Interpretive structural modeling—A useful tool for technology assessment?

Watson, Richard H.

doi:10.1016/0040-1625(78)90028-8

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“…Along with the advances in system theory field, the techniques in this area have been developed and widely adopted in other fields of studies including TA. Richard H. Watson [ 35 ] attempted to apply Interpretive structural modeling (ISM) -a computer-aided method for developing graphical representation of system composition and structurein a TA problem. Harold A. Linstone et al [36] conduct a comprehensive study of about 100 computer-based structural modeling techniques.…”

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Review of Methods and Tools Applied in Technology Assessment Literature

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2007

PICMET '07 - 2007 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering &Amp; Technology

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Technology Assessment is an emerging field of management study for the past four decades. An increasing number of researches have been carried out over the years that contributes to the development of TA literature. There have been some journal articles summarizing the history and growth of the field during its evolution. However there has been no effort made to present an overview of the methodologies and tools that have been used in the TA research literature. This paper is the first attempt to fill that need. A thorough review of the TA articles published in leading journals in the MOT field is conducted to identify the methodologies or research tools in the studies. The paper starts with a brief overview of the development of the TA field over its history. This section provides the readers with knowledge of the movements in the field. A classification of the approaches, methods and tools that are available for TA studies is then introduced. The main content of the paper presents the works done in TA literature that involve certain research methodologies. A separate section is devoted to the status of TA relating developing countries follows, which highlights the interest of the author of his future research direction. It is hoped that the review will reveal opportunities for his research in devising a new TA model that is dedicated to the developing world. In general the paper's main objective is to provide an overview of available TA methodologies that can be applied or further developed by other researchers.

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“…Comparing the hierarchy of variables in the various classifications (direct, indirect and potential) leads to rich source of information. (Qureshi et al, 2008) As per Watson (1973), MICMAC not only confirms the importance of certain variables, but also effects to uncover certain variables, which because of their indirect actions play an important role (yet were not identifiable through direct classification). Examination of direct relationships may reveal that criteria having strong direct impact can be suppressing hidden criteria, which at times may substantially influence the system under consideration (Saxena and Sushil, 1990).…”

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Improving to Smart Organization

Khan¹,

Haleem

2015

Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on studying the concept of “Smart Organization” and providing a comprehensive framework for the various factors as barriers for the smart organization, identifying and classifying the key criterion of these factors based on their direct and indirect relationships. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper an extensive literature survey and experts’ opinion have been used to identify major barriers of smart organization. These barriers are then modeled using interpretative structural modeling (ISM) methodology. The model so developed has been further improved and an integrated model has been developed using fuzzy-MICMAC. Findings – Various barriers of smart organization have been identified and a structural model has been developed for barriers using the ISM methodology. The critical barriers have been found out by fuzzy-MICMAC analysis. The driver power and dependence graph has been plotted for barriers. The barriers are classified into four categories which are, autonomous, linkage, dependent and independent according to their driver power and dependence. From the ISM model and the integrated model, and from further discussions with the experts, it has been found that the barriers “(B1) organizational structure” and “(B6) Managerial actions” are the two most important barriers, every other barrier is directly or indirectly driven by these. Research limitations/implications – The basis of developing the ISM model, i.e, the structural self-interaction matrix is based on experts’ opinion, therefore the result may get influenced if there is any biasing in judging the barriers. The future research scope for this paper will be to test the model generated in this paper. The testing of the model can be done by applying structural equation modeling technique, it has the capability of testing the hypothetical model. Further a framework of smart organizations can be created to find out the smartness of different organizations. Practical implications – The paper can be used by organizations in understanding the barriers in becoming “smart” on the basis of their inter-relationships. This model can help manufacturing organization of North India in understanding the barriers which needs to be worked upon and the inter-relationship among these factors. This model-based study may be helpful in understanding and implementing the practices of smart organization by removing the possible critical barriers. Originality/value – This is the first study to identify the barriers of smart organizations and to develop a model of these barriers using ISM and fuzzy-MICMAC.

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“…The reachability matrix indicates the impacts of the row element on the column element of the adjacent matrix [31,32]. Sequential power computation of the sum of the nˆn adjacent matrix A and nˆn unit matrix I can finally generate the reachability matrix R [33].…”

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Risk Factors of Building Apartments for University Talent through the Agent Construction Mode in China: Interrelationship and Prioritization

Liu

Jiang

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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Apartments for university talent (AUT), are apartments provided to staff at non-market price, in order to attract outstanding scholars from around the world to work in universities and improve educational quality. This has been a critical issue in achieving social sustainability in China during rapid urbanization and industrialization. The agent construction mode has been adopted to build AUT because universities usually lack relevant management experience. The agent construction mode is a type of turnkey engineer construction based on the principal-agent model, project bidding mode, engineering contracting projects, and project supervision system. Risk factors are important considerations for both universities and agent construction companies. Although some studies have investigated the risk factors, only a few studies have identified the hierarchical structure of relevant risk factors. Therefore, the interrelationship and prioritization of the risk factors remain unknown, and this situation presents a barrier to better risk management. This paper investigates the interrelationship of risk factors with interpretative structural modeling (ISM). In addition, fuzzy MICMAC (matric d'impacts croises-multiplication appliqué a un classemen) analysis was conducted to prioritize the risk factors. The findings provide useful references for better risk management of building AUT through the agent construction mode. Although this study focuses on China, the analytical process can also be generalized to other research topics and other countries.

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Interpretive structural modeling—A useful tool for technology assessment?

Cited by 190 publications

References 6 publications

Review of Methods and Tools Applied in Technology Assessment Literature

Review of Methods and Tools Applied in Technology Assessment Literature

Improving to Smart Organization

Risk Factors of Building Apartments for University Talent through the Agent Construction Mode in China: Interrelationship and Prioritization

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