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Journal articles on the topic "Frigerio Design Group (Firm)"
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Tumen, Semih. "A theory of intra-firm group design." Journal of Productivity Analysis 45, no. 1 (June 23, 2015): 89–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11123-015-0452-0.
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Ogunkoya, Olufemi, and Olugbenga Abatan. "Product knowledge and firm performance: A study of Dangote Group." Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues 12, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 61–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v12i1.5755.
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Knowledge, according to researchers, is significant for competitive advantage. This study aimed to investigate the impact of product knowledge on firm performance in Nigeria. This study employed a survey research design. Primary data was employed for this study and 532 copies of the questionnaire were administered to the respondents of the study. Regression analysis was employed to verify the hypotheses formulated for this study. Results revealed that product experience knowledge is the most significant measure of product knowledge driving firm performance. The study concluded that the relationship between product knowledge and how efficient the salesperson will be in driving the firm's revenue reveals the process by which salesperson knowledge influences firm performance. The study, therefore, recommends that to increase their performance, firms should improve the salespersons' knowledge of their product and motivate them to seek creative ways to drive revenue. Keywords: Firm Performance; Objective Product Knowledge; Subjected Product Knowledge.
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Kilenthong, Pitsamorn, Claes M. Hultman, and Gerald E. Hills. "Entrepreneurial marketing behaviours: impact of firm age, firm size and firm’s founder." Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship 18, no. 1 (July 11, 2016): 127–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jrme-05-2015-0029.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically test whether a systematic relationship exists between firms’ level of entrepreneurial marketing (EM) behaviours and firms’ characteristics, including firm age, firm size and firm’s founder. Design/methodology/approach This paper quantitatively investigates EM behaviours from data collected from 752 business owners through structured interviews. The data analysis applied was multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (multi-group CFA). Findings Results from the analysis show that not all of the firms’ characteristics determine firms’ level of EM practice. The level of EM behaviours has a systematic relationship with firms’ age but not with the founding status of the firms’ manager. The impact of firm size on the level of EM behaviours is evident only when the firms’ age is taken into account. Research limitations/implications This paper concludes that relationships between EM behaviours and firm characteristics are more complicated than anticipated. Firms’ characteristics alone may not be a good measure for identifying the level of a firm’s EM. EM cannot be conceptualized solely in relation to the activities of small firms, young firms or founder-operated firms. Originality/value This paper examines EM behaviours in a large survey and uses multi-group CFA to examine firms’ EM practice through latent variables, instead of observed variables. The findings should complement knowledge regarding the EM concept generated from existing literature.
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Farías, Pablo. "Business group characteristics and firm operating performance: evidence from Chile." Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración 27, no. 2 (July 29, 2014): 226–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arla-08-2013-0115.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of business group characteristics on firm‐operating performance in Chile. Design/methodology/approach Using a multiple regression model, this study examines the effect of business group characteristics (interlocking of directors, management concentration, and business group specialization) on operating performance (ROA growth) in a sample of 104 publicly traded Chilean firms. Findings It is documented that, except for interlocking of directors, the two other business group characteristics (management concentration and business group specialization) are significantly related to the operating performance of firms belonging to Chilean business groups. These findings suggest that Chilean business groups would improve or deteriorate the performance of their affiliated firms modifying its characteristics. Originality/value Too little is known about the effect of business group characteristics on firm‐operating performance in Latin American countries such as Chile because there is no research that analyses its impact on firm‐operating performance in the region.
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Purkayastha, Anish. "Performance of business group affiliated firms in emerging markets." International Journal of Emerging Markets 13, no. 6 (November 29, 2018): 1538–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoem-09-2016-0243.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the existing mechanism through which business group affiliated firms in emerging markets (EMs) continue to generate superior performance. Design/methodology/approach The authors build our argument on the basis of how business group affiliation in EM facilitates internationalization and investment into innovation in affiliated firms compared to un-affiliated firm, resulting in higher firm performance. The authors use advance statistical modeling – causal mediation analysis to separate direct effect and indirect effect of business group affiliation in EM on performance through internationalization and investment into innovation of business group affiliated firms as mediating variables. Findings Based on 122,479 observations (firm year) from 17,235 Indian business group affiliated and un-affiliated firms, the findings help to identify that internationalization and investment into innovation of business group affiliated firms do have a mediating role in affiliation–performance relationship for EM business groups. Originality/value This study unravels the existing causal chain between business group affiliation in EMs and subsequent performance of affiliated firms. The authors complement institutional argument for superior performance of business group affiliation and focus on the performance implication of mediating strategic decisions in affiliated firms.
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Khosa, Amrinder. "Independent directors and firm value of group-affiliated firms." International Journal of Accounting & Information Management 25, no. 2 (May 2, 2017): 217–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijaim-08-2016-0076.
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Purpose This study aims to examine the effect of board independence on firm valuation of group-affiliated firms in distinct Indian setting. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a sample of 317 listed firms comprising 1,350 firm-year observations for the period 2008-2012. The value-relevance model is used to examine the effect of board independence on market value of equity. Findings The distinct finding of an inverse relationship between board independence and firm value of group-affiliated firms in India illustrates that effective monitoring by outside directors is largely influenced by the institutional setting and ownership structure. This study does not find any evidence of different valuation when comparing non-family CEOs and family CEOs. Practical implications Independent directors play an important role to stop abusive use of related-party transactions in an environment where principal–principal conflict exists. The study’s findings will prove useful in determining whether one should rely merely on the independent status of outside directors or the influence of institutional setting on effective governance. Originality/value This paper contributes to the existing literature in the following ways: it helps to gain a better understanding of business groups which are characterised by unique governance structures and the dominance of controlling families on the board, which makes the external governance mechanisms (i.e. independent directors and non-family CEOs) ineffective and it illustrates that effective monitoring by outside directors is largely influenced by the institutional setting and ownership structure.
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Sibony, Olivier, Dan Lovallo, and Thomas C. Powell. "Behavioral Strategy and the Strategic Decision Architecture of the Firm." California Management Review 59, no. 3 (May 2017): 5–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008125617712256.
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This special issue explores the impacts of behavioral strategy on management practice. Behavioral strategy can best contribute to management practice by shifting its focus from individual decision biases to the design of behaviorally informed decision processes at the level of the firm. This introduction identifies three types of organizational decision processes, shows how they interact with individual and group biases, and proposes a model showing how managers can design and deploy these processes to shape the strategy of the firm. It then introduces the articles in this special issue and discusses their contributions to the future of behavioral strategy.
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Wei, Peihwang, Li Xu, and Bei Zeng. "Corporate hedging, firm focus and firm size: the case of REITs." Managerial Finance 43, no. 3 (March 13, 2017): 313–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mf-05-2016-0134.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the substitutability of corporate hedging and diversification in the real estate investment trusts (REITs) industry. The authors hypothesize that, relative to diversified firms, focused firms are more likely to be associated with hedging. The role of firm size is also analyzed. Design/methodology/approach The logistic regression approach is utilized to analyze the probability of hedging and the panel regression approach is used to examine the amount of hedging. Findings The authors find that, relative to diversified firms, firms focused on a single property type are more likely to engage in hedging. However, this finding is significant only for smaller firms, which implies a non-linear relation between hedging and firm size. The evidence is not as strong when firm focus is measured by geographic concentration. In terms of hedging amount, smaller firms’ average hedge ratio is greater than that of larger firms. For either small or large firms group, hedging amounts increase with firm focus measured by either property or geographic concentration and increase with firm sizes. Research limitations/implications The results imply that, relative to diversified REITs, REITs focused on a single property type are more likely to engage in hedging. However, this finding is significant only for smaller firms, which implies a non-linear relation between hedging and firm size. The evidence is not as strong when firm focus is measured by geographic concentration, suggesting that geographic concentration is perceived to be less risky than property type concentration. For either small or large firms group, hedging amounts increase with firm focus measured by either property or geographic concentration and increase with firm sizes, which implies that hedging amount does not depend on firm size. The sample period is limited to the years 2010 to 2013 because some data needs to be manually collected. Practical implications The results imply that REITs consider both property diversification and hedging in managing their risk. Originality/value The research represents an early attempt to investigate the relation between corporate hedging and diversification. The investigation into the REIT industry has several advantages such as a lower likelihood of using derivatives for speculation.
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Fuad, Mohammad, and Mohammad Akbar. "International new ventures and firm performance: evidence from India." European Business Review 30, no. 6 (October 8, 2018): 645–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ebr-07-2016-0099.
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Purpose This study aims to explore the role of liberalization, business group affiliation and degree of internationalization (DOI) on the performance of Indian international new ventures (INVs). Design/methodology/approach The study identifies Indian INVs incorporated between 1991 and 2010 against the backdrop of liberalization. To test various hypotheses, a random effects panel regression analysis was conducted for publicly listed Indian INVs. Findings The results highlight that business group affiliation and DOI are positively related to INV performance. Further, liberalization negatively moderates the relationship between group affiliation and INV performance. The authors’ findings indicate that as institutions improve, the positive effect of business group affiliation on firm performance decreases in emerging markets. Research limitations/implications This paper highlights the benefits accruing to business group affiliated INVs and the moderating role of liberalization on firm performance. Future studies may augment the authors’ understanding of INV performance by testing heterogeneity within business groups and their impact on INV performance across other emerging economies. Practical implications As institutional reforms strengthen over time, the positive effect of group affiliation on INV performance declines. Hence, managers of group affiliates need to adapt to the changing institutions faster and develop their fit with the institutional environment earlier than standalone firms, to mitigate their profitability issues. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper to discuss the role of business group affiliation and the moderating role of liberalization on INV performance with theoretical and managerial implications.
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Chen, I.-Fen, and Shao-Chi Chang. "The intra business group effects of alliance network extensions." Management Decision 54, no. 6 (July 11, 2016): 1420–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/md-06-2015-0223.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand the influence of business group membership by exploring how actions by a member firm influence other firms in the business group. Specifically, the authors ask two questions in this study: when a member firm forms strategic alliances with partners outside of the business group, how does the alliance influence other members in the business group? Moreover, which types of member firms are more affected than others? Design/methodology/approach – The authors employ standard event-study methodology to examine the stock price responses for the focal and member firms on the announcement of an alliance. Moreover, the authors employ the cross-sectional regression analyses to test hypotheses concerning the impact of alliance, group, and firm characteristics on the cumulative abnormal returns of non-announcing members. All regressions are estimated using ordinary least squares. Findings – The results show that, on average, alliance-announcing member firms experience significantly positive share price responses to announcements of strategic alliances. Moreover, the impact of alliance formation spillover to other non-announcing members in the business group. The authors also find that the influences on the non-announcing members are dissimilar. The non-announcing members are more strongly affected when they are in different industries from the non-member partner, and when the ownership of the business group is more concentrated. Originality/value – This study is to extend the resource complementarities perspective, which may help firms to more effectively configure their network portfolios in order to develop synergies among related network resources. The study thus extends the alliance portfolio literature to the literature on business groups. Since the inter-firm networks within business groups are more complex than those in alliance portfolios, the authors are able to study how the structure of a business, such as ownership concentration, can influence the intra-network effect.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Frigerio Design Group (Firm)"
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Hyams, Michelle. "Can design generate information to aid in technological innovation? an investigation using industry based case studies /." Swinburne Research Bank, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/42017.
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Thesis (MDes) - National School of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, 2008.[Thesis submitted for degree of] Master of Design, to the [Faculty of Design], Swinburne University of Technology, 2008. Typescript. Bibliography: p. 159-165.
Books on the topic "Frigerio Design Group (Firm)"
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Group, Frigerio Design. Green Life HQ: Frigerio Design Group. Milano: 24 ore cultura, 2019.
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Group, Frigerio Design. Architettura dell'energia: The architecture of energy. Milano: 24 ore cultura, 2010.
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Group, Frigerio Design. Behind the scenes: Progetti dietro le quinte. Siracusa, Italy: LetteraVentidue, 2014.
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Noffsinger, James Philip. Nikken Sekkei: Design oriented construction firm in Japan. Monticello, Ill., USA: Vance Bibliographies, 1987.
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Salle, Xavier de La, and Julien Donada. Group Ludic: L'imagination au pouvoir. Brussels]: Éditions Facteur Humain, 2018.
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Ch'oe, Tong-gyu. Tarŭn, sangjingjŏk chesŭch'ŏdŭl: Sŏin Kŏnch'uk 40-yŏn ŭi pip'yŏngjŏk t'ammun = Other symbolic gestures : Seoinn Design Group. Sŏul T'ŭkpyŏlsi: Kanhyang Midiŏ Laep, 2018.
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Moncada, Valentina, and Johnny Moncada. Johnny Moncada, Gastone Novelli, Achille Perilli: Made in Italy, una visione modernista : fotografia, moda, arte, design, Roma 1956-1965. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: SilvanaEditoriale, 2014.
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Bremen, Maarten van. Metro Oostlijn Amsterdam: Designing the system. Edited by Erp Jeroen van author, Lever Maarten author, Edens Catja author editor, Nolan Billy (Architect) translator, Group A (Architectural firm : Rotterdam, Netherlands), and Fabrique (Firm). Eindhoven: Lecturis, 2020.
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Matthias, Michalka, ed. Changing channels: Art and television 1963-1987. Cologne: Walther König, 2010.
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Tang, Man-Chung. The Story of the Koror Bridge. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/cs001.
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<p>Koror Babeldaob Bridge, also called Koror Babelthuap Bridge or simply Koror Bridge, connects the islands of Koror and Babeldaob in the Republic of Palau. The design of the bridge began in 1974 and was based on the prevailing AASHO Standard Specifications at that time and was supplemented by ACI and CEB-FIP design recommendations on an as-needed basis. When the Koror Bridge was opened to traffic in April 1977, it was the world's longest concrete girder span. A few years later, the bridge began to deflect more than had been anticipated. The owner commissioned a Japanese engineering firm in 1985 and then a US engineering firm in 1993 to conduct in-depth investigations of the structure. Both firms came to the same conclusion that the bridge was structurally safe and that the excessive deflection was an unexplainable phenomenon. Nevertheless, in order to improve the driving quality of the bridge deck, the owner decided to repair the bridge. The repair scheme made changes to the structural system and added a large amount of post-tensioning force to the bridge. Unfortunately, less than three months after the repair, late in the afternoon on 26 September, 1996,nineteen and a half years after it was opened to traffic, the bridge collapsed. Thereafter, most of the documents were sealed as a result of litigation between the various parties and the debris was cleared. For a long time, it was impossible to study the facts surrounding the bridge's collapse. Only recently, through continuous probing by a group of engineers, were these documents made accessible to researchers.</p>
Book chapters on the topic "Frigerio Design Group (Firm)"
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Deszczyński, Bartosz. "Relationship Management Maturity." In Firm Competitive Advantage Through Relationship Management, 67–120. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67338-3_3.
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AbstractThis chapter introduces the notion of RM maturity. The first section clarifies the role of the maturity concepts in management science and presents the design of a systemic theoretical inquiry into RM maturity. In total, 13 RM-related themes were qualified to become the content of the RM maturity concept. The second section discusses the themes grouped in the strategic dimension of RM, including Service-Dominant Logic (SDL) as the most distinctive and consistent theme in this group. A brief theory-integrative discourse is given about the interplay between RM and SDL as permeable paradigms embedded in the RBV and dynamic capabilities theories. The third section discusses the roles of interdepartmental and departmental processes and ICT in defining RM maturity. The chapter concludes with the preliminary proposal of the RM maturity model fitted into the broad definitional basis of RM.
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Groen, Eduard C., Denis Feth, Svenja Polst, Jan Tolsdorf, Stephan Wiefling, Luigi Lo Iacono, and Hartmut Schmitt. "Achieving Usable Security and Privacy Through Human-Centered Design." In Human Factors in Privacy Research, 83–113. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28643-8_5.
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AbstractUsers should always play a central role in the development of (software) solutions. The human-centered design (HCD) process in the ISO 9241-210 standard proposes a procedure for systematically involving users. However, due to its abstraction level, the HCD process provides little guidance for how it should be implemented in practice. In this chapter, we propose three concrete practical methods that enable the reader to develop usable security and privacy (USP) solutions using the HCD process. This chapter equips the reader with the procedural knowledge and recommendations to: (1) derive mental models with regard to security and privacy, (2) analyze USP needs and privacy-related requirements, and (3) collect user characteristics on privacy and structure them by user group profiles and into privacy personas. Together, these approaches help to design measures for a user-friendly implementation of security and privacy measures based on a firm understanding of the key stakeholders.
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Caro-González, A., A. Serra, X. Albala, C. E. Borges, D. Casado-Mansilla, J. Colobrans, E. Iñigo, J. Millard, A. Mugarra-Elorriaga, and Renata Petrevska Nechkoska. "The Three MuskEUteers." In Contributions to Management Science, 3–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11065-8_1.
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AbstractUnder the inspiring and aspiring title: Paving the way for pushing and pursuing a “one for all, all for one” triple transition: social, green, and digital: The Three MuskEUteers, a group of remarkable co-authors and contributors have developed radically new forward-looking visions, principles, approaches, and action recommendations for an attuned indivisible social, green, and digital transition.The triple transition is aimed at helping humanity gather around a life-sustaining purpose, as opposed to life-destroying one in terms of wars of all kinds (military, economic, political, etc.); nature decay and wreckage (carbon footprint, plastic pollution, soil poisoning, etc.); human alienation (favelas, homeless persons, refugee camps, child malnutrition, poverty, exclusion of any kind); and geographic imbalances with empty rural spaces and overcrowded megacities (creating difficult access of rural and/or remote population to care, health, and other essential services; difficulty of urban population to contact with natural environments).The work highlights the urgent need to speed up a third social transition (Within this social transition dimension we understand the socio-cultural scope as any social shift implies a cultural transition and vice versa, with its very deep implications.), in addition to the green and digital transitions more widely recognised by the international community. Innovation, or a European industry-led twin transition aiming for climate neutrality and digital leadership, cannot be supported without a firm, responsive, responsible social and environmental engagement. Neither is it possible to tackle a JUST triple transition which is not firmly rooted in worthwhile human development, underpinned by the Sustainable Development Goals. And none of these transitions can go separately and/or isolated; they all need to intertwine around the notion of (more, firmer, and determined) just transition.European society is presented as a huge “co-laboratory” for this “all for one, one for all” boundaryless triple transition to respond to the urgent radical changes demanded by humanity and by the planet. The chapter proposes a radically new vision to pursue a non-explored transformative way to ideate, design, develop, and deliver science, innovation, and collaboration through experimentation and learning, and throughout multi-stakeholder engagement from the n-helix spectrum. It proposes systemic innovation tactics for the “how” (green, techno-digital), for the strategic “what” (green, social), for the purposeful “why” (green, social), and for the operational “how best” (green, social, techno-digital) within the governing principles of eco-centric society. This encompasses: Courageous goal-aligned alternatives, as a shift to new (yet ancient) principles of eco-centric rather than ego-centric behaviour. The adoption of a “complex system mind-set” to build up dynamic, context-sensitive, and holistic approaches to co-design mission and purpose-driven actions, outcomes, outputs, and no-harm impacts. The ignition of the transformative capacity of all forms of collaboration (international, interdisciplinary, intersectoral, intergenerational, inter-institutional, inter-genders) vs hierarchy as alternative governance and distribution models to overcome the unjust and unsustainable biased status quo within evolving, adaptable, flexible, and transformational n-helix ecosystems. The Three MuskEUteers, deeply anchored in European values (human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, rule of law, and human rights), will pave the way and drive humanity towards the achievement of the ambitious, but achievable, targets of the United Nations 2030 Global Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals.Europe can be the initiator of co-laboratory experiments where social change drives the “all for one, one for all” dream into transforming this three-prong transition into possible real good ecosystems working.
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Bole, William. "Choreographing the Conversation." In Curriculum by Design, 3–12. Fordham University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9781531501327.003.0001.
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In the fall of 2012, a group of deans and other senior leaders at Boston College took a risk. They invited a well-known design and innovation firm to come in and help them achieve what had been for many years an elusive goal—reinvigorating the University’s undergraduate core studies. There was natural skepticism about ushering a consulting firm not simply into higher education, but into the sanctum sanctorum of a Jesuit liberal arts university—the core curriculum. Skepticism abounded, especially among faculty, gradually giving way to vigorous conversations facilitated by the design consultancy Continuum. Ultimately, there would be a proposed framework for deepening and enlivening the core at Boston College. The process that began as a risky venture would end fittingly and bracingly at the end of the academic year—with a call on each school and department to give the proposal a thumbs up or down.
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Rincón Díaz, Carlos Augusto, Jorge Alberto Gámez-Gutiérrez, and Robinson Ernesto Calvo. "Industrial Firm Performance, Entrepreneurial Age, and Managerial Practice." In Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage, 188–214. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2019-2.ch011.
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Some authors and entrepreneurs have weaknesses in their infrastructure, innovation, and management skills. Industrial SMEs contribute to the productivity of countries. In recent years a group of senior entrepreneurs refers to those individuals aged 50 or over who have created a business. It is assumed that senior entrepreneurs have had more time to accumulate human capital. However, human capital can also depreciate. This document analyzes the performance of industrial companies according to the ages and managerial practices of the entrepreneurs, with a sample of 383 companies. Based on two components of the Blackman model, the durability of the SME that depends on the conditions of the entrepreneur, their characteristics, and their management practices. The research design is based on a quasi-experimental and multifactorial, quantitative and deductive methodology. The third part of the entrepreneurs used six management practices that were accompanied by economic benefits. Twelve percent of managing owners are over 40 years of age and show similar performance to younger entrepreneurs.
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Zajfen, Paul, and Michael Wilford. "User-Oriented Architecture." In Critical Architecture And Contemporary Culture, 133–61. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195078190.003.0012.
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Abstract One of the legacies of the social movement is the influence that non architects have on building, especially public building. One of the first major decisions made by public user groups is the selection of the architect, which will clearly have the biggest impact on the form of the building. The IBI Group, my firm, together with James Stirling Michael Wilford & Associates, were selected as architects for the Science Library at the University of California, Irvine. The program had not yet been completed by the university. It is very often the case with university facilities that the university will select different firms to do the program and ultimately design the building. We were fortunate in being selected as both programmers and architects; this allowed us to build on the rapport and the enthusiasm of the user committee, including the campus architect, David Neuman. The program was extremely important in the design of the facility, as it sets out a budget and square footage for the building.
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Meyer, Arnoud De. "Product Development in the Textile Machinery Industry." In Managing Product Development, 280–92. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195074383.003.0012.
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Abstract The product development process is one of the most widely studied activities in the firm. We should not be amazed by the attention paid to this process. Indeed innovation is essential for the survival of the organization, and the process through which one develops products is one of the most important ways to make the innovation task operational. Most studies focus on a particular aspect of the product development process: the management of professionals, the design of the project organization, tools for project planning and resource allocation (Souder, 1984), the improvement of communication (Allen, 1977), design for manufacture (Susman, 1992), and so on. A limited number of studies have taken a holistic view of the product development process. Most of them are limited to clinical case studies in one company (Burgelman and Sayles, 1986; Fruin, 1988) or a small group of companies. Only a few studies have actually gone beyond this stage and have presented a significant sample for a particular industry or have covered nearly the whole population (Clark and Fujimoto, 1991; Cusumano, 1985).
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Biggiero, Lucio, and Enrico Sevi. "On the Relationships between Connection Modes and Workgroup Performance." In Relational Methodologies and Epistemology in Economics and Management Sciences, 348–72. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9770-6.ch013.
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Notwithstanding the central place covered inside organization science and the economic theory of the firm, organization design theory still lacks sound building blocks concerning the effects that some fundamental variables have on workgroup performance. In this chapter a contribution to fill in this gap is given with reference to the relationships between connection modes and performance. In particular, through an agent-based simulation model a number of experiments have been done respect to the moderating role played by group size and task complexity. Results confirm current (but not really scientific) knowledge, and bring forth our understanding of these fundamental (and mostly nonlinear) relationships. Among the main results, it can be underlined that the best combinations between connection modes, task complexity, and workgroup size occur when complex tasks are connected by mutual adaptation and run by a small number of agents, or when less complex tasks are connected by parallel or sequential interdependence and performed by a large number of agents. Moreover, when a modules volume to be worked out is heterogeneous in terms of connection modes between module's tasks, and thus, a multi-mode group should be issued, respect to the corresponding choice of issuing specialized groups there is a general decrease in efficacy.
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Emmott, Bill. "Starting Something New." In Japan's Far More Female Future, 90–105. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865551.003.0005.
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Japanese organizations typically remain not just male-dominated but also organized in male ways. An attractive alternative for women is therefore to start up their own organizations, whether for-profit or non-profit. The Japan Women’s Leadership Initiative takes a group of wannabe social entrepreneurs to Boston, Massachusetts every year to give training and mentorship in how to start and grow a social enterprise. Hayashi Chiaki took her career through marketing and journalism before co-founding her own digital design business, Loftwork, with its affiliate Fabcafes. Mitarai Tamako worked for McKinsey and then the government of Bhutan before moving to the disaster-struck region of Tohoku in 2011 to start up a business with local women making very high-priced and high quality sweaters, with a model reminiscent of the Italian fashion firm Brunello Cuccinelli. Nakamura Noriko, a former TV journalist, set up a babysitting and nanny agency, Poppins, for which one of the fastest growing business lines is providing short-notice childcare for companies and government agencies.
Conference papers on the topic "Frigerio Design Group (Firm)"
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Kasemvilas, Sumonta, and Lorne Olfman. "Design Alternatives for a MediaWiki to Support Collaborative Writing in Higher Education Classes." In InSITE 2009: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3295.
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Constructivist learning mechanisms such as collaborative writing have emerged as a result of the development of Web 2.0 technologies. We define the term mandatory collaborative writing to describe a writing activity where the group has a firm deadline. Our study focuses on how a wiki can fully support mandatory group writing. The motivation of this design science research study emerges from a graduate Knowledge Management class assignment to write a wiki book. The project outcome shows that the wiki instance used for the project, MediaWiki, could better facilitate the process with a set of extensions that support discussion, evaluation, and project management. We outline designs for these mechanisms: 1) a discussion mechanism that changes the way users discuss content on a wiki page and increases group awareness; 2) an evaluation mechanism that provides a tool for the instructor to monitor and assess students’ performance; and 3) a project management tool that increases awareness of the status of each component of the writing project and provides an overall summary of the project. A demonstration of the principles to a focus group provided a basic proof of the validity of these mechanisms.
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Simon, Madlen, Shainmaa Hameed Hussein, and Gregory Weaver. "BRIDGING THE GAP STUDIO: Urban Design Education for a Global Community." In 108th Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.108.100.
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Bridging the Gap studio brings US graduate students together with Iraqi graduate students for a collaborative urban design studio focusing on urban redevelopment proposals for selected commercial districts in the two capital cities of Washington DC and Baghdad. Each group serves as information sources, eyes-on-the-ground, cultural informants, fact-checkers, and design critics for their overseas counter-parts. We communicate through multiple digital means. The theoretical basis of the studio draws upon multiple disciplines. Initial motivation was citizen diplomacy, an international relations concept that engages private citizens in “individual endeavors that serve their own interests and diplomacy which includes a framework for cooperation be-tween countries.” 1 A key theoretical underpinning of the studio is globalization, cutting across multiple disciplines, spanning practice and academia. 2 Initial support came from a multi-national design firm that viewed the studio as a vehicle for inculcating competencies of global practice. Interaction with the firm’s architects, including a studio design competition bringing US and Iraqi students to the Washington DC office for internships, shows students how practitioners put those cultural understandings and skills into action. Globalization has also influenced the discipline of geography, leading to innovations in the field of comparative urbanism3 4 to work “across diverse human experiences.” Bridging the Gap Studio produces studies in comparative urbanism as the US and Iraqi students discover both similarity and difference in their focus districts. The pedagogical method draws upon situated learning theory, positing that learning should take place in authentic practice settings and within social communities.5 While one could argue that every architectural design studio exemplifies situated learning, Bridging the Gap studio offers a particularly robust example, creating a setting that mimics global practice and a social community that includes inhabitants of the urban places under study.
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Guerola-Navarro, Vicente, Raul Oltra Badenes, and Hermenegildo Gil-Gomez. "Practical example on how to plan and develop a participatory group dynamic through an online platform, in the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goal number 4 "Quality Education”." In INNODOCT 2021. Valencia: Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/inn2021.2021.13310.
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In the current conditions of university teaching, derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, where the need for social distancing has led to the move to online sessions through various technological platforms, one of the most complicated activities to develop are group dynamics. Taking advantage of the teaching content of the university subject "Organizational Behavior and Change Management", a plan has been designed and executed to ensure that, remotely and without face-to-face interaction, students are actively involved and participate in a practical session set out precisely as group dynamic. It is specifically the game of the atomic bunker. The objective is to detect the difficulties that the online environment puts in the way of active and participatory development of the session, and to define a priori the necessary prior actions to overcome these difficulties and achieve the same intended objectives in the case of a face-to-face session. This activity is linked to the implementation of initiatives aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 4, defined as "Quality Education", which is based on the firm conviction that education is one of the engines more powerful and proven to ensure sustainable development. The conclusions show that, despite the fact that the a priori difficulties were great, with a prior planning of communicative actions (sharing information about the principles and objectives of the session) towards the students, asking the students themselves for advice on possible energizing actions of the session, and with sufficient motivation (based on the self-conviction of the students that they themselves have participated in the design of the activity), the activity has been developed successfully and achieving results comparable to those of other courses in which it had been developed in a face-to-face format.
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Martinetti, Alberto, Jorge Eduardo Parada Puig, Charlotte Oude Alink, Jos Thalen, and Leo A. M. Van Dongen. "Gamification in teaching Maintenance Engineering: a Dutch experience in the rolling stock management learning." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5332.
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the application of an innovative serious game based on the asset management of rolling stock in the training of future maintenance engineers within the master course in mechanical engineering at the University of Twente. The Logistic Support Game (LSG) is a serious game developed together with Dutch Railway (Nederlandse Spoorwegen, NS) and Invocate (design firm) as a tool to simulate the maintenance operations of a fleet of trains. The simulation shows four perspectives: the operations manager, the asset manager, the maintenance manager and the financial manager. The three goals of this innovative training are the improvement of student engagement in the learning process, the increasing of active cooperation between students with different roles in a group, and the opportunity to receive feedback on decision making. To indicate achievement of these goals we link them to the basic needs of learning: competence, relatedness and autonomy. A total of thirty six students played the serious game in two different sessions. At the end of each session, a survey is collected for game based learning assessment. Results suggest that the serious game has a positive impact on student engagement, cooperation, and helps transfer course contents.
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María Vallina-Hernández, Ana, Hanns De La Fuente-Mella, Jose Barrera, and Hugo Mansilla. "Active Learning Methods to Enhance Higher Education in Business." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002292.
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The environment of a knowledge society is dynamic, active, oriented towards innovation. Therefore, the development of skills for the 21st century, such as the fundamental ones, content, and professionals in the Business career, is becoming more critical. Furthermore, the active-cooperative methodologies take more prominence in developing an undergraduate career in business and economics, whose significant increases with the uncertainty, social, and environmental changes that the pandemic is causing.Business education always has the challenge to achieve that student comprehend business dynamics and have the notions of decision-making. Therefore, active learning methods have been used for a long time, especially the case-study method. This research aims to explore the effectiveness of simulation-role playing techniques versus more traditional methods such as lectures. This study analyzes the case of the Business Administration Career at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, whose program changed in 2009, including the new approach of design courses under the learning-by-doing philosophy, focusing, in particular, in the course Simulación Empresarial (Entrepreneurship simulation). Thus, researching the effectiveness of this type of experience in higher education is a real contribution to the development of knowledge to obtain a quality education.This subject uses active-cooperative learning methods through simulation and role-playing techniques. The students integrate teams that correspond to a firm in the industry. Each one has an executive occupation. The team has to present “yearly results” and stand up to the company board (the professors). Thus, role-playing, simulation, and TICs are essential parts of the course. This paper explores indicators and relationships that allow comparing alumni performance from both curriculums, the one more focused on traditional methods, called Control Group (CG – generations from 2001-2008)), and the ones identified as Experimental Group (EG – generations 2009-2016). Hence, it will provide a methodology to replicate in other Business Schools or other college careers. Previous research shows that the role-playing methodology allows a more significant commitment of the students with the object of study and the development of the activities of the specialty. In this sense, a role-playing methodology complemented with simulation and TICs involves active-cooperative learning, which integrates all the knowledge and behavior obtained during the career. Furthermore, it implies that the student, in order to be able to deliver appropriate arguments that support his/her decisions as a manager. The methodology applied is quantitative research, using regression analysis. Tree-decision analysis complemented these results. Considering that it is an exploratory analysis, it is necessary to choose an indicator for performance. The dependent variable chosen is the Comprehensive Exam grade; this exam assesses all the career subjects in an integrated manner. The independent variables are related to entry conditions, such as a grade average in secondary education, university selection standardized test score, gender. In addition, grades obtained on the different lines of the study plan were calculated, such as finance, marketing, economics, math -statistics, and others. Finally, as a dichotomic variable, whether the student took the course Entrepreneurship Simulation or not, to identify whether he/she belongs to the control or the experimental group. Results obtained from the regression model are consistent with the ones attained using the tree-decision model. The control and experimental groups are very similar, so the different programs do not depend on their characteristics. The Comprehensive Exam grade depends directly, for both groups, from their performance in Economics and Marketing and negatively to whether they took Entrepreneurship Simulation, considering 95% confidence interval. The entry variables or gender makes no difference in the grade obtained in that examination. The univariate analysis outcome determines that the Comprehensive Exam and Entrepreneurship Simulation grades are not related.Consequently, further research is needed to measure the effectiveness of the subject under study. The exam grade may be significantly lower in younger generations because: it is more consistent with traditional methods; after approving Entrepreneurship Simulation, the students may feel that it is just a mere requirement; they specialize more in the course that they used to do in the previous plan; and, the course may develop more soft competencies that the exam does not measure.
Reports on the topic "Frigerio Design Group (Firm)"
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Mahat, Marian, and Wesley Imms. A Day in the Life of a Student: Facilitator Guide. University of Melbourne, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46580/124325.
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A Day in the Life of a Student workshop is a design thinking workshop developed by DLR Group (an integrated design firm) and adapted by the Innovative Learning Environment and Teacher Change project at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The activities involve educators mapping out how one student spends his/her day in school and building a model of the learning environment based on this one student. With an emphasis on the visual learning that comes from modelling experiences, this workshop helps participants develop student-improvement focused practices in innovative learning environments.
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Benavente, José Miguel, and Pluvia Zuñiga. The Effectiveness of Innovation Policy and the Moderating Role of Market Competition: Evidence from Latin American Firms. Inter-American Development Bank, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003655.
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This paper evaluates whether market competition matters for the effectiveness of innovation policies. Using data for manufacturing firms in Chile and Peru, we implement propensity matching techniques combined with differences-in-differences estimation to evaluate the impact of innovation subsidies on the post-treatment innovation investment effort of firms and test whether such impact differs according to the intensity of competition. We corroborate the existence of crowding-in effects in beneficiaries when compared to a control group of untreated firms. The subsidy impact is found either only significant in highly competitive sectors or larger in more competition-intensive industries -compared to low competition ones. Thus, we confirm that market competition plays a moderating role in the effectiveness of innovation policies to stimulate firm innovation investment. The results are robust to different matching and estimation methods and suggest, therefore, the importance of considering market contexts in the design of innovation policies.