Embracing Technological and Behavioral Changes: A Synthesis

Embracing Changes

Behavioral and Technological Changes Regarding Lighting Consumptions: A MARKAL Case Study

The present study aims at assessing the joint impact of awareness campaigns and technology choice, on end-use energy consumption behaviour. Actions to achieve energy savings through the use of more energy efficient end-use technology are included. A new MARKAL framework, the Socio-MARKAL, was recently proposed by the authors. As opposed to the traditional MARKAL framework based on technical and...

Training, Technological Changes, and Displacement

By matching industry/occupation data on training to displaced worker data from the Current Population Surveys, this paper analyzes why many older workers were displaced by technological changes in the 1990s, and why these workers incurred large earnings losses. When technological changes depreciate the existing stock of firm-specific human capital, older workers who receive higher wages from th...

SMEs Amidst Global Technological Changes

In small countries such as New Zealand, small to mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are defined as enterprises employing 19 or fewer employees. Small enterprises are defined as those employing zero to five full-time employees (FTEs) (often called microbusinesses), and medium-sized enterprises as those employing six to nineteen FTEs. Other countries, such as the United States and European countries,...

Embracing Process Compliance and Flexibility Through Behavioral Consistency Checking in ACM - A Repair Service Management Case

Enabling flexibility in unpredictable situations with ad hoc actions decided at runtime by knowledge workers is the main focus of Adaptive Case Management (ACM) systems. However, ad hoc actions added during case execution and ACM templates prepared at design time need to be within the boundaries defined by business constraints, company regulations and legal systems. In this paper we report our ...