Socio-Intercultural Entrepreneurship Capability Building and Development

2022 ◽  
pp. 118-137
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández ◽  
Jorge Armando López-Lemus
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Capability Building ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Culturally Embedded

This study aims to analyze the socio-intercultural entrepreneurship as capability building and development. The analysis departs from the assumption that entrepreneurship is a culturally embedded concept, although the intercultural category used in entrepreneurial studies has not found full conceptual, theoretical, and empirical support. Based on this existing research gap, this analysis reviews the literature to address the main issues of the socio-intercultural entrepreneurship focusing on the capability building and development to conclude that it is more situational in context and environmentally oriented. The methodologies used are the exploratory and analytical tools. Socio-intercultural entrepreneurship competence is highly related to be situational in context and environmentally dependent on awareness and understanding of cultural differences.

Socio-Intercultural Entrepreneurship Capability Building and Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 259-276
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Capability Building ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Analytical Tools

This study aims to analyze the socio-intercultural entrepreneurship as a capability building and development. The analysis departs from the assumption that entrepreneurship is a cultural embedded concept, although the intercultural category used in entrepreneurial studies has not been founded full conceptual, theoretical, and empirical support. Based on this existing research gap, this analysis reviews the literature to address the main issues of the socio-intercultural entrepreneurship focusing on the capability building and development to conclude that it is more situational context and environmentally oriented. The methodology used are the exploratory and analytical tools. Socio-intercultural entrepreneurship competence is highly related to situational context and environmentally dependent on awareness and understanding of cultural differences.

scholarly journals Digitalisation and Big Data Mining in Banking

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Hassani ◽  
Xu Huang ◽  
Emmanuel Silva
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
The Future ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Data Analytic

Banking as a data intensive subject has been progressing continuously under the promoting influences of the era of big data. Exploring the advanced big data analytic tools like Data Mining (DM) techniques is key for the banking sector, which aims to reveal valuable information from the overwhelming volume of data and achieve better strategic management and customer satisfaction. In order to provide sound direction for the future research and development, a comprehensive and most up to date review of the current research status of DM in banking will be extremely beneficial. Since existing reviews only cover the applications until 2013, this paper aims to fill this research gap and presents the significant progressions and most recent DM implementations in banking post 2013. By collecting and analyzing the trends of research focus, data resources, technological aids, and data analytical tools, this paper contributes to bringing valuable insights with regard to the future developments of both DM and the banking sector along with a comprehensive one stop reference table. Moreover, we identify the key obstacles and present a summary for all interested parties that are facing the challenges of big data.

scholarly journals Subnational Analysis of Economic Fitness and Income Dynamic: The Case of Mexican States

Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Castañeda ◽  
Juan Romero-Padilla
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Performance Criterion ◽  
Product Complexity ◽  
Predictive Capacity ◽  
Continuous Progress ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Subnational Analysis ◽  
Competitive Products ◽  
Analytical Tools

In recent years, analytical tools of network theory have provided strong empirical support to the well-known hypothesis that regions develop through the local learning of capabilities (tacit productive knowledge). In this paper, we compare two indexes of competitiveness (or accumulated capabilities) for a subnational database of 32 Mexican states in the period 2004–2014. We find that Endogenous Fitness (i.e., region fitness and product complexity are derived jointly using only a Mexican exports database) has a better performance than Exogenous Fitness (i.e., product complexity comes from a world exports database and fitness is the sum of the complexity scores for the region’s competitive products). The performance criterion is established with the indicator’s capacity to meet a requirement of growth predictability: the existence of at least one laminar (ordered) regime in the fitness–income plane. In the Mexican data, Endogenous Fitness is a reliable predictor of per capita GDP in two distinct areas of the plane: one of continuous progress and opportunities, and another of stagnation and deteriorating fitness. The predictive capacity of this indicator becomes clear only when the metrics’ calculations are filtered by removing raw petroleum or oil-dependent states, while such capacity is robust to the inclusion of tourism—another important industry of the Mexican economy.

scholarly journals The Trade Disruption Hypothesis Fails for State-Sponsored Genocides and Mass Atrocities: Why It Matters

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Anderton ◽  
Roxane A. Anderton
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Intrastate Conflict ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Weak Evidence ◽  
Mass Atrocity ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Expected Benefits ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Abstract Our research question is: Do state-sponsored genocides and mass atrocities disrupt trade? In the “conflict disrupts trade” literature there is substantial research on how interstate and intrastate conflict and terrorism affect trade, but very little research on the possible trade disruption effects of genocides and mass atrocities. Our work helps fill this research gap. We bring a suite of estimation methodologies and robustness checks to the question for a pooled sample of 175 countries for the time period 1970–2017. We also test for trade disruption individually for 26 countries that experienced genocide or mass atrocity. Unlike much of the “conflict disrupts trade” literature, we find little empirical support that genocide disrupts trade and at best weak evidence that mass atrocity disrupts trade. Our results have important implications for atrocity prevention policy; when potential atrocity architects evaluate the expected benefits and costs of carrying out atrocity, it seems that, in most cases, they need not worry about trade disruption costs. Our results also matter for empirical research on risk factors for genocides and mass atrocities, particularly for studies that hypothesize risk reduction properties associated with trade.

Contract design and supplier performance: an empirical investigation using multi-criteria, decision analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilias Vlachos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Contract Design ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Supplier Performance ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study aims to investigate how contract design influences supplier performance. This study synthesises three theoretical views (efficiency, relational, contingency) and provides empirical support on how effective contract design improves supplier performance.Design/methodology/approachThis study reviewed contract design literature and uncovered 18 factors that may impact supplier performance. Multi-criteria, decision-making analysis examined the impact of contract factors on three supplier groups: average-, over- and under-performers. Procurement experts working with a large multinational company dealing with hundreds of procuring contracts, yearly, provided their judgement on the impact of these factors on supplier performance. Semi-structured interviews with experts and other evidence were used for data and method triangulation.FindingsResults show that contracting with under- and over- performers presents significant differences: in the case of over-performers, contracts have a dual, yet discrete, efficiency and relational role: at transaction level, they emphasise formality, protect from opportunism and include both liquidated damages and legal action clauses. At relational level, they focus on relational learning and incentivising suppliers. However, in the case of under-performers, contracts appear to focus on contingency factors, which can be a source of ambiguity, particularly in complex environments, and trust, which has a negative impact on supplier performance.Social implicationsImproving contract design can help reduce partner opportunism, reduce inter-firm conflicts and avoid disputes that can bear a social cost. This study demonstrates that companies can use advanced analytical tools to reflect upon their own decision-making process of contact design in making transparent supplier performance assessments.Originality/valueTo the author’s knowledge, this is the first study using decision-making techniques to enhance supplier performance by improving the contract design process.

scholarly journals The Influence of Cultural Activity Types on Buyer-Seller Negotiations: A Game Theoretical Framework for Intercultural Negotiations

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula F. Ott
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Theoretical Reasoning ◽  
Activity Types ◽  
Clash Of Cultures ◽  
Culturally Embedded

AbstractThis article uses an intercultural bargaining framework to analyze cooperation and conflict between buyers and sellers in intercultural negotiations. On the basis of game theoretical reasoning, culturally embedded bargaining patterns are transformed into culturally determined strategies in intercultural negotiations. The cultural differences of the players can be seen in the initial offer, the strategic approach, the valuation of time, the frequency of rejection and the objectives of the negotiation. In order to provide prescriptions for cross-cultural bargaining, the clash of cultures is dealt with in nine scenarios to show potential conflicts and cooperation between the players.

scholarly journals Assessing the Importance of Internal and External Self-Esteem and Their Relationship to Honor Concerns in Six Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 462-485
Author(s):  
Yvette van Osch ◽  
Michael Bender ◽  
Jia He ◽  
Byron G. Adams ◽  
Filiz Kunuroglu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Invariance Testing ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Metric Invariance

We assessed empirical support for (a) the widely held notion that across so-called “honor, dignity, and face cultures,” internal and external components of self-esteem are differentially important for overall self-esteem; and (b) the idea that concerns for honor are related to internal and external components of self-esteem in honor cultures but not in dignity and face cultures. Most importantly, we also set out to (c) investigate whether measures are equivalent, that is, whether a comparison of means and relationships across cultural groups is possible with the employed scales. Data were collected in six countries ( N = 1,099). We obtained only metric invariance for the self-esteem and honor scales, allowing for comparisons of relationships across samples, but not scale means. Partly confirming theoretical ideas on the importance of internal and external components of self-esteem, we found that only external rather than both external and internal self-esteem was relatively more important for overall self-esteem in “honor cultures”; in a “dignity” culture, internal self-esteem was relatively more important than external self-esteem. Contrary to expectations, in a “face” culture, internal self-esteem was relatively more important than external self-esteem. We were not able to conceptually replicate earlier reported relationships between components of self-esteem and the concern for honor, as we observed no cultural differences in the relationship between self-esteem and honor. We point toward the need for future studies to consider invariance testing in the field of honor to appropriately understand differences and similarities between samples.

Background and CIT-S Overview

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Amy Weisman de Mamani ◽  
Merranda McLaughlin ◽  
Olivia Altamirano ◽  
Daisy Lopez ◽  
Salman Shaheen Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Expressed Emotion ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Communication Training ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
Culture History ◽  
Intersecting Identities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Foundational Research ◽  
Cultural Gaps

Chapter 2 describes the foundational research from which it is based and introduces the main outline and goals of culturally informed therapy for schizophrenia (CIT-S). The chapter begins by introducing the history of family therapy for people with schizophrenia, its empirical support, and the cultural gaps that limited its generalizability in early clinical trials. Notable predictors of wellness (e.g., expressed emotion, collectivism, religion/spirituality, and ethnic pride) are reviewed, and relevant cultural differences are explored. The research reviewed provides the framework for the five modules of CIT-S (family collectivism, psychoeducation, spirituality, communication training, and problem-solving) and its session structure. Clinicians are encouraged to not only build their own knowledge of culture, history, and religion/philosophy but also to recognize the unique variance within each family and to be open to the varied intersecting identities that will influence and provide richness to their sessions.

Cognitive gadgets: A provocative but flawed manifesto

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Del Giudice
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Evolutionary Approach ◽  
Genetic Inheritance ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Cherry Picking ◽  
Dichotomous Thinking

Abstract The argument against innatism at the heart of Cognitive Gadgets is provocative but premature, and is vitiated by dichotomous thinking, interpretive double standards, and evidence cherry-picking. I illustrate my criticism by addressing the heritability of imitation and mindreading, the relevance of twin studies, and the meaning of cross-cultural differences in theory of mind development. Reaching an integrative understanding of genetic inheritance, plasticity, and learning is a formidable task that demands a more nuanced evolutionary approach.

In situ TEM studies of irradiation effects for materials improvement

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 452-453
Author(s):  
Charles W. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Reactor ◽  
Austenitic Stainless Steels ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
In Situ Tem ◽  
Irradiation Effects ◽  
Tem Analysis ◽  
Radiation Induced ◽  
Analytical Tools

Irradiation effects studies employing TEMs as analytical tools have been conducted for almost as many years as materials people have done TEM, motivated largely by materials needs for nuclear reactor development. Such studies have focussed on the behavior both of nuclear fuels and of materials for other reactor components which are subjected to radiation-induced degradation. Especially in the 1950s and 60s, post-irradiation TEM analysis may have been coupled to in situ (in reactor or in pile) experiments (e.g., irradiation-induced creep experiments of austenitic stainless steels). Although necessary from a technological point of view, such experiments are difficult to instrument (measure strain dynamically, e.g.) and control (temperature, e.g.) and require months or even years to perform in a nuclear reactor or in a spallation neutron source. Consequently, methods were sought for simulation of neutroninduced radiation damage of materials, the simulations employing other forms of radiation; in the case of metals and alloys, high energy electrons and high energy ions.

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