Process Perspective Research Articles

Problematizing Research on Social Entrepreneurial Crowdfunding: Toward a Processual Perspective

Problematizing Research on Social Entrepreneurial Crowdfunding: Toward a Processual Perspective

The process of measurement in Physics teaching from the perspective of scientific modeling process: subsidies for the development of activities in Physics teaching

The process of measurement in Physics teaching from the perspective of scientific modeling process: subsidies for the development of activities in Physics teaching

Barriers and enablers for the adoption of sustainable design practices using new design methods – Accelerating the sustainability transformation in the manufacturing industry

Product development and manufacturing organizations struggle in their sustainability transformation and do not sufficiently contribute to sustainable production and consumption. Design researchers, at the same time, develop and propose a plethora of new and improved design methods that can support the manufacturing industry in such transformation. It is, despite this, well-documented in literature that the industrial adoption of such proposed design methods is challenging. Previous research in the design domain has mainly studied this issue from a process and methodological perspective, whereas previous research in the management domain instead has focused on organizational, and human-behavioral aspects. This poses a research gap for more interdisciplinary research that studies the adoption of design methods from all three perspectives (i.e., process and methodology, organization, and human behavior). Six parallel case studies were carried out with three different product development and manufacturing organizations to collect qualitative empirical data. Glaserian grounded theory was used to analyze the collected data. This resulted in a descriptive framework that captures 53 interdisciplinary factors influencing the adoption of sustainable design practices using new and improved design methods. The descriptive framework is compared to interdisciplinary literature to further clarify and explain the findings, highlighting both practical and theoretical implications. This research provides three main contributions to theory and practice: (1) Two new concepts are introduced and used to explain the empirical findings, which are referred to as the dualism of design methods, and the situational design problem; (2) Nine systemic barriers and eight propositions are formulated, which highlight the need for a paradigm shift in how design is practiced in industry, how cognitive biases inside organizations can lead to a state of pseudo-sustainability, and the need for improved information and data management capabilities in organizations; (3) Sustainable design thinking is proposed as an potential enabler to address several of the main barriers, as it aims to provide a base competence of sustainable design to systematically challenge cognitive biases inside organizations.

Organized Complexity of A.I. and Retail Firm Performance: A Business Process Perspective

Organized Complexity of A.I. and Retail Firm Performance: A Business Process Perspective

Is Leader Humor a Life Buoy in the Workplace Waves? A Social Information Processing Perspective

Is Leader Humor a Life Buoy in the Workplace Waves? A Social Information Processing Perspective

Empowering Leadership and Proactive Behavior: A Social Information Processing Perspective

Empowering Leadership and Proactive Behavior: A Social Information Processing Perspective

A Motivated Information Processing Perspective on Team Leaders’ Responses to Employee UPB

A Motivated Information Processing Perspective on Team Leaders’ Responses to Employee UPB

Unveiling barriers to the integration of blockchain‐based circular economy and Industry 5.0 in manufacturing industries: A strategic prioritization approach

AbstractAlthough Industry 4.0 plays the role of a catalyst in the transition from a linear economy to a circular economy (CE), some sustainability goals are neglected by prioritizing machines over humans. Industry 5.0 insists on combining technology with human values to achieve sustainable development goals. Therefore, the integration of CE and Industry 5.0 leads to sustainable synergy in various industries, especially in manufacturing industries. However, their integration is always associated with challenges and barriers. This study identifies a set of these barriers in the electric vehicle battery production industry from the financial, technical, supply chain, cultural, and regulatory and processes perspectives through a deep literature review. The fuzzy weighted influence non‐linear gauge system method is used to analyze the relationship between identified barriers and their prioritization. Finally, we leverage the knowledge of four experts from an electric vehicle battery manufacturing company in Southeast Asia to validate the proposed approach and to rank the barriers. The results demonstrate that immature technology providers are the biggest obstacle in the integration of blockchain‐based CE and Industry 5.0 in the electric vehicle battery manufacturing industry.

Symposium 2: A tentative model for sustainable pedagogical digital competence development

This paper addresses one large university initiative for educational development aimed at further developing educations and teacher competence with a focus on technology-enhanced and lifelong learning. The aim of the paper is to describe and problematize the design of an ongoing project for educational development, Higher Education and Digitalisation (HEaD). It focuses on identifying key components of an educational development project for technology enhanced learning as well as how such a project can be organized to sustain in regular university operations. The article discusses how a project for educational development can create over-time durable infrastructures, organization, policy and motivation for maintaining a continual educational development. In the first phase of the project, a model was developed for how competence development can be conducted sustainably. This model contains two perspectives: (1) an organizational perspective that focuses on the key partners to be involved; and (2) a process perspective that focuses on activities and aims in strategic competence development projects. The tentative model with its two perspectives is described and discussed in this article as a preliminary result. The model includes four identified key entities and their roles in pedagogical digital competence development; academic departments and their faculty, educational developers, infrastructure and IT-department and the pedagogical research unit. Further, a process model based on existing support structures, complemented with activities that can be sustained after the HEaD project ends is presented.

A Computer Laboratory for the Calculation of the Heat Capacity of a Peptide Unfolding Transition

ABSTRACT We present the implementation of a computer simulation laboratory for the calculation of the heat capacity of the folding-unfolding pseudo phase transition of a polyalanine Ala30 α-helix, using molecular dynamics simulations. Unlike conventional calorimetry experiments, which provide a macroscopic interpretation of the heat capacity, the computer laboratory additionally offers a molecular perspective of the energy exchange processes that lead to the peak of the heat capacity at the phase transition, as well as the statistical mechanical interpretation of the phase transition. The exercise is targeted toward 1st- or 2nd-year students of biophysics in the context of an undergraduate physical chemistry course. We use a graphical web interface to overcome the steep learning barriers associated with command line interactions in commonly used molecular dynamics protocols. The web interface (VIKING) also handles communication with computing hardware in the background, so that students with limited or no programming experience can launch and analyze the simulations easily. A collaboration between the VIKING support team and responsible teachers is required to set up VIKING. We also present a solution in which simulations can be launched on students’ own computers, if some command line knowledge can be expected. The laboratory can also be repurposed for students of various backgrounds (physics, chemistry, biology, or engineering) and scholastic levels (undergraduate or graduate).

The impact of digital transformation on firm performance

PurposeDigital transformation (DT) is a high-risk, long-term and systematic organizational change, which is highly dependent on the level of operation management. According to the resource-based view and innovation theory, this paper aims to examine the impact of DT on firm performance.Design/methodology/approachThis paper empirically tests the impact of DT on firm performance by selecting total factor productivity and innovation outputs as mediating variables from the perspective of process and outcomes, respectively. It uses Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share-listed companies from 2010–2021 as research samples, searching the frequency of keywords about DT in their annual reports.FindingsThe findings reveal the following. First, DT can significantly improve the performance of firms. Second, total factor productivity and innovation outputs play a mediating role between DT and firm performance. Third, the impact of DT on SMEs is more obvious than in bigger ones. However, the effect of DT on performance is more significant in SOEs than non-SOEs. Furthermore, DT positively effects labor-intensive and technology-intensive firms, but negatively effects capital-intensive firms.Originality/valueThis paper first proposes the mechanism analysis from the view of process and outcomes, by using total factor productivity and innovation outputs, which adds depth to the research on the impact of DT on firm performance. Moreover, the authors empirically examine the heterogeneity of the impact of DT on different firm sizes, firm properties and intensity of production factors.

Exploitation Process for Machine Learning Systems

In recent years, many companies have been involved in the development of machine learning systems. However, developing machine learning systems presents unique challenges compared with the traditional IT system development. In software engineering, research has been conducted on software development methodologies for machine learning systems, but most of these studies focused on the development process of individual machine learning systems, and limited research has investigated the exploitation process of continuously enhancing machine learning systems after their development and deployment. Thus, this paper focuses on the exploitation process, in which the collaboration between the machine learning systems and humans evolves gradually. Specifically, four stages of the exploitation process are proposed: visualization for machine learning, human-centered machine learning assistance, machine learning-centered human assistance, and autonomy without human involvement. Then, the characteristics and challenges of each stage are clarified. In addition, this paper examines the important aspect of trust in this context. The findings of this study are expected to provide guidelines for advancing machine learning systems incrementally in collaboration with humans from the perspective of the exploitation process rather than focusing on the development process.

Toward a Natural History of Microbial Life

For most of Earth's history life was microbial, with archaeal and bacterial cells mediating biogeochemical cycles through their metabolisms and ecologies. This diversity was sufficient to maintain a habitable planet across dramatic environmental transitions during the Archean and Proterozoic Eons. However, our knowledge of the first 3 billion years of the biosphere pales in comparison to the rich narrative of complex life documented through the Phanerozoic geological record. In this review, we attempt to lay out a microbial natural history framework that highlights recent and ongoing research unifying microbiology, geochemistry, and traditional organismal evolutionary biology, and we propose six broadly applicable principles to aid in these endeavors. In this way, the evolutionary history of microbial life—once considered only a prelude to the much more storied history of complex metazoan life in the Phanerozoic—is finally coming into its own. ▪The outlines of microbial natural history are now starting to appear through the integration of genomic and geological records.▪Microorganisms drive Earth's biogeochemical cycles, and their natural history reflects a coevolution with the planet.▪Past environmental changes have induced microbial biotic transitions, marked by extinction, taxonomic shifts, and new metabolisms and ecologies.▪Microbial evolution can benefit from a historical perspective of processes and successions as established by macropaleontology.

Analysis of Sharia Banking Performance Assessment with a Balanced Scorecard Perspective in the South Tangerang City Region

This research examines whether Sharia banks in South Tangerang City can achieve good performance if measured using the Balanced Score Card (BSC) approach from the perspective of finance, customers, internal business processes, and learning and growth. This field research observes population behaviour or events in a particular area. This research is descriptive and analytical. The research results show that Bank Syariah ABC UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Branch and Bank Syariah XYZ Ciputat Branch show adequate financial health, viewed from a financial perspective showing an increase in ROI of 3.14%, while Bank Syariah in 2022. Viewed from a customer perspective, the number of savings customers at Bank Syariah ABC has decreased by 1.25%. Meanwhile, from an internal business process perspective, Bank Syariah XYZ is not considered good enough because the response time is quite long when responding to customers. Viewed from a growth and learning perspective, the performance of these two Sharia banks is in good condition.

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT USING THE BALANCED SCORECARD PERSPECTIVE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AND INTERNAL BUSINESS PROCESSES ON THE PHARMACEUTICAL INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE OF KENDAL ISLAMIC HOSPITAL

Introduction. Ensuring the quality of hospital services, quality control is carried out including monitoring and evaluation. One of the indicators is customer satisfaction and business processes aimed at measuring performance for the progress of the hospital. Method. This research used prospective observational research. Result & Analysis. Performance measurement of the Kendal Islamic Hospital Pharmacy Installation using the Balanced Scorecard method in terms of customer perspective with indicators of customer satisfaction and internal business process perspective with indicators of waiting time for concocted and non-concocted outpatient prescriptions, conformity of outpatient prescriptions with formularies, drug availability, and percentage of expired date and death stock drugs. Discussion. The results of the Balanced Score card approach in the Kendal Hospital Pharmacy Installation are “Fair” with an average score of 0.14. The customer perspective shows that patients are satisfied with the patient satisfaction index of 79.5%. Measurements from the perspective of internal business processes are quite good, the suitability of prescriptions with the formulary is 94.99%, the availability of drugs is 99.44% and death stock drugs are 1.08%, the waiting time for concocted drugs is 85.28% and non concocted 77.5%, expired drugs are 0.42%.

Ageing risks in four Asian Tigers: global health crisis and implications for productive welfare regimes

PurposeThis article focuses on the continuity and changes in the Productive Welfare Regimes and investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic and population ageing can influence the established systems in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.Design/methodology/approachOur research is based on document review, investigating intricate situations with numerous aspects and providing an excellent opportunity for innovation and examining theoretical presumptions in welfare regime theory, as well as exploring the complicated policy trajectories that varies among cases.FindingsOur findings reveal that social policy responses to COVID-19 have been characterized by adopting the market-conforming role of social policy for the elderly. This is shown by many policy measures focusing on self-sufficiency and an active labour market, signalling that the COVID-19 pandemic and population ageing pressure here are viewed as an economic issue over social rights. The economic-first was adopted to maintain their proximity to the global economy as key sources of their social policy development. We can conclude by emphasizing that the responses to COVID-19 have exposed deficiencies in certain existing social policies. Yet, they have not been sufficient to catalyse substantial policy changes across domains where such change had not already been initiated, thus allowing welfare regimes to remain within productivist boundaries.Originality/valueThis study responds to the current debate on the welfare regime continuity and adaptation in East Asia and suggests a new perspective of policy process in the times of insecurity.

Performance Analysis of the Regional Public Service Agency (BLUD) of the Tanara Health Center, Serang Regency using the Balance Scorecard Approach

This study aims to analyze the performance of the Regional Public Service Agency (BLUD) at the Tanara Community Health Center in Serang Regency using the Balance Scorecard approach. The Balance Scorecard emphasizes the importance of balancing various aspects such as financial and non-financial, short-term and long-term, as well as internal and external factors. The performance analysis of the BLUD is viewed from four perspectives: growth and learning, internal processes, customer satisfaction, and financial perspectives. This research adopts a quantitative approach. Data collection is conducted through surveys to gather insights into the growth and learning perspective, the internal process perspective, and the customer satisfaction perspective. Secondary data is used to analyze the BLUD's performance from the financial perspective. The results of this study indicate that the health center has not yet met the target scores set by the government. Although some indikators have been achieved, there is still a need for improvement, particularly in internal processes and customer satisfaction. To enhance the performance of the BLUD at this health center, integrated efforts are required, such as improving services and internal processes as well as fostering innovation.

Advancing quality of laser-based metal powder bed fusion-fabricated filigree sub-millimetre structures: a systematic exploration of a novel hybrid post-processing treatment

Laser-based metal powder bed fusion (PBF-LB/M) offers great potential for producing complex and filigree sub-millimetre parts with customised shapes, such as patient-specific vascular stents. However, stent fabrication via PBF-LB/M encounters fundamental challenges, including dimensional limitations, poor surface quality, difficult support structure handling and geometrical deviations.This study addresses these challenges by investigating the potential and limitations of a novel hybrid post-processing approach. This technique uses the combination of electrochemical polishing and chemical etching and is investigated from process and design perspectives, to emphasise the interactions between the two.With the systematic application of hybrid post-processing, the strut thickness and the surface roughness were substantially reduced. Moreover, it enabled the successful removal of part-internal support structures. Furthermore, angle and orientation-dependent geometrical deviations could be compensated, highlighting the potential of achieving homogenous strut thicknesses within parts containing variable overhang angles.This study demonstrates that the usage of hybrid (electro)chemical post-processing methods with specifically tailored process parameters is a promising approach for overcoming the design- and process-related challenges in PBF-LB/M manufactured sub-millimetre parts.

Modeling of Future Streamflow Hazards in Interior Alaska River Systems and Implications for Applied Planning

There is a growing need for proactive planning for natural hazards in a changing climate. Computational modeling of climate hazards provides an opportunity to inform planning, particularly in areas approaching ecosystem state changes, such as Interior Alaska, where future hazards are expected to differ significantly from historical events in frequency and severity. This paper considers improved modeling approaches from a physical process perspective and contextualizes the results within the complexities and limitations of hazard planning efforts and management concerns. Therefore, the aim is not only to improve the understanding of potential climate impacts on streamflow within this region but also to further explore the steps needed to evaluate local-scale hazards from global drivers and the potential challenges that may be present. This study used dynamically downscaled climate forcing data from ERA-Interim reanalysis datasets and projected climate scenarios from two General Circulation Models under a single Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP 8.5) to simulate an observational gage-calibrated WRF-Hydro model to assess shifts in streamflow and flooding potential in three Interior Alaska rivers over a historical period (2008–2017) and two future periods (2038–2047 and 2068–2077). Outputs were assessed for seasonality, streamflow, extreme events, and the comparison between existing flood control infrastructure in the region. The results indicate that streamflow in this region is likely to experience increases in seasonal length and baseflow, while the potential for extreme events and variable short-term streamflow behavior is likely to see greater uncertainty, based on the divergence between the models.

A Literary Translation in the Making: A Process-Oriented Perspective

A Literary Translation in the Making: A Process-Oriented Perspective