infonet-economy

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...

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...

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...

In sufficiently large schools, lessons are given to classes in sections of various sizes, depending on the subject taught. Consequently, classes have to be split into various given numbers of sections. We focus on how to subdivide a class in subgroups, so as to be able to reproduce all required sections by merging subgroups together, while minimizing the number of edges in the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...