Entrepreneurs’ Networking Styles and Normative Underpinnings during Institutional Transition

Existing network research has mainly adopted functional and/or structural approaches to study the instrumental goals behind entrepreneurs’ networking as well as the influence of personal position on access to resources and eventual performance. The variety of entrepreneurs’ networking styles and their normative underpinnings have not been adequately explored. Contextualized in China, this study asks: How do entrepreneurs’ understandings of social norms shape their networking styles? Through an inductive comparison of two entrepreneur generations in China, we identify three networking styles: guanxi-oriented networking, market-based networking, and mixed networking. We theorize that three types of norms shape these styles: market-inferred norms, dyadically formed norms, and identity-induced norms. This study provides new insights into the understanding of Chinese entrepreneurs’ distinctive networking styles and their normative underpinnings. Further, it suggests implications both for the wider study of entrepreneurs’ networking behaviors in transition economies, and for practitioners wishing to enhance their network building in China.

Proprietary and open source collections management systems: two case studies

This thesis is comprised of two case studies on the selection and implementation of systems Mimsy XG at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and AtoM and Islandora at Ryerson University’s Archives and Special Collections. These studies highlight the changes cultural heritage institutions are currently undergoing to digitally structure, manage, and access collections data by using a relational collections management system (CMS). The findings show that the success of a CMS is largely determined by the type of cultural heritage institution implementing it (archives, libraries, and museums), the types of collections within that organisation, in addition to institutional mandates and requirements. The ways in which a CMS platform answers these requirements through the data model and proprietary or open-source implementations determine the outcome of an institutional transition to a CMS.

Proprietary and open source collections management systems: two case studies

This thesis is comprised of two case studies on the selection and implementation of systems Mimsy XG at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and AtoM and Islandora at Ryerson University’s Archives and Special Collections. These studies highlight the changes cultural heritage institutions are currently undergoing to digitally structure, manage, and access collections data by using a relational collections management system (CMS). The findings show that the success of a CMS is largely determined by the type of cultural heritage institution implementing it (archives, libraries, and museums), the types of collections within that organisation, in addition to institutional mandates and requirements. The ways in which a CMS platform answers these requirements through the data model and proprietary or open-source implementations determine the outcome of an institutional transition to a CMS.

From Impasse to Improvisation: Grand Paris Express as a Negotiation Agent in a Fragmented Metropolis

This article examines a conflict between two narratives for the future development of Greater Paris – the 'just city' versus the 'global city' – embodied in two competing regional rail proposals, one put forward by the Regional Council and the other by the French State. The first, Arc Express, was developed by Regional Council to reduce existing territorial inequity. A counterproposal, the Grand Huit, was formulated by the French state to serve a network of new economic clusters. A political impasse between these conflicting plans, though a prelude to broader institutional transition, empowered new actors in the negotiation of metropolitan planning. It also engendered experimental tools, such as collective territorial development agreements, with which local stakeholders leveraged the state's agenda to achieve their own objectives and gained greater metropolitan citizenship.

Application of project management in the process of implementing Russia's institutional transition to the digital economy

Subject/Topic. Article is devoted to study of methodological support of application of project management in process of implementation of institutional transition of Russia to digital economy. Methodology. In the process of writing the article, general scientific methods were used (for example, retrospective and chronological analysis, synthesis, deduction), and special economic methods (for example, SWOT analysis, PEST analysis, Foresight tools). To study the process of formation of project management in the Russian Federation, taking into account the rapid development of the digital economy, we used problem-chronological and historical-genetic methods of scientific knowledge, as well as expert methods. Results. Based on the results of the research, methodological approaches to the application of project management were revealed, the features of foreign and domestic business models were described, and the factors-drivers and barriers to the development of project management practices in the processes of forming the digital economy of Russia were analyzed. Separately, the authors prepared a comparative analysis of possible trajectories for the development of digital economics, taking into account global challenges and threats of a planetary scale. Conclusions/Significance. As part of the scientific study, the importance of applying the project management methodology in the implementation of the processes for the formation of the digital economy of the Russian Federation was proved, the main business models for the implementation of the project management were revealed, taking into account the national priorities and interests of Russia, a forecast of possible scenarios for the development of the paradigm of project thinking in the formation of the digital economy in world centers was prepared: USA, EU, Russia. Application. The results of the scientific study will be useful both for educational purposes for students and readers interested in the application of project management in the digital economy, and for practitioners who plan to use the project management methodology in managing the business model of the organization, taking into account the current challenges and threats of the emerging digital economy.