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An interdisciplinary approach for cultural heritage valorisation and visualization

City-Zen is an interactive temporal knowledge-browsing platform that aims to valorise cultural heritages. While many organizations propose relevant data sets, they are hardly accessed, analysed and reused because of the formats inconsistency and the inappropriate information browsing and visualization. The goal of the project is to valorise the existing cultural heritage through a...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 12/06/2017

Modeling Swiss SMI's experience of performance measurement

The purpose of this paper is to examine performance measurement through the current key performance indicators’ (KPIs’) best practices applied by Swiss small and medium industries (SMIs) active in discrete manufacturing. The methodology used for this study was mainly based on the completion of an online survey that was statistically analyzed with a focus on the main KPIs used to...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 12/06/2017

Grundeinkommen als zukünftiges Wirtschaftsbürgerrecht? Perspektiven einer postlaboristischen (und postkapitalistischen) Einkommenspolitik

In diesem Essay geht es um den sozioökonomischen Kontext und den sozialphilosophischen Fortschrittshorizont, unter dem sich die neue Grundrechtskategorie eines Wirtschaftsbürgerrechts auf ein Basiseinkommen für alle aufdrängen könnte. Entfaltet wird der Leitgedanke, dass es sich dabei um ein wesentliches Moment auf dem emanzipatorischen Weg zu einer voll entfalteten...

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Deutsch / 12/06/2017

Perspektiven einer postlaboristischen (und postkapitalistischen) Einkommenspolitik

In diesem Essay geht es um den sozioökonomischen Kontext und den sozialphilosophischen Fortschrittshorizont, unter dem sich die neue Grundrechtskategorie eines Wirtschaftsbürgerrechts auf ein Basiseinkommen für alle aufdrängen könnte. Entfaltet wird der Leitgedanke, dass es sich dabei um ein wesentliches Moment auf dem emanzipatorischen Weg zu einer voll entfalteten...

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Deutsch / 12/06/2017

A live-case lite approach as formative assessment

Written case studies have been widely used in marketing. This method presents some shortcomings. We have suggested an approach employing a version of live case studies involving managers of a local company as formative evaluators contributing to an iterative and formalized formative assessment process. This approach may add some interesting features such as presenting a more...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 09/06/2017

Students’ perception of the flipped classroom: teaching consumer behavior and market research classes in two swiss universities

Marketing instructors have traditionally sought to use experiential and active learning methods in their teaching. The flipped classroom is a learner-centered innovative pedagogical approach that moves the delivery of class material outside the classroom to focus on collaborative activities during class sessions. This qualitative exploratory research aims at understanding how...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 09/06/2017

Potenziale und Hürden für die Umsetzung von Industrie 4.0

Im Zuge der Industrie 4.0 wachsen die reale und die virtuelle Welt immer stärker zu einem «Internet der Dinge» zusammen. Daraus ergeben sich neue Möglichkeiten für die Steuerung von und in Unternehmen sowie für das Management ganzer Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke. Basierend auf den Ergebnissen einer grosszahligen Befragung unter Schweizer Unternehmen werden in diesem Beitrag die Potenziale...

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Deutsch / 09/06/2017

Non-linearities in the relationship between finance and growth

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the links between finance and growth with a special focus on the empirical literature that has shown that the marginal contribution of financial depth to economic growth becomes negative in countries with large financial sectors (the "too much finance result"). It then assesses the empirical and theoretical validity of recent...

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/ 08/06/2017

The determinants of excess liquidity in the banking sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The aim of this research is to identify the determinants of excess liquidity defined as excess reserves in the banking sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). The empirical analysis is carried out through the use of the dynamic panel analysis based on the generalized method of moments (GMM) methodology on a dataset of 19 commercial banks operating in B&H in the period from...

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/ 08/06/2017

Are family firms good employers?

Family firms employ about 60 percent of the global workforce. While it is widely assumed that they are good employers, data about their conduct is mixed. In this study, we extend stewardship and agency theories to test competing propositions about the impact of family on employment practices using data from 14,961 private Belgian firms over a 19-year period. Higher investments, lower...

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English / 08/06/2017

A finder and representation system for knowledge carriers based on granular computing

In one of his publications Aristotle states ”All human beings by their nature desire to know” [Kraut 1991]. This desire is initiated the day we are born and accompanies us for the rest of our life. While at a young age our parents serve as one of the principle sources for knowledge, this changes over the course of time. Technological advances and particularly the introduction of the...

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Université de Fribourg

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English / 07/06/2017

Mining online community data: the nature of ideas in online communities

Ideas are essential for innovation and for the continuous renewal of a firm’s product offerings. Previous research has argued that online communities contain such ideas. Therefore, online communities such as forums, Facebook groups, blogs etc. are potential gold mines for innovative ideas that can be used for boosting the innovation performance of the firm. However, the nature of...

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English / 06/06/2017

Taming the beast: : a scientific definition of fintech

There is currently no consensus about what the term Fintech means. This paper explores the complexity of Fintech, and attempts a definition, drawn from a process of reviewing more than 200 scholarly articles referencing the term Fintech and covering a period of more than 40 years. The objective of this study is to offer a definition which is distinct as well as succinct in its...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 02/06/2017

The geo-economics of global cities: exploring new avenues for expanding business internationalization

This chapter explores new advances and possible added value to the geo-economic study of global cities from an international business and corporate management perspective. First, this chapter reviews existing literature and knowledge, which reveals that the economic intermediation role of global cities has been mainly studied in terms of localization of transnational corporations (...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 02/06/2017

KOF Prognose der Gesundheitsausgaben Frühjahr 2017

Köthenbürger, Marko; Sandqvist, Anna Pauliina

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English, Deutsch / 01/06/2017

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