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Evaluating Multidimensional Prices in the Bundling Context
1999
Leasing offers, such as “... Jaguar XJ6 3.2, ..., down payment DM 22,325, DM 999 per month, 36 monthly installments...” or “... Audi A4 Avant, ..., down payment DM 15,000, DM 157 per month, repayment period 36 months, residual payment DM 5,000 ...”, have made regular appearances in advertisements for several years now. That offers of this kind are accepted by buyers of automobiles is confirmed by the leasing figures for German automobile manufacturers. Since the early 1990s, between 10% and 28% of all new automobiles have been sold under a leasing agreement, depending on the maker and the model series. The average leasing share for the automobile sector was approximately 23% in Germany in 1…
Social Entrepreneurship as a Form of Institutional Entrepreneurship
2021
Bureaucracy as a form of structuring and working of current organizations may be seen as the result of a set of circumstances. For Weberians, bureaucracy is the consequence of the principles of protestant values applied to the market. For institutionalists, bureaucracy is the outcome of the replication of practices in organizations, that is, bureaucracy is due to isomorphism among organizations. Following the institutional approach, organizations act by imitation. This imitation provides a certain way to compete and work necessary to survival, meaning that this imitation gives stability and equilibrium to the context in which organizations operate. Nevertheless, this equilibrium may not be …
PISA y TALIS ¿congruencia o discrepancia?
2016
Las evaluaciones educativas internacionales a gran escala ofrecen información de interés para la comunidad educativa, científica y política. Son muchos los estudios derivados de ellas, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. Por otra parte, es bien conocida, desde el origen de estas macroevaluaciones, la diversidad de valoraciones que han generado. En este contexto, el objetivo del trabajo que aquí se presenta es estudiar las relaciones entre los resultados de PISA 2012 y los relativos a práctica docente de secundaria de TALIS 2013, tratando de analizar las congruencias o discrepancias entre los resultados de ambas. Se tomaron los datos del estudio TALIS-PISA link. Los análisis realizado…
Interpretaciones no intencionadas e intencionadas y usos de los resultados de PISA: Una perspectiva de validez consecuencial
2016
Este artículo explora la relevancia de considerar las consecuencias de las pruebas como parte de las discusiones acerca de la validez, la investigación sobre validación, en el contexto del Programa Internacional para la Evaluación de Estudiantes de la OCDE, PISA. Lo primero que describe la concepción moderna de validez como un aspecto fundamental de la calidad de los ensayos y sistemas de pruebas, es que evoluciona en torno a las interpretaciones propuestas y usos de las puntuaciones de las pruebas: "La validez se refiere al grado en el cual la evidencia y la teoría apoyan las interpretaciones de las puntuaciones de las pruebas sobre las propuestas de su uso en los test. La validez es, por …
Robustness of asymmetry and coherence of quantum states
2016
Quantum states may exhibit asymmetry with respect to the action of a given group. Such an asymmetry of states can be considered as a resource in applications such as quantum metrology, and it is a concept that encompasses quantum coherence as a special case. We introduce explicitly and study the robustness of asymmetry, a quantifier of asymmetry of states that we prove to have many attractive properties, including efficient numerical computability via semidefinite programming, and an operational interpretation in a channel discrimination context. We also introduce the notion of asymmetry witnesses, whose measurement in a laboratory detects the presence of asymmetry. We prove that properly c…
Narrating well-being in the context of precarious prosperity: An account of agency framed by culturally embedded happiness and gender beliefs
2016
This article sets out to critically examine the accounts of well-being produced by a middle-aged Swiss woman living in precarious prosperity. By taking on a feminist reading of the narrative on well-being, the article challenges the taken for granted assumption of the powerful agent in thriving societies. Insights from literature on happiness in nations and gender beliefs enabled addressing the woman’s capability to exert agency, while acknowledging the influence of the context in which narratives are embedded. In addition, the presence of a non-national interviewer appears to be an incentive for the interviewee’s compliance with cultural meta-narratives. The approach of well-being as ‘age…
Sustainable virtual teams: promoting well-being through affect management training and openness to experience configurations
2021
A disruptive digitalization recently occurred that led to the fast adoption of virtual teams. However, membership diversity and team virtuality threaten members’ well-being, especially if faultlines appear (i.e., subgroups). Considering the job demands–resources model and the role of group affect in shaping members’ perceptions of well-being, we test the effectiveness of a short-term affect management training for increasing members’ eudaimonic well-being. Moreover, based on the trait activation theory and the contingent configuration approach, we draw on the personality composition literature to test how different openness to experience configurations of team level and diversity together m…
Overbooked: the exploding business of travel & tourism
2013
Displacing to uncertain landscapes sets us free but at the same time, it poses a series of concerns. The given context of adventure and open destiny leads us to document our experiences to be read ...
Implications of Value Co-Creation in Green Hotels: The Moderating Effect of Trip Purpose and Generational Cohort
2020
Recently, great interest in value co-creation has been revealed among both academics and practitioners in the hotel sector. However, few studies are analyzing the consequences of co-creation behavior from the customer perspective in &ldquo
Adoption of ubiquitous crm for operational sustainability of the firms: Moderating role of technology turbulence
2021
Ubiquitous CRM (UCRM) enhances customer relationship management. It can sense customer needs and demands, to which firms can respond quickly. Therefore, UCRM helps to improve a firm’s agility. There is a growing interest among researchers and practitioners to understand how the adoption of UCRM impacts the sustainability of firms’ operations, but not many studies have investigated this issue. In this context, the aim of this study is to examine how firms’ absorptive capacity and dynamic capability could impact the adoption of UCRM to influence the operational sustainability of the firms and their performance. The study also investigates the moderating role of technology turbulence on the re…