Fight or flight: using causal loop diagram to investigate brain drain in developing countries

Azad, Hamid Reza Lashgarian; Khorshidi, Hadi Akbarzadeh; Hosseini, Seyed Hossein; Mirzamohammadi, Saeed

doi:10.1504/ijsss.2010.033495

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“…A positive arrow shows element A influences positively on element B where B is increased or decreased by increasing or decreasing in A respectively. Likewise, a negative arrow shows a negative relationship in which element B is increased or decreased inversely by decreasing and increasing in element A respectively [8].…”

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Reliability centered maintenance using system dynamics approach

Khorshidi

Gunawan

Ibrahim

2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT)

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This paper presents a system dynamic modeling technique for reliability centered maintenance (RCM). It provides a simulation model to analyze the impact of maintenance strategies such as preventive and corrective maintenance on system availability. Also, maintenance cost is associated with the model to have an optimization view for a manufacturing system. As a result, the optimal decisions can be made based on the results of the model. In addition, sensitivity analysis has been conducted for various parameters in the simulation model. The results were compared and discussed for various conditions.

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Section: A Causal Loop Diagrammentioning

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“…In these structures, mathematical equations are used for causal relationships to simulate the system behavior [6,8]. Stock (level) is a variable that represents the quantity at one specific time which has been cumulated since the past.…”

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Reliability centered maintenance using system dynamics approach

Khorshidi

Gunawan

Ibrahim

2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT)

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“…Since Russell's seminal work, the cognitive mapping approach has been adopted by several entrepreneurship and talent management researchers to explore multiple interrelationships among the factors and their influences on entrepreneurship or individuals' career decision-making processes. For example, cognitive mapping has been used to examine the motivations of the early entrepreneurship stage (Santos et al, 2010), training effects in employees' entrepreneurial orientation (Krishnakumar et al, 2013), and the brain drain process in developing countries (Azad et al, 2010). The use of cognitive mapping enables researchers to map out the relational structures of factors and to track processes.…”

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A Dynamic Model of Employees’ Transition to Entrepreneur: A Cognitive Mapping Approach

Lee

2021

Human Resource Development Review

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Employees’ transition to an entrepreneurial career has been explained by two major driving forces: push and pull factors. The push-pull dichotomy, however, has been the center of debate on whether the classification is incomplete and ambiguous. Until this debate is resolved, the dynamic and fluid nature of the influencing factors and their relationships remains unclear. The purpose of this research is to discuss the legitimacy of the push-pull dichotomy in explaining the motivations and processes of employees’ transition to an entrepreneurial career. To achieve this, a cognitive mapping approach to synthesize the factors from the extant empirical studies was employed. Analysis of 26 articles revealed that categories of push and pull factors in prior research are neither mutually exclusive nor clearly separate. Our dynamic model of employees’ transition to an entrepreneurial career illustrates the reciprocal, compounding, and counter-effective influence of factors. This research sheds light on the dynamic interrelationship among factors affecting employees’ transition to an entrepreneurial career.

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“…System dynamics has the ability to include quantitative and qualitative factors in form of causal loops and it simulates the behavior of model varibles during the sinulation time. The methodology has been used to investigate complex problems in various field like unconventional oil technology development [16], wind power development [17], oil production [18], production systems [19], climate [20], project management [21], agriculture [22], brian drain [23], social networks [24], etc.…”

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A Model to Investigate the Effect of Work Ethic Culture on Dynamics of Rework in Management of Projects

Kiani

Hosseini²,

Abdi

2018

Interdiscip. Descr. Complex Syst.

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The present study aims to investigate the effect of work ethic culture on rework in construction projects through a review of literature, surveys, and interviews with project managers. The main research question is what mechanisms can project manager use to balance the costs of personnel training, financial and language incentives, and implementation costs to finish the project with more profit and less rework. In this regard, modelling and data analysis is done using System Dynamics methodology. The results show that by considering work ethic, rework in the project is reduced from 46 % to 39 %. However, the project has been completed with 10 % lower cost and 26 % lower variance. Integrating the issue of rework with the culture of work ethic in the field of project management by at least one exogenous parameter has been studied, while in this study qualitative parameters have been converted to quantitative parameters using fuzzy inference system. The change in management approach to the issue of work ethics and the formulation of human resource strategies of large projects by human resource managers is one of the applications of this study.

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Fight or flight: using causal loop diagram to investigate brain drain in developing countries

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Reliability centered maintenance using system dynamics approach

Reliability centered maintenance using system dynamics approach

A Dynamic Model of Employees’ Transition to Entrepreneur: A Cognitive Mapping Approach

A Model to Investigate the Effect of Work Ethic Culture on Dynamics of Rework in Management of Projects

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