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Innovation and Knowledge in Academia
2020
It has recently become very popular among academics to study the process of knowledge transfer within their own organization, with the aim of improving their innovation and performance on a general scope. Knowledge can be divided into two main groups: “explicit” and “tacit” knowledge. The main interest lies in tacit knowledge, since it is one that includes the specific “know-how” of an organization. The cooperation between the different units of an organization promotes the transfer of knowledge between the different organizational areas and positions the departments in an ideal situation to promote innovation. To understand the evolution of the scientific production in terms of innovation …
The Role of Family Ownership in Survival and Bouncing Back
2021
The latest global economic and financial crisis has been a litmus test for companies, especially for SMEs. These companies have had to demonstrate their ability to be resilient, surviving first and then recovering. This chapter studies the role of family ownership in the survival and recovery of SMEs during a stressful event. From a perspective based on the complementarity or substitutability of goals that family firms pursue, the authors propose that family ownership has a positive effect on survival but a negative effect on recovery. Furthermore, they propose that the risk of bankruptcy before a crisis moderates the relationship between family ownership and survival. Hypotheses have been …
The Accumulation of Distinctive Competences in Family Firms
2020
Taking as its basis the resource- and capability-based view of the firm, this study provides an in-depth exploration of the ability of the family tourism firm to accumulate and develop the distinctive competences that are key to its success. Specifically, the analysis centres on how the family tourism firm acquires distinctive competences through the development of managerial capabilities. Using structural equation modelling (SEM), the empirical analysis focuses on a sample of 1,019 Spanish tourism firms. The results of the study suggest that family businesses face certain problems in accumulating distinctive competences. Moreover, the study indicates that such problems are due in part to t…
Contractual safeguarding of specific assets in cross-border and domestic buyer–supplier relationships
2018
Safeguarding specific investments and mitigation of potential opportunistic behaviours are among the most prominent functions of formal contracting in buyer–seller relationships. Extending the extant literature, the present study investigates the relationship between specific investments and the extent of formal contracting in cross-border and domestic relationships. Based on a sample of 156 buyer–seller relationships, the analysis shows that there is a positive association between specific investments and the extent of formal contracting. However, the emphasis on formal contracting is stronger in cross-border relationships than in the domestic ones. Interestingly, the association between …
Von der Schulinspektion zur Schulentwicklung
2016
Schulinspektionen in Deutschland sollen, als Teil einer evidenzbasierten Outputsteuerung, vor allem die Schul- und Unterrichtsentwicklung stimulieren. Hierbei wird erwartet, dass schulische Akteure die Informationen, die im Rahmen der Inspektion generiert werden, aktiv nutzen, um wissensbasierte Entscheidungen zur weiteren Ausgestaltung von Schule und Unterricht zu treff en. Bisher jedoch konnte kein eindeutiger Zusammenhang von Schulinspektion und Schulentwicklungsaktivitaten, bei allerdings hoher Akzeptanz der Schulinspektion, festgestellt werden. Dabei wird deutlich, dass den innerschulischen Verarbeitungsprozessen in Schulen bisher zu wenig Beachtung geschenkt wurde. Die vorliegende Stu…
Lernkulturen und Persönlichkeit
2021
Digitale Medien sind in der modernen Bildungslandschaft stetiger Hoffnungsträger für die Aufhebung der Bildungsungleichheit. Im Fokus der 2010er Jahre standen Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), die spätestens seit dem grossen MOOC-Hype 2012 kontinuierlich und in stetig wechselnder Gestalt als Optimierungen der Hochschulbildung gehandelt werden und selbst in den vergangenen sieben Jahren zahlreiche Veränderungen durchlaufen haben. MOOCs haben in der deutschen Hochschulbildung zu kontroversen Diskussionen geführt, bisweilen nehmen MOOCs an deutschen Hochschulen jedoch keinen besonderen Stellenwert ein. Dabei gäbees durchaus Potenziale zur Weiterentwicklung (und damit auch Optimierung) der H…
Academic Libraries as user-centered organizations. Case study: Quality of services provided by LBUS Library
2021
Ever-growing digital services determine libraries to update almost all of their activities. Traditional library services must be transformed into electronic libraries, and library specialists must always be prepared for advanced digital services to come. Thus, libraries in the digital era must offer digital deposit services, digitisation services, research data management, metadata creation, digital cataloguing and conserving, and counselling in what regards digital copyrights, informational alphabetising. In this article, the emphasis falls on the necessity of developing and transforming libraries, bringing awareness to their role and their importance for society and at an individual level.
Ética bancaria y banca ética. Dos realidades distintas y posibles
2019
El sector financiero, y en particular la banca, es especialmente sensible a la aplicación de la ética empresarial. Por una parte, porque su papel como sector estratégico de la economía es clave y determinante, y por otra, porque durante los últimos años, y en especial desde la crisis financiera del 2008, ha sido protagonista de numerosos casos de escándalos y malas prácticas. La adopción de comportamientos éticos es fundamental en el funcionamiento de los bancos, pues estas organizaciones manejan un activo muy sensible que es propiedad de sus clientes, como es el dinero. Tanto es así, que no solo se habla de la ética bancaria, sino incluso de la existencia de bancos éticos; dos aspectos que…
The Psychological Foundations of Management in Family Firms: Emotions, Memories, and Experiences
2021
Exploring the psychological foundations of management in family firms is necessary to understand why they formulate and implement strategies differently from nonfamily firms, and why and how family firm behavior varies across different family firms. Picone et al. (2021. The psychological foundations of management in family firms: Values, biases, and heuristics. Family Business Review, 34(1), 12-32) have proposed a conceptual framework for the psychological foundations of management in family business, examining how the values, biases, and heuristics of family firm members affect strategic decision-making and family firm outcomes. Drawing on this framework, we examine emotions, memories, an…