scholarly journals Entrepreneurs On Entrepreneurship: A Research Structure Based On 12 Practitioner Case Studies

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Research Structure ◽  
Research Domain ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Analyze Data

The importance of entrepreneurship for economic growth and social advancement is well established, but most scholars do not agree on a structure for organizing its study. As a result, a great deal of scholarly effort in the field is often criticized as noncumulative, disorganized, and lacking predictive capability. Additionally, connections with important sub domains such as social and sustainable entrepreneurship are not well established. Advancement in the organization of the research domain can potentially lead to improved formulation of research questions, better selection of methodologies employed, and enhancements in the ability of researchers to deal more effectively with the multidisciplinary and process nature of the field. This paper uses qualitative research methodology to analyze data collected from semi structured interviews with practitioner entrepreneurs to advance a structure for future research in the field. A conceptual framework for organizing the research domain of entrepreneurship is developed through analysis of the insights and experiences from 12 case studies of practitioner entrepreneurs, leading to the identification of a proposed structure based upon four categorical dimensions of an entrepreneurship conceptual framework procedural, typological, behavioral, and environmental.

scholarly journals Internationalization and destination selection of emerging market SMEs: Issues and challenges in a conceptual framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 206-216
Author(s):  
Ying Zhu ◽  
Malcolm Warner ◽  
Deepak Sardana
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Key Questions

In this article, we target emerging market small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) internationalization by tackling two key questions: (1) What are the issues and challenges facing the emerging market SMEs in the process of internationalization in general and choice of destination in particular? (2) What are the strategies and processes being adopted by SMEs to overcome the challenges and limitations with specific reference to international destinations in developed economies as opposed to emerging markets? As we delve into these twin issues, we develop a conceptual framework, based on our mini case studies of Chinese and Indian SMEs to make complementary contribution to the research on the internationalization of emerging market SMEs. Finally, we pose a number of research questions for future research as the outcome of this article.

Mahalanobis Taguchi system: a review

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elham Ghasemi ◽  
Abdollah Aaghaie ◽  
Elizabeth A. Cudney
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Design Of Experiments ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
System A ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present and analyze the current literature related to developing and improving the Mahalanobis-Taguchi system (MTS) and to present the shortcomings related to this method for future research. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, articles in the literature are classified to give an overview on the MT strategy. For this purpose, 46 articles are considered for classification from 2000 to 2013 on the basis of: MTS contribution area, description of the issue, and results. Findings – In this paper a review on the concepts and operations of the MTS was provided as a new method in the field of pattern recognition, multivariable diagnosis, and forecasting. A large number of studies were performed in recent years consisting of developing MTS and MTS case studies. The analysis of the articles showed the fields of MTS which had more potential for future studies and developing. The comparison of the MTS to other methods and the selection of the normal group for constructing the Mahalanobis space have received the most attention by researchers. In addition, several studies concentrated on the use of other methods instead of design of experiments, finding applications for multiclass MTS and finding an alternative for the SN ratio. Originality/value – This paper contains the publications in the field of MTS chronologically and shows different areas for developing and case studies. It will be useful to researchers and professionals who are interested in pattern recognition, multivariate analysis, and forecasting.

scholarly journals Applying Intervention Mapping to Improve the Applicability of Precious Memories, an Intervention for Depressive Symptoms in Nursing Home Residents

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (24) ◽  
pp. 5163
Author(s):  
Iris van Venrooij ◽  
Jan Spijker ◽  
Gerben J. Westerhof ◽  
Ruslan Leontjevas ◽  
Debby L. Gerritsen
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Mapping ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Life Review ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Behavior Change Techniques ◽  
Drop Out Rate ◽  
Selection Of

Precious memories (PM) is a life review intervention for depression in older adults with no to mild cognitive decline that has been implemented in multiple nursing homes (NHs) in the Netherlands. Previous research suggested its relevance but questioned its applicability. Therefore, this research aimed to (1) investigate the applicability of PM, and (2) increase its applicability, if necessary. Intervention mapping (IM) was used to achieve these goals: process evaluation through semi-structured interviews with psychologists (n = 11) and clients (n = 2) to identify potential improvements for PM and to set an improvement goal (IM-step 1); three focus groups with stakeholders (n = 20) to specify behaviors necessary to reach the improvement goal (IM-step 2); and selection of behavior change techniques and applications to facilitate attainment of these behaviors (IM-step 3). Results showed that psychologists perceived a high drop-out rate, which was partly due to PM being provided to clients that did not belong to the target group. Although PM was generally considered relevant, psychologists articulated its longer-term effects should be improved. To improve PM’s applicability, concrete maintenance strategies were developed aiming to maintain clients’ well-being by stimulating positive contact with others. Future research must pilot, implement and evaluate these strategies.

Words from Bononia Legal Corpus

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-34
Author(s):  
Rema Rossini Favretti ◽  
F. Tamburini ◽  
E. Martelli
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Project ◽  
European Legislation ◽  
Corpus Design ◽  
Text Types ◽  
International Transactions ◽  
Machine Readable ◽  
Selection Of

The analysis of special multilingual corpora is still in its infancy, but it may serve a particularly important role for the directions it offers both in cross-linguistic investigation and in the selection of the most typical features of text types and genres. To exemplify the information which can be obtained from corpus evidence, the paper reports on an on-going corpus-driven research project, named Bononia Legal Corpus (BOLC). The main aim of BOLC is to build multilingual machine readable law corpora. Data are at present limited to English and Italian, but an extension is envisaged to include other languages. Before the first sample, a preliminary pilot corpus was constructed to consider European legislation and create a conceptual framework to be used as a first-level experience. In the paper, sections 2 and 3 describe the corpus design and formatting as well as the corpus access tools. Sections 4 and 5 discuss two case studies and analyse two semantic areas which can be seen as two ends of the same variational continuum. At one end, we consider the words contratto and contract, which through the extension of international transactions and circulation may be supposed to have acquired transnational traits. At the other, we focus on a semantic area which may be expected to present translation problems for the differences existing in the two socio-institutional systems. Reference is made to the English words tax and duty and to the Italian words tassa and imposta.

scholarly journals Why and How Do University Students Use Facebook in Everyday Life?

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Ali SIMSEK ◽  
Fahme DABAJ ◽  
Eylem SIMSEK
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Interpersonal Communications ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Analyze Data

The use of Facebook in everyday life has become widespread all around the world regardless of countries and cultures. The largest group of Facebook users consists of young people, particularly university students. This study investigated the attitudes of university students toward Facebook, their major reasons for using this social media application in everyday life, and the factors affecting the types of desired relationships with Facebook friends. A survey consisting of 63 items about demographics of participants and their preferences for the use of Facebook was administered to collect data. The sample of the study included 924 undergraduate students from a large public university in North Cyprus. A number of descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were employed to analyze data in relation to the research questions. Results suggested that the students generally had positive attitudes toward Facebook, although there were certain differences in terms of demographics. The primary reason for using Facebook was interpersonal communications with close friends. The most powerful factor affecting the types of relationships in Facebook was perceived quality of communication and/or socialization. Along with the other findings, implications of the results for future research were discussed.

scholarly journals At the Intersections: International and Multicultural Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (Winter) ◽  
pp. 96-99
Author(s):  
Lauren Chow
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Significant Bias ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Balanced Model ◽  
Different Origins ◽  
Analyze Data

Within the United States, the areas of international and multicultural higher education have similar goals but different origins, and there have been historical areas of tension between the two even as many scholars and practitioners have sought ways to link them. Much literature on the intersections between the two areas was published in the 1990s and early 2010s, but the landscape of higher education has shifted significantly in recent years; furthermore, most previous research focused on theoretical reasons for why the two areas did not intersect and offered broad suggestions for how they could be merged. This study investigated research questions related to what the language used by international and multicultural offices to describe their work can reveal about how they partner or compete to create inclusive institutional environments, using the lens of Kretzmann and McKnight’s assets-based community development theory. The study used content analysis to analyze data collected from the websites of ten institutions in Massachusetts. Key findings include a slight bias towards international offices in asset-based framing and a significant bias towards multicultural offices in deficit-based framing. These findings largely reflect old tensions between the two areas despite nearly three decades of scholarship on the topic and significant changes in climate for higher education, demonstrating the need for a more intentional dialogue between these areas and a balanced model of framing both areas’ work. This research is currently being expanded upon using semi-structured interviews with administrators who work at the ten institutions used in the content analysis.

scholarly journals Transportation Policymaking in Beijing and Shanghai: Contributors, Obstacles, and Process

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jungwoo Chun ◽  
Joanna Moody ◽  
Jinhua Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Transportation Policy ◽  
City Government ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy Experimentation ◽  
Transportation Policies ◽  
The City

With continued motorization and urbanization in Chinese cities, there is a growing demand for innovative transportation policies at the city level to address the challenges of congestion, local air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. Using Beijing and Shanghai as case studies, this paper draws on 32 in-depth semi-structured interviews with municipal government officials, academics, and transportation professionals to explore the city-level transportation policymaking process in China. Across the two cities, we identify three common contributors – policy learning, data informatization, and public opinion – and four obstacles – public complaint, unilateral decisionmaking, inadequate coordination among relevant departments, and lack of adaptiveness in policy implementation practice – to adopting timely and appropriate transportation policies. We then introduce a processual model that connects the contributors and obstacles identified within the flow of transportation policy among key actors in city-level government. This process shows how transportation policymaking in Chinese megacities is often reactive to public outcry over a transportation problem. This problem is investigated by a technical government research center that reports to the municipal transport committee. This committee then assesses public opinion and submits a policy recommendation to city government leadership, who make the final policy decision. Based on both case studies, we discuss potential recommendations for how to better enable transportation policymaking at the city level in China through more formalized processes of policy experimentation and public participation. We conclude with a discussion of limitations and areas of future research.

Conclusions, Contribution to Knowledge, Implications and Future Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 358-377
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Personal Selling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Entire Study ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Research Questions

This chapter concludes this book, which has examined the challenges faced by practitioners, salespeople, and academics alike in relation to SPP. It is structured around the format of the investigation and highlights the key issues and considerations and the theoretical conceptualisations starting with the introductory chapter through the background and evolution of the personal selling literature review. It has also highlighted the research methodology, analysis, discussion, findings, contributions to knowledge, and recommendations for future research. The purpose of this chapter is to serve as a distillation of the entire study. The chapter starts with a restatement of the research questions. The chapter then proceeds to the findings and conclusions, theoretical and methodological contributions, implications for practitioners and academics, conceptual framework contribution, contribution to the author's personal development, the limitations of the study, the recommendations for future research, and final conclusions .

scholarly journals Experiences of Siblings of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen E. Angell ◽  
Hedda Meadan ◽  
Julia B. Stoner
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Collective Case Study ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of siblings of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and identify their self-reported support needs. We conducted in-person semi-structured interviews with 12 siblings aged 7 to 15 of children aged 6 to 15 with ASDs. Employing a qualitative collective case study research method, we conducted cross-case analyses to address our research questions. Three major themes emerged: (a) descriptions of the sibling subsystem (b) cohesion between and among the siblings, and (c) adaptability of the participant siblings to having family members with ASDs. Discussion of these findings and recommendations for future research contributes to the existing literature on siblings of children with disabilities.

The role of citizens in DRR planning exercises: when to inform or consult

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (02) ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Kornakova ◽  
Alan March
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Participation Styles ◽  
The Uk

Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to explore the role and effectiveness of particular participation styles that affect the effectiveness of urban planning being integrated with disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices. Design/methodology/approach This research was conducted using a heuristic approach to the examination of urban planning and DRR practices focussing particularly upon citizens’ participation in four case studies internationally: the UK floods in 2007; Hurricane Katrina in the USA in 2005; wildfires of 2009 in Victoria, Australia; and Swiss avalanche prevention and preparedness. Desktop research was conducted to analyse cases and identify key findings, confirmed and augmented by interviews with relevant specialists in each country through semi-structured interviews. Findings The research reveals some similarities across all four cases studied. It appears that urban planning and DRR approaches, particularly those with a regulatory outcome and based on highly technical tests, are common. Further, it is apparent in the cases studied that circumstances where deeper technical knowledge and/or self-interest are strong factors, that informing and sometimes consulting styles are the most appropriate. While the scope of the paper means that this principle cannot be widely applied, there is a need to investigate these issues further. Research limitations/implications The heuristic and inductive nature of this research limits the potential for in-depth analyses of the case studies, but rather provides a base for future research in this area, which currently has limited literature. Originality/value This study provides a wide base for future research and partially addresses the gap in the literature on the topic of integration of urban planning and DRR with a focus on the community involvement in it.

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