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Understanding the Contesting Ideologies of Family Business: Challenge for Leadership and Professional Services
2003
This paper examines how a family business system serves as the ideological arena of three cultural forces—entrepreneurialism, managerialism, and paternalism—that are, to a great extent, contesting ideologies based on different rationalities, or schools of thought. Furthermore, it reinforces the view that a family business system is the combination of three interacting subsystems (management, ownership, and family life)—a form of business that is challenging both for leaders and professional service providers. The approach of the study is conceptual and cultural. It bases its theoretical background on the developments of Johannisson and Huse (2000) and Tagiuri and Davis (1996). A summary of…
Exploring alternative approaches in service industries: the role of entrepreneurship
2008
Today, it is widely recognised that the success and vitality of the service sector are essential factors in measuring an economy’s progress, its quality, and its future expectations. It not only im...
CERTIFICATION CRITERIA MATRIX FOR EXPERT RATING OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
2018
In the Latvian certification system of individuals, there is necessary to ensure appropriate process realization in the interests of public protection and government needs, which gets incorporated into the EU common structure. An assessment of the certification system and its institutional structure is done with the aim to develop proposals for the improvement of the Latvian certification system for reducing costs, while ensuring both high system efficiency and recipients services and the public interest. To achieve its goals, the research study provided a summary of the situation in Latvia, as well as in the neighbouring countries: Lithuania, Poland, Estonia and Finland. During the researc…
Innovative IC framework in the non profit sector
2012
The importance of intellectual capital in the non-profit sector generates the need to measure its role in the value creation process. The purpose of the paper is to study the application of intellectual capital within the non-profit sector, by turning attention to resources such as: knowledge, experience, and skills. Organizations, which are able to increase the knowledge of their staff and transform this knowledge into skills to improve services, can easily meet users’ needs and, thereby, become competitive. This contribution proposes to study how people’s knowledge can contribute to increasing social value, which is the non–profit organization’s aim. Furthermore, the goal is to de…
The four spheres of value co-creation in humanitarian professional services
2021
PurposeThe study focuses on the value co-creation processes in humanitarian professional services provision, analysing the key enabling factors of beneficiaries' participation, involved in long-term integration programmes (L-TIPs).Design/methodology/approachThrough an in-depth case study, the research looks at the practices of value co-creation in humanitarian professional services, considering both the perspectives of the professional service provider and beneficiary.FindingsIn professional services beneficiary's participation affects the success of the L-TIPs outcomes. Participation's enablers can be classified into four different spheres, each belonging to different elements of professio…
Internal Factors in Professional Service Firms (PSFs) and their Impact on Innovation Output : A Quantitative Study of Norwegian PSFs
2017
Master's thesis Business Administration BE501 - University of Agder 2017 The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of Norwegian Professional Service Firms (PSFs) by exploring the effect of internal factors’ impact on innovation output. The four internal factors selected for this study are (1) organizational inertia, (2) training, (3) human capital and (4) innovation culture. The economy is becoming increasingly knowledge based, and at the same time, the importance of innovation is becoming more prevalent in the business world. Even among PSFs, that are perceived as conservative, innovation is now becoming critical for survival. However, it is challenge to become a succ…