Search results for "Project management"

Determinants of success of donation-based crowdfunding through digital platforms : The influence of offline factors

2019

The purpose of this research consist of exploring the extent to which factors traditionally explaining the success of offline fundraising campaigns for social causes may also influence the success of donationbased crowdfunding (DCF) campaigns promoted by social economy organizations (SEO) through digital platforms. Firstly, factors determining the success of offline fundraising campaigns for social causes are identified from previous literature. Secondly, a set of hypotheses linking these determinants to DCF campaigns is proposed. Thirdly, their explanatory capacity is measured through quantitative analysis based on a database of 360 campaigns fostered by small, medium and large-size organi…

Cooperatives and Social Capital : A Theoretically-Grounded Approach

2019

Social capital is widely regarded as a collective resource with positive effects on the economic performance of cooperatives. This conclusion is based on the implicit assumption that social interactions between cooperative members would inexorably lead to the development of networks, norms and trust. This paper challenges the validity of this assumption. Conceptualizing social capital as a resource of the individual, it is argued that the interactions between cooperative members may lead to the establishment of a variety of complex social ties, some of which can negatively affect the economic performance of the organization. To illustrate this argument, the paper presents an exploratory cas…

Social and solidarity economy and the need for its entrepreneuring ecosystem: Current challenges in Brazil

2020

Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T02:05:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01 This articles purpose is to discuss the state of the art of the constitution of the entrepreneurial ecosystem for SSE and its application in Brazil. One of the major challenges for the creation, continuity and strengthening of Solidarity Economy Enterprises (SEE) is the effective establishment of an entrepreneurial ecosystem for Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). The construction of the solidary entrepreneurial ecosystem is a complex task, full of challenges, especially when this construction is associated to structural weaknesses inherent to its modus operandi. Case studies of sev…

An intercultural approach to music education: Intercultural proposals for primary education

2011

Este artículo pretende mostrar una aproximación a la educación intercultural mediante el proceso de enseñanza musical porque ésta es una parte de la cultura que nos habla del hombre y de su relación con el mundo. Se intenta responder a las nuevas exigencias derivadas de los procesos migratorios con actividades abiertas y flexibles, con las que los docentes adquieran un nuevo protagonismo como profesionales. Éstos necesitan nuevas competencias para desenvolverse adecuadamente en tales contextos complejos, con el trabajo en equipo como principal estrategia ante posibles problemas derivados del diseño curricular y con la integración de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación…

Modelización matemática en la educación secundaria: manual de uso

2019

[EN] One of the main problems that arise when implementing a mathematical modeling task to the secondary classroom is the lack of a detailed description, from the didactic perspective, that helps and guides the in-service teachers in the implementation of this type of activity and that allows them to identify which are the learning objectives being pursued; if this kind of activities t within the oficial curriculum; the type of tasks that allow these objectives to be achieved; how to carry out their evaluation or what methodology to use. In this article we will address all these aspects from the perspective of a classroom experience, detailing each of the phases involved in the implementati…

Editorial: Mission and scope of the journal Educational Research Review

2020

Reconsidering off-task: a comparative study of PDA-mediated activities in four classrooms

2010

Mobile technology is ubiquitous and diverse and permeates many aspects of daily life at home, during leisure activities, and in public spaces. The study presented here is of two sixth grade classes in Michigan, USA and two seventh grade classes in Norway. The students and the teachers in these four classrooms were equipped with mobile technologies (PDAs). We found that the students’ PDA-mediated actions in the classroom were not exclusively used for the tasks and activities set by the teacher, but that the students also used the PDAs on their own initiative – so-called ‘off-task’ activities. We analyze the findings by reconsidering off-task activities from a sociocultural perspective.

Towards Understanding Startup Product Development as Effectual Entrepreneurial Behaviors

2017

With the rapid development of technology and competitiveness of IT sectors, the speed of learning and evolving is vital for success of software startups. However, software startups often face with multiple technical and business challenges, which lengthen the duration of their idea-to-launch process. Little is known about the relation of entrepreneurial characteristics of software startups and their product development. We conducted an empirical study on twenty software startups to understand their challenges that leads long idea-to-launch processes. Six engineering-related challenges were identified and interpreted via a lens of an entrepreneurial behavior theory. Our main finding is that …

2020

There is an active debate regarding whether the ego depletion effect is real. A recent preregistered experiment with the Stroop task as the depleting task and the antisaccade task as the outcome task found a medium-level effect size. In the current research, we conducted a preregistered multilab replication of that experiment. Data from 12 labs across the globe ( N = 1,775) revealed a small and significant ego depletion effect, d = 0.10. After excluding participants who might have responded randomly during the outcome task, the effect size increased to d = 0.16. By adding an informative, unbiased data point to the literature, our findings contribute to clarifying the existence, size, and g…

2016

Research on ego depletion aims at explaining self-control failures in daily life. Both resource models and motivational accounts have been proposed for explanation. The aim of the present research was to test the different assumptions in two dual-task experiments where we operationalized ego depletion as a performance deviation from a self-set goal. In two experiments, we found evidence for this deviation contradicting motivational accounts of ego depletion: Participants experiencing ego depletion set themselves a stricter instead of a more lenient goal than controls, in that they chose to eat less cookies or wanted to perform better. Moreover, only participants without an initial self-cont…