René J. Jorna’s research while affiliated with University of Groningen and other places

... Firms' innovativeness can be influenced by both internal and external influences. Internal factors include a company's inherited capacities, such as its workforce's skills, accumulated experience, and prior related knowledge (Webster, 2004), organizational structure, and R&D efforts, as well as the capacity to respond appropriately to its employees' intrinsic motivation (Jorna and Waalkens, 2017). (Jorn and Waalkens, 2017) External factors are predominantly concerned with a firm's interaction with its external environment. ...

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Innovation and SMEs: A Binom of Economic Growth-Case of Albania

... This movement may lead to give up individual meanings and intentions, and rendering impersonal forces that apply the norms. Since Organizational Semiotics is widely used to provide conditions to develop and deploy software into enterprises and for social groups (Bonacin et al., 2012;Liu and Benfell, 2011;Gazendam et al., 2003), it searches for the structural features of these sets of people, being less relevant how and who in particular defined the structures. Given this intense appeal to pervasive and impersonal norms, OS's character is predominantly structural. ...

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ICEIS 2013 - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Volume 2, Angers, France, 4-7 July, 2013

... In this contribution we start with the theoretical framework of semiotics (semiotic engineering; see also Jorna & van Wezel, 1997;de Souza, 2005) in which questions about communication, meaning, user-orientation and sign usage have a natural place. We return to semiotic issues and symbiosis when we discuss: a) object-oriented analysis and design, b) objects and world making and c) the way we communicate with and within (virtual) worlds. ...

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Semiotic engineering, modeling and the use of multi-actor systems (MAS) for studying social sustainability: theoretical background and specifications

... processes. An important operator's activity at the control desk is communication with other operators outside the control room, workers in the field, and emergency and maintenance personnel, to coordinate their activities (Jorna, van Wezel, Kiewiet, & de Boer, 2005;Kauppi, Wikström, Sandblad & Andersson, 2006). As work in the control rooms is conducted in three shifts, research showed that the third shift operators have the highest exposure to fatigue (Gertler, DiFiore, & Raslear, 2013). ...

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Ergonomic design of a railway traffic control room: A Serbian experience

... O conceito de sustentabilidade surgiu de considerações ambientais e da necessidade de se definir um limite para o crescimento. Inicialmente, o seu significado estava diretamente relacionado com a forma como as atividades económicas afetam o ambiente e, portanto, com a necessidade de controlar o desenvolvimento económico de forma a preservar a ecologia global (Faber et al., 2010;Scoones, 2007). Em 1987, a Comissão Mundial sobre Meio Ambiente e o Desenvolvimento definiu o desenvolvimento sustentável como "desenvolvimento que responde às necessidades do presente sem comprometer a capacidade de resposta das gerações futuras às suas próprias necessidades" (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987, p. 8 (Hansmann et al., 2012). ...

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Grandes Eventos de Desporto: o ponto de vista urbano

... Signs are constantly created and consumed within a social and organisational context (Liu, 2003), and their meaning is rarely absolute. Signs evoke responses from the interpreter (Heusden and Jorna, 2001), placing the individual agent at the centre of the communication process. The process through which an agent attributes meaning to a sign is called semiosis, and is influenced by the point-of-view of the agent and the knowledge available -that is, the affordances and the norms. ...

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Safeguarding customer information: The role of staff

... Further, in considering stickiness and absorptive capacity, knowledge can be categorized into three types: sensory, coded, and theoretical information (Nooteboom, 1996;Cijsouw and Jorna, 2003;Indarti 2010). Coded knowledge, in particular, has been described as information available in manuals, instruction guides, and written procedures (Indarti, 2010). ...

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Components of an Occupational Safety and Health Communication Research Strategy for Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

... In an uncertain dynamic environment, flexibility is the elementary trait of successful organizations [11] . The influences of organizational flexibility on cross-border could be articulated from the following three aspects: ①Organizational flexibility enables decision makers to precisely seize the temporal pace, observe cooperation situations more acutely, thereby adjusting cooperation strategy timely, formulating proper organization forms, coping with uncertainty rapidly, solving disputes and conflicts, maintaining and enlarging cooperation results. ...

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Study on the Flexibility in Cross-Border Water Resources Cooperation Governance

... Many of the staff scheduling cases concern nurse rostering, see e.g. [12]- [19]. Other successful application areas include airline crews [20], call centers [21], check-in counters [22], ground crews [23], nursing homes and airport ground services [24], postal services [25] and transport companies [26]. ...

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Driver Rostering for Bus Transit Companies

... Another part of the literature focuses on support systems for a single actor to include the different perspectives (Ferretti and Montibeller, 2016). A great example of the latter in public transport can be found at Wang et al. (2019), in their support system for train drivers and Faber and Jorna (2013) for railway planning. For this chapter and its definition of governance, we will focus on the first type, not the support system but the rule set. ...

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Veeneman, W. (2021). The governance of public transport: towards integrated design. In Handbook of Public Transport Research. Edward Elgar Publishing.