Search results for "GPR"

Controlled-by-owner firms, mobility of capital and microeconomic profit rate maximization

1999

When they actively control the firm, owners select the firm that has the best profit rate if the hypothesis of mobility of capital is adopted: controlled-by-owner firms are profit-rate-maximizing when sleeping-owner firms are pure-profit-maximizing. Both types are compared in monopoly, in perfect competition, in classical or in mixed duopoly. Always, controlled-by-owner firms have a lower output than comparable sleeping-owner firms. It only takes a fixed coefficient of equity capital to do that price plays no role for controlled-by-owner firms in perfect competition; in duopoly, it only takes a similar condition plus a linear demand to do that reaction functions vanish.

Social Interaction Technologies

2010

This chapter explores a relationship between social interaction technologies (SIT) and guanxi, a major Chinese informal style of networking, in the context of the careers of women managers in the information technology (IT) field in China. Addressing women’s under-representation in non-traditional occupations (such as IT), prior research has established that networking, especially informal, is an important career management tool for women. Recent advances in social capital theory and social network analysis provide a framework for understanding the role of social processes in achieving career success. Today, the growing web-based social and professional networking in China weighs against th…

A Brief History of the Peer-Group Mentoring Model in Finland: Struggling for Space in a Contested Niche

2020

The aim of this article is to introduce and reflect on the development of mentoring in Finland as implemented in the form of the Peer-Group Mentoring (PGM) model. Firstly, the main characteristics and principles of the PGM model are introduced, after which experiences from implementing the model are analysed based on a literature review. We examine the following research questions: (1) How have the mentoring practices of newly qualified teachers developed towards the PGM model within the educational ecosystem in Finland? (2) How has the PGM model found its relational space (‘ecological niche’) in this ecosystem? and (3) How has PGM been experienced by mentors and mentees in terms of profess…

Additional file 2 of Certification as support for resilience? Behind the curtains of a certification body — a qualitative study

2020

Additional file 2. Interview guide: Certification body – Managers and administrative personnel.

Enterprise Architecture in Healthcare and Underlying Institutional Logics: a Systematic Literature Review of IS Research

2018

This paper reports on a systematic literature review of empirical studies in the information systems literature focusing on Enterprise Architecture (EA) in healthcare. 30 papers were selected for extended analysis. We utilized institutional logics as a theoretical lens and focused on the logics of IT professionalism, medical professionalism and managerialism. According to this lens, we identified three foci of interests. In addition, we utilized the institutional level as an analytical dimension. The logics of IT professionals and the purpose of organizational implications of EA were dominating. Generally, there is a need for more in-depth understanding for all logics, however, the logics o…

Women Directors and Corporate Social Responsibility

2011

The successes and failures of organizations are contingent on the decisions of senior management and its board of directors. Personality and experiences may have a tangible effect on the decision making process. This study assesses whether or not gender has a tangible effect on an organization’s decisions. A sample of Fortune 500 companies were examined to determine whether companies with a higher proportion of women on their boards of directors are more socially responsible. In general, a diversity of people generates a diverse set of opinions that impacts and improves the decision-making process. Our expectation was that gender diversity will increase socially responsible behavior by a co…

Interactive multimedia web in developing career counselling methods

2009

Career Counselling Web is an EU Leonardo project, built on a guidance and counselling web-site developed by Careers Wales with thousands of registered users. Careers Wales in Gwent is acting as advisor and is taking part in the project’s development of new counselling methods. Partners from Slovenia and Sweden act as providers of design and target groups needs. The goal is to develop the portal and the interactive counselling methodology and to make the final product readily transferred to different languages and regions. The project will adapt the Welsh innovation to Slovenian and Swedish systems. The technical development is made by one partner with the Slovenian and Swedish partners orga…

EAF Accreditation Framework for the European Career Guidance Practitioners at a Glance

2009

This contribution presents EAF Accreditation Framework for the European Career Guidance Practitioners, a framework developed to accredit at European level people delivering career guidance. EAF accredits main tasks, i.e. the 4 main identifiable and self standing activities a person delivering career guidance can accomplish: 1. Deliver information related to career guidance as a separate activity 2. Perform career guidance interviews 3. Carry out career guidance activities in small groups 4. Support clients on 1:1 base during a time span, including by networking and advocating on their behalf. EAF assessment is based on main tasks performance, i.e. during the assessment, the candidate must d…

Main challenges and options when accrediting people delivering career guidance at European level

2009

Accreditation of people delivering career guidance is one of the main steps to guarantee good quality in career guidance delivery. This contribution deals with the main challenges and options we face when developing frameworks at European level for accreting people delivering career guidance. Several approached are identified and discussed. A framework accrediting the main tasks people delivering career guidance can accomplish, differentiated by clients’ typology and an assessment focused on main tasks performance emerges as the best option.

The influence of variables of attitude on collective entrepreneurship

In the current global corporate climate that surrounds us, firms would do well to encourage the talent and creativity of their employees in order to achieve success. This is achieved, not by giving priority to individual talent, but by optimizing the collective as a whole and the firm¿s activity based on team work and joint effort. Heads of organizations might benefit from creating a favorable context for the birth and growth of collective internal cooperation, which is understood to be the collective ability to create and innovate on the part of the team, the firm or the organization. Having contrasted our hypotheses through research on Spanish firms, we have concluded that job satisfactio…