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La brújula rota y la lengua desatada
Authors: Oviedo Ramiro
Published: March 2018

Panero ne croit pas en la littérature, il doute que la parole serve à quelque chose et il avoue s’ennuyer en lisant de la poésie. En marge ou à l’arrière des poètes glamour qui cachent derrière un paravent des zones de leur vie, se tient Panero avec la boussole brisée et sa poésie de la cruauté, que l’appréhension intégriste voudrait confiner dans l’enfer de l’illisible. Quand le système rend impossible la poésie, conduisant les sceptiques à soutenir que, face à l’échec de l’homme et de l’histoire, il n’y a plus de parole qui vaille, Panero surgit avec sa langue déchaînée et irréfutable afin de nier ces conjectures, rendant lisible son échec ainsi que celui de la civilisation: « Bello es perder/ Bella es la ruina y el acabamiento/ Bello es el pájaro azul de la ruina » (PANERO Leopoldo María Panero, Poesía completa, [2000-2010], edición de Túa Blesa, Madrid, Visor Libros, 2012, p. 71-72.) Cette communication bifurque dans deux directions, en premier lieu, la cartographie barbare et la boussole brisée de Panero – associée à la folie –, et en second lieu, la langue déchaînée qui enregistre ses mouvements et ses incidences dans le texte. En fondant la littérature avec la vie, Panero dépasse le malentendu du discours littéraire. Le corps invente une écriture psychotique (délire dystopique-alchimique) pour communiquer avec ses propres marges.
Éloge de l’invisible
Authors: Terrasson Claudie
Published: March 2018

L’article envisage le questionnement sur le visible/invisible à partir du dialogue esthétique entre deux créateurs contemporains, Chillida et Valente, artistes de la Modernité, pour qui l’art permet un accès au monde dans sa totalité, met un terme au divorce entre les sphères des choses et l’esprit, du sensible et de l’intellect. Les deux artistes s’intéressent aux limites du visible en tant que seuil vers l’invisible, découvrent les potentialités paradoxales du vide et du silence, sources et espaces de manifestation de la réalité indivise.
Reuchlin et Piaget
Authors: Lautrey Jacques
Published: March 2018

Dans les années soixante coexistaient deux courants de recherche sur l’intelligence, sans ­rapport entre eux. D’une part, une approche factorielle, fondée sur l’analyse des ­différences entre les individus ; d’autre part, une approche structuraliste, celle de Piaget, fondée au contraire sur l’analyse de ce qui est commun à tous les individus dans le processus de ­développement cognitif. La thèse défendue ici est que les idées directrices sur lesquelles Reuchlin s’est appuyé pour faire évoluer la psychologie différentielle ont pris forme dans sa tentative, au début des années soixante, d’intégrer ces deux approches – l’une ­générale et l’autre différentielle – dans une même démarche de recherche fondamentale. Les ­circonstances dans lesquelles ces idées directrices ont pris forme sont d’abord évoquées, et les recherches qui s’en sont inspirées sont ensuite passées en revue, avant d’en faire le bilan.
Formalisation et réalisation : l’hypothèse de Maurice Reuchlin sur la pensée naturelle mérite un regain d’attention
Authors: Perruchet Pierre
Published: March 2018

Maurice Reuchlin a présenté en 1973 une hypothèse générale sur le fonctionnement de la pensée naturelle, reposant sur la mise en jeu d’un processus de réalisation, au côté du processus de formalisation étudié par l’école piagétienne. Le présent article décrit ce processus de réalisation et propose d’expliquer pourquoi son accueil par la communauté scientifique d’alors est resté en demi-teinte. De nombreux travaux postérieurs ont développé, indépendamment, des conceptualisations similaires, mais leur analyse conduit à penser qu’il reste dans l’hypothèse initiale de « formalisation / réalisation » une part originale qui en fait, encore aujourd’hui, l’un des meilleurs cadres de travail pour la recherche.
Social Media as Alternative Public Sphere for Citizen Participation and Protest in National Politics in Zimbabwe
Authors: Sabao Collen , Chikara Tendai Owen
Published: March 2018

The chapter examines and discusses the role and communicative potential of social media based platforms in citizen political participation and protests in Zimbabwe specifically focusing on the #thisflag movement on Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp. #thisflag is a social media-based platform that rose to challenge the Zimbabwean government over the political and economic decay as well as rampant corruption characterising the country contemporarily. While a new phenomenon to Zimbabwe and Zimbabwean politics, the impact and communicative potential of social media as an alternative public sphere was recently tested in nationwide protest stayaway organised through the Facebook and Twitter movement under the #thisflag handle/brand. This chapter discusses the manners in which such social media platforms impact national politics in Zimbabwe as well as globally, specifically looking at the #thisflag movement as a case study.
From Jenin to Johannesburg
Authors: Dadoo Suraya
Published: March 2018

Social media has given Palestinians around the world a voice with which to confront flawed media coverage of the Israeli occupation. This chapter will explore the use and rise of internet-based information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social media to expose Israel's colonial project in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and advance pro-Palestine advocacy. The success and limitations of social media-based activism are examined, as well as the Israeli government's repressive response to these advocacy efforts. While social media has successfully challenged some deeply-entrenched media stereotypes about the Israeli occupation, it is a crucial tool for advancing Palestine activism globally. The chapter concludes that social media campaigns must be integrated with traditional advocacy, lobbying and grass-roots activism to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and achieve a just peace for Palestinians and Israelis.
Trans-National Advocacy and the Hashtag Black Lives Matter
Authors: Campbell Danella May , Chollier Marie
Published: March 2018

This chapter offers an insight into racial debates and equality advocacy in the 21st century and explores the emergence, the becoming and long-lasting effect of #BlackLivesMatter. The hashtag story is a traditional viral web content. Nevertheless, technologies allowed these initially local concerns, to become a world-wide plea. The first section summarises the past and current struggle for civil rights and equality in the USA. The second one focuses on the European reception of the hashtag in two structurally different countries. The last section discusses both outcomes and consequences in terms of social policies and international advocacy. A journalistic and critical analysis of the movement is here provided, with long term effects and reception case studies.
Social Media Strategies of Political Power
Authors: Yüksel Hakan
Published: March 2018

This chapter analyzes the social media strategies of political power focusing on Turkey. By using inner-circle and outer-circle conceptualizations, it shows that the ruling party in Turkey simultaneously prevents and embraces social media in order to consolidate its power. The inner-circle strategies consist of practices facilitating an efficient use of social media whereas the outer-circle strategies are composed of judicial and technical measures to obstruct the democratic use of social media. By stressing that political power can also use social media efficiently, the chapter contributes to the literature in which social media is generally associated with emancipatory initiatives and the strategies of power are mostly explored in terms of restrictive measures. The chapter also describes the strategic role of social media in the increasingly violent power struggle in Turkey and the difficulties of using it in advocacy campaigns.
The Business Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Framework
Authors: Trad Antoine , Kalpić Damir
Published: March 2018

Business transformation projects and enterprise architecture projects for enterprises' business and their financial strategic planning process are essential to prepare the enterprise to integrate the local and the global economies in a sustainable and iterative way. The needed strategy for the integration of financial-engineering-related risk and legal controls is fundamental for its long-term vision and business longevity. Probably because of the ongoing financial uncertainty, these finance-related risks and legal standards are not mature and are even chaotic, so these facts can damage the business transformation project or an enterprise architecture project, and they may disable the traditional business environments to be a part and to compete with the networked global economy.
The Business Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Framework
Authors: Trad Antoine , Kalpić Damir
Published: March 2018

To include a business transformation project or an enterprise architecture project in the enterprise's business and financial strategic planning process and to prepare this enterprise to integrate the local and the global economy in a sustainable way, the integration of financial-engineering-related risk and legal controls is necessary and is even fundamental. These finance-related risk and legal standards are not mature and are chaotic, so these facts can damage the business transformation project or an enterprise architecture project and that may disable the traditional business environments to be a part of the networked global economy.
Importance of Fiscal Fundamentals for Sovereign Risk Spread
Authors: Szarowská Irena
Published: March 2018

The chapter examines the importance of fiscal fundamentals for sovereign risk spread in the period of 1995-2015, and its goal is to test whether stronger fiscal discipline reduces sovereign risk premiums. The empirical evidence is based on unbalanced annual panel data of 15 EU countries (its time span is divided into a pre-crisis and a post-crisis period). The study applies the generalized method of moments. Evidence shows that before the financial crisis, investors generally ignored bond risk factors in individual countries, but that the spreads sharply diverged starting from the year 2008. The results confirm a statistically significant impact of fiscal fundamentals on government bond yield spread. The improvement of the governments' fiscal position reduces sovereign yield spread. In a post-crisis period, findings report the raising of the importance of fiscal variables for spread, and GDP growth became a major determinant of government bond yield spreads, followed by the budget balance and debt development.
Stock Market Efficiency in South Eastern Europe
Authors: Filipovski Vladimir , Tevdovski Dragan
Published: March 2018

The purpose of this chapter is to empirically test the informational efficiency and to examine the presence of the calendar effects in 10 South Eastern European (SEE) stock markets' daily returns during the period 2007–2014. The authors use variance ratio test for exploration of random walk hypothesis. Regarding the calendar effects, the authors focus on the day-of-the-week effect, the half-month effect, and the turn-of-the-month effect. The existence of each calendar effect is analyzed by applying regression models with dummy variables for the effects in the mean returns and GARCH (1,1) models with dummy variables for the effects in the volatility of returns. The results indicate that the day-of-the-week effects in both mean and volatility are present in nine SEE stock markets. Contrary, the half-month effect in mean returns is present only in one, while half-month effect in volatility is present in five SEE stock markets. The turn-of-the- month effect in mean returns is present in six, while the turn-of-the-month effect in volatility is present in all 10 SEE stock markets.
Designing an Interactive and Engaging Module Sites Using the RASA Model
Authors: Hsiung Wong Yau
Published: March 2018

In Taylor's University, Taylor's integrated Moodle e-learning system (TIMeS) is the learning management system (LMS) that instructors use to deliver and manage module site. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize the R.A.S.A. (resources, activities, supports, and assessments) model, an innovative technique used in designing module site which led to improved student achievement. The resources are visually engaging and interactive. They are followed by both facilitated and self-paced activities, which enable students to learn at anytime and anywhere. The simulation and scenario-based activities engages the student's intellect and imagination, while the game-based activities create a fun and motivating experience to the student. These activities are supported by synchronous and asynchronous communication tools. Students can use forum, discussion board to collaborate, and social apps to comment and exchange ideas. Assessment tools such as quiz, assignment, and student response systems are used to gather real-time feedback on student performance.
Digital Innovation in Teaching and Learning Mathematics in University
Authors: Hui Ng Eng
Published: March 2018

The objective of this chapter is to propose and share innovative ideas for digital board usage in teaching mathematics and strategies for creating an engaging module site for mathematics. Various applications are integrated within the module site to substitute typical document file sharing. The use of these applications enhanced the learning experience by creating mediums of constant interaction, collaboration, and participation. E-learning module uses technology as an instrument to set up a community that is connected via a network that not only provided knowledge support but also created an affinity space for a deeper learning experience. This chapter provides techniques to mathematics lecturers for their future classroom set up and module site development for a more effective information delivery.
Architecture Education and the Return to the Humanities
Authors: Ng Foong Peng Veronica
Published: March 2018

Literature on current architectural pedagogy have posited the issue that architectural education lacked change and questioned whether current studio teaching provides adequate design-thinking education and connection to the real world. The increasing importance on the relationship between architecture, community, and place sets a backdrop as a catalyst for improvement within the field, particularly in how this relationship frames the teaching and learning within the design studio. Using an architectural design studio module conducted in the Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture programme at Taylor's University, this chapter discusses the principles for an alternative design studio pedagogy and the values it brings about. The author argues that design education underpinned by “people” and “place” engages students' increased interesting and motivation for learning, with the awareness and sensitivities to the real and scholarly setting, hence bridging the gap between reality and education.
Adapting, Appropriating, Writing
Authors: Saxena Vandana
Published: March 2018

This chapter proposes a deeper integration of the writing practices like creative writing and storytelling in a class of literature in order to develop a new pedagogical model that empowers the students of literature to not only read and interpret but also to express and engage with the text in a nuanced manner. It does so in the context of the current trends of interactive reading and writing fostered by the digital technology where productive engagements with the texts through fanfictions, visual adaptations, and so on are a part reading a text. Following the paradigm of fanfiction, the project “The Crucible on Twitter” implemented in the classrooms of English Literature in a Malaysian University revealed the ways in which digitally mediated writing activities enable the learners to engage with a text on its own turf, promoting cross-cultural understanding and empowering the learner-readers to integrate their own meanings, concerns, and issues into their reading of an original literary text.
Blended Learning
Authors: Bhargava Prabal
Published: March 2018

Web-based learning has become an integral part of contemporary education. Online educational tools and resources are often utilized to facilitate learning and provide captivating learning environments. Opportunities protracted by technological advancements are infinite and these are finding increasing popularity in current medical education system. In this chapter, a “blended” approach, with apt amalgamation of e-learning and an interactive face-to-face session, was innovatively used by the author to augment clinical skills in the MBBS program for undergraduate medical students. A “flipped session” was developed to teach the clinical examination of the human retina using a “direct ophthalmoscope.” Besides adding value to the curriculum and constructively aligning the assessment to learning, the author capitalized on technology to demonstrate a successful application in the preparation of peak performers for the twenty-first century. This also helped the author evolve as a better medical teacher and create a rewarding Gesamtkuntswerk with the course content.
Foreign Language Activities on TIMeS
Authors: Ng Hazel Jin May , Jung Gyeo Woon
Published: March 2018

In an increasingly blended environment, language instructors now have to take on the additional responsibility of designing online language modules and tasks. Although they acknowledge that technology is a good tool for the teaching and learning of foreign languages, for instructors who are just starting out with designing their own online activities, the task might seem daunting. One of the biggest challenges instructors face when designing their online activities is the lack of ideas, or even a lack of a model after which they can mould their own modules. Therefore, this chapter aims to give these instructors a sampler of ideas, a “starter pack” of sorts, to inspire them to create meaningful and engaging language activities online using TIMeS, the Moodle-based learning management system used at Taylor's University. These samples are taken from the Spanish and Korean language modules offered at this university.
Design-Based Research as a Methodology for Studying Learning in the Context of Work
Authors: Kolbaek Ditte
Published: March 2018

This chapter presents a suggestion for design-based research (DBR) as a methodology for organizational studies. Although DBR was developed for investigating classroom training, this chapter discusses the methodological issues that are involved when DBR is employed for investigating learning in the context of work. DBR seems to be suitable in this complex context as it is an authentic learning environment. The purpose of this chapter is to provide new perspectives on DBR, including suggestions for guidelines regarding how to conduct DBR for studying learning from experience in the context of work. The research question is: What is needed to utilize DBR to explore learning from experience in the context of work? The theoretical framework is based on Yrjö Engeström and John Dewey's work on learning, and the exploration of DBR is based on a literature review and findings in a seven-year DBR study on learning from experience in the context of work.
Challenges in Online Collaboration
Authors: Dalkir Kimiz
Published: March 2018

This chapter describes a multi-year study on how online collaboration could be effective in the design of a research equipment sharing lab with university and industry partners. More specifically, this chapter focuses on the “soft” challenges of how to establish a shared vision of the project goals, trust among diverse partners, most of whom had never collaborated before this project, and the different leadership model that was required for effective online interactions. Internal obstacles included differences between academic and industrial organizational cultures (publication/patent tension) and the difficulty in establishing trust through online interactions. External obstacles included differences in leadership style (commanding vs. collegial agreement). While there were also logistical issues in the actual sharing of resources, the focus was on online interactions that crossed disciplinary boundaries (amongst university partners) and competition (amongst industrial partners). Collaboration models were useful in assessing online collaboration effectiveness.
Knowledge on the Move
Authors: Francisco Rosemary , Klein Amarolinda Zanela , Engeström Yrjö , Sannino Annalisa
Published: March 2018

Mobile workers are professionals who frequently work on the move, far from a fixed workplace, often performing knowledge-intensive activities. Mobility challenges creation and sharing of knowledge among these professionals, and the existing literature lacks powerful theoretical frameworks conducive to creating supportive learning pathways for them to meet these challenges. This chapter is a theoretical and practical contribution to fill this gap by analyzing a case of expansive learning initiated by mobile workers themselves. Based on longitudinal participant observation, the study traces the steps undertaken by these professionals to create a new artifact that helped them to know what, when, where, and how they needed to perform their work activities.
Online Leadership and Learning
Authors: Kolbaek Ditte
Published: March 2018

Online working environments develop and change continuously, meaning that online leaders and online team members must learn to adapt to change and should utilize emerging possibilities for doing their jobs. The purpose of this chapter is to explore how online leaders learn from experiences developed by and with online teams; the chapter also provides a metaphor by which online leaders' learning is likened to a spiral. The theoretical foundation rests in activity theory and proactive review. The methodological approach involves a case study and netnography, the latter of which is utilized for researching phenomena that occur in the interaction between humans and information and communication technology. Data were gathered online from an online team in a global IT company classified as big business. The following research question was addressed: How do online leaders learn from experiences generated by their online teams by utilizing proactive review as a practice of learning?
The Virtual Coffee Break
Authors: Schramm Mads
Published: March 2018

A large number of studies show that trust is crucial to success as a virtual leader. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a theoretical and practical perspective on the challenges of creating trust and strong relationships to the virtual leader. The chapter presents the consequences of virtual collaborations if trust is low or high. Next, it points out how the virtual leader can work to create trust. The chapter presents “The Circle of Trust,” which consists of several important behavioural attitudes for the virtual leader. The meaning of metacommunication in the form of clear agreements on the use of communication is outlined. Several communication forms—e-mail, videoconferencing, and online informal communication—are examined, focusing on how these forms of communication can consciously promote trust in virtual collaborations. The chapter provides a collection of the most important solutions and recommendations for the virtual leader.
Digital Entrepreneurship
Authors: Hannibal Martin , Rasmussen Erik S.
Published: March 2018

Through a longitudinal case study, this chapter explores the repercussions from introducing a mobile commerce platform as just another instrument in the marketing toolbox in a traditional sales-oriented firm. Findings suggest that the implementation of the m-platform in addition to its intended purpose—establish a marketing channel to key customers—spawns a digital business model that allows the company to change its relations to distributors, retailers, and customers enabling access to direct communication with end-users. However, the emerging new business model has the potential to change the organization essentially. The authors argue that although the emerging digital business model was indeed a success seen from a sales-, marketing-, innovative-, and relational perspective, it was perceived as a disaster from an organizational perspective. Consequently, top management abandoned the new digital platform. The chapter highlights the importance of not underestimating resistance in an organization when implementing a new marketing instrument such as m-commerce platforms.
The Divergence of Entrepreneurial Landscapes in the European Union
Authors: Potts Mark , Puia George M.
Published: March 2018

Understanding the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship to economic growth and stability, the European Union has implemented policies and programs to create a more uniform context for cross-border business activities within the EU. While initial efforts led to a more unified European region, they did not lead to a more uniform one. Over the past five years, dramatic changes in Europe resulting from the financial crisis, the Eurosceptic movement, and the Syrian refuge crisis have incented nations to create their own national innovation and entrepreneurship efforts. This chapter explores the results of those diverging national programs on entrepreneurial outcomes. Specifically, the research explores national landscapes created as a result of differing endowments, regulatory regimes, tax systems, and venture funding levels. Results indicate that differences in these factors create significantly different entrepreneurial outcomes as measured by patent applications and new business registrations.
Biogeographic Computation as Information Processing in Ecosystems
Authors: Pasti Rodrigo , Politi Alexandre Alberto , Von Zuben Fernando José , Nunes de Castro Leandro
Published: March 2018

Assuming nature can be investigated and understood as an information processing system, this chapter aims to explore this hypothesis in the field of ecosystems. Therefore, based on the concepts of biogeography, it further investigates a computational approach called biogeographic computation to the study of ecosystems. The original proposal in the literature is built from fundamental concepts of ecosystems and from a framework called a metamodel that allows the understanding of how information processing occurs. This chapter reproduces part of the content of the original proposal and extends and better formalizes the metamodel, including novel experimental results, particularly exploring the role of information and causality in ecosystems, both being considered essential aspects of ecosystems' evolution.
Harnessing Knowledge Power for Competitive Advantage
Authors: Nissen Mark E.
Published: March 2018

A great many organizations rely upon advancing Information Technology (IT) in their quests for competitive advantage. The problem is that as long as competitive advantage is based on IT and like resources that are obtainable or substitutable by competing organizations, it is likely to be ephemeral at best. Alternatively, competitive advantage enabled by tacit knowledge is comparatively much more sustainable, but such knowledge tends to be sticky and does not flow well through the organization. Hence, the power of tacit knowledge is great in terms of enabling and particularly sustaining competitive advantage, but the corresponding dynamics can make it difficult to capitalize upon effectively. This chapter focuses specifically on how the power of dynamic knowledge (i.e., knowledge flows) can be harnessed for competitive advantage. The authors first examine in some detail how different kinds of knowledge and other organizational resources enable competitive advantage. They then discuss the dynamics of knowledge, looking in particular at how it flows through the organization. The chapter concludes with five key insights for use and application.
Explaining the Firm's De-Internationalization Process by Using Resource-Based View
Authors: Sadikoglu Zeynep
Published: March 2018

The main purpose of this chapter is to analyze why some firms fail in their international operation either right after their exposure or after a certain period of time. Resource-Based View (RBV), which deals with firms' competitive advantage and their superior performance, is used to predict the underlying reasons of firms' failure of internationalization process. In international marketing, RBV basically states that the firm internationally expands its territory when it decides to exploit its resources and capabilities in other markets. This chapter extends RBV literature by applying it to de-internationalization process of the firm. It also provides a framework that shows the actions that need to be taken when firms are faced with a failure in their international operation.
Assessment of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) Techniques From Requirement View
Authors: Basahel Abdullah M
Published: March 2018

This study reviews Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) literature with a focus on the global dimension. The research evaluates SISP techniques against Information System (IS) strategic requirements. These techniques can be vital contributors in the IS Strategy (ISS) design process. Therefore, classification of the techniques of ISS planning is developed. Keeping in mind the global dimension, the planning team needs to identify how it can cluster the ISS requirements of an organisation. This may be achieved by analysing the benefits that can be obtained by IS for the organisation. The result of this research is the taxonomy of SISP techniques with a case study for X airlines. This classification can benefit the evaluation of ISS planning processes to support decision makers through the planning process.
The Management of Knowledge Risks
Authors: Durst Susanne , Bruns Guido , Henschel Thomas
Published: March 2018

The purpose of this paper is to review extant research on knowledge risk management (KRM) to establish our body of knowledge and to identify gaps justifying further research activities. The study is based on a systematic review of peer reviewed empirical and conceptual articles on the management of knowledge risks. This proceeding proves evidence that there are a small number of papers addressing knowledge risks and its management. The recommendations derived from the findings can assist researchers, managers and consultants to better understand the critical importance of integrating KRM in the firms' enterprise risk management. This increased understanding can particularly be useful for managers as better decisions will be possible.
Towards A Contingency Model for Assessing Strategic Information Systems Planning Success in Medium Enterprises
Authors: Kekwaletswe Ray M
Published: March 2018

Strategic planning of information systems is vital in the business environment and this is still an open issue in the management information systems research. Through planning, organisations develop effective long-term use of information systems and subsequently ensuring the support of organisational objectives. This chapter develops a contingency model for measuring the success of strategic information systems planning in the context of medium enterprises. The contingency theory, as an analytical lens, advocates that organisational success can be achieved by matching organisational characteristics to the contextual factors. Drawing from this notion, this chapter postulates that the strategic information systems planning process, as a phase, may lead to successful planning. This relationship is moderated by contingency variables characterised by the presence of environmental uncertainty, organisational structure, government and policies, business strategy orientation and information systems maturity. This chapter studies the moderating role of contingency variables and identifies the influential factors and their effect.
Ownership, Incentives and Regulation of CCP Risks
Authors: Carter Louise , Hancock Jennifer , Manning Mark
Published: March 2018

This chapter develops a framework to analyse the factors influencing central counterparties' (CCPs') risk controls and the role of regulation. The framework illustrates the importance of sound regulation of CCPs and helps to explain why different CCPs may make different risk management choices. Key factors include ownership, governance and the profile and preferences of participants. International standards for the design and operation of CCPs and other financial market infrastructures (FMIs) are reflected in the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMIs). Modelling key elements of these standards, the chapter demonstrates the importance of a flexible regulatory framework that achieves the desired level of stability while allowing the mix of risk controls applied by each CCP to vary according to its particular incentives and operating environment. The chapter goes on to discuss the emerging trends towards competition and interoperability between CCPs and cross-border provision of clearing services, and consider the implications for CCPs' risk management choices.
Enhancing Organizational Capacity Through the Use of Social Media
Authors: Sun Rui , Asencio Hugo , Reid Julie
Published: March 2018

This chapter examines whether and how the use of social media and government funding may enhance the capacity of a nonprofit organization, help fulfill its mission, and facilitate its strategic planning process. Both the organizational capacity and strategic planning literature emphasize the importance of leadership, management, collaboration, and fiscal, technical resources. Using a case study of the American Lung Association in Arizona (ALAA), this chapter finds that government grants and strategic use of social media in nonprofit organizations can lead to increased public awareness of the issues related to their organizational missions, greater fundraising capacity, and enhanced collaboration among their employees.
The Operational Risk Assessments in Manufacturing Industry
Authors: Akgün Melek
Published: March 2018

Today's companies are facing frequent fluctuation in their social, politics, economics and natural environments, which significantly increased complexity in management function. In such a high risk environment planning, coordinating and control of a company's functions is a very challenging duty for management teams. Regardless of the source this kind risks are dealt with by operational risk management process. The operational risk management has been applied mostly in financial institutions, particularly in the banks until near past. Nevertheless, the companies that are non-financial have to also use operational risk management techniques to continue properly their operations. The purpose of operational risk management can be defined as enhancing hazard identification in the operational environment in order to eliminate risks or reduce them to an acceptable level. In this chapter will be discussed the methods and techniques could be used for the operational risk assessment in manufacturing industry.
Knowledge Sharing and IT/Business Partnership
Authors: Alkhaldi Dania Abdulwahab
Published: March 2018

In this highly technology dependent and knowledge intensive economy, organizations were forced to change the way of doing business and move form bricks to clicks to survive and compete. Accordingly, organizations have to adopt the suitable IT solutions that fit their mission, vision, and objectives. One way to achieve that is IT outsourcing either entirely or partially. This is a part of a comprehensive study that investigates the IT outsourcing risk management practice in Syria, identifies the causes of IT outsourcing projects failures and what kind of knowledge is used when identifying risks, and finally proposes a conceptual framework that achieves integrated view of risk management regarding IT outsourcing projects. To achieve that, the researcher followed DRM as a research methodology starting from “what is usually done” moving toward “what can be done most realistically,” which is presented in detail in this chapter and resulted in the proposed framework.
An Analytical Study of Methodologies and Tools for Enterprise Information Security Risk Management
Authors: Bhattacharjee Jaya , Sengupta Anirban , Barik Mridul Sankar , Mazumdar Chandan
Published: March 2018

An enterprise is characterized by its business processes and supporting ICT infrastructure. Securing these entities is of utmost importance for the survival of an enterprise and continuity of its business operations. In order to secure them, it is important to first detect the risks that can be realized to cause harm to those entities. Over the years, several kinds of security risk analysis methodologies have been proposed. They cater to different categories of enterprise entities and consider varying levels of detail during risk analysis. An enterprise often finds it difficult to select a particular method that will best suit its purpose. This paper attempts to address this problem by presenting a detailed study of existing risk analysis methodologies. The study classifies them into specific categories and performs comparative analyses considering different parameters addressed by the methodologies, including asset type, vulnerabilities, threats, and security controls.
Considering Middle Circles in Mobile Cloud Computing
Authors: Shalan Mohammad Ali
Published: March 2018

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is increasingly asserted as the technology with the potential to change the way internet and information systems are being utilized into business enterprises. It is rapidly changing the landscape of technology, and ultimately turning the long-held promise of utility computing into a reality. Nevertheless, utilizing MCC is never a trivial task, thus calling for a special approach to get the benefits, reduce risks and control operations. The main objective of this chapter is to provide some specific guidelines to provide governance directions to align MCC into enterprise strategy and reduce risks resulted from utilizing middle circle providers; In this context, this chapter also promote and discuss some ethics that help client enterprises and MCC providers understand roles and obligations in an ever changing environment.
Supply Risk Management Process
Authors: Ganguly Kunal K. , Bandyopdhyay Prabir
Published: March 2018

The purpose of this study was to develop and analyze an interpretative structural framework for the Supply Risk Management Process (SRMP). The research questions were focused on understanding the casual factors as well as the link between the SRMP and Supplier Selection (SS) process. The Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM) approach was used to develop a structural framework for the SRMP. An extensive literature followed by discussion with managers in different Indian Automobile companies was completed to identify the strategic enablers for the SRMP. Thirteen strategic enablers were identified and classified into four categories. An Indian Automobile manufacturing company was selected as a case study participant to serve as an authentic practice-based example of the model. The SRMP enablers and the SS factors were applied to the case study organization and analyzed. The significance of this study was that the SRMP enablers and SS factors assist managers to set priorities for decision making purposes. This allows supply chain managers to take proactive steps in order to reduce risk and improve the performance of the organization in the early SRMP stages.
Applying Enterprise Risk Management on a Fiber Board Manufacturing Industrial Case
Authors: Hayat Syed Aftab
Published: March 2018

The study assesses the enterprise risk management (ERM) process of a fiber board manufacturing company. The objective is to practically demonstrate how a risk framework can be applied to find the key risks affecting the company. An understanding of the fiber board industry is established by reviewing the proxy disclosures of global corporations to see how they foresee the risks to the industry in general. The current state of the ERM process of the company is then evaluated by applying the COSO 2004 risk assessment framework - the company's ERM process are mapped on a maturity model scale, roles and responsibilities of the board of directors and important risk management concepts are discussed and measured in practice. A risk assessment is undertaken with the help of risk gathering techniques to create a risk profile of the major risks affecting the company which are illustrated through heat maps. Finally, benchmarked studies are used to conduct a gap analysis of the risk findings to conclude that the management has to re-address its focus towards HR -employee motivation, working capital mismanagement, sales-production planning inefficiencies and a less likely but high impacting terrorism risk for which the company is currently not prepared. Recommendations for key risk indicators are suggested along with direction for future work.
Overcoming the Barriers of Strategic Planning, Implementation, and Monitoring in Turbulent Business Environment
Authors: Timilsina Binod
Published: March 2018

Strategic management has been highly emphasized in the literature as an enabler of competitive advantage. However, the managers and strategic leader often face challenges in systematic strategic planning, implementation and monitoring. Therefore, the objective of this research was to explore the current practices of strategic planning, implementation and monitoring, and pinpoint its barriers. The study has also given emphasis to identify the potential solutions in overcoming the barriers of strategic planning, implementation and monitoring. Likewise, the study has investigated the competencies of a good strategic planner. The study was conducted among the managers of Finnish SMEs. Methodologically the study adopts qualitative study following thematic and inductive approach. After a rigorous analysis of collected data and basing on resource based view and industry organization theory, a framework has been presented for systematic strategic planning, implementation and monitoring. Finally, the research limitation and future research possibilities have been discussed.
Challenge or Potential? Risk Identification in the Context of Sustainable Development
Authors: Huemann Martina , Ringhofer Claudia
Published: March 2018

The chapter describes the importance of balancing risk reduction and “taken risks” and what role a holistic risk identification plays in the context of Sustainable Development (SD). It provides a theoretical background on SD, Risk Management and the Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA). It discusses the implementation of SD in the EIA as one example for a holistic risk identification. The link between SD and risk management is discussed and the identified learning potentials for further developing traditional risk identification methods are explained. A risk identification explicitly considering SD as well as considering project and stakeholder risks is presented within a case study. The case study project is Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) of a wind park farm in Brazil from the supplier perspective. Based on SD both, the risks of the project as well as the risks of the project stakeholders are considered. Whereby the chapter shares the risk identification as such as well as the process for which a systemic board constellation was applied.
Managing Enterprise IT Risks Through Automated Security Metrics
Authors: Chatzipoulidis Aristeidis , Michalopoulos Dimitrios , Mavridis Ioannis
Published: March 2018

Information systems of modern enterprises are quite complex entities. This fact has influenced the overall information technology (IT) risk profile of the enterprise and it has become all the more critical now to have sound information systems that can maximize business performance of an enterprise. At this point, the practical challenge for enterprises is how to manage enterprise IT risks for persistent protection of business and security goals. This chapter covers different aspects of managing enterprise IT risks, providing solutions in terms of risk management methods, automated security metrics and vulnerability scoring methods. The purpose is to introduce an in-depth study on enterprise IT risks and add value to enterprise sustainability through an extensive analysis of methods and automated security specifications.
Integration of Project Risk Management (PRM) into Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Authors: Agarwal Ruchi , Virine Lev
Published: March 2018

Integrating Project Risk Management (PRM) into Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a multi-year journey and has long term value. ERM provides a holistic view to existing risks and overcomes the disadvantage of risk being managed in silos in PRM. The main aim of integration of two approaches is to mange risk from both macro and micro perspectives by exploiting opportunities while balancing the downside of risk. The chapter provides a fundamental understanding of what ERM is and its components and shows how PRM is a subset of ERM. Issues and opportunities in integrating PRM into ERM are discussed using real life examples. Furthermore, the chapter brings attention to formal and informal ways of integration and concludes by making six recommendations.
The Effective Approach of Managing Risk in New Product Development (NPD)
Authors: Galli Brian J.
Published: March 2018

This research studies risk and how to manage it during new product development projects. It highlights the major types of risk in NDP as well as what are some of the more common risk management and process tools. The research proposes an approach to risk management systems, and what managerial implications may arise. It is concluded that a team ought to develop a risk management plan and that by understanding the basic structure of a risk management system, a NPD team can tailor a risk management plan to fit the unique risks that occur in the project environment.
Protection of Critical Homeland Assets
Authors: Bailey William J.
Published: March 2018

The protection of critical infrastructure assets is vital to every government, organisation, business and person. If the asset forms part of the vital critical infrastructure, the loss could be catastrophic and far reaching with considerable knock-on effects. To avoid such negative outcomes requires a wide range of in-built resilient security structures, plans and operating procedures. A more adaptive, proactive, comprehensive security management process needs to be embraced to: prevent, detect, deter, respond and defeat potential damaging events and incidents. Core to security planning is a full understanding of the potential consequences of worst case scenarios. Adopting a process driven model is a proactive approach and grounded upon current operational procedures used by major international companies in hostile and dangerous environments. By utilizing a clearly defined comprehensive risk management tool, a more systematic Security, Threat, Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (STRVA), process can be developed. This process uses a multi-layered intelligence gathering capabilities.
Multi-Sensing Monitoring and Knowledge-Driven Analysis for Dementia Assessment
Authors: Stavropoulos Thanos G. , Meditskos Georgios , Kontopoulos Efstratios , Kompatsiaris Ioannis
Published: March 2018

DemaWare is a Service-Oriented platform that aids in the timely assessment and monitoring of people with dementia in an Ambient Assisted Living context. This work presents in detail the underlying modules integrated in DemaWare, providing both software and hardware services. The system coordinates the retrieval of raw sensor data from a variety of sources, such as ambient and wearable sensors, and their processing into a common knowledge base. The semantic interpretation performed afterwards reasons upon collected knowledge and infers higher level observations. Finally, all knowledge is presented in suitable end-user applications that support various scenarios, e.g. lab assessment trials and monitoring in nursing home environments.