Vertical Integration vs. Outsourcing “Following the Crowd” Collaboration issues in an SCM context Table of Content 1. Thesis and Introduction 1.1 Thesis 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Introduction into the topic 2. Logical Problems and Sub-questions 3. Methodology and Justification of Sections 4. Literature Review 4.1 Literature Concerning the Terminology 4.2 Literature Concerning the Main Theories of Outsourcing and Vertical Integration and the Examples
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The Smartest People May Not be as Smart as a Crowd‚ but Who can Find a Smart Crowd? In The Wisdom of Crowds‚ author James Surowiecki contends that the “smartest people” are often not as smart as a group of individuals formed under the right circumstances (XIII). Surowiecki backs up his claim by giving numerous real life examples of crowds that meet the criteria of having diversity of opinion‚ independence‚ decentralization and aggregation‚ and have proven to be smarter than almost any one individual
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CROWDS AND VIOLENCE Deindividuation: [“Individuation” coined by Jung: a process of individuation for development of personality] Historical Research: Le Bon (1890s) When individuals “descend” in a crowd‚ they become creatures of instinct‚ barbarians (Contagion theory‚ anonymity) Festinger (1952) Individuals who sat in dim light more likely to use bad language when discussing erotic material than individuals who were not. Zimbardo (1969) Stanford Prison Experiments: Individuals dressed
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The epigraph at the beginning of “The Man in the Crowd” brings up the interesting question of what it really means to be alone. While the actual definition of alone is “quite by oneself‚ unaccompanied‚ solitary‚” (“Alone”) the story‚ through the narrator’s thoughts and the observations of the nameless man in the crowd‚ can serve as a different perspective on being alone if applied beyond the situation in the tale. The epigraph says how terrible it is to never be alone‚ and the story serves as a metaphor
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How might we best explain crowd behaviour? (2013 Exam Question) People are likely to act in bizarre ways in a crowd compared to as an individual. A crowd can be defined as a set of individuals who share a common social identification of themselves in terms of that crowd. Crowd members should also share common goals and act in a coherent member (Reicher‚ 2008). There have been extensive amounts of research into crowd psychology‚ investigating the apparent causes and reasons for such behaviour to
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(Psychotherapy & Counselling); PhD Scholar (IIT Bombay) Associate Professor H. K. Institute of Management Studies & Research‚ Mumbai © 2014. Prof Roy‚ H.K. Institute of Management Studies & Research‚ Mumbai. All Rights Reserved. THE WISDOM OF CROWDS by JAMES SUROWIECKI ISBN: 978-0-385-72170-7 306 PP | Soft Cover US $ 14.95 2005 Watching the popular game show‚ Kaun Banegaa Crorepati (KBC) hosted by Big B on Sony Entertainment Television‚ I always wondered….. whenever‚ the contestant
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Crowd is the “Untruth” Over the past two weeks‚ I have been consistently reminded of Kierkegaard’s theory of faith wherein the individual (particular) is higher than the universal (ethical) – of which I have been convinced. This week’s reading supplements this philosophy as it conveys the notion that the “crowd is the untruth”. According to Kierkegaard‚ it is justifiable to deem the crowd as the authority and its judgment as the absolute ruling in politics or similar disciplines; however‚
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Phil 355 24 September 2013 Conforming to the Crowd: The Face of the Faceless Since the beginning of time‚ humanity sat in the desperate dwellings of their own thoughts cursed to misunderstand all they could ever be. Unrealized potential‚ if you will‚ which dangled in front of their collective selves‚ much like the notorious forbidden fruit that existed in plain sight just hanging slightly out of reach. As humanity rode the ebb of time‚ they endeavored to contemplate that which they could never
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front of a big crowd and there is a lot of free space around you‚ so you move forward slightly because hey‚ why not? It’s a free space except that you have just started an Indiana jones’ technique of rolling a heavy bolder of sack. Those standing behind assume that since more space is being created ahead of them‚ they should move too. The whole crowd rolles ahead almost like a massive Persian rug sloping down steep hill… It’s this lack of invisibility that’s also responsible for the crowd stampeding
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How does "The Man of the Crowd" help us to think about the questions of what it means to read something and what it means when something is unreadable? What are the implications for our understanding of city life? “The Man of the Crowd” helps us understand that people can have secrets without sharking those secrets to anyone else. The narrator desperately tried to figure out who this mysterious old man was. The narrator felt like he was able to “read” everyone‚ he felt like he was able to know
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