Purpose The purpose of this study is to illustrate the use of the ad hoc methodology of causal mapping to support the process of quantifying the financial returns related to sustainability investments. The present study uses two methods to build causal maps, that is aggregate and congregate...

In this paper, we explore how corporations use visual artifacts to translate and recontextualize a globally theorized managerial concept (CSR) into a local setting (Austria). In our analysis of the field-level visual discourse, we analyze over 1,600 images in stand-alone CSR reports of publicly...

In this paper, we explore how corporations use visual artifacts to translate and recontextualize a globally theorized managerial concept (CSR) into a local setting (Austria). In our analysis of the field-level visual discourse, we analyze over 1,600 images in stand-alone CSR reports of publicly...

Visualization of production planning data for decision making in manufacturing is nearly nonexistent. The planning problems at the Electronic Card Assembly and Test plant (ECAT) at IBM Austin, Texas, prompted the research project reported in this article. The project studied the characteristics...

This paper reports a study on the role of a subject's intention on animation interference. Experiment results show that first, experiment instruction can sometimes eliminate animation interference. Second, the moment animation is on the screen does not differentiate the animation interference if...

Previous research in project scheduling has been primarily focusing on providing efficient solution procedures in a deterministic scheduling environment. In reality, however, project manager is challenged by the conflict between the dynamic and evolving nature of project information. In...

Introduction -- The Visual Touch Regime: 3D Image-guided Robotic Surgery and 4D & "5D" Scientific Illustration at Work -- New Technologies in British Pharmacy Practice -- Patients' Perceptions of a Home Telecare System -- A Framework for Future Studies of Personalised Medicine: Affordance,...

Paul Krugman tells the story of the Capitol Hill baby-sitting co-op as a means of introducing readers to the economics of recessions. This story, like many others in economics, is a wonderful teaching device in undergraduate courses. We take the story from where Krugman stops and develop it by...

This paper shows the behavior of different macroeconomic variables together in the same graphical space. The case study in this paper is the Chinese economy from the year 1979 to 2009. To visualize the behavior of large macroeconomic data graphically, we suggest the application of the...

This comment was prepared for the International Journal of Forecasting mini-symposium on the Soyer-Hogarth experiment. The experiment evaluates the ability of expert econometricians to make predictions based on commonly provided regression output. Visual displays of quantitative information,...