Search results for "creation"

Questo non è un flashback: frontiere della metalessi

2018

Se Gérard Genette ha contribuito in modo determinante all’annessione della metalessi dagli studi di retorica agli studi di narratologia, è stato ancora più responsabile della marcata deriva cinematografica di quegli stessi studi. Tra tanti suggerimenti ampiamente accolti dagli studiosi, forse alcune provocazioni sono però rimaste nell’ombra: il modo in cui parola e immagine interagiscono nella visualizzazione di racconti e ricordi sono stati riletti come altrettanti giochi metalettici. A poco a poco la metalessi ha finito per espandere i suoi confini, colonizzando i più insospettabili territori della rappresentazione filmica. Non sarà forse il caso di accettarne la sfida per disegnare una p…

Who Persistently Creates Jobs? Absolute versus Relative High-Growth Firms

2017

This paper examines the economic contribution of high-growth firms after their high-growth event. While the central role of high-growth firms for job creation is well-established, little is known about their dynamic development in coming periods. We address this question for the first time by comparing absolute with relative growth measures and use data on private firms in Bulgaria for three consecutive 3-year periods (2001-2004, 2004-2007, and 2007-2010). Next to calculating transition probability matrices to investigate growth in employees in coming periods, we model future employment growth by means of a two-part model with separate equations for the probability of survival and exit as w…

International competitiveness, job creation and job destruction—An establishment-level study of German job flows

2010

Abstract This study investigates the impact of international competitiveness on net employment, job creation, job destruction, and gross job flows for a representative sample of German establishments from 1993 to 2005. We find a statistically significant but economically small effect of real exchange rate shocks on employment, comparable to the one found in studies for the United States. However, contrary to the United States, the employment adjustment (among surviving firms) operates mainly through the job creation rather than the job destruction rate. Job destruction occurs essentially through discrete events such as restructuring, outsourcing and bankruptcy. We suggest that these finding…

Microfinance beyond self-employment: Evidence for firms in Bulgaria

2017

This paper provides new evidence on the impact of microfinance on job creation beyond self-employment. We examine wage-employment effects for a typical program in Eastern Europe with average loan sizes that are considerably above what has been studied so far. We apply propensity score matching extended by a difference-in-differences estimator to panel data from an individual-lending program to firms in Bulgaria. Our results indicate that microcredit has very positive effects on job creation. Participating firms have on average 2.5 (or 33 percent) more employees two years after receiving a microcredit than matched non-participants. This strong effect seems to be related to a certain loan siz…

Impacto social de un gran evento deportivo: el Gran Premio de Europa de Fórmula 1. (Social impact of a major athletic event: The Formula 1 Grand Prix…

2012

The aim of this study was to analyse the residents´ perceptions of the impact of the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe after the first three races (2008, 2009 and 2010) in the city of Valencia. Therefore, we surveyed 1,065 residents to analyse their opinion of this event. Results indicate that aspects related to the economic benefits, the image, the athletic prestige, and opening the city up to the world are those which are rated the highest. However, aspects related to job creation, public investment, problems related to noise and traffic, public transportation and security, taking full advantage of and utility of infrastructure, and increase in sports practice and facilities are the worst ra…

Patterned Model for Technology Development

1997

This paper develops a perspective to modeling patterned technological information flow processes by drawing on concepts from organizational learning and knowledge creation of high technology enterprises. In such a perspective, humans and their interaction in a development team and in an industry’s ‘invisible college’ are modeled as absorbers and users of technological knowledge. The planning behavior of users is specified in terms of design patterns. A hierarchical multilevel pattern flow and repository model is described. Modes for cooperative technology project work in a case of telecommunication industry domain are examined. Questions regarding the relationship between technological know…

Measuring innovation in long product development cycle industries: an insight in biotechnology

2009

This paper examines and measures innovation in the context of biotechnology firms by analysing the link between R&D, innovation performance and organisational growth. We conceptualise innovation performance as a latent construct with two dimensions: innovation efficacy and innovation efficiency. We use structural equations modelling to test the hypotheses on a data set from the biotechnology industry. Results support our innovation performance conceptualisation which is found to be especially useful to measure innovation in industries with long product development cycles. Findings also underline the importance of R&D knowledge creation for biotechnology firms.

Performance and Intellectual Capital: How Enablers Drive Value Creation in Organisations

2017

Combining Digitization with Healthcare Service Processes : Value Co-creation Opportunities Through Standard Work

2017

The study explores some implications of digitized healthcare services for value co-creation opportunities and work standardization and introduces DARIO, a value co-creation model of digitized services. The key development is the model’s focus on service processes that emerge through standardized work, providing opportunities for value co-creation. The DARIO model seeks to combine the theory of value co-creation and operations through lean standard work. The digitization of healthcare services is typically discussed from technological, medical science or customer perspectives, but opportunities for professionals to participate or to perform in the value co-creation process are less widely st…

The Co-creation Canvas

2021

Abstract Digital transformation has become an increasingly important topic among enterprises and in research. The adoption of enterprise systems is such an investment, and it usually requires significant change management activities to realize the potential benefits. One important issue is how firms should go about to make investments in appropriate digital technology – and the appropriate changes to organizational processes and business models. This is particularly challenging for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). They generally have very limited resources, and they usually depend on external input and cooperation with other companies. Therefore, a successful strategy for many SME…