infonet-economy

Living Labs (LL) are complex multi-stakeholders ecosystems of innovation. When co-creating a service, each actor has his own strategic agenda. Finding a common ground for co-creating a service is not an easy task and requires tools to facilitate and structure the reflection. This paper examines how “service blueprinting” techniques can contribute to improve the co-creation process…

Literature suggests dozens of ways of how to quantify the success of social media. However, there is no consent about the measurement of the return of investment (ROI). Only very limited empirical work is looking at the topic especially in tourism. This study is one of the first attempts to look at the ROI of tourism organizations. In doing so, various input (i.e. budget, manpower,…

Prior research on born globals have investigated internationalization strategies in the context of the host, developed markets. However, little research has been done on strategies of born globals entering emerging markets which are characterized by complexity and instability. Therefore, the aim of our paper is the investigation of Swiss born globals’ internationalization strategies…

Very often features come with their own vectorial descriptions which provide detailed information about their properties. We refer to these vectorial descriptions as feature side-information. The feature side-information is most often ignored or used for feature selction prior to model fitting. In this paper, we propose a framework that allows for the incorporation of feature side-…

Very often features come with their own vectorial descriptions which provide detailed information about their properties. We refer to these vectorial descriptions as feature side-information. In the standard learning scenario, input is represented as a vector of features and the feature sideinformation is most often ignored or used only for feature selection prior to model fitting.…

Cet article s’inscrit en géographie de la finance et montre, à l’aide de diverses études de cas, com-ment l’industrie financière, en s’appropriant le concept de développement durable de manière par-ticulière, a construit sa propre approche de la « valeur financière durable » dans le cadre des fonds d’investissement socialement responsable (ISR). Il explique la manière dont l’industrie…

As with every decade, the 2010-2020’s are not without their buzzwords and the one making the most noise at this time is the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” [1]. So much noise in fact, that it has come to the attention of those involved in higher education. Already under pressure to embrace a paradigm change which sees education going from a more content-centred to a learner-centred…

Although developing and emerging market firms (southern MNCs) are increasingly engaged in outward FDI in European advanced economies, we have an incomplete and inconsistent understanding of whether, and under what conditions, this investment may benefit the local economy. Our paper addresses this issue by examining whether local firms may benefit from the entry and the presence of…

Pratique du marketing est un ouvrage à mettre entre les mains de toutes celles et ceux qui souhaitent découvrir les principaux concepts et outils du marketing dans une perspective pratique. Il s’adresse plus particulièrement aux étudiants qui se préparent aux examens de la maturité professionnelle commerciale ou qui se trouvent en début de programme Bachelor des Universités et Hautes…