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A Bibliometric Overview of Tourism Family Business
MDPI (2021-11-19)Family businesses are of particular economic relevance in the international hospitality and tourism industry. However, there are few studies that address their specific characteristics and objectives. The aim of this ... -
A Community of Practice Approach to Teaching International Entrepreneurship
MDPI (2018-09-23)With a dearth of research on international entrepreneurship pedagogy, there is a gap in knowledge on the effectiveness of educational programs, courses, and teaching methods in stimulating and promoting international ... -
A configurational approach to innovation performance: The role of creativity
ScienceDirect (2023)In this study, we analyze new ways of conceptualizing improvements in firms’ innovation by implementing the “right-factors configuration,” illustrated through an analog of a recipe and its ingredients. Specifically, we ... -
A framework for organizational learning: Zero, adaptive and generative learning
Cambridge University Press (2015-02)Although organizational learning types like adaptive and generative learning are considered to follow different processes, a general framework of organizational learning that includes them has remained elusive. In order ... -
A guide for supply chain integration in SMEs
Taylor & Francis (2014)Supply chain integration (SCI) is a competitive business approach for enterprises that has not been implemented as widely as expected in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). One of the factors explaining this low ... -
A literature review on the application of evolutionary computing to credit scoring
Palgrave Macmillan (2013)The last years have seen the development of many credit scoring models for assessing the creditworthiness of loan applicants. Traditional credit scoring methodology has involved the use of statistical and mathematical ... -
A Meta-analysis of Innovation and Organizational Size
SAGE Publications (2004)Findings regarding the direction and intensity of the relation between size and innovation in the literature are contradictory. In the journal Organization Studies in 1992, Damanpour proposed a meta-analytical study in ... -
A Methodological and Evaluation Proposal for Teaching Information Systems in COVID-19 Pandemic
Routledge (2021-01-01)The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened attention to e-learning based education models. In this regard, this study reports the methodology and evaluation for teaching a subject related to information ... -
A multi-actor perspective on the effectiveness of human resource management implementation: an empirical analysis based on the ability-motivation-opportunity framework
Taylor and Francis Group (2023-01-02)This study is based on the assumption that human resource (HR) practices are implemented through interactions between a variety of actors involved in the process. Novel insights emerge from the analysis of how interactions ... -
A regression model based on the nearest centroid neighborhood
Springer Verlag (2018)The renowned k-nearest neighbor decision rule is widely used for classification tasks, where the label of any new sample is estimated based on a similarity criterion defined by an appropriate distance function. It has also ... -
Absorptive capacity and radical innovation in industrial districts
Informa plc (2021-01-07)The aim of this paper is to adopt the absorptive capacity (ACAP) framework to understand radical innovation in industrial districts (IDs), adopting a multi-level perspective. By performing a longitudinal case study on ... -
Accompanied versus Unaccompanied Transport in Short Sea Shipping betweer Spain and Italy: An Analysis from Transport Road Firms Perpective
Taylor & Francis (2011)Short sea shipping (SSS) is called to play a key role in ensuring sustainable mobility in the European context. In the past years several studies tried to define the SSS requirements and also to identify the SSS lines that ... -
Airline website loyalty formation and the moderating effects of gender and education
Springer (2013-06)The objective of this study is to analyse the moderating effects of gender and education on users’ loyalty to the website of an airline. We provide a tested model for greater understanding the effects of gender and education ... -
Ambidexterity as a Key Factor in Banks' Performance: A Marketing Approach
Taylor & Francis (2019-04)Based on an ambidexterity approach and using data from 384 Spanish bank branch managers, the results of this study confirm that market orientation facilitates the development of dynamic exploratory capabilities in bank ... -
Ambidexterity in micro and small firms: Can competitive intelligence compensate for size constraints?
SAGE (2021)Ambidexterity has been linked to firm structures that are typical of organizations with a larger size. However, further research is needed to analyze whether the effect of firm size on ambidexterity is contingent on other ... -
Ambidexterity, Alliances and Environmental Management System Adoption in Spanish Hotels
MDPI (2019)Competitiveness in the hotel sector and its effect on the environment involves integrating environmental issues in hotel management. Current environmental challenges often require firms to cope with contradictory processes. ... -
An Analysis of Open Innovation Strategies in Firms in Low and Medium Technology Industries
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2019-05-16)Open innovation (OI) has been mainly associated with high-technology firms. This paper aims to analyze how firms in low and medium technology industries implement their OI strategy. In doing so, we explore common patterns ... -
An analysis of the Spanish Ceramic Tile Industry Research Contracts and Patents
Taylor & Francis (2018)In this work we apply a systemic approach to the analysis of a particular geographic territory, the industrial district. We are particularly interested in analysing the interaction between the ... -
An empirical assessment of the EFQM Excellence Model: Evaluation as a TQM framework relative to the MBNQA Model
Elsevier (2009)Total quality management (TQM) is an approach to management embracing both social and technical dimensions aimed at achieving excellent results, which needs to be put into practice through a specific framework. Nowadays, ... -
An exploratory analysis of the relationship between absorptive capacity and business strategy
Taylor & Francis (2013-10)In this study, we argue that a firm's absorptive capacity will vary depending on the strategy it adopts. To examine this, based on the fact that absorptive capacity is developed through the ability to acquire, assimilate, ...