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Entrepreneurial orientation, firm strategy and small firm performance
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2014)This article explores how individual entrepreneurial orientation dimensions influence the relationship between competitive strategy and firm performance. The findings show the different impacts of individual entrepreneurial ... -
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Using Deep Learning to Identify Consumer Tribes form Word Usage
(2019)Internet and social media offer firms novel ways of managing their marketing strategy and gain competitive advantage. The groups of users expressing themselves on the Internet about a particular topic, product, or brand ... -
Intuition's value for organizational innovativeness and why managers still refrain from using it
(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, 2014)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to expand the knowledge about the value of intuition for organizational innovativeness and organizational factors inhibiting intuitive decision making. Design/methodology/approach – ... -
Sustainable Alpine tourism: Time for a new governance approach = Nachhaltiger Alpentourismus: Zeit für einen neuen Governance-Ansatz
(2017)With more than 100 million guest arrivals each year, the Alps are one of the most important tourism regions worldwide. However, tourism causes conflicts between the utilisation and conservation of alpine nature and high-value ... -
Why Demography Forecasts Fail in Tourism Areas: a Spatial Demographic Mapping of a Small Alpine Village
(2017)Globally destinations are exposed to so called mega-drivers: climate change, urbanization, demographic change or sharing economies. While research in the field of climate change impact is globally considered a major issue, ... -
Note: An algorithm to solve polyhedral convex set optimization problems
(2015)We provide a counterexample to the remark in Lohne and Schrage [An algorithm to solve polyhedral convex set optimization problems, Optimization 62 (2013), pp. 131-141] that every solution of a polyhedral convex set ... -
Variational inequalities characterizing weak minimality in set optimization
(2015)We introduce the notion of weak minimizer in set optimization. Necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of scalarized variational inequalities of Stampacchia and Minty type, respectively, are proved. As an application, ... -
User Roles and Contributions in Innovation-Contest Communities
(M E SHARPE INC, 2014)Organizations increasingly initiate Internet-based innovation-contest communities through which individuals can interact and contribute to the innovation process. To successfully manage these communities, organizations ... -
Modernization of Alpine Tourism Economy by Destination Governance Considering Sustainability
(2016)Modernization theory has a direct link to development processes of states or regions. Therefore in regions where the tourism sector is a relevant factor of development it may contribute to modernization. By a comprehensive ... -
Vertical Coopetition in Entrepreneurial Firms: Theory and Practice
(2014)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate vertical interfirm relationships with direct competitors – also referred to as vertical “coopetition” – in entrepreneurial firms. Specifically, this study explores the ... -
Does Climate Change Influence Guest Loyalty at Alpine Winter Destinations?
(2019)Research has dealt extensively with different aspects of climate change and winter tourism such as the impact on ski resorts and ski lift operators, adaptation strategies, governance at destinations and reactions of winter ... -
Borders That Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo Since Colonial Times
(2014)The partition of German Togoland after World War I provides a natural experiment to test the impact of British and French colonization. Using data of recruits to the Ghanaian colonial army 1908-1955, we find that literacy ... -
Sustainable Bonuses: Sign of Corporate Responsibility or Window Dressing?
(SPRINGER, 2014)Despite a strong plea for integrating sustainability goals into traditional corporate bonus schemes, a comprehensive implementation of these systems has been lacking until recently. This article explores four illustrative ... -
Relational effects of relative performance information: The role of professional identity
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014)Prior accounting studies on relative performance information (RPI) have mainly considered the effects of RPI on employees' performance. This study extends this stream of research by investigating relational effects of RPI ... -
Winter tourism in Germany is much more than skiing! Consumer motives and implications to Alpine destination marketing
(2018)Winter sports tourism is a key economic factor in many mountain regions worldwide. Research to date has concentrated on economic and environmental questions related to winter sports and winter outdoor activities, with the ... -
Directional derivatives, subdifferentials and optimality conditions for set-valued convex functions
(2014)A new directional derivative and a new subdifferential for set-valued convex functions are constructed, and a set-valued version of the "max formula" is proven. The new concepts are used to provide optimality conditions ... -
Sticky cost behaviour: evidence from small and medium sized companies
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2014)This paper investigates whether cost stickiness occurs in small and medium sized companies using a sample of Italian nonlisted and listed firms during the period 1999-2008. Our findings show that cost stickiness emerges ... -
Innowacje w firmach rodzinnych. Paradoks możliwości i gotowości do innowacji
(2019)Biorąc pod uwagę znaczenie firm rodzinnych i znaczenie innowacji dla budowania skutecznej przewagi konkurencyjnej, nic dziwnego, że tak wiele pisze się w ostatnich latach o innowacjach w firmach rodzinnych. W szczególności ... -
Customer Perceptions of the Albergo Diffuso Concept: What Makes the Difference in Terms of Service Excellence?
(2019)This research introduces an innovative model of sustainable tourism called "Albergo Diffuso," a "made in Italy" concept of hospitality that exploits tangible and intangible local resources and is oriented toward the ... -
The value functions approach and Hopf-Lax formula for multiobjective costs via set optimization
(2020)The complete-lattice approach to optimization problems with a vector- or even set-valued objective already produced a variety of new concepts and results and was successfully applied in finance, statistics and game theory. ...
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