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The Effectiveness of Public R&D Subsidies and the Role of Collaboration

This study investigates the efficacy of public R&D support. Compared to most existing studies, we do not stop at substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental innovation) or on innovation that is still far from the market and hence more risky and...

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English / 20/06/2015

The Effectiveness of Public R&D Subsidies and the Role of Collaboration

This study investigates the efficacy of public R&D support. Compared to most existing studies, we do not stop at substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental innovation) or on innovation that is still far from the market and hence more risky and...

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English / 20/06/2015

Making sense of decoupling through narration : the case of fighting corruption in global business

Previous organizational research on decoupling in the context of socio-environmental governance has suggested a trade-off between compliance and goal achievement, meaning that remedying the decoupling of policies and practices tends to jeopardize efforts to remedy the decoupling of means and ends. We expand on previous research on the trade-off between compliance and goal achievement...

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English / 15/06/2015

Doing gender and professionalism : Exploring the intersectionalities of gender and professionalization in early childhood education

Men in early childhood education (ECE) are subjected to different discourses: while they are facing serious mistrust on the one hand, their otherness to the field is also interpreted as new and potentially innovative on the other hand. This article explores how male childcare workers create and take up different subject positions by drawing on these competing discourses in order to...

English / 15/06/2015

Massnahmen für den alpenquerenden Güterverkehr

Ihre zentrale Lage in Europa macht die Alpenregion zu einem Brennpunkt im europäischen Güterverkehr. Unterschiedliche Massnahmen in der Verkehrspolitik der Alpenländer sorgen dafür, dass es im alpenquerenden Güterverkehr zu relativ starken Verschiebungen im Modalsplit zwischen Strasse und Schiene kommt. Im Rahmen der Logistikmarktstudie Schweiz, Band 2015 wird der alpenquerende...

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Deutsch / 12/06/2015

Normativity, Ethics, and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A Critical Assessment

This article critically assesses the work of the UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights (SRSG) John Ruggie. The article adopts a normative perspective on the issue. Thus, its critique is derived from the standpoint of ethics. The SRSG was instrumental in shifting the burden of proof to those who deny corporate human rights responsibilities. This achievement, however...

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English / 11/06/2015

Kompetente Strategieumsetzung : Welche Massnahmen hilfreich sind

Für die Entwicklung von Fähigkeiten ist das Zusammenspiel von Wissen und Aktivitäten im Hinblick auf zu erfüllenden Aufgaben massgeblich. Das gilt insbesondere für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung strategischer Initiativen. In einer explorativen Studie wurden acht übergreifende Erfolgsfaktoren hierzu identifiziert. Sie decken sich mit Erkenntnissen aus der Forschung z.B. zu...

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Deutsch / 05/06/2015

Is more always better? : An investigation into the relationship between marketing influence and mangers' market intelligence dissemination

How does the influence of the marketing department within an organization affect marketing managers' dissemination of market intelligence (i.e., knowledge about customer needs and competitor activities) to managers of other departments? Three studies with 711 executive managers and integrated survey and experimental data offer insights. Rather than the positive relationship...

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English / 01/06/2015

Doing und Undoing Gender in Kinderkrippen : Eine Videostudie zu den Interaktionen von Kindernbetreuenden mit Kindern

Kinderkrippen sind für viele Kinder die erste Bildungsinstitution und für die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter bedeutsam. Im Beitrag wird auf der Basis einer ethnographischen Videostudie in vier Deutschschweizer Kinderkrippen untersucht, wie Gender in der pädagogischen Alltagspraxis der Kinderbetreuenden relevant wird. Für die Kodierung der Videodaten werden Interaktionsverläufe in...

Deutsch / 01/06/2015

Value Creation in Family Firms: A Model of Fit

We propose a framework describing how family ownership can create or destroy value depending on the goals, resources, and governance of the family firm, which are each influenced by the family owners. Taking a contingency perspective, we suggest that a fit is required for all three elements - family-influenced goals, resources, and governance - for the family firm to flourish over...

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English / 01/06/2015

The evolution of the small business and entrepreneurship field: A bibliometric investigation of articles published in the International Small Business Journal

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This article analyses the evolution of the small business management and entrepreneurship fields as reflected in articles published in its premier journal, the International Small Business Journal.
It investigates the evolution of the fields through bibliometric examination of all 660 articles published between 1982 and 2012. While small business management has...

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English / 01/06/2015

Investing optimally in advertising and quality to mitigate product-harm crisis

Product-harm crisis are the nightmare of any firm as they have a disastrous effect on their sales and image. This paper proposes a new model to compute the optimal investment in quality and advertising in order to reduce the probability of occurrence of a possible product-harm crisis and mitigate its effects. This method uses stochastic control theory and can be used for both...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 28/05/2015

Coupling techno-economic energy models with a share of choice

Classical energy planning models assume that consumers are rational and this is obviously not always the case. This paper proposes an original method to take into account the consumer’s real behavior in an energy model. It couples a classical energy model with a Share of Choice model.

Institution partenaire

Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 28/05/2015

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