Publications des institutions partenaires
Quelle gouvernance informationnelle pour une PME High Tech ?
Le présent article résume et condense un travail réalisé dans le cadre du Master en sciences de l’Information durant la première partie de l’année 2016. Alpes Lasers, petite entreprise neuchâteloise, fait appel à la Haute école de gestion pour l'aider à mettre en place une gouvernance de l'information. Une enquête est menée sous la forme d'un état des lieux des…
Institution partenaire
Français / 21/12/2017
L’archivage du web ::présentation des méthodes de collecte et recommandations pour l’accès aux contenus –et leur structuration-
Cet article – synthèse d’un travail de bachelor – consiste en l’établissement d’un panorama des grandes approches méthodologiques et stratégies de collecte de l’archivage du web, une analyse des attentes et des résistances du public des chercheurs face à ces nouvelles archives et la présentation de pistes d’innovations et de recommandations pour mieux appréhender l’archivage du web.…
Institution partenaire
Français / 21/12/2017
e-MEMENTO: : a smartwatch experiment to investigate rote memorization in the connected age
This article presents the results obtained by a qualitative study aiming at assessing the impact of innovative technologies on rote learning. The study involved students attending courses at Bachelor level. We compared the memorization of data provided on hard paper copies with data displayed on the smartwatch. We developed an application on the Apple Watch generating data batches.…
Institution partenaire
/ 11/11/2017
Expectation and experience: : passenger acceptance of autonomous public transportation vehicles
Passenger acceptance is a key factor for the successful integration, uptake and use of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the domain of public transpor-tation. Especially knowing opinions and attitudes around safety, comfort and convenience. We discuss a pilot study conducted as part of a larger research project where AVs are being tested to transport members of the general public on a…
Institution partenaire
/ 11/11/2017
Multi-scale and multi-directional biomedical texture analysis: : finding the needle in the haystack
This chapter clarifies the important aspects of biomedical texture analysis under the general framework introduced in Chapter 1. It was proposed that any approach can be character-ized as the combination of local texture operators and regional aggregation functions. The type of scale and directional information that can or cannot be modeled by categories of texture processing methods…
Institution partenaire
English / 06/11/2017
Co-creating experience in sport entertainment: : unpacking shared and conflicting interests
Co-creation as a joint collaborative process between organizations and customers offers new models and sources of creativity and innovation for businesses to differentiate their value from the value their competitors offer. However, a successful co-creation strategy involves understanding the shared interests of the parties and resolving tensions between internal and external…
Institution partenaire
/ 06/11/2017
Work-family enrichment: when love helps
Institution partenaire
English / 06/11/2017
Portfolio choice under uncertainty
During the financial crisis that first hit the U.S. economy and soon became a world crisis, investors reduced their holdings of foreign equities, and, at the same time, they increased their holdings of short-term government bonds. The paper analyzes, within the context of a DSGE model, the hedging properties of foreign bond and foreign equity holdings during a crisis, when the degree…
Institution partenaire
/ 06/11/2017
Investing in the rich of this world: : family investment holdings and their performance
This paper investigates the characteristics and performance of family investment holdings across the world. Their unique combination of family wealth and expertise and investments in stock markets make them a special asset class for retail investors. We find that families are strongly involved in terms of stake and management both in their holdings and the holding’s investments. We…
Institution partenaire
/ 06/11/2017
Overlap and busy members sitting on the audit committee
This paper investigates the impact of the presence of “over-boarded” directors on the audit committee on earnings management in Europe. Our study is based on a sample of 1420 firms from 15 European countries for the period 2006-2014. For the full sample, we find that the presence of “overlap” directors decreases earnings management, but the presence of “over-boarded” directors (i.e…
Institution partenaire
/ 06/11/2017
Governance & CSR: : antecedents & impacts
Notre étude contribue à mieux comprendre les antécédent de l’engagement RSE des très grandes entreprises cotées et ses conséquence s. En analysant l’engagement RSE des entreprises du S&P 500, nos résultats montrent tout d’abord que cet engagement présente un effet cumulatif ; les entreprises engagées dans une démarche RSE ont tendance à enrichir celle - ci année après année.…
Institution partenaire
/ 01/11/2017
Corporate venture capital and syndication networks
In the venture capital (VC) industry, most investments in startups are realized in the form of syndicati on by venture capitalists. Corporations also invest in startups with these investors, though often for different reasons. They instead seek to acquire information on marketable innovations or new technologies. Using data on corporate venture capital (CVC) investments by US…
Institution partenaire
/ 01/11/2017
Business model innovation in large companies: : disruption
Institution partenaire
/ 01/11/2017
Human risk and its relationship to value destruction through internal fraud: a survey conducted in the Geneva banking sector
In recent years, some significant cases of fraud have been noted in recent years in the Swiss banking sector. The consequences of these malicious acts involve many costs and a severe loss of image for the concerned banks. The purpose of our research is to identify the factors that cause employees to commit such acts that are harmful to their employers. In this paper, we attempt to…
Institution partenaire
/ 01/11/2017
Self-direction in online learning: the student experience
The purpose of this research was to explore self-directed learning (SDL) in the context of online learning. The experiences of traditional and nontraditional learners engaged in an online course as part of a degree-seeking program are explored in terms of readiness for SDL and the processes of planning, monitoring, and evaluating one’s own learning in the online context. The findings…
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2017
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…
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2017
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…
Institution partenaire
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…
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2017
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