FRUGAL INVENTION CANDIDATES AS ANTECEDENTS OF FRUGAL PATENTS — THE ROLE OF FRUGAL ATTRIBUTES ANALYSED IN THE MEDICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

Frugal innovations enable companies to access new markets because of some specific characteristics. Typically, they focus on existing solutions as a blueprint, changing parts of their functionality while reducing the costs. Many companies are faced with the question how to find ideas for such frugal innovations. For this purpose, we introduce a method for the identification of frugal invention candidates and their qualification as frugal patents. We provide a general outline of a process and apply it to the medical engineering technology. By use of semantic analysis, we shed light on the moderating role of frugal attributes to qualify a frugal invention candidate as a frugal patent. The application produces a comprehensive set of frugal patents. Our approach deepens the understanding of frugality by providing an appropriate assessment based on a newly developed frugal thesaurus. Managers will have the option to adapt our method to their particular fields of experience.

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What should I do? The role of reciprocity and social norms on gift choices

Revista Brasileira de Marketing ◽

10.5585/remark.v18i3.16365 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 26-52

Author(s):

Daniel Modenesi Andrade ◽

Lucia Salmonson Guimarães Barros

Keyword(s):

Social Norms ◽

Gift Giving ◽

Web Based ◽

The Gift ◽

Gift Exchanges ◽

Moderating Role ◽

Shed Light

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how individuals resolve a conflict between reciprocity and social norms when choosing the price of a gift, and to investigate whether gift exchanges conducted in public or private and people’s appreciation for past gifts play a moderating role in this decision.Method: We ran two web-based survey experiments.Main results: Results showed that when people must choose between reciprocity and social norms, people tend to be reciprocal. However, there are some exceptional circumstances: people preferred to follow social norms when they received a cheaper gift in public, and when they were displeased with a prior expensive gift.Contributions: These findings help shed light onto how people make price decisions when choosing a gift.Relevance/Originality: Understanding price decisions in the gift-giving context is surprisingly an underexplored topic in the marketing literature.Managerial Implications: Understanding how people make price choices is important to practitioners. For instance, retailers can adjust their assortments to offer products across different price ranges, and sales people can make better offers to customers based on how much they are willing to spend.

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Corporate Entrepreneurship and Organizational Performance: The Moderating Role of Organizational Engagement

Annals of Contemporary Developments in Management & HR ◽

10.33166/acdmhr.2019.01.005 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 39-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tundikbayeva Bakytgul ◽

Marwa Ahmed ◽

Yevgeniya Kim

Keyword(s):

Organizational Performance ◽

Conceptual Model ◽

Critical Appraisal ◽

Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽

Organizational Engagement ◽

Moderating Role ◽

Shed Light

The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the concept of corporate entrepreneurship. The authors have attempted to highlight the different conceptualizations and explanations from renowned scholars in the domain of entrepreneurship pertaining to the corporate entrepreneurship and how it can result in worthy outcomes for businesses. Therein, the paper has reviewed and presented notable model explaining the predictors and consequences of corporate entrepreneurship. Specifically, the paper has attempted to work on linking corporate entrepreneurship with organizational performance. Through critical appraisal, the paper has also discussed the potential of organizational engagement in moderating this relationship. The paper forwards prepositions and conceptual model for scholars enthusiastic to study corporate entrepreneurship and its relationship with organizational performance following the buffering impact of organizational performance.

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Role of Digital Technology in Transforming Organizational Competencies Influencing Digital Economy: Moderating Role of Product Knowledge Hiding

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.792550 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Haoran Bai

Keyword(s):

Digital Technology ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Recent Decade ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Product Knowledge ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

New Markets ◽

Knowledge Hiding ◽

Moderating Role

Digital technology has gained momentum in the recent decade, with its relationships with digital entrepreneurship, digital economies, digital social interaction, green economies, etc. These have changed the perspective of business and hence digitalized the strategic policies through blockchains. The current study aims to identify such benefits that have changed the day-to-day life processes and procedures for carrying out different tasks due to the convenience of adopting digital technology. Those benefits have been classified as transparency, centralization, and access to new markets for the organizations considering their consequences, especially when using digital technology. When processes are taking place online, there are fair chances of hiding knowledge about certain products or procedures to gain particular benefits. Hence, this study has considered the moderating role of product knowledge hiding while interacting online. This study is a quantitative post-positivist cross-sectional study that has followed a survey technique for data collection. The population used in this study is the managerial staff of the telecom sector in the mainland in China. The sample size used in this study is 358. The software used in this study is Smart-PLS 3.3. The technique used in this study for data analysis is structural equation modeling with measurement modeling. The findings of this study show that digital technology has led to many benefits for organizations like centralization, access to the new markets, and transparency, which have been made possible remotely only because of the use of digital technology in business operations. However, the moderating role of product knowledge hiding has been found significant only for transparency. This research paper highlights the important benefits of the use of technological use in the corporate world. Also, it contributes to expanding the network of knowledge hiding, addressing the moderation of product knowledge hiding, and extending the known consequences of digital technology influencing knowledge hiding.

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The Role of Zinc in Thyroid Hormones Metabolism

International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research ◽

10.1024/0300-9831/a000262 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 89 (1-2) ◽

pp. 80-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Juliana Soares Severo ◽

Jennifer Beatriz Silva Morais ◽

Taynáh Emannuelle Coelho de Freitas ◽

Ana Letícia Pereira Andrade ◽

Mayara Monte Feitosa ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Thyroid Hormones ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

Thyroid Stimulating Hormone ◽

Zinc Transporters ◽

Serum Concentrations ◽

Metabolic Adaptations ◽

Serum T3 ◽

Regulatory Effects ◽

Shed Light

Abstract. Thyroid hormones play an important role in body homeostasis by facilitating metabolism of lipids and glucose, regulating metabolic adaptations, responding to changes in energy intake, and controlling thermogenesis. Proper metabolism and action of these hormones requires the participation of various nutrients. Among them is zinc, whose interaction with thyroid hormones is complex. It is known to regulate both the synthesis and mechanism of action of these hormones. In the present review, we aim to shed light on the regulatory effects of zinc on thyroid hormones. Scientific evidence shows that zinc plays a key role in the metabolism of thyroid hormones, specifically by regulating deiodinases enzymes activity, thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) synthesis, as well as by modulating the structures of essential transcription factors involved in the synthesis of thyroid hormones. Serum concentrations of zinc also appear to influence the levels of serum T3, T4 and TSH. In addition, studies have shown that Zinc transporters (ZnTs) are present in the hypothalamus, pituitary and thyroid, but their functions remain unknown. Therefore, it is important to further investigate the roles of zinc in regulation of thyroid hormones metabolism, and their importance in the treatment of several diseases associated with thyroid gland dysfunction.

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Testing the Strain Theory of Suicide – The Moderating Role of Social Support

Crisis ◽

10.1027/0227-5910/a000604 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 82-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bob Lew ◽

Ksenia Chistopolskaya ◽

Yanzheng Liu ◽

Mansor Abu Talib ◽

Olga Mitina ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Suicidal Behavior ◽

Online Survey ◽

Perceived Social Support ◽

Strain Theory ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Psychological Strains ◽

Moderating Role

Abstract. Background: According to the strain theory of suicide, strains, resulting from conﬂicting and competing pressures in an individual's life, are hypothesized to precede suicide. But social support is an important factor that can mitigate strains and lessen their input in suicidal behavior. Aims: This study was designed to assess the moderating role of social support in the relation between strain and suicidality. Methods: A sample of 1,051 employees were recruited in Beijing, the capital of China, through an online survey. Moderation analysis was performed using SPSS PROCESS Macro. Social support was measured with the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and strains were assessed with the Psychological Strains Scale. Results: Psychological strains are a good predictor of suicidality, and social support, a basic need for each human being, moderates and decreases the effects of psychological strains on suicidality. Limitations: The cross-sectional survey limited the extent to which conclusions about causal relationships can be drawn. Furthermore, the results may not be generalized to the whole of China because of its diversity. Conclusion: Social support has a tendency to mitigate the effects of psychological strains on suicidality.

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