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Consumer acceptance of nutritional innovation in traditional cheeses: effect of omega-3 information on hedonic scores and valuation
2009
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Climate variability, innovation and firm performance: evidence from the European agricultural sector
2021
Abstract It is generally accepted that adaptation to climate variability requires a technological advancement strategy. However, the innovation process has received little explicit consideration in this framework. We employ a panel endogenous switching regression model to explore whether and to what extent climate variability affects firm performance through the ability to induce the development of adaptation innovations in key resource-based sectors in Europe during the period 2007–2017. Our findings confirm that the knowledge generation process at the heart of climate change adaptation technologies enhances firm performance, especially for firms in the aquaculture and fishing sub-sectors …
Modelli ed evoulzione delle politiche
2008
Questo contributo propone alcune riflessioni utili all’inquadramento ed alla valutazione delle politiche a sostegno dell’innovazione. L’attenzione viene posta, in particolare, sull’evoluzione dello scenario nel quale opera l’impresa innovativa, sul ruolo di alcune tipologie di agglomerazioni emerse in questo nuovo scenario, quali le reti per l’innovazione ed i distretti tecnologici, sui sistemi territoriali innovativi nei quali i processi istituzionali hanno un ruolo sempre più importante, come nel caso dei sistemi d’innovazione nazionale e regionale, ed infine sulla questione dell’identificazione e della misurazione dei fattori chiave dell’innovazione utili per una valutazione delle politi…
User Experience as a Challenge for Cognitive Psychology and Ergonomics
2011
Research on human–technology interaction has been concerned with assessing the experience of interacting with technology that is already in the process of being designed. However, the challenge nowadays is to help industry find out what technology should be designed. In this new context, cognitive psychology and ergonomics should be able to assist the innovation process through an analysis of the actions that constitute human life and the role that technology plays in these actions. In this paper, we present our approach to the definition of the role of cognitive psychologists and cognitive ergonomists in the innovation process. We aim to define new concepts and methodologies that would hel…
As inovações em contabilidade governamental na américa latina: o caso da Colômbia
2012
En este trabajo se aborda la reforma de la contabilidad gubernamental en Colombia -iniciada en 1991 y que se extiende hasta la actualidad- buscando contribuir a la comprensión de la génesis y del desarrollo del Sistema Contable Público Colombiano. Un elemento novedoso reside en documentar parte del proceso de adaptación de las International Public Sector Accounting Standards, IPSAS, a un contexto específico. Así, la pregunta central del documento es: ¿Puede considerarse el proceso desarrollado en la contabilidad gubernamental en Colombia como una innovación? Desde un enfoque descriptivo y analítico, soportado en documentos públicos y en fuentes secundarias, los autores caracterizan lo acont…
Ethical Behavior and Organizational Innovation: Analysis of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Latvia
2018
Abstract Innovations can provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a significant competitive advantage considering the ambiguous business environment. SMEs may face lower capacity and more constrained funding for long-term investments, however, understanding innovation in a broader sense and looking into organizational structures, behaviors and processes, SMEs have an opportunity to become more competitive. This study analyzes the impact of ethical behavior as a part of an organizational culture on organizational innovation performance in SMEs. Six hundred SMEs in Latvia were surveyed to assess whether employees follow the principles of business ethics in their work and what is the …
El model PROT i la responsabilitat social universitaria: prosocialitat i transferència del coneixement a la pràctica
2019
espanolEn 30 anos de historia, el grupo LIPA (Laboratorio de Investigacion Prosocial Aplicada) de la Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) ha promovido y generado un modelo internacionalprofesional, de investigacion y formacion para la optimizacion prosocial de los territorios y organizaciones. La Prosocialidad transferida a la practica social en lipa ha generado intervenciones innovadoras que desde una apuesta por la transferencia del conocimiento, ha beneficiado de modo efectivo a personas y organizaciones, potenciando su creatividad, identidad y autonomia. Se sistematizan los resultados de intervencion profesional de proyectos sociales de lipa, para determinar cuales son indicadores de…
Democracy in Constituent Moments: Exploring the Spanish Constitutional Debate of 1931 through Political Theory and Conceptual History
2019
This paper aims to answer the question of why constituent moments are relevant to political theory. It hypothesises the Spanish constitutional debate of 1931 as a case of conceptual innovation in parliamentary politics by arguing that debates in constituent moments entail a special kind of parliamentary argumentation when new political regimes are established. There, all sorts of theoretical, normative, historical, and institutional aspects are discussed to deliberate on the future character and functioning of a political regime. From a methodological point of view, this analysis draws on the revision of arguments and political terms used by MPs during the Spanish constituent assembly of 19…
Consumer Information Services in Intercultural Tourism : An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Outbound Backpackers
2017
This paper reports the findings of an ethnographic study of Chinese outbound backpackers’ use and adoption of consumer information services (CIS) in an intercultural tourism setting. We apply McKenna et al.’s research model of consumers’ adoption of information services as the analytical lens for the interpretive qualitative study. The data gathering was conducted in four different countries. The findings of the study confirm linkages between four information service types and the use and adoption of CIS. The study also found that service types are more diversely linked than the earlier studies have predicted and therefore we propose a revised research model, which can be used for studying …
Corporate entrepreneurship and governance: Mergers and acquisitions in Europe
2022
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are a form of corporate entrepreneurship involving strategic decisions that require discussion and approval by the board of directors of the acquiring firm. We focus on board attributes to analyze the entrepreneurial function of the board of directors and its involvement in corporate entrepreneurship. Building on different theories (agency theory, resource dependence theory, stewardship theory, and stakeholder theory), we examine whether board composition affects the number of acquisitions, the risk involved in bids, and the creation of value for the acquirer's shareholders. For a sample of European firms over the period 2002 to 2020, we find that board size a…