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Development of Strategic Partnerships for Work-Based Learning

2019

Competitiveness of companies on local and international markets greatly depends on skilled labor force. There is an increased need for well-trained medium level specialists prepared by the vocational education and training (VET) systems. For countries with school-based VET systems tailor made approaches for work-based learning need to be implemented. This requires also new strategic partnerships. In Latvia in 2016 legal regulation on work-based learning was adopted. However, there is little research on the pre-conditions enabling the public administration to implement innovative VET approaches. The purpose of the study is to investigate the opinions of relevant public stakeholders from the …

Franchising: the dilemma between standardisation and flexibility

2014

Both standardisation and flexibility are naturally linked to franchising and the balance between them has become an important research issue. Literature states that cost minimisation, brand image and innovation are the main reasons that push towards standardisation, while flexibility is claimed (for those that advocate for it) in order to achieve a higher adaptation to local markets and enhance franchisees’ entrepreneurial attitudes. This research will focus on the computer retail sector to find out how franchise networks in services settle this dilemma. Here, franchisors have decided to focus on economies of scale and strong common corporate image as key goals and thus allow franchisees to…

Location theories and business location decision: A micro-spatial investigation of a nonmetropolitan area in Canada

2016

This paper draws on location theories to statistically identify the relationship between the location of individual business establishments and the characterization of their local economic environment. Taking a micro-spatial perspective, the paper develops indicators from distance-based measures (DBM) to serve as independent variables in a discrete choice model (DCM). Using a 2006 database of individual business establishments in the Lower-St-Lawrence region—a coherent, nonmetropolitan subsystem of cities in the province of Québec, Canada—we provide an empirical analysis of the determinants of individual establishments’ location decisions in relation to their main economic activity within a…

Esto es trabajo de mujeres: dos generaciones en el sector doméstico

2016

El trabajo femenino en el sector doméstico ha estado invisibilizado y menospreciado durante siglos. Este artículo es el resultado de una investigación realizada con mujeres de nacionalidad española de dos generaciones que han trabajado en el sector doméstico. Se ha realizado con el fin de comprender y analizar las diferencias en este trabajo a lo largo de más de 50 años. Se trata de una investigación cualitativa que ha puesto de manifiesto que lejos de tratarse de un trabajo minoritario, muchas mujeres lo han estado realizando, y todavía lo realizan. Suponiendo, al contrario de lo que se piensa, un pilar fundamental en la economía de muchas familias, pero que se ha visto relegado al ámbito …

POLICY INNOVATION AND IMPLEMENTATION IN PUBLIC SECTOR: COMPLEXITIES, DYNAMICS AND UNCERTAINTIES

This research is expected to contribute to the knowledge base on how an effective impact assessment and adoption of innovations in the public sector could be facilitated. The need for trans-disciplinary assessment of the long-term potential impacts of innovation-driven policies may well be met with system dynamics as part of the dynamic performance management approach by way of modelling based simulation and analysis. Moreover, such analysis may contribute to learning and the accumulation of a knowledge repository that enables strategy developers, policy designers and decision makers to arrive at unexpected (often called counterintuitive) conclusions prior to policy implementation. Such ins…

E-Government's Role in Shifting the Paradigm of Performance in the Public Sector

2015

The emergence of e-government changed the world of the Public Administration (PA) and the discipline of Public Management dramatically. Through the presentation of a case- study of the municipality of Palermo, this article attempts to discuss the renewed need for assessing performance of e-government services in a local government and to disclose the main critical issues in accomplishing this evaluation. Palermo is experiencing the implementation of a second- generation e-government project that is embodied in the realization of a web portal. The conceptualization of a framework to assess the performance of the digital services appears to be crucial in order to improve the system and to avo…

Nanomaterials and devices for energy storage and conversion

2019

El trabajo descrito en esta tesis está motivado por la intención de desarrollar diferentes nanomateriales para su aplicación en el sector energético, tanto para el almacenamiento como para la conversión de energía. Para ello, se han desarrollado diferentes nanomateriales para cumplir los objetivos de los diferentes capítulos. Por una parte, se presentan dos nuevos materiales con propiedades supercapacitivas. El primero es un nanocomposite formado por nanopartículas metálicas embebidas en una matriz grafítica, obtenido mediante un tratamiento térmico, usando como precursor un hidróxido doble laminar (LDH en inglés) de NiFe. A dicho nanocomposite se le hace un estudio in-situ de su formación …

Rationalising public support for private early childhood education and care: the case of Finland

2019

In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided. However, private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result of financial support from the public sector. Drawing on qualitative interviews with municipal decision-makers, this article identifies three frames within which publicly subsidised private ECEC provision and marketisation are rationalised: the pragmatic frame, the government frame and the choice frame. The results show that even though market logics and tendencies seem to have gained a strong foothold in local policies, there is a keen interest in universalism and maintaining public control over local ECEC provisi…

Diversity of human capital attributes and diversity of remunerating systems

2008

08004 - 17 p.; Document de travail de l'IREDU 2008-02; This paper aims at comparing the respective impact of the traditional Human Capital Variables (HCV) and of competences explicitly assessed on employees' remuneration. The data are derived from an original survey conducted in five large banking companies in Portugal. Six hundred clerks were interviewed regarding their individual characteristics (age, gender, education, experience in the labour market, experience in the company). Their respective supervisors were asked to assess their competences using a list of thirty skills. Complementary models are used in this research, relating to earnings and the distribution of profit shares to emp…

French engineering graduates in corporate R&D: is it worthwhile?

2009

In the early 1990s, several studies pointed out a significant gap in earnings between engineers in private firms working in Research and Development (R&D) and those in other activities. The purpose of this article is to assess, from conventional Mincerian models, to what extent these findings are still valid. The different levels of responsibility and job satisfaction of engineers in both types of activities are also analysed. The results clearly suggest a lower remuneration for engineers working in R&D in comparison to other activities, all things being equal. On the other hand, engineers involved in R&D activities have a greater dissatisfaction about the remuneration they receive, but als…