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Plus de femmes dans la gouvernance d'entreprise: : atout ou fardeau ?

Le débat sur la féminisation du pouvoir économique fait rage. Indispensable pour certains, insignifiante pour d’autres, la question de la présence des femmes dans la gouvernance d’entreprise ne laisse personne indifférent. Si des raisons sociales d’équité sont souvent mises en avant, qu’en est-il de l’impact économique ?

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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Français / 15/11/2016

Indicateurs de fraude et informations librement accessibles: : une combinaison efficace pour lutter contre la fraude en entreprise ?

Les informations librement accessibles recèlent des potentiels encore en partie inexploités, qui intéressent toutes les parties prenantes. Mais les obstacles à leur utilisation sont nombreux car les indicateurs qui en résultent sont peu référencés et certains résultats sont encore relativisés par la problématique de la fiabilité et de la vérification des sources.

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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Français / 15/11/2016

Indicateurs de fraude et informations librement accessibles: une combinaison efficace pour lutter contre la fraude en entreprise ?

Les informations librement accessibles recèlent des potentiels encore en partie inexploités, qui intéressent toutes les parties prenantes. Mais les obstacles à leur utilisation sont nombreux car les indicateurs qui en résultent sont peu référencés et certains résultats sont encore relativisés par la problématique de la fiabilité et de la vérification des sources.

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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Français / 15/11/2016

La laïcité raisonnée

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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Français / 15/11/2016

The Socio, Economic and Environmental Impacts of Casino Tourism in Goa

This study investigates resident perception towards Casino Tourism which m ay be helpful for the formulation of possible strategic tourism policies. Binary logit model was applied to reveal the heterogeneity of resident’s perception towards casino tourism impacts. The result of this study reflects the overall opinions of the sam ple population, and further identifies relatively…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 08/11/2016

An alternative to online travel agencies for retention of hotel customers

This paper describes a service that allows hotels to reduce their dependency form online travel agencies, such as Booking.com or Expedia. Online travel agencies are extremely helpful to increase the number of new reservations of most hotels, but they seem to be less effective for niche hotels that seek for recurring customers. By following the guidelines for design research, we seek…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 08/11/2016

Free lunch and ride sharing: : a new business model for winter sport resorts

This paper proposes a new business model for winter sport resorts, by adopting a cluster approach. By following the guidelines for design research, we propose a new online service, which combines the notions of ridesharing and rebate. Ridesharing is often seen as a solution to reduce the number of cars in winter sport resorts, whereas the delivery of discount coupon has been used to…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 08/11/2016

Multi-method approach to compare the socio-demographic typology of residents and clusters of electricity load curves in a Swiss sustainable neighbourhood

A sustainable neighbourhood was built Switzerland by one of the leaders in this field. Half of the 400 apartments have been equipped with smart meters delivering big data on energy consumption (electricity, water, heating…). The company would like to know if it is possible to link socio-demographic typology of residents with energy consumption patterns. To answer this question we…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 08/11/2016

Healthy lottery: : a design theory for a mobile system to increase compliance of individuals with diabetes

This article shows the preliminary results of an ongoing study to develop a system that financially rewards individuals with diabetes. Previous studies have already shown that monetary incentives appear to be the strongest motivator for older individuals with type II diabetes. Nonetheless, design criteria for a mobile service are not well established and there is no study available…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 08/11/2016

Check the temperature: : rapid assessment of common ground in startup teams

This research in progress aims at identifying a set of design guide-lines to perform rapid diagnostic of common ground among participants of a startup team and their coach. Previous studies have shown that teams with high common ground are more efficient. Nonetheless, no existing tool can rapidly monitor its progression and visualize it in a simple way to allow the coach to perform…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 08/11/2016

A learning tabu search for a truck allocation problem with linear and nonlinear cost components

The two-level problem studied in this paper consists of optimizing the refueling costs of a fleet of locomotives over a railway network. The goal consists of determining: (1) the number of refueling trucks contracted for each yard (truck assignment problem denoted TAP), and (2) the refueling plan of each locomotive (fuel distribution problem denoted FDP). As the FDP can be solved…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 07/11/2016

Cost (In)efficiency and institutional pressures in nursing home chains

Over the past 10 years, merger activities in the private for-profit nursing home industry have been increasing in Europe. In this paper, we investigate chain affiliation’s influence on the performance of lucrative nursing homes. We measure performance using a cost frontier estimated by stochastic analysis on a sample of 370 French for-profit nursing homes. We find that cost…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 04/11/2016

Analysis of satisfiers and dissatisfiers in online hotel reviews on social media

The purpose of this study is to analyze online hotel reviews produced by customers to identify and compare factors known as satisfiers and dissatisfiers based on Herzberg’s two-factor theory. This approach was applied to compare full-service and limited-service hotels, which can show different levels of customer expectation.

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 04/11/2016

Experimental research

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 04/11/2016

Feasibility study

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 04/11/2016

Strategic development of REITs in India

In this paper, we discuss managerial challenges and opportunities related to the newly introduced real estate investment trust (REIT) in India. Features of the proposed REIT structure are critiqued in light of the existing body of knowledge about REITs. We revisit the debate surrounding the issue of external versus internal management of REITs. Analysis of salient aspects of Indian…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 04/11/2016

Food–wine pairing suggestions as a risk reduction strategy: : reducing risk and increasing wine by the glass sales in the context of a Swiss restaurant

This study tests the effect of a pairing suggestion for food with wine by the glass directly placed on the menu. We made the assumption that these suggestions can, by reducing social and financial risk, increase wine by the glass sales. One hundred and fifty-nine customers of a Swiss restaurant participated in this experiment. For 82 customers, a food and wine by the glass suggestion…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 04/11/2016

A matter of love: : exploring what enables work-family enrichment

The purpose of this empirical study is to examine the conditions under which work-family enrichment happens. We conducted a total of 30 interviews with managers (and their spouses) participating in a demanding executive education program at a prestigious business school in Spain in order to explore how work and family resources are generated and transferred from one role to the other…

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 04/11/2016

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