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Strategic Issues (strategic + issues)
Selected AbstractsQuality in Health Care: Strategic Issues in Health Care ManagementJOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING, Issue 4 2003Julie Dickinson No abstract is available for this article. [source] Strategic Issues for Rebuilding a Theory and Practice SynthesisANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2000Carole E. Hill First page of article [source] Strategic issues in global climate change policy,AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS, Issue 2 2010Harry Clarke An analysis of prospects for deriving self-enforcing, global, greenhouse gas emission mitigation agreements is provided. Policy spillovers and carbon leakages are accounted for. Situations where mitigation effort should be concentrated in particular countries and where efficient outcomes can be fostered by international trade in emissions permits are discussed. The use of auxiliary policies to transform intractable Prisoner's Dilemma incentive problems to more tractable problems, the role of policy commitments and the strategic implications of ,no regret' and ,adaptation' policies are analysed. Dynamic and repeated game formulations are outlined. [source] A case study of shell at Sakhalin: having a whale of a time?CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2008Subhasis Ray Abstract This is a case study on the world's largest oil and gas project, at the Sakhalin Islands, Russia. Shell is the key promoter of this project. The case highlights the sustainability challenges that Shell faced when working on the mega-project. By their very nature, all such projects involve disruptions in the environmental and social fabric of the project site. NGOs often take up these issues and create international headlines, bringing pressure on the management team. The Russian government also changed its stand over a period of time. While many of these issues are valid in their own way, they often create managerial dilemmas. Traditional management approaches to community development and environmental conservation fell short of stakeholder expectations at Sakhalin. The issue of saving around 100 endangered whales put a cloud of doubt over this $20 billion project. The case highlights strategic issues involved in crafting sustainability strategies at mega-projects, possible pitfalls and the challenge of balancing project execution and stakeholder commitments against an unstable political backdrop. As Shell plans to start many exploration projects in bio-diversity rich parts of the world, the Sakhalin project acts as a pilot to and reminder of social responsibility challenges to big multi-nationals. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [source] Mergers and acquisitions in Japan: Lessons from a Dutch-Japanese case studyGLOBAL BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE, Issue 3 2009Frits D. J. Grotenhuis This article deals with lessons learned from mergers and acquisitions in Japan. In general, such combinations are not success stories, since 50,80 percent of them do not bring the benefits that were expected. Several reasons for such failures have been brought up in the literature, but real-life cases of the "how" and "why" are very limited or fragmented, especially in a Japanese context. This study enhances a more integral approach into Dutch-Japanese acquisitions. Based on an in-depth Dutch-Japanese case study and a literature review, it can be concluded that the preparation of mergers and acquisitions with Japanese organizations should be focused on (1) knowledge about the target company and its context, (2) strategic issues, and (3) leadership and cultural issues, in order to prevent culture clashes and misunderstandings, and increase the chances of success. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Monopoly and Oligopoly Provision of Addictive GoodsINTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 1 2001Robert Driskill This article investigates monopoly and oligopoly provision of an addictive good. Consumer preferences are modeled as in Becker and Murphy (1988). Addictive goods have characteristics that create interesting strategic issues when suppliers are noncompetitive. We characterize the perfect Markov equilibrium of a market with noncompetitive supply of an addictive good and compare it with the efficient solution. Depending on particular parameter values, we find a wide variety of possible steady-state outcomes, including ones with output above the efficient level and price below marginal cost. We also find that market power can be disadvantageous. [source] Effort/gains dynamics in heterogeneous networksINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Issue 4 2008L. Mamatas Abstract We investigate the behaviour of TCP(,, ,) protocols in the presence of wireless networks. We seek an answer to strategic issues of maximizing energy and bandwidth exploitation, without damaging the dynamics of multiple-flow equilibrium. We take a fresh perspective on protocol design: What is the return of the effort that a protocol expends? Can we achieve more gains with less effort? We study first the design assumptions of TCP(,, ,) protocols and discuss the impact of equation-based modulation of , and , on protocol efficiency. We introduce two new measures to capture protocol behaviour: the ,Extra Energy Expenditure' and the ,Unexploited Available Resource Index'. We confirm experimentally that, in general, smoothness and responsiveness constitute a tradeoff; however, we show that this tradeoff does not graft its dynamics into a conservative/aggressive behaviour, as it is traditionally believed. We uncover patterns of unjustified tactics; our results suggest that an adaptive congestion control algorithm is needed to integrate the dynamics of heterogeneous networks into protocol behaviour. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Integration of colour and textural information in multivariate image analysis: defect detection and classification issuesJOURNAL OF CHEMOMETRICS, Issue 1-2 2007J. M. Prats-Montalbán Abstract In industrial processes, the detection and visualisation of defects and the development of efficient automated classification tools are strategic issues, especially when dealing with random colour textures (RCTs). This paper discusses the benefits of integrating colour and spatial (i.e. textural) information of digital RGB colour images in multivariate image analysis (MIA) to deal with these topics. Regarding the first one, a simple and computational cost-effective monitoring procedure based on colour-textural MIA merged with multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) ideas is outlined. Two novel computed images: T2 and RSS Images are proposed. The procedure is applied on digital RGB colour images from artificial stone plates. With respect to the second issue, when colour-textural MIA is used for image classification a lot of factors (e.g. pre-processing, modelling,,,) likely affecting the success rate in the classification (SRC) show up. This paper presents a methodology based on the combination of experimental design and logistic regression for choosing the best combination of factors to maximise the SRC of different types of images. Digital RGB colour images from ceramic tiles and orange fruits are used to illustrate the potential of the proposed methodology. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Information Gathering and Changes in Threat and Opportunity Perceptions*JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, Issue 3 2007Marc H. Anderson abstract Managers need to make sense of emerging strategic issues that could significantly impact their businesses. While models of this sensemaking process suggest that information gathering affects interpretations (which affect action and performance), researchers have argued that our understanding of the role of information in changing interpretations is underdeveloped. This paper investigates the role of the time managers spend searching for information and the diversity of the information they find in changing managers' perceptions that an equivocal, strategic issue represents a threat and opportunity for their businesses. The methodology involves a longitudinal research design in which managers recorded multiple, process-oriented measures of their information gathering activity. Results suggest that time spent searching for information leads to changes towards seeing the issue as more of a threat, while the diversity of information found leads to changes towards seeing it as less of a threat. We found no effect of information gathering on opportunity perceptions. [source] Strategic help in user interfaces for information retrievalJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Issue 5 2002Giorgio Brajnik Although no unified definition of the concept of search strategy in Information Retrieval (IR) exists so far, its importance is manifest: nonexpert users, directly interacting with an IR system, apply a limited portfolio of simple actions; they do not know how to react in critical situations; and they often do not even realize that their difficulties are due to strategic problems. A user interface to an IR system should therefore provide some strategic help, focusing user's attention on strategic issues and providing tools to generate better strategies. Because neither the user nor the system can autonomously solve the information problem, but they complement each other, we propose a collaborative coaching approach, in which the two partners cooperate: the user retains the control of the session and the system provides suggestions. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated by a conceptual analysis, a prototype knowledge-based system named FIRE, and its evaluation through informal laboratory experiments. [source] Mining and sustainable development: considerations for minerals supplyNATURAL RESOURCES FORUM, Issue 4 2001Ian B. Lambert Abstract Sustainable development involves meeting the needs of human societies while maintaining viable biological and physical Earth systems. The needs include minerals: metals, fuels, industrial and construction materials. There will continue to be considerable demand for virgin mineral resources, even if levels of recycling and efficiency of use are optimal, and rates of population growth and globalisation decrease significantly. This article aims to stimulate debate on strategic issues for minerals supply. While the world has considerable stocks of mineral resources overall, international considerations of the environmental and social aspects of sustainable development are beginning to result in limitations on where mining will be conducted and what types of deposits will be mined. Current and emerging trends favour large mines in parts of the world where mining can be conducted within acceptable limits of environmental and social impact. Finding new deposits that meet such criteria will be all the more challenging given a disturbing global decline in the rate of discovery of major economic resources over the last decade, and the decreasing land area available for exploration and mining. To attract responsible exploration and mining, governments of mining nations will need to provide: regional-scale geo-scientific datasets as required to attract and guide future generations of exploration; resource access through multiple and sequential land use regimes, and frameworks for dealing with indigenous peoples' issues; and arrangements for consideration of mining proposals and regulation of mines that ensure responsible management of environmental and social issues. The minerals industry will need to continue to pursue advances in technologies for exploration, mining, processing, waste management and rehabilitation, and in public reporting of environmental and social performance. [source] The supply of natural gas in the European Union,strategic issuesOPEC ENERGY REVIEW, Issue 1 2008Jacques Percebois The objective of this paper was to analyse the weight of natural gas in the European Union and to insist on two points: the role of long-term contracts for supply security and the impact of geopolitical considerations in the relationships with the main suppliers, Russia and Algeria. But for the European Commission, supply security should not be an obstacle to competition. The Commission is also cautious regarding the takeover risks of trans-Europe natural gas transmission firms. Political considerations strongly affect economic factors in international gas exchanges in Europe. [source] | |||||||||||||