infonet-economy

The work of strategy departments and all who are responsible for the strategy planning process has not got any easier in recent years. The context in which strategic plans must be formulated has grown less stable. Volatility and uncertainty make business decisions more difficult. Given this situation, it is not a bad idea
to critically review what have traditionally been the...

In einer unabhängigen Studie zum Public Value des RB Leipzig untersucht die HHL in Zusammenarbeit mit der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena den gesellschaftlichen Wertbeitrag des Vereins und seine Gemeinwohlpotenziale. Aufbau und Durchführung der Studie erfolgten analog einer 2013 verfassten Untersuchung zum Public Value des FC Bayern München.

The Viable System Model by Stafford Beer embodies a theory about the preconditions of organizational viability. This theory has been discussed extensively by the academics and professionals of organizational cybernetics. The theoretical claim of the Viable System Model (VSM) is bold. It asserts to specify the necessary and sufficient preconditions for the viability of any...

Based on literature review on private labels (PL), co-branding and celebrity branding, a conceptual framework is developed in which a celebrity brand is used in a co-branding setting as a quality signal for a premium PL product. Similar to previous studies that are limited to PL and national brands (NB) as brand allies in a co-branding setting, we propose that the improved consumer...

Family business philanthropy operates at the intersection of family, business and society and is of crucial importance to social goods such as education, health and humanitarian aid around the world. For instance, corporations and foundations in the US, many which
are family-owned, donate over US$ 67 billion per year. In the UK, the top 100 family businesses and foundations...

This paper provides an overview of the Retrieving Diverse Social Images task that is organized as part of the MediaEval 2015 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation. The task addresses the problem of result diversification and user annotation credibility estimation in the context of social photo retrieval. We present the task challenges, the proposed data set and ground...