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Human resource management: : the key to management innovation in manufacturing firms
There is mounting interest on all aspects related to management innovation, as evidence shows firms relying on this source of innovation are better set to cope with market competition. HRM function is deemed to play a fundamental role in securing innovative organizational activities. Yet, much research is needed to disentangle the relationship between the HRM function and this source...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2015
Dimensions of employer branding: : talent attraction through entry-level HR pratices
Attracting talent is a critical way for firms to remain competitive. One of the key mechanisms is the way firms attract professionals by actively leveraging employer branding. Although scholars have suggested that a purposively designed and well publicized system of human resource (HR) best practices can impact positively on a firm’s employer branding and, as a result of it, its...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2015
Internet search and hotel revenues
We examine if online information search trends reflect public interest in purchasing hotel rooms. We introduce the trends into univariate forecasting models and conventional structural models of room night stays and occupancy rates. We also examine the association between the trends and hotel REIT stock returns. We find that on a monthly frequency, search trends are significantly...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2015
Sites of playing: : a practice-based perspective on organizational creativity in Haute Cuisine
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2015
Pay-out policies in founding family firms
This article analyses founding family influence on pay-out policies for Swiss listed firms over the period 2003–2010. We hypothesise that family firms have different incentives and characteristics that affect pay-out decisions and propose three possible explanations: agency theory, reputation building and family income needs. Our results show that founding family firms display...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2015
L'agritourisme, nouvelle tendance du tourisme durable ?
Cet article s'intéresse à une forme de tourisme assez marginale mais très dynamique : le tourisme lié à l'agriculture. A partir d'observations de terrain et d’un éclairage marketing original complétant l’apport d’autres sciences sociales, l'article remet en question l'approche actuelle de l'agritourisme jugée trop restrictive. Il propose une nouvelle...
Institution partenaire
Français / 24/11/2015
SME internationalization and distant emerging markets access through global cities: : exploring a tentative conceptual framework
This paper suggests a tentative conceptual framework to study the internationalization of foreign/OECD - based SMEs (Small and Medium - sized Enterprises) attracted by fast growing emerging markets, such as China and Southeast Asia, and the supportive role of global cities as market gate focal points providing a wide range of financial...
Institution partenaire
English / 24/11/2015
Higher-order dynamics in asset-pricing models with recursive preferences
This paper presents an analysis of the higher-order dynamics of key financial quantities in asset-pricing models with recursive preferences. For this purpose, we first describe a projection-based algorithm for solving such models. The method outperforms common methods like discretization and log-linearization in terms of effciency and accuracy. Our algorithm allows us to document the...
Institution partenaire
English / 24/11/2015
Entscheidungsprozesse bei der Internationalisierung von KMU: : Effectuation versus Causation
Wann, wo und wie man am besten internationalisiert ist für viele Schweizer Unternehmen auch heute noch nicht vollends geklärt. Zwar profitiert die Schweiz von vielen Vorteilen, wie der hohen Produkt-und Servicequalität, der geographisch günstigen Lage zu mehreren bedeutenden Nachbarmärktensowie von der Sprachenvielfalt im Lande, doch können Internationalisierungsentscheidungen enorme...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 22/11/2015
Entrepreneurial ecosystem and regional development: : a Romanian case study
Institution partenaire
English / 22/11/2015
Le management dans un environnement dynamique: : concepts, méthodes et outils pour une approche systémique
La discussion autour de la stratégie, la structure et la culture – la trilogie magique – considère naturellement l’innovation et le changement en profondeur. Une entreprise ne peut être viable à long terme que si elle intègre les caractéristiques liées à l’innovation et au changement. Actuellement, la seule certitude dans la gestion d'entreprise est l'incertitude. Les...
Institution partenaire
Français / 22/11/2015
The entrepreneurial challenge: : a global perspective
Institution partenaire
English / 22/11/2015
Business Model: : What It Is and What It Is Not
The term “business model” has been misinterpreted and misused over the years, and has consequently been inadequately understood and applied by both practitioners and scholars. It has been frequently confused with other popular terms in the management literature such as strategy, business concept, revenue model, economic model, or even business process modeling. This paper aims to...
Institution partenaire
English / 21/11/2015
European Journal of East Asian Studies
First, let me welcome our two guest-editors of this special issue entirely devoted to the study of contemporary Myanmar. Their initiative is particularly well received considering the rather limited sources and the relative lack of well-informed references available on this country within the corpus of Southeast Asian studies. Therefore, I anticipate that their contributions and the...
Institution partenaire
English / 21/11/2015
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