Download or read book Conduire un projet de recherche written by Yvonne Giordano and published by Éditions EMS. This book was released on 2003-09-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre a pour vocation d'aider les chercheurs à construire leur projet, le conduire, le finaliser. La conduite d'un projet - étude, mémoire, thèse - pose des problèmes particuliers lorsque le chercheur se place dans le cadre de recherches qualitatives. L'ouvrage utilise largement des terrains d'analyse qui ont été mobilisés par les auteurs eux-mêmes ou bien par leurs étudiants. Les étudiants de DEA, de DESS, les doctorants, les professionnels qui font appel à des chercheurs et plus généralement tous ceux s'intéressent aux démarches qualitatives pour l'étude des organisations, y trouveront un guide d'accompagnement. Les auteurs : Florence Allard-Poesi (Maître de Conférences à l'Université Paris XII) ; Christiane Demers (Professeur aux HEC Montréal) ; Yvonne Giordano (Professeur à l'Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis) ; Nicole Giroux (Professeur à l'Université de Montréal) ; Carole Groleau (Professeur à l'Université de Montréal) ; Véronique Perret (Maître de Conférences à l'Université de Cergy-Pontoise) ; Linda Rouleau (Professeur aux HEC Montréal).
Download or read book The Qualimetrics Approach written by Henri Savall and published by IAP. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impetus for this work emerged from Savall’s belief that there is a doubleloop interaction between social and economic factors in organizations, between behaviors and structures, and between the quality of life in organizations and their economic performance. When managers underestimate this dynamic interaction, the resulting tension ultimately manifests in lowered performance and increased costs, what he refers to as the “hidden costs” of organizational life. Only by delving into the depths of these organizational dynamics can we hope to fully understand – and create the basis for improving – organizational performance. The Qualimetrics Approach presents a different and challenging way of thinking about analyzing organizations, one that draws together quantitative information, financial analysis and qualitative insights into organizational dynamics. As Savall and Zardet argue, to gain a true understanding of what is happening in organizations, intervener-researchers must focus on all three perspectives, as ignoring any one of them will lead to incomplete understandings. Their approach underscores the importance of using qualitative data to validate quantitative depictions (“the numbers”) of organizational performance in understanding the construction of financial statements. The strength of Savall and Zardet’s approach is that it pushes us to go deeper, to fully understand the narratives underlying the numbers and the social construction of our financial assessments.
Download or read book SME Internationalization Strategies written by Noémie Dominguez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationalization is a strategic issue for companies as it is today the central axis for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Market expansion and the growing importance of emerging markets offer new development opportunities for SMEs to use innovative strategies - such as head-deck strategies - to effectively penetrate these markets. This book focuses on understanding these new strategies. Why do SMEs use head-of-bridge strategies in order to internationalize? How do they deploy such strategies abroad? Based on the example of five manufacturing SMEs, which are at different stages of internationalization, this book highlights the main motivations, stages of deployment but also difficulties encountered in this direction. This book is a tool for assessing potential locations and provide managers with a new alternative in terms of internationalization, enabling rapid identification of key stakeholders, adapting their international development plan and anticipating potential pitfalls.
Download or read book La Recherche Intervention Dans les Entreprises et les Organisations written by Anthony F. Buono and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues to build on the relationship between the Research in Management Consulting series and the intervener-researchers at the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR) in Ecully, France, extending that partnership to our recent work with the French Foundation for Management Education (FNEGE), a foundation dedicated to closing the gap between the teaching and practice of management in France. As part of the Foundation’s multifaceted activities—which range from seminars and an advanced training initiative for French doctoral students to joint programs with international organizations an associations—FNEGE partnered with ISEOR to sponsor a series of workshops on developing high quality intervention-research. This volume is one of the results from that endeavor. Although intervention-research helps to uncover valuable insight into organizational dynamics and performance, the challenge of capturing and disseminating that insight to both academics and practitioners is entrenched in the rigor-relevance debate. While we are witnessing increased calls for “actionable knowledge,” this ideal, unfortunately, remains a rather elusive concept as critics contend either that rigorous academic research falls well-short of relevance to the practitioner world or research that proves to be valuable to practitioners falls short of the rigor expected in academic life. This volume is intended to help bridge that divide. Drawing on the FNEGE-ISEOR intervention-research workshop, the volume contains 18 chapters that explore the intervention-research process, from initial conceptualization, to implementation, to publication. The volume will be published in French and English
Download or read book Transforming Healthcare with Qualitative Research written by Frances Rapport and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the knowledge and experiences of world-renowned scientists and healthcare professionals, this important book brings together academic, medical and health systems accounts of the impact of applying qualitative research methods to transform healthcare behaviours, systems and services. It demonstrates the translation of tried-and-tested and new interventions into high-quality care delivery, improved patient pathways, and enhanced systems management. It melds social theory, health systems analysis and research methods to address real-life healthcare issues in a rich and realistic fashion. The systems and services examined include those affecting patient care and patient and professional wellbeing, and the roles and responsibilities of people providing and receiving care. Some chapters delve deeply into the human psyche, examining the very private face of health and illness. Others concentrate on public health and how people’s needs can be met through health promotion and new investments. From real-time case studies to narratives on illness to theories of change, there is something here for everybody. Transforming health systems needs ingenuity – and the drive of individuals, the staying power of systems and above all the involvement of patients. Full of novel ideas and innovative solutions from around the world, all underpinned by qualitative methods and methodologies, this book is a key contribution for advanced students, practitioners and academics interested in health services research, research methods and the sociology of health and illness.
Download or read book MOOCs and the Participatory Challenge written by Divina Frau-Meigs and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports on a rather unique European experience, the pioneering ECO project for Social MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and recapitulates the whole three-year process. It provides a critical perspective on the future of MOOCs in Europe and provides several comparisons with other existing models and platforms. The book contains chapters that address the major issues connected to MOOC design and implementation. The first 8 chapters cover large issues that extend beyond the ECO project experience, such as creative industries and trans-literacy; management and implementation; learning environments and platforms; dissemination; pedagogical models; interactivity and agility; gamification; evaluation; and business models. The last 3 chapters hone in on narrowly focused topics such as mobility, knowledge transfer and peer to peer evaluation. The specificities of this on-going project (funded by the EU) are: a unique collaborative pedagogy, an intercultural process (6 languages), and focus on intercreativity, the multiplying impact of e-teachers (the community of participants that was empowered to create more than 50 new MOOCs), accessibility and gamification. The book will be of interest due to its holistic approach to MOOCs and its assessment of their opportunities and their limitations. Many issues are explored and contribute to deeper understanding of the phenomenon and its transformative capacities for education and learning.
Download or read book Disinformation Debunked written by Divina Frau-Meigs and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disinformation Debunked: Building Resilience through Media and Information Literacy examines the way media and information literacy (MIL) can address disinformation in conjunction with fact-checkers and developers, to benefit from the expertise of these fields in fighting disinformation. The book highlights the underlying stakes that are involved in the fight against disinformation, from producing smart tools to generalizing their use beyond the journalistic profession. It considers the MIL theories and methodologies at work in the digital era, especially from the perspective of digital visual literacy. Offering a comparative study of four European national experiences (France, Romania, Spain, and Sweden), the authors also make public policy recommendations to improve the fight against disinformation. This book is of great importance to students, scholars, and educators working on media and information literacy, digital media, journalism, mass communication, misinformation and disinformation.
Download or read book Open Innovation written by Pascal Latouche and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The corporate start-up incubator is currently developing in large companies as an essential approach to open innovation. It faces a global system involving varied contexts, issues and actors. Its implementation is an art and to succeed the corporate incubator must become a real "interaction architect". Using testimonials and real case studies, the author takes a dive into the structural and social mysteries of corporate incubators. By analyzing the complex mechanisms of interactions, this book decrypts and reveals the keys to the success of these devices and to opening innovation in a broad sense. The concept of an “interaction architect” is related to the art of building fruitful interactions within human systems. Being aware that social systems exist is good, but knowing how to manage them is better.
Download or read book Applying Qualitative Research Methods to Management Science written by Bentalha, Badr and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In academic research, qualitative analysis is a pillar for understanding complex phenomena in science and management. However, researchers and practitioners often face challenges navigating the ever-evolving landscape of qualitative methodologies and their integration into empirical projects. This knowledge gap can hinder the practical application of qualitative approaches, leading to suboptimal research outcomes and missed opportunities for insightful discoveries. Applying Qualitative Research Methods to Management Science serves as a beacon for researchers, practitioners, and students, providing a detailed roadmap to navigate the intricacies of qualitative analysis. Each chapter, authored by esteemed experts in the field, delves into specific qualitative themes and methodologies, offering practical insights and theoretical foundations based on the latest academic research. This book empowers readers to conduct rigorous and impactful qualitative research in diverse contexts by bridging the gap between theory and application.
Download or read book Risk Communication for the Future written by Mathilde Bourrier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap between risk communication and safety practices leads to a new, more societal perspective on risk communication, that allows for smart risk governance and safety management. This book is Open Access under a CC-BY licence.
Download or read book Guide d laboration d un projet de recherche written by Gordon Mace and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce petit guide passe en revue, en les commentant, les principales étapes du processus de la recherche.
Download or read book New Ways of Working written by Nathalie Mitev and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on new ways of working, and explores implications of these new practices with a particular emphasis on the place occupied by technology, materiality and bodies within contemporary working configurations. It draws together an international range of scholars to examine diverse subjects such as: the gig economy, social media as a work space, the role of materiality in living labs, managerial techniques and organizational legitimacy. Drawing on global perspectives, from France to Nigeria, this book presents a fascinating examination of the many new ways people are working, and relating to their work. Part of the esteemed Technology, Work and Globalization series, this book is valuable reading for scholars working on organizational studies, ethnography, technology management, and management more generally.
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Download or read book Proposal for an African Network on Integrated Irrigation and Aquaculture written by John Frederic Moehl and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents the proceedings of a workshop held in Ghana in 1999 at which experts from Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali and Zambia presented national reviews summarising developments and research in the field of irrigation and aquaculture (IIA) activities. The workshop proposed the establishment of a regional IIA network for Africa and considered its objectives, structure and initial plan of action.
Download or read book Organizational Design for Knowledge Management written by Mona Ben Chouikha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information and communication technologies have increased their share of services in contemporary economic exchanges. We are witnessing a transformation of modern economies characterized by a predominant role of information and knowledge in the production of wealth. In order to make this intangible resource bear fruit, organizations are looking for ways, methods, procedures, processes and technical solutions to efficiently manage knowledge Within a framework of research into synergies and resource interdependence, organizations also rely on strategic alliances (joint venture), mergers or other legal forms of association that have an impact on knowledge management. This book explores the range of knowledge management techniques.
Download or read book ICT for a Better Life and a Better World written by Youcef Baghdadi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on organizations and society as a whole. Specifically, it examines how such technologies improve our lives and facilitate our work. A main aspect explored is how actors understand the potential of ICTs to support organizational activities and hence, how they adopt and adapt these technologies to achieve their goals. The book collects papers on various areas of organizational strategy, e.g. new business models, competitive strategies, knowledge management and more. The main areas dealt with are new technologies for a better life, innovations for e-government, and technologies enhancing enterprise modeling. In addition, the book addresses how organizations impact society through sustainable development and social responsibility, and how ICTs employ social media networks in the process of value co-creation.
Download or read book Guide d laboration d un projet de recherche en sciences sociales written by Gordon Mace and published by De Boeck Supérieur. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le projet de recherche est un outil fondamental pour aider à structurer la pensée ainsi qu'à développer l'autonomie en recherche, la capacité d'analyse et l'esprit de synthèse. Cette nouvelle édition est avant tout un condensé des différentes étapes du processus de recherche où sont exposés et commentés avec le plus de rigueur tous les rudiments essentiels d'une démarche méthodologique. L'ouvrage vise ainsi, étape par étape, à aider l'étudiant ou le chercheur à élaborer un projet de recherche qui constitue le préalable à toute analyse d'envergure.
