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The impact of accelerators: an ecosystem perspective

Entrepreneurship and the startup phenomenon have received considerable attention from researchers, with a particular focus on topics such as the identification of: new ventures’ success factors, conditions that foster entrepreneurial processes and new venture creation (Grimaldi & Grandi, 2005; Maine et al., 2015; Roberts, 1991; Smilor, 1987; Sternberg, 2014; Stuart & Abetti,…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 30/10/2017

Business model innovation: a high tech SMEs perspective

While business model innovations are critical to a company’s long-term strategy, they are still poorly understood compared to other kinds of innovations. In this paper, we investigate prior research and reframe business model innovation through a top management lens. We report on a content analysis of interviews with top managers of small and medium enterprises in the technology…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 30/10/2017

A five model approach to acceleration

Accelerators assist early-stage ventures by offering networking opportunities, access to funding and training. We map business accelerators in five categories: Independent Accelerators (IA), Corporate Accelerators (CA), Hybrid Accelerators (HA), University Accelerators (UA), and Government Accelerators (GA). We argue that accelerators can be described by two main acceleration models…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 30/10/2017

Business model innovation: a cluster of routines view

The business model innovation construct is gaining substantive attention in management literature. However, little advancement has been made toward a holistic, theory-based understanding of the nature of business model innovation, along with its context-specific antecedents and outcomes. Combining the theoretical insights of the literature on organizational routines and ‘activity…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 30/10/2017

Accessing reliable health information on the Web: a review of the HON approach

Accessing online health content of high quality and reliability presents challenges. Laypersons cannot easily differentiate trustworthy content from misinformed or manipulated content. This article describes complementary approaches for members of the general public and health professionals to find trustworthy content with as little bias as possible. These include the Khresmoi health…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 30/10/2017

A centralized approach for setting floating content parameters in VANETs

Floating Content (FC) has recently been proposed as an attractive application for mobile networks, such as VANETs, to operate opportunistic and distributed content sharing over a given geographic area, namely Anchor Zone (AZ). FC perfor-mances are tightly dependent on the AZ size, which in literature is classically chosen by the node that generates the floating message. In the present…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 28/10/2017

Using smart glasses in medical emergency situations, a qualitative pilot study

Medical emergency situations happening outside a hospital require a large range of competencies from safe transportation of a patient to his/her medical stabilization before the transport. Paramedics are trained to face such situations and can handle most of them very well. Some situations need precise skills and knowledge that are very common in a hospital setting but less in…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

English / 28/10/2017

„Politisch nicht sehr korrekt“

Der Starökonom aus Zürich über den Vormarsch der Verhaltensökonomie, die wirtschaftlichen Folgen von Unehrlichkeit – und seine Forschung mit Kindern und Hirnscannern.

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Deutsch / 27/10/2017

L'entreprise innovante: : un objet mal identifié

Cet ouvrage est le deuxième de la série « L'innovation entre le risque et la réussite ». Son objectif est d’esquisser le profil d’une entreprise innovante capable de maintenir et déployer sa compétitivité. L’entreprise innovante, un objet mal identifié analyse les principales caractéristiques d’un tel type de firme d’après la littérature scientifique sur le sujet et des exemples…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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Français / 26/10/2017

Optimizing investment decisions using DCF, decision tree analysis, and real options analysis: : the case of hotel expansions

Large scale infrastructure expansions in hotels are exposed to uncertainty. Since the costs involved in these expansion projects are high and often irreversible, hotels would benefit from analyses that incorporate uncertainty along with traditional valuation techniques like the discounted cash flow (DCF) method. Decision tree analysis (DTA) and real options analysis (ROA) have been…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 26/10/2017

The (mis)use of social media to communicate CSR in hospitality: : increasing stakeholders’ (dis)engagement through social media

Purpose This paper aims to discuss how the hospitality industry is communicating corporate social responsibility (CSR) to its stakeholders, the premise being CSR communication through social media platforms will increase stakeholder engagement. Design/methodology/approach This paper is developed based on Schwartz and Carroll’s three-domain approach to CSR motivation, stakeholder…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 26/10/2017

Using crowdsourcing for multi-label biomedical compound figure annotation

Abstract. Information analysis or retrieval for images in the biomedical literature needs to deal with a large amount of compound figures (figures containing several subfigures), as they constitute probably more than half of all images in repositories such as PubMed Central, which was the data set used for the task. The ImageCLEFmed benchmark proposed among other tasks in 2015 and 2016…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 26/10/2017

When employees walk the company talk: : the importance of employee involvement in corporate philanthropy

Although corporate philanthropy is often viewed as a vehicle for fostering employee commitment, research suggests that it does not always accomplish this goal. Drawing on theories on prosocial sensemaking and on social identity theory, I propose that involving employees in corporate philanthropy encourages more benevolent attributions for philanthropy, thereby promoting higher attitu…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 25/10/2017

Teaching HRM in contemporary hospitality management: : a case study drawing on HR analytics and big data analysis

In this article, we discuss how hospitality students can leverage new technology and new HRM metrics from a combination of a traditional format case study and innovative data spreadsheets. We offer a teaching case study that combines the strategic dimensions of HRM with practice-driven data analysis anchored in HR analytics and HR big data mining. We argue that this combination helps…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 25/10/2017

Semantic social media analysis of Chinese tourists in Switzerland

In recent years, Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like social network service in China, has attracted attention from scholars in the domain of information systems, as the spread and influence of users’ opinions are increasingly important, particularly in the tourism industry. This study examined the behaviors of Chinese tourists in Switzerland by adopting a semantic-based linked data…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 23/10/2017

Using the cloud as a platform for evaluation and data preparation

This chapter gives a brief overview of the VISCERAL Registration System that is used for all the VISCERAL Benchmarks and is released as open source on GitHub. The system can be accessed by both participants and administrators, reducing the direct participant–organizer interaction and handling the documentation available for each of the benchmarks organized by VISCERAL. Also, the…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 23/10/2017

VISCERAL: evaluation-as-a-service for medical imaging

Systematic evaluation has had a strong impact on many data analysis domains, for example, TREC and CLEF in information retrieval, ImageCLEF in image retrieval, and many challenges in conferences such as MICCAI for medical imaging and ICPR for pattern recognition. With Kaggle, a platform for machine learning challenges has also had a significant success in crowdsourcing solutions.…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 23/10/2017

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