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From Professionals to Entrepreneurs – HR Practices as an Enabler for Fostering Corporate Entrepreneurship in Professional Service Firms
Full text linkProfessional Service Firms (PSFs) such as accounting, consulting, law, engineering or advertising firms increasingly face changing attitudes and fluctuation among young high potentials that question traditional career and human resource (HR) concepts. In this context, it seems vital to foster a spirit of corporate entrepreneurship in PSFs to create an attractive environment that satisfies the autonomy-striving professionals. Our research is based on a multiple case study design that investigates how corporate entrepreneurship in the fields of elite accounting/consulting and law firms can be enabled by HR practices. Specifically, we analyse how contemporary PSFs manage to identify, select, build, reward, keep and let go of entrepreneurial professionals. Our findings imply that there are still open issues in the identification, selection and reward practices, while promising approaches for training and retention exist and the low risk perception by professionals provides fertile grounds for entrepreneurial behaviour to prosper. Based on these findings, we present HR-related recommendations for fostering corporate entrepreneurship in PSFs and highlight some promising avenues for future research
Werte und Motive als Treiber der Smartphone-Nutzungsaktivitäten - Eine empirische Studie
Full text linkDurch Smartphones und mobile Applikationen integrieren Konsumenten zunehmend Informationssysteme in ihren Alltag. Der Beitrag deckt relevante Werthaltungen auf, die sich hinter den Motiven als Treiber von Smartphone-Nutzungsaktivitäten verbergen. Tiefeninterviews mit Konsumenten wurden auf der Basis des Laddering Verfahrens durchgeführt. In theoretischer Anlehnung an Maslow und McClelland konnten fünf relevante Smartphone-Nutzungsmotive identifiziert werden: "Zugehörigkeit" und "Freude und Spaß" als stärkste Motive bei allen Probanden; das "Identifikationsmotiv" speziell bei weiblichen Probanden, außerdem das "Leistungsmotiv", das "Sicherheitsmotiv" sowie das "Motiv der Selbstverwirklichung" speziell bei männlichen Probanden. Die mittels Laddering identifizierten zentralen Antriebskräfte reflektieren die Determinanten "Leistungserwartung", "soziale Einflüsse" und "hedonistische Motivation" der UTAUT II. Wie durch das theoretische Akzeptanzmodell postuliert, konnten auch mittels Laddering Verfahren geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede für die mit der Smartphone-Nutzung verbundenen Werte aufgedeckt werden. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse zeigen, dass sich die Wirkung hedonistischer Motivationen auf die Verhaltensabsicht je nach Alter, Geschlecht und Erfahrung verändern kann
Is Zero the best Price? Optimal Pricing of Mobile Applications
Full text link[Introduction ...] This leads us to our major research question: How to optimally set prices of mobile applications depending on their utility-classification? Each of the following chapters sequentially contributes to the answer of this question. Chapter 2 focuses on the managerial relevance of pricing and the specific characteristics of mobile applications. In chapter 3, we develop a model for mobile application pricing and derive advises for profit-maximizing mobile application pricing. The article closes with a discussion and conclusion in chapter 4
On the simulation of grid market coordination approaches
No full textGrid computing has recently become an important paradigm for managing computationally demanding applications, composed of a collection of services. The dynamic discovery of services, and the selection of a particular service instance providing the best value out of the discovered alternatives, poses a complex multi-attribute n:m allocation decision problem, which is often solved using a central resource broker. However, decentralized approaches to this service allocation problem represent a much more flexible alternative, thus promising improvements in the efficiency of the resulting negotiations and service allocations. This paper compares centralized and decentralized service allocation mechanisms in Grid market scenarios according to a defined set of metrics. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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