Constructing Innovativeness in New-Media Start-Up Firms

10.1068/a3558 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 1951-1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolf Heydebrand ◽  
Annalisa Mirón
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
State Level ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Project Organization ◽  
Interfirm Networks ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Mixed Networks ◽  
Client Relations

We focus on the social construction of innovativeness in the context of project teams and interfirm networks among new-media start-up firms in Silicon Alley, Manhattan. The analysis is based on a total of thirty-four interviews with firm executives and other informants. A brief discussion of the historical and structural context of the research project is followed by an exposition of the theoretical framework, that is, the theory of industrial districts and the hypothesized connection between innovativeness and interactivity. In each of the three subsequent sections of the paper, the empirical findings are presented and analyzed: the grounded conceptions of innovativeness, the two main variants of project organization (self-organized versus managerially coordinated project teams), and the varieties of interfirm networks such as transactional and mixed networks. Other networking practices documented are client relations and hiring. We consider the effect of state-level legal infrastructure and economic deregulation on the business culture of interfirm networking, information sharing, and innovativeness.

Research Design in Team-Based Qualitative Research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Project Organization ◽  
Data Archiving ◽  
Project Management System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Start Up

In the introduction to this chapter and interwoven throughout the text is the message that qualitative research begins and ends in writing, which in this case means that research design is a beginning point for that writing. This chapter is composed of three major sections that illustrate how team start-up is critical to how the writing will proceed down the line. The first section—Team Formation—provides detailed information on issues to consider in establishing the team in a manner that will be most beneficial to the conduct of qualitative research. The second section—Research Design and Project Organization—discusses early writing tasks, establishing a project management system, and the importance of linking all of this to a data archiving plan. Digital tools are discussed in some depth. The third section—Caring: Internalized and Externalized—suggests a novel approach to the issue of ethics and team management.

scholarly journals Burn Time Correction of Start-Up Transients for CAMUI Type Hybrid Rocket Engine

Aerospace ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 385
Author(s):  
Tor Viscor ◽  
Hikaru Isochi ◽  
Naoto Adachi ◽  
Harunori Nagata
Keyword(s):  
Rocket Engine ◽  
State Level ◽  
Impinging Jet ◽  
Rocket Engines ◽  
Transient Effects ◽  
Hybrid Rocket ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Time Correction ◽  
Hybrid Rocket Engine ◽  
Time Issue

Burn time errors caused by various start-up transient effects have a significant influence on the regression modelling of hybrid rockets. Their influence is especially pronounced in the simulation model of the Cascaded Multi Impinging Jet (CAMUI) hybrid rocket engine. This paper analyses these transient burn time errors and their effect on the regression simulations for short burn time engines. To address these errors, the equivalent burn time is introduced and is defined as the time the engine would burn if it were burning at its steady-state level throughout the burn time to achieve the measured total impulse. The accuracy of the regression simulation with and without the use of equivalent burn time is then finally compared. Equivalent burn time is shown to address the burn time issue successfully for port regression and, therefore, also for other types of cylindrical port hybrid rocket engines. For the CAMUI-specific impinging jet fore-end and back-end surfaces, though, the results are inconclusive.

Multi-level framework of push-pull entrepreneurship: comparing American and Lebanese women

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 768-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Zgheib
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Content Type ◽  
American Women ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Economic Need

Purpose American and Lebanese women may feel they have different needs and therefore have different wants. This distinction brings to the fore the importance of an integrative analysis of forced and voluntary (push-pull) factors that influence entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to compare Lebanese and American women to determine their push-pull drive for entrepreneurship. Background: women entrepreneurship is developing in various cultural settings internationally as well as domestically. This research paper attempts to address the inference of autonomy, creativity, and non-conformity in comparing American and Lebanese women entrepreneurs with respect to the push-pull framework of entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach An interpretive analysis of 102 extensive in-depth interviews with women entrepreneurs from the USA and Lebanon allows the exploration of the relevance and salience of the proposed push-pull gender related entrepreneurship framework. Contrasting American and Lebanese women responses explains why the number and rate of women entrepreneurs is greater in the USA than in the Arab world, and attempts to answer why American women are more entrepreneurial and how the environment impacts them. Findings Emerging patterns of female business entrepreneurship in this analysis demonstrate that forced push entrepreneurship is more prevalent among women from a developing economy such as Lebanon than in industrially advanced USA. By contrast voluntary pull entrepreneurship claims more global validity as discovered in the US business culture. Entrepreneurial dimensions analyzed include autonomy, creativity, and non-conformity. Originality/value The dynamic interplay of micro, meso, and macro levels of the integrated framework of gender entrepreneurship is taken into further depth by exploring the gender autonomy debate, and highlighting creativity and non-conformity within the push-pull framework of entrepreneurship. This research contributes to reach scopes of practice and research. At the practice level the results show that the economic need is more than the self-satisfaction need to the initiation of new start-up business enterprises for Lebanese women compared to American women. This research sheds a new light on the balancing act of women entrepreneurs between tradition and modernity, between Oriental and Western cultures, and between Americans and Lebanese Arabs.

Praxisgemeinschaft als didaktische Konzeption: Neue Ansätze medienunterstützter Projektarbeit in der angewandten Informatik (Communities of Practice as Didactical Concept: New Approaches for Media-Supported Project Work in Applied Computer Science Teaching)

i-com ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (3/2003) ◽  
pp. 36-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Rohde ◽  
Matthias Jarke ◽  
Ralf Klamma ◽  
Volker Wulf
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Project Work ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Community System ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Applied Computer Science ◽  
Community Systems

ZusammenfassungIm vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Erfahrungen mit einer praxisorientierten Lehrveranstaltung im Informatikstudium an der RWTH Aachen vorgestellt. Im Rahmen der kombinierten Veranstaltung „Entrepreneurship and New Media” wurde neben einem Projektpraktikum eine begleitende Vorlesungsreihe mit externen Dozenten angeboten. In Projektgruppen bearbeiteten die Studierenden Praxisaufgaben, die von zwei Start-Up Unternehmen gestellt und betreut wurden. Die Studierenden wurden dabei miteinander und mit ihren verschiedenen Betreuern durch ein Community-System vernetzt. Es werden die Konzeption und der lerntheoretische Hintergrund der Lehrveranstaltung dargestellt. Außerdem werden die Ergebnisse einer Studie präsentiert, die die didaktische Grundkonzeption und die Nutzung des Community-Systems evaluierte. Abschließend wird die Bedeutung von Praxisgemeinschaften für die Lehre der angewandten Informatik diskutiert.

scholarly journals Distributing intelligence and organizing diversity in new media projects

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Girard ◽  
David Stark
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Web Design ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Collaborative Engineering ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Design Firms

This paper examines how web design firms in the new media industry probe and experiment with possible forms and sources of value giving shape to the new economy. Focusing on the collaborative engineering of cross-disciplinary web-design project teams, we examine how websites emerge as provisional settlements among the heterogeneous disciplines as they negotiate working compromises across competing performance criteria.

Towards a Function-Based Collective Innovation Framework

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Messer ◽  
Ju¨rgen Grotepaß ◽  
Ulrich K. Frenzel ◽  
Jitesh H. Panchal
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Collective Innovation ◽  
Collective Information ◽  
Specific Project

In this paper, we present a work-in-progress web-based framework to enable collective innovation via a combination of top-down structural and bottom-up self-organized processes in global enterprises. Problem: In current organizations, expertise is usually locked in discipline-specific project teams or departments based on existing product portfolios which restricts collective innovation through distributed networks of peers translating into increased innovation. Innovation projects are managed in stage gate processes using tools (such as proprietary project workspaces or product data management) that limit access to solutions on various levels of maturity/abstraction throughout the enterprise. Approach: Our approach to facilitate collective innovation in the early stages of product development involves identification and implementation of the following collective innovation mechanisms a) collective concept creation, b) collective concept selection, and c) collective information management. These innovation mechanisms are being instantiated in a web-enabled COllective INnovation (COIN) framework to synthesize collaborative bottom-up and structured top-down approaches fostering innovation. The COIN framework is thus based on self-organized collective innovation as well as function-based systematic conceptual design approaches thereby embodying both collaborative bottom-up and structured top-down structured aspects. From the proposed approach to collective innovation through innovation mechanisms and web enabled tools for implementing collaborative bottom-up and structured top-down structured aspects, global enterprises can benefit from the COIN-framework in fostering synergetic R&D-collaborations, know-how transfer and technology scouting during the early stages of product development. The value to global enterprises can further be significantly increased through application-tailored subspaces consisting of a collection of entities, loosely related by user-defined information links (e.g., tags), as exemplified for a sealing subspace and corkscrew design example in this paper.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND USE IN THE GROWTH PROCESS OF WOMEN-OWNED FIRMS

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 473-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
MUHAMMAD AZAM ROOMI
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Growth Process ◽  
Maturity Stage ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Stages Of Growth ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Mixed Networks ◽  
Capital Development

Drawing upon the Churchill and Lewis stage growth model of enterprises, this study explains the role of social capital possessed by women entrepreneurs in different stages of growth within their firms. Friends and family as well as women-only networks in the start-up stage; customers, staff, and suppliers in the survival stage; mixed networks as well as business and professional advisers in the success and take-off stages; and suppliers and/or distributors in the maturity stage have been found to be the main sources of women entrepreneurs' social capital. In particular, the study highlights industry differences as well as norms of behavior based on trust and obligation through which they successfully transform their contacts into useful resources. The availability of these resources as well as access to information, advice, and ideas act as a catalyst in developing and growing their businesses.

Social Network Analysis in Software Development Projects: A Systematic Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (03) ◽  
pp. 321-362
Author(s):  
Roland Robert Schreiber ◽  
Matthäus Paul Zylka
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Project Organization

Software development in project teams has become more and more complex, with increasing demands for information and decision making. Software development in projects also hugely depends on effective interaction between people, and human factors have been identified as key to successful software projects. Especially in this context, managing and analyzing social networks is highly important. The instrument of social network analysis (SNA) provides fine-grained methods for analyzing social networks in project teams, going beyond the traditional tools and techniques of project management. This paper examines the importance of the application of SNA in software development projects. We conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) of research on software development projects and social network data published between 1980 and 2019. We identified and analyzed 86 relevant studies, finding that research on software development projects spans the topics of project organization, communication management, knowledge management, version and configuration management, requirement management, and risk management. Further, we show that most studies focus on project organization and that the most common method used to gather social data relies on automated extraction from various software development repositories in the SNA context. Our paper contributes to the software development literature by providing a broad overview of published studies on the use of social networks in helping software development projects. Finally, we identify research opportunities and make suggestions for addressing existing research gaps.

scholarly journals Podcasts and new orality in the African mediascape

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110210
Author(s):  
Reginold A Royston
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Oral Performance ◽  
The West ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Public Cultures

While podcasts as a storytelling media have exploded in popularity in the West since 2014, the uptake and consumption of this sonic new media was relatively slow in Africa until recently. This article explores amateur and start-up entrepreneurship podcasts that came to dominate the African mediascape during the medium’s coming of age moment between 2014 and 2018. I extend Walter Ong’s observation that broadcast and electronic media recreate the experience of oral performance, to show how the oral and aural dimensions of podcasting represent a set of approaches that can be described as new orality. This article also draws connections and distinctions between what I term the “dialogic schema” of African tech podcasts and “traditional” forms of narrative storytelling in African public cultures, as well as the emerging forms of mobile digital practices that, like podcasting, challenge easy distinctions between written and oral and literacy.

Feixiang to FOTILE: growth of a family business

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianchang Liu ◽  
Kathryn Carlson Heler
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mba Students ◽  
Modern Enterprise ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Market Opportunities

Subject area Strategy. Study level/applicability The case is suitable for upper level undergraduate business and MBA students. Case overview FOTILE, one of the fam ily businesses in Zhejiang, Ch ina, has now become the leading brand in the Ch ina kitchen appliance industry and has successfully entered into the global market. It has gone from a traditional family business in the 1980s to a modern enterprise because of the successful transformation from the first generation (Father: Lixiang Mao) to the second generation (Son: Zhongqun Mao) and the blending of a family business with the modern enterprise system. They both have strong beliefs that family businesses have their own advantages, but they have different ways and strategies of running the business. The case describes the process of how the father and his son worked together designing the strategies to successfully grow FOTILE. Expected learning outcomes The case is a vehicle for exploring strategies to operate a family business, to successfully develop a sustainability model, to manage a growing company through its entrepreneurial stage, and to merge western business culture with Chinese Confucian culture. It should help students to: explore strategies of managing/leading a family business and transferring successfully the business from one generation to the next; understand the importance of marketing, focusing on overall strategy and sustainability; know how to identify market opportunities, exhibit start-up intent, perform start-up planning, mission development, and feasibility analysis, and acquiring initial resources; and appreciate the close link between culture and strategy. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or e-mail [email protected] to request teaching notes.

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