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- Family Businesses: A Diagnosis and Self Therapy Model
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The "Family Business in the New Economy: How to Survive and Develop" (FAMBUS) project aims to develop a model for diagnosis and self-therapy (diagnostics - therapy, including conflict resolution, modernization, adoption to environment, to globalization etc.). The model aims to promoting healthy personal relationships and building high performing teams, as well as to serve as an outside resource that brings objectivity and direction to a certain situation in family businesses. It may unfold unfinished or unspoken issues and help the family business members to work toward their own unique solutions.
The creation of the model is based on the results of the quantitative study (a survey comprising a structured questionnaire completed by 200 Finnish and Greek family businesses) and qualitative study (Personal site visits and interviews comprising 20 interviews in both Finland and Greece) for obtaining deeper understanding of the research problem and to support the design of the diagnosis and self-therapy model.
The most important contribution of this work is anticipated to be the novel family business diagnosis and self-therapy model and subsequent electronic tool in three languages, English, Finnish and Greek, for identification of potential problem areas and potential activities for their solutions. The aim of the model is to aid family businesses to avoid difficulties at an early stage and to serve as a self-therapy model.
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1 Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Department of Informatics, P. O. Box 141, GR-57400 Thessaloniki, Greece, US
1 Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Department of Informatics, P. O. Box 141, GR-57400 Thessaloniki, Greece, US
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International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Vol 2, No 1 (2014), Pagination: 28-44Abstract
Family businesses are complex systems which require good strategy, leadership, and committed personnel in order to thrive. Compared to other businesses family businesses are characterized by two dynamic and sometimes conflicting reference systems, the family (the emotional) and the company (the professional). Succession is mentioned in the literature as one of the four main categories of problems, along with problems of strategy, of the conflicts that can arise between family members and the problems of the daily management. The management of conflict and communication frequently determine the effectiveness of the family business.The "Family Business in the New Economy: How to Survive and Develop" (FAMBUS) project aims to develop a model for diagnosis and self-therapy (diagnostics - therapy, including conflict resolution, modernization, adoption to environment, to globalization etc.). The model aims to promoting healthy personal relationships and building high performing teams, as well as to serve as an outside resource that brings objectivity and direction to a certain situation in family businesses. It may unfold unfinished or unspoken issues and help the family business members to work toward their own unique solutions.
The creation of the model is based on the results of the quantitative study (a survey comprising a structured questionnaire completed by 200 Finnish and Greek family businesses) and qualitative study (Personal site visits and interviews comprising 20 interviews in both Finland and Greece) for obtaining deeper understanding of the research problem and to support the design of the diagnosis and self-therapy model.
The most important contribution of this work is anticipated to be the novel family business diagnosis and self-therapy model and subsequent electronic tool in three languages, English, Finnish and Greek, for identification of potential problem areas and potential activities for their solutions. The aim of the model is to aid family businesses to avoid difficulties at an early stage and to serve as a self-therapy model.
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Family Businesses, Diagnosis and Self Therapy Model, Sustainable Development, the FAMBUS Project, Greece, FinlandFull Text
- Internet of Things in the Context of Industry 4.0:An Overview
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1 Department of Informatics, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, GR
2 Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, GR
1 Department of Informatics, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, GR
2 Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, GR
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International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Vol 7, No 1 (2019), Pagination: 4-19Abstract
Due to successive technological advancements, developments and innovations, the global industrial landscape has drastically transformed over the last years. The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) aims at transforming traditional industries into intelligent ones by incorporating innovative technologies. Industry 4.0 enables physical assets to be integrated into intertwined digital and physical processes thus creating smart factories and intelligent manufacturing environments. Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly growing technology that has drastically contributed to the Industry 4.0 realization. IoT pursues to pervade our everyday environment and its objects, linking the physical to the digital world and allowing people and “things” to be connected anytime, anywhere, with anything and anyone ideally using any network and service. IoT is regarded as a dynamic and global network of interconnected “things” uniquely addressable, based on standard and interoperable communication protocols and with self-configuring capabilities. Despite still being at an early development, adoption and implementation stage, Industry 4.0 and IoT can provide a multitude of contemporary solutions, applications and services. Hence, they can improve life quality and yield significant personal, professional and economic opportunities and benefits in the near future. This study scrutinizes IoT in the Industry 4.0 context. More specifically, it presents related studies, describes the IoT concept and explores some of the numerous IoT application domains. Moreover, it presents and analyzes the concept of Industry 4.0 and the benefits it offers as well as the relevant key technologies (e.g. industrial internet of things (IIoT), cyber-physical systems (CPSs), cloud computing, big data and advanced data analytics). Furthermore, it describes the concept of intelligent manufacturing and highlights the main IoT and Industry 4.0 challenges and open research issues. Finally, the need for innovation in the industrial domain and the impact and benefits that IoT and Industry 4.0 provide to everyday life and industries is described.Keywords
Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, IoT Applications, Industrial Internet of Things, Ubiquitous Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems.Full Text
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