A winner, in theory.An academic from the University of Teesside's Business School has won a prestigious international award. Ted Fuller, professor of entrepreneurship and strategic foresight Strategic foresight is a fairly recent attempt to differentiate "futurology" from "futures studies". It arises from the premise that:
The conference, which was held recently in Belfast, recently, was attended by more than 900 delegates from over 70 countries. Prof Fuller, together with his co-author Jenni Lewis, a business analyst with Video Networks Limited of Stevenage, was winner of the best paper on e-business and the best theory paper overall from over 300 academic papers presented at the conference. His prize-winning paper was entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "Putting the `R' in e-Business; Relationships Matter to Technological Choices." It illustrated that the way owner-managers of small businesses approached their management of relationships had a significant impact on their choice and use of information and communications technologies. In particular, the paper challenged current theories expressed by technology suppliers and policy makers which place technology itself as the main determinant determinant, a polynomial expression that is inherent in the entries of a square matrix. The size n of the square matrix, as determined from the number of entries in any row or column, is called the order of the determinant. of its use and value. Copies of the paper can be obtained from Prof Fuller. Tel: (01642) 342905/2885 or email ted.fuller@tees.ac.uk |
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