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Publication date: 25 November 2019

Laura P. Lopez-Arredondo, Cynthia B. Perez, Jesus Villavicencio-Navarro, Kathya E. Mercado, Martin Encinas and Patricia Inzunza-Mejia

The purpose of this paper is to address the need of a reengineering of the software development process in a Mexican technology services company. In general, the main risk faced…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to address the need of a reengineering of the software development process in a Mexican technology services company. In general, the main risk faced by small- and medium-sized software developers (SMEs) is the inability to meet delivery times or to adjust to project requirements, whether through lack of follow-up on the critical activities of the development process or through an inadequate distribution of workloads among members of the project team.

Design/methodology/approach

The methodology used to carry out the reengineering of the software development process is Hammer and Champy, which consists of six stages: introduction to the current situation of the company and the need for change; identification of the business processes; selection of the business process to be redesigned; understanding of the process selected; proposal for reengineering the business process selected; and the results of the comparison between the current situation of the process and the proposed reengineering of the process through the use of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2.0).

Findings

Based on the results, the paper shows the importance of the analysis and implementation of the reengineering in a software development company. It describes step-by-step how to apply the methodology of Hammer and Champy in a business process through simulated scenarios, using BPMN 2.0. By carrying out the implementation of the proposed reengineering, the company would therefore save 45.12 percent of costs, 41.17 percent of time, and a better distribution of resources, at the same time guaranteeing the satisfaction of its clients.

Originality/value

The study addresses the current needs of small- and medium-sized software developers, providing a step-by-step guide to the implementation of a process reengineering methodology, performing an analysis and modeling of processes in BPMN 2.0 and providing results through a simulation of the critical process, with the aim to observe the flow of activities and the significant improvements that would be achieved by implementing the reengineering proposal. This simulation schema allows business owners to observe the potential of the changes and to verify the positive impact they would have on the company before beginning to make operational changes in the organization.

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Business Process Management Journal, vol. 26 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1463-7154

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Publication date: 15 April 2024

Michela Mari and Sara Poggesi

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Current Trends in Female Entrepreneurship: Innovation and Immigration
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ISBN: 978-1-83549-101-0

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Publication date: 15 April 2024

Michela Mari

The attention of scholars and policy makers towards the topic of innovation has consistently increased, especially in recent years. This is justified by the fact that innovation…

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The attention of scholars and policy makers towards the topic of innovation has consistently increased, especially in recent years. This is justified by the fact that innovation undoubtedly plays, today, a crucial role in driving a country’s economic growth, improving productivity and, more generally, enhancing overall societal well-being.

When the discourse around innovation focuses on its economic dimension, the strong intertwinement with entrepreneurship emerges. In line with this, focusing on research on innovation in organisations and, especially, innovation in relation to the figure of the entrepreneur is considered, plenty of studies have been carried on, over time, in many disciplines, analysing the role of the entrepreneur in relation to innovation from various different angles. However, especially when management studies are considered, we can notice a poor consideration of the role played by the gender of the entrepreneur. In line with this consideration, by means of a systematic literature review, this chapter aims to fill this literature gap focusing on the intertwinement that can be envisaged, in management studies, among the issues of entrepreneurship and innovation in the case of women-owned firms.

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Current Trends in Female Entrepreneurship: Innovation and Immigration
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ISBN: 978-1-83549-101-0

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Publication date: 12 June 2009

Feyed Ben Zitoun and Yves Cherruault

The purpose of this paper is to present a new algorithm for solving nonlinear boundary value problems (BVPs).

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present a new algorithm for solving nonlinear boundary value problems (BVPs).

Design/methodology/approach

The method converts the nonlinear BVP into a system of nonlinear equations. By solving the system, the solution can be determined. Comparing the methodology with some known techniques shows that the present approach is simple, easy to use and highly accurate.

Findings

The proposed technique allows us to obtain an approximate solution in a series form which satisfies all the given conditions. Test problems are given to illustrate the pertinent features of the method. The accuracy of the numerical results indicates that the technique is efficient and well suited for solving nonlinear differential equations with initial and boundary conditions.

Originality/value

The paper provides a reliable technique which avoids the tedious work needed by classical techniques and existing numerical methods and does not require discretization in order to find the solutions of the given problems.

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Kybernetes, vol. 38 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 2 March 2012

Feyed Ben Zitoun and Yves Cherruault

The purpose of this paper is to present a method for solving nonlinear integro‐differential equations with constant/variable coefficients and with initial/boundary conditions.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present a method for solving nonlinear integro‐differential equations with constant/variable coefficients and with initial/boundary conditions.

Design/methodology/approach

The method converts the given problem into a system of nonlinear algebraic equations. By solving this system, the solution is determined. Comparing the methodology with some known techniques shows that the present approach is simple, easy to use and highly accurate.

Findings

The proposed technique allows an approximate solution in a series form to be obtained. Test problems are solved to illustrate the pertinent features of the method. The accuracy of the numerical results indicates that the technique is efficient and well suited for solving nonlinear integro‐differential equations.

Originality/value

The present approach provides a reliable technique which avoids the tedious work needed by the classical techniques.

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Publication date: 12 June 2009

Feyed Ben Zitoun and Yves Cherruault

The purpose of this paper is to present a method for solving nonlinear integral equations of the second and third kind.

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The purpose of this paper is to present a method for solving nonlinear integral equations of the second and third kind.

Design/methodology/approach

The method converts the nonlinear integral equation into a system of nonlinear equations. By solving the system, the solution can be determined. Comparing the methodology with some known techniques shows that the present approach is simple, easy to use, and highly accurate.

Findings

The proposed technique allows the authors to obtain an approximate solution in a series form. Test problems are given to illustrate the pertinent features of the method. The accuracy of the numerical results indicates that the technique is efficient and well‐suited for solving nonlinear integral equations.

Originality/value

The present approach provides a reliable technique that avoids the difficulties and massive computational work if compared with the traditional techniques and does not require discretization in order to find solutions to the given problems.

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Kybernetes, vol. 38 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 4 May 2010

Feyed Ben Zitoun and Yves Cherruault

The purpose of this paper is to present a method for solving nonlinear differential equations with constant and/or variable coefficients and with initial and/or boundary…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present a method for solving nonlinear differential equations with constant and/or variable coefficients and with initial and/or boundary conditions.

Design/methodology/approach

The method converts the nonlinear boundary value problem into a system of nonlinear algebraic equations. By solving this system, the solution is determined. Comparing the methodology with some known techniques shows that the present approach is simple, easy to use, and highly accurate.

Findings

The proposed technique allows us to obtain an approximate solution in a series form. Test problems are given to illustrate the pertinent features of the method. The accuracy of the numerical results indicates that the technique is efficient and well suited for solving nonlinear differential equations.

Originality/value

The present approach provides a reliable technique, which avoids the tedious work needed by classical techniques and existing numerical methods. The nonlinear problem is solved without linearizing or discretizing the nonlinear terms of the equation. The method does not require physically unrealistic assumptions, linearization, discretization, perturbation, or any transformation in order to find the solutions of the given problems.

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Kybernetes, vol. 39 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 28 February 2023

Francisco del Olmo García, Fernando Crecente Romero, Maria Sarabia and Maria Teresa del Val

Over the last decades, the development of entrepreneurial activity has allowed greater growth and economic development in Spain. However, within the analysis of Spanish…

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Purpose

Over the last decades, the development of entrepreneurial activity has allowed greater growth and economic development in Spain. However, within the analysis of Spanish entrepreneurial dynamics, insufficient attention has been paid to a key group: senior entrepreneurs. The fact that the first two decades of the 21st century have been accompanied by the two worst economic crises in remembrance since the Great Depression of the 1930s has had a great impact on the professional careers of the group of senior workers, whose careers have been cut short due to the closure of companies. In this way, the present work delves into the reality of senior entrepreneurs in Spain, analyzing the main characteristics of this group, which is becoming increasingly important in society.

Design/methodology/approach

Using microdata from the Spanish National Statistics Institute's Labour Force Survey, the study focuses on reference persons who, being 50 years of age or over and actively working, work as an entrepreneur and have started their activity in the last 12 months. The study covers, in turn, the analysis period of the fourth quarters from 2005 to 2020. In relation to the methodology, the work focuses on the use of binary logistic regression techniques, given that the phenomenon to be studied is binary in nature: entrepreneurship or not.

Findings

The main conclusions drawn are the importance of sociodemographic factors such as educational level, age, the profession of the couple as well as the fact of having or not having children. The sector of activity and region are also significant. It is also concluded that senior entrepreneurship in Spain is of a necessary nature, considering the evolution of unemployment and decisions based on pension reform.

Research limitations/implications

The main limitations of the study refer to the lack of socioeconomic information. Thus, it would be interesting to know the link among the sociodemographic characteristics and the economic situation of the professionals, as well as the fact of whether they have started from a previous situation of unemployment or employment.

Practical implications

The obtained conclusions allow progress to be made in the generation of economic policies aimed at the professional reorientation of a group of workers who, due to labor market circumstances, are obliged to end long professional careers and to seek alternatives. In fact, entrepreneurship is a viable professional alternative for these professionals.

Originality/value

Despite the importance of senior professionals in the Spanish economy, more research is needed on their characteristics and needs. Despite important studies such as Socci et al. (2020) or Perez-Encinas et al. (2021), there are not many studies for the Spanish reality. This paper seeks to deepen the understanding of the sociodemographic characteristics of Spanish senior entrepreneurs, based on current public information and considering different stages of the economic cycle.

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International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, vol. 29 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2554

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Publication date: 9 November 2020

Siân Alsop, Virginia King, Genie Giaimo and Xiaoyu Xu

In this chapter, we explore uses of corpus linguistics within higher education research. Corpus linguistic approaches enable examination of large bodies of language data based on…

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In this chapter, we explore uses of corpus linguistics within higher education research. Corpus linguistic approaches enable examination of large bodies of language data based on computing power. These bodies of data, or corpora, facilitate investigation of the meaning of words in context. The semiautomated nature of such investigation helps researchers to identify and interpret language patterns that might otherwise be inaccessible through manual analysis. We illustrate potential uses of corpus linguistic approaches through four short case studies by higher education researchers, spanning educational contexts, disciplines and genres. These case studies are underpinned by discussion of the development of corpus linguistics as a field of investigation, including existing open corpora and corpus analysis tools. We give a flavour of how corpus linguistic techniques, in isolation or as part of a wider research approach, can be particularly helpful to higher education researchers who wish to investigate language data and its context.

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Theory and Method in Higher Education Research
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80043-321-2

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Publication date: 3 June 2020

Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón

The main aim of this chapter is to analyze the history of entrepreneurship in the footwear cluster during the twentieth century and the dawn of the twenty-first century, around…

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The main aim of this chapter is to analyze the history of entrepreneurship in the footwear cluster during the twentieth century and the dawn of the twenty-first century, around the actions of the manufacturers installed in the city of León, Guanajuato, Mexico. The methodological process was triangulated by three forms of approach to the object of study: the first consisted on the literature review; the second was a longitudinal analysis of socioeconomic and technological indicators; the third was the application of in-depth interviews to five footwear manufacturing entrepreneurs. The main finding was the collaborative model of the footwear cluster in the face of crisis cycles that has historically been facing; this allows to understand the historical challenges of entrepreneurship in the cluster, as well as public policies that have influenced its behavior pattern and the strategies that have outlined its entrepreneurship model.

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