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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202208.0130.v1

Investigating Value Co-creation in Crowdsourcing: The Revelatory Case of the Shield

Hee Rui He, Xingnan Zhang, Dian Jing

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: crowdsourcing; value co-creation; business sustainability; stakeholder

Online: 8 August 2022 (04:09:12 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0427.v1

Financial Stability and Corporate Sponsors and Their Influences on the Success of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon and the Marathon Valencia Trinidad Alfonso

Juan L. Paramio-Salcines, Ramón Llopis-Goig

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: City Marathons; financial stability; corporate sponsors; the Bank of America Chicago Marathon; Marathon Valencia Trinidad Alfonso

Online: 28 July 2022 (03:14:14 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0102.v1

Absorptive Capacity, Strategic Flexibility, Bricolage, and Product Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Chinese SMEs

Luo Kuankuan, Liming Zhang

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: strategic flexibility; bricolage; absorptive capacity; product innovation; SMEs

Online: 7 July 2022 (03:38:22 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0294.v1

Offices after the COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Perception of Flexible Office Space

Matus Barath, Dusana Alshatti Schmidt

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: work environment; employers; office space; remote work; COVID-19

Online: 21 June 2022 (10:31:48 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0039.v1

Performance Management in the Virtual Workplace During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Luca Parisi, Ruijiao Wang, Renfei Ma

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Performance Management; COVID-19; Virtual Workplace; Trust-Based Working; Business Continuity; Pandemic

Online: 3 June 2022 (09:50:49 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202205.0261.v1

Green Behavior: Factors Influencing Behavioral Intention and Actual Environmental Behavior of Employees in the Financial Service Sector

Joachim Paul Hasebrook, Leonie Michalak, Anna Wessels, Sabine Koenig, Stefan Spierling, Stefan Kirmsse

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: environmental behavior; financial industry; employee survey; behavioral acceptance; intention-behavior-gap

Online: 19 May 2022 (11:39:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202205.0182.v1

Tourism Sustainability Index: Measuring Tourism Sustainability Based on the ETIS Toolkit, by Exploiting Tourist Satisfaction via Sentiment Analysis

Damiano De Marchi, Rudy Becarelli, Leonardo Di Sarli

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Tourism; Measuring sustainability; Tourist satisfaction; E-reputation; Sustainable development; Sentiment analysis; ETIS; Open data; Geospatial Index

Online: 13 May 2022 (07:58:47 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202205.0032.v1

Digitalisation Affecting Sustainability Evidence from the European Union

Aurelija Burinskienė, Milena Seržantė

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: digitalisation; sustainability; sustainable development goals; European Union; regression equations

Online: 5 May 2022 (10:24:13 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202203.0407.v1

Impact of Big Data Analysis on Health

Albérico Travassos Rosário, Joana Carmo Dias

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: big data analytics; healthcare; data technologies; decision making; information management; EHR

Online: 31 March 2022 (12:24:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0282.v1

Enjoying the heat? Co-creation of stakeholder benefits and sustainable energy development within projects in the geothermal sector

David Cook, Ingibjörg Karlsdóttir, Inga Minelgaite

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Project management; geothermal; co-benefits; sustainable development; innovation, operationalization

Online: 19 January 2022 (16:08:41 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0524.v1

Barriers for Renewable Energy Technologies Diffusion: Empirical Evidence from Finland and Poland

Oskar Juszczyk, Juliusz Juszczyk, Sławomir Juszczyk, Josu Takala

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: renewable energy; technology diffusion; innovation management; energy policy; sustainable development; European Union (EU); barriers

Online: 31 December 2021 (13:54:01 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0510.v1

Transforming the German Food System – How to Make Start-ups Great!

Kathrin Ludwig, Adriano Profeta, Alexander Märdian, Clemens Hollah, Maud Helene Schmiedeknecht, Volker Heinz

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: start-up; innovation ecosystem; food system; transformation; Germany; food science; entrepre-neurship; food technology; sustainable development goals; learning from other countries

Online: 31 December 2021 (11:14:06 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0411.v1

The Coordination of Multi-Stage Discounts in a Dual Channel Fresh Agricultural Pro-duce Supply Chain: Minimizing the Loss of Quantity and Quality

Xiaojing Zheng

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Fresh Agricultural Produce Supply Chain; Coordination; Discount Contract; Quantity Loss

Online: 24 December 2021 (15:56:11 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0383.v1

Relevant Information for the Accountability of Private Institutions of Social Solidarity: Results from a Fieldwork

Helena Inácio, Alberto J. Costa, Ana Maria Bandeira, Augusta Ferreira, Brízida Tomé, Carla Joaquim, Carlos Santos, Cristina Góis, Deolinda Meira, Denise Curi, Graça Azevedo, Mafalda Jesus, Maria Goreti Teixeira, Patrícia Monteiro, Rúben Duarte, Rui Pedro Marques

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Accountability; Management; Non-Profit Organisations; Social Economy; Social Solidarity Institutions; Transparency.

Online: 23 December 2021 (11:32:17 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202110.0312.v1

Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things in Industrial Management

Ricardo Raimundo, Albérico Travassos Rosário

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Cyber Security; Internet of Things

Online: 21 October 2021 (14:01:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202107.0088.v2

Determinants of Internationalization as Levers for Sustainability: A Study of the Portuguese Pharmaceutical Sector

Jorge Vieira, Rui Frade, Raquel Ascenso, Filipa Martinho, Domingos Martinho

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: pharmaceutical industry; internationalization determinants; internationalization strategy; levers for sustainability

Online: 24 August 2021 (11:53:44 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0417.v1

Resilient Safety Culture and Safety Performance: Examining the Effect in Malaysian Paramedic Training Institute through Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA)

Intan Suraya Noor Arzahan, Zaliha Ismail, Siti Munira Yasin

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Safety Performance; Safety Culture; Resilience Culture; Paramedic; Training Institute; IPMA; PLS-SEM.

Online: 20 August 2021 (13:44:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0396.v1

Energy Global Governance in a Philosophical Perspective

Waldemar Czajkowski, Barbara Przybylska-Czajkowska

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: globalization; Spaceship Earth; regulation

Online: 19 August 2021 (10:29:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0310.v1

Performance and Challenges in the Value Chain of the Anadara Tuberculosa Bivalve Mollusk in Ecuador

Eveligh Prado-Carpio, María de Lourdes Olivo-Garrido, Manuel Quiñonez-Cabeza, Christine M. Beitl, Moisés Martínez-Soto, Carlos Rodríguez-Monroy

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Ecuador; American Pacific; Bivalve mollusks; Concha prieta; Value chain; Productivity; Quality-of-life; Competitiveness, Mangrove forest.

Online: 14 August 2021 (15:51:30 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0271.v1

The Impact of New Technologies on Wages in Colombia: An Analysis With the 2018 Quality-of-Life Survey

Fernando Barrios Aguirre, Martha Patricia Castellanos Saavedra, Diana Maritza Álvarez Ovalle, Nancy Milena Riveros Chávez

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Technological skills; wages

Online: 12 August 2021 (09:19:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202107.0088.v1

Determinants of Internationalization as Levers for Sustainability: A Study of the Portuguese Pharmaceutical Sector

Jorge Vieira, Rui Frade, Raquel Ascenso, Filipa Martinho, Domingos Martinho

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: pharmaceutical industry; internationalization determinants; internationalization strategy; levers for sustainability

Online: 5 July 2021 (10:17:43 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202106.0193.v1

European Green Deal and Recovery Plan: green jobs, skills and wellbeing economics

Martín García-Vaquero, Antonio Sánchez-Bayón, José Lominchar

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: European Green Deal; Recovery Plan; Green Jobs; Skills; Wellbeing Economics.

Online: 7 June 2021 (15:47:01 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202106.0123.v1

Life After Oil – Teaching Indonesia’s Energy transition

Ariel Macaspac Hernandez, Yudhi Timor Bimo Prakoso

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: sustainable energy, Indonesia, transformation to sustainability, energy transition, renewable energies

Online: 4 June 2021 (08:12:20 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202105.0249.v1

Role of Local Institutions in Rural Tourism Development in Dazhai Community, Guilin, China

LiuMei Huang

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Dazhai; local institutions; rural tourism; local development

Online: 11 May 2021 (15:00:54 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202103.0099.v1

Economic Risk Assessment of Climate Change at the Urban Scale: The Case of Cape Town, South Africa

Martin de Wit, Jonty Rawlins, Belynda Petrie

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Economic risk assessment, capital-based framework, six-capital framework, climate response, climate adaptation, urban resilience

Online: 2 March 2021 (15:47:00 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202102.0250.v1

Measuring Customer Service Experience in Offline and Online Retail Environments

Kuo-Ming Chu

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Customer Service Experience; Multichannel Retailing; Customer Journeys; Customer Equity

Online: 10 February 2021 (10:25:58 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0803.v1

The Green Business & Sustainable Development School – A Case Study for an Innovative Educational Concept to Prevent Big Ideas from Failure

Jan Nicolai Hennemann, Bernd Draser, Katarina Repkova Stofkova, Christa Liedtke

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: educational concept; green business school; new green deal; interdisciplinary capacity and movement building; green failure; young generation collaboration network; prevent big ideas from failure, theory U, science and action-based research, design thinking

Online: 31 December 2020 (12:44:11 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202011.0403.v1

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Travel Supply Chain: A Literature Review

Eneko Ibarnia, Lluís Garay, Antonio Guevara

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Travel Supply Chain; Tourism Intermediaries; SME; Large Corporations; Motivations

Online: 16 November 2020 (08:59:03 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202010.0505.v1

Making Sense of the Sharing Economy: A Category Formation Approach

João Miguel Cotrim, Francisco Nunes, Rafael Laurenti

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Sharing Economy; Category Formation; Emergence; Social Movement; Similarity Clustering; Truce; Radial Category; Identity Legitimation; Stakeholders; Business Models.

Online: 26 October 2020 (08:50:38 CET)

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The Sharing Economy (SE) has dawn great attention from several stakeholders in society in the last five years. While business actors are interested in financial opportunities to meet consumer needs, new business models, the academia and governmental organizations are concerned with potential unintended effects on the society and environment. In the process of making a clearer comprehension of the SE phenomenon, researchers have identified that, despite its notable global growth, there still persists a lack of a more solid ground in understanding its origins and respective mechanisms under which it has been evolving over time as a category. In this research, we address the problematics of the origins and ascendency of the SE by examining the process by which the SE is arising as a new category, searching for conceptual clarification and pinpointing the legitimacy granted by key stakeholders. Our guiding research questions are: (1) how the SE was formed and evolved as a market category; and (2), as a market category, is the SE legitimate? Additionally, we attempt to identify the nature of the SE as a category. To answer these questions, we conducted an historical analysis of the expression SE and its equivalents. This paper deepens the discussion about the nature of the SE by providing evidence that (i) the SE has predominantly been formed by emergence processes, comprising social movement, similarity clustering and truce components. It is the combination of all these aforementioned processes that renders the SE a special case of market category formation, which, in turn, has been allowing communication, entrepreneurship, regulation and research about what really is the SE, and despite the evident lack of agreements regarding both the label and its content; (ii) there is a generalized legitimacy granted to the SE by a vast number of stakeholders, even though still lacking on the consolidation of socio-political legitimation, and (iii) the nature of the SE seems to fall in a metaphorical approach, particularly, the notion of radial categories.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202010.0044.v1

Trade in Scrap Materials: Looking Beyond Plastics

Henrique Pacini, Jennifer Golbeck

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Scrap; waste; materials; trade; resource flows; embedded emissions; circular economy

Online: 2 October 2020 (13:56:05 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0431.v1

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Sustainability Practices: A Comparative Automated Content Analysis Approach of Theory and Practice

Vasja Roblek, Oshane Thorpe, Maja Meško, Mirjana Pejic Bach, Andrej Jerman

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: sustainability; Industry 4.0; automated content analysis; sustainable investment; corporate social responsibility; sustainable standards; sustainable reporting; smart manufacturing; renewable energy; cleaner production

Online: 18 September 2020 (11:11:47 CEST)

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Background (1) In the time of the 4th Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0, a conglomerate of technical and social inventions, political contexts, socio-cultural circumstances, environmental policies, business models, and economic policies has emerged. Sustainability policy in theory and practice aims to deal with the effects of all these factors and to try to make decisions that ensure both social and economic development sustainably. The question is how to familiarize oneself with the current knowledge about the relationship between Industry 4.0 and sustainability?; (2) Methods: This research utilizes an automated content analysis method to analyses scientific journals, newspapers and magazines. The comparison of results of both research group shows that the scientific literature focuses more on changes in business models, production processes and technologies that enable sustainable development; (3) We found that the scientific literature focuses more on changes in business models, production processes and technologies that enable sustainable development. Newspapers and magazines articles write more about sustainable or green investment, sustainable standards and sustainable reporting. Newspapers and magazines articles write more about sustainable or green investment, sustainable standards and sustainable reporting. Newspapers, as well as some latest research journals, include articles of the COVID-19 outbreak and its effect on the economy and the environment. Indeed, the outbreak of the virus brings a new thought to the reorganization of the complex relationships between consumers, businesses and the state; (4) Conclusions: According to the comparison of the analyses of the results, it can is that the analyses of both types of literature, both scientific and professional, shows that there are common topics they write about, which are related to the field of clean production, emissions, renewable energy, climate change, sustainable investments and corporate sustainability. An urgent global issue that extends all over the world is the promotion of energy-saving technologies and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.

Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0165.v1

Narrative Study of Shariah Hospitals in Indonesia: A Review of Islamic Brand Communities Innovation for Health Care

Wahyu Sulistiadi, Sri Rahayu, Meita Veruswati, Al Asyary

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Shariah; hospital; healthcare; management; Islam

Online: 7 September 2020 (10:52:33 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0522.v1

The Impact of Social Factors on Job Crafting: A Meta-analysis and Review

Huatian Wang, Peikai Li, Shi Chen

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: job crafting; meta-analysis; leadership; social factors

Online: 24 August 2020 (09:52:46 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0488.v1

Renewable Energy Startups and SME

Roshani Goel

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: renewable energy; startups; affordability; current condition; future potential

Online: 22 August 2020 (03:34:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0250.v1

The Effect of Simmelian Ties on Innovation Performance of High-Tech Enterprises: Based on Knowledge Perspective

Fengshu Li, Ranran Zhou

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Simmelian ties, enterprise innovation performance, knowledge capturing, knowledge integration, network routines

Online: 11 August 2020 (04:17:39 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0675.v1

“Mobility as a Service” Platforms: Using Digitalization to Increase the Sustainability of Transportation Systems

Carlos Oliveira Cruz, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: MaaS; Urban mobility; Digitalisation

Online: 28 July 2020 (10:20:32 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0441.v1

Influence of Non-Governmental Organizations on Corporate Sustainability Practices. Towards an Institutional-Legitimacy Perspective

Lamin B. Ceesay

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Sustainability reporting; NGOs; stakeholder theory; Africa; NGO participation

Online: 19 July 2020 (20:46:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202005.0497.v1

Nexus between Product Innovation and Enterprise Survival: Impact of Competitive Intensity and Competitive Advantage

Lin Lu Zhou, James Onuche Ayegba, Peace Maina James, Emmanuel Onu Ayegba, Xin jie Zhang, Arielle Doris Tetgoum Kachie

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Product innovation; enterprise survival; competitive intensity; competitive advantage

Online: 31 May 2020 (19:45:30 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202005.0231.v1

The Dilemmas Selection of Anti-Crisis Economic Strategy in Forestry and the Wood-Based Sector in the Perspective of a Long-Term Pandemic Threat – the Case of Poland

Leszek Wanat, Rafał Czarnecki, Władysław Kusiak, Elżbieta Mikołajczak, Łukasz Sarniak, Jan Sikora, Marek Wieruszewski

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: forestry; wood-based sector; anti-crisis economic strategy; pandemic crisis; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Poland

Online: 14 May 2020 (06:15:23 CEST)

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Forestry and the wood-based sector, including the wood industry, which is an important element of economic systems and a source of budget revenues for many countries in the world, found itself in the first quarter of 2020 in a situation of a serious threat of a prolonged crisis as a consequence of the pandemic. In this perspective, it is necessary to review existing sector strategies and look for new solutions to ensure first survival, then functioning and finally development of entities forming the wood market. In the scientific research, which is the subject of this work, an attempt was made to multi-criteria analysis of the selection of the optimal anti-crisis strategy for actors from forestry and the wood-based sector in the face of a pandemic. Preparatory studies were conducted on the example of Poland, where both forestry and the wood industry belong to the dominant sectors of the economy, conducting them at the turn of March and April 2020. The research was referred to the primary wood raw material market in Poland, which is the main link in the value chain, created first by the dominant owner: Państwowe Gospodarstwo Leśne "Lasy Państwowe" - the “State Forests” National Forest Holding (SFNFH), and then forest service entrepreneurs, to entities representing the wood industry. The work uses a concept modified for the purposes of the author's research scenario, based on the method of multi-criteria hierarchical analysis AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). The best possible decision was to be searched that would allow the selection of the optimal anti-crisis strategy for enterprises - actors of the sector concerned. Based on the collected results and their expert discussion, recommendations for sectoral policy for forestry and the wood-based sector were then formulated. The proposed solutions are located against the background of a dispute between the concept of institutional intervention and a model taking into account the effects of market factors. The work is both cognitive (optimization and adaptation of the research method) and practical up-to-date. An accurate development strategy for forestry and the wood-based sector is urgently needed and necessary to implement as quickly as possible.

Working Paper ARTICLE

Airlines Baggage Price Optimization Model

Mikhail A. Andreev, Konstantin P. Kovalev, Elizaveta I. Krudova, Dmitriy Okhrimenko, Sergey A. Titov, Daria A. Wijler

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: WTP; price adjusting; price optimization; airlines; bag- gage price; optimization model

Online: 29 April 2020 (10:19:54 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0384.v1

"Just Culture" From the Perspective of Nursing Personnel

Małgorzata Wiśniewska, Piotr Grudowski, Ewa Marjańska

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: quality; just culture; patient safety; nurses; hospital; measuring instrument validation

Online: 26 March 2020 (07:24:55 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0359.v1

A Systematic Review of Contract Farming, and Its Impact on Broiler Producers in Lebanon

Rodrique Kozhaya

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: contract farming; broiler producers; economic sustainability

Online: 24 March 2020 (11:58:03 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0372.v1

Responsible Research and Innovation in Enterprises: Benefits, Barriers and the Problem of Assessment

Lukasz Nazarko

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Responsible Research and Innovation; responsibility; innovation; assessment; Technology Assessment; foresight

Online: 29 December 2019 (07:33:46 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0321.v1

Integration, Application and Importance of Collaboration in Sustainable Project Management

Johan Larsson, Lisa Larsson

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: sustainability; project management; collaboration; business arrangement; maintenance; infrastructure

Online: 24 December 2019 (11:25:09 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0152.v1

Is Amending Section 25 of the South African Constitution an End to the Land Reform Debate?

Joseph Lekunze, Usapfa Luvhengo

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: land expropriation; intra-racial tension; social cohesion; political and traditional elitism; marginalised landless majority

Online: 11 December 2019 (11:38:36 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0362.v1

Extending the Models of Employee Turnover to Include External Drivers such as Client-related Factors: A Multi-country, Qualitative Assessment

Katrina Radford, Amber L. Stephenson

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: employee retention; employee turnover; client embeddedness; human resource management

Online: 28 November 2019 (11:22:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0192.v1

Towards Sustainable Entrepreneurship Holistic Construct

Agnieszka Konys

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: sustainable entrepreneurship (SE); sustainable entrepreneurship construct; SE factors; SE enablers

Online: 16 November 2019 (14:35:57 CET)

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In the recent years, conducted businesses have been increasingly expected to obtain more sustainable forms, with many added determinants. Indeed, sustainability-related entrepreneurship still faces complex choices among conventional entrepreneurial factors while being urged to consider three main pillars of sustainability. Thus, this work is focused on the development of a sustainability-related entrepreneurship by reflecting the sustainable needs of an entrepreneurship. Due to the fact that it is not clear for the sustainability-related entrepreneurship what the valuable and most influential factors stimming its development are, the detection of the underpinning building blocks that properly adapting within each factor and how these factors correlate with each other become a major motivation of this work. Therefore, this paper aims to conduct an attempt to identify comprehensive set of SE (Sustainable Entrepreneurship) factors providing a structural overview in making insights into the factors/determinants of SE. It assists researchers and entrepreneurs in obtaining clear informative pictures about SE factors. The applied research methodology is based on a systematic literature review which is conducted using the PRISMA methodology, simultaneously ensuring repetitiveness and lack of bias in this process. To retrieve and condense the immense amount of bibliographic information, a bibliometric analysis is adopted to perform in co-occurrence analysis of keywords determining SE factors and detailed different forms of distribution analysis. The expected outcome is to provide the classification schema of applied keywords in sustainable entrepreneurship literature as part of a comprehensive literature review, which is presented in order to uncover, classify and systematize the current research. As a result, a co-word matrix of high frequency keywords of SE factors is also established. It offers a feasible path of investigation for researchers aiming to build a consistent body of knowledge about sustainable entrepreneurship, by providing a conceptualization and systematization that can be applied across the many contexts in which sustainable entrepreneurship is expressed, for example sustainable actions and sustainable development contexts. The present research aims to yield a successful attempt of identifying comprehensive set of SE factors, as well as to establish a co-word matrix of high frequency keywords of SE factors. Providing a macroscopic overview of the main factors of SE in the form of conceptualization of the proposed construct will capture the unique organizational characteristics of sustainable enterprises and facilitate the research into capability building, innovation and competitive advantage in sustainable enterprises. It supports both researchers and entrepreneurs in shaping up and refining future research activities and investments in line with the policy of SE.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0091.v1

Quality Criteria to Evaluate Performant and Scope of 2030 Agenda in Metropolitan Areas: Case Study on Strategic Planning of Environmental Municipality Management

María de Fátima Poza-Vilches, José Gutiérrez-Pérez, María Teresa Pozo-Llorente

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: 2030 Agenda; strategic planning; quality criteria

Online: 8 November 2019 (08:11:50 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0066.v1

Rethinking the Way of Doing Business: A Reframe of Management Structures for Developing Corporate Sustainability

Thaís Vieira Nunhes, Merce Bernardo, Otávio José Oliveira

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: corporate sustainability; sustainable management; business sustainability; literature review; content analysis

Online: 6 November 2019 (13:52:44 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0058.v1

Towards a Set of Guidelines for the Development of Robust Water-sharing Systems

Michael Young

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: water rights; robustness; water governance; water scarcity; water allocation; water accounting; water trading; water sharing

Online: 6 November 2019 (10:43:15 CET)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0366.v1

An Ontological and Semantic Foundation for Safety and Security Science

Peter Blokland

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: ontology; semantics; safety; security; risk; performance; definitions; concepts; safety science; ISO 31000

Online: 31 October 2019 (09:36:29 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0047.v1

The Dali Model in Risk Management Practice: The Case on Financial Services Firms

Rebecca Dalli Gonzi, Simon Grima, Murat Kizilkaya, Jonathan Spiteri

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: change management; decision-making model; risk management; resource management; process improvement; good governance

Online: 4 October 2019 (10:42:05 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0151.v1

Analysis of Factors Giving the Opportunity for Implementation of Innovations on the Example of Manufacturing Enterprises in the Silesian Province

Henryk Wojtaszek, Ireneusz Miciuła

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: innovation; innovative activities; analysis of factors; production enterprises

Online: 13 August 2019 (07:34:13 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0053.v1

Sustainability, Innovation and Rural Development: The Case of Parmigiano-Reggiano Pdo

Filippo Arfini, Federico Antonioli, Elena Cozzi, Michele Donati, Marianna Guareschi, Maria cecilia Mancini, Mario Veneziani

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: sustainability, innovation, local agri-food system, rural development

Online: 3 July 2019 (09:09:02 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0138.v1

The Common Good Balance Sheet, an Adequate Tool to Capture Non-Financials?

Christian Felber, Vanessa Campos, Joan Ramon Sanchis

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: corporate sustainability; economy for the common good; stakeholders theory; shared value; corporate social responsibility.

Online: 15 June 2019 (03:12:57 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0113.v1

Analysis of the Relationship Between Organizational Entrepreneurship and the Performance of Qom Telecom Center with the Role of Moderating Perceived Environmental Factors

Mohammad Karehvand

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: entrepreneurship; organizational entrepreneurship; organization performance; risk-taking; innovation; environmental factors

Online: 13 June 2019 (08:01:52 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201905.0348.v1

Social Entrepreneurship in the Conduct of Responsible Innovation: Analysis Cluster in Mexican SMEs

Irene Liliana Bahena-Álvarez, Eulogio Cordón-Pozo, Alejandro Delgado-Cruz

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: social entrepreneurship; responsible innovation; sustainable management; Mexican SMEs.

Online: 29 May 2019 (10:44:35 CEST)

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Working Paper REVIEW

Review on Leader Member Exchange Theory: Antecedent and The Effect on Employee Performance

Mohamad Arrasyid, Amaliyah Amaliyah, Moses Pandin

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Leader-Member Exchange; Characteristics of Task; Employee Performance

Online: 15 May 2019 (12:16:12 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201905.0008.v1

Strengthening Tourists’ Engagement in Guided Hiking and Trekking

Wolfgang Leister

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: hiking; trekking tours; engagement; outdoor leadership; soft skills; informal learning

Online: 3 May 2019 (16:20:03 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201904.0317.v1

The Role of Marketing in Cultural Institutions in the Context of Assumptions of Sustainable Development Concept—The Example of Poland

Magdalena Sobocińska

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: marketing concept; cultural institutions; sustainable development; cultural offer diversity; culture consumer

Online: 28 April 2019 (11:39:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201904.0042.v1

A Model of Performance Measurements on Management Basis in the Local Government Agencies, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia

Hamsinah Djaing, Sangkala Rewa, Liesda Dachlan

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: performance-based management; performance measurement; good governance; local government; public agency

Online: 3 April 2019 (11:27:59 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201903.0079.v1

Ensuring U.S. Biomedical Research Sustainability through Organizational Development, Quality Management, and Systems Approaches: A Review and Conceptual Framework

Steven Forrester

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Systems Management, Biomedical Research Policy, Organizational Development, Quality Management

Online: 6 March 2019 (11:42:47 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201903.0072.v1

Corporate-NGO Partnerships through Sustainability Labeling Schemes: Motives and Risks

Sylvaine Poret

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Cross-Sector Alliance; Firm Strategies; Nongovernmental Organizations; Sustainability Labels

Online: 6 March 2019 (10:46:18 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201902.0188.v1

Territorial Competitiveness Revisited from the Resource-Based View: A Comparative Study in the Wind Energy Sector on Islands

Francisco Santana-Sarmiento, Francisca Rosa Álamo-Vera, Petra De Saá-Pérez

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Resource-based view, regional competitiveness, renewable energy, wind power, island

Online: 20 February 2019 (10:59:22 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0109.v1

The Role of Information Technology on Management of Risks in the Capital Market (Case Study: Companies Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange)

Adele Sadat Fatemi, Ali Sabbaghian

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Information Technology, Risk Primary Market, Secondary Market Risk, Non-Financial Risks, Risk Management

Online: 11 January 2019 (10:45:25 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0102.v1

The Role of Renewable Energy, Public Health Expenditure, Logistics and Environmental Performance in Economic Growth: An Evidence from Structural Equation Modelling

Syed Abdul Rehman Khan

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: renewable energy; economic growth; public health expenditure; carbon emissions; FDI inflows; green logistics

Online: 11 January 2019 (04:39:42 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0314.v1

From Individual Resource to Social Capital: The Mechanism of How Political Skill Affect Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention

Yi Li, Mengqiu Ma

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: political skill; job satisfaction; turnover intention; popularity; positive affect; negative affect

Online: 26 December 2018 (12:16:31 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0269.v1

On the Environmental and Social Sustainability of Urban Bus Transport Practices: The EU Case

Cristina López, Rocío Ruíz-Benítez, Carmen Vargas-Machuca

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: city logistics; environmental sustainability; social sustainability; urban bus transport; IPA; AHP

Online: 24 December 2018 (05:09:11 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0556.v2

Smart Systems Implementation in UK Food Manufacturing Companies – A Sustainability Perspective

Andrew Thomas, Claire Haven-Tang, Richard Barton, Rachel Mason-Jones, Mark Francis, Paul Byard

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: food manufacturing; digital hub; sustainability profile; smart systems; survey

Online: 11 December 2018 (07:31:51 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0556.v1

Smart Systems Implementation in UK Food Manufacturing Companies – A Sustainability Perspective

Andrew Thomas, Claire Haven-Tang, Richard Barton, Rachel Mason-Jones, Mark Francis, Paul Byard

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: food manufacturing; digital hub; sustainability profile; smart systems; survey

Online: 23 November 2018 (03:31:24 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0418.v1

Negative Outcomes of Individual Spatial Distance Reductions in Urban Environments: A Theoretical Analysis of Entropic Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Toxic Organizations in Urban Deconstruction

David A. L. Coldwell

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: entropy; toxic organizations; entropic organizational citizenship behaviour; management

Online: 19 November 2018 (05:15:24 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0241.v1

Profiling Leadership Performance of Fisheries Village’s Leaders in Terengganu, Malaysia

Mohd Yusri Ibrahim, Mohammad Mahdi Abas, Noor Rohana Mansor, Nurul Ain Chua Abdullah, Roswati Abdul Rashid, Sharifah Muzdalifah Syed Ahmad, Isma Rosila Ismail, Mat Rahimi Yusof

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: leadership; community leadership; job performance

Online: 9 November 2018 (04:37:32 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0090.v1

Social Customer Relationship Management and Organizational Characteristics

Katerina Kantorová, Pavel Bachmann

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: customer relationship management (CRM); social media; social CRM; customer information; small and medium enterprises (SMEs)

Online: 5 November 2018 (08:31:42 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0511.v1

Making Virtue Out of Necessity: Managing the Citrus Waste Supply Chain for Bioeconomy Applications

Maria Raimondo, Francesco Caracciolo, Luigi Cembalo, Gaetano Chinnici, Biagio Pecorino, Mario D'Amico

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Bio-economy; Agricultural by-product; Horizontal coordination; Contract mechanism; Choice model; Waste valorization

Online: 22 October 2018 (16:11:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0419.v1

Organizational Climate and Work Style: The Missing Links for Sustainability of Leadership and Satisfied Employees

Massoud Moslehpour, Purevdulam Altantsetseg, WeiMing Mou, Wing-Keung Wong

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: job satisfaction (JS); work style (WS); leadership style (LS); organizational climate (OC); register office; Mongolia

Online: 18 October 2018 (11:49:18 CEST)

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Purpose - The purpose of the study is to investigate the missing link between leadership style and job satisfaction among Mongolian public sector employees. This study reiterates the mediating role of organizational climate (OC) and work style (WS) in a new proposed model. Methodology - The questionnaire is designed by a synthesis of existing constructs in the current relevant literature. The research sample consisted of 143 officers who work in the primary and middle units of territory and administration of Mongolia. Factor analysis, reliability test, collinearity test, and correlation analyses confirm validity and reliability of the model. Multiple regression analysis, using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), tests the hypotheses of the study. Practical implications - This study has several important implications for studies related to organizational behavior and job satisfaction. Furthermore, the implications of findings are beneficial to organizations aiming at improving policies and practices related to organizational behavior and human resource management. Regulators and supervisors of private or public organizations aiming to increase the level of their employees’ job satisfaction will also benefit from the findings. Therefore, this study’s new proposed model can be the basis of fundamental research to build a better human resource policy. Although leadership style is an influential factor for job satisfaction, this study identifies the mediating missing links between leadership style and employees’ job satisfaction. Findings: The findings of this research indicate that organizational climate and work style complement and fully mediate the relationship between leadership style and job satisfaction. Appropriate leadership style is most effective when it matches organizational climate as well as employees’ work style. Furthermore, suitable organizational climate will increases the level of job satisfaction. If work style of employees is respected and taken into consideration, leadership style can find its way into job satisfaction. Originality/value - This study is the first to understand the motivators of job satisfaction in government sector of Mongolia. This study suggests valuable findings for executive officers, junior and primary unit’s officers of register sector of government in Mongolia. The findings of this study help managers and executives in their effort to develop and implement successful human resource strategies.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0373.v1

Selected Aspects of the Entrepreneurial Process in Small Innovative Companies – Novice and Habitual Entrepreneurs

Jarosław Ropęga

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: habitual entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial process; novice entrepreneurs

Online: 17 October 2018 (06:07:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0078.v1

Structure and Conditions for the Functioning of the Polish-Czech Cross-Border Market of Cultural Services

Łukasz Wróblewski

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Cieszyn - Český Těšín, participation in culture, consumer behaviour, cross-border cooperation, market for cultural services

Online: 4 October 2018 (14:47:47 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0355.v1

Examining the Impact of Workplace Spirituality and Procedural Justice on Work Locus of Control, Employee Job Satisfaction, and Employee Organisational Commitment

Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri, Miston Mapuranga, Nkosivile Welcome Madinga

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Workplace spirituality; procedural justice; Work Locus of Control, Employee Job Satisfaction; Employee Organisational Commitment

Online: 18 September 2018 (14:32:10 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0235.v1

Sustainable Adaptation of New Technology — The Case of Humanoids Used for the Care of Older Adults

Joanna Ejdys, Katarzyna Halicka

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: humanoids; robots; ageing population; elderly; attitude; future intention

Online: 13 September 2018 (11:38:28 CEST)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0194.v1

Innovation Through Coopetition: Future Directions and New Challenges

Valentina Della Corte

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: coopetition, innovation

Online: 11 September 2018 (11:44:46 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0422.v1

Advantages and Disadvantages of Warehouse Centralization - Hospital Case

Jorge Simões, Jorge Cartaxo, Ruben Loureiro, Bruno Santos, Silvio Silva

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Logistics; Logistical Centralization; Logistical Decentralization

Online: 23 August 2018 (23:37:23 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0335.v1

Conceptual Framework for Assessing Organization’s Readiness to Big Data Adoption

Celina M. Olszak, Maria Mach-Król

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: big data; maturity model; temporal analytics; advanced business analytics

Online: 18 August 2018 (11:05:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0573.v1

Sustainability of Cardamom Comparative Advantage In Central Java Province, Indonesia

Aulia Qonita, Erlyna Riptanti, Rhina Uchyani

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: cardamom commodity; sustainability of cardamom; comparative advantage

Online: 30 July 2018 (09:46:48 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0296.v1

Science-sustainability Transformational Paradox: An Interdisciplinary and Inter-Institutional Analysis

Tariq H. Malik, Huo Chunhui

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Chinese National science-sustainability paradox; Interdisciplinary and inter-institutional analysis; Environmental science mediating the energy science for sustainability; Chinese environmental science versus the American energy science

Online: 16 July 2018 (15:31:02 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0342.v1

How to Avoid Pigeonholing the Environmental Manager ?

Julien Boucher, Clotilde Jenny, Zara Plummer, Gerhard Schneider

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: Environmental Manager, Maturity, Ecodesign, Environmental Decoupling

Online: 21 June 2018 (15:35:39 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0010.v3

Sustainability as Source of Competitive Advantages in Mature Sectors: The Case of Ceramic District of Sassuolo (Italy)

Davide Settembre-Blundo, Fernando E. García-Muiña, Martina Pini, Lucrezia Volpi, Cristina Siligardi, Anna Maria Ferrari

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: sustainability; competitive advantage, Sassuolo tile ceramic district; Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA); Italian ceramic industry; meso-economic level; interpretative method

Online: 13 June 2018 (09:49:25 CEST)

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Talking about sustainable development refers mainly to the environmental sphere, but the concept is much broader and also takes into account the social and economic conditions. The concept of sustainability, in this sense, is linked to the compatibility between the development of economic activities, the related social phenomena, and the protection of the environment. Therefore, the ability to balance social, economic and environmental sustainability is the very meaning of the concept of sustainable development. Firms that choose to develop policies and strategies to enhance and pursue sustainable development in the medium to long term have the burden of having to quantitatively document the improvements in production processes with the aim of sustainable development. As a result, one of the biggest challenges for European industry is to introduce sustainability principles into business models leading to competitive advantage. This is particularly important in raw material and energy intensive manufacturing sectors such as the ceramic industry. The present state of knowledge lacks a comprehensive operational tool for industry to support decision-making processes geared towards sustainability. In the ceramic sector, the economic and social dimensions of the product and processes have not yet been given sufficient importance. Moreover, the traditional research on industrial districts lacks an analysis of the relations between firms and the territory with a view to sustainability. Finally, the attention of scholars in the field of economic and social sustainability, has not yet turned to the analysis of the Sassuolo district. Therefore, in this paper we introduce the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), as a method that can be a suitable tool to fill this gap, because through a mathematical model it is possible to obtain the information useful for decision makers to integrate the principles of sustainability both at the microeconomic level in enterprises, and at the meso-economic level for the definition of economic policies and territorial governance. Environmental and socio-economic analysis was performed from the extraction of raw materials to the packaging of the product on different product categories manufactured by the Italian ceramic industries of the Sassuolo district (northern Italy). For the first time the LCSA model, usually applied to unitary processes, is extended to the economic and industrial activities of the entire district, extending the prospect of investigation from the enterprise and its value chain to the integrated network of district enterprises.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0007.v1

Investigating the Links of Interpersonal Trust in Telecom Companies in Poland

Helena Bulińska-Stangrecka, Anna Bagieńska

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: interpersonal trust; sustainable organizations; competences; relations; cooperation

Online: 1 June 2018 (08:00:45 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0366.v1

Using Objective Data Analysis to Construct and Evaluate NBA Players' Value Model

Che-Wei Chang

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: NBA; player’s value; entropy; multi-attribute decision-making; player’s value matrix; value positioning model

Online: 25 May 2018 (12:00:44 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0312.v1

The Role of SMEs’ Green Business Models in the Transition to a Low- Carbon Economy: Differences in Their Design and Degree of Adoption Stemming from Business Size

María A. Quintás, Ana I. Martínez-Senra, Antonio Sartal

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: green business models; decarbonization; SMEs; Size

Online: 23 May 2018 (05:36:46 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0232.v1

Green Innovation, Green Entrepreneurial Orientation and Supply Chain Learning: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in China

Ying Guo, Lifang Wang, Yan Xie

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: green entrepreneurial orientation; supply chain learning; green innovation entrepreneurship; inter-organizational learning; learning capacity; technology innovation

Online: 16 May 2018 (11:09:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0010.v2

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) of Sassuolo Industrial District (Italy)

Davide Settembre-Blundo, Fernando E. García-Muiña, Martina Pini, Lucrezia Volpi, Cristina Siligardi, Anna Maria Ferrari

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: sustainability; Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA); Sassuolo industrial district; Italian ceramic industry; meso-economic level; interpretative method

Online: 3 May 2018 (11:35:10 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0010.v1

Territorial Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (T-LCSA) of Sassuolo Industrial District (Italy)

Davide Settembre-Blundo, Fernando E. García-Muiña, Martina Pini, Lucrezia Volpi, Cristina Siligardi, Anna Maria Ferrari

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: sustainability; Territorial Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (T-LCSA); Sassuolo industrial district; Italian ceramic industry; meso-economic level; interpretative method

Online: 1 May 2018 (12:04:34 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0010.v1

The Wolf and The Caribou: Coexistence of Decentralized Economies and Competitive Market

Dr. Andreas Freund, Danielle Stanko

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: blockchain; cryptocurrency; decentralization; ecosystems; game theory

Online: 2 April 2018 (08:04:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0003.v1

Project Management Competences and Sustainable Development in Higher Education: Case Studies from Two Spanish Public Universities

Alberto Cerezo-Narváez, Ignacio de los Ríos Carmenado, Andrés Pastor-Fernández, José Luis Yagüe Blanco, Manuel Otero-Mateo

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: project management; sustainable development; projects; competences; sustained success; sustainability; research university; sustainable university

Online: 1 April 2018 (12:45:02 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0182.v1

Technological Configuration Capability, Strategic Flexibility and Organizational Performance in Chinese High-Tech Organizations

Lulu Zhou, Xufan Zhang, Zhihong Chen, Feng Tian

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: strategic flexibility; technology configuration capabilities; organizational performance; complex-dynamic environment, Chinese high-tech organizations

Online: 21 March 2018 (03:55:52 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0113.v1

Relative Contribution of Public Sector, Banking Sector, and Non-Bank Financial Sector Claims in U.S. Global Banks' Exposure to Foreign Counterparties' Default Risks

Ibrahim Niankara, Hassan Ismail

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: bank reporting; country risk; financial stability; panel data modeling

Online: 15 March 2018 (04:46:05 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0087.v1

Organizational Management Culture and Employers' Health Insurance Offering Strategies in the US: An Ubuntu Based Random Utility Modeling Approach

Ibrahim Niankara

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: affordable care act; discrete choice modeling; employer health insurance; ubuntu

Online: 12 March 2018 (07:33:47 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0188.v1

Resilience Planning, a Facilitated Modelling Approach

Hugo Herrera, Birgit Kopainsky

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: resilience; participation; planning; food systems

Online: 28 February 2018 (04:55:45 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0140.v1

Aligning Strategy with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Process Scoping Diagram for Entrepreneurial Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

Elena Fleaca, Bogdan Fleaca, Sanda Maiduc

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: entrepreneurial sustainability strategy; system thinking; business process management; process improvements; innovation in higher education; sustainable organizational performance

Online: 16 January 2018 (10:44:40 CET)

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The sustainable development of our world has gain particular attention of a wide range of decisional factors, civil society, business sector, and scientific community, seeing that the prosperity of people and society is possible with the aid of sustained and inclusive economic growth of all countries and regions. Educational environment has a decisive impact on changes in the way that societies are coping with national, regional, and global challenges and opportunities brought by sustainable development. Looking at the implications of HE on the progress of society, the paper addressed the lack of HE institutional capacity to integrate the principles and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning. The scope of research problem was bounded on the capability of HEI as organization and school to act as entrepreneurial university by combining the scope of its responsibility within the value chain through a practical and effective mechanism needed to align the strategy with sustainable development goals (SDGs). Embarking on the path of SDGs requires HEI to design, launch, implement, and customize specific processes architectures to govern the advance of sustainability approach. The authors applied the process scoping diagram to capture and conceptualize the educational model needed to guide the HEI through the process of change to embrace sustainability into organizational culture and daily operations. It has been used the SIPOC method (Supplier, Input, Process, Output, Customer) with Visio software tool to articulate processes relationships embedded in the educational model of HEI. The benefits relied on the organized view of the work processes needed to be performed to incorporate SDGs into the strategy of any entrepreneurial HEI. Finally, the authors shared their views on the scalability of the model which may be customized and harmonized in accordance with different HE circumstances and priorities. Implementing the proposed educational model requires long-term institutional commitment, transparency, continuous performance improvement, and communicating the strategy for SDGs and its achievements to wider stakeholders.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0044.v1

Social Systems: Resources and Strategies

Pavel Brazhnikov

Subject: Social Sciences, Organizational Economics & Management Keywords: systems theory; economic systems; social structure; competition; strategy; culture

Online: 9 October 2017 (05:27:13 CEST)

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