Based on dialogical theory and empirical exploration of surgical operations in a Swedish hospital, this text contributes to the study of critical work practice. In empirical detail, ethnographic investigation and video analysis show that ‘everyday interactivity’, i.e. technical development beyond the control of individual participants, is a ubiquitous phenomenon of surgical work. This research interest can be contrasted to models of human-machine interaction, which describe how a given technology affords or impedes an intended outcome. Conclusions are that there may be fundamentally different ways of describing the regular course of surgery. From so-called ‘designer-oriented‘ perspectives, creative or unexpected results would be seen as emergent signs of design failure. According to dialogical theory, unfolding and multifunctional technical outcomes are necessary in working life. The latter is everything but trivial for research and development. As concrete products of collective practice, workplace technology cannot support individual ‘user experiences’ or workflows. Instead, we may recognise already present, parallel, and ongoing design changes. Thus, the thesis problematise the meaning of teamwork and technology in everyday practice. / Utifrån dialogisk teori, interaktionsanalyser och etnografiska undersökningar av kirurgiska operationer inom olika kirurgiska specialiteter, problematiserar avhandlingen betydelsen av vardagliga och kritiska verksamheter. I empirisk detalj av några fallstudier, tagna ur ett omfattande material av inspelningar och etnografiska data om arbetsplatsen, visar avhandlingens videoanalys att “vardaglig interkreativitet”, det vill säga teknisk utveckling inom och mellan arbetslag, är ett ständigt närvarande fenomen i kirurgisk praktik. Detta ska ses i förhållande till gängse beskrivningar av kritiska verksamheter, vilka i huvudsak handlar om hur givna instruktioner och verktyg stödjer, eller inte stödjer, planerade delmål. Slutsatsen är att det är möjligt att ge helt olika empiriskt grundade beskrivningar av kirurgi. Utifrån så kallade “designerorienterade” ansatser förklaras varje oväntad teknisk användning som tecken på underliggande designproblem. Enligt dialogisk teori framstår istället teknisk pluralism och förändring som nödvändiga delar av verksamheten. Det senare är allt annat än självklart inom området verksamhetsutveckling. Med föränderliga tekniker och tekniska system som grund, blir det inte längre prioriterat att undersöka eller stödja situerade “användarupplevelser”. Istället bör redan befintliga interkreativa design processer och konkreta samkonstruktioner lyftas fram som tekniska förutsättningar för forskning och utveckling. Avhandlingen problematiserar således både hur teamarbete kan förstås och hur teknologi gestaltas i vardagen.

In this study, it is defined to treat the sources of work passion as independent variables and to treat organizational commitments as dependent variables. Based on the test samples of high-tech research and development engineers, it is intended to figure out the relationship between all variables and how they affect eath other. Futhermore, using person-organization fit and person-job fit as interference variables to study the interference among all variables. Totally 1,035 questionnaires are issued and get 642 valid copies returned. By using reliability analysis, factor analysis, on-way ANOVA, correlation analysis, multiple linear regression and hierarchical regression to analyze questionnaire data, the result is summarized as follows, 1.A positive relationship between the sources of work passion and organizational commitments. 2.The sources of work passion and organizational commitments differ significantly depending on personal attributes. 3.Person-organization fit and person-job fit interfere the relationship between the sources of work passion and organizational commitments.

Nowadays, world-wide enterprises have a new situation after the financial crisis in 2008. Environment faced by the enterprises is so sinister that a small mistake may bring fatal collapse. Business strategy becomes an important issue. The business strategy is used to guide the organization and people to the business vision and goals. It makes shareholders, customers, and members know why the enterprise exists, for what and whom they are fighting. Therefore, the first step of the ¡§business strategy management¡¨ is to construct the ¡§business strategy architecture. Business strategy architecture integrates multiple views of an enterprise to achieve the business strategy synergy. Strategy map uses text, graphics, and process-oriented languages to describe the business strategy. However, using these languages to express the business strategy will result in great difficulties of strategy implementation and resources distribution. Because the strategy map is a process-oriented model, it cares more on the organization behavior view and can not integrate with the organization structure view. In this study, we develop an Architecture-Oriented Research & Development Laboratory Business Strategy Model (AORDLBSM) which is based on the six fundamental diagrams of Structure-Behavior Coalescence (SBC) Architecture. AORDLBSM improves the strategy map model in integrating the structure and behavior views. The results of the study show that AORDLBSM is a macro to the micro, from whole to part of the strategy thinking. AORDLBSM integrates organization structure and organization behavior so tightly that it is able to transform implicit knowledge into explicit knowledge. We conclude that AORDLBSM is a description tool that can transform the abstract concept into a real system that enables the organization and people accomplish strategies successfully.

Practices of Human Resource Management for R&D Department of IT Industries Yu-Chen Chen Abstract High-Tech Industries play an important role to Taiwan¡¦s economic development over recent years. The innovation & technology enhancement of research & development department become the core competitiveness of high-tech enterprises. This paper aims at probing into the human resource management for R&D department for an integrated conclusion of which offers the best practice reference in R&D, and then to strengthen the advantageous position of Taiwan high-tech industries in the worldwide market. This paper focuses on: 1. Investigating for the ways of organization & management of R&D department, and the efficiency it brings by the human resource strategies and policies. If there¡¦s any difference or common features of human resource measures to fit in with high-tech industries, and that takes good effect upon R&D department¡¦s performance. 2. Research into R&D organizations for what are the existing HR systems? What is the HR role expected from R&D talents? The necessity of competency enhancement of R&D professionals to cope with business growth. Drawing a conclusion to collect the executives in the case companies with good HR management styles tailored to R&D professionals¡¦ needs. 3. With the characteristics of short-life cycle, high complexity and changeable technology, how the interaction it would be between R&D talents and the people implicated internal and external of enterprises. What are the must adjustments of R&D people to get with reality challenges? And finding the collaboration between departments of human resource and R&D to move up productivity & competitiveness. Keywords: high-tech industries, department of research & development, innovation, human resources practices.

Semiconductor industry, especially IC manafacture has been one of the most important high-tech industries in Taiwan since 1970¡¦s. The first professional wafer Fab, called ¡§wafer labor¡¨, was build up in Taiwan and has currently gained more than 60% market share in the wafer market of the world. This kind of industry is usually characterized as ¡§capital intensity¡¨, ¡§technology intensity¡¨ and ¡§short productive life cycle¡¨. Along with the innovation of technology and the internationalization of industry, more and more enterprises have been engaged in the fierce and intensive competition in all senses. Consequently, all of them have to possibly renew and modify their products, facilities and technologies with their limited resources so as to find their own way of making profits constantly. A correct investment decision not only contributes to the constant growth of enterprises, but also helps push up the industrial competitive capacity. Therefore, in the current project, I will try to work out an appropriate method for making investment policy. My concern will basically focuses on the distribution proportion of capital by arguing that the capacity expansion expenditures and research & development expenses are supposed to be included in the capital expenditures of wafer labor industry. However, with regard to the appropriateness of this project, I will also take the so-called ¡§dynamic complexity¡¨ into consideration, which is usually characterized by the phenomena of ¡§Information feedback¡¨, ¡§Time delay¡¨ and ¡§Non-linearity¡¨. If the capital is limited, the relationship between capacity expansion expenditures and research & development expenses are supposed to be definied as a ¡§trade-off¡¨ relationship. The increase of one side will lead to the decrease of the other side and finally leads to in the reduction in profits. Due to the capacity of System Dynamics for sloving the problem of dynamic complexity (Forrester, 1961), I will adopt System Dynamics as the main research method in the current project and to work out an appropriate method for making wafer labor industrial policy. By taking the capital distribution into consideration, I will try to construct a possibly appropriate investment model and herewith make some remarks or suggestions for the investment policy. Some research results will be displayed in the current project: 1. In any case, there is a certain distribution proportion which optimizes the entire profits. The task is to simulate an appropriate one respectively for different scenarios. 2. The increase in the proportion of research & development expenses might lead to the reduction of profits. 3. By using this model, the enterprise can find out the most appropriate policy for distributing the capital and achieving their maximal profit.

Reservoir simulation studies are one of the key tools in an integrated reservoir management study. A successful reservoir simulation application requires representative input data for reservoir rock and fluid properties. This study aims to develop a road map from laboratory measurements to the input data file of reservoir simulation and to make a probabilistic approach for the estimation of unknown parameters. Raw data of reservoir rock and fluid properties of a selected oil field of Turkey will be interpreted and prepared in a way that they will be used as input data of a simulator.

The aim of this thesis is to make policy recommendations for Turkey in order to facilitate innovative activities resulting in more patent applications in pharmaceutical industry through comparing her with the selected countries / USA, EU, Japan, India, China and Korea. The comparison is performed in terms of the patent, research and development (R&amp / D) expenditures and basic research. This study begins with firstly indicating the relationship between patents and innovation in sector basis. When it is looked at this relationship patents are the most necessary tool for pharmaceutical industry. Therefore, in the main part of the thesis the patents and innovations in pharmaceutical sector are analyzed mostly. However, this analysis is not done in all aspects but it is done in terms of research and development expenditures and basic research. Patent is mainly a result of research and development activities. Besides, basic research is also effective in making innovations and so in patent system. Because of these reasons, the relationship between patents and innovations in pharmaceutical industry are covered in terms of these two aspects-R&amp / D expenditures and basic v research-. These relationships are analyzed in country level. In this thesis, in order to see the right route for Turkey and give some advises to Turkish patent and innovation system especially in pharmaceutical industry Turkey is compared with USA, EU, Japan, China, India and Korea. The reason to take USA, EU and Japan is that, these countries are developed countries, the biggest patent offices in the world are in these countries and the number of patent applications is the highest in the offices of these countries. On the other hand, China, India and Korea are taken as subject to the comparison because these countries are developing countries like Turkey and the development levels of these countries are not too higher than Turkey. In this thesis, through comparing Turkey with the selected countries, some policy recommendations are done for Turkey and this thesis may open door to further studies on the patent and innovation system of Turkey especially in pharmaceutical industry.

This thesis work describes the formulation of a Bayesian approach along with new tools to systematically reduce uncertainty in Research&Development (R&D) alternatives. During the initial stages of R&D many alternatives are considered and high uncertainty exists for all the alternatives. The ideal approach in addressing the many R&D alternatives is to find the one alternative which is stochastically dominant i.e. the alternative which is better in all possible scenarios of uncertainty. Often a stochastically dominant alternative does not exist. This leaves the R&D manager with two alternatives, either to make a selection based on user defined utility function or to gather more information in order to reduce uncertainty in the various alternatives. From the decision makers perspective the second alternative has more intrinsic value, since reduction of uncertainty will improve the confidence in the selection and further reduce the high downside risk involved with the decisions made under high uncertainty. The motivation for this work is derived from our preliminary work on the evaluation of biorefiney alternatives, which brought into limelight the key challenges and opportunities in the evaluation of R&D alternatives. The primary challenge in the evaluation of many R&D alternatives was the presence of uncertainty in the many unit operations within each and every alternative. Additionally, limited or non-existent experimental data made it infeasible to quantify the uncertainty and lead to inability to develop an even simple systematic strategy to reduce it. Moreover, even if the uncertainty could be quantified, the traditional approaches (scenario analysis or stochastic analysis), lacked the ability to evaluate the key group of uncertainty contributors. Lastly, the traditional design of experiment approaches focus towards reduction in uncertainty in the parameter estimates of the model, whereas what is required is a design of experiment approach which focuses on the decision (selection of the key alternative). In order to tackle all the above mentioned challenges a Bayesian framework along with two new tools is proposed. The Bayesian framework consists of three main steps: a. Quantification of uncertainty b. Evaluation of key uncertainty contributors c. Design of experiment strategies, focussed on decision making rather than the traditional parameter uncertainty reduction To quantify technical uncertainty using expert knowledge, existing elicitation methods in the literature (outside chemical engineering domain) are used. To illustrate the importance of quantifying technical uncertainty, a bio-refinery case study is considered. The case study is an alternative for producing ethanol as a value added product in a Kraft mill producing pulp from softwood. To produce ethanol, a hot water pre-extraction of hemi-cellulose is considered, prior to the pulping stage. Using this case study, the methodology to quantify technical uncertainty using experts' knowledge is demonstrated. To limit the cost of R&D investment for selection or rejection of an R&D alternative, it is essential to evaluate the key uncertainty contributors. Global sensitivity analysis (GSA) is a tool which can be used to evaluate the key uncertainties. But quite often global sensitivity analysis fails to differentiate between the uncertainties and assigns them equal global sensitivity index. To counter this failing of GSA, a new method conditional global sensitivity (c-GSA) is presented, which is able to differentiate between the uncertainties even when GSA fails to do so. To demonstrate the value of c-GSA many small examples are presented. The third and the last key method in the Bayesian framework is the decision oriented design of experiment. Traditional 'Design of Experiment' (DOE) approaches focus on minimization of parameter error variance. In this work, a new "decision-oriented" DOE approach is proposed that takes into account how the generated data, and subsequently, the model developed based on them will be used in decision making. By doing so, the parameter variances get distributed in a manner such that its adverse impact on the targeted decision making is minimal. Results show that the new decision-oriented DOE approach significantly outperforms the standard D-optimal design approach. The new design method should be a valuable tool when experiments are conducted for the purpose of making R&D decisions. Finally, to demonstrate the importance of the overall Bayesian framework a bio-refinery case study is considered. The case study consists of the alternative to introduce a hemi-cellulose pre-extraction stage prior to pulping in a thermo-mechanical pulp mill. Application of the Bayesian framework to address this alternative, results in significant improvement in the prediction of the true potential value of the alternative.

<p>Syfte: Målet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om det finns något samband mellan FoU and företagsvinster. Författarnas förhoppningar är att resultaten från studien kommer att bidra med användbar information som både investerare och forsknings intensiva företag kan ta del av och utvärdera.</p><p>Metod: En kvantitativ infallsvinkel har valts att genomföra vår undersökning på. Data har erhållits genom företags årsredovisningar och statistik från börslistor. Slutligen har alla siffror sammanställts i Microsoft Excel and därefter analyserats i SPSS.</p><p>Resultat: Resultaten visar att det inte finns något samband mellan FoU och rörelseresultat. Däremot då rörelseresultat varierar kraftigt mellan olika industrier valde författarna att genomföra en branschanalys istället.</p>

Sin dalla fine degli anni 90 la Corea ha iniziato a basare la propria strategia di sviluppo economico sull’importanza delgli investimenti in R&D e oggi il paese puo’ essere considerato tra i paesi OCSE con i maggiori tassi di investimento. Tale risultato e’ stato raggiunto principalmente attraverso una forte specializzazione nei settori ad alta intensita’ di tali investimenti. Ciononostante sono recentemente emersi alcuni problemi cruciali legati alle politiche per R&D. Tra gli altri la disoccupazione giovanile legata all’effetto labour-saving delle innovazioni, la forte specializzazione in industrie ad alta tecnologia, e l’eccessiva importanza attribuita alla ricerca. Le tre questioni vengono analizzate in questo lavoro utilizzando dati a livello di impresa. Il primo contributo tratta degli effetti di R&D sull’occupazione. Le evidenze suggeriscono che tale effetto e’ inesistente nelle imprese Coreane. Il secondo conributo prende in esame la produttivita’ degli investimenti in ricerca. I risultati mostrano che tali investimenti hanno effetti non solo sulle imprese ad alta tecnologia ma anche in altri settori. Nel terzo contributo si studia il comportamento innovativo delle imprese prestando attenzione alle imprese giovani. Per queste imprese, infatti, le evidenze mostrano che investimenti in ricerca fatti internamente non sono cosi’ importanti per la produzione di innovazione. / Since 1990s Korea has started to ground the strategy for economic growth upon the role of R&D and nowadays the country shall be considered among top R&D investors in the OECD countries. This result has been achieved mainly through strong specialization in R&D-intensive industries. Nonetheless some critical issues related to R&D policy have recently emerged; Among others the problem of youth unemployment related to the labour-saving effect of innovation, the excessive specialization in high-tech industries and the magnified importance attributed to R&D. The three issues are accordingly investigated in this work by using data at the firm level. The first contribution concerns the effect of R&D investments on employment. The aim of the work is to test for the existence of a labour-saving effect of R&D investments. The evidence suggests that such an effect does not characterize Korean firms. Second contribution examines the productivity of knowledge capital. The results indicate that R&D affects firms’ productivity not only in high-tech industries but also in other sectors. In the third contribution the innovative behavior of firms is studied paying attention to young firms. In these, in fact, the evidence reveals that internal R&D is not as important for the production of innovation.