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From founder identity to Family Business Group (FBG) meta-identity: identity development in the journey from a founder’s firm to an entrepreneurial family with a portfolio of businesses
No full textIdentity is a socially constructed phenomenon that emerges from the contemplation of commonly asked questions of who we are and where we belong that defines behavioral expectations. Identity—individual and collective—is especially important for entrepreneurial families because they identify strongly with their businesses, while their businesses’ strong organizational identity reflects the family’s identity. Yet, as family and business systems’ complexity increase, identities need to evolve. Using theoretical underpinnings of identity, social identity, and organizational identity, we propose a theoretical model of identity development in FBG. It shows the dynamic evolution of the firm founder’s individual owner identity through a family-owners collective identity towards FBG meta-identity that encompasses the legacy business and other assets in the business portfolio. This process, often triggered by external stakeholders’ expectations, includes identity conflicts and identity negotiations. We illustrate the proposed model with a case study of the Pentland Group
Growing, Developing, and Performing Family Business Groups: Introduction to the Handbook
No full textFamily business groups (FBGs) are a fascinating phenomenon. They exist everywhere under different names and guises (Parada et al., Academia Revista Latinoamericana De Administración 20:19–30, 2016; Tu et al., Business Horizons 45:39–46, 2002). Their emergence and development showcase the dynamics of families in business and the decisions they proactively, or reactively, take to business opportunities or institutional and contextual challenges. More recent accounts underscore that we are just beginning to understand how they grow, develop, and perform over time (Rosa, P., Rautiainen, M., Pihkala, T., Parada, M. J., & Discua Cruz, A. (2019). Conclusions: Researching family business groups: Lessons learned and avenues for further research. In The family business group phenomenon (pp. 387–395). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.)
Ikkunoita osaamisen johtamisen systeemiseen kokonaisuuteen
Full text linkKirjoittajat: Uotila Timo-Pekka, Viitala Riitta, Pihkala Timo, Oikarinen Tuija, Säntti Risto,
Sirén Charlotta, Vesalainen Jukka, Kohtanen Jukka, Mäkelä Liisa, Hölsö Sari, Laurila Mariannefi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed|ei tietoa saavutettavuudest
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
Partner-based practice enterprise : Creating a new activity system by students in entrepreneurship education
No full textAbstractThe entrepreneurship phenomenon is connected to the creation of new business activity. The object of research, a one year study module, was carried out in Merikoski Commercial School during the school years 1993 to 1997 five times. The main research aim was to model and depict partner-based practice enterprise activity as a whole and as a learning method. Secondly, the aim was to increase understanding of students’ orientation towards the creation of a new venture as an activity as a whole. Thirdly, the aim was to study the constructed quality of the models created by the students and to study their and a bank manager’s conceptions of the learning method in question. The data included an interview with the bank manager and the student-produced subject matter from the partner-based practice enterprise. In addition, research data was acquired via an open questionnaire directed to four student groups which had completed the teaching process. The qualitative case study method was used as research methodology.The research results show that partner-based practice enterprise is well suited as an entrepreneurship learning method. Students build and construct new “business” activity as a whole in a learning process within a learning network in the operating area of the partner enterprise, where they function as if in an actual enterprise. Learning is realized through the division of labour, active knowledge acquisition about the object of learning, transformation of the operational environment and investigation of the enterprise’s reason for existence. Project-based learning involves combining knowledge from different sources by students groups in learning networks in which work life representatives have an important pedagogical role to play. Creating a new business activity system entails a division of labour based on object oriented learning activity in a learning method. The learning activity meant continuous reorientation through students’ division of labour by common modelling and developing business plans through critical evaluation. The quality of the students’ business plans was critically analyzed by the bank manager. The bank manager considered the students work to be of high quality.The students considered the strengths of the learning method to be the following: Learning to work in a group, independent and self initiated learning, learning about work life environment, better and higher quality of learning, learning business activity as a whole and utilization of the learning network. The modelling of business activity has a positive influence on learning business activity in a more holistic way. The models created by the students are algorithmic and systematic models by nature. According to the students the fact the learning activity focused on a real school external environment through a learning network strengthened their connections to work life.TiivistelmäYrittäjyys liittyy ilmiönä uuden liiketoiminnan luomiseen. Tutkimuksen kohteena on Merikosken kauppaoppilaitoksessa viisi kertaa vuosina 1993–1997 toteutettu lukuvuoden kestävä opiskelukokonaisuus. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli mallintaa ja kuvata partneriperustainen harjoitusyritys toimintakokonaisuutena ja oppimismenetelmänä. Lisäksi tavoitteena oli lisätä ymmärrystä opiskelijoiden orientoitumisesta uuden toimintakokonaisuuden luomisessa sekä tutkia opiskelijoiden luomien mallien rakenteellista laatua ja opiskelijoiden sekä koulun ulkopuolisen rahoituspäällikön käsityksiä oppimismenetelmästä. Tutkimusaineisto sisälsi pankinjohtajan haastattelun ja opiskelijoiden tuottamat aineistot opiskelukokonaisuudessa sekä opiskelukokonaisuudesta valmistuneille opiskelijoille suoritettu kysely. Tutkimusmetodologiana käytettiin tapaustutkimusta.Tutkimustulokset osoittavat, että partneriperustainen harjoitusyritys soveltuu hyvin yrittäjyyskoulutukseen. Opiskelijat rakensivat ja konstruoivat opiskelukokonaisuudessa yhdessä oppimisverkon kanssa uuden toimintakokonaisuuden koulun ulkopuolella toimivan partneriyrityksen toimialalle, jossa he toimivat kuten oikeassa yrityksessä. Oppimisessa toteutui työnjaollinen aktiivinen tiedonhankinta kohdetoiminnasta ja muuttuvasta toimintaympäristöstä, yrityksen olemassaolon perustan tutkiminen, tietoja yhdistävä projektimainen työskentely opiskelijaryhmissä ja oppimisen verkossa, jossa koulun ulkopuolisilla edustajilla oli tärkeä pedagoginen rooli. Orientoitumisessa keskeisellä sijalla oli oppimisen kohteen tutkiva mallintaminen, liiketoimintaidean ja liiketoiminnan suunnitelmien kehittäminen ja arviointi. Toimintakokonaisuuden rakentaminen oli työnjaollista kohdeorientoitunutta toimintaa ja toiminta oli uudelleenorientoitumista mm. mallien ja liiketoimintasuunnitelmien yksilöllisen ja yhteistoiminnallisen kehittämisen ja arvioinnin kautta. Liiketoimintasuunnitelmien laatua arvioi yritysrahoituksen parissa toimiva pankinjohtaja, joka piti opiskelijoiden laatimia aineistoja korkeatasoisina.Opiskelijoiden käsityksissä oppimismenetelmän vahvuuksina painottuivat ryhmätyön oppiminen, itsenäinen ja oma-aloitteinen oppiminen, käytännön työelämän oppiminen, laadukkaampi ja parempi oppiminen, yritystoiminnan kokonaisuuden oppiminen ja oppimisverkon hyödyntäminen. Rakennettavan toiminnan mallintamisella oli myönteinen vaikutus yritystoiminnan kokonaisvaltaiseen oppimiseen. Mallien rakenteellinen laatu kohdistui algoritmisiin ja systeemisiin malleihin. Koulun ulkopuolisen todellisuuden kytkeminen oppimistoimintaan työelämäyhteyksien avulla vahvisti opiskelijoiden mukaan oppimisen todellisuuskytkentää.Esitetään Oulun yliopiston taloustieteiden tiedekunnan suostumuksella julkisesti tarkastettavaksi Linnanmaan luentosalissa TA105, 11. joulukuuta 2009 kello 12Abstract
The entrepreneurship phenomenon is connected to the creation of new business activity. The object of research, a one year study module, was carried out in Merikoski Commercial School during the school years 1993 to 1997 five times. The main research aim was to model and depict partner-based practice enterprise activity as a whole and as a learning method. Secondly, the aim was to increase understanding of students’ orientation towards the creation of a new venture as an activity as a whole. Thirdly, the aim was to study the constructed quality of the models created by the students and to study their and a bank manager’s conceptions of the learning method in question. The data included an interview with the bank manager and the student-produced subject matter from the partner-based practice enterprise. In addition, research data was acquired via an open questionnaire directed to four student groups which had completed the teaching process. The qualitative case study method was used as research methodology.
The research results show that partner-based practice enterprise is well suited as an entrepreneurship learning method. Students build and construct new “business” activity as a whole in a learning process within a learning network in the operating area of the partner enterprise, where they function as if in an actual enterprise. Learning is realized through the division of labour, active knowledge acquisition about the object of learning, transformation of the operational environment and investigation of the enterprise’s reason for existence. Project-based learning involves combining knowledge from different sources by students groups in learning networks in which work life representatives have an important pedagogical role to play. Creating a new business activity system entails a division of labour based on object oriented learning activity in a learning method. The learning activity meant continuous reorientation through students’ division of labour by common modelling and developing business plans through critical evaluation. The quality of the students’ business plans was critically analyzed by the bank manager. The bank manager considered the students work to be of high quality.
The students considered the strengths of the learning method to be the following: Learning to work in a group, independent and self initiated learning, learning about work life environment, better and higher quality of learning, learning business activity as a whole and utilization of the learning network. The modelling of business activity has a positive influence on learning business activity in a more holistic way. The models created by the students are algorithmic and systematic models by nature. According to the students the fact the learning activity focused on a real school external environment through a learning network strengthened their connections to work life.Tiivistelmä
Yrittäjyys liittyy ilmiönä uuden liiketoiminnan luomiseen. Tutkimuksen kohteena on Merikosken kauppaoppilaitoksessa viisi kertaa vuosina 1993–1997 toteutettu lukuvuoden kestävä opiskelukokonaisuus. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli mallintaa ja kuvata partneriperustainen harjoitusyritys toimintakokonaisuutena ja oppimismenetelmänä. Lisäksi tavoitteena oli lisätä ymmärrystä opiskelijoiden orientoitumisesta uuden toimintakokonaisuuden luomisessa sekä tutkia opiskelijoiden luomien mallien rakenteellista laatua ja opiskelijoiden sekä koulun ulkopuolisen rahoituspäällikön käsityksiä oppimismenetelmästä. Tutkimusaineisto sisälsi pankinjohtajan haastattelun ja opiskelijoiden tuottamat aineistot opiskelukokonaisuudessa sekä opiskelukokonaisuudesta valmistuneille opiskelijoille suoritettu kysely. Tutkimusmetodologiana käytettiin tapaustutkimusta.
Tutkimustulokset osoittavat, että partneriperustainen harjoitusyritys soveltuu hyvin yrittäjyyskoulutukseen. Opiskelijat rakensivat ja konstruoivat opiskelukokonaisuudessa yhdessä oppimisverkon kanssa uuden toimintakokonaisuuden koulun ulkopuolella toimivan partneriyrityksen toimialalle, jossa he toimivat kuten oikeassa yrityksessä. Oppimisessa toteutui työnjaollinen aktiivinen tiedonhankinta kohdetoiminnasta ja muuttuvasta toimintaympäristöstä, yrityksen olemassaolon perustan tutkiminen, tietoja yhdistävä projektimainen työskentely opiskelijaryhmissä ja oppimisen verkossa, jossa koulun ulkopuolisilla edustajilla oli tärkeä pedagoginen rooli. Orientoitumisessa keskeisellä sijalla oli oppimisen kohteen tutkiva mallintaminen, liiketoimintaidean ja liiketoiminnan suunnitelmien kehittäminen ja arviointi. Toimintakokonaisuuden rakentaminen oli työnjaollista kohdeorientoitunutta toimintaa ja toiminta oli uudelleenorientoitumista mm. mallien ja liiketoimintasuunnitelmien yksilöllisen ja yhteistoiminnallisen kehittämisen ja arvioinnin kautta. Liiketoimintasuunnitelmien laatua arvioi yritysrahoituksen parissa toimiva pankinjohtaja, joka piti opiskelijoiden laatimia aineistoja korkeatasoisina.
Opiskelijoiden käsityksissä oppimismenetelmän vahvuuksina painottuivat ryhmätyön oppiminen, itsenäinen ja oma-aloitteinen oppiminen, käytännön työelämän oppiminen, laadukkaampi ja parempi oppiminen, yritystoiminnan kokonaisuuden oppiminen ja oppimisverkon hyödyntäminen. Rakennettavan toiminnan mallintamisella oli myönteinen vaikutus yritystoiminnan kokonaisvaltaiseen oppimiseen. Mallien rakenteellinen laatu kohdistui algoritmisiin ja systeemisiin malleihin. Koulun ulkopuolisen todellisuuden kytkeminen oppimistoimintaan työelämäyhteyksien avulla vahvisti opiskelijoiden mukaan oppimisen todellisuuskytkentää
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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