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Balancing present needs and future options: : how employees leverage social networks with clients

This paper applies a social capital perspective to study how business units leverage individuals’ external networks to explore and exploit resources outside the firm’s boundaries. We explore this matter inductively by analysing the development and leveraging of social capital at the business unit level in a global commodity company. Our findings show how individuals’ strong and weak...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 31/10/2017

Procrastination, personality traits, and academic performance: when active and passive procrastination tell a different story

Our study examines the nomological network of active procrastination in comparison with passive procrastination. In particular, we examine the effects of the five factor model with the aim to understand which personality traits predict academic procrastination. We also test the effect of passive and active procrastination on academic performance to study the unique contribution of...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 31/10/2017

Procrastination, personality traits, and academic performance: : when active and passive procrastination tell a different story

Our study examines the nomological network of active procrastination in comparison with passive procrastination. In particular, we examine the effects of the five factor model with the aim to understand which personality traits predict academic procrastination. We also test the effect of passive and active procrastination on academic performance to study the unique contribution of...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 31/10/2017

Does your résumé photograph tell who you are ?

Given the importance of personality to predict consequential outcomes in the workplace, it is important to be able to measure it accurately. To date, no research has examined if people leave valid cues of their personality in résumé photographs. This research examined to what extent résumé photographs provide accurate information about the personality traits of their owner. Two...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 31/10/2017

How hotel owner-operator goal congruence and GM autonomy influence hotel performance

A principal-agent relationship exists between hotel owners and the management companies which often operate their hotels. In addition, they both act as principals to a mutual agent, the hotel's General Manager, who is tasked with trying to achieve each parties' objectives. Extensive research on hotel management agreements which govern the owner-operator relationship has...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 31/10/2017

Business model innovation in Swiss SMEs: a co-word analysis

Business model innovation (BMI) is increasingly relevant to practitioners as companies look for alternative ways to compete beyond product or process innovations (Henry Chesbrough, 2007; IBM, 2016). Whereas products and processes can often be easily copied by competitors, the dynamic and complex nature of BMI makes it harder to do so (Amit & Zott, 2012; Schneider & Spieth,...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

/ 31/10/2017

Hidden innovation projects: : when is the right time to surface?

As internal allocation of resources becomes more elaborate, 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 challenges due to which they are often not initiated at all or terminated internally before reaching...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

/ 31/10/2017

La gouvernance du cycle de vie des données de la recherche en Suisse ::transfert et pérennisation

De nombreux organismes de financement exigent la bonne gouvernance des données de la recherche afin d’en garantir la traçabilité et la pérennisation ainsi que la réutilisation des connaissances générées. Dans ce cadre, SwissUniversities soutient le projet DLCM : un projet d’envergure nationale visant à mettre à disposition de l’ensemble de la communauté de la recherche suisse des...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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Français / 31/10/2017

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

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

Web-based tools for exploring the potential of quantitative imaging biomarkers in radiology: : intensity and texture analysis on the ePAD platform

Recent papers in the field of radiomics showed strong evidence that novel image biomarkers based on structural tissue properties have the potential to complement and even surpass invasive and costly biopsy-based molecular assays in certain clinical contexts. To date, very few translations of these research results to clinical practive have been carried out. In addition, a majority of...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 30/10/2017

Audit committees’ independence and the information content of earnings announcements in Western Europe

We examine whether the percentage of independent members sitting on the audit committee, in different institutional settings, impacts the market reaction (measured by the abnormal stock returns variance and the abnormal trading volume) to earnings announcements. For our sample composed of more than 7’500 earnings announcements made by European firms from 15 countries between 2006 and...

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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

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