Design/methodology/approach – A two-step procedure of structural equation modeling is applied for data analysis. The mo...

Participative design is an effective tool for designing organizational systems where conflicting and diverse goals of users and clients from different organizations must be reconciled. This paper presents a methodology for participative design based on Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). A brief overview of SSM is first presented. The design methodology is then presented within the SSM framework. T...