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Renovation of existing buildings pose unique challenges to the projects, especially when facilities must remain operational during construction. Building Information Modeling (BIM) methods offer a potential solution by enhancing project management and coordination. Nevertheless, comprehensive case study research on BIM implementation challenges and benefits in renovation projects is lacking. This research addresses this gap through an ethnographic investigation of BIM implementation in a complex renovation project. The ethnographic methods involved direct observation of project meetings, active engagement in all project communications, and access to project data resources. Additionally, surveys and expert interviews with key decision-makers were conducted. The findings reveal how BIM implementation streamlined project management and improved communication, decision making, and output quality, despite limited prior BIM expertise among the major stakeholders. Challenges included a lack of BIM skills, absence of standardized practices, and unclear data management. Furthermore, valuable lessons were identified, including that the necessity of BIM requirements and proper procurement methods encompassing the entire project workflow, formalizing information exchange, preventing information fragmentation, facilitating model accessibility, and ensuring clarity in model detail and content are crucial for project success. This research sheds light on the potential of BIM in renovation projects and highlights key considerations for successful implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vehicular communication is gaining popularity, and seamless handover is critical to maintaining a stable and uninterrupted network connection between vehicles and roadside units. This paper investigates the advancements in handover approaches in vehicular networks, with a specific focus on fifth generation (5G) technology. Vehicular Ad-hoc networks (VANETs) face challenges due to high mobility, dynamic network topology, and frequent information exchange. The paper discusses handover issues in 5G-VANET environments, such as too-late and too-early handovers, wrong handover decisions, and unnecessary handovers. It also explores key performance indicators (KPIs) used in handover evaluation. The advancements in handover approaches presented in this paper pave the way for enhanced connectivity and communication management in 5G-VANETs, contributing to the development of safer and more efficient intelligent transportation systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we aim to propose formulas based on indicators to develop the transcendent happiness of employees in the tourism industry. Specifically, three factors are proposed as determinants of transcendence happiness (THP): corporate culture (CO), internal communication (IC), and employee-centered personnel management (EPM). To this end, a model proposes to help guide employees in the tourism industry toward happiness. From a sample of 443 employees in tourist accommodations in Spain, we explore the feasibility of an SEM-PLS model based on already validated scales. Our results show, on the one hand, the critical role of organisational culture in the pursuit of employee happiness and, on the other hand, the mediating effect of internal communication between personnel management and transcendent happiness. This ground-breaking study fills two gaps in the current happiness management literature. The first is considering transcendent happiness as an innovative key to corporate governance. It requires a corporate culture that fosters all human capital's personal growth and work-related well-being. In addition, secondly, to demonstrate that the variables of internal communication and passion at work positively influence the transcendental happiness of internal customers in rural establishments. Between internal communication and personnel management based on the employee's growth, the organisational culture has the most significant impact not only on personnel management but also on the achievement of the happiness of private employees. To this end, rural accommodations should design organisational patterns based on codes of conduct in the social relations between employees and managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building on scholarship on the mediatization of organizations, we propose a conception of the social media orientation of organizational leaders and apply it to higher education. Based on an online survey of 276 leaders of Swiss higher education institutions, we show that social media platforms have made their way into university management and communication but are still not as important as news media. The study discusses differences between university types and uses the literature on new public management to derive influencing factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study is to analyze the communication management strategies of the top 40 hotel companies, in terms of turnover, using their corporate accounts on social networks during the Easter holiday campaign in 2021 and 2022. By using apps such as "Data Analytics" and "Content Analytics" from Welovroi, a comparative, quantitative and qualitative study, using content and discourse analysis, was designed. The comparative study seeks to identify possible changes and offers data on activity, impact and the published content. The results reveal a considerable difference—both quantitative and qualitative—from one period to the other in terms of behavior and networking on social media of the brands studied. Despite the increase in publications from 2021 to 2022, the level of engagement falls, the frequency of publications and content varies and, in addition, the importance of Instagram and Facebook, as networks which generate more interaction with the public, can be noted. The conclusions reached may also serve to improve the management of social media communication for hotel companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sharenting refers to parents sharing private information about their children online. While satisfying important needs among parents, sharenting poses privacy risks to children and may interfere with children's autonomy in constructing their own online identity. Drawing on the concept of psychological ownership in organizational psychology and applying it to the Communication Privacy Management (CPM) framework, this study examines the interrelationships among parents' psychological ownership of their children's private information, their motivations for sharenting, and the frequency and types of sharenting behaviors they engage in. An online survey was administered to 429 parents who reported having ever shared private information about their underage children on social media. Based on previous research, two potential dimensions of psychological ownership (possession and responsibility) were proposed and their relationships with each other and with sharenting behavior and motivations were examined. The findings showed a modest correlation between possession and responsibility. Both demonstrated significant relationships with sharenting behavior and motivations, but not always in the same direction. The findings suggest value of adding psychological ownership to the CPM framework. Practical implications for parents, educators, and advocates are discussed. Prior state of knowledge: Parents are actively sharing private information about their children on social media (sharenting). It poses risks to children's privacy and interferes with children's construction of their own identity. Novel contributions: This is the first study to apply the concept of psychological ownership in organizational psychology to the communication privacy management theory (CPM). This advances both the CPM theory and understanding of the sharenting behavior. Practical implications: The findings have practical implications for parents, educators, and advocates who are concerned about children's identity and privacy online. Greater efforts should be dedicated to educating parents about being good stewards of their children's private information online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a simulation framework for evaluating building control strategies (BCSs), developed with VOLTTRON, an opensource platform that integrates data, devices, and systems for sensing and control applications, and is based on co-simulation interfaces. It realizes an integrated environment for both testing and deploying BCSs, thereby eliminating the need for having a dedicated implementation of BCS for testing. For the first time, this framework provides critical functionalities, including scalable communication management and time-drive simulation advance, i.e., advancing the simulation based on clock time. We applied this framework to evaluating two BCSs from ASHRAE Guideline 36-2008 and ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2019. The evaluation results show that those BCSs primarily benefit the heating operation by reducing gas usage but yield insignificant savings in electricity consumption. The results also emphasize the importance of tuning the parameters of the BCSs to achieve better performances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this study was to identify editorial practices related to time management in Spanish Communication journals and determine whether their time management is homogeneous, as well as to evaluate which journals are more agile, discover the differences between general and special issues, and identify practices that could streamline the publication process. To this end, we worked with an exploratory‐type methodology focused on content analysis. The sample analysed included 1,581 articles published in 2021 by the 62 Communication journals included in the Índice Dialnet de Revistas (IDR) 2020, differentiating between those published in general and special issues, with the aim of focusing attention on the time elapsed from when journals receive articles until their final publication. The results reveal little homogeneity in policies regarding information on dates and confirms average times of more than 6 months for the duration of the process, with the publication process for special issues being more agile. The strength of this work lies in the demonstration of the need to work on common policies that enable the publication process to be streamlined while accelerating the availability of research results for the benefit of academia as well as society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research focuses on how Communication Management in Preventing the Negative Impact of Online Games on Students at SD Negeri 09 South Jakarta. The phenomenon of using online games among elementary school children is very widespread, which is feared is the negative impact experienced by elementary school students. These elementary school children have not been able to filter out what is right or wrong to apply in their lives. For this reason, it is necessary to manage school communication in order to develop good communication to prevent the negative impact of online games at SD Negeri 09 Jakarta. Because through good communication management carried out by school residents, students in this elementary school can take advantage of technology and become media literate so as to avoid negative behavior of online online games. By using the concept of communication management, and the concept of online games, and the concept of elementary school. The methodology used in this research is a qualitative method with indepth interviews with principals, teachers, students and parents and conducting data validity tests with data credibility tests. So the results of the research show that the management of communication carried out by SD 09 elementary school to prevent the negative impact of playing online games through the stages of communication planning then determining the best communication method and conducting socialization and education as well as collaborating with parents and monitoring and evaluating in monitoring student activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to describe and analyze social responsibility communications management at large companies in Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile and contribute empirical observations to understand sustainability management in Latin America better. The study followed a quantitative approach and conducted a survey based on the Communications and Sustainability Convergence Model. The survey was administered to 96 executives in the three countries, who were asked to rate their practices in these two dimensions. Notwithstanding the limitations associated with survey respondents self-evaluating their practices, we found that most of the companies surveyed categorize their communications and sustainability management as more strategic than tactical and that their practices fit within a scenario known as the Common Good, which aims at creating a triple social, economic and environmental value. However, conceptual differences emerge when understanding sustainability and where it should be focused within the organization. Further research is recommended to help achieve a consensus on the concept of sustainability and how it can be implemented through communications initiatives that benefit both organizations and the communities in which they operate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to show what are the applicants' institution selection criteria in higher education in Hungary and what changes this will imply in higher education management and communication. These questions were investigated based on a review of the most relevant literature and the analysis of 1396 Hungarian higher education University of Pécs applicants in two consecutive years. Exploratory and confirmative factor analyses were used to identify the relative order of the application influencing factors: as a result, the first most important is the vivacity, followed by career and costs, fourth is image and the last one is the low commitment. In this context, the paper has shown that the identification of the application strategies requires renewed management and communication techniques. The results help the institutions to determine the possible actions to be implemented to attract more students and improve the level of offered services. The permanent system change of the Hungarian higher education as a phenomenon versus the applicants' institution selection criteria gives the uniqueness of the Hungarian situation, and this study provides information for researchers in higher education in this field additionally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous research applied an affordance approach to the literature in instruction and pedagogy. Because of the continued trend in online instruction and course management, there exists a need to study the impact of technological affordances and communication in learning management systems. The current study replicates and extends research investigating the responses of undergraduate students to discussion comments on a course management page, in which the presence or absence of peer identity and the helper heuristic of fellow students were manipulated. Results suggest that the act of being helpful (through the helper heuristic) positively impacted source credibility, perceptions of an assignment-related message, and computer-mediated competence. Findings for student rapport and task attraction did not replicate. Furthermore, identity cues continue to be unrelated to the variables of interest. Findings are discussed in terms of both theoretical and instructional relevance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The progressive adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the business world has generated a radical transformation in operational and communication management, both internally and externally. ICT are present at all levels of today's society, from the largest multinational corporations to individuals. The objective of this research is to provide an analysis of the trends and prospects of ICT in business management. For this purpose, a scientometric analysis and a systematic review in Scopus and SciELO was conducted during the last 5 years, from 2018 to 2022. The inquiry indicates that the thematic relationships show divergences, in turn, the emerging trends represent a greater variety with respect to the intermediate and consolidated ones. Likewise, it is necessary to opt for the democratization of knowledge regarding technology; in this way, ICT must be an indisputable part of organizations, regardless of the category, size or purpose. The main limitation to the application of ICT is the lack of knowledge about them, or their misleading praxis; therefore, emphasis is placed on the adoption or efficient learning of the tools that will be the protagonist of future progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected the world's cultural institutions, as well as driving digitization and a change in the relationships with their audiences. This study explores how the most visited art-museums in Spain have reacted through their social networks to the pandemic. Two key moments, the confinement and a period one-year after the declaration of the health crisis are compared. A mixed method by combining a content analysis of 2392 publications on Twitter and Instagram and two regression models evidence that COVID-19 has been a turning point in the management of museum communication in digital ecosystems. The main findings highlight the importance of active listening and the ability of these channels to create experiences beyond the physical visit. The strategic value of its implementation is underlined. Practical implications are included and it emphasized the role of entertainment and social support of the museums in crisis situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The aim of the study is to deepen the knowledge about municipalities' risk communication for preparedness. This objective was pursued by analyzing how risk communication functions were organized in municipalities and by scrutinizing tensions in risk communication management. Design/methodology/approach: The study relies on 19 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with communication practitioners in Swedish municipalities. The sample was purposive and included Swedish municipalities varying in number of inhabitants, geographical location, degree of urbanization, size and risk profile. Findings: Risk communication is seen as a sub-field of crisis communication in municipalities' communication management. The task of initiating risk communication activities and campaigns is frequently assigned to the municipalities' safety units or emergency coordinators and is normally not part of communication practitioners' duties. Municipal communication practitioners often face challenges in trying to demonstrate the significance of the practitioners' role in risk communication and other risk-related activities within the municipality. The practitioners' work is characterized by four categories of tensions that are identified as follows: constitutional/legal, organizational, cultural and technological. Practical implications: The identified tensions in risk communication are important for reflexive practitioners to consider, and the paper suggests three steps that municipal communication managers can take to handle them. Originality/value: The study contributes with novel knowledge about municipal communication management in a context of risk communication. The study challenges the existing and dominant risk communication research and offers a more contextual and reflexive understanding of actual risk communication processes in municipalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Research Summary: Solving non‐routine problems—problems for which current organizational, recurrent action patterns do not offer a predetermined, effective solution—can be an important source of value creation. When these problems occur in subsidiaries of multinational corporations, senior headquarters managers can potentially help solve them. However, whether their involvement is beneficial rests upon the assumptions that they know which knowledge is appropriate and that their involvement does not negatively influence the problem solving process. We challenge these assumptions and theorize that the involvement of senior headquarters managers is negatively related to solution effectiveness, unless senior subsidiary managers are also involved, and especially if problems have an external locus (i.e., primarily relate to the firm's products and services). Our robust results are consistent with our theory. Managerial Summary: Companies are often faced with new problems, which represent an opportunity for organizational improvements. But how different types of senior managers influence problem solving effectiveness has remained unclear. Studying problems occurring in foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations, we find that the involvement of senior headquarters managers is negatively related to problem solving effectiveness. Two reasons explain this result: senior headquarters managers often lack necessary understanding of their subsidiaries' contexts; and their involvement diminishes active participation of subsidiary employees. The negative relationship is especially strong when problems relate to products and services (as opposed to internal processes). Furthermore, we find that senior subsidiary managers can mitigate the negative consequences related to senior headquarters managers' involvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extensive influence on the world's economy and society. Many industries suffer from enormous losses in China, while the construction industry achieves a "V' shape revival in performance. Based on an online survey of 283 Chinese civil engineers, this study reveals that the construction industry encountered difficulties of lack of workers, blocked transportation, shortage of materials, and inadequate funds, which led to common problems of schedule delay and cost overrun during the pandemic. Key measures to mitigate the impact of the pandemic and help the construction industry transit from survival to revival include efficient epidemic control, various government support, usage of digital technologies, and flexible management and communication schemes. These responding strategies imply that the government, the construction industry, and construction enterprises should improve information technology intelligence to meet the challenges of a global pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Bumble and Tinder are dating apps for those who struggle with online dating-based romance. They allow you to share personal data through a smartphone application, without the need for direct conversation. This study aims to explain the phenomenon of online dating with Dating Apps and the meaning of using Dating Apps Bumble and Tinder from the perspective of Computer-Mediated Communication and Coordinated Management of Meaning. The basic concepts used in this research are the theory of Computer-Mediated Communication from Joseph Walther and the Coordinated Management of Meaning from W. B Pearce and V Cronin. In this qualitative research, informants are determined using purposive sampling and participant observation. The data collection techniques used in this study were observations and interviews with six women and three men who were active users of Bumble and Tinder. The results of this research show a pattern of gender relations in the use of the Bumble or Tinder applications. Bumble gives women more control over relationship development or termination compared to Tinder. Shared meaning of "dating" sustains gender relations, built through communication, relationships, and culture. Online dating prioritizes selective selfpresentation for creating a favorable impression on the partner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flood is a hydrometeorological disaster whose intensity and geographic scope continue to increase due to climate change, global warming, and lack of environmental management. Floods often need to be better managed through policy implementation and communication. This study reviews the communication of public policies for flood management. This review uses a traditional approach by referring to previous publications from articles and books, whereas analysis and synthesis refer to the qualitative methods. Public policy must pay attention to fairness, transparency, accountability, participation, and accommodating all parties' interests. The implementation for flood disasters needs to consider elements, the existing programs, and target groups that will receive policies. Flood disaster communication has principles such as transparency, responsiveness, efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, participation, measurement, fairness, and environmental sustainability. Effective and timely communication is very important in dealing with disasters because it can help reduce losses and increase community preparedness. The infrastructure system, which includes drainage, reservoir management, water infiltration zones (green space and densely vegetated land), and mapping of floodprone areas, must also be communicated adequately. Flood management requires adequate public communication, thus the policy synchronization between different institutions and regions to address socioeconomics and environmental interests within a participatory-based flood management framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Depending on how leadership and the behavior of leaders are used in educational organizations, it can lead the organization to success by achieving the goals originally set. Analyzing leadership as a scientific concept in educational management and as a management function, according to international references, two of its basic structural elements are decision making and communication with the members of the organization and all those involved in it. In this context, the way and characteristics of communication of the leader with the members of the educational organization during human resource management can contribute to the successful performance of leadership roles and functions such as motivation, incentives, empowerment, etc. In this paper, we analyzed the implementation of certain leadership behaviors, leadership roles, and actions by the leader of an educational organization in the context of communication during human resource management. Based on the analysis conducted, we have concluded that encouraging, inspiring, rewarding, innovating, and expressing creativity to the members of an educational organization can be achieved through the leader's ability to effectively use written and oral communication in a way that directs the actions, behaviors, and reactions of the organization's members in a specific direction, thereby contributing to the optimal management of human resources while establishing a positive, open, and honest relationship with them. In addition, leaders can have communication skills that promote effective communication with their subordinate colleagues, support the optimal management of human resources, create a favorable working climate, which, contributes to the effective exercise of the leadership role and to the high efficiency of the educational institution.

Virtual working became the norm for most organizations since March 2020, and it brings well-recognized challenges. But we know little about the impact of virtual working on managerial behavior. This article presents the results of three surveys conducted before and during lockdown to understand what changed. It shows how managers became more blinkered: turning inward, becoming task-focused at the expense of relationship-building, and finding few opportunities to develop new skills. The article offers practical suggestions for how the evolution of managerial work might be accelerated, so that managers can become more effective in this changing environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Workforce to Solve Your Biggest Challenges" is a book by John Winsor and Jin H. Paik that explores the concept of open talent and its potential benefits for businesses and individuals. The authors discuss the need for a shift in organizational culture and the importance of collaboration, flexibility, and learning. They also emphasize the role of governance and accountability in implementing an open talent strategy. The book is recommended for business leaders, managers, and individuals interested in innovative approaches to staffing and partnership opportunities. [Extracted from the article]

Soft skills like communication and team management have been increasingly gaining importance to improve the employability of students graduating out of college. The educational institutes have been trying to incorporate soft skills in the curriculum of these students to make them more employment ready though the output is far from satisfactory. This research aims to identify the reasons why the educational institutes are unable to fill the gap even though soft skills, specifically communication, has been a part of the module and what are some of the steps that can be taken to make this whole exercise more effective. The paper suggests that all three stakeholders i.e. students, higher educational institutions and employers have a role to play to gauge the shortcomings and implement ways to improve the transfer of soft skills to students and their ability to apply their learnings better in real work scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Case study is an educational technology consisting of a set of optimal methods and means of teaching, information, communication and management that ensure the guaranteed achievement of the predicted educational results in the process of implementing the educational goal and solving the described practical problem situation in the case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hypertension is a chronic disease common in developing countries like Afghanistan, and improving patient awareness of the risk factors and the significance of regular treatment decreases the burden of the disease. In Afghanistan, a higher level of health literacy can help patients with hypertension to know the risk factors, the role of lifestyle management, and the significance of regular treatment for hypertension. Also, a higher level of health literacy can provide venues for the patient to comprehend the provided information and actively participate in the care. Alternatively, patients with lower health literacy might need to appropriately understand the information related to diet, treatment, and provider communication during the management of hypertension. A lack of understanding of hypertension-related treatment suggestions might lead to poor compliance with hypertension medication. This qualitative study aimed to assess the health literacy level among patients seeking care for hypertension at Blossom Health Care Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. A total of 198 patients who had hypertension participated in the study, and patients were interviewed using a Likert scale for responses generated by a focus group of 10 Afghan doctors practicing in Kabul, Afghanistan. We found that 68.7% of patients with hypertension scored Strongly Disagree to having adequate hypertension knowledge. Moreover, around 37.3% of participants indicated Always visiting a doctor for this condition, and 38.4 indicated Always taking their medication. Studies have shown that lower health literacy in patients with hypertension might negatively impact their health outcomes. Therefore, increasing awareness and knowledge of hypertension related-treatment among people with hypertension might improve their overall health and well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In underground environments, survey elements such as survey points and observations provide the information required to define legal boundaries. These elements are also used to connect underground legal spaces to a geodetic survey network. Due to the issues of current 2D approaches for managing underground cadastral data, prominent 3D data models have been extended to support underground land administration. However, previous studies mostly focused on defining underground legal spaces and boundaries, with less emphasis on survey elements. This research aims to extend CityGML to support underground cadastral survey data. The proposed extension is based on the survey elements elicited from underground cadastral plans, which is then implemented for an underground case study area in Melbourne, Australia. This extension integrates underground survey data with legal and physical data in a 3D digital environment and provides an improved representation of survey elements, facilitating the management and communication of underground cadastral survey data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using the lens of Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory, this article examines communication between health care providers in the southern United States emergency department (ED) and patients who have experienced IPV. We qualitatively examine communicative challenges that COVID-19 protocols have created, as well as routine difficulties that occur when communicating with survivors of violence. The participants described challenges including: (1) Feeling uncertainty, (2) Encountering patient resistance, (3) Managing apathy and frustration, and (4) Navigating time pressure. Furthermore, the providers explained how COVID-19 compounded those challenges through: (1) Minimizing contact, (2) Losing nonverbal behavior, (3) Encountering limited resources, and (4) Facing visitor complications. This article extends CPM theory by exploring disclosure challenges related to IPV in health care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic including permeability, linkages, and privacy rules. It offers practical suggestions for increasing patient disclosure of IPV experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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With the rapid advancement of the informatization process of China's construction industry, the requirements for the integration of engineering design and construction are getting higher and higher. The quality of engineering design and the level of design management directly affect the quality of construction. The emergence of the EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) model overcomes the shortcomings of the traditional contracting model, but it is still not ideal in terms of work integration and information transmission. BIM (building information modeling) is a collaborative process of creating, managing and exchanging information throughout the construction project. BIM has revolutionized the construction, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. This paper examines the problems related to current project design management in China and their causes. On the basis of summarizing the existing research on design management, it introduces a form of BIM integrating design BIM and construction BIM, so as to better depict the leading role of design in the construction process. By analyzing the changes in organizational management and communication methods brought about by BIM, this paper optimizes and innovates upon the traditional project design process in view of the problems in project practice. It advances BIM design work, increases detailed BIM design work and enables the downstream participants to intervene in the design stage, so as to develop a more smooth and efficient design workflow, which provides operable work detail guidance for BIM-based design management in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the era of the knowledge economy, knowledge hiding behaviour and its antecedents and consequences have been of great interest to the academic community. Through a survey of 350 employees of Chinese manufacturing enterprises, this paper explores the mechanism of organizational communication on employees' knowledge hiding behaviour. The results of the regression analysis show that (1) cooperative communication will reduce employees' knowledge hiding behaviour; in contrast, competitive communication will increase employees' knowledge hiding behaviour. (2) There is no significant relationship between online communication and employees' knowledge hiding behaviour. (3) Although online communication weakens the inhibitory effect of cooperative communication on employee knowledge hiding behaviour, it can alleviate employee knowledge hiding behaviour caused by competitive communication. This study reveals the association between communication styles and employees' knowledge hiding behaviour, which not only deepens the understanding of the antecedents of knowledge hiding in the academic community but also provides guidance for corporate internal communication and knowledge management practises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: This study aims to explore the relationships between consumer data vulnerability, peer privacy concerns and consumers' continued usage intention of sharing accommodation platforms, as well as the moderating effects of the various benefits perceived by consumers. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from 327 consumers of sharing accommodation platforms in China. Partial least squares (PLS)-structural equation modeling (SEM) was conducted to test the research hypotheses. Findings: The results suggest that both consumer data vulnerability and peer privacy concerns have negative effects on consumer's continued usage intention of sharing accommodation platforms, which can be further mitigated by consumer perceived economic, social and emotional benefits. This study also finds that consumer data vulnerability has a positive effect on consumer's peer privacy concerns. Practical implications: This study gives that managers of sharing accommodation platforms a better understanding of how consumers respond to their data vulnerability on sharing accommodation platforms. In addition, this study also highlights the measures that platforms may employ to mitigate the negative influence of consumer data vulnerability and consumers' peer privacy concerns, as well as the measures to reduce consumers' peer privacy concerns. Originality/value: While previous studies mainly examined the driving forces of consumers' engagement in sharing accommodation, this study focuses on the impediment. With communication privacy management theory to explore the relationships between consumer data vulnerability, peer privacy concerns and continued usage intention of sharing accommodation platforms, as well as the moderating effects of consumers' perceived benefits, this study facilitates a more comprehensive understanding of consumers' engagement in sharing accommodation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Solving problems of high dimensionality (and complexity) usually needs the intense use of technologies, like parallelism, advanced computers and new types of algorithms. MapReduce (MR) is a computing paradigm long time existing in computer science that has been proposed in the last years for dealing with big data applications, though it could also be used for many other tasks. In this article, we address big optimization: the solution to large instances of combinatorial optimization problems by using MR as the paradigm to design solvers that allow transparent runs on a varied number of computers that collaborate to find the problem solution. We study and analyze the MR technology, focusing on Hadoop, Spark, and MPI as the middleware platforms to develop genetic algorithms (GAs). From this, MRGA solvers arise using a different programming paradigm from the usual imperative transformational programming. Our objective is to confirm the expected benefits of these systems, namely file, memory, and communication management, over the resulting algorithms. We analyze our MRGA solvers from relevant points of view like scalability, speedup, and communication vs. computation time in big optimization. The results for high-dimensional datasets show that the MRGA over Hadoop outperforms the implementations in Spark and MPI frameworks. For the smallest datasets, the execution of MRGA on MPI is always faster than the executions of the remaining MRGAs. Finally, the MRGA over Spark presents the lowest communication times. Numerical and time insights are given in our work, so as to ease future comparisons of new algorithms over these three popular technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the increasing demand for high precision in numerical simulations using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the use of large-scale grids for discretized solutions has become a trend, resulting in an explosive growth of flow-field data size. To address the challenges posed by large-scale flow-field data for real-time interactive visualization, this paper proposes novel strategies for data partitioning and communication management. Firstly, we propose a data-partitioning strategy based on grid segmentation. This approach constructs metadata to create file viewports for each process and performs grid partitioning. Subsequently, it reconstructs sub-grids within each process and utilizes a coordinate-mapping algorithm to map global coordinates to local process coordinates, facilitating access to attribute variables through a lookup table. Secondly, we introduce a real-time interactive method for large-scale flow fields. This method leverages the system architecture of high-speed interconnection among compute nodes in a cluster environment and low-speed interconnection between service nodes and rendering nodes. It enables coordinated management of parallel rendering and synchronized rendering methods. The experimental results on typical flow-field data demonstrate that the proposed data-partitioning strategy improves the loading speed of millions of grid-level data by a factor of 7, surpassing ParaView's performance by 1.5 times. Furthermore, it achieves system load balancing. Real-time interaction experiments with datasets containing 500 million and 800 million grid cells exhibit millisecond-level latencies, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed communication management method in meeting the real-time interactive visualization demands of large-scale flow-field data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Responding effectively to climate change requires an understanding of what shapes people's individual and collective sense of agency and responsibility towards the future. It also requires transforming this understanding into political engagement to support systems change. Based on a national representative survey in Sweden (N = 1,237), this research uses the novel SenseMaker methodology to look into these matters. More specifically, in order to understand the social and institutional prerequisites that must be in place to develop inclusive climate responses, we investigate how citizens perceive their everyday life and future, and the implications for their sense of responsibility, agency, and political engagement. Our research findings show how citizens perceive and act on climate change (individually, cooperatively, and by supporting others), their underlying values, beliefs, emotions and paradigms, inter-group variations, and obstacles and enablers for change. The findings reveal that, in general, individual and public climate action is perceived as leading to improved (rather than reduced) wellbeing and welfare. At the same time, climate anxiety and frustration about structural and governance constraints limit agency, whilst positive emotions and inner qualities, such as human–nature connections, support both political engagement and wellbeing. Our results shed light on individual, collective, and structural capacities that must be supported to address climate change. They draw attention to the need to develop new forms of citizen involvement and of policy that can explicitly address these human interactions, inner dimensions of thinking about and acting on climate change, and the underlying social paradigms. We conclude with further research needs and policy recommendations. In general, citizens perceive increased individual and public climate action as leading to improved (rather than reduced) wellbeing and welfare. Effective responses to climate change require addressing underlying social paradigms (to complement predominant external, technological, and information-based approaches). Such responses include increasing policy support for: o learning environments and practices that can help individuals to discover internalized social patterns and increase their sense of agency and interconnection (to self, others, nature); o institutional and political mechanisms that support citizen engagement and the systematic consideration of human inner dimensions (values, beliefs, emotions and associated inner qualities/capacities) across all sectors of work, by systematically revising organizations' vision statements, communication and project management tools, working structures, policies, regulations, human and financial resource allocation, and collaboration; and o nature-based solutions and other approaches to support the human–nature connection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to provide better marketing services to customers, companies often want to obtain as much customer information as possible. However, for customers, as well as leading to better service, information disclosure may also put them at risk of information leakage, so customers may respond in two different ways to firms' invitations to disclose information. This paper applies theories of social capital and communication boundary management to developing a framework for understanding the psychological mechanisms behind individuals' responses to disclosure invitations and their subsequent purchase behavior. The results of this study show that under the combined effect of social capital and communication boundaries, subsequent purchases show an inverted-U-shaped relationship, initially increasing and then decreasing as the level of disclosure increases. Furthermore, because the social capital of high-level members and firms is higher than that of low-level members, it moderates the inverted-U-shaped relationship; that is, the higher the level of membership, the more moderate the inverted-U-shaped relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine how Italian municipalities manage COVID-19 communication on their official Facebook pages. For this purpose, we apply an automatic topic modeling procedure on a sample of 76,139 posts published on the official Facebook pages of 103 Italian provincial capital municipalities from 1 March 2020 to 26 March 2021 of the COVID-19 pandemic period. We identify two topics related to COVID-19 consisting of restrictive measures and support measures. Using regression models with municipality and year-week fixed effects, we find that the prevalence of the topic on COVID-19 restrictive measures negatively affects the tone of the communication, computed through a sentiment analysis procedure, and it is negatively associated with the number of COVID-19 positive cases in the municipal area. In contrast, the prevalence of the topic on COVID-19 support measures positively affects the tone of the communication and it is positively associated with the number of positive cases. These associations are moderated by ideology, age, and political incentives of incumbent mayors. These results may reveal a strategic communication of municipalities to induce positive perceptions about the performance of municipal incumbents in responding to the pandemic and, therefore, enhance political consensus among voters. Finally, these findings may have practical implications for public regulators, public managers, and other followers of local governments on social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]