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Publication date: 1 April 1996

Johan F. Devos, José L. Guerrero‐Cusumano and Willem J. Selen

Compares ISO certification in Belgium and The Netherlands from a comprehensive viewpoint of organizational structure of quality assessment and certification, the certifying bodies…

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Compares ISO certification in Belgium and The Netherlands from a comprehensive viewpoint of organizational structure of quality assessment and certification, the certifying bodies involved and, a survey analysis according to industry sector. Provides a brief historical overview of ISO 9000, its main concepts, as well as current implementation issues. Discusses perceptions of the implementation and future trends of ISO 9000 certification in Belgium ‐ from professionals in the automotive industry, telecommunications, management consultancy, and ISO certification agencies. Highlights the growing importance of ISO certification in Europe and the world, and does away with the misconception of seeing ISO as a non‐tariff trade barrier. Claims that ISO will be complemented by specialized certifications, which may eventually lead to a single certificate in which quality, safety and environment are combined. Puts ISO certification in perspective as merely one step in the progression towards achieving business excellence.

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Business Process Re-engineering & Management Journal, vol. 2 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2503

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Publication date: 7 December 2023

Anu Suominen, Vilho Jonsson, Eric Eriksson, Jessica Fogelberg and Johan Bäckman

One of the two main tasks of innovation leadership, a practice to inspire and enable creativity and innovation in organisations, is to construct a creativity-enabling…

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One of the two main tasks of innovation leadership, a practice to inspire and enable creativity and innovation in organisations, is to construct a creativity-enabling organisational environment. One form of this main task is using developmental interactions, like mentoring, as innovation leadership practices. A hackathon is one type of innovation contest with three designed phases: pre-hackathon, hackathon event and post-hackathon, involving multiple stakeholders with distinct roles, such as hackers and mentors. In a hackathon, the central activity of mentors is to support the hackers’ innovation process, especially in idea creation and concept development. The mentor role has not been focal in hackathon studies; thus, this chapter addresses the role, impact, and ways to acknowledge the mentors as an integral, contributing innovation leadership practice in hackathons. As an empirical study, this chapter presents the results of a public sector case in a Swedish multi-disciplinary municipality conducting intra-organisational hackathons in three different collocations. The chapter contributes to the literature on innovation leadership at the team level with mentorship in innovation contests in the public sector context by revealing the dual-role tension of innovation leadership in mentor activities in the hackathon event phase from both the hackers’ and mentors’ viewpoints, and the necessity of mentor-benefitting training in pre-hackathon phase.

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Innovation Leadership in Practice: How Leaders Turn Ideas into Value in a Changing World
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83753-397-8

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Publication date: 11 October 2021

Jialin Song, Yiyi Su, Taoyong Su and Luyu Wang

The purpose of this paper is, from a resource accumulation and resource allocation perspective, to examine the variant effects of government subsidies among firms with varying…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is, from a resource accumulation and resource allocation perspective, to examine the variant effects of government subsidies among firms with varying levels of market power and to test how industry competition moderates the relationship between market power and allocative efficiency of government subsidies.

Design/methodology/approach

This study explores the relationship between government subsidies and firm performance from a resource-based view. The authors study the moderating role of market power and three-way interaction between subsidy, market power and industry competition on firm performance. The authors test their hypotheses using a sample of Chinese A-share manufacturing firms from 2006–2019. The authors apply firm-level panel data regressions and conduct a series of robustness tests. The marginal effect of market power and industry competition is explored via three-way moderator effect models.

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This study finds that government subsidies are negatively related to firm performance. Market power, on average, strengthens the negative effect of government subsidies on performance, but such a reinforcement effect is neutralized when industry competition is intense. Government subsidies are least efficiently used when firms have market power and industry competition is low. In addition, the authors use different forms of firm performance and a various of robustness tests to verify their assumptions.

Originality/value

This paper contributes to the literature as follows. First, the authors look into subsidy–performance problem from the perspective of the resource-based view and contribute to explaining and mitigating the divergence of current findings on the subsidy–performance relationship. Second, the authors introduce market power and industry competition as moderators to study how resource allocative efficiency affects the subsidy–performance relationship. Third, the authors propose that managerial incentives have played an important role in the allocation of government subsidies, which enriches management practices.

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Chinese Management Studies, vol. 16 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1750-614X

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Publication date: 10 October 2016

Ryan Erhart

More than ever before, people from around the world are migrating away from their country of birth. Yet citizens of host countries do not always welcome these immigrants �…

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More than ever before, people from around the world are migrating away from their country of birth. Yet citizens of host countries do not always welcome these immigrants – instead, citizens sometimes express prejudice toward them. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that influence attitudes toward immigrants cross-nationally.

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Secondary data from the International Social Survey Programme, which includes data from 30 countries across two time points, were analyzed.

Findings

Findings indicate that people with higher level of education tend to have more favorable attitudes toward immigrants, while those with more politically conservative leanings and those with a greater sense of national identity tend to hold more prejudicial attitudes toward immigrants. At the country/regional level, education is consistent in its relationship with more favorable attitudes. However, political conservatism is less consistent in predicting prejudice – the relationship is strong in western democracies, but is largely negligible in other parts of the world.

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The present analyses carry implications for improving anti-immigrant prejudice throughout the world.

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Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, vol. 8 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1759-6599

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