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PublicationThe Procurement Initiative Pulse Check Q2/2024(University of St.Gallen, 2024-07-15)With our Q2/2024 Pulse Check, we aim to gauge the current sentiment within the procurement and supply chain environment, focusing specifically on the role of raw materials procurement and the management of supplier price increases. Based on our pulse check survey, this report provides an overview of the current state in procurement and future trajectories.
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PublicationWorking beyond Neoliberalism: Organizing Alternativity through an Ethics of Care( 2024-07-05)The urgency to reimagine neoliberal capitalism challenges scholars to explore how we can organize alternatively. In this paper, we argue that a feminist ethics of care, which stresses our fundamental interdependence and responsibility to particular others, provides a novel relational understanding of the organization and maintenance of alternativity. Relying on an ethnography of a campaign and consultancy cooperative, we show how an ethical adherence to flourishing, vulnerability, and solidarity informs an alternative coordination, valuation, and orientation of work. We theorize how the cooperative maintains this alternativity through the organization of a ‘deliberative-responsive space’. Departing from scholarship that focuses on principles and practices in alternative organizing, our study emphasizes the organization of alternativity as an ongoing ethical responsiveness to different needs, capacities, and perspectives. We underline that a relational ethics and the responsive organizing it calls for provides a more situative and dynamic approach to dealing with plurality and conflict that frequently degenerate alternative organizations.
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PublicationTowards Scalable and Versatile Weight Space Learning(PMLR 235, 2024, 2024-07-23)Learning representations of well-trained neural network models holds the promise to provide an understanding of the inner workings of those models. However, previous work has either faced limitations when processing larger networks or was task-specific to either discriminative or generative tasks. This paper introduces the SANE approach to weight-space learning. SANE overcomes previous limitations by learning task-agnostic representations of neural networks that are scalable to larger models of varying architectures and that show capabilities beyond a single task. Our method extends the idea of hyper-representations towards sequential processing of subsets of neural network weights, thus allowing one to embed larger neural networks as a set of tokens into the learned representation space. SANE reveals global model information from layer-wise embeddings, and it can sequentially generate unseen neural network models, which was unattainable with previous hyper-representation learning methods. Extensive empirical evaluation demonstrates that SANE matches or exceeds state-of-the art performance on several weight representation learning benchmarks, particularly in initialization for new tasks and larger ResNet architectures.Type:Volume:
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PublicationCollaborative Advantage: Innovate, scale and transform to thrive in a volatile world(Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
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PublicationNachhaltigkeitskriterien für künstliche Intelligenz - Entwicklung eines Kriterien- und Indikatorensets für die Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung von KI-Systemen entlang des Lebenszyklus(Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung, 2021)
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PublicationService business in manufacturing companies - Identifying misconceptions and directing further research(Nova Southeastern University, 2010-09-06)Despite increasing interest in service business in manufacturing companies, the arguments for the transition from selling products to providing services still lacks theoretical robustness. By using eight focus groups with 45 participating companies, the following five misconceptions related to the economic and strategic arguments could be identified: the share of service revenue is an indicator for moving toward services, services are more profitable than products, service business is less volatile than product business, services are used for differentiating the total offering and service strategy creates sustainable competitive advantages. The reflection on these misconceptions guides further research and enriches the conceptualization of services in a manufacturing context.
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PublicationCustomer Value Anticipation, Loyalty and Word-of-Mouth - A cross-cultural Study(European Marketing Academy, 2014-06-03)Fierce global competition urges the requirement for companies to excel. As an effective strategic rationale, the customer value (CV) concept has been considered by researchers and practitioners alike. In this paper we relate the perceived customer value anticipation (CVA) to loyalty and favorable word-of-mouth (WOM) in an international service environment. Further, we investigate the process by mediation analysis, finding cognitive and conative loyalty as pivotal constructs. By including power distance (PD) as a moderator we delineate the effect of cross-cultural differences regarding our proposed framework. We find PD amplifying the indirect effect of CVA on WOM through the loyalty constructs.