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Cycling Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 568

Cycling Science

Finally, the authoritative resource that serious cyclists have been waiting for has arrived. The perfect blend of science and application, Cycling Science takes you inside the sport, into the training room and research lab, and onto the course. A remarkable achievement, Cycling Science features the following: • Contributions from 43 top cycling scientists and coaches from around the world • The latest thinking on the rider-machine interface, including topics such as bike fit, aerodynamics, biomechanics, and pedaling technique • Information about environmental stressors, including heat, altitude, and air pollution • A look at health issues such as on-bike and off-bike nutrition, commo...

Dynamics of Big Internet Industry Groups and Future Trends
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Dynamics of Big Internet Industry Groups and Future Trends

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-31
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book applies a new analytical framework to the study of the evolution of large Internet companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Samsung. It sheds light on the dynamics of business groups, which are approached as ‘business ecosystems,’ and introduces the concept of Epigenetic Economic Dynamics (EED), which is defined as the study of the epigenetic dynamics generated as a result of the adaptation of organizations to major changes in their respective environments. The book augments the existing literature on evolutionary economic thinking with findings from epigenetics, which are proving increasingly useful in analyzing the workings of large organizations. It a...

Public Procurement for Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

Public Procurement for Innovation

This book focuses on Public Procurement for Innovation. Public Procurement for Innovation is a specific demand-side innovation policy instrument. It occurs when a public organization places an order for a new or improved product to fulfill certain need

Cycling Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 568

Cycling Science

Authoritative, yet accessible, this guide provides the latest on science and technology from the world’s top cycling coaches and researchers. Comprehensive and cutting edge, coverage includes the rider–machine interface, environmental stressors, health issues, the planning of training programs, racing techniques, and more.

Current Trends in Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Orientation, Intention, and Alertness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Current Trends in Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Orientation, Intention, and Alertness

Business consulting, knowledge absorptive capacity, and innovativeness: A triangular model for micro and small enterprises in Poland Abstract PURPOSE: This paper proposes a triangular relationship between business consulting, knowledge absorptive capacity, and innovativeness. The role of knowledge absorptive capacity in stimulating the impact of business consulting on innovativeness is studied. METHODOLOGY: An empirical study is conducted using the CATI method, and it is based on data concerning 382 Polish micro and small enterprises. Qualitative variables reflecting using business consulting, knowledge absorptive capacity and innovativeness are defined. The multivariate discrete choice mode...

Entrepreneurship and innovation in the age of digital transformation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Entrepreneurship and innovation in the age of digital transformation

PURPOSE: Explore what entrepreneurship and success factors can help drive business to resilience and stability and achieve competitive advantage through innovation in different countries and business realities in the era of digital transformation and turbulent times. METHODOLOGY: Based on the narrative literature review, we present research findings concerning new strategies and outlooks for business innovation in times of many unknowns. Each organization wants to find its way to gain success and create its unique business model, which can capture value creation and innovativeness and be more adaptive, resilient, and stable in critical moments and sustainable over time. FINDINGS: The article...

Financial Ecologies Framed by Fintech
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Financial Ecologies Framed by Fintech

Financial technologies are understood as ICT-based financial innovations and business entities based on these innovations (Lai & Samers, 2021; Langley & Leyshon, 2021; Wójcik, 2021b). Like other technological innovations, Fintech not only influences technical parameters of products and services, but also transforms the economic organization of firms and industries (Baldwin, 2020; Sanchez & Mahoney, 2013). ICT solutions in the financial sector complement the existing services (e.g., payment platforms), substitute human work and tangible assets (e.g., robo-advisers), and generate new solutions (e.g., mobile wallets). Furthermore, Fintech transcends borders and geographical frontiers, as exemp...

Quantitative Research in Economics and Management Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Quantitative Research in Economics and Management Sciences

In this thematic issue of the Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, entitled Qualitative Research in Economics and Management Sciences, the authors used many quantitative methods and research models, e.g. SEM, PLS-SEM, or probit models (Table 1). Each of these approaches is characterized by methodological rigor and an assessment of the reliability and validity of the research instruments used. Pini and Tchorek (2022) analyze the determinants of exports in two European, culturally related countries, such as Italy and Poland, using an econometric and probit model, which implies a normal distribution of errors and is adapted to binary responses (excluding size and age variable...

Weathering the Storm: Innovation-Driven Human Resource Management Practices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 191

Weathering the Storm: Innovation-Driven Human Resource Management Practices

Innovation-driven human resource management practices: A systematic review, integrative framework, and future research directions Abstract PURPOSE: It is increasingly emphasized that human resource management practices (HRMP), which refer to recruiting and selection, training and development, compensation and performance appraisal, are of great importance for creating innovation. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that traditional HRMPs are already insufficient, which entails the need to rethink and reformulate them in the direction of more effective innovation while also allowing organizations to survive COVID-19-like crises. While there is an extensive literature on human resources m...

Contemporary Research in the Field of Entrepreneurship, Management, and Innovation: Regular Issue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

Contemporary Research in the Field of Entrepreneurship, Management, and Innovation: Regular Issue

Transnational water resource management in the Karawanken/Karavanke UNESCO Global Geopark; From transition management towards just transition and place-based governance. Τhe case of Western Macedonia in Greece; University students’ entrepreneurial intentions during COVID-19: The perspective of social cognitive career theory; An innovative approach to support interests' alignment in the context of transport management using semantic differential; Technological innovation and the labor market: The two-way non-reciprocal relationships with a focus on the confectionery industry in Poland