scholarly journals Value Creation of Business Incubator Functions: Economic and Social Sustainability in the COVID-19 Scenario

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6888
Author(s):  
Cristina Lin-Lian ◽  
Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero ◽  
José Luis Montes-Botella
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

Spain has encouraged support to sustain entrepreneurs in the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, the usefulness of the functions of business incubators regarding the social benefits derived from enhancing the sustainability of the entrepreneurial ecosystem is studied in the context of the COVID-19 scenario. Due to the lack of academic literature on the subject, an analysis based on the application of structural equation models (SEMs) has been carried out using a theoretical framework built and empirically validated using a representative sample of Spanish entrepreneurs. The results show that, according to stakeholders, the functionalities of business incubators were oriented to drive entrepreneurial initiatives to have highly positive effects on society. This research evidences that business incubators are key mechanisms to make entrepreneurship, growth and economic development more sustainable in society.

scholarly journals Career Decision, Work Adjustment, and Person–Job Fit of Adolescents: Moderating Effects of Parental Support

2021 ◽  
pp. 089484532199596
Author(s):  
Markus P. Neuenschwander ◽  
Jan Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Parental Support ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Job Fit ◽  
The Social

We applied the social cognitive model of work satisfaction to the transition from lower secondary education to work in Switzerland and combined career decision and adjustment to work. The model assumes that self-efficacy affects career decision outcomes and adjustment after transition to work. Self-efficacy interacts with parental support during career decision making. We tested the model using a longitudinal sample of 603 adolescents who filled out questionnaires in seventh grade, ninth grade, and 1 year after starting work. Structural equation models showed that parental support weakens the effect of self-efficacy on anticipated person–job fit and expectations of work conditions (moderation). Expectations of work conditions and a company’s support help newcomers to attain a high perceived person–job fit. These findings have several implications on how to support adolescents’ school-to-work transition.

scholarly journals Women’s self-care behavior and its relationship with social capital in Yazd, Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamideh Shiri-Mohammadabad ◽  
Seyed Alireza Afshani
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Fit Indices ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Care Behavior

Abstract Background Research on factors affecting self-care is scarce. The social factors, in particular, have not been yet investigated in Iran. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between self-care and social capital among women. Methods The participants were 737 women who were living in the marginal, middle and upper areas in the city of Yazd, Iran. Data were collected using a researcher-made self-care questionnaire and Harper’s (Off Natl Stat 11:2019, 2019) Social Capital Scale. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling by SPSS and Amos v24. Results The results showed that the social capital had significant positive effects on the general self-care behavior of the participants (β = 0.56, p < 0.001). It also had significant positive effects on the self-care behavior of women living in the marginal (β = 0.58), middle (β = 0.49) and upper (β = 0.62) parts of the city (p < 0.001). Besides, the women living in the marginal parts had relatively lower levels of self-care compared to those living in the middle and upper parts of the city. The examination of the fit indices indicated that the model has a good fit (CMIN/DF = 2.087, NFI = 0.921, RMSEA = 0.027, CFI = 0.956, TLI = 0.940, GFI = 0.956, IFI = 0.957). Conclusion The findings of this study demonstrated that social capital has significant positive effects on the general self-care behavior of women. Therefore, improving their self-care can be achieved through promoting their social capital.

Analyzing Longitudinal Social Relations Model Data Using the Social Relations Structural Equation Model

2021 ◽  
pp. 107699862110565
Author(s):  
Steffen Nestler ◽  
Oliver Lüdtke ◽  
Alexander Robitzsch
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Model Data ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Social Relations Model ◽  
The Social

The social relations model (SRM) is very often used in psychology to examine the components, determinants, and consequences of interpersonal judgments and behaviors that arise in social groups. The standard SRM was developed to analyze cross-sectional data. Based on a recently suggested integration of the SRM with structural equation models (SEM) framework, we show here how longitudinal SRM data can be analyzed using the SR-SEM. Two examples are presented to illustrate the model, and we also present the results of a small simulation study comparing the SR-SEM approach to a two-step approach. Altogether, the SR-SEM has a number of advantages compared to earlier suggestions for analyzing longitudinal SRM data, making it extremely useful for applied research.

scholarly journals Patients as strategic partners in hospital settings: Trust, participation, relational value, and loyalty

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kwaku Ahenkora ◽  
Ernestina Armah ◽  
Frederick Santuoh ◽  
Theresa Sarpong ◽  
Confidence Atakro
Keyword(s):  
Patient Participation ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Relational Models ◽  
Managerial Implication ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Relational Value ◽  
Strategic Imperative

Objective: The need to motivate patients to participate as strategic partners in healthcare exists, and this has prompted the development of relational models of value creation. This study assesses the effect of trust-in doctor/nurse on patient participation as well as the outcomes on perceived relational value and loyalty.Methods: An empirical model from the patient’s point of view was designed and tested. Data were collected from 209 patients, who had attended public (10) and private (10) hospitals/clinics, and analyzed using the principles of structural equation modelling.Results: The results show that patients’ perception of trust-in-doctor/nurse is an antecedent of patient participation. Patient participation has positive effects on perceived patient relational value, and this subsequently affects patient satisfaction, affective commitment, and loyalty.Conclusions: The study shows that trust affects patient participation behaviour, and the outcome of this behaviour contributes to value creation and loyalty in service delivery. Managerial implication: Nurses and doctors who build trust and involve patients create relational value with them, which enable patients to experience satisfaction and commitment, and this leads to long term relationships with the hospital. The study indicates that building trust and promoting patient participation should be a strategic imperative for management. 

scholarly journals FACTORS IMPACTING TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS INCUBATOR PERFORMANCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950007 ◽  
Author(s):  
MUHAMMAD BINSAWAD ◽  
OSAMA SOHAIB ◽  
IGOR HAWRYSZKIEWYCZ
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Business Incubator ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Performance Map ◽  
Path Modelling ◽  
Map Analysis

Technology business incubators support economic growth by developing innovative technologies. However, assessing the performance of technology business incubators in Saudi Arabia has not been well recognised. This study provides a conceptual framework for assessing technology business incubators based on knowledge sharing practices and sharing, diffusion of innovation and individual creativity. Partial least squares structural equation modelling, such as (PLS-SEM) path modelling was used to test the model. The results provide empirical insights about the performance of technology business incubators. The findings show knowledge donation and collection has positive effects on technology business incubator. The importance–performance map analysis shows additional findings and conclusions for managerial actions.

scholarly journals Science Self-Concept – More Than the Sum of its Parts? A Comparison of Different Assessment and Modeling Approaches

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Schroeders ◽  
Malte Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
General Science ◽  
Theoretical Status ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Mean Structure ◽  
The Subject

Academic self-concept is understood as a multidimensional, hierarchical construct. Multidimensionality refers to the subject-specific differentiation of academic self-concepts, whereas hierarchy refers to the aggregation of more specific facets of self-concepts into more general ones. Previous research demonstrated that students distinguish between their self-concepts in biology, chemistry, and physics if taught as separate school subjects, as is done in Germany. However, large-scale international educational studies, such as PISA, often use a monolithic science self-concept measure. It is yet unclear whether an aggregate of subject-specific self-concepts is equivalent to a directly measured science self-concept. We assessed the subject-specific and and a general science self-concept of 1,232 German grade 10 students. A higher-order factor model and a bifactor model demonstrated a very high correlation between the “inferred” and the explicitly assessed general science self-concept. Despite the high empirical overlap, we argue for a more nuanced view of the science self-concept, because statistical unity is not to be confused with causal unity. Moreover, from a methodological perspective, we used multi-group confirmatory factor analysis to examine the mean structure and local weighted structural equation models to study measurement invariance across science ability. Implications for the theoretical status of self-concept as a hierarchical construct are discussed.

scholarly journals Examining Relationships between Education Abroad Program Design and College Students' Global Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Tara D. Hudson ◽  
Rachel Tomás Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Learning ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Education Abroad ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Post Test

Education abroad is a high impact practice that can lead to transformational learning because it challenges students emotionally and intellectually. However, differences in program design may have differential impacts on students’ learning. The purpose of this study was to understand the relationships between desi gn features of education abroad programs specifically, program duration and the extent of students’ engagement in learning and with local communities while abroad and participants’ pre test to post test growth in global learning, measured via the nationall y validated Global Perspective Inventory survey. Using structural equation models, we found program duration and frequency of engagement in certain learning and engagement abroad to have positive effects on participants’ growth, although the relationships varied depending on the dimension of global perspective being measured. Nonetheless, our results provide further support for the need tointentionally design education abroad programs that facilitate deep learning and community interaction in order to ensure student learning.

scholarly journals The do’s and don’ts of supervisor behavior. Supervisor personality as predictor for subordinate’s job insecurity and citizenship behaviors

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Petrisor ◽  
Laurentiu Maricutoiu ◽  
Florin Alin Sava
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Personal Variables ◽  
Primary Psychopathy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Supervisor Behavior

Supervisor behavior can be easily interpreted in a positive or negative key; therefore subordinates’ perceptions regarding their supervisor behavior can be biased by numerous personal variables. In the present study we collected data from 20 supervisors and 402 subordinates, and we investigated the relationships between these two perspectives. The supervisors completed two popular self-reported personality scales (i.e., a Big Five scale and a questionnaire that assessed psychopathic tendencies), while their subordinates responded to scales that assessed their level of job insecurity and their self-reported organizational citizenship behaviors. Our multilevel analyses indicated significant relationships between subordinates’ variables (i.e., job insecurity, organizational citizenship behaviors) and their managers’ agreeableness or their managers’ primary psychopathy. In addition, multilevel structural equation models confirmed that subordinates’ job insecurity partially mediated the relationship between supervisors’ primary psychopathy and subordinates’ citizenship behaviors. These findings confirmed the theoretical assumptions of the social learning theory, which anticipated the relationships between supervisors’ behaviors and employees’ behaviors.   

scholarly journals Understanding E-Commerce Consumers’ Repeat Purchase Intention: The Role of Trust Transfer and the Moderating Effect of Neuroticism

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeon Gyu Jeon ◽  
Cheong Kim ◽  
Jungwoo Lee ◽  
Kun Chang Lee
Keyword(s):  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Sem Analysis ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Global Model ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Trust Transfer ◽  
Repeat Purchase

The dominant position of e-commerce is especially being articulated in the retailing industry once again due to several constraints that the world faces in the COVID-19 pandemic era. In this regard, this study explores the significant role of trust transfer (from offline to online) and the moderating effect of consumers’ neurotic traits in the framework of trust-satisfaction-repurchase intention in the e-commerce context based on a survey with 406 Korean e-commerce consumers. Moreover, a prediction-oriented segmentation (POS) technique combined with structural equation models (SEM) was utilized to reveal consumers’ probable hidden heterogeneous characteristics. The outcomes of the global model SEM analysis indicate that offline-online trust transference occurs in e-commerce, and the conveyed trust significantly influences satisfaction and consumers’ repeat purchase intention through satisfaction. Neuroticism also has significant positive effects on trust transfer in the global model. However, results in three subgroups generated by POS show heterogeneous characteristics that considerably differed from the global model test results. The implications from this study will be beneficial to field practitioners in the e-commerce industry in addressing the importance of trust transfer, negative neurotic traits as well as heterogeneous aspects of consumers.

scholarly journals E-PROCUREMENT ADOPTION IN GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION: PREDICTING SOCIAL VALUES EFFECT ON INTENTION AND USAGE BEHAVIOR OF E-PROCUREMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hery Suliantoro ◽  
Imam Ghozali ◽  
Mochamad Agung Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Usage Behavior ◽  
The Government

The main purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the influence of social factorson the adoption of e-Procurement in government institutions. The research design used isa survey research. The theoretical model is empirically tested with data collected from 130work units involving 185 respondents from across the local government institutions in CentralJava, Indonesia. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. The results showthe influence of social values on the adoption of e-Procurement in government institutions.The study results sugest that volunteering based solidarity affects on usage behavior ofe-Procurement. This attitude is influenced by the social expectations of the individual againstthe social benefits of e-Procurement. Other findings, individuals who have a moderateattitude (compromise and permissive) are likely to have a low intention of the e-Procurement.This paper offers a model of development for the government adoption of e-Procurement ingovernment institutions through a participatory approach. Implementation of e-Procurementrequires the solidarity movement of individuals who voluntarily diffusing technology. Thispaper is a study on the adoption of e-Procurement in the public sector that involves socialfactors as the main determinants of technology in performing of adoption behavior. Thestudy's findings provide insight into the importance of the social benefits and social risk ininfluencing the adoption of e-Procurement.Keywords: E-Procurement; Volunteering; Solidarity; Social Risk; Social Expectancy.

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