Business continuity of business models: Evaluating the resilience of business models for contingencies     

《International Journal of Information Management》2019

Company business models are vulnerable to various contingencies in the business environment that may unexpectedly render their business logic ineffective. In particular, technological advancements, such as the Internet of things, big data, sharing economy and crowdsourcing, have enabled new forms of business models that can effectively and abruptly make traditional business models obsolete. By disrupting or even diminishing companies’ revenue streams, environmental contingencies may present a significant threat to business continuity (BC). Evaluating the resilience of business models against these contingencies should therefore be a core area of BC. However, existing BC approaches tend to focus on the continuity of the resources and processes through which a particular business model is accomplished in practice but omit the business model itself. We argue that in order for BC approaches to become holistic and strategic, business models need to become a part of the BC considerations, entailing an expansion of the scope of BC from value preservation to value creation. We propose an approach of Strategic Business Continuity Management, which consists of two parts: (1) sustaining the continuity of the company business model (value preservation) and (2) evaluating and modifying the business model (value creation). We illustrate conceptually the value creation part with an example drawn from the sharing economy.  相似文献   

The transmission of values from math teachers to their ninth-grade students: Different mechanisms for different value dimensions?     

《Contemporary educational psychology》2020

Teachers can transmit their class-related values to their students and thus affect their students’ academic development in regular classes. This so-called value transmission has mostly been examined with respect to emotional contagion, that is, the transmission of rather affective values (e.g., enjoyment) from teachers to their students through teachers’ enthusiastic behavior during instruction. However, other transmission processes might also be at play, including other value dimensions and mediation through other instructional practices. In this study, we therefore aimed to systematically test the generalizability of such value transmission effects by examining a broad spectrum of (a) teacher values, (b) instructional practices, and (c) student values. Based on longitudinal data from 1744 students and their 70 math teachers, cross-level mediation analyses revealed that teachers’ teaching enthusiasm, math enthusiasm, as well as math utility value affected their students’ values (i.e., intrinsic and utility values). Teachers’ teaching enthusiasm was transmitted to students’ values through both student-perceived enthusiastic behavior during instruction and through relevance-related instructional practices. Teachers’ subject-related values (i.e., math enthusiasm and utility value) primarily affected students’ utility value, but this transmission could not be explained by the instructional practices under investigation. Overall, our findings reveal auspicious evidence for a broader generalizability of the value transmission concept and yet also show the need to differentiate between different value dimensions and the mechanisms through which they are transmitted from teachers to their students.  相似文献   

The role of student–university value alignment in international student acculturation in Australia     

《Int J Intercult Relat》2021

This study integrates acculturation and person–environment fit theories to investigate the role of student–university value alignment in international student cross-cultural adjustment to host universities in Victoria, Australia. The study used a mixed methods design with the quantitative data collected from a student survey and the qualitative data generated from interviews with university staff. Structural equation modelling and thematic analysis were employed to analyse the quantitative and qualitative data respectively. The results of the study indicated that international students who possess similar values to their host university, adjust better, both psychologically and socially into the university environment as well as feel satisfaction with their host university. The study also confirmed the mediating role of international student social adjustment in the relationship between student–university value fit and student overall satisfaction with their host university. The findings highlight the key role of international student–university value alignment in contributing to the success of students’ cross-cultural adjustment to the new cultural environment they experience. Therefore, universities should constantly communicate and deliver on their values during both the promotional stage of international student recruitment and the student journey with the university.  相似文献   

Value for learning during this time of transformation: the first-year students’ perspective     

Shalini Dukhan 《高等教育研究与发展》2020,39(1):39-52

ABSTRACT

Formal education was used by the apartheid government to prepare black South Africans for manual labour, thus there was little curricular focus on the development of higher-order cognitive skills. With the abolition of apartheid in 1994, the education system was re-valued and re-evaluated to provide wider access to quality education; the focus of education policies moved towards the development of self-regulation and higher-order cognitive skills for all learners. There is now a generation of learners who have experienced their schooling in the transformed education system, and it would be useful to understand, from their perspective, what they value in their development of learning within the higher education space. This study answers the question ‘Post-apartheid, what learning methods and resources do first-years perceive to be valuable to their learning when they enter university?’ Participants included 344 students taking a Biology course provided to medical science students at a South African university in 2018. Two questionnaires were administered towards the end of a six-week lecture period, responses were evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively. The first survey, comprised of Likert-style questions, was conducted to determine the students’ views on the mechanisms which they used to support their learning. The second questionnaire comprised open-ended questions and focused on the students’ perception of their learning experience in the course. The findings show that there was a significant (p?<?.001) percentage of first-years who thought that rote-learning would suffice for examination preparation at university, and preferred to engage with their peers and the textbook before they engaged with their lecturers when navigating challenging concepts. Schwartz's model of social values is used to show that more needs to be done for the development of higher-order thinking and self-regulation when students enter university, and to mitigate alienation between students and staff.  相似文献   

The impact of field experiences on prospective preservice teachers’ technology integration beliefs and intentions     

《Teaching and Teacher Education》2020

This study investigated how field experiences impacted the technology integration beliefs and intentions of prospective preservice teachers. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), a three-way interaction between the type, frequency, and quality of field technology observations predicted changes in beliefs and intentions. Beliefs about the utility of technology directly predicted intentions to use technology and intentions to use Meaningful Learning approaches to technology integration. Additionally, beliefs about technology’s importance in education indirectly predicted both variables. Positive impacts of field experiences on beliefs and intentions only existed when prospective preservice teachers saw technology used frequently by skilled teachers using Meaningful Learning approaches.  相似文献   

基于可视化语言的图像表面控制     

邱国清 《科技广场》2007,(7):123-125

许多复杂的图像处理需要结合其他的图像处理算法才能实现,因此,主要介绍了计算机图像处理中的图像草稿效果算法,并在该算法的基础上利用VB6.0语言所提供的图像处理功能实现了图像表面的草稿效果。  相似文献   

教育评估专家评判的价值取向          下载免费PDF全文

程婕  林涛 《上海教育评估研究》2020,9(2):22-27

现阶段我国教育评估中对人的评价出现了唯分数、唯升学、唯文凭、唯论文、唯帽子的价值偏差,脱离了教书育人的根本目的。专家评判是教育评估的重要组成部分,专家评判的价值取向直接关系到评估结果的科学性和公信力,但是专家判断中也严重存在"五唯"现象。因此教育评估要回归到教育的本意,即"育人",要以"立德树人"成效为依据,以促进"人的全面发展"为目标,破除唯一性、单一性的评价价值取向,并从专家主体的价值认同和评判尺度统一、评估标准"唯"与"不唯"的平衡点、客观数据与主观评判关系、道德自律与规则他律四个方面探寻教育评估专家评判价值取向的实现路径。  相似文献   

本溪市耐用消费品拥有量的预测模型     

迟灵芝 《辽宁科技学院学报》2007,9(2):45-46

利用Logistic模型,研究了本溪市耐用消费品的社会拥有量(以彩电为例)的发展趋势,并对未来几年内本溪地区的耐用消费品的需求量作出了预测.  相似文献   

马克思劳动价值论应与时俱进   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

张秋菊 《忻州师范学院学报》2002,18(4):8-9,27

马克思劳动价值论是分析资本主义市场经济的理论基石和有效方法,在社会主义制度下,它仍然起作用。我们必须坚持并发展劳动价值论,与时俱进,从思想和操作层面,更完善地体现劳动价值论。  相似文献   

Probability with Roulette     

Jennings B. Marshall 《Teaching Statistics》2007,29(3):74-79

This article describes how roulette can be used to teach basic concepts of probability. Various bets are used to illustrate the computation of expected value. A betting system shows variations in patterns that often appear in random events.  相似文献