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Live Webcast: The Power of Body Language
Join us for this LIVE event! Wednesday, November 6th 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT
In an increasingly virtual world filled with webcams and online events, your body language can still play a huge role in your ability to communicate effectively. And whether you are presenting to colleagues...Sponsored By Citrix
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Case study - Project processes and outcomes for Deloitte optimized through SaaS
How do you gain real-time, company-wide visibility of proposed investments and consistent management of approved projects? Read on to see how Deloitte embraces Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Centre to gain a holistic, prioritized view of portfolio that aligns individual business units and overall strategy.
Sponsored By BPM Vision
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Get the Secrets to Business Growth. Grow your business like nobody's business.
In this exclusive ebook, you’ll see one-on-one interviews with three successful entrepreneurs. See how they turned sales up +27%, kept up with that growth, and turned around a stunning ROI.
Provided By Salesforce.com
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Green IT: A Study and Analysis of Environmental Impact of Social Networks and Search Engines
Green IT is a hot topic today and will continue to be an important issue for several years to come and Social Networks and Search Engines too. The use of IT has exploded in several areas, improving human lives and work and offering convenience along with several other benefits. Today...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Using Information to Drive Business Innovation: The Future of Data Management
In this paper, we present our vision of how you can skillfully use technology to capitalize on information to directly lead to improved business innovation. We describe each of the above requirements, along with how you can employ these characteristics to innovate and thrive. We then identify a comprehensive, end-to-end...
Provided By SAP
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Alan Turing: A modern computing legacy
The world would be a different place if not for Alan Turing. A mathematician and cryptographer, Turing's work at Bletchley Park heavily contributed to the Allied war effort and had profound consequences in shortening World War II. His pioneering 'stored program' computer underpins every computer today, and he has influenced...
Provided By ZDNet
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Business Analytics -- Enterprise Data Management
Learn about how Deloitte and SAP are teaming up to help companies migrate legacy systems to SAP software using Deloitte's Enterprise Data Migration Framework and SAP BusinessObjects BI and EIM solutions. This approach helps extract, clean up, and reformat data in a well-informed, systematic approach.
Provided By SAP
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Playing to win in real time
To stay ahead of the competition in a global marketplace, firms are increasingly speeding up operations, in many cases adopting real-time systems and tools to allow for instant decision-making and faster business cycles. According to a new report from Oxford Economics and SAP, Real-time business: Changing the game in the...
Provided By SAP
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Deloitte/Oracle Talent Tech Survey Results 2011
According to a new study from Deloitte and Oracle, talent management initiatives are both a priority and a pain point for organization executives. Tune in to Deloitte's Insight show hosted by Sean O'Grady, to hear Tracy Martin, Senior Director for HCM Strategy at Oracle, and Laura Garbacz, Principal, National Oracle...
Provided By Oracle
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Faster, Higher, Stronger: In-Memory Computing Disruption and What SAP HANA Means for Your Organization
Read this IDC Whitepaper and learn how in-memory technology for enterprises in private and public sectors will enable organizations to advance to higher levels of competitiveness by fostering innovation, reducing IT compromises, and enabling access to information by the right people at the right time.
Provided By SAP
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Real-Time Business: Playing to win in the new Global marketplace (Asia-Pacific)
To stay ahead of the competition in a global marketplace, firms are increasingly speeding up operations, in many cases adopting real-time systems and tools to allow for instant decision-making and faster business cycles. According to a new report from Oxford Economics and SAP, Real-time business: Changing the game in the...
Provided By SAP
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Real-Time Business: Playing to win in the new Global marketplace (Europe)
To stay ahead of the competition in a global marketplace, firms are increasingly speeding up operations, in many cases adopting real-time systems and tools to allow for instant decision-making and faster business cycles. According to a new report from Oxford Economics and SAP, Real-time business: Changing the game in the...
Provided By SAP
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McCormick and Schmick's Restaurants Gains New Insight into Dining Trends and Financial Performance with IBM Cognos Express - Success Story
McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants needed better insight to understand and take advantage of key business trends. Find out why they chose IBM Cognos Express to deliver that insight.
Provided By IBM
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Tech breakthroughs to watch in 2012
From invisibility cloaks to virtual atom smashing, 2011 was a year for advancing our knowledge, both on Earth and in space. ZDNet presents this guide to the accomplishments and discoveries from researchers at Cern, Nasa, Manchester University and more, all of which will be ones to watch in 2012.
You...Provided By ZDNet
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Stratus Avance: An IT Administrator's View
In this webcast, the presenter describes about IT Administrator's world. The presenter also highlights the key product attributes of Avance that deliver ease of use and other elements designed to improve an IT Administrator's world.
Provided By Stratus Technologies
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VMware and IBM Discuss the Benefits of Energy Efficiency and Green IT
In this podcast, the speakers explain about Energy Efficiency and Green IT. The speakers' also discussion around Energy Efficiency and Green IT and the measures one can take today to enjoy cost savings benefits while reducing one carbon footprint.
Provided By VMW Games
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Impact of R&D Outsourcing in Global Enterprises
A moment ago, global enterprise was considered as unimportant to global enterprise growth. This is mostly because global enterprises wave the impact of R&D outsourcing on global enterprise. It's really cleared that outsourcing has been seen as a contentious phenomenon, yet it remains the fundamental of most successful enterprise. R&D...
Provided By International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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Green Computing and Communications
Computing and communication systems play key roles in modern Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, affecting every aspect of life, including services, such as health, banking, commerce, defense, education, and entertainment. There are tremendously increasing demands for computing, communication, and storage systems since the last two decades. To fulfill such requirements, modern...
Provided By Springer Science+Business Media
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Graphene: A guide to the future from ZDNet
What is graphene? The subject of a recent Nobel Prize, this new form of carbon has unrivalled potential applications for technology, from solar cells to touchscreens. The UK government has even promised to invest £50m into a national research programme to commercialise this so-called 'miracle material'. But how does graphene...
Provided By ZDNet
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A Perspective Analysis of Green IT
The unabated thirst for energy is a recurring story in news headlines every day. Some developing nations are even struggling to meet up their power requirements. Energy consumption however has negative fallout on the atmosphere in the form of outflow of dreadful carbon dioxide to the environment. This leads to...
Provided By International Research Association of Computer Science and Technology (IRACST)
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Getting Started with Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management
Designed from the ground-up using the latest technology advances and incorporating the best practices gathered from Oracle's thousands of customers, Fusion Applications are 100 percent open standards-based business applications that set a new standard for the way we innovate, work and adopt technology. Delivered as a complete suite of modular...
Provided By Oracle
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The Engagement-Performance Equation
Employee engagement and employee performance management truly go hand and hand. The goal for both is to create alignment between the needs, desires, skills and activities of individuals and what the business requires to achieve results. But in today's intense business environment, what managers and employees need to achieve this...
Provided By SkillSoft
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From Donkeys To Bullet Trains: China's Four Miraculous Transformations
In this podcast, the speaker states that the donkeys would move the engines around to different stations to pick up buckets of tool and parts. The speaker describes miraculous transformations she has witnessed in four areas: manufacturing, telecommunications, information access and infrastructure.
Provided By Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Substitution Between Individual And Cultural Capital: Pre-migration Labor Supply, Culture And US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
In this paper, the authors use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in...
Provided By National Bureau of Economic Research
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Long-term Barriers To The International Diffusion Of Innovations
The authors document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. They find that the measure of human relatedness that is...
Provided By National Bureau of Economic Research
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Apec Innovates In Challenging Times
Apec (Management Jobs Association) was founded in 1966 to promote openness and efficiency in the management jobs market in France and is now the leading organization in its field. It has 46 centers spread across France and nearly 900 employees, including over 640 recruitment and career management professionals. Apec selected...
Provided By Capgemini
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St. Lawrence College Goes Green with Energy-Efficient Data Centre - A CFO's Perspective
Canadian-based St. Lawrence College needed to increase IT capacity to support a growing student base while minimizing risk, reducing energy costs and demonstrating a commitment to environmental sustainability. Read how IBM helped meet all three challenges by creating a Scalable Modular Data Centre that, for example, reduced the number of...
Provided By IBM
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Substitution Between Individual And Cultural Capital: Pre-migration Labor Supply, Culture And US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman
In this paper, the authors use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in...
Provided By Institute for the Study of Labor
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Incentives Of Retirement Transition For Elderly Workers: An Analysis Of Actual And Simulated Replacement Rates In Ireland
Retirement behaviours and elderly poverty issues have been the subject of much attention and discussion in recent years as most countries are facing a rapidly ageing society. Ireland enjoys a relatively young population compared with other European countries, but is also struggling with increasing fiscal pressures. This paper analyses the...
Provided By Institute for the Study of Labor
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Don Reed: The Road From Here To VERGE
In this webcast, the presenter explains how the convergence of technologies demands that companies adopt new strategies and programs to capitalize on the new opportunities for innovation, from the VERGE 11 San Francisco roundtable.
Provided By GreenBiz Group
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Stephan Dolezalek: "We Know How This Movie Ends. We Just Don't Know The Plot."
In this webcast, the presenter discusses about the VERGE 11 San Francisco Roundtable with an overview of how the convergence of VERGE technologies mirrors - and is different from - the Internet revolution.
Provided By GreenBiz Group
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Rodrigo Prudencio: The Open Electron: Why Energy Connectivity Matters
The presenter provides insights into how the world of energy is transforming - into what the presenter calls "The open electron" - and the implications for the convergence of energy, information, building, and vehicle technologies.
Provided By GreenBiz Group
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Are You Leveraging Your Vendors For Innovation?
Your company may be giving IT vendors more help with their innovation than your own innovation. Don't just give away great ideas. Work with your vendors to not only implement innovation in their products and services, leverage your strategic vendors to help your company's innovation and improve the value of...
Provided By CastlePointe
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Mike Barry: What's In Store For VERGE
In this webcast, Marks & Spencer's chief sustainability officer talks about the opportunities and challenges of bringing together technologies and people in the name of sustainability, and the business case for doing so.
Provided By GreenBiz Group
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Detecting Propagation Effects By Observing Aggregate Distributions: The Case Of Lumpy Investments
By using an extensive panel data set of Italian firms, the authors show empirically that the fraction of firms that engage in a lumpy investment follows a non-normal, double-exponential distribution across region-year. They propose a simple sectoral model that generates the double-exponential distribution that arises from the complementarity of the...
Provided By European University Institute
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Investing In The ?Next Wave? Of Technology Innovation
Technology affects almost every aspect of our lives, changing the way we work and play. The presenter, vice president and founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings, explains that the public sector is lagging behind the private sector in investment in new technologies.
Provided By Brookings Institution
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The When And Where Of Research In Agricultural Innovation Trajectories: Evidence And Implications From Rius South Asia Projects
The question of how agricultural research can best be used for developmental purposes is a topic of some debate in developmental circles. The idea that this is simply a question of better transfer of ideas from research to farmers has been largely discredited. Agricultural innovation is a process that takes...
Provided By United Nations University
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Dynamics Of Biosciences Regulation And Opportunities For Biosciences Innovation In Africa: Exploring Regulatory Policy Brokering
Knowledge brokering has been explored in the innovation literature to understand how different innovation tasks are organised toward technological development. This paper reflects upon the role of different organisations as knowledge brokers in regulatory policy processes towards putting biosciences research into use. It identifies a practical function-based typology that describes...
Provided By United Nations University
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Beyond Knowledge Brokerage: An Exploratory Study Of Innovation Intermediaries In An Evolving Smallholder Agricultural System In Kenya
The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond knowledge brokering has resulted in a changing landscape of the intermediary domain in an increasingly market-driven agricultural sector in developing countries. This paper presents findings of an explorative case study that looked at 22...
Provided By United Nations University
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Green Networks
The past decade has witnessed tremendous growth in networking protocols, technologies, and provisioning. Networks now include media, such as wired, wireless, ad hoc, WiFi, WiMax, and satellite. In essence, the entire planet is engulfed in information overflow because of networked computing devices, such as supercomputer centers, data repositories, and data...
Provided By Springer Science+Business Media
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Case study - Project processes and outcomes for Deloitte optimized through SaaS
How do you gain real-time, company-wide visibility of proposed investments and consistent management of approved projects? Read on to see how Deloitte embraces Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Centre to gain a holistic, prioritized view of portfolio that aligns individual business units and overall strategy.
Sponsored By BPM Vision
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Live Webcast: The Power of Body Language
Join us for this LIVE event! Wednesday, November 6th 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT
In an increasingly virtual world filled with webcams and online events, your body language can still play a huge role in your ability to communicate effectively. And whether you are presenting to colleagues...Sponsored By Citrix
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Impact Assessment Of An Entrepreneurship Course On Students~ Entrepreneurial Competencies: A Constructivist Perspective
This paper reports on educational issues of an entrepreneurship course, supported by a constructivist perspective. The paper discusses the relevance of constructivism in entrepreneurship education. As a way of assessing this issue, a pre-test-post-test multiple-group quasi-experimental design was performed with the data collected during an academic term. Data were collected...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Entrepreneurship And The Theory Of Taxation
A review of the literature on firm taxation reveals that the economics of entrepreneurship has not sufficiently been taken into consideration. The authors discuss how this affects conclusions derived from standard models of capital taxation when applied to entrepreneurial income. Some defining features of entrepreneurship important for analyzing the effects...
Provided By Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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Innovative Work Practices And Sickness Absence: What Does A Nationally Representative Employee Survey Tell?
The paper examines the effect of innovative work practices on the prevalence of sickness absence and accidents at work. The authors focus on several different aspects of workplace innovations (self-managed teams, information sharing, employer-provided training and incentive pay) along with the "Bundles" of those practices. They use nationally representative individual-level...
Provided By University of Tampere
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The Organization Of The Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists And Oligopolists
The authors construct a model where incumbents can either acquire basic innovations from entrepreneurs, or wait and acquire developed innovations from entrepreneurial firms supported by venture capitalists. They show that venture-backed entrepreneurial firms have an incentive to overinvest in development vis ? vis incumbents due to strategic product market effects...
Provided By Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information, And Ownership In The Innovation Process
In this paper the authors construct a model in which entrepreneurial innovations are sold into oligopolistic industries and where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. They show that as exacerbated development by better-informed venture-backed firms is used as a signal to enhance the sale price...
Provided By Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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Wage Setting And Wage Flexibility In Ireland - Results From A Firm-Level Survey
This paper investigates the wage-setting behaviour of Irish firms. The authors place particular emphasis on the use of flexible pay components and examine how these allow firms to deal with shocks requiring a reduction in costs without having to cut base wages. The results presented in this paper are based...
Provided By European Central Bank
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The Role Of Personality In Relationship Closeness, Developer Assistance, And Career Success
The authors investigate the role of relationship closeness, which is adapted from social network theory, in developmental relationships using a sample of 278 full-time working individuals. the authors theorize that personality, operationalized with the Five Factor Model, is associated with relationship closeness which is positively related to developer assistance received,...
Provided By Elsevier
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Innovation Studies - The Emerging Structure Of A New Scientific Field
The scholarly literature on innovation was for a long time not very voluminous. But as shown in the paper, this is now rapidly changing. New journals, professional associations and organizational units within universities focusing on innovation have also been formed. This paper explores the cognitive and organizational characteristics of this...
Provided By Elsevier
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From Creativity To Success: Barriers And Critical Success Factors In The Creative Process
Considerable research efforts have been invested in identifying the individual and contextual factors that facilitate employee creativity. However, this paper also abounds with conflicting research results regarding critical factors for employee creativity. At the basis of these contradictions is the lack of attention that has been given to the study...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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The Impact Of Human And Social Capital On Entrepreneurs' Knowledge Of Finance Alternatives
This paper examines how entrepreneurs' human and social capital influence their knowledge of finance alternatives. For this purpose, the authors use survey data from 125 Belgian start-ups. Results demonstrate that entrepreneurs with a business education and entrepreneurs with experience in accountancy or finance have a broader knowledge of finance alternatives....
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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The Search For Person-Career Fit: Do Cognitive Styles Matter?
Given the lack of unequivocal findings on person-career fit, this investigation aims to gain insight into the role of cognitive styles in understanding students' career preferences by two complementary studies. In this paper, the authors examined whether students (n = 84) with different cognitive styles differ in their entrepreneurial attitudes....
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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How Does Tacit Knowledge Transfer Influence Innovation Speed?: The Case Of Science Based Entrepreneurial Firms
The increased pressure put on public research institutes to commercialize their research results has given rise to an increased academic interest in technology transfer in general and science based entrepreneurial firms specifically. By building on innovation speed and knowledge literatures, this paper aims to improve understanding of how tacit knowledge...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Proactive Career Behaviors And Career Success During The Early Career
This paper tests a model of proactive career behaviors and career success with two samples of graduates making the transition from school to work. Using structural equation modeling, the authors tested a theoretical model that specified the relationships among career goal, career planning, career self-management behaviors, and career success. A...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Do R&D Subsidies Affect SMEs' Access To External Financing?
Many countries spend sizeable sums of public money on R&D grants to alleviate debt and equity gaps for small firms' innovation projects. In making such awards, knowledgeable government officials may certify firms to private financiers. This paper investigates whether government subsidies to R&D enhance SMEs' access to external financing due...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Towards An Evolutionary Model Of The Entrepreneurial Financing Process: Insights From Biotechnology Startups
Using multiple longitudinal case studies of young biotechnology firms, this paper says about financing process between high and low performing firms. Findings suggest that initial differences in the specialization of the investors with whom entrepreneurs affiliate early on, affect the ease with which firms attract (specialized) follow-on financing and firm...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Agency, Strategic Entrepreneurship And The Performance Of Private Equity Backed Buyouts
Agency theory has focused on buyouts as a governance and control device to increase profitability, organizational efficiency and limited attention to growth. A strategic entrepreneurship view of buyouts incorporates upside incentives for value creation associated with growth as well as efficiency gains. In this paper, the authors develop the complementarity...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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What's In A Name? An Inquiry On The Cognitive And Entrepreneurial Profile Of The Social Entrepreneur
Given the rise of social enterprises, the aim of this study is to get more insight into what typifies social entrepreneurs. Although entrepreneurship research has a long tradition in the study of the individual entrepreneur, there are not many studies on the profile of the social entrepreneur. To conclude, the...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Managing Innovation Systems In Transition Economies
Successfully managing innovations has become the basic precondition for the development of both companies and national economies. At the national level governments are forming innovation systems whose primary goal is to create conditions at which science and technology can flourish and then transfer their findings trough private sector into new...
Provided By University of Zagreb
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Interviewing: In A New Light
Interviewing can seem paralyzing and stressful if you're not prepared. What questions will they ask me? Will my responses be what they are looking for? Most career resources teach you how to become an expert on interviewing supplying cookie-cutter one-size-fits-all answers, with 100's or 1000's of common questions asked during...
Provided By Net-Temps
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Seven Steps To Finding A Job You Love
The first step in any career change is to identify why you are looking for a change. It is important to know whether you are trying to move away from something or if you are trying to move toward something. Ultimately, it is much more empowering to move toward something...
Provided By Net-Temps
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Institutional Entrepreneurship: An Introduction
In this introductory chapter to a collective volume, the authors build on Baumol's (1990) framework to categorize, catalog, and classify the budding research field that explores the interplay between institutions and entrepreneurship. Institutions channel entrepreneurial supply into productive or unproductive activities, which likely accounts for a great deal of the...
Provided By Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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The Alert And Creative Entrepreneur: A Clarification
Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (the FSF-Nutek Award). In this paper he argues that a number of those who have commented on his work have misunderstood certain aspects of his theoretical system, and as a result the common...
Provided By Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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Identifying, Nurturing And Retaining Entrepreneurial Talent
Organizations will need entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial talent if they intend to accelerate their business growth. Though rare, organizations must take the time to identify, develop and nurture internal entrepreneurs/ leaders. Corporate entrepreneurs are different. It is the small nuances that set them apart from traditional leaders. Referring back to the...
Provided By Human Capital Institute
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Productive And Destructive Entrepreneurship In A Political Economy Framework
Recent research has highlighted the role of institutions in channeling entrepreneurs into activities with positive or negative effects on overall productivity. Embedding central elements from these theories into a political economy framework reveals the bilateral causal relation between entrepreneurs and institutions. Core features of the entrepreneur force one to view...
Provided By Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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The Interaction Of Entrepreneurship And Institutions
Previous research, notably Baumol (1990), has highlighted the role of institutions in channeling entrepreneurial supply into productive, unproductive or destructive activities. However, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by institutions - entrepreneurs often help shape institutions themselves. The bilateral causal relation between entrepreneurs and institutions is examined in this paper. Entrepreneurs...
Provided By Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals And Wage Elasticities
The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences. In this paper, the authors use detailed firm level data to examine how increased internationalization and multinational activity affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage elasticity of labor demand. They analyze whether...
Provided By Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy And Globalization
What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? The authors study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more pro-entrepreneurial policies. It becomes more difficult to...
Provided By Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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Three Keys To Finding Success With Social CRM
A new study found that small businesses are struggling with marketing and innovation, which is an eye-opener in an age in which "Social" marketing and innovation have gained traction. Why small businesses are struggling with marketing and innovation - in the era of social marketing and innovation - is quite...
Provided By Mansueto Ventures
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Secure Documents and Files
The security of legal files is very important. Because many law firms are concerned about file security, they instruct their Information Technology (IT) departments, if they have one, to secure their servers, disk drives, and folders so that only authorized people in the firm can read and save files. For...
Provided By Microsoft Tips
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Determinants of R&D Outsourcing at Japanese Firms: Transaction Cost and Strategic Management Perspectives
This paper examines the factors, which determine R&D outsourcing behaviour at Japanese firms, from the viewpoints of transaction cost and strategic management, since the latter half of the 1990s. This study uses empirical analysis, which involves the application of large-sample data. The principal findings of this paper are listed below....
Provided By Doshisha University
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Import Competition And Domestic Response: New Evidence From Mexico
How does import competition affect the innovative activity of firms? Employing a new data set of Mexican manufacturers from 1998 and 2004, the authors exploit the emergence of China on the world markets as an exogenous competition shock. Innovation is captured through the introduction of quality control systems such as...
Provided By University of Vienna
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Supply-Side Triggers For Inflation In Austria
The supply-side analysis of sectors that have determined price developments in Austria since fall 2007 strongly suggests a lack of competition in the following industries in the medium term: processing and wholesaling of dairy products, pasta production, electricity and gas supply, cement production, and pharmaceutical retailing. Signs of weak competition...
Provided By University of Vienna
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The Global Award For Entrepreneurship Research
The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been possible to make a number of...
Provided By Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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Entrepreneurship And Public Policy
Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship without directing attention to quantitative goals and specific firms or employment groups. The institutional framework set by public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying...
Provided By Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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Evaluation Of The Norwegian R&D Tax Credit Scheme
The authors find that the Norwegian R&D tax credit scheme introduced in 2002 mainly works as intended. The scheme is cost-effective and it is used by a large number of firms. It stimulates these firms to invest more in R&D, and, in particular, the effect is positive for small firms...
Provided By Statistics Norway
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A Multivariate Causality Analysis Of Export And Growth For Turkey
This paper seeks to validity of the export-led growth hypothesis using quarterly data from 1980 to 2005. The bounds testing approach to co-integration is employed to test the causal relationship between industrial production, exports and terms of trade. An augmented form of Granger causality analysis is implemented to identify the...
Provided By Yeditepe University
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Exact Likelihood Computation For Nonlinear DSGE Models With Heteroskedastic Innovations
Phenomena such as the Great Moderation have increased the attention of macro-economists towards models where shock processes are not (log-) normal. This paper studies a class of discrete-time rational expectations models where the variance of exogenous innovations is subject to stochastic regime shifts. The authors first show that, up to...
Provided By European Central Bank
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Choosing Between Time And State Dependence: Micro Evidence On Firms Price-Reviewing Strategies
Thanks to recent findings based on survey data, it is now well known that firms differ from each other with respect to their price-reviewing strategies. While some firms review their prices at fixed intervals of time, others prefer to perform price revisions in response to changes in economic conditions. In...
Provided By European Central Bank