Barriers to the investment in the Concentrated Solar Power sector in Morocco: A foresight approach using the Cross Impact Analysis for a large number of events

The Scenario Analysis methods have often been used by policy makers as an instrument to manage uncertainty and to support the shaping of long-term economy policies. In this research, we apply Scenario Analysis in order to identify the barriers affecting the decision to invest in the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) sector in Morocco. Our results aim at facilitating the process of defining different paths in strategic political and policy actions. Using data from a survey on a panel of experts, the Cross Impact Analysis (CIA) and the Cross Impact Matrix System (SMIC) techniques are applied. The advantage of these techniques is that they allow including in the analysis the interlinkages between the events that will define the future scenarios. However, their limitation is that the number of events analyzed cannot be too high since the information collected from the experts increases exponentially according to the number of events introduced. We thus expand our analysis with a new methodological approach, combining the use of prospective and statistics techniques. This approach allows addressing the mentioned limitation and applying these techniques, initially restricted to 6 events in its common application, to a large number of events. The results show that uncertainty and informality would be key factors in promoting the arrival of companies in this sector. Additionally, regarding companies that already have a presence in Morocco’s renewable energy sector, an increase in activity would be achieved through improvements in the easing of financial and legal barriers.     

Scenarios and design: Scoping the dialogue space

This paper examines the intersections between two futures-oriented domains of practice and research: scenario planning and design. Both are practice-led, with uneasy but productive relationships with theorizing. Exploring their relations offers ways to address challenges faced by interdisciplinary management research, which struggles to connect research and practice. The authors describe how they brought the two fields together. We outline how we convened, designed and facilitated the fourth Oxford Futures Forum held in May 2014. This event brought together leading practitioners and researchers in a collective inquiry based on self-organizing, generative and reflexive making and dialogue. How participants engaged, from responding to the invitation to take part, as well as their practical and discursive encounters with one another during the event, threw up similarities and differences between the two fields. We present nine themes that capture the links and spaces between design and scenarios, yet suggest that they are not a straightforward overlap or a simple relationship, but rather a range of interactions between the fields, including feeding in, bridging, tension and repulsion. The paper's contribution is to suggest how scenario planning can engage with design, resulting in new opportunities for research and projects. These modes of engagement provide a framing to explore dialogues between other management disciplines.     

A review of research on personality in teams: Accounting for pathways spanning levels of theory and analysis

Over the last half century there has been a great deal of interest in the role of personality in teams. In this article we review the theoretical and empirical research on this topic to summarize what we have learned and also to provide a foundation for future research necessary for application of this knowledge to human resource management decisions. We describe research that emphasizes both team- and individual-levels of analysis and theory, and we discuss recent efforts that attempt to bridge these two levels. We conclude by identifying several issues that should take precedence in research in order to advance our understanding of the role of personality in teams.     

刍议中小城市排水体制

结合工程实际探讨排水体制问题,提出了在中小城市的旧的城区改造过程中应遵循和推行的合流制排水系统以及排水体制问题。     

浅谈人体工程学在室内设计中的应用

人体工程学,也称人类工程学、人间工学或工效学,即处理好:人——机——环境的协调关系。人体工程学联系到室内设计,其含义为:以人为本,运用人体计测、生理、心理计测等手段和方法,研究人体结构功能、心理、力学等方面与室内环境之间的合理协调关系,以适应人的身心活动要求,取得最佳的使用效能,其目标应是安全、健康、高效能和舒适的。     

Discretionary effort of regional hospitality small business employees: Impact of non-monetary work factors

This research examines the impact of non-monetary work environment factors on employee discretionary effort within the hospitality sector in the South West Region of Western Australia. Limited qualitative research has previously examined the factors that drive employee discretionary effort especially in the regional hospitality sector. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 hospitality employees using purposive sampling. While the findings are preliminary, they do highlight important aspects of discretionary effort within a regional context. Critically, two previously un-identified factors, employees’ professional identity and perception of the hospitality sector have been found to have important implications for employees’ discretionary effort and need to be further explored. Additionally, the findings support the direct influence of organisational culture, job design, interpersonal relationships, on discretionary effort. Finally, the research confirms that a paternalistic leadership approach has a significant influence on hospitality employees’ discretionary effort. Theoretical and practical implications and directions for future research are outlined.     

广告设计中的色彩应用

色彩是构成广告的重要因素,一幅成功的广告必然是色彩运用搭配得最好、最合理的广告。因此,作为设计者要想灵活地应用色彩,发挥好色彩的作用,就需要对色彩与心理的一般关系、广告色彩的作用、色彩在广告应用中的特性等方面进行深入研究,提高运用色彩的能力。     

小议卫生间的设计

卫生间是一幢建筑物中必不可少的组成部分,文章针对一般建筑物卫生间的结构,探讨了卫生间的设计。     

在BSV模型下矫正投资者对信息的认知偏差

Barberis、Shleifer和Vishny(1998)基于投资者认知市场信息过程中出现的心理偏差，解释了过度反应和反应不足现象，并在BSV模型的框架下，进一步引入了一个心理矫正中介来矫正投资者对市场信息的认知偏差。通过建立市场管理者与中介机构之间的委托一代理体制，发现确实有可能存在此类中介。市场管理者可以制定出一套针对此类中介的最优激励机制，对其进行监督管理。