This empirical-exploratory article sheds light on the change management approaches used by Chinese owner-managers of small firms in Singapore and their openness toward strategic learning. The paper examines widespread common-sense assumptions that ethnic Chinese adopt mostly directive-coercive (autocratic) change management approaches, which may stifle innovation. Great diversity exists amongst...

The restricted definition of ‘‘climate change’’ used by the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) has profoundly affected the science, politics, and policy processes associated with the international response to the climate issue. Specifically, the FCCC definition has contributed to the gridlock and ineffectiveness of the global response to the challenge of climate change. This paper ar...

The need for climate change information at the regional-to-local scale is one of the central issues within the global change debate. Such information is necessary in order to assess the impacts of climate change on human and natural systems and to develop suitable adaptation and mitigation strategies at the national level. The end-user and policy-making communities have long sought reliable reg...

In this paper, an approach to reducing the effects of registration noise in unsupervised change detection is proposed. The approach is formulated in the framework of the change vector analysis (CVA) technique. It is composed of two main phases. The first phase aims at estimating in an adaptive way (given the specific pair of images considered) the registration-noise distribution in the magnitud...

In the classical problem of quickest change detection, a decision maker observes a sequence of random variables. At some point in time, the distribution of the random variables changes abruptly. The objective is to detect this change in distribution with minimum possible delay, subject to a constraint on the false alarm rate. In many applications of quickest change detection, e.g., where the ch...

Change awareness is the ability of individuals to track the asynchronous changes made to a collaborative document or graphical workspace by other participants over time. We develop a framework that articulates what change awareness information is critical if people are to track and maintain change awareness. Information elements include: knowing who changed the artifact, what those changes invo...

Recently, land use and cover change is recognized as a one of major drivers of global change. Consequently, an updated and accurate database concerning their distribution is essential for global change research. This study investigated a land use change based on change of temporal pattern which applied to the wavelet-filtered MODIS EVI from 2000 to 2009. The temporal pattern analysis was able t...

Given the present climate regime, it is crucial to analyse whether an incentive strategy exists that could induce the US to revise their decision and to comply with the Kyoto commitments. One solution, occasionally proposed in the literature and in actual policymaking, is to link negotiations on climate change control with decisions concerning international R&D cooperation. This paper explores ...