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{"title":"Managerial career learning in engineering: An integrated approach","authors":"Quey-Jen Yeh, Tai-Ping Chang","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995929","url":null,"abstract":"Career-related continual learning often involves formal and informal, off- and on-the-job learning, as characterized by the three types: formal off-the-job classroom learning, informal self-training, and task characteristics learning. A questionnaire survey and Structural Equation Modeling serves to test propositions pertaining to the interactive effects of these three categories of learning. The model derives from implicit belief and self-efficacy theories, which stress how personal beliefs help translate external data. A career stage and work characteristic model also provides guidelines for designing managerial task characteristics for engineering. The sample, representing 449 engineering careerists from six technical enterprises in Taiwan, comprises both R&D and general engineers and managers. The results suggest that the best managerial learning occurs after engineers practice management at work. Of the three learning methods, self-training engenders the most benefits, though the creation of these benefits depends on the task characteristics of the on-the-job learning opportunities offered by organizations. Namely, the combined way generates the best learning way for management in engineering. Off-the-job classroom training should be provided to young engineers, who have not yet had chances to learn management in the workplace. Overall, the findings suggest that management is learnable; however, it requires proper multiscale measurements to reflect engineers' actual learning experience.","PeriodicalId":369450,"journal":{"name":"First International Technology Management Conference","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122635753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On global diffusion of electrical and electronics engineering research #x2014; An extensive quantitative analysis of IEEE publications (1980#x2013;2008)","authors":"N. Shirakawa, Takao Furukawa, M. Nomura, K. Okuwada","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995942","url":null,"abstract":"To provide further insight into globalization of research and development (R&D) activities, this study examines the nature of electrical and electronics (E&E) and information communication technology (ICT) research, and identifies the global shifts that have occurred in publication activities under the assumption of a definite correlation between research activities and publication activities. This study analyzed the technical and publication activities of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), the largest professional engineering association and the most influential academic publisher in engineering. We first constructed an original comprehensive database of periodical (journal and magazine) articles and conference proceedings published by IEEE between 1980 and 2008, which comprised approximately 355,000 periodical articles and 1.14 million conference proceedings. We analyzed the transitions in technical innovations from two perspectives: (1) trends within individual countries, specifically those within the country represented by the first author listed in each IEEE publication, and (2) trends within specialized fields represented in IEEE societies and technical councils. The number of published periodical articles increased fourfold between 1980 and 2008, while that of published conference proceedings increased more than tenfold since 1988. In particular, the number of conference proceedings published by China has increased dramatically since 2002, even exceeding the number published by the U.S. in 2008. As technologically emerging countries have increasingly contributed to article production, IEEE has increasingly moved away from its U.S.-centered origins to literally become the #x201C;electrical and electronics association of the world.#x201D; The proportion of articles published by authors in North America, Europe, and East Asia has become increasingly balanced, leading to the formation of a tri-polar structure of IEEE technological activities. Within this structure, North America focuses on the field of ICT, Europe focuses on the fields of ICT and E&E, and East Asia focuses on the field of E&E. This comprehensive analysis of IEEE publications over a period of almost 30 years revealed that with the emergence of more active international competition, glocalization is occurring among the publications and research activities of IEEE, and that the nature of E&E and ICT research is under a system in which the U.S. sets an agenda for technical innovation that stimulates research activities in each country.","PeriodicalId":369450,"journal":{"name":"First International Technology Management Conference","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121270483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis of factors affecting the adoption of smartphones","authors":"Youngmo Kang, Chanwoo Cho, Sungjoon Lee","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995985","url":null,"abstract":"The mobile-phone market has changed from a new purchase market to a replacement market when it is matured. At the same time smartphones come into the spotlight as an alternative of feature phones in the mobile-phone market. Since the characteristics of ‘smartphones’ are greatly different from those of ‘feature phones’ in that more technologies are incorporated and more functionalities are provided with users by smartphones, factors that can affect the adoption of smartphones and feature phones might not be the same.","PeriodicalId":369450,"journal":{"name":"First International Technology Management Conference","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133473553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A fuzzy expert system for elemental life cycle estimate","authors":"Nannan Wang","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995979","url":null,"abstract":"The life cycle costing is a key economic analysis tool for sustainable construction. The design for sustainable billings must consider the long-term performance of projects. The lack of reliable historical data, especially for new building materials, is the main problem for life cycles estimate of building elements in PPP/PFI projects. The objective of this research is to develop a fuzzy expert system to estimate the life cycles of building elements at the strategic design stage. A case study was presented to demonstrate the fuzzy rule based system and its implication to estimate the life cycle of a building element - floor finishes. The model is easy-to-use in practice and the method can be applied to other building elements in terms of life cycle estimate.","PeriodicalId":369450,"journal":{"name":"First International Technology Management Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117049692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of technology agility on business processes and organizational agilities","authors":"Denise Dunlop-Hinkler, R. Parente, T. Marion, J. Friar","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995930","url":null,"abstract":"Organizational agility has been regarded as one of the most important critical resources for enabling better firm performance. This study extends the existing literature by introducing technology agility as an antecedent to organizational agilities, which, subsequently, impact business processes and, ultimately, firm performance. Technology agility is the firm's ability to quickly react to technological changes. Our conceptual framework bridges the dynamic capabilities framework with the process-based view of the organization. We test our conceptual framework using a survey data set from the Brazilian automotive industry. The results confirm that technology agility is a significant antecedent to key organizational agilities and these agilities impact both financial and market performance through intermediate business processes. We conclude that technology agility plays a key strategic role in shaping the firm's dynamic capabilities that further enhance firm performance.","PeriodicalId":369450,"journal":{"name":"First International Technology Management Conference","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124680263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Technology roadmapping based On patent citation network considering technology life cycle","authors":"Yujin Jeong, B. Yoon","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2011.5996050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2011.5996050","url":null,"abstract":"Although there have been many studies conducted that deal with technology roadmap structure or roadmapping methods, most existing approaches concentrate on market-driven roadmapping. Moreover, a lot of the research depends on qualitative analysis; thus, less rigorous research has been conducted through quantitative analysis or systematic approaches. Hence, this paper aims to propose a new technology roadmapping approach considering technology life cycle through patent citation analysis, which is a relatively robust method of quantitative analysis. At first, patent data of relevant technologies and citation information are collected. Using these data, a patent citation network that consists of nodes (individual patents) and arcs between nodes (citation links between patents) is developed. Secondly, a stage of a selected technology in the life cycle is investigated by considering the year of patent application and the life cycle of the technology. Thus, the lifetime of a technology is estimated to plan the duration of technology development. In addition, subsequent technologies are grouped as nodes of a super-level technology to show the evolution of the technology for the period. Finally, a technology roadmap is drawn by connecting these technology nodes in a technology layer and estimating the duration of development time. In this paper, solar energy-related technology is chosen in order to illustrate the process of the proposed method. The results of this paper can be regarded as a novel approach to technology-driven roadmapping that effectively utilizes the quantitative patent data.","PeriodicalId":369450,"journal":{"name":"First International Technology Management Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129432606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An integrated modeling for supplier selection and optimal lot sizing: A case study of four-echelon supply chain","authors":"B. Elahi, Leila Etaati, S. Seyed-Hosseini","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2011.5996068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2011.5996068","url":null,"abstract":"Supply chain management is one of the new approaches that are considered significantly by variety of experts and enterprises in today competitive world. Supply chain refers to the network of facilities, supply centers, production centers and distribution centers which encompass various tasks such as providing raw materials, transforming raw materials to components or finished products and distributing them among customers. Regarding this issue, studying literature indicates on this fact that multi-level, multi-product, multi-period models in multi-sourcing situation by considering the supply capacity have not been taken into account notably and just few mathematical models are proposed for the analysis of such decisions. In this paper, it is attempted to investigate and delve into the supply chain planning issue in multi-level, multi-product, multi-period situation. In the proposed model, simultaneously optimization of two objectives is considered which entails maximizing the service level related to giving agreeable services to customers at each retailer's site and minimizing the overall costs of supply chain. As the proposed mixed integer non-linear model has specific complexity, branch and bound solver is utilized and has been applied for a data set in an automotive supply chain. In this way, a model has been presented which determines the lot size of ordering among various members in a supply chain, the amount of holding inventory at each elements of supply chain's site, optimal combination of selecting potential suppliers and the amount of ordering components to suppliers.","PeriodicalId":369450,"journal":{"name":"First International Technology Management Conference","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124951534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of sustainability on integration and interoperability between BIM and ERP - A governance framework","authors":"Saumyendu Ghosh, S. Negahban, Y. Kwak, M. Skibniewski","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995975","url":null,"abstract":"The majority of construction organizations that have either failed in their efforts to adopt enterprise wide applications and related technology, or are simply not familiar with it, are the Small to Medium Size Construction Organizations (SMSCO). Their failure or refusal to adopt complex IT systems impacts their ability to integrate in the construction lifecycle as well ability to integrate newer technologies e.g. building information modeling (BIM) systems. As more and more organizations attempt to integrate BIM models that have sustainable design issues imbedded with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, they will discover that whole new set of integration issues will need to be addressed. The intent of this research would be to identify and address these issues. BIM represents the building as an integrated database of coordinated information. Therefore one of the main areas of the interested in sphere of interoperability between sustainable BIM and ERP when it comes to integration has to be data exchange platforms. Other areas that will need to be reviewed and studied are; impact of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) required documentation, Sustainable design guidelines, Building Systems, Environmental Realities, and cost. The ability to govern and integrate with construction lifecycle is key to sustainability, despite all its potential benefits, is the problem that is addressed in this research. In this research, we propose that project governance practices and the organizational capacity to manage the multi-party associations in complex projects can be integrated through a sustainable governance process.","PeriodicalId":369450,"journal":{"name":"First International Technology Management Conference","volume":"65 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120907665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A framework to manage the innovation strategies of new technology based firms","authors":"S. Davey, Michael Brennan, B. Meenan, R. McAdam","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2011.5995997","url":null,"abstract":"Technological innovations are today progressing at a rapid rate with many technologies heralded as major breakthroughs. New technology-based firms (NTBFs) are important drivers of innovation and economic growth; however they face huge challenges in terms of realising the latent economic potential from new innovations in the current economic climate. Open innovation offers the prospect of lower costs for innovation, faster times to market, and the chance to share risks. By developing open business models companies can capture the multifaceted ideas of scientists, engineers and end users allowing beneficial technologies to reach the market more quickly in a way that is evidence focused.","PeriodicalId":369450,"journal":{"name":"First International Technology Management Conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121104200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationship between country of origin, brand experience and brand equity: The moderating effect of automobile country","authors":"Lily Shui-Lien Chen, Yi-Jing Wu, Wei-Chun Chen","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2011.5996037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2011.5996037","url":null,"abstract":"Globalization made branding competition rise that caused the country of assembly (COA)/country of design (COD)/country of parts (COP) linked to customers closely in global market. Prior studies have adopted the “relationship” to enhance the understanding of the relationship between consumers and brands. The purpose of the paper is to test the relationship between country of assembly/country of design/country of parts, brand experience and brand equity. Automobile country will be tested the moderating effect on the model. Top two automobile brands (Japan/Germany) sale of imported cars in 2010 Taiwan automobile market sale reports are selected as research setting. A sample of 688 useful respondents was collected through online survey and paper questionnaires two methods. The respondents are the Japan/Germany car owners in Taiwan. AMOS 17.0 statistic software is adopted to analyze the reliability/validation testing of constructs and structural equation modeling (SEM) was use for the model hypotheses testing. The hypotheses were all supported by the data analysis result. The final research findings are as following. First, country of assembly, country of design, and country of parts were positively affects brand experience. Second, the results revealed brand experience was positivity affects brand equity. Third, the automobile country (Japan/Germany) plays a moderating role, significant in the model. Finally, the study offer management implications and directions to international marketing decision-makers of automobile industry and future researchers.","PeriodicalId":369450,"journal":{"name":"First International Technology Management Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121270378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}