Publications des institutions partenaires
Service innovation in times of economic crisis: : the strategic renewal activites of the top EU service firms
This paper examines the strategic renewal activities top service firms use to respond to environmental scarcity. Based on a longitudinal dataset of 97 leading European service firms, it empirically conceptualizes three clusters or strategic types of organizational response to overcome long-term financial strain. Leading E.U. service firms that attempt to maximize recovery by...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/11/2016
Caste, faith, gender: : determinants of homeownership in urban India
Applying multivariable probit models on a large dataset of urban non-slum households, we find that homeownership tenure choice in India is significantly associated with gender, religion and caste. In particular,large households or those headed by women or with larger number of women are significantly more inclined towards homeownership than households of otherwise similar...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/11/2016
The effect of price targets on the composition of CEO pay
This article analyzes the impact of price targets from the IBES Detail Price History Target database on CEO compensation retained from Execucomp. The two databases are merged at fiscal year frequency and an OLS regression with fixed effect is used to analyze the impact of price target on CEO compensation. The analysis reveals that analysts’ price targets affect top executives’...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2016
Hospitality and tourism research in Swiss hotel schools: : a case study of research practices at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
This study explores the institutional and regulatory obstacles to hospitality and tourism research in Switzerland and explains why scientific research is underdeveloped in Swiss hotel and tourism management schools. A case study approach is adopted to analyze the research practices pursued by Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne as a solution to combat the regulatory constraints in Swiss...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2016
A multiple indicators multiple causes (mimic) model of behavioral consequences of hotel guests
This study aims to extend previous tourist behavior research by examining whether and how a set of covariates, including culture, social demographics, and travel behavioral patterns, can affect the behavioral consequences of hotel guests. We developed a Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes (MIMIC) model to test the effects of these covariates on the factor structure of hotel guests...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2016
Is RevPASH the best performance indicator for restaurant revenue management?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2016
Value for money in H1N1 influenza: a systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of pandemic interventions
Background The 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic generated additional data and triggered new studies that opened debate over the optimal strategy for handling a pandemic. The lessons-learned documents from the World Health Organization show the need for a cost estimation of the pandemic response during the risk-assessment phase. Several years after the crisis, what conclusions can we...
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2016
Value for money in H1N1 influenza: : a systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of pandemic interventions
Background The 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic generated additional data and triggered new studies that opened debate over the optimal strategy for handling a pandemic. The lessons-learned documents from the World Health Organization show the need for a cost estimation of the pandemic response during the risk-assessment phase. Several years after the crisis, what conclusions can we...
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2016
Value for money in H1N1 influenza ::a systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of pandemic interventions
Background The 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic generated additional data and triggered new studies that opened debate over the optimal strategy for handling a pandemic. The lessons-learned documents from the World Health Organization show the need for a cost estimation of the pandemic response during the risk-assessment phase. Several years after the crisis, what conclusions can we...
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2016
Towards business school 2.0: : online models for management education
A panel of highly renowned leaders of change in the emergent field of “onlin e management education” invited thoughts about the structure and dynamics surrounding a new generation of higher education organizations that transcend geographic, social, and economic boundaries in radical ways. The panel brings different stakeholder perspectives of this emergent ecosystem (from...
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2016
Perceived unfairness of prices resulting from yield management practices in hotels
This study analyzes the consumer perception of yield management (YM) with an example in the hotel sector. Hotels use these practices in order to increase their incomes. However, the dual entitlement theory suggests that customers perceive YM practices as unfair when they are not the result of cost increase or external factors. This study explores four YM practices that might be...
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2016
Syndication in venture capital networks: : do the corporate venture firms pursue an optimum strategy?
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2016
Corporate venture capital syndication and relationships in syndication networks
In the industry of venture capital, the majority of investments in startups are realized in the form of syndica tion by venture capitalists (VCs), which diversify thus their risk and maximize their profits. Corporations also invest in startups with VCs, but often for different reasons. They rather seek to acquire information on the marketable...
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2016
Behavior of entrepreneurs and volition
Volition is an important characteristic in the field of training and vocational guidance. Literature on entrepreneurship has focused on this concept to better understand the behavior of the entrepreneur ( Achtziger & Gollwitzer, 2008). This study analyzes the personal characteristics involved in the process of transformation of intentions into actions in the...
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2016
Profiling family-run exporters: : A quantitative study on the international behavior of family-run small and medium-sized businesses
This book aims to determine the significant differences between exporting family and nonfamily SME in order to profile these exporting family firms with respect to their general export performance and the underlying strategies, their scope of exporting countries and characterizing them in different types of exporters. A comparative analysis is conducted based on the Swiss...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/10/2016
Reconsidering performance effects of employee autonomy in the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities
Institution partenaire
English / 28/10/2016
A better measure of early-stage opportunity beliefs?
To advance understanding of the motivational dynamics by which, in the very early stages of entrepreneurial pursuits , some individuals get sufficiently excited by a new venture idea to examin e it further and engage into more entrepreneurial efforts, it is theoretically important to not only study the influence of individual dispositions and...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/10/2016
Exploring international growth of Swiss SMEs: : the role of product knowledge and network
Although the international growth of entrepreneurial firms has received much attention over the past two decades, relatively little research has actually explored th e effects that differences in the firm’s product knowledge may have on their internationalization outcomes. Moreover, we know little about how entrepreneurial firms can leverage networks to impact the effect of...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/10/2016
Bootlegging projects in a technology-driven organization: : overcoming internal challenges
Companies striving for innovation often struggle to develop and implement radically novel projects that do not fit their established formal organization, logics or routines. Indeed, such projects face significant internal barriers due to which they are often not initiated at all or terminated internally before reaching maturity for...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/10/2016
Determinants of the capital adequacy ratio of foreign banks’ subsidiaries: : the role of interbank market and regulation
This paper examines the factors influencing the capital adequacy ratio (CAR) of foreign banks. We test whether the CAR of subsidiaries and branches in developed and developing countries depends on the same factors. We use data from 310 subsidiaries and 265 branches to test the impact of the parent banks’ fundamentals on subsidiaries’ and branches’ capital ratios. We also study how...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/10/2016
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