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Knowledge management and intellectual capital in the business model innovation of Costa Rican manufacturing firms
2022
Abstract The purpose of this article is to analyze the impact of knowledge management and intellectual capital on the ability of companies to generate business model innovation. To evaluate the proposed hypotheses, we surveyed a final sample of 100 Costa Rican manufacturing companies and analyzed the data using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results show that knowledge management positively contributes to the development of business model innovations. Similarly, intellectual capital has a direct positive influence on business model innovation. However, the direct contribution intellectual capital depends on the adoption of practices that encourage knowledg…
Innovaciones metodológicas en los estudios comparativos de los costes y financiación de la educación
1997
Most past cost and finance studies of education have been limited by the lack of available data covering all aspects of the problem. As a consequence, the most widespread indicator at the international level has been for a long time the share of the GDP allocated to public education expenditure. Since about ten years, thanks to OECD initiative, new efforts have been undertaken in order to provide a better coverage of education cost and finance, in particular in the field of private expenditure. These new efforts have been extented to the adoption of a more comparable definition of education (early childhood education, adult education, aso). They have also included the elaboration of new ind…
Global Performance Management for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (GPM-SME)
2006
This paper refers to the project GPM-SME — FP6-005857i, included within the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission, in its CRAFT Programme. The goal of this document is to present the main concepts of Global Performance Management and how the GPM-SME consortium pursues to develop a framework to improve the competitive capability of companies and their network visibility, specially developed for Small and Medium sized Enterprises. This main aim will be achieved in two ways: allowing companies to include Innovation potential in their performance management, and defining new ways to share information among companies in Collaborative Networks(CN) and measuring the capabilities of Vi…
Innovation practices in cultural organisations: Implications for innovation policy
2016
This paper explores the innovation practices in a distinctive and vital part of the growing tourism industry, that of cultural organisations. These organisations have received limited attention from previous in-depth qualitative research on innovation practices. The investigation in this paper is based on in-depth interviews with key-employees in 27 cultural organisations. The findings suggest that the innovation practices when cultural organisations carry out incremental and liminal innovation activities differ from the practices used during more radical innovation activities. Sources of incremental and liminal innovations are often found to be stakeholders external to the organisation, su…
Impacto de las Prácticas de Recursos Humanos sobre la creatividad y los resultados de innovación : propuesta de una escala de medida
2014
La capacidad de innovar se ha convertido en un factor clave de éxito para la supervivencia de las empresas en los entornos actuales. La existencia de procesos creativos en las empresas conduce al desarrollo de productos y procesos innovadores. Además, la adecuación de las prácticas de Recursos Humanos a la estrategia de innovación favorece la creatividad y el proceso de innovación. El objetivo básico de este trabajo es la propuesta de un modelo teórico para el desarrollo de una escala de medida que conjugue los enfoques tradicionales de Recursos Humanos, más estáticos y orientados a los resultados, con los enfoques de innovación más dinámicos y centrados en los procesos. Así, la contribució…
Crowding y Overtourism en la literatura de turismo y cruceros
2020
[EN] The purpose of this article is to make a small analysis of the situation of Crowding and Overtourism literature in the tourism sector. In addition, the paper makes a special review of this literature with emphasis on cruise ship literature. Using the Web of Science as a basis, the study makes a brief bibliometric analysis of this literature. The purpose is to know the state of the art and main trends in this literature. In addition, the work aims to lay the foundations for a subsequent in-depth analysis of this literature. The work has implications for researchers, as it analyses gaps in the literature and new future trends. In addition, the work can help professionals to observe new p…
How do I rule my solver’s relationship? An empirical investigation of governance structures in crowdsourcing contests
2016
In order to continually innovate, companies are increasingly opening their boundaries and signing crowdsourcing agreements with solution providers. However, crowdsourcing scholars are no closer to understanding how possible solvers’ opportunistic behaviours affect the governance structure proposed by the seeker at the moment the challenge is broadcast. Building on the managerial-choice approach of transaction cost economics, we aim to examine how contract conditions, specified in the request for proposal (RFP), aiming to reduce the effect of solver’s opportunistic behaviours whilst influencing seekers’ preferences toward proposing contractual agreements to manage the working relationship wi…
Intrinsic value in crypto currencies
2021
Abstract Over the last years, cryptocurrencies have acquired a growing social and economic interest. The most representative features of this new phenomenon are strong price increases and high volatility. The investigations developed in this field are not excessively numerous nor unanimous. Some researches consider this phenomenon to be a bubble, since they don't agree that the price pattern of the cryptocurrencies is justified or explained by their intrinsic value. The present article aims to provide a theoretical framework for the assessment of these new realities embodied by cryptocurrencies. We have created a model which differentiates two types of cryptocurrencies: the cryptocurrencies…
What factors drive returns on initial coin offerings?
2020
Abstract In recent years, initial coin offerings (ICOs) have received considerable attention as a new form of crowdfunding. Because of the rapid growth in their popularity, ICOs have become a prominent research topic. However, the lack of knowledge about the nature of this kind of financial operation inevitably raises several important unanswered questions. This study starts by providing a comprehensive description of the characteristics, benefits, and risks associated with ICOs. Then, using a panel data set comprising daily information for 125 ICOs (44,217 observations gathered from December 2017 to December 2018), this study explores the influence of the ICO presale period, ICO category, …
Economic development and the creative industries: a tale of causality
2014
Cultural and creative industries are thought to be a driver for economic growth. During the last decade, research has tried to link higher intensity of these industries with the region's welfare. However, this is a controversial relationship that still needs to be proved. In this article, we build a conceptual framework to help us test the possible causality between regional income generation and employment in the cultural and creative sectors. Using regional European data for 1999–2008, our results show that there is a significant feedback (bidirectional causality) between the per capita GDP and employment intensity in the cultural and creative industries, allowing us to conclude that ther…