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Purpose: An interorganizational learning (IOL) Web-based platform provides an ambidextrous working area, where employees can switch between exploration and exploitation-related activities. This study aims to present new indications on how to increase the acceptance and use of Web-based platforms for IOL. Specifically, it proposes how acceptance rates can be increased by focusing on the key mechanisms in Web-based platforms that are important from the users' perspective. Design/methodology/approach: Survey data were collected from employees in universities, companies, government agencies and research and technological development performers. Data analysis applies a multi-group analysis (MGA) based on the partial least squares structural equation modeling. Findings: Performance expectancy is important in explorative, exploitative and ambidextrous organizations. Moreover, effort expectancy is an important driver of platform acceptance in explorative organizations, facilitating conditions in exploitative organizations and hedonic motivation in ambidextrous organizations. Originality/value: This study contributes to the IOL literature by analyzing specific acceptance characteristics of potential users of a Web-based IOL platform for research and development. As the first paper published in this research context, it explicitly considers explorative, exploitative and ambidextrous organizations based on interactive and integrative interorganizational ambidexterity.

We present an updated version of the European landslide susceptibility map ELSUS 1000 released through the European Soil Data Centre in 2013. The ELSUS V2 map shows the landslide susceptibility zonation for individual climate-physiographic zones across Europe. ELSUS V2 covers a larger area of Europe than ELSUS 1000 at a higher spatial resolution (200 × 200 m). The updated map was prepared using the same semi-quantitative method as for ELSUS 1000, combining landslide frequency ratios information with a spatial multi-criteria evaluation model of three thematic predictors: slope angle, shallow subsurface lithology and land cover. However, the new map was prepared using also: (i) an extended landslide inventory, containing 30% of additional locations for model calibration, map validation and classification and (ii) a new lithological data set derived from the International Hydrogeological Map of Europe (IHME). The new version of the map increases the overall predictive performance of ELSUS by 8 %. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[Display omitted] • Development of TRC led to a broadened variety of FRP reinforcements • Different fibre-matrix-compositions of 20 manufacturers of FRP reinforcement are identified • Material properties and surface characteristics of their products vary greatly • No sharp distinction between FRP textile reinforcement and FRP bars For certain cases internal reinforcement made of Fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP) is a promising solution to the degradation of steel reinforcement caused by environmental exposure. In the past years, rising demand for non-corrosive and more durable reinforcement led to a rapid increase in European FRP reinforcement manufacturers, which have developed various products with wide-ranging properties. This paper summarises an extensive study on the properties of FRP reinforcement elements for newly built concrete constructions. The main focus is set on the product pallet, composition, production processes, surface treatment, mechanical properties, availability, and pricing. One-, two- and three-dimensional reinforcement are analysed and compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is much to be positive about in the current field of educational research. Now a burgeoning research domain in many European countries, diverse national and international studies are currently officially supported both politically and economically. However, on closer examination the actual effect of many prominent studies is sobering. The general claim that our research domain is full of pseudo-questions is probably unfair and unacceptable, yet it is worth considering how often educational research truly deals with educational questions. The gap between pedagogical thought and educational research has achieved grand proportions. The ideal of mutual profit between the two realms is now arguably simplistic, naïve, and functional. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]