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Entrepreneurship and startup companies are related terms, in the sense that one brings support to the other. The characteristics of a successful startup could be visible in the long term, but how about the way to develop an entrepreneurial person? This study performed a survey within a Peruvian university in order to explain the innovative mindset of the students and even their position about the...
This study analyzes the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) management process of a multinational company of high-tech services. We evaluate the adherence of the enablers reported in the literature of FFE management in this company's innovation process. We choose, from literature, a framework of FFE's management in order to guide the interviews with managers. The interviews provide information could be possible...
How to build an initial portfolio of R&D projects to start industry-university cooperation? This paper reports an attempt to answer this question. Particularly, it presents a methodology devised from a 18-month action-research program held between a large multinational automotive manufacturer and the engineering school of a top-ranked Brazilian university. The paper proposes a 3-stage process...
In the information society, and utilizing ICT(Information and Communication Technology), it has become possible to deploy a new business model. In the use of the financial business ICT, companies rather than funding from traditional financial institutions such as banks and securities companies, it has become possible to raise funds from individuals of the general public. One of the new forms of financing...
Business models are considered to be the most important competitiveness of enterprises. This paper provides a theoretical framework in order: i) to discuss the concepts on business model of logistics enterprise, ii) to analyses the business model, combining with the bank of China business conduction mode, and put forward the concept of service product differentiation innovative business model, and...
Over the last few decades, software reuse has been stressed as a key factor for the developers to improve the productivity and the quality of information systems. However, some drawbacks of a vendor-dependent proprietary framework from major SI companies can also be formed in e-Government systems. This paper is differentiated from other prior studies in that it involves field experimental research...
This paper studies optimal fee schedules of crowdsourcing services. The paper finds that service fees should be an increasing concave function of task prizes. This result implies that optimal service fee rates, measured as the ratios of fees to prizes, decrease with task prizes. The paper shows that low-type crowdsourcing contest sponsors might be priced out of the market under the optimal fee schedule...
In the Internet age, application of the Internet has penetrated into people's daily life. It has a great influence on people's daily life and overturns people's traditional conception of thinking. Depending on the Internet's resources integration ability, Internet companies are rapidly rising and affect the traditional industry's core business. Many traditional enterprises have begun to transform...
Taking the factor of customer switching into count, we analyze duopoly models in which both start-ups and established firms consider the competitive investment in R&D when they enter the new market. Firms make a decision on investment will influence the customer switching. The firms with investment may attract new customers from other firms which does not invest and then maintain more market share...
Brand valuation has attracted the interest of accounting academicians and practitioners, several valuation methods come into existence, however, after a careful review they prove to be lack of objectivity. We put forward the risk analysis of cash flow method, after an empirical study of the real estate enterprises, it proves to be effective, and moreover, it can meet the demands of objectivity of...
The optimization and simulation of power systems continues to be an area of concern for electricity companies and researchers worldwide namely considering the development of electricity markets and competition in the generation activity Therefore generation companies are devoting an increasing attention to market issues justifying the development of models to help them preparing bidding strategies...
Merger analysis is usually drawing on concepts derived from competitive horizontal markets, such as market concentration, predatory foreclosure and economies of scale in marketing. In evaluating horizontal mergers among energy network operators, regulators must use different tools to evaluate the attractiveness of mergers. Norway is one country having implemented an ex ante regulation for mergers...
The deployment of fibre optics poses a huge investment risk, thus telecommunication companies are skeptical about replacing copper given the high cost of doing so. Over recent times, the usage of the internet has changed and led to a need for fibre optics. The decision on whether to deploy or not is made through the use of complex models. However, the problem being that deployment plans are manually...
When and how should we encourage network providers to mitigate the harm of security and privacy risks? Poorly designed interventions that do not align with economic incentives can lead stakeholders to be less, rather than more, careful. We apply an economic framework that compares two fundamental regulatory approaches: risk based or ex ante and harm based or ex post. We posit that for well known security...
In this paper we have performed Monte Carlo Simulation, Multiple Linear Regression and Regime analysis for Projecting Trade & Business between India and Israel. The trade relations between India and Israel are extensively analyzed and predictions are being made using various mathematical models for their expansion. The effects of political regimes on economic relations are also evaluated. We have...
The on-going paradigm shift in value creation (individualized production, co-creation experience, production networks etc.), initiated by new technologies: information and communication technologies (ICTs) as well as manufacturing technologies, results in new business models and, thus, changed organizational structures in economics. Furthermore, organizations in other societal subsystems are changing,...
The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is an integrated software package applied by many enterprises as an operations platform over the past years. However, according to an industrial survey, the failure rate of ERP system implementation is relatively high because of high implementation costs and long implementation time, incapable implementation teams, process misfits, resistance to change...
Todays increased interest in enterprise risk management is motivated by decision making in reaction to change and complex compliance requirements as well as the need to minimize business losses and improve business outcomes. It is therefore important to help business stakeholders become fully aware of applicable risks and their possible impact on other business constituents. This paper represents...
Firms world-wide are actively engaged to achieve internationally accepted quality levels to ensure their position in the emerging international market especially those from developing economies. Unfortunately the construction industry, generally, has lagged behind other industries in implementing Total Quality Management (TQM) which provides excellence in customer satisfaction through continuous improvements...
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