This study analyzes the
relationships between governance in new product development collaboration,
collaboration costs, and new product development performance. Data from new
technology-based firms indicate that comprehensiveness in formal contractual governance
has a stronger negative association with collaboration costs than relational
governance does. In addition, collaboration costs relate negatively to new
product development performance. This study contributes to understanding
transaction costs within collaborative arrangements and the role of relational
and formal governance in these arrangements.
Website: http://www.arjonline.org/business-and-management/american-research-journal-of-business-and-management/
Technology entrepreneurship
is crucial for economic development and job creation. Success of technology
start-ups, however, depends on the quality of their human capital. Engineering
students have the entrepreneurial potential necessary for technology businesses
creation. Exposure to role models is a determinant in the development of
occupational choices, professional values, and entrepreneurial intentions and
behavior. This study broadens knowledge on parental occupation's influence on
offspring's career plans and professional values. Data from 851 engineering and
architecture students show that self-employed parents foster entrepreneurial
intentions in their children, whereas civil servant parents are negative
entrepreneurial role models. Parental occupation also influences students'
views on how attractive these two professional options are. Students with
self-employed parents value financial reward more than civil servants' children
do. This study shows that parental occupation influences offspring's
professional choices and values.
Website: http://www.arjonline.org/business-and-management/american-research-journal-of-business-and-management/
Integrated water resources
management means making decisions and taking actions while focusing on how
managing water. This study identifies the stakeholders participating in
decision-making process of Jumilla-Villena aquifer (SE Spain), their
objectives, and alternative actions that stakeholders should consider in the
public participation project. If the system achieves the good quantitative
groundwater status in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD),
future scenarios regarding pumping strategies may arise. These future scenarios
will lead to different environmental impacts and socio-economic development of
the region, and hence, to a different acceptance degree between stakeholders.
This study establishes the foundations to perform a public participation
project and contributes to define the best management policies for the
groundwater system.
Website: http://www.arjonline.org/business-and-management/american-research-journal-of-business-and-management/
Most tourism consumers who
book tourism services online are likely to be selective and technologically
literate. Online travel agencies must therefore evolve if they want to compete.
This study tests the following hypothesis: perceived e-service quality is a
multidimensional construct that directly and positively affects perceived
e-service value. Furthermore, perceived e-service value directly and
significantly affects consumer loyalty toward online travel agencies. Results
provide evidence of a causal relationship between these three constructs:
perceived e-service quality, perceived e-service value, and consumer loyalty.
Website: http://www.arjonline.org/business-and-management/american-research-journal-of-business-and-management/
To use or not to use a
disliked gift is a dilemma for recipients. Their choice will affect their
relationship with the giver as well as marketing and business. However, the
study of this topic is scarce in the consumer behavior discipline. Through a
survey on 1269 adults in Ecuador, a Latin American country, this study
identifies variables from the recipient, the giver, their relationship, and the
gift. These variables provide the solution to the dilemma and, according to
these findings, present implications for theory and practice.
Website: http://www.arjonline.org/business-and-management/american-research-journal-of-business-and-management/
This study employs analytic hierarchy process
(AHP) to develop a methodology that allows researchers to select factors for
new measures in value co-creation analysis. AHP shows that successful factors
for co-creation relate to the sequential stages of the relationship between
hotels and disabled customers, which derives from co-creation processes. The
resulting model highlights the principal factors affecting value co-creation
when hotel/disabled customers interact, have a dialogue, and collaborate with
staff to innovate and create new products and services at booking and stay
encounters. These interactions may allow HOTELS TO develop a strong foundation
of common knowledge on value management and disabled customers.
