scholarly journals Governance of the Owner-Managed Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Māris Millers
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Over Time

The Doctoral Thesis examines how understanding of small and medium-sized enterprises, concept of owner-manager and government practices have evolved and changed over time. Empirical study on governance of owner-managed SMEs has been carried out, and research data have been analyzed using methods of statistical and visual analysis. A new typology of SME owners-managers, SME profiling based on governance approaches, and methodology that SME owners and managers can use to analyze and develop their businesses is developed in this work.

The process of transfer: The micro-influences of power, time and learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Peter Dolowitz ◽  
Rodica Plugaru ◽  
Sabine Saurugger
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Dynamic Effects ◽  
Governance Framework ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Hospital Construction ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Over Time

To date, there have been a number of studies that have examined how policies move from one jurisdiction to another. However, few of these studies have examined the micro-interactive effects of actors. This is necessary to understand how actors shape outcomes over time. The aim of this paper is to engage with this micro-level literature through an empirical study of policy transfer in the field of architectural norms in hospital construction in post-Soviet states. To do this, we generate several theoretical assumptions to link the transfer literature to wider debates in the governance framework. The goal is to discover how the power of actors interacts in the policymaking processes to influence outcomes over time and in light of learning. What we hope to do is bring the interactive and dynamic effects that occur between agents attempting to shape the transfer process back into the transfer picture. The aim is to show that power flows and that these flows alter the shape and outcome of the transfer process.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of Holiday Season Discounts: A Comparison Between Third-Party Marketplace Sellers and Fulfilled by Walmart Sellers

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110241
Author(s):  
Ya-Ling Chiu ◽  
Yuan-Teng Hsu ◽  
Xiaoyu Mao ◽  
Jying-Nan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Product Categories ◽  
Price Discounts ◽  
Online Retailers ◽  
Holiday Season ◽  
Over Time

When online retailers allow third-party sellers to place certain products on their platforms, these sellers become not only collaborators but also competitors. The purpose of this study is to compare the differences in price discounts between Third-Party Marketplace (3PM) sellers and Fulfilled by Walmart (FBW) sellers on Walmart.com over time. The results, based on data collected in the form of the daily prices of 54,162 products offered by Walmart during the holiday season, show that the average discount for 3PM sellers is significantly lower than that for FBW sellers. In addition, across product categories, FBW sellers had significantly higher average discounts than 3PM sellers in the electronics, housewares, and toys categories. Furthermore, the level of discount began to increase in early November and peaked around Christmas. Our findings may help retailers manage their dealings with these third-party sellers while also helping consumers to optimize their purchasing decisions.

scholarly journals The Open Data Challenge: An Analysis of 124,000 Data Availability Statements and an Ironic Lesson about Data Management Plans

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-568
Author(s):  
Chris Graf ◽  
Dave Flanagan ◽  
Lisa Wylie ◽  
Deirdre Silver
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Trends Over Time ◽  
New Research ◽  
Over Time

Data availability statements can provide useful information about how researchers actually share research data. We used unsupervised machine learning to analyze 124,000 data availability statements submitted by research authors to 176 Wiley journals between 2013 and 2019. We categorized the data availability statements, and looked at trends over time. We found expected increases in the number of data availability statements submitted over time, and marked increases that correlate with policy changes made by journals. Our open data challenge becomes to use what we have learned to present researchers with relevant and easy options that help them to share and make an impact with new research data.

scholarly journals La investigación en pensamiento histórico. Un estudio a través de las tesis doctorales de Ciencias Sociales (1995-2020)

Panta Rei ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-147
Author(s):  
Álvaro Chaparro Sainz ◽  
María del Mar Felices de la Fuente ◽  
Laura Triviño Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Systematic Search ◽  
Search Process ◽  
Analysis Program ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Statistical Analysis Program ◽  
Over Time

Este artículo analiza la evolución de la investigación sobre pensamiento histórico a partir de las tesis doctorales nacionales e internacionales de los últimos veinticinco años. Para ello, se ha seguido un proceso sistemático de búsqueda en las principales bases de datos a nivel mundial, que ha reportado un total de 163 tesis doctorales. Estos trabajos se han analizado desde un enfoque metodológico cuantitativo descriptivo, con el programa de análisis estadístico SPSS y la herramienta Voyant Tools. Los resultados nos ofrecen información acerca del número de investigaciones realizadas, su evolución en el tiempo, los países, idiomas y universidades de mayor producción, y las principales temáticas trabajadas. Concluimos que, pese al aumento de las tesis doctorales sobre pensamiento histórico en los últimos años, continúan existiendo vacíos en la investigación apenas abordados. In this article the evolution of research on Historical Thinking is analyzed based on national and international dissertations defended in the last twenty-five years. For this, we have followed a systematic search process in the main databases worldwide, which has reported a total of 163 dissertations. These works have been analyzed from a descriptive quantitative methodological approach, with the SPSS statistical analysis program and the Voyant Tools tool. The results offer us information about the number of researches carried out, their evolution over time, the countries, languages and universities with the highest production, and the main topics studied. We conclude that, despite the increase in doctoral thesis on Historical Thinking in recent years, there are still research gaps that have hardly been studied.

Discussion

2011 ◽  
pp. 316-331
Author(s):  
Peter Busch
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
It Knowledge ◽  
Skilled Staff ◽  
Over Time

One must, after reading the above two quotes, make up one’s own mind as to the composition of tacit knowledge, for it seems Cavusgil et al., (2003) are certainly not discussing the same tacit knowledge as von Krogh et al. (2000). The tacit knowledge studied herein is more akin to that discussed by the latter set of authors, that is to say a form of knowledge that is passed through what Nonaka and colleagues have labelled socialisation in intimate person to person settings. In time the organisation builds up a stock of such soft knowledge, which is lost when staff leave and not replaced again either until further skilled staff arrive, or the ones remaining acquire it through experience over time. Whilst earlier work in this empirical study examined the phenomenon of tacit knowledge in depth (including a multitude of definitions as revealed in Appendix A), what was ultimately settled upon for the empirical research in this study was that of articulable implicit managerial IT knowledge.

scholarly journals Coastal landscape changes pattern due to natural disasters in Pelabuhanratu District, West Java

2019 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Mufidah Tartila ◽  
Supriatna ◽  
Masita Dwi Mandini Manessa ◽  
Yoanna Ristya
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Overlay Analysis ◽  
Landscape Changes ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Over Time

The concept of landscape is known to be always changing dynamically because of its attachment to natural and human activities that continue to grow over time. The aim of this study is to identify landscape changes from 2010 to 2018 which are associated with natural disaster events. Coastal area is the study target on landscape changes due to natural disasters. The research took place in Pelabuhanratu District, Sukabumi Regency which is known for its varied geomorphological form and its natural disaster events occurrence including coastal floods, flash floods, and landslides. The research data was processed using ArcGIS 10.4.1 and ENVI 5.1 software. Data verification was done by field surveys in the study area. The method of this study is an overlay analysis and explained in the term of spatial dan descriptive concept. The landscape of Pelabuhanratu District is dominated by volcanic landforms and vegetation cover. The total area experiencing landscape changes is 44.47 km2 of the district total area of 91.91 km2 and major changes are involving alteration of land cover area.

scholarly journals “Pocketing” Research Data? Ethnographic Data Production as Material Theorizing

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Christine Neubert ◽  
Ronja Trischler
Keyword(s):  
Research Data ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Data Production ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Temporal Dimensions ◽  
A Company ◽  
Over Time

We analyze the relations between ethnographic data and theory through an examination of materiality in research practices, arguing that data production is a form of material theorizing. This entails reviewing and (re-)applying practice-theoretical discussions on materiality to questions of ethnography, and moving from understanding theory primarily as ideas to observing theorizing in all steps of research practice. We introduce “pocketing” as a heuristic concept to analyze how and when ethnographic data materializes: the concept defines data’s materiality relationally, through the affective and temporal dimensions of practice. It is discussed using two examples: in a study on everyday architectural experience where ethnographic data materialized as bodies affected by architecture; and in a study on digital cooperation where research data’s materialization was distributed over time according to the use of a company database. By conceptualizing data’s materiality as practice-bound, “pocketing” facilitates understanding the links between data and theory in ethnographic data production.

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