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A Crowd-Sourced Database of Coronamusic: Documenting Online Making and Sharing of Music During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021
When a sweeping COVID-19 pandemic forced cultural venues, schools, and social hangouts into hibernation in early 2020, music life relocated to the digital world. On social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok, sofas and balconies took center stage for musical performances presented as live-streamed concerts and recorded videos. Amateurs and professional musicians alike embraced digital formats and innovated novel genres of corona-themed music. We will refer to the products of this musical phenomenon collectively as "coronamusic." Adapting a well-known term from cultural musicology (Small, 1999), the diverse practices of listening, playing, dancing, composing, rehearsi…
Precariedad laboral, empresas multiservicios y dumping social
2018
Se describe el desarrollo de las empresas multiserivicios, su encuadre dentro de una organización empresarial en red y los elementos que determinan la precariedad laboral en su seno. Se analiza el tratamiento de estas empresas desde la perspectiva legislativa, judicial y de la negociación colectiva. Se trata de la versión preprint de un capítulo de libro en el libro colectivo que recogerá las ponencias presentadas en el Congreso descentralización productiva y transformaciones en el Derecho del Trabajo, Valencia, 30 de noviembre y 1 de diciembre de 2017.
Software Complexity and Organization of Firms’ Offshoring Activities
2017
How does software complexity shape software providers’ offshoring tasks, and how do such firms organize their offshoring activity? These questions are important, since the global software development market is growing rapidly, offering new opportunities for software managers and entrepreneurs to distribute their activities geographically. Based on a multi-site case study of 12 software firms, we study connections between software complexity and the offshoring strategies selected. Our findings suggest that software firms select a variety of organizational structures for their offshoring activity, and that the selection is shaped by the complexity of the software in question. peerReviewed
A Dynamic Life-cycle Model for the Provisioning of Software Testing Services: Experiences from A Case Study in the Chinese ICT Sourcing Market
2011
ICT-enabled international sourcing of software-intensive systems and services (eSourcing) is a powerful strategy for managing businesses more effectively. China is becoming a superpower for eSourcing service provisioning, but most Chinese providers are small or medium-sized and leverage the mediated eSourcing model, delivering services to foreign ICT clients that interface with end-clients onshore. This model restricts the providers to low-value projects. This paper probes eSourcing of software testing services within the Chinese market. Testing is studied for two reasons. First, testing is one of the best ICT services, small- and medium-sized providers can provide to develop domain and tec…
Information system implementation model and observations - Case health care, social services and other service processes in smaller municipalities
2012
Public sector in Finland is under heavy pressure to get more efficient and customer oriented. Information systems and their development is one possibility to improve municipalities’ own processes and their service offering to the inhabitants. In this study we investigated what is the status of Information Systems in municipal governance and architecture management. The situation with systems landscape and architecture is, based on our findings, very scattered and municipals do not make their decisions, for example outsourcing decisions, in a systematic way. Based on those findings, especially in small municipalities, we created a model, which municipal ICT responsible professionals can foll…
ACCOUNTING OUTSOURCING IN MICRO AND SMALL ENTITIES – OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS = OUTSOURCING RACHUNKOWOŚCI W MIKRO- I MAŁYCH PODMIOTACH – SZANSE I ZA…
2019
W dobie przemian społeczno-gospodarczych, silnej konkurencji, a także zmieniających się przepisów prawnych utrzymanie się na rynku i efektywne funkcjonowanie mikro- i małych podmiotów możliwe jest dzięki delegowaniu świadczenia usług w dziedzinie rachunkowości na zewnątrz wysoko wyspecjalizowanym jednostkom. Celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie roli outsourcingu rachunkowości w aspekcie potrzeb informacyjnych użytkowników podmiotów małych i mikro funkcjonujących na globalnym rynku, jak również wskazanie na ich szanse i zagrożenia w świetle wyników przeprowadzonych badań. Jako metodami badawczymi posłużono się studiami literatury przedmiotu, przeglądem aktów prawnych, metodą ankietową oraz wn…
Best practices for International eSourcing of Software Products and Services
2008
This paper analyzes how the information and communications technology-supported international eSourcing of software products and services (IeS) can be effectively executed. The extant literature falls short of providing a systematic and detailed enough set of best practices to guide IeS. This paper presents best practices for IeS to facilitate further research, and to help managers and other stakeholders to understand, execute, and proactively improve and manage international eSourcing. The practices emphasize the need to establish and enact rigorous, mature, and quantitatively managed eSourcing life- cycles in order to transcend temporal, geographical, social, technical, and other boundari…
Restricciones y capacidades para la acción climática: un análisis en empresas de economías con debilidades institucionales
2023
Indagamos porqué las empresas se comprometen con acciones contra el cambio climático (ACC). Primero estudiamos un efecto macro de las interacciones entre la configuración institucional que externaliza la FDI y las instituciones locales. La FDI externalizará positivamente las instituciones de origen cuando proviene de economías de mercado más coordinadas, mientras que las instituciones locales juegan diversos roles y contrarrestan los efectos negativos de la FDI de otro origen. Luego estudiamos la complementación positiva entre las fachadas organizativas —frentes simbólicos— sobre algunos recursos de la empresa. Finalmente se relacionan las acciones más sustantivas con la ampliación de los l…
Individual Differences Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Age, Gender, Personality, and Positive Psychology
2021
Research on individual differences in facing the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be crucial in order to design diverse and highly effective intervention strategies. This study uses a sample of 302 North American participants who were recruited through the crowdsourcing platform ProA; different profiles were established, profiling variables of interest in facing the COVID-19 outbreak. Socio-demographic and psychological (personality traits, gratitude, life purpose, and religiosity) variables were explored. These results are of interest if we want to deepen the study of individual differences at both a theoretical and applied level.
Employer brand management: methodological aspects
2021
У статті обгрунтовано необхідність залучення зовнішніх ресурсів для управління брендом роботодавця. У роботі авторами було схематизовано процес прийняття рішення щодо обгрунтованого вибору компаній аутсорсерів. При цьому сформовано систему критеріїв здійснення такого вибору, що включає як вимоги до компанії-аутсорсера, так і вимоги до майбутнього проекту: рівень вдалих попередніх проектів; рівень задоволеності клієнтів; досвід роботи в Україні; середня вартість послуг аутсорсингової компанії з розробки проекту; термін розробки проекту; комплексність розроблених рекомендацій щодо просування бренду роботодавця; термін дії проекту; гнучкість проекту; рівень складності впровадження проекту; сер…