scholarly journals Entrepreneurial decisions: Insights into the use of support services for new business creation

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Ammetller ◽  
I. Rodriguez-Ardurab ◽  
J. Llados-Masllorens
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Utilization Of Services ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Business Creation ◽  
New Business

This research presents an integrative model about the use of those services that have been specifically designed to support entrepreneurial initiative. By contrast with conventional perspectives from the entrepreneurship field, mainly drawn from a resource-based view, we propose a two-fold approach to explain the utilization of services that are oriented to new business creation: by considering the role of resources within the start-up's reach (internal and external); by incorporating a behavioral and decision-making approach. On the basis of the suggested decision-making framework, a multi-stage decision model is developed and tested by means of a representative sample of entrepreneurs linked to a local development agency. The results show that the adoption and use of support services for new business creation is a complex and reflexive process, triggered by the entrepreneur's internal forces.The entrepreneur searches for information throughout the process and, with assistance from internal teams and external networks, evaluates the choices of businesssupport services. Our findings offer relevant implications and recommendations for business incubators and institutions.

Toward a Perspective on R&D Outsourcing: RBV and Firm Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (05) ◽  
pp. 1850040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne W. Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
The Impact

This paper looks at the vital role of industrial research and development (R&D). The increased outsourcing of industrial R&D is contrasted with a resource-based view of competitive advantage which maintains capabilities that are valuable, rare, imitable, and non-substitutable (VRIN), and should be internalized in the firm. Traditional business formation literature is also supportive of keeping R&D “inhouse”. R&D outsourcing research is leveraged to posit possible reasons for the increased amount of outsourced R&D. Testable propositions are included that look at factors for R&D outsource decisions and also the impact of these decisions on firm performance. An R&D entropy statistic is introduced as well as several R&D characteristics useful in the decision-making process to create R&D.

scholarly journals Head Teachers’ Perceptions regarding their role in Educational and Administrative Decision Making

sjesr ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-209
Author(s):  
Mr. Abdul Haseeb Mujahid ◽  
Dr. Tahira Kalsoom ◽  
Dr. Afifa Khanam
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Head Teachers ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Difference

The study aimed to explore head teachers’ perceptions regarding their role in educational and administrative decision making in schools at secondary level. The role of head teacher in school administration is very important thus the researchers tend to study head teachers’ perceptions regarding their role in such matters. In Pakistan public schools are administered through a strong hierarchal administrative system but the head teachers are responsible for day to day matters so it is important to study their perceived role in administration. Quantitative research method was used and survey research technique was applied to collect the data. Self-reported questionnaire was used as a tool of data collection. Multi stage sampling technique was used and sample was selected conveniently. Mean score for each statement was calculated and t test was applied to find out the difference in perception on the basis of different demographical variables. No significant difference was found in the head teachers’ perceptions regarding their role.

The dynamic nature of innovation partnering: a longitudinal study of collaborative interorganizational relationships

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassandra Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Interorganizational Relationships ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Business Creation ◽  
Ex Ante ◽  
New Business ◽  
Real Practice ◽  
The Relationship

This paper provides insights into the initiation and early development of collaborative interorganizational relationships (IORs) for innovation and new business creation. Data were gathered from field observations of three ongoing collaborative IORs. A conceptual framework previously developed by Ring and Van de Ven served as a means of restructuring and analyzing the data. The results reveal an emergent process that is dependent on the comparative achievements in negotiation, commitment, and execution. Three organizational practices were identified: volatile agreements, continuous reevaluation and reorganization through real practice, and a process wherein “co‐participants” were challenged to work on their relationships. The limited prospects of specifying agreements ex ante, combined with continuous variation in conditions, entail active management and continuous re‐design of the relationship. This suggests that managers play the role of the architects of relational linkages.

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

The Role of Shared Decision-Making in Audiologic Rehabilitation

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Pryce ◽  
Amanda Hall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Treatment Information ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Audiologic Rehabilitation

Shared decision-making (SDM), a component of patient-centered care, is the process in which the clinician and patient both participate in decision-making about treatment; information is shared between the parties and both agree with the decision. Shared decision-making is appropriate for health care conditions in which there is more than one evidence-based treatment or management option that have different benefits and risks. The patient's involvement ensures that the decisions regarding treatment are sensitive to the patient's values and preferences. Audiologic rehabilitation requires substantial behavior changes on the part of patients and includes benefits to their communication as well as compromises and potential risks. This article identifies the importance of shared decision-making in audiologic rehabilitation and the changes required to implement it effectively.

School Success and School Engagement of Immigrant Children and Adolescents

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi ◽  
Ann S. Masten
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
School Success ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
The Individual

Academic achievement in immigrant children and adolescents is an indicator of current and future adaptive success. Since the future of immigrant youths is inextricably linked to that of the receiving society, the success of their trajectory through school becomes a high stakes issue both for the individual and society. The present article focuses on school success in immigrant children and adolescents, and the role of school engagement in accounting for individual and group differences in academic achievement from the perspective of a multilevel integrative model of immigrant youths’ adaptation ( Motti-Stefanidi, Berry, Chryssochoou, Sam, & Phinney, 2012 ). Drawing on this conceptual framework, school success is examined in developmental and acculturative context, taking into account multiple levels of analysis. Findings suggest that for both immigrant and nonimmigrant youths the relationship between school engagement and school success is bidirectional, each influencing over time the other. Evidence regarding potential moderating and mediating roles of school engagement for the academic success of immigrant youths also is evaluated.

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