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Formal Versus Informal Training & Tacit Versus Explicit Knowledge Sharing: What Matters More for the Entrepreneurially Oriented Firms?
Get PDFThe beneficial outcome of a firm’s entrepreneurial orientation (E.O) has been widely researched, but literature and empirical studies about factors that stimulate E.O remain scarce. Previous research has showed that employee training is a crucial mechanism to foster E.O others has exhibited that a higher level of knowledge sharing is related to a stronger E.O. Although, previous researches do not distinguish neither between different type of training, with the most important distinction being between formal and informal nor between different form of knowledge sharing, with the very popular being between tacit and explicit. In view of the difference for each pair contrasts of one over the other, they are widely considered to have different impact on the E.O’s dimensions namely innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking in SMEs. Our research model is tested with survey data collected from 186 Tunisian small and medium-sized textile & clothing firms. Findings reveal that the level of each dimension of E.O- Innovativeness, proactiveness and risk taking differs based on the form of knowledge sharing either tacit or explicit and the type of training either formal or informal
Customer Knowledge Management: Improving Performance in Tunisian Hotels Through Customer Value
Get PDFWe investigate the effects of customer knowledge management (CKM) on customer value (CV) and performance using a questionnaire survey of the Tunisian hotel industry. Tunisia offers an exemplary case, exhibiting a serious requirement to reattract tourists and critical need to improve hotel profitability. The industry suffered dramatic reductions in tourist numbers as a result of terrorist attacks. The study develops a conceptual account of knowledge as an asset and how it is used. We employ two contrasting samples; hotel managers (n= 121) and hotel customers (n= 597).Our review of the literature enabled us to build hypotheses which we tested with a logit model. We found robust evidence that good knowledge management is related to perceptions of value. In turn, this enhances performance. Nonetheless, CKM directly enhances financial performance rather than non-financial performance. However, the indirect effects of CKM on both financial and non-financial performance were significant. We conclude that good knowledge management offers a very useful approach to enhancing perceptions of value and hotel performance
The Unseen Hand: How Preferences and Traits Shape an Entrepreneur\u27s Decisions
Get PDFThis study used an experimental economics methodology with 176 students to link entrepreneurial personality traits, such as positional preferences, equitable sharing, and profit maximization, to their resource allocation decisions. The results of a multinomial logistic regression showed that variables like gender and education level significantly influence participants\u27 choices. Furthermore, entrepreneurial traits, including coaching, decision-making, and risk aversion, had a statistically significant effect on the participants\u27 entrepreneurial profile. The study thus fills a gap by linking these traits to decision-making processes while illustrating the complexity of this phenomenon
Working Conditions and Disengagement in Tunisian Call Centers: An Approach Based on Motivation Theories
Get PDFThis study explores the impact of working conditions on the motivation of teleoperators in a call center in Nabeul, Tunisia. Faced with the perception of difficult working conditions, often compared to neo-Taylorism, the research aims to analyze how these factors affect employee well-being and engagement. A qualitative methodology was used, based on semi-structured interviews conducted with ten teleoperators. The results show that factors such as excessive workload, strict performance monitoring, tense interpersonal relationships, an unfavorable physical environment, and a feeling of salary inequity have a negative impact on their motivation and health. These difficult working conditions lead to disengagement, high absenteeism, and a high employee turnover rate
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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