Purpose: Rapid productisation (RP) is a new concept originating from practical challenges. RP is a process of quickly supplementing a company’s product or service offering to meet unexpected customer needs. The objective of this study is to describe how an RP is used and experienced in small-...

Purpose – This paper highlights the challenges and key arguments for digital copyright protection legislation for creative industries. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by independent academics who place the arguments in context based upon literature and market data....

Evaluation of the economic performance of countries in the globalization process and decision making on the future development required in respect of various macroeconomic analysis and forecast of the economy to take into account more and more new alternative indicators for measuring economic...

While organizations have initiated knowledge management initiatives to systematically and methodically capture both explicit and tacit (or silent) knowledge, these initiatives have experienced mixed results. Inherent organizational idiosyncrasies have bounded the transferability and reusability...

Natural resources models serve as important tools to support decision making by predicting environmental indicators. All model predictions have uncertainty associated with them. Model predictive uncertainty, often expressed as the confidence interval around a model prediction value, may serve as...

Agricultural production responds to social, political, economic, environmental, and technological drivers that influence producers' decisions and shape the individual systems through modification of management practices, crop and livestock mix, and marketing strategy. We use an interview and...

Watershed management decision making is a complex process. Cooperation and communication among federal, state, and local stakeholders is required while balancing biophysical and socioeconomic concerns. The public is taking part in environmental decisions, and the need for technology transfer...

The use of scouting and economic thresholds has not been accepted as readily for managing weeds as it has been for insects, but the economic threshold concept is the basis of most weed management decision models available to growers. A World Wide Web survey was conducted to investigate...