Moussab/ORKG-training-evaluation-set huggingface dataset:
Research field: Science
Title: ICT-Enabled Community Empowerment in Crisis
Response: Social Media in Thailand Flooding 2011
Abstract: In this paper, we examine the emerging use of ICT in social phenomena such as natural disasters. Researchers have acknowledged that a community possesses the capacity to manage the challenges in crisis response on its own. However, extant IS studies focus predominantly on IS use from the crisis response agency’s perspective, which undermines communities’ role. By adopting an empowerment perspective, we focus on understanding how social media empowers communities during crisis response. As such, we present a qualitative case study of the 2011 Thailand flooding. Using an interpretive approach, we show how social media can empower the community from three dimensions of empowerment process (structural, psychological, and resource empowerment) to achieve collective participation, shared identification, and collaborative control in the community. We make two contributions: 1) we explore an emerging social consequence of ICT by illustrating the roles of social media in empowering communities when responding to crises, and 2) we address the literature gap in empowerment by elucidating the actualization process of empowerment that social media as a mediating structure enables.
Extracted statement — Technology: social media
Research field: Science
Title: Role of Social Media in Social Change:
An Analysis of Collective Sense Making
During the 2011 Egypt Revolution
Abstract: This study explores the role of social media in social change by analyzing Twitter data collected during the 2011 Egypt Revolution. Particular attention is paid to the notion of collective sense making, which is considered a critical aspect for the emergence of collective action for social change. We suggest that collective sense making through social media can be conceptualized as human-machine collaborative information processing that involves an interplay of signs, Twitter grammar, humans, and social technologies. We focus on the occurrences of hashtags among a high volume of tweets to study the collective sense-making phenomena of milling and keynoting. A quantitative Markov switching analysis is performed to understand how the hashtag frequencies vary over time, suggesting structural changes that depict the two phenomena. We further explore different hashtags through a qualitative content analysis and find that, although many hashtags were used as symbolic anchors to funnel online users' attention to the Egypt Revolution, other hashtags were used as part of tweet sentences to share changing situational information. We suggest that hashtags functioned as a means to collect information and maintain situational awareness during the unstable political situation of the Egypt Revolution.
Extracted statement — Technology: social media
Research field: Science
Title: Terse Messaging and Public Health in the Midst of Natural Disasters:
The Case of the Boulder Floods
Abstract: Social media are quickly becoming the channel of choice for disseminating emergency warning messages. However, relatively little data-driven research exists to inform effective message design when using these media. The present study addresses that void by examining terse health-related warning messages sent by public safety agencies over Twitter during the 2013 Boulder, CO, floods. An examination of 5,100 tweets from 52 Twitter accounts over the course of the 5-day flood period yielded several key conclusions and implications. First, public health messages posted by local emergency management leaders are most frequently retweeted by organizations in our study. Second, emergency public health messages focus primarily on drinking water in this event. Third, terse messages can be designed in ways that include imperative/instructional and declarative/explanatory styles of content, both of which are essential for promoting public health during crises. These findings demonstrate that even terse messages delivered via Twitter ought to provide information about the hazard event, its impact, and actionable instructions for self-protection.
Extracted statement — Technology: social media
Research field: Science
Title: Digitally enabled disaster response: the
emergence of social media as boundary
objects in a flooding disaster
Abstract: In recent times, social media has been increasingly playing a critical role in response actions following natural catastrophes. From facilitating the recruitment of volunteers during an earthquake to supporting emotional recovery after a hurricane, social media has demonstrated its power in serving as an effective disaster response platform. Based on a case study of Thailand flooding in 2011 – one of the worst flooding disasters in more than 50 years that left the country severely impaired – this paper provides an in‐depth understanding on the emergent roles of social media in disaster response. Employing the perspective of boundary object, we shed light on how different boundary spanning competences of social media emerged in practice to facilitate cross‐boundary response actions during a disaster, with an aim to promote further research in this area. We conclude this paper with guidelines for response agencies and impacted communities to deploy social media for future disaster response.
Extracted statement — Technology: social media
Research field: Science
Title: All Crises Opportunities? A Comparison of How Corporate and Government Organizations Responded to the 2009 Flu Pandemic.”
Abstract: Through a quantitative content analysis, this study applies situational crisis communication theory (SCCT) to investigate how 13 corporate and government organizations responded to the first phase of the 2009 flu pandemic. The results indicate that government organizations emphasized providing instructing information to their primary publics such as guidelines about how to respond to the crisis. On the other hand, organizations representing corporate interests emphasized reputation management in their crisis responses, frequently adopting denial, diminish, and reinforce response strategies. In addition, both government and corporate organizations used social media more often than traditional media in responding to the crisis. Finally, the study expands SCCT's response options.
Extracted statement — Technology: social media
Research field: Science
Title: Synchronizing Crisis Responses after a Transgression: An Analysis of BP’s Enacted Crisis Response to the Deepwater Horizon Crisis in 2010.”
Abstract: Purpose – With the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010 and until the well was officially “killed” on September 19, 2010, British Petroleum (BP) did not merely experience a crisis but a five‐month marathon of sustained, multi‐media engagement. Whereas traditional public relations theory teaches us that an organization should synchronize its messages across channels, there are no models to understand how an organization may strategically coordinate public relations messaging across traditional and social media platforms. This is especially important in the new media environment where social media (e.g. Facebook and Twitter) are increasingly being used in concert with traditional public relations tools (e.g. press releases) as a part of an organization's stakeholder engagement strategy. This paper seeks to address these issues.Design/methodology/approach – The present study is a content analysis examining all of BP's press releases (N=126), its Facebook posts (...
Extracted statement — Technology: social media
Research field: Science
Title: Synchronizing Crisis Responses after a Transgression: An Analysis of BP's Enacted Crisis Response to the Deepwater Horizon Crisis in 2010."
Abstract: Purpose – With the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010 and until the well was officially “killed” on September 19, 2010, British Petroleum (BP) did not merely experience a crisis but a five‐month marathon of sustained, multi‐media engagement. Whereas traditional public relations theory teaches us that an organization should synchronize its messages across channels, there are no models to understand how an organization may strategically coordinate public relations messaging across traditional and social media platforms. This is especially important in the new media environment where social media (e.g. Facebook and Twitter) are increasingly being used in concert with traditional public relations tools (e.g. press releases) as a part of an organization's stakeholder engagement strategy. This paper seeks to address these issues.Design/methodology/approach – The present study is a content analysis examining all of BP's press releases (N=126), its Facebook posts (...
Extracted statement — Technology: social media
Research field: Science
Title: ICT-Enabled Community Empowerment in Crisis
Response: Social Media in Thailand Flooding 2011.
Abstract: In this paper, we examine the emerging use of ICT in social phenomena such as natural disasters. Researchers have acknowledged that a community possesses the capacity to manage the challenges in crisis response on its own. However, extant IS studies focus predominantly on IS use from the crisis response agency’s perspective, which undermines communities’ role. By adopting an empowerment perspective, we focus on understanding how social media empowers communities during crisis response. As such, we present a qualitative case study of the 2011 Thailand flooding. Using an interpretive approach, we show how social media can empower the community from three dimensions of empowerment process (structural, psychological, and resource empowerment) to achieve collective participation, shared identification, and collaborative control in the community. We make two contributions: 1) we explore an emerging social consequence of ICT by illustrating the roles of social media in empowering communities when responding to crises, and 2) we address the literature gap in empowerment by elucidating the actualization process of empowerment that social media as a mediating structure enables.
Extracted statement — Technology: social media
Research field: Science
Title: Effects of natural products on soil organisms and plant health enhancement
Abstract: TerraPy, Magic Wet and Chitosan are soil and plant revitalizers based on natural renewable raw materials. These products stimulate microbial activity in the soil and promote plant growth. Their importance to practical agriculture can be seen in their ability to improve soil health, especially where intensive cultivation has shifted the biological balance in the soil ecosystem to high numbers of plant pathogens. The objective of this study was to investigate the plant beneficial capacities of TerraPy, Magic Wet and Chitosan and to evaluate their effect on bacterial and nematode communities in soils. Tomato seedlings (Lycopersicum esculentum cv. Hellfrucht Frühstamm) were planted into pots containing a sand/soil mixture (1:1, v/v) and were treated with TerraPy, Magic Wet and Chitosan at 200 kg/ha. At 0, 1, 3, 7 and 14 days after inoculation the following soil parameters were evaluated: soil pH, bacterial and fungal population density (cfu/g soil), total number of saprophytic and plant-parasitic nematodes. At the final sampling date tomato shoot and root fresh weight as well as Meloidogyne infestation was recorded. Plant growth was lowest and nematode infestation was highest in the control. Soil bacterial population densities increased within 24 hours after treatment between 4-fold (Magic Wet) and 19-fold (Chitosan). Bacterial richness and diversity were not significantly altered. Dominant bacterial genera were Acinetobacter (41%) and Pseudomonas (22%) for TerraPy, Pseudomonas (30%) and Acinetobacter (13%) for Magic Wet, Acinetobacter (8.9%) and Pseuodomonas (81%) for Chitosan and Bacillus (42%) and Pseudomonas (32%) for the control. Increased microbial activity also was associated with higher numbers of saprophytic nematodes. The results demonstrated the positive effects of natural products in stimulating soil microbial activity and thereby the antagonistic potential in soils leading to a reduction in nematode infestation and improved plant growth.
Extracted statement — Applications: Soil and plant revitalizer
Research field: Science
Title: Deliveries in an inventory/routing problem using stochastic dynamic programming
Abstract: An industrial gases tanker vehicle visitsn customers on a tour, with a possible ( n + 1)st customer added at the end. The amount of needed product at each customer is a known random process, typically a Wiener process. The objective is to adjust dynamically the amount of product provided on scene to each customer so as to minimize total expected costs, comprising costs of earliness, lateness, product shortfall, and returning to the depot nonempty. Earliness costs are computed by invocation of an annualized incremental cost argument. Amounts of product delivered to each customer are not known until the driver is on scene at the customer location, at which point the customer is either restocked to capacity or left with some residual empty capacity, the policy determined by stochastic dynamic programming. The methodology has applications beyond industrial gases.
Extracted statement — approach: Stochastic dynamic programming
Research field: Science
Title: Vehicle fleet planning the road transportation industry
Abstract: Planning the composition of a vehicle fleet in order to satisfy transportation service demands is an important resource management activity for any trucking company. Its complexity is such, however, that formal fleet management cannot be done adequately without the help of a decision support system. An important part of such a system is the generation of minimal discounted cost plans covering the purchase, replacement, sale, and/or rental of the vehicles necessary to deal with a seasonal stochastic demand. A stochastic programming model is formulated to address this problem. It reduces to a separable program based on information about the service demand, the state of the current fleet, and the cash flows generated by an acquisition/disposal plan. An efficient algorithm for solving the model is also presented. The discussion concerns the operations of a number of Canadian road carriers. >
Extracted statement — Method: Stochastic programming
Research field: Science
Title: Heuristics for a One-Warehouse Multiretailer Distribution Problem with Performance Bounds
Abstract: We investigate the one warehouse multiretailer distribution problem with traveling salesman tour vehicle routing costs. We model the system in the framework of the more general production/distribution system with arbitrary non-negative monotone joint order costs. We develop polynomial time heuristics whose policy costs are provably close to the cost of an optimal policy. In particular, we show that given a submodular function which is close to the true order cost then we can find a power-of-two policy whose cost is only moderately greater than the cost of an optimal policy. Since such submodular approximations exist for traveling salesman tour vehicle routing costs we present a detailed description of heuristics for the one warehouse multiretailer distribution problem. We formulate a nonpolynomial dynamic program that computes optimal power-of-two policies for the one warehouse multiretailer system assuming only that the order costs are non-negative monotone. Finally, we perform computational tests which compare our heuristics to optimal power of two policies for problems of up to sixteen retailers. We also perform computational tests on larger problems; these tests give us insight into what policies one should employ.
Extracted statement — approach: Submodular approximation
Research field: Science
Title: Evaluating the critical success factors of supplier development: a case study
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and evaluate the critical success factors (CSFs) responsible for supplier development (SD) in a manufacturing supply chain environment.Design/methodology/approach – In total, 13 CSFs for SD are identified (i.e. long‐term strategic goal; top management commitment; incentives; supplier's supplier condition; proximity to manufacturing base; supplier certification; innovation capability; information sharing; environmental readiness; external environment; project completion experience; supplier status and direct involvement) through extensive literature review and discussion held with managers/engineers in different Indian manufacturing companies. A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) is proposed and developed to evaluate the degree of impact of each CSF on SD.Findings – The degree of impact for each CSF on SD is established for an Indian company. The results are discussed in detail with managerial implications. The long‐term strategic goal is found to be ...
Extracted statement — Critical success factors: supplier certification
Research field: Science
Title: Critical factors for implementing green supply chain management practice
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore critical factors for implementing green supply chain management (GSCM) practice in the Taiwanese electrical and electronics industries relative to European Union directives.Design/methodology/approach – A tentative list of critical factors of GSCM was developed based on a thorough and detailed analysis of the pertinent literature. The survey questionnaire contained 25 items, developed based on the literature and interviews with three industry experts, specifically quality and product assurance representatives. A total of 300 questionnaires were mailed out, and 87 were returned, of which 84 were valid, representing a response rate of 28 percent. Using the data collected, the identified critical factors were performed via factor analysis to establish reliability and validity.Findings – The results show that 20 critical factors were extracted into four dimensions, which denominated supplier management, product recycling, organization involvement and life cycl...
Extracted statement — Critical success factors: Supplier management
Research field: Science
Title: Evaluating the critical success factors of supplier development: a case study
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and evaluate the critical success factors (CSFs) responsible for supplier development (SD) in a manufacturing supply chain environment.Design/methodology/approach – In total, 13 CSFs for SD are identified (i.e. long‐term strategic goal; top management commitment; incentives; supplier's supplier condition; proximity to manufacturing base; supplier certification; innovation capability; information sharing; environmental readiness; external environment; project completion experience; supplier status and direct involvement) through extensive literature review and discussion held with managers/engineers in different Indian manufacturing companies. A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) is proposed and developed to evaluate the degree of impact of each CSF on SD.Findings – The degree of impact for each CSF on SD is established for an Indian company. The results are discussed in detail with managerial implications. The long‐term strategic goal is found to be ...
Extracted statement — Critical success factors: supplier status
Research field: Science
Title: Supply Base Reduction: An Empirical Study of Critical Success Factors
Abstract: SUMMARY One important factor in the design of an organization's supply chain is the number of suppliers used for a given product or service. Supply base reduction is one option useful in managing the supply base. The current paper reports the results of case studies in 10 organizations that recently implemented supply base reduction activities. Specifically, the paper identifies the key success factors in supply base reduction efforts and prescribes processes to capture the benefits of supply base reduction.
Extracted statement — SCM field: Supply base reduction
Research field: Science
Title: Supply chain management in SMEs: development of constructs and propositions
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on supply chain management (SCM) practices in small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) and outlines the key insights.Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes a literature‐based research that has sought understand the issues of SCM for SMEs. The methodology is based on critical review of 77 research papers from high‐quality, international refereed journals. Mainly, issues are explored under three categories – supply chain integration, strategy and planning and implementation. This has supported the development of key constructs and propositions.Findings – The research outcomes are three fold. Firstly, paper summarizes the reported literature and classifies it based on their nature of work and contributions. Second, paper demonstrates the overall approach towards the development of constructs, research questions, and investigative questions leading to key proposition for the further research. Lastly, paper outlines the key findings an...
Extracted statement — Critical success factors: supply chain integration
Research field: Science
Title: Linking Success Factors to Financial Performance
Abstract: Problem statement: Based on a literature survey, an attempt has been made in this study to develop a framework for identifying the success factors. In addition, a list of key success factors is presented. The emphasis is on success factors dealing with breadth of services, internationalization of operations, industry focus, customer focus, 3PL experience, relationship with 3PLs, investment in quality assets, investment in information systems, availability of skilled professionals and supply chain integration. In developing the factors an effort has been made to align and relate them to financial performance. Conclusion/Recommendations: We found success factors “relationship with 3PLs and skilled logistics professionals” would substantially improves financial performance metric profit growth. Our findings also contribute to managerial practice by offering a benchmarking tool that can be used by managers in the 3PL service provider industry in India.
Extracted statement — Critical success factors: supply chain integration
Research field: Science
Title: Supply chain management: success factors from the Malaysian manufacturer's perspective
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to shed the light on the critical success factors that lead to high supply chain performance outcomes in a Malaysian manufacturing company. The critical success factors consist of relationship with customer and supplier, information communication and technology (ICT), material flow management, corporate culture and performance measurement. Questionnaire was the main instrument for the study and it was distributed to 84 staff from departments of purchasing, planning, logistics and operation. Data analysis was conducted by employing descriptive analysis (mean and standard deviation), reliability analysis, Pearson correlation analysis and multiple regression. The findings show that there are relationships exist between relationship with customer and supplier, ICT, material flow management, performance measurement and supply chain management (SCM) performance, but not for corporate culture. Forming a good customer and supplier relationship is the main predictor of SCM performance, followed by performance measurement, material flow management and ICT. It is recommended that future study to determine additional success factors that are pertinent to firms’ current SCM strategies and directions, competitive advantages and missions. Logic suggests that further study to include more geographical data coverage, other nature of businesses and research instruments. Key words: Supply chain management, critical success factor.
Extracted statement — SCM field: Supply chain performance