We investigate here antecedents and consequences of supplier integration (black-box and gray-box) in product development activities. Antecedents include embeddedness with suppliers, supply base rationalization, and supplier selection based on product development capabilities. Product innovation and quality are modeled as returns of supplier integration in product development. We also assess the...

In earlier work we introduced an approach that aims in the understanding of the reasoning that lies behind Enterprise Architecture (EA) designs. This EA rationalization approach helps uncover design constraints, follow good practices while avoid bad ones, and more. However, up to now, our assumptions regarding the usefulness of our approach were largely theory based. In this paper, we use a rea...

this paper intends to evaluate cultural capital & social identity of different dimensions of cultural capital through self-description of people. then it may study any correlation of cultural capital with different indexes of social identity. cultural capital in accordance with the viewpoint of borodino has three dimensions including: conceptual dimension, real dimension and finalized dimen...

The objective of this paper is to explore questions of human agency and democratic process in the technical sphere through the example of "virtual community." The formation of relatively stable long term group associations community in the broad sense of the term is the scene on which a large share of human development occurs. As such it is a fundamental human value mobilizing diverse ideologie...

In January 2010, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Rehabilitation Research and Development Service convened a State of the Art (SOTA) conference to advance the field of outcome measurement for rehabilitation-related studies. This article reports on the proceedings of the SOTA Working Group on Community Reintegration. We explored the use of the International Classification of Health, Disab...

BACKGROUND The United States (U.S.) Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) has implemented economic analyses in single-site and multi-site clinical trials. To date, no one has reviewed whether the QUERI Centers are taking an optimal approach to doing so. Consistent with the continuous learning culture of the QUERI Program, this paper provides such a ...