Faculty of Business
http://hdl.handle.net/10679/4
2024-03-28T09:36:55Z
2024-03-28T09:36:55Z
Combining big data and lean startup methods for business model evolution
Seggie, S. H.
Soyer, Emre
Pauwels, K. H.
http://hdl.handle.net/10679/9313
2024-03-25T10:22:14Z
2017-12-01T00:00:00Z
Combining big data and lean startup methods for business model evolution
Seggie, S. H.; Soyer, Emre; Pauwels, K. H.
The continued survival of firms depends on successful innovation. Yet, legacy firms are struggling to adapt their business models to successfully innovate in the face of greater competition from both local and global startups. The authors propose that firms should build on the lean startup methodology to help adapt their business models while at the same time leveraging the resource advantages that they have as legacy corporations. This paper provides an integrated process for corporate innovation learning through combining the lean startup methodology with big data. By themselves, the volume, variety and velocity of big data may trigger confirmation bias, communication problems and illusions of control. However, the lean startup methodology has the potential to alleviate these complications. Specifically, firms should evolve their business models through fast verification of managerial hypotheses, innovation accounting and the build-measure-learn-loop cycle. Such advice is especially valid for environments with high levels of technological and demand uncertainty.
2017-12-01T00:00:00Z
An expectancy model of green product consumption and green brand equity
Arıkan, Ramazan Hamza
Jiang, C.
http://hdl.handle.net/10679/9305
2024-03-22T07:55:12Z
2018-01-01T00:00:00Z
An expectancy model of green product consumption and green brand equity
Arıkan, Ramazan Hamza; Jiang, C.
Drawing from the expectancy theory, this paper proposes a model of green product consumption and green brand equity. Consumers’ green product evaluation results in some expectations regarding their consumptions. These expectations are categorized in material and ethical outcomes and are ensued by the instrumentality effect. This effect is reflected in the possession rewards for material outcomes and in the moral rewards for ethical outcomes. Green product consumption and green brand equity is contingent on the weighted valence of the respective rewards. The paper is the first study to examine green product consumption and green brand equity from an expectancy theory perspective. © 2018, Academy of Marketing Science.
2018-01-01T00:00:00Z
High-performance work systems and organizational performance across societal cultures
Dastmalchian, A.
Bacon, N.
McNeil, N.
Steinke, C.
Blyton, P.
Kumar, M. S.
Bayraktar, Seçil
Auer-Rizzi, W.
Ahmad, A.
Craig, T.
Isa Ghazali Bin Musa, C. R. B.
Habibi, M.
Huang, H. J.
Imer, P.
Ayman, I.
Kabasakal, H.
Meo Colombo, C.
Moghavami, S.
Mukherjee, T.
Tang, N.
Thang, T. N.
Varnali, R.
http://hdl.handle.net/10679/9302
2024-03-21T13:00:55Z
2018-01-01T00:00:00Z
High-performance work systems and organizational performance across societal cultures
Dastmalchian, A.; Bacon, N.; McNeil, N.; Steinke, C.; Blyton, P.; Kumar, M. S.; Bayraktar, Seçil; Auer-Rizzi, W.; Ahmad, A.; Craig, T.; Isa Ghazali Bin Musa, C. R. B.; Habibi, M.; Huang, H. J.; Imer, P.; Ayman, I.; Kabasakal, H.; Meo Colombo, C.; Moghavami, S.; Mukherjee, T.; Tang, N.; Thang, T. N.; Varnali, R.
This paper assesses whether societal culture affects the relationship between human resource management practices and organizational performance. Drawing on matched employer-employee data from 387 organizations and 7,187 employees in 14 countries, the findings show a positive relationship between high-performance work systems (HPWS) and organizational performance across societal cultures. This relationship was not moderated by three dimensions of societal culture (power distance, in-group collectivism, and institutional collectivism) as proposed by contingency models of culture fit. However, further examination of three dimensions of human resource systems (skill-enhancing, motivation-enhancing, and opportunity-enhancing practices) revealed that opportunity-enhancing practices appear less effective in high power distance cultures. The findings provide general support for the universalistic ‘best practice’ perspective with regard to the positive relationship between HPWS and organizational performance, tempered by an appreciation of the limitations to opportunity-enhancing practices in high power distance cultures.
2018-01-01T00:00:00Z
Fragile transitions from education to employment Youth, gender and migrant status in the EU
Çelik, Ç.
Gökşen, F.
Filiztekin, Orhan Alpay
Öker, İ.
Smith, M.
http://hdl.handle.net/10679/9301
2024-03-14T21:31:39Z
2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
Fragile transitions from education to employment Youth, gender and migrant status in the EU
Çelik, Ç.; Gökşen, F.; Filiztekin, Orhan Alpay; Öker, İ.; Smith, M.
N/A; The current economic crises incredibly enhanced the destandardisation of life course and made the transitions among the passages riskier. It has made those who share perilous social locations in social space more vulnerable. This chapter concentrates on the intersectionality of youth, migrant and gender statuses across various welfare regimes in the European Union and analyses how these regimes respond to the growing destandardisation process for this group, particularly in school-to-work transitions. It reveals that young migrant women are negatively affected in each of the welfare regimes analysed. Universal regimes, mainly characterised by an institutionalised vocational education training and strong counselling support, perform relatively well in facilitating school-to-work transitions of different vulnerable groups. The chapter concludes that the inequality in school-to-work transitions is strongly associated with broader structural issues and, therefore, comprehensive approaches, rather the policies targeting singular areas, are needed.
2019-01-01T00:00:00Z