infonet-economy

As learners’ access to knowledge has changed, so have their expectations of what and how they expect to learn in hospitality and tourism degree programs. This paper explores experiences of digital natives in a flipped classroom environment supported by open source technology (MOOCS, Moodle & Mahara) and Team Academy methodology. Blended learning is explored and practical…

In this article I explore the impact of the introduction of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002 and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s implementation of the Act in 2006 on the options granting process. I show that after the in troduct ion of the SOX and its implementation the pract ice of backdating options was subst ituted with the practice of “spring loading” options around…

Marc Stierand looks at the challenge of developing creative hospitality and restaurant provision. On the one hand it has to be rescued from the tyrrany of survey results and averages; on the other it has to escape the practical but useless bright ideas (known in Japan as chindogu) which occur to all enterprising managers.

The entrepreneurial framework conditions in Switzerland in 2014 were good but not great, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Global Report. The lack of venture capital investment for new and growing firms is perceived as sub-optimal.

Business model innovation has been acknowledged as important for Swiss and global SMEs in order to create and sustain competitive advantage in rapidly changing business settings. However, little empirical and theoretical advancement have been made toward the understanding of business model innovation’ antecedents and firm outcomes. This research aims to distinguish between realized…

Swiss blue SMEs are niche SMEs specialized in technologies addressing sustainable development challenges, which are particularly acute and urgent in East Asian emerging economies. Sectors of Swiss SME specialization are diverse such as in agro-food safety and food security, human health and life sciences, air and water treatment, pollution control and waste management, renewable…

This paper provides an overview of the Retrieving Diverse Social Images task that is organized as part of the MediaEval 2015 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation. The task addresses the problem of result diversification and user annotation credibility estimation in the context of social photo retrieval. We present the task challenges, the proposed data set and ground…