Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / The primary objective of this thesis was to critically assess the Productive Unite Resourcing (PUR) system as it is outlined in NAVSUP INSTRUCTION 7000,21A and as it being used at Navy Field Contracting Activities (NFCAs). The research was conducted by a review of current literature and extensive interviews with headquarters and field activity personnel. The research contains a review of PUR's predecessor system, the fixed workyear-cost funding methodology, an explanation of the PUR process and Procurement Cost Center algorithms, and summaries of the positive and negative impacts of PUR. Conclusions and recommendations are made concerning PUR's applicability to Navy Field Contracting Activities. Where specific problems were identified with either the process or algorithms, possible corrective actions are proposed. / http://archive.org/details/assessmentofnavy00fink / Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy

Master of Science / Department of Computing and Information Sciences / Gurdip Singh / Developing an optimal working environment and managing the of work load in an efficient manner are the major challenges for most businesses today. So, the importance of the workflow and workflow management in an organization is unquestionable. Many organizations use sophisticated systems to organize the workflows. One such workflow system based on a concise and powerful modeling language called “Yet Another Workflow Language” is YAWL. YAWL handles complex data, transformations, integration with organizational resources and Web Service integration. Workflow comprises of three main perspectives: control-flow, data and the resources. In Yawl, the control-flow and the data-flow are tightly coupled within the workflow enactment engine. But the resource perspective is provided by a discrete custom service called Resource Service. Administrative tools are provided using which the administrator has to manually select the resource (referred as participant) which needs to perform a particular task of the workflow. This project aims at developing a service which can automate the assignment of the tasks to the participants by using the Resource service which provides number of interfaces that expose the full functionality of the service. The application of this project with respect to Healthcare domain is presented. Healthcare domain is the one of the most demanding and yet critical business process. Hospitals face increasing pressure to both improve the quality of the services delivered to patients and to reduce costs .Hence there is significant demand on hospitals in regard to how the organization, execution, and monitoring of work processes is performed. Workflow Management Systems like YAWL offers a potential solution as they support processes by managing the flow of work.

Thesis advisor: Michael G. Pratt / In spite of an undeniably vast and multidisciplinary body of research on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) spanning more than 50 years, extant scholarship provides little insight into how two organizations that have struggled to integrate rebound from failure in their relationship. This dissertation examines two organizations—AMC Hospital and Community Hospital—that achieved this outcome nearly 16 years after they legally merged. To understand this phenomenon, I conducted an inductive, longitudinal qualitative study of these two organizations and their members using interviews, archival data, and observations as my data sources and grounded theory techniques to analyze the data and build theory. Extending prior research on M&As, multiple organizational identity management, and identities as resources in organizations, I advance the notion of multiple identity resourcing by examining how the negotiation of multiple organizational identities fostered greater resource sharing and generation during post-merger integration. Additionally, I elaborate prior research on meaning construction during strategic change by examining how managers’ interpretations of the power and intimacy dynamics in the merger relationship influenced their strategizing, which affected organizational-level episodes of success and failure during the integration process. More broadly, I demonstrate how practices at both the level of the merger relationship and the level of strategy implementation enable successful performance during post-merger integration. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management. / Discipline: Management and Organization.

The purpose of this research was to find out what Social Value is, how it is created and in what way it is related to Social Entrepreneurship. The study has been done at a time when the concept of Social Entrepreneurship has come to the forefront at the outset of the 21st Century; in an advent of rapid change and worldwide turmoil; yet an academic understanding of Social Entrepreneurship has been lacking. A Western-style capitalist economy has a highly functioning 'for-profit' and government regulatory system, with civil society which carries an obligation to have regard for those who 'have not.' The goodness-of-fit between all three sectors determines the harmony, order and satisfaction of a given population. We now know that social Value is created when communities are impacted with outcomes from the inspiration and perspiration of Social Entrepreneurs and Support teams who are committed to alleviating human need. Social Entrepreneurs and their teams have a different outlook on life. They live with a lack of financial security, are time-poor, persevering, and resourceful; and they manage risk even as need is being resourced. Based upon a robust literature of Entrepreneurship and Values theories for meaning, data collection allowed for ten social ventures to be casestudied. These lead to further enquiry into seven peak bodies designed to be resourcing agencies. This research is important because a model has been developed which effectively enables social ventures to service their mission, and to stay viable. As a result of this, a way forward has been identified where the impact from social entrepreneuring becomes a core determinant of created Social Value. The contribution of this research has been to lay a foundation in grassroots social entrepreneurship which is supported by a Literature which others following can add to or further define. There is now something comprehensive drawn from the experiences of many in the field uipon which to base further enquiry and future investigation. Suggestions have also been made which need reinforcing at the Public Policy level; others in the Social Policy sector will want to know the way to reengineer a way out of the 'gap' which exists in the Capitalist System.

Kompetensförsörjning är ett brett begrepp som innefattar många moment i en organisations strategiska arbete med att förse organisationen med rätt kompetenser. Denna studie syftar att bidra till kunskapsutvecklingen kring kompetensförsörjning som finns i tidigare forskning inom ämnet. Studien genomförs i små och medelstora företag, i en pendlingskommun nära större stad. Vårt huvudsakliga fokus ligger på att lyfta hur organisationer tänker kring och arbetar med att attrahera, rekrytera, utveckla och behålla medarbetare med rätt kompetenser. Vi gjorde därför en kvalitativ studie med semistrukturerade intervjuer där nio organisationer inom den valda kommunen, Vännäs, medverkade. Resultatet visade att företagen i studien både ser utmaningar och möjligheter med kompetensförsörjning, och omfattningen med arbetet kring att attrahera, rekrytera, utveckla och behålla kompetent arbetskraft varierar. Det strategiska arbetet påverkas av det geografiska läget, företagens storlek, samt vilka resurser företagen har för att arbeta med de olika delarna i kompetensförsörjningen. Studien visar vidare att andra samhällsinstanser såsom staten, Arbetsförmedlingen och kommunerna, i samarbete med näringslivet, bär ansvaret för att förbättra kompetensförsörjningen i samhället framöver.

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) industry is one of the two major Integrated Circuit (IC) part manufacturing industries in Taiwan, but it derives many environmental problems because large amount of chemicals and special materials are used in its process, especially copper sludge generated from wastewater treatment. Although the heavy metal sludge can be treated by solidification, heavy metals contained in the sludge may still be leached out due to longtime exposure to acid rain. Therefore, there are urgent needs of research and development of technologies regarding how to reduce both quantity and volume of the hazardous heavy metal sludge and how to recycle the valuable heavy metals. Acid leaching method, chemical exchange method and ferrite process are applied to study how to recycle and stabilize copper sludge of PCB industry. The ultimate goal is to achieve cleaning production and sustainable development by transforming the hazardous waste into valuable byproducts, reducing the amount of the waste and lowering the treatment costs. Experimental results show that a method is successfully developed to recycle copper from the sludge generated by PCB industry by using the combination of acid leaching, chemical exchange and ferrite process. Via this method, not only is pure copper powder recycled, but highly valuable nano-scaled catalyst-CuFe2O4 is also produced. Hence, the problem that copper sludge has nowhere to go is solved, as well as the high cost of catalyst in catalytic incineration is reduced to nearly zero. The achievements of this study are summarized as follow: (1) Characteristic analysis of industrial sludge Water content and pH of the sludge is 60% and 7.05, respectively. The drop in quantity of ignition is 23%. The screening test results show that particle size of the sludge varies from 0.4 £gm to 200 £gm, with D50 of 25.0 £gm. Cu, Pb, Cd, Zn, Ni and Cr are found in the sludge, and the biggest part of heavy metals is Cu, with a concentration of 158,000 mg/kg (dry basis), whereas the other heavy metals are all below 105 mg/kg (dry basis). (2) Study of recycling of pure copper powder The optimal operational condition of acid leaching method is that concentration of sulfuric acid is 2.0 N, temperature is 50¢J and treatment time is 60 minutes. Under this operational condition, more than 99% of heavy metals can be extracted to liquid phase and the sediment of treated sludge meet Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) standards and therefore is considered as general industrial waste. The optimal operational condition of chemical exchange method is that molar ratio of Fe/Cu is 5.0, pH is 2.0 and treatment temperature is 50¢J. Under this operational condition, more than 95.0% of Cu can be recovered. The optimal operational condition of ferrite process is that Fe/Cu=10.0, pH=9.0, treatment temperature=80¢J, aeration rate=3 L/min/per liter waste liquid and reaction time = 30 min. Under this operational condition, TCLP concentrations of all heavy metals of both supernatant and sludge are well below regulatory standards, which proves that ferrite process is very effective. (3) Resourcing of spinel sludge In the potential of catalytic incineration of volatile organic compounds test, the sludge generated from ferrite process is used to catalyze the isopropyl alcohol (IPA). The catalyst is replaced by the same volume of glass wool on a reactive bed as a blank. Experimental result shows that the conversion of IPA is only 10% at 200¢J and 75% at 500¢J in the absence of catalyst under the conditions that IPA inlet concentration=1,700 ppm, space velocity=24,000 hr-1, O2 concentration=21%, and relative humidity=19%, which indicates that the destruction of IPA is associated with the consumption of much energy when no catalyst was used. But when ferrite catalyst is applied, IPA is decomposed completely at 200¢J, showing that the sludge has great potential of catalyst. (4) Synthesizing five VOCs catalyzing ferrite catalysts via ferrite process As to the synthesis of five ferrite catalysts in the laboratory, IPA conversion rate is higher than 58% at 200¢J. The sequence of IPA conversion from good to bad is Cu-ferrite catalyst > Mn-ferrite catalyst > Ni-ferrite catalyst > Zn-ferrite catalyst > Cr-ferrite catalyst, where Cu/Fe is most efficiency, with IPA conversion rate of 75% at 150¢J and 100% at 200¢J.

The last few years have witnessed a significant increase in the frequency and magnitude of involving third-party application developers in software platforms. While this involvement offers great opportunities in building and sustaining platform innovation, it also exposes platform owners to significant challenges. Typically, platform owners facilitate the involvement of third-party developers by providing resources, referred to in this thesis as boundary resources, that give access to the platform, shift design capability, and facilitate the use of the platform’s core technologies. At the same time, these resources have the potential to be used to maintain platform control. This involves seemingly conflicting goals that creates a challenge for platform owners in finding the right balance. The main objective of this thesis is to investigate and understand the role of boundary resources in platform owners’ efforts to stimulate third-party development. To this end, this thesis proposes a theoretical model of boundary resources. This model centres on various drivers behind boundary resources design and use, and how these drivers interact in third-party development. The thesis also presents a comprehensive view of governance and strategizing practices used by platform owners through boundary resources. This thesis comprises a cover and a collection of five published research papers. The thesis applies a qualitative research method and employs multiple case studies. Boundary resources, innovation networks and platform governance perspectives have been synthesized to build a theoretical  basis to analyze the empirical findings. This thesis complements and extends the literature on software platforms, and the insights derived from the thesis enhance previous research on third-party development. In addition, it provides a focused theoretical account of the interfaces between platform owners and third-party developers that contributes to the body of knowledge developed around using tools for innovation.

The reason that a firm have to run its business in diversify ways, is to extend contents that it produced, enhance its business values and gain more benefits. Diversification has two kinds of business models, which is vertical and horizontal diversification. As for a steel company, vertical diversify is use its main business as the core, then extend to other new territories of steel business. A firm, which uses internationalization strategy, has several internal and external factors. The internal factors, which are like domestic market is to small, rise to the labor costs, values of people change, traditional industries move abroad, and lack of lobar power. For external factors is free market economy, change of the business environments. To lower the cost, company has to integrate domestic and abroad advantageous resources. The firm has to advancing its own competitiveness by internationalization. Corporation merge is for the purpose of expanding the organization scale and operation abilities, and to pursue growth of external businesses. By buying target company¡¦s properties, to reach the goal of corporation merges. With the transnational merge can also achieve the internationalization strategy. The integration and re-engineering of working process, is the key task after to take over the management of the merged company. To co-operate with company strategy, review the resources needed during the integration. To plan and design the method of improves working process. And to start the implementation. To review the achievements of the integration and improvement of the working process. Can be judged by key events, which defined by different main manufacturing and managing issues. And with review in each phase, the effective of improvement could be ensured. For every company, every important decision made. Will lurking with several uncontrollable factors. To face with the risks, which are coming from any miss-judgment or fails decisions during the merging process that could ruin the whole merging process. In conclusion and suggestion section, we will discuss more about the best processing model of merging task.

Fifty-three careers advisers in Canterbury secondary schools in New Zealand were asked to complete a questionnaire, assessing their perceptions regarding current levels of resourcing and support for careers advisers in secondary schools. Forty-five returned completed questionnaires, of which ten respondents were male and 35 were female. All were registered teachers. Although there was overall agreement that resourcing had improved over time, the respondents were evenly divided in their opinion that current levels of resourcing were adequate for them to effectively perform their job. Larger schools, in terms of pupil numbers, were better resourced. They had more teaching and ancillary hours for careers. The single most restrictive factor, which was identified as hindering careers advisers from completing their jobs satisfactorily, was time. An analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data has been used to examine present conditions in careers centres in Canterbury secondary schools.

This study investigated the resourcing experiences of children and youth attending office-based, tri-phasic trauma treatment. Ten participants were recruited from both private and agency based clinical psychology or counselling practices. During semi-structured, in-depth interviews participants described their resourcing experiences. The data were analyzed using the descriptive, phenomenological, and psychological method of Amedeo Giorgi. The results revealed a basic structure in the resourcing experiences of the child participants which was comprised of 12 constituents: (a) perceived attitude of the therapist, (b) personal and contextual relevance, (c) currency, (d) choice and control, (e) calming, (f) unsticking, (g) experiential, (h) triumph, (i) internal ease, (j) needing a guide, (k) naming the resource, and (l) betterment. The findings contribute to an understanding of the resourcing experience of youth in trauma therapy by adding the client’s voice to the therapeutic process. Implications for clinical practice and further research are presented. / Graduate